#god i need to draw azherin again sometime.

[dreamcrow]

catfight? :3c

(from this wip meme; thank you for the ask!)

so like. toa. does not do a great job of explaining what familiars actually are, right. are they the human children attached to changelings? (which is...another post.) or are they magical animal mascots like archie? (why is the same word used for such wildly different concepts…? but. again. different post.) this story is about exploring the latter sense, namely: what the fuck are they? what does a familiar do? why do some wizards (for which intend "general magic-user") have them and others don't? are they like daemons? how connected are you? is it permanent, or are some familiars temporary? do all magic-users have familiars, or is the relationship culturally specific? does being a familiar grant some level of intelligence, or is there some poor bastard out there with like. ye standard-issue flatworm of +100 magic?

...you can see why this isn't published yet. orz

anyway, this fic was born out of me trying desperately to make incoherent canon make sense. and also to do something with my thoughts about bellroc and skrael's familiars (who otherwise show up almost never!). also also to give archie some kind of personality. basically, the concept for this fic is:

after [the end of however i decide to fix the ending of wizards]. archie is prowling around in the woods of arcadia. as u do.

he finds something much nastier than he expected (skrael, being a wangsty little shit).

much as i don't know what i think about familiars, i do know i've decided that something about the nature of the relationship means powerful magic-users are simply more predisposed to such relationships.

archie realizes, with abrupt and terrible clarity, exactly what the order's skulls are.

and when fight-or-flight hits: twelve entire pounds of perfect blazing dragon wrath picks fight.

now my skrael's not a complete jackass so he doesn't actually throw down with a cat. but. what i want to do with this fic is 1.) work on a character i've never developed before, and 2.) let them be completely, catastrophically right. >:)