#malachite wings of fire

[its-to-the-death]

Glasses Swag Sequel Preliminary Round #5

Only one will make it into the bracket!

[pickled-pear964]

A Non-Canon thing I made up about the super depressing love story of Katydid and Malachite :P

Idk what to name this so-

-1-

Katydid nervously opened the creaky door to the library, determined to finish her project before the sun dipped into the earth, signaling it was time for curfew.

Nectar and Honeycomb, the two librarians, each gave her a curt nod as they went back to scolding a young SilkWing for knocking over a pile of books on the counter. Moth, his name was, Katydid remembered.

He was a shy SilkWing a few years below her in school. She remembered running into him a couple times on her way to History.

“You rascal! Those books were reserved for Lady Cicada.” Honeycomb hissed, flicking her tail at the books, now soaking wet with water, and revealing her deadly stinger.

Katydid had no absolute idea what Lady Cicada would want from a school library, and she was sure they were trying to scare the poor thing.

“Madam.” Katydid interjected. “I apologize on behalf of him. He’s with me. I’m supposed to be tutoring him today, but I arrived late. I asked him to take one of those books.” Katydid shot a sideways glance at Moth, urging him to play along.

He merely nodded nervously, trembling, in response.

Honeycomb shot him a suspicious glance. She glared at Katydid, growled, and stomped away.

Katydid turned around, but stopped when she felt a tugging on one of her legs.

“Th-thank you.” Moth said, staring at the floor. Moth’s turquoise scales gave off a metallic aura in the evening light, which Katydid felt was spoiled by the unnatural lack of wings on the dragonet’s back.

Katydid remembered her mother telling her that SilkWings were weak and pathetic, and when Katydid tried to sneak her friend, a SilkWing named Fiona, out of Misbehavers Way. And the trouble she got into after. She never spoke to, nor saw Fiona again. The last she heard of her was that she and her family had been transferred to Bloodworm hive.

“Be careful next time.” Was all Katydid said before she whirled around and continued on into the library.

-2-

Malachite bounded into his small bedroom, rain pattering on the hive walls.

A rather crumpled piece of paper, ink pot, and quill were the only things laid out on his large wooden desk.

His Hive project, which was currently shoved into a small corner of his room, was a required project for all graduates of Silkworm Hall. Malachite’s consisted of an unfinished story about how Clearsight saved the continent from a deadly storm, and a few sketches of her family tree.

His sister, Leanne, had already finished hers, a play she and her friends had done about how Queen Wasp had oh-so heroically won the Tree Wars.

Malachite thought his was a bit boring and plain, but he had a feeling he would get a passing grade.

He dipped the quill into the ink pot, and continued writing his story.

***

NOTE: I’ll continue this story in a follow-up post when I have more inspiration (I am busy and I don’t have any time to continue slaying every day 😔✨)

Anyways, have a good day :D

— Pickled Pear

[otiksimr]

Malachite

[wof-headshots-daily]

I love your art style! Also if you want a character request you could maybe do Typhoon or Malachite? :]

Day 27- Typhoon!

[wof-inbox]

malarchit and kattydoo

[theravequeen]

Posting some of my WoF headcanon designs here because I can

Base by PaleoPrince on Toyhouse!!

Orca

Why is she lime green. She should be orca colored. She's orca colored now

Tsunami

Not much changed about her I just wanted to give her patterns tbh

Malachite

WHY name a dragon MALACHITE after the GREEN beetle that is named after the GREEN stone and then make him ORANGE.

Moonwatcher

GREEN MOONWATCHER SUPREMACY SHE IS NOT BLUE OR PURPLE RAUGHHHH

[wofpolls]

Best Wings of Fire Dad

[sombrathedragon]

Do you have any other fave wof characters other than turtle or is he the only one?

Ooo okay!

I do actually!

Moon and Cricket are some of my other favorite protags

BUT I do also love Typhoon, Malachite, Freedom, Orchid and Mangrove. And probably a bunch more background characters but they are some of my favorites :]

[variouspolltournaments]

Some of these may be background ships, others may be canon by word of god.

Propaganda

Katydid/Malachite: No Propaganda Submitted

Felix/Calhoun: Tall Queen and a short King for the win! They would not have otherwise gotten together but while they search for Ralph, they grow closer and eventually do get married. They come from two different worlds, but those things don't matter when the love is strong.

[lillyosaurus]

hi hi I have WOF characters for you to doodle! I think you should do swordtail. I feel like I don’t see a lot of swordtail appreciation in the fandom and he’s my little himbo character and I think it would be cool if you drew him. Thank you! If not that’s fine too lol no worries 💙🤍💙

VERY SILLY GUY

[wrenlywofau]

hey there, i just wanted to share this map idea i had based off your twisted fates au, having to do w/ Cricket.(i love your au! i rotate it in my head a lot lol) (i hope that's it's fine!)

so the song is Dollhouse, it show cricket w/ her family(katydid, cadel, father), publicly they're good/fine/etc(as the song says, "we'll be a perfect family") for every "i see thing that nobody else sees" it show bad memories of Cricket's (oh ya, every part talking abt pictures shows moving pics of the fam for that part)

the map goes to phase(?) two(2nd part of the song) when cricket find out about the whole katydid is her mom, and she was told Malachite was her dad, soon she finds out that's another lie. idk yet what all happens in this phase yet tho

phase 3, she finds out her real father is a silkwing and the last photo she's her looking around like, "what/why/katydid why so many lies :(" (extra points if she has half sibs in the photo too)

so anyways, what do you think of this? i hope you like this! :)

Actually I love this sooooooooo much omg /gen

idk if I have the energy to host a map but maybe I’ll make a PMV or animatic 👀👀👀

kinda disappointed if never heard of Dollhouse before, it’s a banger. Also I did some lil sketches of Cricket finding out about Katydid actually being her mom

(Coloring is eh because I bruised my fingertips at orchestra practice earlier and ended up using my Apple Pencil :p)

[reliquiaenfr]

ok my two cents: i like them an alright amount, the bald head doesn't bother me so much really, but there are some criticisms

- they could've been a modern; nothing about their design pushes boundaries enough to warrant being an ancient. personally, i'm thoroughly sick of all breeds having wings. what i really wanted from an earth ancient was a big chunky spikey creature with no wings at all

- we have once again been cursed with the snub-nosed face. stop that

- there are a handful of genes that feel like they belong on this breed but they're not: pymorph, boulder/myrid, chryso/malachite, no glimmer again, where are shardflank and scorpion, veined, idk just feels like missed opportunities. i will hope for an expansion at some point (and that like um all of their prim/sec combos are ported to moderns thank you very much)

- with the delay in the lore why not just delay the entire breed? as others have said, we really don't need new breeds every three to four months. it's overwhelming. take your time. every other update doesn't need to be massive. and i can appreciate that we had years of no breeds at all, but this isn't how to make up for that

idk guys, i simply don't get excited for ancients anymore because they never do Enough with the freedom of design they're allowed to have. i will continue to beg for fire ancients that have the same vents as flamecaller where the fire is the secondary, for earth ancients with big spines and plates that are the secondary, for overgrown nature ancients with flora as the secondary. please be weirder with them thank you

[pickled-pear964]

The third and (not) final part of M+K

(Malachite + Katydid)

I think we left off with Katydid?

***

Cadelle shot Katydid a small glare when she yawned as Bullet Ant, her neighbor, started talking about the HiveWing throne Succession. This topic had become quite common, even among the SilkWings, in which Queen Wasp had "taken care" of it immediately.

"It's going to be one of Lady Jewel's daughters." Bullet Ant pointed out in his usual snobby demeanor.

"But they were taken away. Who knows what happened to them. It's clear the Queen doesn't want any possible threats that might take her throne." Pollen, his equally snobby wife, exclaimed as though they had been having this argument for a long time.

"I think that it will be Lady Jewel herself." Copper, a rather sweet orange HiveWing pointed out. She wasn't generally interested in politics, but she hated Queen Wasp.

In fact, Katydid quite liked her. She was only a few years younger than her mother, and had been invited because she and her mother had been long-time best friends.

Katydid found it quite strange that they were friends, since they were polar opposites.

Pollen shot her a look full of dislike, and Copper inched back, startled at Pollen's childish attitude.

Cadelle, despite Pollen insulting her best friend, pretended not to notice and hissed at Katydid.

"Come greet our guests!"

Katydid rolled her eyes and bounded over, grinning at Copper.

"This is my daughter, Katydid! She's the same age as your children." Cadelle exclaimed, talking only to Bullet Ant and Pollen, while completely ignoring the several other guests she had.

"I see." Pollen said, clearly unimpressed.

Cadelle looked irritated, but Katydid felt that was her expression most of the time, so it was hard to tell what she was actually feeling. She brushed her talons nervously.

"Well, we ought to get going then." The snobby couple stood up, and haughtily flew out of the section, leaving Katydid to wonder the reason for their behavior.

She glanced at Copper, who merely shrugged at her and followed Cadelle into the kitchen.

-4-

Leanne thought her brother was extremely stupid.

Very stupid, in fact.

He was too nervous. Too jittery. He asked *way* too many questions. He was too nice to dragons that probably hated him.

Although, despite all of that, he still got better grades than her, and was still her parent's "perfect little dragonet."

Why wasn't she the perfect little dragonet? Malachite didn't fit that role in any way possible.

So when her brother came back from school one day, and asked about where their parents had gone, Leanne was absolutely stumped.

"I think they went to...what's her name's house?" Leanne knew her name. Katydid. But she didn't like Katydid. She was always getting into trouble and always pitying those pathetic SilkWings.

And yet, once again, everyone liked her.

"Ah, yes. They went to Katydoof's house."

"Katydoof."

"I don't know, don't expect me to remember her name." Leanne rolled her eyes and went back to pretend-studying. She was actually sketching a frog, but Malachite didn't have to know that.

***

You have to wait...

AGAIN!

Anyways, goodbye :D

[wof-headshots-daily]

Day 28- Malachite!

[wof-inbox]

to malachite and katydid, hows your daughter doing?

“We write stories quite a lot!” -Malachite

[fathers-quest]

Bug girl! Favorite bug?

"OKAY, so I've always loved fireflies because my middle name is Pyralis, which means 'bug born from fire' or something like that, right? And there's a firefly species called Photinus Pyralis, which, by the way, fun fact; different firefly species have varying flash patterns to identify each other for mating and such! Photinus Pyralis, also known as the Big Dipper firefly for its J-shape flash pattern, is super cute! Like little stars, but on the ground! And I can hold them!

BUT THEN. I feel like this doesn't cover all the bugs I like. For the Hemiptera order, I'd say I love the Dog-Day cicada. It's a super pretty green, and I'm a pretty big green enthusiast. Aha. It feels super nostalgic to me, like... a long summer day while I stayed out in the sun when I was younger. They're pretty loud, but it's easy to identify them amongst other cicada calls! Ooh, and fun fact, their name is based on the brightest star in Canis Major, AKA Sirius! Represents that they come out during the hottest days of summer.

Don't even get me started on lepidopterans. Butterflies! Moths! They're sooooo cute! Listen, some people think they're kinda freaky because their faces are weird or whatever, but I think bug faces are ADORABLE! I mean, how could you not love their big ol eyes? Anyways. Oleander hawk moths are super pretty, I love hawk moths because they have such thin wings and they're still able to fly! In fact, they're really agile and quick and aerodynamic and super pretty and. Yeah. For butterflies... probably the malachite butterfly? They're green and pretty! But all butterflies are lovely. Reminds me of a nice spring day!

Gosh, I'm really rambling in this post... but I don't want to leave any bug out. I mean... there's so many bugs in the world! Much more than any humanoid or monster out there, I bet. They're all so cool... I really wish I could go on for longer. But hey, if you're curious about a certain bug order or something like that, feel free to ask!

TL;DR... I love all bugs. That's it. All bugs. But I guess fireflies take the top pick!"