#fun dragon trope

[pragretti]

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dragon tan au from 2022

[soyboywenzie]

imma need to get back to the slasher fandom because atleast there you aren’t getting dragged for saying bo sinclair is an evil man who needed to be put down and was! at least you could talk about the weird twincest between bo and vincent without someone calling you a pedo or unloved! atleast there you could comfortably talk about brahms heelshire’s and jason voorhees’ mommy issues! at least you could analyze billy lenz or asa emory without people calling you an enabler! at least slasher lovers aren’t infantilize thomas and bubba even with their mental issues and regression symptoms! at least you could talk about the slashers past without sounding like you are giving their murders, disfigurings and rapes a pass!

AT LEAST ITS FUN OVER THERE!!

[thejadecount]

You know what? I’m honestly surprised there isn’t (as far as I’m aware of) a ROTTMNT 2012 crossover that takes place immediately after the Rise Boys just after defeating the Shredder and losing their Karai and through some accident one way or another they end up in the 2012 TMNT universe

But here’s the kicker: instead of usually running into the 2012 TMNT or their Kraang they run into Karai and her foot soldiers (somewhere after she takes lead of the foot clan) and being the morally-grey and fresh-out-of-losing-their-Karai trauma turtles they are they immediately attach onto her like children lost in a store

Look where I’m getting at is I just want morally-grey rise turtles hanging out with 2012 Karai and just having some not-so-innocent fun, you know? Like I feel like the fandom should make more Rise Turtles and 2012 Karai content, it would be great

[jodefrostwallart]

I will never get over these outfits

[silverhalla]

I think it would be rly sick if you went to go build a crow rook and the surname was Arainai

like…. just another little compradi trying to bring glory back to your house - rinnala and taliesin are dead by the house’s hand, zevran failed and deserted, guili murdered in the night, all semblance of power lost once again. the house is trying to claw its way back up, futile as it seems. that’s the way of house arainai, isn’t it? talon to knife to talon to knife to nothing, same as it’s been since the house first lost power in the early dragon age. but you, bright-eyed little crow, you’ll break the cycle, won’t you? for the family?

after all, caterina’s prized heir is right there - the demon of vyrantium, the infamous mage killer, sleeping just down the hall. you can be quiet, can’t you? all those means at your disposal, and all the opportunities you could want. you could find a way in under that armor, get to something soft and bruisable and make it bleed. he’s far from home, isn’t he? without a friend? confidantes are few and far between - even a demon must get lonely.

maybe he’d even trust you. you’re a clever little bird, right? you can find something to exploit. after all, what does a would-be talon do except claw, except maim? what else would you be good for? there is no gentleness to crows - you are here to deliver a message: run, little demon, quick as you like.

house arainai will make carrion of you yet.

[sinvulkt]

Pre-OT - Cursed Noodle Vaderkin

Summary: After another reckless stunt, the Force is tired of Vader's antics and transforms him into a small dragon. It then put him on Ahsoka's path.

Era: At some point after RotS and Twilight of the Apprentice  

Characters: Darth Vader, Ahsoka Tano

Main tropes: Non consensual animal transformation (listen, i love that one), Kidnapping your fallen jedi master, Force shenanigans

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Snippet:

Vader blinked. Or tried to. His current form did not seem to possess eyelids.

It did possess a passable set of lungs as well as six working limbs, which most people would have called an improvement. Vader did not. The sudden assault of smells, colors and heat confused his senses. Every few seconds he had to remind himself to breathe, the habit long lost in profit of going along the suit ventilator.

He had been walking in circles trying to get back to Coruscant after his last mission, only for the universe to try to stop him. First, his life support had broken under his opponent’s lightsaber blow. Then, the Jedi he had been chasing had escaped, helped by some rebels Vader had made sure would not come back. To top it all, as Vader wondered if he would die, the ventilator unable to provide crucial oxygen to his lungs, the Force had bent and twisted until it made him into this.

His reflection in water had not been much help determining his species. A porg-sized lizard of some kind, although it seemed to have wings. Vader barely attempted to move them. The additional limbs felt foreign in his mind.

Vader made another step, snarling at the branch who tripped him.

This place was filled with nothing but rats and porgs and banthas. That, and the ship he had seen landing in the distance. Vader was certain he could slither in and steal it. His current form may not have a thumb, but it would not be the first time he used the Force to pilote.

A convor dove at him, its claws scratching at Vader’s armor-scales. His wings raised by instinct as he hissed. The bird should have known better than to challenge a Sith Lord. Vader threw the Dark at it, intending to crush the impudent bird, only for his control to slip and the blow to overshoot. As it happened, all the convor felt was a breeze slightly disturbing its flight. It dove again.

Vader cursed as he slipped under a crevice. Something was wrong with the Force. He could feel it just fine, but his control was barely better than a youngling. It was as if all the midichlorians in his body had shifted. Which, looking at the paws clawing at the sandy earth of the crevice, wasn’t that far away from the truth.

“Morai?” a humanoid called.

Vader perked up. He knew that voice.

“Is anyone here?”

Memories of a young togruta laughing flashed in his mind.

Could it be…?

The convor dove again as soon as it saw Vader muzzle out of his hidhole. Vader scrambled back. That person was dead. It must have been his imagination.

Vader focused on the arrogant creature that dared make him his prey. It felt rather weird for a convor, the Light bending too unnaturally around the bird’s presence for it to not be Force Sensitive. Whenever Vader Force-pushed it, the blow dissipated before it ever reached the convor. His low control wasn’t enough to explain it.

Several seconds passed without the bird diving back at Vader’s crevice. Perhaps the accursed being had finally given up and chosen an easier meal. Tentatively, Vader dared one paw out. Boots blocked his way.

“Morai. What did you find?”

Vader scrambled back, only for fiery skin to descend on him. He definitely did not yelp as warm fingers slid beneath his belly to lift him up in the air. He bit the offending arm, but the stranger's hands held him strong.

“Ouch. You are quite a wild little one, aren’t you?” Ahsoka chuckled.

Vader stilled. His scales flattened as he bared his teeth against the truth. This sight should not be possible.

 Anakin Skywalker’s Apprentice was dead.

And yet, the buzzing bond between them whispered another true as two tattered threads reached for each other to mend. He hurried to pull back his side of the bond, but it slipped away from his grasp. Worse, their skin touching only strengthens the bond’s mending. Vader felt the moment they connected. A shiver ran down his skin as Light burned his inside. Simultaneously, Ahsoka’s eyes widened in recognition.

She held him up to her face level, lekkus twitching as she stared into what he knew must be golden eyes.

“Anakin?”

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Plot Description:

The Force did not wish for its Son to suffer. It waited and waited, but Anakin stayed miserable under the Emperor’s thumb, barely attempting to escape. After Vader brushes with death, borderline voluntarily, the Force has enough. It calls to the rather Eldritch part within Anakin to transform him. Dragon-Vader is on the rather small side. He can be easily lifted and put on shoulders. As a Force-being, Vaderkin is very young, almost a baby. The dragon’s shape reflects that. Would it have been billions of years later, he would have been huge enough to wrap around a planet.

As per the Force terms, Vader cannot go back into human shape until he touches the light side or learns to balance properly the multiple facets of the Force. Dark and Light. Even then, he will never fully be human again, keeping draconic traits such as scales and wings. This might be of great interest to various pirates and slavers, or even to Palpatine whose apprentice suddenly became quite a bit more useful. 

Ahsoka is all too happy to see the crucial blow to the Empire through Vader’s disappearance, as well as to maybe, maybe get her Jedi-Master-turned-Sith-turned-small-dragon back. Now if only she can coax him onto the road of balance.

[lesbinewren]

trying too hard to make your d&d character not a trope is a trope itself, so literally just do what you want. anyone at your table giving you shit for being “unoriginal”, especially if you’re new, shouldn’t be there.

every basic character concept has been done before in some way, but what you personally bring to the character will make them unique no matter what. make the character that appeals to you and roll with it

[matchmadeinsevenhells]

Asian Drama Tropes 2024—April

For the @asian-drama-tropes event 2024. I’ll be publishing one true HotD drabble (100 words exactly) per month for the event, either lcmd or lcmd-adjacent :)

April | Prompt: recovery from poisoning this one is a follow-up to my March drabble where Aemond got poisoned!

Aemond grits his teeth. “I suppose you’d like me to thank you now, Lucerys?” His nephew smiles an infuriating little smirk and sits down on the edge of his bed. “Well, I just risked my dragon’s and my own life to find you a miracle cure straight from the hell of Doomed Valyria herself.” It’s unfortunately true. Aemond glowers down at his hands. By now they’ve stopped shaking, even if they still feel weak. “You were the only one who even believed there could be a cure, who didn’t just wait for me to die,” he says quietly. “…thank you.”

[archilich]

[tinytalkingtina]

🐲

Witch and Dragon Steddie 1 2 3 [4]

“It’s okay sweetheart, I’m fine.” Without thinking, he tried to stroke Big Boy’s shoulder. But the length of rope wrapped around his hands kept his range of movement limited. A discordant twang of sour notes pushed on the edge of Eddie’s consciousness.

Make me write!

[minweber]

My fall back into the DA pit now complete, I finally sat down and watched Absolution, which turned out to be pretty good.

Everyone seems to regard that thing in the end as yet another kick in teeth for Hawke, but I think that if anyone should be embarrassed here, it is the Inquisition, which apparently does not know about a whole ass red templar stronghold in fucking Kirkwall of all places.

And I can't decide which option is funnier: if this is because Leliana is now busy being Victoria and the whole operation is an absolute circus without her, or if she is still on the job, but Kirkwall is now decidedly proven to have some sort of field that scrambles senses of any Hand of the Divine that tries to look into its affairs.

[tentacleye]

Year of Laying I mean Slaying Dragons!

Happy lunar new year!

[megsarts]

ROTBTD WESTEROS AU

Maleficent Targaryen jealously guards her thrown by murdering any possibly heir that might supplant her...though five have escaped her grasp. Her sons Stefan and Frederick are hiding their children from her. 

Frederick Targaryen and Arianna Dayne’s eldest child Elsa has taken on the name Stark and the identity of the eldest daughter and heir to Winterfell.  Rapunzel, Elsa’s twin sister, was taken as a child to Essos, though the Septa who took her was less than trustworthy. Their youngest child Arthur is serving as a squire to a knight of house Dayne. 

Meanwhile, Stefan’s only child Aurora is betrothed to marry Philip Tyrell of Highgarden, though her whereabouts are a mystery. 

There is one other lost Targaryen, a Greyjoy of dubious heritage, Hiccup. 

Any one of these young people could bring about the end of Maleficent’s reign of terror over the seven kingdoms but first, they’ll need dragons....

[ravarui]

In regards to last nights talks about the bodice ripper novels:

Shanks totally posed for some of these covers on purpose, but forgot they existed or never bothered to ask why someone needs such photos to begin with.

He doesn't read them, but he does appreciate the covers.

Cersei secretly reads these type of novels. Jaime caught her once and still teases her about it

[novadreii]

have the umbrella academy and the dragon prince always been this...bad?

[lunarscaled]

"I don't need to be a king, I'm a dragon."