#nightwing ref

[dragonprincedrake]

Nightwings are the scholars and mystics of Phyrria. They have expansive libraries and museums in their kingdom, as well as the most intricate schools and universities. The current Queen, Battlewinner is an ailing but stubborn queen. She has only one heir, princess Greatness, as well as one son (Battlecry, an oc). Greatness is trying everything to avoid becoming the next Queen, but she’s running out of time and options as her mother’s health worsens.

They have perfect night vision, as they are a nocturnal species, they see better at night then day. Their eyes and ears tend to be bigger when compared to other tribes. Most common eye colors are shades of green, purple, or amber. Blue is a very rare eye color among Nightwings. All Nightwings can breath fire.

Scales are most commonly black, dark grey, or darker and less saturated shades of purple, red/brown, green, or blue. Horns and claws come in grey/silver or black and a about roughly 40% of the Nightwing population hatch with a second but smaller set of horns that curve more downward then the first pair. The underside of their wing membranes resemble the night sky, with no nightwing hatching with the exact same pattern of star like scales.

Nightwings who hatch under one full moon, will either receive mind reading or seer abilities. A silver tear drop under each eye indicates mind reading, and silver tear drop scales along the sides of the neck and tail indicate seer abilities. Nightwings who hatch under two full moons get both abilities and those who hatch under no moons, get no powers and no extra silver scales. The very few who hatch under three full moons (the brightness night), will have a more powerful version of the first two abilities. There is a line of nightwings who may sometime hatch as animus, though this is rare. This line can be traced back to Darkstalker and his family. Animus magic, though not as intensely regulated as it is in the Ice Kingdom, is regulated to a degree. With most Nightwing animus end up working for the royal family in some way.

Basically in my au, Nightwings never left the original Night Kingdom and never lost their powers. Darkstalker’s story ended much differently to, I’ll explain that au eventually.

Below is an example of what an average Nightwing would look like (one set of horns and no moon powers).

Thanks @one-mopeyboi for helping out with various ideas for the au !

[lemonlimestar]

save me 90s bats…. 90s bats save me….

[arunneronthird]

actually i think they should do stupid things together sometimes, i also fully embraced the fact that none of them have any fashion sense

[pokeberry5]

inspired by those textposts about dick rocking up to the rest of titans with tim for the first time and kori et al. being like: is that the stalker kid???

bonus:

warm ups:

[graytodd]

" You look good in my bed.

[binghe-malewife-goals]

I finally finished this DAMN ref sheet (shakes fist)

At least I like it a lot :]c

[frogaroundandfindout]

Dick and his thermos (Action Comics #771)

[hood-ex]

It was crazy that Bruce showed Dick the footage of him getting shot in the head, but it was equally as crazy that he let Damian watch it.

[cherih3]

bit coy innit

[verrixstudios]

Mm, yes, I love how correct this is.

Funnily enough, Nightwings are the only ones correct. (Yes I’m aware it’s probably because they have a page to their own)

[heartspark]

I finally finished my new dragon base, this took me so much longer than I thought it would to complete due to how large it is! it's a puzzle base as well, meaning you can mix and match parts to better make unique characters!

It's a base meant for standing references to show off a design well, but you are of course free to use it for adoptables as well! It has all of the typical wings of fire layers + general dragon stuff so if you'd like to make a fluffy, antlered,  feathered, shark dragon you can definitely do that as well! There are 150 layers all together though I had to split the base up into 3 files as the linework is pretty big. So please be sure you have a system that can handle it before purchasing! As well as s system that can open a procreate or PSD file!

I actually wanted to add even more layers for customizing but I didn't want this to be too huge 😅 in the future if this base is popular enough id be more than happy to provide a very cheap ad on for those interested!

Anyways, each file is around 19.50 MB! please be SURE your device can handle this before downloading!

https://kamimaru.sellfy.store/

[heroesriseandfall]

Nightwing Vol. 2 #54

Nightwing Vol. 2 #73

Gibsontown, Florida, aka “Gibtown”

Ahhh, okay. Huh.

[55cdfc-f7a8b8-ffffff-f7a8b8-55cd]

Learning to draw batman characters

[borkwolf]

I don't think I've ever introduced Obsidian. I want to put her under a microscope and do tests on her <3

[fivetrench]

Updated wof sona because I don’t really like my old ones anymore lol

He has the same backstory as Bulrush (old sona) so I’m just gonna paste that below!

Nightcrawler is a very weak seer, his only ability is getting “feelings” of when bad things are about to happen. Basically there’s always a little hum of dread in its mind, which increases when in crowds, during conflict, right before events, etc. He doesn’t get visions but he does have nightmares, mostly of wildly unrealistic possible futures. It’s very pessimistic and antisocial, both because of its abilities and because it’s just like that. His anxiety and powers kind of merge into a weird mess of symptoms that can’t be differentiated from each other (e.g., his nightmares, increased dread when in crowds, etc). He works as an entomologist in the outskirts of the rainforest, identifying, cataloguing, and preserving insects. It lives in a small hut that’s closer to the Mud Kingdom, where it keeps all of its collections. He prefers the company of bugs and animals over dragons and has a pet Burmese python named Prince (based off of my ball python, Princely :3). Prince is his only official pet, but he often feeds the animals near his home and has names for them. It doesn’t talk to its father (a Nightwing named Snaketail) very often but it has a good relationship with its mom (a Mudwing named Crayfish) and visits her in the Mud Kingdom frequently.

I think I might have him be in a relationship with Winter, just for funsies :3c

[eiyuuou]

I just wish you could see more of discowing in todays costume…

please forgive my bad phone handwriting I was on a bus doodling this — more thoughts and rambling under the cut

Obviously the fingerstripes were going to be there but I also really like the 2021 design of having the blue palm as well. I like the idea that it’s like an extra grippy material.

I wanted the V pattern on the chest to be obviously bird-like but the eagle head…. Just is not my favourite. I DO like the little chips making the V look like wings from TNBA. I know there’s also a version of the flying graysons that have this design on the chest I just cannot remember which comic it was from

I know he’s supposed to be a night guy and stealthy and all but I really liked bright coloured boots from his first two outfits… and if he can wear pixies boots as a kid he’s allowed bright boots now

The neckline is inspired by the new52 fit (the design element I like the most aside from those funky little hip stripes, but I think they’d made this suit too busy) it also seems like it’d just be more comfortable on the neck honestly

And then I wanted his domino mask to harken back a bit more to his robin one so I smoothed out the bottom :)