#liveupdate gets a pass because he's a celebrity and green

[swallowtail-jumper]

Okay!! Here we go: this one’s gonna be long, and it’s for @avariea Here are my top like 14 and then bottom 6 (pictures not included because that would make this post that much longer rip)

Miracle comes up first! She’s a very pretty Spiral and I the burst of purple caught my eye. You know what then caught my eye? She’s a gen 1. A spiral gen 1. A shadow spiral gen 1 that happens to be shadow/shadow/grey. Your luck astounds me, and so does her beauty. I love the accent on her. Her lore makes her someone in the chaotic alignment but I love her so it doesn’t matter.

Next up is another spiral: Terrali!! I have a soft spot for Terracotta when it’s used correctly. And boy oh boy did you use it correctly. Terrali looks amazing. Her crystal makes her seem so dark and mysterious already, and then the apparel just tops it off. She doesn’t have lore herself in her bio (it’s her parents’) but the implied information from it is amazing and I could rave about her for awhile. If I got to take a dragon from your lair, I’d nab her in a heartbeat.

I have mixed feelings on the next dragon. Etheria is pretty, sure. I think I clicked on her actually because I’m digging the subtle red mixing things up with her otherwise monochrome coloring. I’m a little skeptical of the eye apparel but I love her color scheme! She has no lore so onto the next dragon it is!

I spotted Dream and I’m hardcore digging her. There’s a lot of colors on the color wheel that have taken my heart, and abyss is definitely up there with them. She’s such a pretty guardian, and maybe part of a breeding pair with one of the other dragons I picked? I’m not entirely certain honestly but she’s never been bred so I guess the future holds the answers.

Zirjiru is one of my favorites from your lair, if not my favorite. He’s dressed in such nice colors to match how he looks. The accent plus the apparel on his head only serve to make him regal where I’m certain others have failed trying to do the same. He also seems to be a pretty cool guy. Especially considering he came back from the dead by someone that most certainly did not plan to use that ability to help him. I would’ve been much more upset. But if he is alright with it than everything is all good

Okay, I clicked on SoulsLove not expecting to be hit in the feels? I’m so sorry about your loss, and this is a really beautiful tribute dragon. You’ve adorned her well. I can’t say anything else about her or I’ll get too emotional and this is a lair review, not a crytyping mess

GoldenHeart is another fan fav here (it’s me, I’m the fan!) I have a soft spot for speckle/freckle when it looks good, and boy does she pull it off. Clicked on her because she seems out of sorts in a gem gene lair but she works it, and she works it well. I love her antlers and I love her lore, even if my immediate thought is to feel sorry for her. But don’t tell her that because I think she’d kick my butt for even thinking that, and then it would be a mess. But I can love her from afar and that’s all that matters.

Polaris! He’s the one I thought was with Dream, but he is also unbred. Nevertheless, once again I’m floored by his colors + apparel. He’s wearing a lot of stuff from one set + the horn apparel + wings are kind of off but somehow it works? He’s a very blue (da ba dee da ba da) dragon and I hope if you were trying to get a dream dragon that you got it! Breeding projects are absolute hell.

Leviathan simultaneously scares and fascinates me. I clicked on them (and are their pronouns he/him and she/her? They’re referred to with both in their bio but I don’t wanna presume) because a lot of dragons with the plague doctor mask have interesting lore, and they definitely didn’t let me down. I have a sinking feeling that one day they’ll escape, and that their captors will pay for what they’ve done. I also have the sinking feeling that this’ll destroy Leviathan, too. You did a really good job on the apparel, by the way. They look fittingly creepy and suspicious.

Mina!! I recognized her as being from the specific parents that she is from, and had to click on her. It’s such a good color combo, and you really played up the yellow accents from her genes with the apparel. Why do the silks look so good on skydancers? How does Mina look absolutely precious in both the in-game art and the art she has in her bio? The world may never know.

Isabar is next. He seems like such a good, green boy. Especially since he’s a gen 1 with matching eyes. And another one of my favorite colors (peacock! Doesn’t matter that his tert is basic, still counts!) I am pretty certain I’m digging how you put orange all over this green boy, too, as it appeals to me. Something about him is just vaguely alluring and calming but I can’t pinpoint what and it’s throwing me off. I like him but why

Next is Damian! He looks stuck up, but I mean, he’s a double rose gen 1, so I guess it’s rightfully deserved. The blue + pink is a godly combo, and I like how you combined the sage apparel with the birdskull apparel. My mind tells me it shouldn’t work, but it does so well. The wings kind of fade into the background, too, providing a nice little backdrop for the purple

!!! You have the LiveUpdate skydancer!! He’s right side up but he looks wonderful!! Look at his green-ness! Look at his cute apparel and anklets. Look at the wonderful art in his bio!!! He looks like a skydancer that is, or should be, spoiled, and I love it. Just looking at him raised my confidence stats by like 5. He’s that powerful. Reblog LiveUpdate in 10 seconds to possibly feel your own confidence boost. I gotta show the picture of him

Look at him!!!

Now it’s time to be mean. Beirtan is my first victim from your lair, and it’s mostly because something about his apparel seems uncomfortable. Tundra dragons aren’t known for exuding confidence in the pose the site has them in- especially if they’re m pose- but I wouldn’t want to bring him in battle with me. I might die. Or be stuck on babysitting duty, watching him to make sure he doesn’t somehow injure himself. I really dig the art for him, but the apparel doesn’t sit well with me and I keep side-eyeing him.

I want to like Krista and Anduril. I really do. Their overall aesthetic is like creepy autumn, which is something I can respect. But I’ve combined them into one to say that there’s something about them that doesn’t sit well with me. Even ignoring that they’re supposed to be off-putting. I want to blame it on the Eye Spots for both of them, or maybe Anduril’s accent. He’s got like really bad morning breath, apparently. Can I get him a breath mint?

I Dislike-with a necessary capital ‘D’- Necropsis. His crown is distractingly pixelated on the edges. The snow makes lines a little fuzzy and makes me squint. Plus, he’s a m post nocturne, which I dislike on principal, and has cherub, which I also dislike on principal. I would’ve tossed him to Earthdad awhile ago. Although he does have pretty cool lore. (Ha! You get it? Cool?)

I’m calling you out on Hydragea’s unfinished lore. He only got a paragraph, the poor dude. He also got the misfortune of being a male snapper. All the apparel looks automatically clunkier and less fashionable on him than it might on other dragons. He’s like a mix of two clunky styles, actually: big knight and mysterious guy on the boardwalk at 2:49 am. Like the kind of guy you cross the street to get away from, especially if it’s getting dark. Looking at him activates my fight or flight reflex.

Last, but certainly not least in my dislikes is Xander. Now, I am in complete awe of your ability to find and acquire these doubles that also happen to be gen ones. But Xander is, how do you say….ugly. I don’t like him. I don’t like the way bar looks, or that he has spines. The light brown isn’t throughout his body, so it looks uneven with the lion’s headdress and then the black-grey of the other apparel items. I don’t like him. I wouldn’t fight him- because, you know, he has a lion’s head draped on him and I’m not dumb or extra enough to fight someone potentially that predisposed to violence, but I would totally hide in my house so he wouldn’t see me and ask to come play. Something juvenile, like that.

(Thank you again for the gems!!)