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Here, take this.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#DAtV#Emmrich volkarin#my art#I’m running out of explanations for my doodles lmao#yes I saw more model photoshoots#and kinda just went with it#next thing I knew I finished this pfffft#thirst is real perhaps#just want to see disheveled Emmy#hehehe
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Hot take
Night furies are actually perfectly evolved for hunting and killing other dragons and the only reason they aren't a dragon-hunting species like the death song or deathgrippers are is because DreamWorks couldn't have their adorable main character dragon be a "cannibal"
(below I'm gonna try to summarize what we've figured out in a convo with friends on discord)
(also tw animal death via predator)
First of all yes I'm aware that pretty much every decision made about their design was with consideration of the effect it would make on human audiences but hear me out
Night furies are most iconically known as dive-bombers. They are built for speed, high maneuverability, night-time camouflage and for striking targets from above. If we remove human settlements out of the equation (which would not have existed long enough to actually influence night fury evolution, come on), what does that leave us with?
They aren't built for catching fish for sure, they aren't very hydrodynamic and their head is round, wide, and their teeth are dull. Honestly, the monstrous nightmare is much better suited for catching fish, with its long neck, almost pelican-like jaw and rhamphorhynchus teeth
Compare to
Yeah the jaws look kinda like a porpoise of some sort but for that the whole body would have to be a lot more aquatic imo. The light fury looks a lot closer to an aquatic diver, it has a sleeker body, rounded fins instead of spikes, and a long neck.
I don't really see them hunting land animals either, they just don't look like they're adapted for that minus the resemblance with large felines and even then, they're too large to effectively hunt in forests.
The one thing I can kinda imagine them hunting is large mainland megafauna, but we're working with a setting that takes place pretty much exclusively on islands. And overall, dragons are the only abundant species there with the exception of fish and human-bred sheep and chickens.
In general, night furies have duller teeth, smaller claws and are smaller than most dragons. Disregarding the movies making Toothless weirdly OP, a night fury would be disadvantaged against most dragons in a 1v1 fight and besides, it has four huge weak spots that would highly discourage it from a direct physical fight - the primary and secondary tail fins. One unlucky rip in the membrane and the night fury is fucked.
The night fury however noticeably resembles falcons, given their dive-bombing ability and high maneuverability.
Falcons too have smaller beaks and weaker claws compared to most birds of prey, and for that they compensate by simply picking up speed, balling up their talons and Punching. Really. Hard.
And they use that ability to kill other birds, even much larger ones, by knocking them right from the sky.
Here, the night fury's plasma blast works the same way as a falcon's punch. Dragons are fire-resistant, so what the plasma blast does is really just a densely packed bolt of energy that has the effect of either stunning or outright killing prey by damaging its spine. And what the plasma bolt doesn't do, rapid contact with the ground would finish. And if even that doesn't do it, the night fury's wide jaws and dull teeth are just fine for simply clamping around the unlucky dragon's neck and strangling it, like a lion or a pitbull.
The night-time camouflage allows the night fury to soar for extended periods of time perfectly unnoticed in the night sky, and by the time it strikes, the dragon wouldn't even know what's coming.
Unless
Say the hunting night fury is aware of other dragons sleeping under the trees, as most dragons probably would at night (village raids aside, most dragons seem to be diurnal), so how does the night fury get them in position where it can use its signature attack? Well, there's That Iconic Screech Of Death. Since in the movies it tends to appear not just during dive-bombings but also when charging up a blast, I imagine it's something the night fury is able to control to some degree. So by simply fake-diving in close proximity to sleeping dragons, it can effectively terrify them into leaving their hideout and fly out into the open where it can easily take them out.
I dunno, the possibility of night furies as predators to other dragons just makes so much sense to me, I really don't know what other reasons there would be for them to evolve these particular adaptations.
And one more little headcanon to add to this whole rant - since night furies are significantly smaller and less equipped for dragon vs dragon fights and are primarily speed-based predators, I imagine there is this very likely scenario:
There is one dragon who resembles a hyena, a lil bit
Ok, rant over
#httyd#how to train your dragon#night fury#spec bio#spec evo#as for why Toothless isn't hunting other dragons and lives in the hive with all the rest#this is a pretty funny possibility to think about but perhaps in the past -1000-ish years humans have simply become#such a massive nuisance to the dragons that some of their species abandoned their natural behavior in exchange for kicking humans asses#yes i know the movies were all about ''dragons are actually perfectly fine and innocent and it was just the Red Death''#but also human effect on the environment and encroaching on natural dragon hunting grounds and fucking up the ecosystem#anyway there
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I saw someone do something similar with a cow little bit ago and it looked like fun so I wanted to try it out
#artists on tumblr#dragon#this has the potential to be really cool or the funniest thing ever#or perhaps super adorable#or- I suppose horrifying lol#can't wait to find out lol#drawing poll#poll#art#digital art#drawing
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Congratulations Professor, you are holding the future heir of House de Riva!
#Or perhaps a future Mourn Watcher#I haven't decided yet#Emmrich Volkarin#Emmrook#Aria de Riva#dragon age the veilguard#DATV#DA4#My art#Dragon age#emmrich x rook#Rook de riva
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“Rook? Can I bother you-”
“No, go away.”
#was this the bargain rook had to strike to get her dance at the victory ball? perhaps#I love drawing them asleep so much because yall they need a GOOD NAP#dragon age veilguard#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age#lucanis x rook#rookanis#datv#rook#lucanis dragon age#dragon age fanart#rook Mercar#Vivienne rook Mercar
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Hi so I might’ve made a painting of my Inquisitor while trying to mimic Solas’s style so I can pretend he made it
#I’ve titled it Decade of Pining#I’m handling the wait for veilguard well as you can see#I didn’t sleep last night and just worked on this woops#at least I have the day off today so it’s no biggie#but I am perhaps a bit delirious#i think this is good for my first try#but i need to work on making things more simplified if i wanna do this again#especially in the face he doesn’t do faces tbh#I struggle a lot with not over complicating things#always have#i just wanna add more#i know no restraint#solas#dragon age#shivana lavellan#my art#dragon age fanart#solavellan#da4#dragon age veilguard#da:tv
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DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD
Neve Gallus
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#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#neve gallus#dragon age neve#datv#daedit#datvedit#videogamewomen#dailygaming#gamingedit#./m#./m/gaming#./m/gifs#./m/da4#is this a neve account? perhaps#have you seen her??
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I will never tire of the way he looks at his Vhenan in that last scene.
Solas being an absolute mess of a man, blight stained lips and post battle sweat on his brow and yet he has never been hotter.
We need to collectively thank Bioware for their service.
#Anyway a chaste peck on the lips just wasn't enough#I mean yes we got an Gothic horror elven wedding before they sacrificed themselves to the fade#But look#I want this man on his KNEES your honor#He is at the mercy of her touch#Aching for it#This is the look of a man that can only see sunlight when it's reflected on the arch of her brow#Only sees a smile when it's the tilt of her lips#I want to envision them having absolutely desperate hurt/comfort sex in the fade#Perhaps soon there will be solavellan smut on this page#I do my part#As a faithful solavellanhell servant#dragon age#solas#solavellan#my art#dragon age the veilguard#Datv#Datv fanart#Spoilers#veilguard spoilers#da: the veilguard#dragon age veilguard#Dav#solas x female lavellan#solas x inquisitor#solasmance#Solavellan fanart#Daze Chroma#Dazechroma
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only bought this dress so you could take it off
#was this purely an excuse to draw 1960's fashion??#perhaps.#anyway these dorks are terribly in love and are probably < 5 seconds from divesting each other of said fashion in a fit of unhinged passion#solavellan#solavellan fanart#solas dragon age#solas#inquisitor lavellan#female inquisitor#female lavellan#dragon age#dragon age fanart#solas x female lavellan#solas x inquisitor#my art#hay huehuehue he gave her a pearl necklace#sjehjsdg#they are married your honor#fanart
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whatever it takes
#datv spoilers#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#davrin#death tw#blood tw#suicide tw#lmk if i need to tag anything else please#i was uhhh going through some stuff when i made this like a month ago but i liked how it turned out so i wanted to post it 👍#is this too much for a video game i think is kinda mid overall? perhaps#i have a lot of irks with one of davrin's endings idk#something about how if you make this choice#that means the issue at weisshaupt wasn't lucanis being out of sync with spite#it was that davrin (who lost everything at weisshaupt) didn't sacrifice himself hard enough#davrin would give everything to a world that looks down on him
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…Mourn Watch themed calendars with their staff when?
Was just looking at more modelling photoshoots and couldn’t help myself oops. 🫣
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#DAtV#Emmrich volkarin#my art#after 200+ doodles I tend to run out of ideas for poses#so I like to look at fashion photos#now it’s Emmy’s turn to be subjected to my model doodles ahaha#sorry perhaps#or not hehe#mourn watchers getting him to pose for art#imagine a vorgoth one#brain is just brrrrr after this#happy dragon age day here take this
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Enemies who experience an inescapable horror together and can't imagine being without one another again
The one you hated just days before becomes the one you need curled against you to feel safe, the back of your neck now a hearth for his fiery breath while he sleeps. Flames that once terrified you have become a comfort, a barrier from evil that wishes for your shared demise.
#Jewish dragon romance perhaps...#maybe#sleep stories#maybe I'll have a tag for the little posts about my stories i think about before i sleep#goodnight
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there's something so incredibly sweet about how many times davrin notes in his journal that talking to rook helped him with something. he keeps bringing them out to touch grass and gaze at nugs out in the woods with him which I think must be very good for them, and their company clearly helps him work through and get more clarity on things he's been stuck on emotionally. it's just kind of lovely and a great little nuance in that relationship.
#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#davrin#now picture davrin shaking rye by the shoulders (gently lifting him off the ground in the process thanks to the height difference)#and lovingly yelling 'ALLOW ME TO PROTECT AND CARE FOR YOU BACK OR SO HELP ME YOU LITTLE SHIT!!'#and that's basically their late-game dynamic fhsdja#rye spends an embarrassingly long time genuinely believing that davrin thinks he's an idiot. self-worth so abysmal#he cannot pick up on the myriad context clues that this is perhaps Not the case and that davrin in fact trusts him so deeply#it finally clicks literally only in the moment when davrin asks him to help decide the future of the griffons. y'know. we got there#it was kind of embarrassing for everyone involved but the realization did dawn finally lmao#just got to the post weisshaupt talk with him on this playthrough and I am In Agony#also when he says 'make it count I can only die once' and it felt like a knife in the gut! fun times. video games are fun
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🌹 emmrich & flowers 🌹
emmrich has this banter with harding, where she asks him if he ever thought about what he would have done if he hadn't become a watcher.
he doesn't have an answer at the time she asks him, it comes to him later, after some thought:
emmrich: a botanist! harding: what? emmrich: i considered your earlier question, and if i weren't a watcher, i should like to become one of the great botanists. harding: (laughs) emmrich: is that funny? harding: it's funny because it's perfect. i can totally see it. harding: you, tending to your garden. sniffing dirt. discovering new plants. gently asking the slugs to leave your roses alone. emmrich: i should think so! i would've spent a lot of time on those roses. [source]
not only does it make a lot of sense given how much emmrich loves flowers, a part of his questline being dedicated to gathering them, but it also made me think about a headcanon for emmrich.
an emmrich, who is coming to terms with his feelings for rook and thinking about how to show them (again, according to harding, both of them are quite obvious about it), drawing up ideas and overthinking a complete bouquet arrangement for rook.
he's not only set on picking beautiful flowers that create an even more beautiful greater whole, but a bouquet that holds meaning.
every single flower he picks reveals his thoughts and feelings and hopes, beautiful and complex as they are.
bluebells for humility (alluding to his "you humble me." line), gladiolus in honour of rook's strength of character and determination ("there's also something quite indomitable about you."), heliotropes for an undying love (a "flame eternal", if you will), and perhaps even beautiful and classic red roses (a true love, bashful love).
it would of course be up to you if your rook understands the deeper meaning behind the gesture, but i'd like to think emmrich wouldn't mind explaining.
it does make me laugh to imagine rook listening to emmrich details each flower meaning like
#emmrich volkarin#emmrich x rook#rook x emmrich#emmrook#dragon age 4#dragon age: the veilguard#datv#da4#da4 spoilers#datv spoilers#otp: love undying#ch: emmrich volkarin#ch: leander aurelian thorne#vg: dragon age 4#series: dragon age#meta: myda4#perhaps it becomes a thing he does for them#i do have a floriography book i have to look up if i find one that has a naughty meaning bc emm Would i just know it 🤭
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my attempt at making a fursona
#i never see any mole furries so i thought id try my hand at it ^_^#i was hungry making this and was thinking of dirt cup pudding so its partly inspired by that and mario grass blocks#i dont draw furries very often so this was a fun learning experience lol. also!! star nose moles are kinda cute!!!!#when i was coming up with a name my mind kept going back to that tiktok of dogs and the tts voice saying stuff like i like mulch#mulch is my favorite food! yippee mulch!! so if youre wondering where i got the name theres the lore for it#i also wanna make a sea otter fursona.. and perhaps a snowshoe hare or other winter animal. oh or a barn owl!!#im trying to free my mind when it comes to making multiple sonas bc im still trying to wrap my head around it#ive always kinda seen myself as my persona but i want to try and be silly with it. actually while i was making this i was a little doubtful#to call it my fursona bc it doesnt look like me but a little voice inside my head was like well. youre not a 5 foot tall talking mole eithe#so you might as well. and i was thinking abt ppl with their dragon wolves with wings and i was like wow.. youre right... i can do what i#want forever. and brother that shit was enlightening it was like my third eye opened when i realized that#my art#myart#my oc#oc#fursona#mulch#furry art#sfw furry#character design#oc ref sheet#reference sheet
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drew some more perns just now.. it's been years but i remember the wings on the covers of some of the books being insect-like and the text backs this up a little in places. i thought a variable wing morphology would be fun, the propatagium can be extended or relaxed similar to slats on a plane to increase wing surface area and lift at low airspeeds. here we have a light and fast blue (top) and a more robust brown (bottom)
#creature design#dragons#a bit halfassed but i wanted to draw more skin folds and wrinkles like a sphynx cat as well#considered giving them more insect like faces (faceted eyes etc) but i like the very classic old school dragon shape#here's a guy you would see on a book cover or perhaps airbrushed onto a van
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