#dragonspeak

[estinininininen]

I am thinking about how Midgardsormr doesn't use his Dragonspeak name, can't find the source but I remember reading he keeps it a secret.

I think Hydaelyn gave him the name Midgardsormr.

And not just him. The Great Wyrms and early generations of dragons all have names different than typical Dragonspeak.

He gave his children names Hydaelyn suggested to him. Or the mortal peoples at the time.

He wanted to give them a clean start on the new star.

Even when Nidhogg's brood turned away from mortals, he kept the names, possibly out of respect for his father's sacrifice.

And maybe Hydaelyn was using the names of departed cultures from Etheirys.

There are real-world explanations for the name differences: Dragonspeak wasn't created until Heavensward, legacy Final Fantasy names for dragons like Bahamut and Midgardsormr popped up in-story before that. But the dragon storylines use linguistics for fun worldbuilding and characterization beats a lot anyways.

[applejuiceism]

can yall send doodle reqs into my ask box? i dont bite.. prommy...

[dragonboypaws]

There's a gas leak at work, and no one can take a look at it until Monday. I have no work until then

What a fun way to start the year :)

[dragonlex]

What's your 'rarest' FR item?

Got curious and wanted to know what's everyone's rarest item? Or super uncommon enough that you don't see it every day.

It could be a skin/accent, holiday object, etc, or something completely different!

I'll start off by saying I have 6 of the Pearly Shell gem drops from the Kelp Beds!

[revolutionary-dragon]

I dont think I'm ever going to get over the pay off of this chapter and what this means for Bonney after everything we have seen. And the way that Luffy is inspiring Bonney to use her abilities more creatively, to really flex her imagination in the same way that he does which is what made him as powerful as he is now and which will make Her so much more powerful as well. The way that Bonney has a devil fruit that only works so long as she can imagine it so and the way the WG used that fruit for their experiment because they believed that it became useless as you got older because you lose the capacity to imagine different futures as the reality of the word sinks in and your belief fades and your imagination dies. But Luffy being Luffy. and One Piece being One Piece and everything this story is about. Really leaning in and saying No. That Doesn't Have To Be True. Bonney has suffered through so much in her life. All the pain and the agony and the tragedy. She doesn't think she can do it. She doesn't think she can imagine a future where she is Free and Happy and Joyful like Luffy. But Luffy insists that No. She Can. And she Can.

[saphira-approves]

DESPERATELY need a Thorn plushy right now immediately

[meracydia-miqo]

FFXIVWrite 2024 - Day 26: Zip

late arr bridge; contains some descriptions of violence

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Streaks of fire, and clouds of soot and ash filled the air. Hurled rocks, disturbed from their rest and sent from earth to sky. It was chaos, everywhere she turned. The roar of a dragon filled her ears, soon drowned out by the high-pitched screech of another. Blood splattered on the ground before her, and the ground beneath her feet shook, threatening to give way as the heaving body of a dragon crashed, and fell.

Ahki could only stand there and watch.

It was senseless. It all was.

She heard somebody’s voice call out to her, but she didn’t move. The sound of cannon fire, echoing around her and making the bridge itself quiver, as if in fear of the fighting happening atop it.

It was all in defence, she knew. They couldn’t let them take the city, couldn’t let the buildings be razed to the ground, homes set alight. But why was it like this? What had driven such a thing to happen in this place?

“Ehk morn an in.”

Ahki held her tome tightly as a dragon approached her, eyes wide, and her carbuncle at her feet. I didn’t, she thought. It wasn’t me. I never asked to be here.

She jumped back as the dragon reared its head to attack, and closed her eyes tightly as she fired off a Ruin spell. She couldn’t watch as she did exactly what the dragon had claimed. Couldn’t watch as she was forced to betray all she had been raised to believe.

She had a duty to fulfill. People relying on her, people who trusted her. She could not get caught in the past. She could only walk forward, no matter how much it hurt, or the depth of the pit in her stomach.

She heard a Temple Knight cry out and fall to the ground, struck down by a wyvern, before the very same got stabbed by a dragoon, hurtling down from their perch, a predator out for prey. She closed her eyes once more, her hair blowing behind her, and ignoring the pain in her feet, searing up her legs. She stepped over discarded rock and stone, the remains of a pillar, now nothing but rubble. A long-lost amulet, split and broken and never to be found. It would fall to the abyss in a hundred shards before the day was done.

“N ahs Alan eil in.”

But I’m not… I do not wish to be…

Ahki could only close her eyes, trying to hide the tears that threatened to fall. To look serious, determined, and unafraid of what awaited. She knew she could not fault the dragon’s words, the meaning coming to her perfectly in a way it both always had and never should have. She was walking in her enemy’s shoes. To hold her tome, and perform summonings like those of ancient Allag, in pursuit of dragons. Who was she, really?

It wasn’t what she wished. It wasn’t what she had set out to do, when she left her home on the southern continent. Yet here she stood, face to face with one who should’ve been a friend.

”Smorn in na!”

[dragonlex]

Save the chests for the last two days of NotN and sell them for the big bucks!

is it smarter to sell strange chests than to open them? what about nocturne eggs?

[trashheapdragon]

Grinding against my vibrator and moaning like a messy needy mutt, and feeling so pathetic is really good actually.

[quibbs126]

So today I decided to redraw my versions of the North and South Dragons as Cookies, whom I call Choco Creme and Milk Creme respectively

Yeah I basically completely redesigned them, but to be honest I quite like these new designs. I also like the old ones too, but I think I’m gonna more retool them for their normal Cookie disguises. Also I may or may not have stolen the diamonds in the eye thing from @deadshadowcreature ‘s designs of the dragons, which I found recently and really like

With the hair, I was planning on giving them the same hair, but I had two different ideas and I wasn’t sure which one I liked more, so I just gave them each different ones. They’re supposed to just be me trying to interpret their hair/scales/whatever as actual hair

I wanted to draw these guys again because of the Might of the Ancients thing in the recent update mentioning them again, and giving us a bit of lore surrounding them and Dark Cacao, as well as confirming their powers. From what I can gather, their powers are black lightning and the snow/cold, though it’s not entirely clear which controls what. I assume though it’s the North Dragon with lightning and the South Dragon with the snow, just given the corresponding colors. Funny enough, I actually headcanoned that one of them had power over snow, so I was surprised to have actually gotten that right. I said the other one controlled ice since I thought they’d both have a “cold” motif, but eh, I still got one of them, so that’s something

If you want to hear my personal headcanons for these guys, I’ll just tell you here, since I’ve thought about it a bit more since I last talked about them

So Choco Creme and Milk Creme are twins dragons, both being born from the same egg. Their parent was whom I call the Cookie Creme Dragon, a gargantuan dragon who laid to rest on the northeastern part of Crispia, and their body eventually became the Giant Icing Ridge (this was mostly due to me misinterpreting something about Dark Cacao splitting the two apart as being literal and they were once one dragon, then me just working with that idea). Thankfully they are nowhere near the Cookie Creme’s size (at least not yet). Originally I said that Choco Creme was older, but given they hatched from the same egg, I’m pretty sure they’re the exact same age. But Choco Creme still acts like the older one. Also, Choco Creme is a girl while Milk Creme is a boy

I said before that I headcanon the two dragons as being Dark Cacao’s older siblings. Now granted, nothing in the new Might of the Ancients implies that Dark Cacao knew the dragons prior to the story (I feel like it’s supposed to be when he stopped their fighting and founded the Dark Cacao Kingdom, but at the same time I’m pretty sure he had the Grapejam Chocoblade at that point, and as we see in the flashback, Dark Cacao doesn’t have that yet, so I’m not entirely sure when it’s supposed to take place). However, technically there’s nothing that disproves it, so screw it I’m still sticking with it. Basically at some point when the two were young, they were exploring the wilds of the land during a blizzard, when they found this thing lying in the snow, which was a very young Dark Cacao Cookie, unconscious. They were curious about it, so they picked it up and took it back with them. Eventually it woke up and after that point, as it didn’t seem to want to leave, they decided to keep it, eventually becoming their youngest brother, as well as their smallest (when taking on Cookie form, they intentionally make themselves at least slightly taller than Dark Cacao, just to be petty)

Edit: about the whole Might of the Ancients, I watched a collection of the cutscenes, and okay no it seems to all be just before they did the thing that ended up founding their kingdoms, and watching Dark Cacao’s cutscene, yeah I’m pretty sure he’s never seen them before this. So what I say here is kind of invalid by canon standards, but eh. Maybe this is an au or something. Or I’ll tweak the backstory to fit canon better. Or I’ll just stretch things and keep it how I have them

As for whether or not Dark Cacao is a dragon or just a normal Cookie, I’m still not sure, and no one here really knows, all they know is that he and his siblings aren’t syrup related

As for the dragons themselves, Choco Creme is a rather cold individual, known for never smiling. She’s kind of the one Dark Cacao inherited the grumpy attitude from. In contrast to her brothers she is not one for violence, preferring to settle things with words (mostly because she just doesn’t see the point in all that effort). However that’s not to say there isn’t an end to her patience, and when she reaches that, all hell breaks loose. As for Milk Creme, he’s probably the most upbeat of the three, but that isn’t really saying much as the bar for that is that he actually smiles semi-regularly (young Dark Choco had them all beat). But he also can be pretty friendly and looks for excitement. He’s also one of the quickest to violence, whether it’s out of anger or he just wants to. He probably taught Dark Cacao about the usefulness of violence, something he toned down but still definitely finds use in.

I’m thinking now that the two do from time to time take on normal Cookie forms, just to see how things are going in the kingdom. They don’t have that much interest in the prosperity of the kingdom itself, but they like to see how their brother’s running it. Unfortunately recently they haven’t felt much want to. I’ll draw those normal forms at a later date, but I’m thinking they either choose to closer resemble Dark Cacao or they choose to look more like regular citizens of the kingdom, being chocolate and milk based respectively. I’ll try it out and see what works

But yeah, I think that’s it. Hope you like them!

[applejuiceism]

i should get back into drawing mimes .. im not super interested in CQ anymore but!! i still like some of the characters, ive fallen out of touch on drawing the mimes though

this does mean people can send me reqs if you wanna 🦖 if not i'll just draw my OCs

[smol-feralgremlin]

FebruarOC Day 18: Rhys

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Rhys Rhuneson

Illegitimate son of Duchess Rhune. Inherited the trait of dragonspeaking from her.

Dragon racer for his cousin. Dreams of being his own man and racing for himself on his own terms.

Incurable flirt. Well known for courting women for short periods of time before getting bored and dropping them to move on to someone else.

[eorzeansavagery]

The disrespect towards Varis does not end in death.

[dragonlex]

NEW BREEDING PAIR AVAILABLE!

Meant to mimic a Brazilian Rainbow Boa, you too could have your very own Undertide if you hop on over to my Hatchery and get yourself on a pinglist for them!

Both are Brick Boa/Brick Noxtide/Brick Soap.

[vixlenxe]

Sometimes I think Estinien should just be allowed to roar if he gets angry enough.

You know, like a dragon.

Cause he got that yee-yee ass Nidhogg blood in 'em.

[revolutionary-dragon]

Been playing One Piece: Odyssey and the writing in this game is so Wack. Was finishing the Water 7 / Enies Lobby chapter last night and all i can hear in my head is the Ryan George pitch meeting voices

Producer Guy: “So how do Usopp and Franky escape on their own without the rest of the Strawhat’s help?? It must be super difficult to break out of a heavily guarded prison cell at the center of the Tower of Law”

Writer Guy: “it’s actually Super Easy, Barely An Inconvenience!”

Producer Guy: “oh, really!?”

Writer Guy: “Yeah it turns out the World Government is hilariously incompetent and they just left the back door of the cell open. They thought stacking some crates in the middle to block off that half the cell would be enough to keep the prisoners from noticing that if they climb over they can just walk out. And so they just. do that.”

Producer Guy: “But what about the guards! Surely they see this happen and try to stop them.”

Writer Guy: “Yeah no it’s possible for them to just stroll on out of there without a single guard noticing. It’s just not even an issue”