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finally finished the designs for all the queens of my fan series!!! I love all of their designs, and I’m so glad I can flesh this world out more :)

some more info on each queen below (and tumblr may have destroyed the quality, so click on the image if you want a better look)⬇️

Queen Rafflesia is the second oldest queen in Xevenay (my fan continent), and is the current leader of the MudWings. She is described as a very fair and well rounded queen, and is fiercely loyal and dedicated to running her tribe. She may not be as young and spry as when she was younger, but she’ll do anything to make sure her tribe is safe, happy, and strong. Rafflesia and her sib group are currently working on repairing the damage done to her tribe’s territory after the Hive Takeover (a war that resulted in most of her tribe abandoning their land when they were attacked by HiveWings). The next queen in line is going to be Rose Mallow (her granddaughter).

Queen Lapis is the current queen of the SeaWings, and has stepped into her role quite smoothly. After the death of Queen Tuna due to old age, Lapis was deemed fit for queenhood, and is a complete natural. She is the twin of Princess/General Lazuli, and is the complete opposite of her fierce, ambitious sister. Lapis is fair, calm-minded, rational, and a very intelligent dragon. Many SeaWings are relieved that she was chosen as the next queen rather than Lazuli, as although Lazuli is an amazing general and a fierce warrior, she wouldn’t be quite fit for queenhood—unlike Lapis. There has been no current heir picked, as Lapis is a fairly new Queen and is still young and healthy.

Queen Tangerine is the current queen of the RainWings, and is pretty different from the previous two discussed. She is short-tempered, easily annoyed, and likes things to stay consistent. Dragonets are probably her least favourite thing in the world, but luckily her heirs have been raised by her husband and wife—who are way better at taking care of dragonets than her. She is proudly polyamorous, and loves all her partners dearly. Despite all of her flaws, she has been a pretty popular queen throughout her ruling; at least by pure RainWings—hybrids aren’t too fond of her due to her distaste of them. The next queen in line is going to be Kiyomi (her daughter).

Queen Dusk is the current queen of the SandWings, and is an often overlooked queen. It’s not that she’s boring or weak or anything like that, it’s just that she hasn’t done anything too significant during her ruling. She did offer sanctuary to many SandWings who were affected by the Hive Takeover (as the HiveWings did encroach on Sand Kingdom territory, but didn’t end up taking much land due to harsh conditions), and sent out many military units to help defend her borders and other neighbouring kingdoms (such as the Mud Kingdom and Sky Kingdom). Other than her contributions to the most recent conflicts, she hasn’t done much, and is a pretty solitary queen who enjoys music and writing. The next queen in line is going to be Ringtail (her cousin (in my universe, cousins are able to become queens)).

Queen Dreamcatcher is the oldest queen on the continent, and is the current queen of the NightWings. In her long life, she has been through many hardships and battles, but despite all that, she is a very kind and generous queen. She almost single-clawedly repaired her tribe after a rough ruling from her grandmother, and due to this, she is quite popular with not only the NightWing tribe, but the other neighbouring tribes too. Maybe it’s the age getting to her, or maybe she’s always been like this, but Dreamcatcher has always been the most lax of all the queens on rules and regulations. Nowadays, her ruling is split between her, her husband, and her granddaughter (and future ruler) Hopefulsight.

Queen Topaz is the current queen of the SkyWings, although she wishes she wasn’t. Before her ruling, her sister, Queen Redtail, ruled the SkyWings amazingly, and was popular with all the tribes. But after being killed in a battle during the Hive Takeover, Topaz was forced to step in as the next queen quite unexpectedly. Due to this, Topaz is a very bitter and angry dragon, and often takes out her frustrations on her servants and royal councillors. The only dragon Topaz seems to tolerate is Queen Lapis—in fact, they were formerly very close friends and clawmates at Jewel Mountain Academy before they both had to step into their royal roles more. There is no current heir picked, as Topaz refuses to appoint one.

Queen Floe is the current leader of the IceWings, and is a queen you should definitely not mess with. She is wicked smart, and thanks to her extensive knowledge and large council, makes her a formidable opponent and a very intimidating dragon. However, she isn’t a terrible dictator or something like that. She’s surprisingly fair and respectful, and takes the time to work out any intertribal conflicts with grace and precision. Outside of her tribe though, she can be quite prickly and hard to get to know, and isn’t afraid to stand up for what she wants. The next queen in line is going to be Larna (her niece).

Queen Sunflower is the newest appointed queen in Xevenay, and her road to queendom has been quite a rough one. She was the one to kill the previous queen of the HiveWings—her mother, Queen Cadmium—after she went on a crazy power trip and started the Hive Takeover. She was almost killed by Cadmium, and was left with a scarred face, a mangled ear, and a broken horn. Since then, the HiveWings have been slowly rebuilding their tribe and paying their respects to the other tribes that had been damaged during the war—and all of this burden lays on poor Sunflower. She is very different than the average HiveWing, as she is much more considerate and kind, but that is a welcome change after the tyrant that was Cadmium. She has appointed Princess Ladybug as an heir in case things go wrong, but it is very unlikely that anyone will challenge Queen Sunflower.

Queen Azure is the current queen of the SilkWings, and is the definition of SilkWing stereotypes. She’s an often overlooked queen due to her softness and dislike of conflict, but to her, that’s perfectly fine. She’s a very agreeable queen, and is always willing to lend a claw to other tribes if they need help or resources. As a result, she’s been taken advantage of by quite a few other queens, and her council is often frustrated by her inability to set firm boundaries. She also has a fondness for humans, and makes sure Moorlands (the human town in SilkWing territory) is doing well and isn’t being targeted by other human-hating dragons. The next queen in line is going to be Claudina (her cousin).

Queen Acorn is the current queen of the LeafWings, and has had a rough time with her rule. During her early years as queen, she had to work with the NightWings quite extensively in order to prevent a full-blown war (it’s a very long story involving animus abuse and dragons possessing others lol), and even implemented a rule stating that animus dragons cannot be used like tools by their queens, and that abuse against animi is forbidden. Nowadays, Acorn is a secluded queen, preferring to keep LeafWing business to themselves and overall being a polite but distant figure of authority. The next queen in line is going to be Briar.

Queen Raven is the current queen of the RoostWings, and is one of my personal favourites. She’s gone through a lot during her short life as queen, but she’s handled it very well. From setting up the new Roostwing territory after fleeing their old home, to dealing with 11 other tribes that the RoostWings have never interacted with or even knew of their existence until recently, she’s been through it. However, she’s remarkably resilient and good-hearted, and just wants what’s best for her tribe and family. There are no current heirs old enough to be considered for the throne, but she’s planning on having eggs soon, and has a niece of her own who seems promising.

Last but certainly not least, Queen Emerald. She’s the current queen of the CaveWings, and has only recently become a somewhat unpopular queen. Before the CaveWing Emergence, she was respected and well liked by all CaveWings due to her desire to keep the CaveWing communities healthy and safe, and her plans to expand their underground home into more sustainable territory. However, after the CaveWings were rediscovered and emerged to live alongside “the surface dwellers”, Emerald’s old ways started to make change and adaptation harder, and a number of dragons believed that a new queen that wanted the CaveWings to mingle with the other tribes and was more willing to work with other tribes would be more desirable. Emerald hasn’t caught onto these rumours yet, but luckily she has an heir—Princess Tsavorite—that would replace her if anything… unfortunate… were to happen.

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May I hear your headcanons/thoughts on everyone's sibling situation?

It's always so funny to hear about it conanically in the show e.g. Raj mentioning his brother during float trippers and of course the platypus brothers hehehehe

If "everyone" is too much to think about I'd just love to hear about your faves then :D

You maaay! Also I love u💛

Viewer beware; I will go into non-sibling tangents.

Lazlo: The fifth-born of seven kids

Lazlo’s got four big sibbies, two boys and two girls. The oldest one, a boy, is about ten years older than himself, and being groomed to inherit Fruita-Quicka, the family’s fruit company alluded to in “Where’s Lazlo?” His two younger sibbies, one boy and one girl, are eight and five where he at the time of the show is thirteen. Lazlo gets his endless capacity for inventing games from entertaining these little ones. His oldest brother, from above, taught Lazlo about half of them when they played together hehe.

Clam: Only child

Clam’s an only child if you ask me. We have every reason to say “Oh, he could have sibs that were just never mentioned,” (also headcanon just means do you own thing,) BUT! I really really like the idea of him being an only child, so I’ll say the lack of mentioned siblings is to me indicative that he has none. Clam, who I headcanon to have the last name ‘Sand,’ lives with just his mom, Eggnog, and his father, Ingot. They talk in full sentences unlike Clam, and love him to bits. They respect his various oddities and wouldn’t have him any other way.

Samson Clogmeyer: Only child (at first)

As we all know, Samson’s parents, Stanley and Grace Clogmeyer, are jellyfish. If we go by the logic of Joe Murray’s earlier show, “Rocko’s Modern Life,” one species can be born to another with perfect ease. Personally, I don’t think Samson’s adopted. Grace had a guinea pig ancestor, and the gene woke up when she was expecting him, (don’t fucking ask any other questions,) and so he was born. And at the time of the show, when he’s thirteen, he’s an only child. But! When he’s fifteen, Stanley and Grace expect another baby, and this time it’s a jellyfish. So Samson now has a little jellyfish sister. And, here’s the kicker: she didn’t inherit the ability to sting, so he can hold her with no ill effects.

Patsy: Oldest of three kids

Canonically Patsy has at least one little brother, whom I headcanon is named Potsy. He’s just two years younger than her but she mothers him relentlessly, (with thanks to @/deadbeandrop for this idea!) Then when she’s fourteen, they both get ANOTHER little brother, Humphrey Jr. (Commander Hoo-ha, in my headcanon, has the first name ‘Humphrey’ and is thus the Sr.)

Dave and Ping Pong: Twins

Dave and Ping Pong (really named Bruce in my HC but it’s never used,) are twins, and it’s just them two as the family’s kids. We never learn which is older, (and it’s never actually said they’re twins either but I can’t see them as anything else,) but in my HC Ping Pong is older by seventeen minutes. And whenever Dave feels like Ping Pong is babying him, he stresses that statistic. (“I’m only seventeen minutes younger than you! This is chicanery!” “Seventeen more minutes of wisdom, you teeny-weeny egg. Now, drink this water instead of soda for a change.”)

Edward: Five older brothers

So we all know Ed’s older brothers: Cheesly, Alpine, Fancypants and Philip. (Those former three are nicknames in my HC.) But! In “The Great Snipe Hunt,” Edward also mentions an older brother named Mel. I’ve seen some people say that’s merely one of the other brothers’ real names, but I personally see Mel as a half-brother from a marriage Edward’s father had and ended before meeting Susan. So who’s Mel? He’s a sleazy forty-something, cigarette-smoking taxi driver who lives far removed from the family in New York City. (Edward’s other brothers completely ignore his existence.) He’s rough around the edges but would give you the shirt off his back, and Edward loves him and makes him a confidant.

Here’s some ANCIENT, SHITTY art of him of mine.

Aaand that’s what I have as far as I remember in terms of sibling ideas!

Ty love💛

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Fic Friday 5 + 1 Roundup: SI Sibling

Some fics with SI's who aren't inserted into a canon character and now have a canon sibling.

Rose Petal Red (AO3) - An eighth Weasley sibling.

Triumphant the Dreamer (FF) - Harry Potter has a twin sister.

Winning the Lottery (AO3) - Batman's sister.

My Older Brother Can't Possibly Be this Strong (AO3) - Gojo Satoru's younger sister.

The Color of Summer (AO3) - Naruto's brother.

bonus: Fade to Black (AO3) - Sand sibs's older brother.

[sh3wulf]

(  melisa  asli   pamuk  +  ciswoman  +  she/her  )  ⸻  beneath  snowfall  and  darkness,  SIBEL  QORGYLE  arrives  into  king’s  landing,  a  THIRTY  TWO  year  old  LADY  of  SANDSTONE  surviving  the  conquest  is  no  small  feat,  only  someone  so  CHARISMATIC  and  ALLURING  could  do  so,  yet  remain  OBSTINATE  and  MANIPULATIVE,  will  they  get  through  the  long  night,  or  become  one  with  the  other’s ? 

𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒...

𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄.  sibel  qorgyle . 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄.  sometines  shortened  to  sib  ,  but  only  by  really  close  family  and  friends .  the  sand  scorpion  or  amber  scorpion  on  account  of  the  amber  jewels  she  frequently  wears . 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒.  lady  of  sandstone . 𝐀𝐆𝐄.  thirty  two.  𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑. cis woman ( she / her ). 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒.  secretly  married  ,  but  also  betrothed  –  it's  a  whole  mess . 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍.  has  become  a  follower  of  the  lord  of  light  in  recent  years ,  believing  that  the  only  way  to  fight  fire  ( the  targs )  is  with  fire .  𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.  house  qorgyle  /  herself .  𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒. common tongue,  trade  tongue ,  high  valyrian  (  to  some  extent  )  .

𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄...

𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓.  5' 8.   𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃.  mesophoric ;  slender  yet  rounded  features.  she  is  currently  in  the  early  stages  of  pregnancy  ,  likely  little  over  a  month  and  is  yet  to  show .  𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒.  amber  in  hue ,  large  and  oval,  framed  by  long  dark  lashes.  ��𝐀𝐈𝐑.  a  deep  warm  brown ,  kept  long  and  textured  though  tamed  with  scented  oils .  wears  dornish  styles ,  prefering  loose  braids  or  just  left  down  ;  often  adorns  with  amber  or  gold  accessories .  𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐎𝐍.  olive  skin ,  warm  undertones .  𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐒.  a  four  inch  scar  across  left  shoulder  blade ,  the  remnants  of  the targaryen  attack  on  sandstone  eight  years  prior.  𝐒𝐓𝐘𝐋𝐄.  soft  flowing  ( occasionally  sheer ) silks  from  yi'ti  and  qarth  ,  preference  of  reds ,  bronze ,  golds ,  teals  and  burnt  orange ,  again  strong dornish  influences  that  are  likely  deemed  ' revealing '  due  to  plunging  necklines  and  ' cut - out '  designs ;  examples .  

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘...

𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓.  chaotic  neutral.  𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓.  charismatic  ,  intuitive  ,  generous  ,  attentive  ,  witty . 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐓.  deceitful  ,  dogmatic  ,  jealous  ,  manipulative  ,  selfish ,  sarcastic .  𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.  geillis  duncan ,  lady  macbeth  ,  ellaria  sand . 

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒...

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒.  mesut  qorgyle  ,  father  –  deceased  in  battle  .  faryal  qorgyle  nee  allyrion  ,  mother  –  missing  , presumed  dead  .  𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒.  ruling  lord  qorgyle  ,  twin  ;  lord  qorgyle  ,  younger  sibling . 𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄.  currently  pregnant  with  first  child  ,  though  this  is  still  a  secret .  𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄.  wanted  connection !    𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑.  lord  utp  tyrell  ,  betrothed .  allyrion  ,  cousins  on  maternal  side . 

𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐑𝐁...

from the moment sibel could talk , her tone held a sting . a true scorpion of the sands , her venomous tendencies fortified behind a strong will and obstinate nature – resilient and lethal to the core . she was born to mesut and faryal qorgyle mere minutes after her brother at the oasis of the dunes , her family seat of sandstone . behind the towering walls of its namesake lay a proverbial garden of eden ; lush greens and blossoming flora , towering palms and cool pools all stemming from the only water source in fifty leagues or more . sandstone was a kingdom unto itself , and sibel had free reign .

sibel blossomed in a comfort and luxury that had been well earned by her ancestors , who learned not only how to survive within the mammoth dunes of dorne, but more importantly how to survive . the bazaar at sandstone formed her school , the traders within their walls her teachers ; she learned young the inner workings of trade and bartering and most crucially, how not to be taken advantage of . you see, the qorgyle's did not only pride themselves on the trade , but also the fierce reputation – they were not called the scorpions of the dunes for nothing ; their vengeance was swift , brutal and lethal .

within the complex duality of luxury and harshness , sibel grew into adulthood with the same vicious pride, charm and savviness as her forbearers. blessed too with beauty and wit , she became an object of desire and reverence , a mirage within the scorching heat leading the parched to their own ruination . yet before she could truly make her mark on the world , the dragon's descended upon them and all that she ever held dear turned to ash . forced to seek sanctuary with the martell's in sunspear , they have been mere shadows of their former selves ever since . though the flames of revenge burn brighter with every year that passes .

life at sunspear has not always been easy , they are only beggars with a good name there , beholden to overlords who could cast them out at any moment . yet sibel has done whatever she's needed to do to keep them safe , whether it be through her looks or intellect ; including agreeing to a betrothal between herself a cousin of house tyrell , through whom they would finally gain the means and influence to raise sandstone to its former glory . it would have been a sacrifice she was willing to make , had it not been for him . with her wedding upon the horizon sibel harbours not one but two secrets ; the first is that she carries another mans child in her womb and secondly , she just so happened to marry the child's father in secret .

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Retold Flames: Succession War

Got the first piece of many for a retelling AU here (holding multiple AU ideas). For some AU world building, Animus Magic has rules such as one has to have the intent to use animus magic to create an enchantment, you must be touching an object to place an enchantment, an enchantment can only do one thing, creating an enchantment has costs (preventing that cost can prevent the creation of an enchantment) enchantments can be overridden unless they are made permanent, enchantments can form a personality, enchantments based in memory or animating an object can form sentience. Twin eggs also have their own thing going on for each tribe with one dragonet being a fire scale variant and the other being of a subtribe. (There is a more detailed version for both on Ao3.)

Burn: Before the Succession War, Burn would be a somewhat kind yet fierce dragon, caring for her collection of odd creatures (getting inspiration for her hobby of poetry from them as they wandered around the Palace and giving the place some life) with help from her brother Smolder and sister Blaze who she would be close to (also including their father Char who would help teach Burn and Smolder about caring for creatures before his untimely death); Being on trusting terms with her mother Oasis and not so with her sister Blister. (Burn was also generally favored in being the one to be accepted by the Eye of Onyx, used as a way to choose a new queen.)

With the death of Oasis at the hands of Scavengers, Burn would enact her revenge on them and lead a small force that would push out most of the Scavenger population out of the Kingdom of Sand. Following this, Burn would find Blister has fled and enacted war on her, being allied with Queen Coral and the Kingdom of Sea (Forming the Shoreside Alliance); Burn herself retaliating with an alliance with Queen Harp and the Kingdom of Ice as well as being joined by Queen Scarlet and the Sky Kingdom. The Alliance itself come to be known as the Burning Alliance. (Scarlet’s involvement would lead the war to spread into the Mud Kingdom and lead High Queen Moorhen and her sibs to ally with the Shoreside Alliance.)

During the early years of the War, Burn would be tempted by Scarlet into choosing to do some unsavory stuff and escalating to her becoming her more brutal self and killing queen Harp. Leading to the Ice Kingdom breaking off their alliance with Burn and allying with Blaze with Princess Glacier taking the throne and forming the Sand-Ice Alliance. (Burn would come to kill and stuff her collection of creatures that would eventually be joined by the remains of dragons with abnormal parts, having her tower constructed to hold said collection.)

During the later years of the War, Burn would acquire an ally in the Mud Kingdom and its monarchy after they were blamed for failing to stop the assassination of Commander Tempest and being cut off from the Shoreside Alliance. (The Mud Kingdom is ruled by a Sibtroop of Kings and Queens with the Bigwing acting as a High Monarch.) Burn herself would connect with Moorhen as older siblings, building into a somewhat close friendship as Moorhen and the rest of her sibs would help temper Burn’s more destructive tendencies over the years. (Burn’s tower would be left to collect dust in the wake of past memories.) 

Sometime after the brightest night 0f 5,005 A.S. and destroying the supposed Skywing egg for the prophecy, Burn would form the Talons of Power; A group tasked with bringing order to the Souther regions of the Kingdom of Sand that have become rampant with crime due to lack of enforcement due to forces being pulled to the war up north. While the Talons would be generally successful in their endeavors for a few years, they would eventually collapse due to internal conflict/sabotage (such as from crime Lord Vulture sending his daughter Cobra to infiltrate the Talons).

As the War nears its end, the Burning Alliance nears complete victory over the Shoreside Alliance, being held back by Scarlet who has continued to cause issues for the Burning Alliance throughout the War; Leading Burn and Moorhen to assist Princess Ruby in usurping her mother Scarlet so they may finish the fight against the Shoreside Alliance.

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Scarlet & Chameleon (& Cobra): When the Succession War began, Scarlet would join the Secret Alliance with Blister and Seawing Advisor Whirlpool then the Burning Alliance with Burn under the pretense of infiltrating; instead using it to prolong the war and its suffering for her own personal enjoyment, taking up a little pet project in shepherding Burn into becoming merciless and brutal. Taking an even greater enjoyment as the War becomes more miserable for others.

During the early years of the Succession War, Scarlet would catch/first meet Chameleon using his Nightwing Enchantment Shapeshifter, along with his enchantment creating scroll, to steal treasure from her. Finding his seeming skill to create transformation enchantments (as well as artistry), Scarlet would seek to use his skills for herself (along with not wanting to personally deal with the consequences of using animus magic). Having him create a Skywing enchantment named Soar and use it to become champion of the arena so she can keep him close without suspicion, getting her guard Osprey (former champion and present defense attorney) to train Soar who would eventually succeed in becoming champion of the arena (suffering through till the end).

With Chameleon an arena champion as Sora, Scarlet would use his skills to her personal benefit from creating small, unnoticeable enchantments dealing with inconveniences for herself to having him create immaculate art and jewelry for her; Even going on to use him for her personal enjoyment, using him as Soar to produce an heir to eventually replace her daughter Tourmaline (as she has done many times with her previous daughters and male arena champions). From this, Scarlet would have her twelfth daughter Pyrite, a bit of a clumsy dragonet that would be adored by her father; An adoration that would turn to grief as Tourmaline, taking after her mother, would kill her sister as a threat to taking the throne and in jealousy of being more loved. Such an act would enrage Scarlet with her plan being ruined, taking revenge by personally using Chameleons scroll to transform Tourmaline into being her thirteenth daughter Ruby and permanently replacing her memories of being Tourmaline with a willingness to follow her mother’s commands (a willingness that Ruby would eventually overcome).

As the Succession War rages on, Scarlet would enact a breeding program to increase a dwindling population, getting her arena champions Soar and Kestrel into the program as well; Eventually leading to Scarlet catching Kestrel fleeing with her Fire Scale and Featherwing (Twin Egg Subtribe) dragonets, getting her to kill one of her dragonets with the promise of letting her other dragonet live; Watching as Kestrel would give in and throw her Featherwing dragonet in a raging river (not seeing any chance of it surviving), leaving Scarlet to attempt to kill Kestrel who she had no plans of letting go; Something that wouldn't come to pass as they would attempt to flee with their Fire Scale dragonet, dropping the dragonet from their burning talons (of the third degree). With Scarlet now in possession of a Fire Scale dragonet, she would use them as another of her arena champions and ensure they make their fight brutal with Osprey training them (teaching a few other things behind Scarlet's back as well).

Not wanting Chameleon/Soar to learn of one of his dragonets surviving, Scarlet would send him to infiltrate the Talons of Power (for the Secret Alliance) as a Sandwing named Platyr (bringing a few other enchantments with him to use). While in the Talons, Platyr would meet Talon members Thorn, becoming somewhat friends, and Cobra who would attempt to allure Platyr (believing him to be an animus due to the new enchanted items he keeps getting and being tasked by her father Vulture in getting his supposed animus magic, something she would be woefully unprepared for due to her general lack of social skills from solely living as an assassin for Vulture. Leaving Cobra to reluctantly go to Thorn to figure out about Platyr and not giving away her true intentions, leading to a comedy of errors with Cobra unintentionally making it seem like she romantically likes Platyr to Thorn; Something that Cobra would roll with, seeing it as a way to get Platyr with help from Thorn who would help her actually be able to somewhat socialize with Platyr. Building into a forming relationship between Cobra and Platyr that would take a bit of an escalation with the two having a twin egg that would hatch into being their Bile Flame (Fire Scale Variant) daughter Rattlesnake taking after her grandfather and their Cactwing (Twin Egg Subtribe) son Sirocco taking after his mother. Eventually, Cobra would come to learn of Platyr's enchantment creating scroll, still bearing a loyalty to Vulture; Escalating into Platyr fleeing for his life, never to be seen again as Cobra would attempt to kill him to take his scroll (unknowingly leaving her with another egg).

With Chameleon returning to the Sky Kingdom, Scarlet would send him out again, this time as an Icewing named Cirrus sent to work with Mudwing Crocodile to infiltrate the Talons of Peace for the Burning Alliance. She would bring Chameleon/Soar back for a short period to enchant a captured Prince Hailstorm, a powerful and charismatic warrior in the Sand-Ice Alliance, to ensure is hidden and not rescued. Scarlet would convince Chameleon/Soar to use it as a way to bring his daughter back, using it as a way to strengthen his loyalty to her; Permanently enchanting Hailstorm to physically be Pyrite and enchanting their necklace to replace Hailstorm's memories with Pyrite's. Scarlet would have Pyrite go with Chameleon/Cirrus to infiltrate the Talons as it would be suspicious if a dead princess was walking around. Cirrus would go on to ingrain Pyrite to never take her necklace off as it is keeping her alive.

During the latter years of the war, Scarlet would assist Blister in a gambit to get Whirlpool to take the place of King Gill next to Queen Coral for political gain. Scarlet would be tasked in capturing Gill but be left with the unfortunate task of making Whirlpool into a dragon that can swoon Coral, working with Nightwing Morrowseer in both tasks. With Scarlet holding Gill captive, she would make him into her pet project; Quite literally in fact as she would deprive him of water to make him insane, using him as a beast of a champion for the arena and for her own personal enjoyment.

As Scarlet's hatching day draws near, Morrowseer would pay a short visit and grant her a chance at some 'gifts'. Giving her directions on where to get them, leaving her to round up a group of guards to do so.

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Blister: Before the Succession War, Blister would be conniving brat that would scheme against her mother Oasis, the rest of her family and other dragons of her home; Ranging from simple pranks to being nearly fatal (the latter more targeted towards her sisters in an attempt to take them out as competition to the throne). Occasionally, Blister would help her siblings in hanging out behind their paranoid mother’s back (not joining them herself), if only to get at Oasis who would seek to mold the siblings into being caricatures of theme selves (attempting to make them not a threat to the throne). This would culminate in Blister not getting Burn to help Oasis in stoping Scavengers from stealing her treasure, instead going to the treasury to steal the eye of Onyx for herself (being rejected by it once she got it).

With her mother’s death, Blister would be the one to start the Succession War against her sister Burn; burying the Eye of Onyx (being believed to have been stolen by scavengers) within her mother’s grave and fleeing. Forming the Shoreside Alliance by manipulating Queen Coral and allying with the Kingdom of Sea, the same being done with High Queen Moorhen and the Mud Kingdom. Blister would also form a Secret Alliance with Queen Scarlet as a way to cause issues in the Burning Alliance and Advisor Whirlpool as a way to gain more power and influence in the Kingdom of Sea (as well as to help gain more influence in manipulating Coral herself). The Secret Alliance would later be joined by Nightwing Advisor Morrowseer.

During the early years of the War, Blister would create the Talons of Peace as one of its founders alongside Commander Tempest. (Tempest would later be assassinated after coming close to uncovering the Secret Alliance, leading to the Mud Kingdom being blamed and being cut out of the Shoreside Alliance. The Talons of Peace would also be ostracized from the Kingdom of Sea) The Talons of Peace themselves would have goal of ensuring the war ends with Blister on the throne, being pushed by the Dragonet Prophecy created by Morrowseer. (The Talons themselves having two groups of dragonets being raised for the prophecy, one hidden with the Talons themselves and another hidden elsewhere.)

During the latter years of the war, Blister would enact a plan to get Whirlpool on the Kingdom of Sea throne. Having Morrowseer ensure King Gill is captured and make it look like the Sky Kingdom solely did it with Scarlet holding the King Prisoner. Blister herself would work to convince Queen Coral to move on from Gill and give at least a chance at dating Whirlpool, giving both Scarlet and Morrowseer the unfortunate task of getting him to be a dragon that can swoon Coral into marrying him. They would succeed in getting Whirlpool and Coral married (the two even having a clutch of eggs with one to eventually hatch Auklet). With Whirlpool successfully married to Coral, Blister would use them both to manipulate the Kingdom into preferring herself and favor her ruling over the Royal Family.

When it is found out that Coral daughter Anemone has animus magic, Blister would seek to use Anemone and their magic for herself; Using her influence over Coral to keep an eye on Anemone without her mother in sight. With Coral generally being quite controlling and heavily restricting what Anemone can do with Whirlpool a very awful tutor that would undermine her use in animus magic at the behest of Coral (going somewhat against the rest of the Secret Alliance now that he has what he desires), Blister would work to ensure that Anemone is skilled in using Animus Magic as well as healthy and happy enough to use said magic to help Blister (along with ensuring she is knowledgeable on how animus magic works as well). Put simply, Blister would eventually become somewhat of a decent parent (much better than Coral) to achieve her goal and unintentionally becoming close to Anemone, becoming an exception in her life.

As the war nears its end, Blister would make preparation for the dragonet prophecy by having Morrowseer acquire the Dragonets of Destiny for the Dragonet Prophecy while she and Scarlet would cover up any traces to the Talons of Peace by wiping them out. (Their plans having to be enacted early due to the Burning Alliance enclosing in on victory over the Shoreside Alliance.)

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Stonemover & Thorn: During the early years of the Succession war, Stonemover would be closely guarded and restricted from moving around the Nightwing Island before it became desolate from the volcano first erupting (wiping out the vegetation and a majority of the Nightwing Islands inhabitants).

As an animus of the Nightwing Island, Stonemover would be tasked with creating an enchanted portal tunnel that would connect from the Island to the Rainforest and to the northern region of the Kingdom of Sand (being used for operations of the Secret Alliance). This would send Stonemover on a journey (as animus magic works differently) that  would lead him to traverse through the Kingdom of Sea and Mud Kingdom to get to the Rainforest where he would create the enchantment for the second part of the portal tunnel, continue on his journey through Jade Mountain into the Southern areas of the Kingdom of Sand where he would meet the traveling Sandwing Thorn who would help Stonemover travel up north (the two growing close along their journey). With Stonemover completing the third and final enchantment for the portal tunnel, he would choose to stay with Thorn where they would return back south away from the war (unaware of the conflict ahead).

During their early years together, Stonemover and Thorn would settle into the Scorpion Den to hide away; The two eventually meeting the deserter trio of Six-Claws, Kindle and Dune with the five of them forming a trusting friendship. Eventually Stonemover and Thorn would eventually have an egg, a joyous time that would turn in the days leading up to their egg hatching as Dune would suddenly flee with said egg. Stonemover would take charge after Dune, enchanting a skulk of foxes (bound by memories) in desperation of finding him; Something that would never come to pass as Dune would succeed in escaping. Feeling shamed for his failure and what he has done with his animus magic, Stonemover would put himself into isolation within the caverns of Jade Mountain; Enchanting his scales to turn to stone for all the enchantments he has created, only being kept alive in his now immobilized form by the skulk he enchanted caring for him (being changed by the enchantment and becoming something more). 

With Dune, her egg and Stonemover gone, Thorn would go on a desperate search for the three (bearing a growing hatred towards Dune for stealing her egg); Eventually focusing her efforts of finding her lost egg/dragonet, finding help and comfort in her friends Six-Claws and Kindle.

Thorn would eventually joining the newly formed Talons of Power in hopes of having a better chance of finding her dragonet (finding a friend among the Talons in an enchantment using Sandwing named Platyr from the Sky Kingdom). In time, Thorn would form a small group within the Talons, eventually splitting off from the Talons and becoming known as the Outclaws (being joined by Six-Claws in leading and Kindle in healing). Thorn would go on to conquer and somewhat restore the Scorpion Den in the wake of the Talons collapse with her Outclaws, eventually becoming an aunt to Six-Claws and Kindle’s daughter Ostrich. (Thorn would also go on to take one of Platyr’s sons from Cobra a few years after his disappearance, raising them as part of the Outclaws.)

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Blaze: During the early years of her life, Blaze wouldn’t really be the brightest; Preferring to go out and acquire treasures and odd gems for her own collection like her Big Sis Burn. (Got herself in-trouble at times cause of it, be it from her own foolishness or Blister playing a trick on her.) Blaze wouldn’t really be close to Oasis as a dragonet, instead being closer to her Big Sister Burn who would help care for Blaze after their father’s passing.

With the death of Oasis and Blister enacting war on Burn, Blaze would side with her sister Burn and wanting to help eventually acting as a spokesdragon for her sister who would stick to leading the front lines. To effectively do this Blaze would come to learn about the common folk of the Kingdom of Sand and its politics (not having interest in them before) with help from Princess Glacier who Blaze would grow close to. The two would come together to comfort each other in their grief after fleeing from Burn killing Glacier’s mother, Queen Harp (Glacier taking her mantle as Queen of the Ice Kingdom). Glacier would bear grief for the death of her mother and Blaze would bear grief for the sister she loves becoming a monster.

In the following years, Blaze and Glacier would grow closer to one another, eventually becoming romantic partners as they form the Sand-Ice Alliance with Glacier being the one to mainly lead. (Their relationship wouldn’t be commonly known as Ice Kingdom Queen’s don’t officially take a partner.) Eventually they would have their first daughter Crystal (being both a pure Icewing along with Glacier and Blaze as their biological parents thanks to some old Icewing Animus Gift, same with Snowfall and Mink) and bring with it a joyous event celebrated in Where-Sand-meets-Ice (a Sandwing/Icewing dominant town formed during the War, south of the Great Ice Cliff); said event unfortunately turned sour as it would be ambushed by a group of dragons (formed by the Secret Alliance) lead by Queen Battlewinner in an attempt to kill Blaze and eliminate her from the war. The attack would be pushed back as the Battlewinner’s forces would retreat with her being incapacitated from Ice Breath, though it would not be without loss, nor without impact.

Following her near assassination and Glacier nearly dying to protect her with many other (some less fortunate), Blaze would find the drive to take more of a leading role in the Sand-Ice Alliance; Taking a more direct approach in the war and growing into a dragon the Eye of Onyx would deem worthy of being queen. (Going through a bit of combat training as well for self-defense, not really liking the training but going through it non the less.)

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Narwhal & Tundra: Hatched around the time of the Sand-Ice Alliance forming, not knowing his mother Harp before she was killed by Burn. Narwhal would be distant from his sister Glacier who would be occupied with ruling the Ice Kingdom and Maintaining the Sand-Ice Alliance. Instead, he would be cared for by his brother Permafrost, learning to live by the beliefs of the Circle Rankings (eventually going on to push those beliefs onto his children), even personally making sure they were kept in order whenever Glacier was occupied elsewhere. Eventually he would meet Tundra who would allure Narwhal and eventually marry him.

Among the Icewings, Tundra would be both one of the more traditional and most disliked; Seeking to take control of the throne so she can return the Ice Kingdom back to what it was before the Succession War. Marrying Narwhal so she can gain a daughter that she could control to usurp Glacier and take the throne, using said daughter to enact her will. Something that wouldn’t come as soon as she wanted with their first hatch being their eldest son Hvitur (an eventual prodigy that would quickly prove himself).

Things would change when they would have a twin egg, hatching their twin sons Icicle with Aurora Ice (Fire Scale variant) and Winter a Ternwing (Twin Egg Subtribe). With Icicle having Aurora Ice, Tundra would have them be raised as a princess to take the throne (Tundra taking to ignoring her eldest) with Winter being neglected and berated by her and Narwhal for being a Ternwing. Something that would take a turn with Hailstorm being captured while taking Winter on a trip to get a scavenger, both Tundra and Narwhal would blame Winter (returning with only a scavenger). 

With Hailstorm captured, Narwhal would leave for the front lines of the War with Icicle in hopes of getting him back. Leaving Winter with Tundra who would continue to berate him without end (even destroying one of the limbs of his scavenger as punishment, expecting it to die from its wounds). Only after Glacier would send Winter to act as a herald (messenger) for Blaze would Tundra stop her tormenting her son, choosing to focus on other things with him gone.

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Comar & Phay

Bomara The Bowmaid.

Comar the Nomad

Mell the Horse

Phay the Piper

Sisterhood of Ink and Art (witch's ink, drink and paint.)

Clemira  Faschel    Hyade       Jallmaw     Eprodeen

Webtits  Firelips    Prixkin     Werebear   Hentauride

Alase II, fitful favoured fanatic with kinks who wants her wings, hates cocks.

Vanik VI, mundane who wants all women submissive but dresses as one.

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Shaving his head meticulously hairless, to get one cut meant illness then dying of infection.

Still one is obligated to at least groom it, his beard grew twice as fast, thick and coarse enough he had difficulty in finding a blade fine enough to cut it, his arms and legs too.

It was the only area unkissed by Joyoro other than his ass, long since sold his sacred face to a collector, out of the dry climate his sand dusty smoothed skin tanned to a crisp sheen, bald as birth.

Far and away from his land with nothing save his wit and cart of wares claimed after battles and plagues, likewise his garments fit a younger man's build to blend in to this part of the land, ill sized due to gained fat had torn the sleeves off the worn out purple jacket.

His gut hung a little over the torn knee length trousers, used to going barefoot but the ground was too soggy and living for his liking, in place for the time shod his feet in whittled bone shoes.

Joined by Mell who he took from a pig face young noble that laughed at his misfortune when a wheel broke on his cart once, knocked him off the beast, stripped him to underclothes and made him into a spare tied to it two miles of bellyaching until his legs gave out and he left him, had to catch and calm his mount, now he willingly pulled his cart.

Traveling far over land, he would find the high hill between two rivers upon it a tall tower in which his sib may be, the mother who bore him would see it through.

At a split the road right seemed less traveled along fields of crops, the left road was paved which meant a toll and town and answering questions.

Steering Mell right humming a tune his third lover used to, a comely widow noble with tastes for using a riding crop pink leather corsets and furry manacles, as her courtesan and play thing for six days before the game became dull and he didn't want to play....continues...

anymore, he made a clay cast of his cock for her and left in the night with some valuables.

His trade with twin part Fae sister bandits of chainmail and stilettos they lacked coin for his payment so he had the night and morning with both.

The young woman's mostly smooth form he likened to a spindly statue with short hazel hair who danced for him then they drank to futures amid burning incense, traded long kisses and going further traced ribs nibbled ears and blew on their belly holes building eachother up.

Finally she gave a wink and nod he dove into her without reserve pulling her legs back even with her head as he reamed her clenched crevice she arched squeezing her soles on his neck in reaction he reached around to her ass gripping it with the resolve of a cliffhanger on the edge.

Cool night air mingled with the warm shroud of fire as utterances between the two in throes of mating seemed to birth a dialect after countless ins and outs broke off and together as one released a generation coating the other in slick love juices, satisfied and drunk began whistling and snapping her sticky fingers as they cleaned up.

The elder woman's fuller marred body told of disease and self healing for naught, braided hazel hair draped around her ears and face from brow to cheek, the rest coiled up serpent style with twigs at the back of the scalp in two heaps, Her shoulders and elbows bore ink of curious shapes.

No warm up just strolled to a secluded stream at sunrise and skin to skin wrestled for top place, he let her straddle him she insisted that he lay still as she rode him like a mount as her breasts slapped his face he sucked them gingerly fanning an ember of submission he immediately snuffed by using her udders to finish him before she stormed off cursing him in her singery melodic tongue as he collected himself and made a hasty exit.

The most bountiful pair of breasts he beheld on a trip along the shore of his homeland, this heavy set maroon maned woman from the swirling sea sans waterbra asks for help finding it among the rocks and weeds she'd swam near, of course he readily accepted with his skills in tracking and deduction, appeared with the garment promptly to a thankful damsel who thusly pulled down her swimwear to gift a glimpse of her bushy twat, quite a piece of trimmed turf.

With a 'screw me' whisper in her husky voice, offered herself kneeling in the surf, alot of tit flapping later had his cock spurting seed over her cheeks and back before carrying and leaving her spread on a dune wearing nil but a grin ear to ear, forgoing any farewells.

Snapped back to now and found a hand on his junk, down his pants amid his mental musings had undone his belt and got busy waxing his pole.

'I yearn for a woman, whence be the next village?'

First smells of rain and moss and a hint of brine, heard the swish swash of running water, greeting his sight a span of rushing river, over it a log and post arch bridge enough for a single carriage or two riders.

Coming closer into better ear shot the commotion of an argument amid screams drowned in river sounds brought him to attention as the scene unfolded like a festival act and he was the lucky sole witness.

Four figures stood in the midst and seemed to be pushing one of them towards the rail, screaming and shouting intertwined something about a scroll or a troll and lord or order, more concerned at having to deal with them if he wanted to get by unhindered, made an overture to greet the bunch he stepped onto the surely in need of repair construct.

"If it isn't midday whistle til blue, how goes the day for you four fine folk of this land?" A mock accent he picked up.

The lot looked in his direction but due to Joyoro and the hoods worn couldn't tell if they were soldiers or fishers.

"Its a day to be minding ones own affairs and less of asking others theirs." Spoken by the shortest of the four.

A hand over brow provided reprieve he saw more clearly, axes and boiled leather curassis on all but one of them.

"So what's a man to do should his affairs be blocked by someone in pursuit of their own?" He swapped to mournful.

"Give us a fare and then be quick if passage is what ye want," informed a angry feminine voice.

"Well that seems fair." Hand in the cart from a sack seven mint coin, smoothed far too much to see the maker.

"The sea swallowed my fortune and family, now I roam dealing in wares." He said leading Mell forward.

"Get along old man don't come this way on your return trip, don't think about today or talk about it tomorrow."

Now closer the three arrayed in a triangle around the fourth, skin bared nay for a threadbare rouge cloak and one shabby boot, gagged by a cloth with her neck and hands bound with cords, her grey eyes glanced up.

Had nearly passed the lot when he stopped and turned with a balled fist to one of the brigands and held the coin out in open palm at almost the same moment his cart rolled back onto the foot of the leader.

The man who habitually reached to grab the payment as his partner hollered rather girlishly in pain was given a quick right hook that sent him stunned to the logs, hearing the damsels muffled wailing as she struggled with the remaining rogue attempting to throw her from the bridge.

Calmly he patted Mell on the head then he took the axe from the thugs belt and tossed it in the water before walking around the side opposite the pinned leader.

"Not to worry flatfoot I'll get to ya in a minute." Comar walked to the third hoodlum as he grabbed the damsel by her neck and bent her on the rail seconds from flipping her over it.

Deftly pulling off his belt began to lash the bandit who turned his focus as the storm of leather was rained thusly on him, recoil erroneously striking the damsel on the back as well.

He drew his axe Comar ducked the first swipe and parried the second as he landed a hit on the man's face the courage was driven from him then he tried to run but didn't get far as a resounding thwack of the belt sent him tumbling seeing birds.

Amid all this the bellyaching of the lead bandit cut off as the damsel had jumped on their back with her bonds began choking the life out of them.

Comar buckled his belt pried the weapon from the man's grip and tucked it in as he walked towards the two.

Whistled to Mell and the cart rolled forward just as the damsel was flipped into it and carried away.

"Bastard, who the fuck are you?" The sole bandit with a busted right foot and out of breath rasped.

"I'm Infallible, drop those weapons, you'll soon be on your knees in a moment." Comar duly stated with a grin.

"Oh really, you bald fat ass munch!" In a single fluid motion drew her axes to throw.

Seeing the look in her eyes the way hurt prey sees the jaws of death, looking beyond her noted Mell with the cart then noticed the lady noticed his eyes and in hers made a deadly change of target.

"Fuck your shit, vexslut spawn." She cursed and spat.

Her rear was to him before he got in fist or foot range at his pace she darted to evade the hit she saw coming.

Comar didn't bother to close the gap with her nearly reaching the end of the bridge so he made a decision.

Chucked his whittled shoe with accurate aim nailed her in the butt and slowing down the next hit the back of her head, sent sprawling to the railings one axe slipped her grasp the other wretched from her hand by a caught up Comar, sliding down the post turned to face him, spat and cursed before looking up to speak.

"What you gonna do with me, you 'cough' bald asscrack." She mocked with a slight hint of dread.

"Strip or the belt, you choose which or I do both." He replied.

"I've had worse, far worse than that, you know nothing of pain." She drooled on Comars left foot.

Pulling back her hood at the nape he recoiled mentally at the scars, potmarks, scabs, cuts and burns all over her discolored face and neck, mushed nose, behind cracked dry lips a mouth of crooked teeth, vacant pale blue eyes, a thicket of dusty twisted blond locks around her long thin arrowhead ears in knots, part Fae?

"Ha, you can't even--" deftly he foot checked her back against the rail post and she went out like a torch in rain.

Checking both over for concealed weaponry, removed their leather armor and tied them together by their wrists to the post putting the rope they intended to hang the damsel from the bridge with to better use.

Stripping the green trousers off one man the beige spun undershirt off the second man and the leather boots and surprisingly in good repair brown stockings off the woman, left them the coin, fair trade, if they woke before the next traveler passed.

Mell was grazing through reeds, damsel was still out and undressed so he removed the gag, tossed the cloths over her nearly nude body and kept walking the road with a slightly quicker pace then before to get settled before dark.

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Before Horra rose he made camp in a small tree copse near a water hole prepped for an ambush Comar set his watertight cover up over Mell, placed a comfy rug under the cart with the damsel and posted himself under the thick canopy of a tree, one tripline around them with chimes, heavy enough to avoid critters and wind.

Soon the mind waned and eyes started to wax, lest he forget a quick yank envisioned his wished for woman, sturdy pursed lips unveiling pristine teeth, deep set eyes below them a prominent nose, above them thin brows, big ears amid waist length hair or bald but for a stalk of braid at the top, a handhold if it be possible.

Short angular feet and long splayed toes with painted nails, legs thin and toned with a inked serpent coiling up to enter its burrow, knob knees bent, muscled midriff and firm rump, hands of a potter with long fingers, arms thick and lightly fuzzed, coppablly perky breasts framed with feminine shoulders.

Her garb nothing more then that with which to maintain modesty of personal parts, be it her proclivity, hot places require little covering.

A more appealing thought was twins like he once had, can't go wrong with double hands, mouths and vales to make use of on demand, feet too.

Drifting betwixt a plain rock beginning to be carved and a fired clay effigy taking clearer form, a feminine pair of glowing hands not his own reached for his trousers easing them down and took hold of his thick malehood, two dozen tugs got him to burst all over the floating limbs and his own legs, who beckoned then led him to a pond with reeds for privacy began to bath him, splashing him and working his bag and shaft while pinching his cheeks, rinsing and repeating until a thin pale face contentedly smack its coated lips along with the hands sink into the water without a ripple.

Yet he wanted more, he deserved more, he dove into the water searching for the helpful hands, ripping the bed of weeds and stirring mud up, aware his need for breath pushed up to get some, a unseen thing held him down as the water thickened with dirt blurred his sight, what was happening to him? 'breath or else die, do it right now!'

As he inhaled the feeling of floating and sinking at the same time overcame his lungs begging for air nearly broke the surface before his vision blanked.

His ears picked up a melding of natural and woodwind sounds, his nose picked up sweet smells, his eyes opened to redness and blurry focus turning into a shapely set of pearly pinkish cheeks pushed into a brown thong straddling pink sole arched feet ending in curled toes color blue nails arms length from him, Comar was leaning against a tree on his side sat up and felt his pants and vest, dry and cleansed.

The mysterious minstrel continued to play with more hip and head moves while adding a slight bounce of toned tushy on its haunches and feet flexing with the tune as Comar saw the back bone move under the pale skin, along it shiny (glyphs/signs/puzzles/scars.) ran up to a quiver sheath and straps crossing under and over her shoulders partly hidden by blue braids that swayed and swung with each twist of movement, the neck hidden in a thin curtain of blue topped by a portion fashioned like wings tipped in yellow, but most rousing of all the dirk shaped ears jutting out and behind her hairdue.

Comar slowly rose to his knees then with one quick motion on his feet to brawl if that outcome be likely, it was not in his better judgement to assume this person was passive without some trick as a fallback, without question.

Looking about, his tripline lay untouched and the cart in place but the damsel was gone, the cover was most certainly empty, Mell was up someplace grazing outside the camp, he couldn't have eluded the line without help, should it be after his beast, why stick around to wake him?

First he noted over head a small circle of bugs hovered one way with a smaller circle above going the other.

"Hey bard what's your aim waking me up with that noise, did your music or scent get them to follow you here?"

The song stopped and the bugs scattered with some fuss, unfazed and maybe partly able to understand sat up she took her right hand itched her right butt cheek then in a blink was on her feet facing him, nodded and waved in greeting.

Her chest bared skin but four thin stripes across her milkbags, all met at a ring jeweled with stones that glitered, wrapped on her right arm a creatures hide of sorts and her left arm a mark, gray eyes quizzical and inquisitive, brows like they were etched on, plum nose bearing a pale blue dot on the left and lips curled in a knowing grin.

"Devi sosk lix mor--I'm just rutting with you, I can't recall my birth tongue, short memory, that kind of thing."

'Maybe her friends are nearby or she's single, no weapons so she must be relying on some backup.'

"What breed of Fae are you, what are you doing in my camp and what's your name, if you still remember it."

"Faecist much, I'm here to make harmonious cheer, not of any breeds you care to say!"

She leaped in mid air to poignantly land standing on her hands while flexibly posing her legs in nearly any configuring in the mind, walking on her palms ducked into a roll and popped up again on her knees.

"As of thy last question, I'm Phay and I greet the morn light with a song or a tune, this is my way." Phay informed.

"You think waking others up with your humbug is well mannered, what's the meaning of it?" Comar stated.

Her stance changed as she looked at the dirt and admitted "Know I must, or mist and misery will come."

Without a word Comar turned and began drawing in his trip lines to break camp, food would have to wait until later.

Ignoring his half a mind to give her butt a thrashing for unwanted rousing, Whistled for Mell while folding up the watertight cover on his cart, she didn't move or say a thing as he did this but felt her eyes all over him.

Mell hitched and camp broken taking his leave for the road was soon lost in his musing of the time he dug for rumored lost treasure for one Murra on this dried lake, nearly went mad as his partner in the effort, a high born learned woman called Nysia, kept whinging that he was doing it wrong and would tempt him with her pudgy form but became offended if he moved to act on it, after a particularly long and nasty diatribe he saw a chance to shut her mouth for good, he drank his water ration and hid the remaining leaving her one choice, clam up or go thirsty, she stripped bare to stay cool as her threats were met with mirth, eventually she accepted the terms stayed quiet as they dug in return was given water, after which one near self burial led her giving up and they parted with nothing but some hard words and some holes left as reward.

"Hey big bald baby face, what's your name and race, If I guess them in your company I'll quest then!" Phay insisted.

"Leave me Fae sprite I walk in company with none, my name and people are not in the tongue of any but mine."

"Your skin glosses like a roast, thy name ye refuse to boast, I'll wager you are of the coast and Joyoros host."

She was getting warmer and naturally more annoying so he began to whistle a tune rather loudly with gusto.

At this point the road came into view as daylight grew brighter and his stomach grumbled, looked and pulled out.

Phay's steps matched Comar's as his frustration and irritation swelled, of all the ill's endured this was peak idiocy.

enough with the Chora Chit Chat

"N-no please no, have my mouth instead, I've more practice with it, my vale and bum are unspoiled by choice."

His father had personally slain or captured three dozen favoured and sold them to seasoned witch breakers, in fairness they were making various plots and schemes to destroy stuff and refused to quit streaking by moonlight.

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👫 - this but sibs edition because it is a need heather/camden, amber/laney, keira/jess, skye/thomas/athena, ava/keily/nadia, maeve/leo, bellamy/rory, the queen family(yes just as a unit), the bennetts (yes also as a unit)

under the cut, along w/ my heart and my tears 🥰 also forgive me, some have more than others but they aLL own my soul

heather & camden

despite having a almost 10 year age gap (bc heather and steph have an 11 yr gap), they're super close and always have been. like when camden learned how to walk, he'd constantly follow heather around. i also think he'd do this when he crawled, but i'm pretty sure his first steps were to go to heather.

i know they facetime at least once a week. he knows all the tea in heather's life, and she knows all the tea in his life.

there's no real reason for this, i just thought of it, but i feel like he came out to heather first. casually. like he didn't really know he was coming out, bc i feel like he was five or six and just casually saying he liked a boy, but it counts!

ngl, heather is truly the only one who can calm him down, even when he was a kid. he's so fricken hyper, and i feel like she always knew how to make him sit still.

amber & laney

1. amber is almost five minutes younger than laney, due to complications in her birth. despite that, amber is the most social and extraverted.

laney is the most organized. like i see her books being either in roygbiv order, or alphabetized, OR by genre and author. meanwhile, amber is a hot mess. room always trashed, magazing collages, collages of photos with her friends surrounded in faerie lights. like amber knows no organization, but laney? i see her room clean as fuck.

i see amber being more sporty. like i feel like she did cheerleading, gymnastics, volleyball, and skiing. i see her being able to snowboard, too. like okay, the queens doing ski trips and laney sits in the chalet drinking coco and reading a book. this is a spitball idea, bc i think you told me laney didn’t last very long in cheering, but i see amber being kind of like camden and needing outlets for energy.

amber is the bossiest. not just of the twins, but of all the queens. she even bosses around heather. i think laney probably resents this bc she’s very quiet and meanwhile amber bowls her over to get her way.

amber is ariel obsessed bc red head, meanwhile i see laney loving jessie. laney can be a disney princess girlie, but she feels v much lke either a merida or a jessie. correct me if i’m wrong!

keira & jess

jess is the eldest twin, but also the messiest.

this bleeds into the bennett’s hc but it feels weird to put it below, i def think the twins had bunk beds, and i definitely think they shared their room with rue who had a small twin.

i feel like they all share the master bedroom, which means they have an ensuite, and keira probably constantly screamed at jess (and rue) because they kept it a mess.

i feel like they had the same everything - hairstyles, clothes, you name it but keira got pink and jess got blue.

i feel like all the kids did dance growing up, but jess hated it and cece put her in soccer bc it was free and jess was naturally good at it, and eventually keira did cheer because it was free.

the twins are incredibly close. like while they don’t live with one another anymore, they constantly talk and facetime and text one another.

i don’t see keira resenting bellamy, but i wanna discuss this further.

i see them constantly making blanket forts. idk why. i just see their room always having one, especially as little kids.

skye/thomas/athena

i 100% believe skye and athena sharing a room caused 100% of their issues. anyways, i feel like the walsh dad tried to get skye to get rid of her pet hamster and she told him to pound sand.

thomas and skye are really close, i think because he kind of gets it, but also he’s not around her all the time so it’s easier for her to get along with him.

i feel like, regardless, both thomas and athena get skye’s struggle with their family and their dad and i feel like once they all become friends they get a matching tattoo (with karly).

i feel like thomas embraced nyc crew in hs before athena, however, i think athena/evie/dylan/lena became fast friends.

regardless, i feel like all three of them struggled with being non-white outsiders entering this group, even skye, despite her being friends with jer, steph, and camden and knowing these people, it was just a new experience.

this is bonus, but i feel like camden and thomas were on the football team together.

ava/keily/nadia

i feel like ava and nadia are the closest.

keily is definitely the lilo to their nani. keily is weird, and i think they find the shit she does interesting, but confusing.

they all worked in their family’s restaurant from the time they were four to now, and i think all three of them can fish and drive a boat, and most importantly: cook.

they were the first in their family to go to college, but also the first to graduate high school.

they’re all close with maeve and leo, and i feel like leo would fight for all three of them. they’re family. think bennetts and andersons, except they’re all poor people. 

maeve/leo

maeve is roughly 3-4 years older than leo, and basically had to raise him because their parents were too strung out to do shit for either of them. not maeve changing baby leo and feeding him as a fucking toddler, but that’s how it was.

i feel like leo was shorter than maeve until he was about 14, and then he began to sprout like a weed and hasn’t let maeve forget it since.

i feel like without the washingtons, maeve would’ve lost leo. hear me out, i feel like she waitressed at their place when she was fourteen, so she could have leo if needed, and mr washinton would take him out on the fishing boats or have him do some small job (like cupping sauces, or learning to cook) and maeve also had him in free after school programs, like sports or surfing.

despite the best efforts of the washingtons, maeve didn’t go to college. mostly because of money, but also not wanting to leave leo. she did, however, save a lot of money for leo in case something happened or he wanted to go to college, so she gave him a big ass check when he graduated hs. (he probably didn’t accept it, but it is always there for him just in case, bc i don’t think she stopped adding to it).

bonus: i feel like keily and leo became friends because, despite being older than her, she’d keep him company and put him to work.

bellamy/rory

rory thinks of bellamy as her mother, first and foremost, even now that she has a mother to call her own who is an adult.

rory and bellamy dress very conservatively, because i cant not see bellamy dressing like leighton and rory dressing like lexie from little fires everywhere.

i feel like jess is like rory’s second mother. like obviously, mama cece is their actual mom and the bennetts are their family, but jess and bellamy are her mothers, fight me.

rory definitely ships jess and bellamy, but will love their girlfriends regardless.

i feel like until she was almost ten, rory had to sleep with bellamy to keep the nightmares away, because she’d dream of their real parents as shadow creatures hurting her and bellamy always made her feel safe.

the queens

heather was an accident. wanted, but bella and peter were young when they had her and by the time bella graduated she was pregnant with the twins.

peter and bella met young. like i see them knowing each other since preschool and it was always like a potential thing that they would, but he was the captain of the football team, she was head cheerleader and it was just inevitable.

laney and camden are probably closer than camden and heather, and they’ve lived together the longest. despite steph and amber share his energy, i think camden is drawn to calm people. like he’ll read his comics with her, or she’ll sit and read while he plays his video games and i just see them really really understanding one another.

amber is the bossiest of the queens. i’d argue that amber is probably the most spoiled, but i think it’s more of she asks for what she wants and 9 times out of 10 gets it because it’s reasonable. but i think it’s more amber is vocal and reasonable and peter/bella are like fair, but no one really begrudges her. amber’s a natural born leader, imo, and i feel like she has grown to have a good head on her shoulders.

bella and peter use gentle parenting, which i think they had these kids cooking by 18 months, except for heather bc i think they just didn’t think of it (but still used gentle parenting on her), and i think all the kids felt safe to feel their emotions - especially camden, who they allowed to cry and didn’t boy-shame him - and see cooking and cleaning as second nature.

they have a tree house, and the twins and camden built it together, steph was involved, but she was a baby-baby so she mostly watched in her baby swing with bella (who also helped). and i know they had a cool jungle gym, and a sandbox, and play houses.

going off of the above, i see them having a huge as fuck backyard. like bella has a flowerbed and they keep the playhouses by them (like i see laney, steph, and amber have them) and they also used the garden shed to play in. i see peter growing fruits and veg and herbs, and then a small hill and trees, and a patio w/ fire pit and a deck. like idk man, i see their house being cool af.

also, do i see their home having a grand staircase, potentially looking like the house in cheaper by the dozen with the open balcony thing and chandelier? yeah.

do i think camden had the attic bedroom? yes.

laney and amber have their own room, but with connecting closet, and it’s organized bc laney and amber respects laney enough to keep her half clean. also, do i see them having a tiny chaise lounge chair in it? yeah.

i also see steph having a window seat, and i see her room lowkey looking like bella’s in bella in the bulldogs. but you know, more pink.

camden and amber definitely tried to make steph walk before she was ready, but probably began crawling sooner than she would’ve because of them.

steph’s first word was definitely “dada” and she def walked to him first.

i think they go to disney 1-2 times a year.

and last but not least, their basement is lit. hockey rink, tv space, probably arcade games because i can see peter wanting pinball and pacman.

they’re the rich weasleys, we do not care!

the bennetts

 i see them as lower middle class and always have. like all the kids got scholarships, and probably have student loans, which sucks. i think cece kept them afloat after their dad died, but it was hard because she had seven kids and i see her as a midwife. so she makes money, but not that much.

their house is probably small.  i see it as a tiny two story with four rooms and i think rae and karissa shared a room and cece had the closed off dining room and freddie had a small small room, and i feel like all their toys are from cheap stores, or from thrift stores or garage sales. like i think the only new new things the kids get is clothes.

freddie was the only one into fashion in the family.

i think the dad died in a car accident, like hit by a drunk driver type of thing - wickedly unexpected.

i feel like mama cece has a gf now (and it’s totally not the lady who plays stef. nope. not at all.)

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Tanya peers intently at Noah. "I believe Noah came into the Sand Bar this week. I work there part time."

He nods "I did – we came for lunch."

"And didn't we see you at the bonfire the other night?" It was at the end of a long day, but Chelsea remembers it well.

"Yes! It was dark but I recognize you. We talked."

"Yes. Imagine if our paths kept crossing and we never found out we were related!" What a strange coincidence, Chelsea thinks.

"So, you're having a good time?"

"Yes, this is a perfect spot for spring break."

"Where are the kids?"

Chelsea laughs. "Back at the house. We didn't want to overwhelm you."

"Whelm me! Whelm me!" Tanya jokes. "I want to meet my cousins – tell me about them."

"We have my six youngest with us. Dee, Jackie, and Veronica are teens. Dee is the oldest. Then there are the twins, Bebe and Beatrix. We usually call her Trix. And the baby, Joey. Well, he's not a baby anymore."

Tanya looks dubious. "Your six youngest –  how many do you have?"

"Twenty six."

"Wow!"

"Well, you know I come from a big family."

"Dad told me stories."

"And how about you?" Chelsea is used to this kind of reaction but she's glad to give up the spotlight.

"I have two, but they're mostly out of the house. My daughter is at Foxbury so she's home occasionally. My son is in Mt. Komorebi with his father. We're divorced. Otherwise, it's just me and Georgie."

"He's a beautiful dog," Noah puts in.

"She looks fierce – that's kind of nice to have, living out here at the end of a sandbar on my own, but she's really a cupcake. We always had dogs growing up. Dad loved them."

"I heard the first thing he and Truman did after moving out was to get a dog, a little yellow dog called Cashew or Peanut or something like that. They would bring him to visit. We never had any pets. I think they were just too much for my mom to take care of."

"Cashew! There's a picture of him in the house. Uncle Tru wouldn't speak to Dad for years because he brought the dog with him when he moved. Tru thought it was his dog but that's the way he was. Tell me about them – what do you know?"

"Mom ADORED your dad."

"He always talked about her to us."

"I honestly think he was her favorite. She always brightened up when he was around. Your dad and Truman were quite a bit older than me. They were already out of the house when I was born, but they were always there for family parties before our mother died. *sigh* I remember, your dad offered to take me in after she was gone – wouldn't that have been something?!"

"What did you do?" Tanya asks, worry in her voice.

"We stayed in the house. All the sibs would come home to help. At some point, our older brother became our legal guardian. After I became a young adult, he moved to Mt. Komorebi though his twin lived near us for a long time." Chelsea turns to Noah who has been quietly listening. "Noah, I don't know if you ever met Kestrel?"

"I don't think so."

She laughs. "Yes, she washed her hands of me when I moved to Oasis Springs, but she did get the family home because of it." Chelsea turns back to Tanya. "If you ever get to Brindleton Bay, you should stop by and see it. My daughter May lives there now – she'd love to meet you."

"I will!" Tanya promises. "Hey, let's go sit on the deck. I'd love to show you the view."

They follow the porch which wraps around the house.

"This is truly paradise," Chelsea says quietly. "Did you live here with your dad?"

"No, I bought this place after my divorce. We moved around quite a bit with Dad." They all sit and Tanya shares her story. " We lived on various islands and even in Ohan'ali Town for a bit, but when I was little, we lived on a houseboat."

"What an adventure! Do you have siblings?"

"One brother. He runs a resort on the big island."

"And what about your mother?"

"She's from an old Sulani family. They met when Dad was on vacation here. She traveled for business and she visited him a lot until she won him over, though he thought he was winning her over."

They laugh. Georgie notices and comes to see what the sims are up to. Noah excuses himself to visit with her.

"Mom was a Hoapili, distantly related to the old chieftain," Tanya continues. "I think you're staying in the old chieftain's house."

"What happened to the old chieftain?"

Tanya smiles. "Oh, she's in a new house out around Mua Pel'am, don't worry!"

"Oh, alright then."

"We should probably get going," Noah says. "We have plans in the afternoon."

They walk back to the front of the house together and hug at the gate.

"Let's try to get together again before we go," Chelsea says. "You can meet the kids, maybe a couple at a time."

Tanya laughs. "I'll stop by the house when I'm in Ohan'ali Town if I can. Otherwise, bring them out to swim again.

"That sounds lovely!"

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Pyrrhian Tribe Headcanons (reposted from Devientart)

Basically, I remembered I posted these on Devientart a WHILE ago. So, I decided, heck, why not repost them? Be warned I was really fucking cringy writing these. 😬

SkyWings

-Their wings are fReAkiNg HuGe

-There are more red SkyWings than orange ones

-Out of all the tribes, they have the worst hoarding habits (they love their gems)

-Despite having such huge wings, they're not very agile in close combat, their wings get in the way

-Large wings are a sign of beauty I guess

-They're the tallest tribes, because they have reaaaally long necks

-Only SkyWing mothers raise their dragonets

-SkyWings LOVE battle, they spend a lot of free time training for one, even if they're not actually in a war

-They're grumpy dragons who hate the world, though they have been known to lighten up

-They really don't like IceWings all that much, even though the two tribes hardly see each other

-Fire-scales' twins are fire-proof

MudWings

-They maaay not look the most advanced, but are actually pretty smart

-I always thought that all MudWings were aromantic, but maybe demiromantic? Idk

-They're big! Not the tallest, but definitely the broadest tribe

-Sib groups often have rivalry with other groups, and MudWings don't really get along with each other that well except with their own siblings

-MudWings that leave their sib group or live by themselves are looked down upon by other MudWings

-Young MudWings like to paint. With mud. Idk

-Dreadful fliers, tbh

-Really good fighters, though

-They have webbed claws, though it's less noticeable than SeaWing webs

-The blood-red egg thing came from a fire-scales' twin having eggs with a MudWing

SeaWings

-They're some SeaWings who have lived underwater their entire lives, and can't actually speak Dragon

-They're sHort--like second-smallest tribe short

-I always thought they wouldn't be great fighters, they have their t h i c c tail, and that's about it?

-Hybrid SeaWings that have gills often have trouble breathing underwater because of scales that grow over the gills

-Horrible with their animuses, SeaWings are known for abusing theirs

-Stocky--they're stocky

-They make really good great sushi--

-Short wings, help them navigate the ocean

IceWings

-I like to think they can have spikes on their head, jaw, and sometimes the underside of their neck

-Spike styles are hereditary, if two IceWings with swoopy upward spikes have eggs, the dragonets with probably have have swoopy upward spikes as well

-Full IceWing "beards" are rare, but known to happen

-Smooth, clean scales are considered beautiful to IceWings, patterns on your scales (ex. spots) downgrade your beauty in IceWings' eyes

-IceWings are a tall, lean tribe, and their tails are among the longer types

-Honestly, yes, the royals are INSANE, but lower-class IceWings aren't actually all that bad (though they still think they're better than everyone)

-IceWings practice for battle as much as SkyWings do, they hate not being prepared

-They're secretly jealous of other tribes' fire, but will insist their frostbreath is so much better

-IceWings hAte NightWings, but they hate SandWings as well, because they're too rowdy and undignified, and hate SkyWings because they're just so extra (go figure)

-They very carefully organize their jewelry when they wear some

-SkyWings have the best long-distance flight, but IceWings are close behind! They have large wings to fly over the tundra, and are a bit better at close combat in the air since they have smaller wings

-Large talons? Well, IceWings have them...their feet especially stick out since the rest of them are so thin, and they use these talons for walking around in the snow

-They love makeup, especially long eyeliner, and it's worn by both boys and girls because I need an excuse to draw them with long eyelashes OK--

SandWings

-They have the least organized kingdom--it's kinda a mess

-SandWings are a generally poor tribe, so it raises a few brows when you realize they had such a huge treasury

-It's uncommon to find SandWings without any sort of marking on them, especially spots

-They have a similar height and wingspan to IceWings

-The cactus juice that heals SandWing venom was enchanted by Jerboa 1

-There's a lot of bars in the Sand Kingdom. Just is

-SandWings first came up with "The Dragonets are Coming!" song

-SkyWings may be the biggest hoarders, but SandWings are the most kleptomaniac

-They have a really rough singing voice that no one really likes except other SandWings

RainWings

-They're the shortest tribe

-They also have the shortest wingspan out of any of the tribes

-No, I don't think they have a "default color" they go back to when they don't feel strongly one way or another

-Back when they were cool and stuff they were actually quite rich from trading with other tribes for brightly colored feathers and furs

-Their fangs grow longer with age, and sharper

-Their tongues flick in and out when they're thinking, this trait is shared with SandWings

NightWings

-A pretty chunky, short tribe (basically the opposite of IceWings)

-They're really skinny now though because...yeah

-Glossy scales are bootiful to NightWings

-Their fire is mostly just smoke

-I really don't think mind-reading and prophecy would help with close combat...When someone's trying to rip out your throat, do you really have time to read their mind/tell the future?

-Nowadays, NightWings are pretty heat resistant, from living in a freaking volcano for so long

-Average size wings...just...eh

My Headcanon for Shortest to Tallest Tribe:

-RainWings

-SeaWings

-NightWings

-MudWings

-IceWings/SandWings

-SkyWings

My Headcanon for Smallest to Longest Wingspan:

-RainWings

-SeaWings

-MudWings

-NightWings

-IceWings

-SandWings

-SkyWings

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20 First Lines

I got tagged by @novantinuum to do this, and it seemed pretty fun!

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories.  See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line. Then tag 10 authors!

I won’t be tagging anyone else bc I’m too lazy, but if you wanna do it, feel free to do so and claim that I tagged you lol.  So, here’s the first lines of my 20 last posted writes, from most recent to oldest.

Honestly, I thought more first lines would just be dialogue.   That’s one of my go-to’s.  And I swear, I’m not opposed to titling my writes.  I like titling them.  I’m just...really bad at coming up with titles.

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1. A Kiss From a Nixie

Stan and Angie stared silently at each other. Angie suddenly turned beet red.

2. Stan Falls in Love With a Frog

Stan sat on the edge of the dock, looking out over the water of Lake Gravity Falls.  In the fading light, mist curled above the lake surface.  He sighed and reeled his fishing line back in.

3. Untitled Superhero/villain AU prompt

Angie walked into HQ, nerves fluttering in her stomach. Despite being a villain for a couple years now, she had yet to come into work alone.  But Lute was currently next to the toilet in their house, occasionally throwing up.  She headed for the secretary to pick up her assignment for the day.  The secretary looked up and raised an eyebrow.

4. Untitled Angie and her sibs prompt

“Ooh, cookies!”  Violynn looked down.  Her youngest sibling, six-year-old Banjey, stood by her side, staring with wide eyes at the tray of cookies Violynn had just finished.

5. Untitled Best Revenge AU prompt

Angie’s alarm went off.  She groaned loudly.

6. Untitled Smallville AU ficlet

Stan and Ford walked down the dirt road that led to the McGucket Farm.  Lute had called that morning to let them know that his twin sister had come back from boarding school and was settled in enough for visitors.

7. Untitled Restaurant AU prompt

Angie waited by the entrance of her apartment complex.  Stan had followed her in his red El Diablo, but since he didn’t have a parking spot like her, he had to park a couple blocks away.  He walked up, visibly winded.  She raised an eyebrow.

8. Closure?

Max waited patiently in the back of the classroom for the kindergarten teacher to introduce him.  One of his favorite things about being a hero was coming to school classes to tell them about what he did.  And kindergarteners were always the best audiences.  Their wide-eyed enthusiasm was infectious.

9. Skins and Stones

“We’re gonna need to dig out Junior’s child leash for Emory,” Stan said to Angie.  He, Angie, and the kids were at the park, enjoying some fresh air and letting the oldest three run off their extra energy.  Angie looked over at Emory, who, along with his twin Emmett, was a few months old.  She raised an eyebrow.

10. Finally, Some Ford Content

Ford slowly woke up.

11. Untitled Best Revenge AU ficlet

Junior babbled excitedly at Stan as he went over the results of their latest hit.

12. Masks

Angie and Max sat high up in one of the tallest trees in the apple orchard.  It was the only place on the McGucket farm with some semblance of privacy.

13. Junior

The front door slammed open.  Angie stormed into the living room, where Lute and Stan were waiting for her to come back.  After finding out Max had cheated on her, she had immediately gone over to trash his place.

14. Untitled Best Revenge AU ficlet

Max let out a heavy sigh as he stared at the canned vegetables.

15. Best Revenge

Max took a deep breath.  He got out of his car and slowly walked up to Lute’s house.

16. Untitled Spy AU prompt

Ford took a drink from his glass of water.  His hands were shaking with anxiety.

17. Origins

Stan fell flat on his face into the sand.

18. Untangling

Stan and Angie followed the McGuckets into the living room.  Mrs. McGucket looked around the room with a slight grimace.

19. Untitled Restaurant AU prompt

“I still think it was a mistake to not be open later ‘n usual,” Angie said as she wiped down a table.  “If we stayed open until, say, midnight instead of the usual closin’ time of eight, we could’ve catered to couples lookin’ fer a place to have Valentine’s dinner.”

20. Untitled Angenie AU prompt

“But her aim is gettin’ better!” Stan said jovially to the oil lamp carefully buckled in the passenger seat.  Soft chuckling came from said oil lamp.  Stan grinned, glad the joke had landed.  “Y’know, not enough people appreciate my sense of humor.”

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The Hyuuga Clan: what not to do

So I promised a separate post on the Hyuuga Clan plotline after I wrapped up the Chuunin Exam arc, and as promised, here it is.  It’s been a long time coming, so let’s get started, shall we?

To recap the Hyuuga Clan plotline, the whole thing starts when Neji and Hinata, previously introduced separately earlier in the Chuunin exam arc, face each other in the preliminaries.  It’s an unpleasant, vitriolic match: Neji brutalizes his cousin in the course of their fight, and comes damn close to killing her.  The only reason Hinata doesn’t die right then and there is due to the intervention of the Leaf jounin-instructors.  Fandom often attributes this to Naruto’s support, but I would argue that’s unfair to Hinata; in one of the few self-motivated acts she does, she tells Neji he’s wrong about her, about the world, and most importantly, himself—which enrages him to the point of going for a killing blow.  

Anyway, Neji is thoroughly unlikeable, and Naruto swears he’ll cut the other kid down to size during his match with other boy.  Blah blah blah, take a month-long break, time to fight.  As becomes usual for Naruto’s villain face-offs, they fight and Neji monologues: he explains why he’s so angry at Hinata (and the Main House) even though they’re family.  Essentially, the Branch house of the Hyuuga all have a seal on their forehead that destroys their eyes upon death, ensuring their valuable bloodline limit can't be stolen.  That actually sounds really cool except for one thing: it's also used as a method of brutal control by the Main House, who have the ability and knowledge to manipulate the seal's destructive capacity to inflict agonizing pain on those who bear it.  Moreover, Hinata and Neji aren't just people from the same clan—they're actually first cousins—and considering their respective fathers are identical twins, you could make a very strong case for them being closer to half-siblings than anything else.  

Neji is angry for two reasons, one abstract and one personal.  The abstract reason is this: Neji is a gifted prodigy in his clan's techniques, but because he's part of the Branch House, he's unable to get the training and, yes, recognition he deserves as a Gentle Fist prodigy.  Hinata is only average in the abilities the Hyuuga value—namely having advanced control over her bloodline and the combat skills to go with it—and if Neji's father had been born first instead of her own, their lives would be unimaginably different.  The personal reason is that ten years ago, Neji's father was sacrificed to appease some politically powerful bloodline thieves, who attempted to kidnap Hinata, presumably because she was young, had a good pedigree, and also had a womb.  Long story short, Naruto beats Neji up and tells him to "cheer up emo kid!".  The story doesn't end until Neji reaches some kind of catharsis with his uncle, Hinata's father, and decides he too will live free like a bird, blah blah blah.  Yay!  Story concluded, right?

Fandom didn't think so, and rightly so!  Konoha is revealed to have a large, politically powerful clan that is essentially enslaving a least half (and perhaps more) of their own population, and using it for unspeakable reasons.  Leaving aside Neji's sort of weaksauce resolution, Hinata, meek and unmartial, has a younger sister who is strong in all the ways she isn't; Just like with her father and his brother, will she have to brand her younger sister to maintain the right of absolute primogeniture?

And make no mistake, that is the real issue at the heart of the Hyuuga clan.  Everything else is just window dressing.  Even ignoring the stupidity of the Hyuuga sacrifice—Really, Sarutobi?  Really?! —the Hyuuga story always had more holes in it than good swiss cheese.  As I mentioned in my re-read summary post for volumes 11-13, the combination of "sealing most of the family" and also "preventing the sealed kin from learning the full extent of the Gentle Fist" only makes sense if the Hyuuga were alone in the wilderness, but in a village setting where the vast majority of sealed Hyuuga are supporting village operations, it sounds like a bad deal for the Leaf, since they're only getting half-trained soldiers in return for allowing the Hyuuga to live within their walls.  The entire purpose of Neji's story is just a clumsy way to highlight the injustice of absolute primogeniture as a method of both advancement, inheritance, and simple justice in traditional society.

I don't think it's an exaggeration that the "Clan Hyuuga eats its children" genre of stories was one of the more popular family-centered tropes in fanfiction in the pre-Shippuden era.  The sand sibs and Uchiha brothers might have had more written about them, but not by much.  How Hinata, Neji, and Naruto would grapple with the Hyuuga Clan's outdated social norms was the focus of a lot of stories and there was a lot of expectation about how Kishimoto was going to resolve this issue in part 2.  Now that Naruto has come to an end, we can all throw up a little in our mouths, because it's clear Kishimoto thought he already had.

Any of Hinata's character growth in part two comes from her relationship to Naruto; Neji dies sacrificing himself for her and Naruto, which seems damn empty given that we never see the cousins reconcile or really interact all that much. Hanabi is a non-entity.  The Hyuuga Clan, as of Chapter 700, is still presumably sealing and oppressing the majority of its members.  The only way to understand this extremely unsatisfactory turn of events is to see it as an intersection of two unpleasant trends in Naruto: women are always secondary to men in terms of character development and plot importance, and villainous motivations are tailor-made to whatever the hell sort of lesson Naruto is supposed to impart to them as the hero of this story.

Women, in Naruto, are almost always secondary to the men they are related and associated with.  Mito only shows up in context of her husband, never mind that she was apparently a master in her own right; like Sakura's relationship to Naruto and Sasuke, even the relationship between a man and his wife is secondary to the strong bond between her husband and Madara, his "best friend".  Kushina, again, was another cool character who could have been very interesting...except that she was immediately subordinated to her husband's plot, and then later her son's.  Kurenai's griefs and plots are centered around Asuma and Shikamaru; Sakura had the glimmerings of her own story, but it was always shoved aside for the Naruto and Sasuke thing.  Rin is probably the worst example; she literally only exists to traumatize Obito and Kakashi with her death.  Hinata is just another character in that tradition.

For the sake of argument, separate Hyuuga Hinata, clan heir from Hinata, Naruto's love interest.  Just pretend there are two girls with that given name in Naruto—actually, let's make it even easier. Hinata the girl is Naruto's love interest; Hinata the clan heir is a boy.  Hinata the boy isn't a bad person, but he's shy, meek, unassuming, and not very good at combat.  He is a constant disappointment to his father, who wanted a child much like Hinata's cousin, who is everything Hinata isn't: strong, capable, and ruthless.  In a different world, his cousin Neji would be clan heir—except their family practices absolute primogeniture as a method of inheritance.  Neji's father is younger than Hinata's father and was thus forced into the lesser branch family and blocked from ever inheriting.  Hinata has a younger brother, as well, who is also better than Hinata in all the ways that matter to their family, and one day, Hinata will have to brand his younger brother and cast him aside, all to uphold their tradition.  Hinata is despised by his cousin (and maybe his brother) because they both know they are better than him, but because of their family's stupid rules, they are forever subordinate to the lesser.  But Hinata has his own skills: in a family with eyes that see nearly everything, save for one specific blind spot, Hinata has the gift of seeing just what they lack.  Can Hinata find a way to prove that might does not make one right?  Can he show that it's not strength of arms that makes a good leader? Can he find a way to unite his broken family, and right the injustice they have perpetuated among themselves?

That's an interesting story, isn't it?  But Kishimoto wasn't really interested in writing a story about why absolute primogeniture is stupid; he wasn't interested in writing a story about what makes a good leader and how to grow up to be a just one, either.  Hyuuga Hinata, clan heir, was extraneous; that whole facet of her character could have been a separate one-shot character who just showed up in Neji's villain arc like so many others, given her importance as clan heir after this point.

Now that Naruto's over, it's obvious the whole horrible Hyuuga clan background was just another tragic villainous past for Naruto to defeat in a stupid fight.  It's infuriating because it's literally is a schoolyard fight—it's not exactly a demon trapped in a little boy, or the survivors of a brutal foreign war finding the only way to protect themselves is destroying everyone who opposes them.  Kishimoto didn't have to write a caged bird seal plotline; he didn't have to make the Hyuuga so brutal to their own kin. Neji didn't even need to try and murder his cousin, just beating the shit out of her would have been enough.  The whole thing could have been written as a simple family drama about the unfairness of absolute primogeniture, no seal needed, just the weight of "we've always done it this way".  Kishimoto wrote it for the explicit purpose of first making Neji horrible and cruel, then revealing, like all the rest of Naruto's villains, why he is deserving of pity for his "terrible" deeds.  

Ultimately, Kishimoto wrote the Hyuuga the way he did because he's almost incapable of writing a character who does bad things without having a sad past; and he's incapable of that because he's a lazy writer who doesn't want to go through the work of actually writing interesting characters.  The entire Hyuuga family plotline is the sort of manipulative asspull I hate in both professional and amateur writers, the sort of crutch a weakling uses to pass over another character’s flaws.  Hinata, in this story, only exists to show how fucked up Neji is because of her father's actions.  She certainly never gets any resolution to her father treating her poorly, or the fact that her cousin tried very hard to kill her in public view.  The central tension in the Hyuuga clan is between Neji and Hiashi, which is why the arc closes with Hiashi apologizing to Neji, and then Neji deciding to make his own way in life despite the seal, like his father did.

And Hinata, who is despised for weakness by her father; who is nearly killed for having the temerity to point out Neji's own blind spot; who is physically weak, but has the glimmers of a character stronger than both her cousin and father combined, if only Kishimoto had been interested?

Like Mito, and Kushina,  and Rin, and Kurenai, and Sakura, and Anko, and yes, Karin, and every other goddamn woman in this manga - like them, she's only a prop in someone else's story.  And in turn, that other person's story is just a prop for Naruto to defeat on his way to becoming a hero.  

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Info on all them engine kiddooos (long)

Bedivere - LNER Class J39 - Male - built 1926 - Eldest of his sibs - Eagle Green coat with Silver Sand and Maastricht lining - a large boy - doesn't like chocolate

Galahad - LNER Class J39 - Male - Built 1927 - Middle kid - Metallic Seaweed coat with Bittersweet Shimmer and Rajah lining - can dance the Nutcracker - loves any ice cream

Percival - LNER Class J39 - Built 1928 - Youngest and bitter - Up Forest Green coat with Cerulean Blue and Mikado Yellow Lining - marathons operas - eats very little

Juliet - GWR 3700 Class (city class) - Female - Built 1908 - Older Sister - Lavender Purple coat with Lava and Soap lining - Lesbian Princess - Salads

Romeo - GWR 3700 Class (city class) - Male - Built 1909 - Younger Brother - Royal Blue coat with Dark Red and Pastel Orange lining - Shy prince - eats a bag of Lindor everyday

Beckett - Hall Class - Male - Built 1948 - Only Child - Antique Bronze coat with Black Bean and Rajah lining - Obedient Rules boy - fav food is eggs

Alton - Caledonian Railway 439 Class - Male - Built 1924 - the elder twin - Cambridge Blue coat with Charleston Green and Pale Gold lining - boring and strict - hardly eats

Chelle - Caledonian Railway 439 Class - Trans Male -Built 1925 - Younger twin - Japanese Carmine coat with Dodger blue and pale gold lining - F*UK THE POLICE - enjoys pizza from time to time

Kenna - LMS Beyer-Garratt - Nonbinary - Built 1927 - Only child - Golden Poppy coat with Rajah and cardinal lining - "gender is a myth just like this convo we're having" - only healthy foods

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Gonna go family by family so let's start with Dewey. Dewey is the first one I wrote to have kids bc I thought hey it would be funny if aroace Dewey adopted a bunch of kids and named them after the ninja turtles. All my other headcanons and families sprung from that first what if.

I'll add on to the post (through reblogs) with everyone else's kids when I have those profiles done but it'll probably be tomorrow at the earliest.

These profiles cover them as people in general instead of at specific ages but I have primarily written them around the ages of Raph 13, DJ and Mikey 11, Leo 6. I'll reference their cousins in comparison to them in future additions so you get a sense of the age difference. These profiles don't go into their backgrounds bc I haven't written that fic yet haha.

Also I'm adding pictures of similar ducks so you get the general vibe I'm going for

Raphael “Raph” Omar Duck he/him

Appearance: Despite not being biologically related to Dewey he looks the most like Dewey out of all his sibs. White skin and hair, floppy like younger Donald, with dyed black streaks. Wears dark clothes, trying to be punk. Probably gets his eyebrow pierced when he’s in college. Will dress up and wear colors for his sister but only for his sister.

Personality: Tries to be a tough guy but a real softie for his family, stubborn and rebellious. Loves art, loud music, and robotics. Nerds out with Uncle Boyd, who is his favorite of his aunts and uncles. Raphael has made a near-perfect robotic replica of himself but it can’t do much. Taught Mikey everything he knows about robotics, a little bummed that Mikey doesn’t love it as much as he does. Pretty close with his cousin Scarlett and Emerald. Protective of his family but having to be the older brother wears him out sometimes. Not as brave as he wants people to think. Demisexual homoromantic.

Birthday: December 2nd

DJ Duck she/her

Appearance: Tan, sand-colored skin and hair, like Fenton. Wears her hair long, often in a braid or braids. Likes to dress up and wear pretty clothes like dresses and skirts, likes purple. Likes makeup and jewelry. Grows up to be a bit taller than Raph, wears heels anyway.

Personality: Kind and friendly, likes to make jokes (sometimes morbid jokes), a lot more outgoing after she came out. Still worried about fitting in with her peers but becomes more confident as she grows into herself. Loves music, plays the trumpet. Not the best trumpet player but one of the better trumpet players in her school band. Loves her family, best friends with her twin brother Mikey and her cousin Azure. Violet is her favorite of the aunts and uncles. Trans MTF Pansexual

Birthday: January 26th

Michelangelo “Mikey” Brandon Duck He/him

Appearance: Tan, sand-colored skin and hair, like Fenton. Unruly chin-length hair that does whatever it wants unless he pins or ties it back. Sometimes he has little braids in it when DJ feels like braiding it. Doesn’t care about his clothes, will wear anything, likes matching DJ though, so sometimes he wears skirts and dresses and often he’ll wear jewelry.

Personality: He’s a theatre kid. He can be very dramatic and also very sensitive. Like his sister, he just wants to fit in but more than fitting in he just wants to make sure he isn’t left behind by the people he loves. He worries endlessly about his family, especially DJ, outgrowing him and abandoning him. Loves animals, especially weird little “unlovable” animals. Best friends with DJ and Azure. Looks up to Raphael more than anyone else. Gosalyn is his favorite of his aunts/uncles/whatever. Aroace.

Birthday: January 26th

Leonardo “Leo” Benjamin Duck He/him

Appearance: He has green skin and dark hair. When he’s not in outside clothes he likes to dress like a little gentleman, especially when Uncle Louie or Aunt Daisy picked the clothes.

Personality: He seems like a total sweetheart but he is a mini criminal in the making. I mean, Louie is his favorite of the aunts/uncles, and working together he and his cousin Mo can get away with pretty much anything. He’s still literally the nicest person unless you drag his family and then he’ll fight you, so maybe don’t drag his family in front of him. He does not want to be a businessman, he wants to be a conman (he will settle for charlatan, or becoming an actor like his big bro Mikey). This causes problems between him and his best friend Mo when Mo is like “crime is fun but I wanna be a detective” and they have a playful rivalry. Bi

Birthday: August 20th

Working on some character profiles for all my HDLW fankids...

Very excited to share some OCs with y'all

[naruto-oc-critiques]

Would it make sense if siblings are in different teams. I'm writing a married gaara story and his biological kids are twins. I didn't want to put them in a team with shinki in case later his teammates turn out to be important

Absolutely.

Typically I would say that family members being on the same team (siblings, parent/child, etc.) isn’t a good idea unless you can justify it properly.  WHY would the kage of their village want to put them on the same team?  Maybe they work well together? Or their fighting styles compliment each other and they are capable of putting the mission first. (The Sand Sibs are a different story however).

Potentially, putting family members on the same team can be dangerous to the mission.  A parent sensei isn’t necessarily going to want to put their child in any danger, whether or not they are the best person for said task. Siblings could potentially argue and jeapordize things, an over protective sibling isn’t going to want the other to be put into any kind of danger either.

Shinobi are working when on missions, so thinking of them like employees: i.e. keeping their personal/home life out of work is probably best.

I hope that I was able to help!

-Kells

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mint im new to this au can you explain what the modern school au is?

heck to the yes my man 

Naruto Modern-School AU (also known as Naruto MS AU) is an AU where the Naruto characters live in the modern world. It’s called “modern school au” since instead of being ninjas and throwing some good ol’ shuriken and kunai, they’re students trying to throw their student responsibilities under the carpet; instead of making jutsus, they’re making excuses to not do that damn math homework I A M LOOK I NG A T  NAR UT O

The characters also have vv refined past stories that are sorta different from the canon-verse (so far Konoha 12 and Sand Sibs have a legit backstory). Some characters who are dead in the canonverse are also alive (i.e Minato, Kushina, Fugaku, Mikoto) and some remain under the earth (ie Rasa, Karura and Yashamaru). This AU also exemplifies their childhood in the modern world, their school life (primary until college), their jobs and the new generation/families in the future. 

This AU also shows a few parallels and references to the canonverse (like the canon couples, just so the New Gen exists). There are also some fanon characters inserted here (NejiTen children, SasuSaku twins that followed Sarada) and some couples that are non-canon too (LeeGaa, SasoDei, KakuHidan). 

Basically, it’s just a big “what-if” thought that popped in my mind months ago and yeah owo. Now that thought is alive and taking over this blog :>