#scavengers arc

[arrgh-whatever]

[bleue-flora]

I don’t know why but there’s something sad about Dream’s Dairy still sitting in that chest in the corner of the cell (with pages 2 & 3 being blank for some reason)…

Like a piece of him will always remain in the cell… perhaps we can go even further and say that the note about Steve represents the attachments Dream can never have, highlighted by the death of the cat and Rat on that very chest. And the other note refers to the house and home that he can’t have, not if he wants to be safe. Maybe the book lying alone in the cell represents the things he lost to end up there, an attachment like Spirit, a home like the Community House. And maybe for funzies we could say the blank pages represent other things missing: his friends and his lives… I don’t know, it makes me think too about him writing other dairies and burning them all… maybe he couldn’t bring himself to burn this one… the last piece of Techno he has left…

[ninoxwof]

Rose (Flower) the Human

(I'm not well practiced with drawing humans by any means. I was initially going to hold off on drawing any scavengers until I get to Dragonslayer, but I think Rose is an important character in The Brightest Night that deserves a mention)

[Image Description: A digital drawing depicting Rose from Wings of Fire. She is a middle aged average built black woman, with coily hair that reaches down to her shoulders, thick eye brows, and a wide nose. Her lips are two toned, with her upper lip being darker than her lower. Her lower lip is also slightly thicker. She has slightly muscular sleeveless arms with forearm protectors on her. Her palms and the soles of her feet have a lighter pigment to them. She's wearing a sandy yellow sleeveless robe and green pants that are loose and free flowing. She's also wearing what appears to be sole protectors, likely to keep her feet from burning from the hot desert sand. She is sitting, with one leg bent inward, and an arm touching the floor, supporting her body weight. /.End ID]

[twistofstory]

Yeah now you know more about Crimson's upbringing Just an old little thing with the Morticians adults

[k8wof-designs]

Wren the Scavenger

[emper1on]

I will do anything for humans to not be centric in arc 4. I was fine with their inclusion in arc 3 but do not give them a bigger role...... one of my favorite things abt wof was the lack of humans

[rindomness]

@maze-of-my-design making a separate post since it's diverged somewhat from the original point of that post but also. grips your shoulders. it's the social expectation of it all it's the trying to find some anchor in the middle of her grief it's the elevating Joker on a pedestal and modeling herself after him once she stops trying so hard to model herself after Kasumi it's the "when you admire someone of the opposite gender you get a crush on them, right? that's how that works" it's the arc of learning to accept Sumire for who she is as opposed to who she thinks she should be. I need to finish that fic

[darkstalker-void]

Finders keepers

[casualfruit]

God the fucking parallels between Kamen/Fiona and Hollow/Levi are driving me insane

Fiona helps create Levi, treating them with compassion and even giving them her voice

Fiona sacrifices everything to join Kamen on the Demeter 227 in a desperate attempt to salvage their marriage

Kamen, through negligence and selfishness, destroys Fiona

Hollow controls Kamen by feeding him images of Fiona and tormenting him with memories of all the ways he failed her

Kamen gives in to his guilt and lets Hollow consume him

Hollow, while carrying Kamen, purposefully destroys Levi

Levi comes back changed, filled with organic material and able to experience physical and emotional sensation

Kamen realizes he wants to live, he wants to do right by Fiona even though she’s gone

Levi destroys the overgrown form of Hollow, reducing it to its original form and freeing Kamen from its control

Levi goes on to live independently, working symbiotically with the environment of Vesta

Kamen helps create and sustain the new human colony

[quirinah]

intuition

[pinetreepilgrimage]

hearing wof discourse can be a very mixed bag but one sentiment ive seen a lot is the agonizingly powerful hatred towards humans/scavengers. I have never seen anyone say they have a favorite character and follow up with a scavenger. I’ve seen people discuss how much they want to put them through victorian-child-killing-antics. I’m convinced the fandom wants there to be a scorching 2

personally, I’m not really interested in the humans who exist in a dragon series but I hope arc four is pantala-pyrrhia relations driven instead of human driven. I would find it really bizarre if the Invincible Lord or whatever his name was rolls up and gets treated like an actual threat. “OH NO! ITS THE INVINCIBLE LORD!” like just get a dragon to lay on him, problem solved.

[endykelopaedia]

starting to draw parallels between the theme of parasites in Sam and Ursula's story and their relationship hrmm. hm. hmmmm. [DING] oh sweet my popcorn is ready

[bleue-flora]

Now that we have more info and access, let's talk about Quackity's tools shall we...

On day one, Quackity brings a pair of unenchanted shears and Sam gives him WARDENS WILL and WARDENS HAMMER as well as some item frames (which as an aside I’ve always thought is such an unhinged inclusion…).

Thus completing the trifecta of torture tools that we see in the montage later [clip]. :]

But we also know that it doesn’t end there, because in the other 2 visits we get to see he actually doesn’t even use Sam weapons (besides WARDENS TORMENT), so we know there are other undefined tools, which is why it’s so exciting to now be able to see inside chests and inventories because now we can analyze and speculate to kinda determine what those tools might have been and their enchantments (and perhaps the implications of their enchantments)…

So, for starters, in that same montage it also shows Quackity grabbing tools from a room and throwing them on the floor [seen below], which ends up being what looks like 3 neitherite axes, 3 netherite swords, and 1 pair of shears, likely implying that multiple weapons of the same type were also used (further supported by the fact that we see him use both WARDENS HAMMER and a netherite axe with low durability). Tragically, this storage room stocked with netherite weapons doesn’t exist on the map [post] :( so instead I’m gonna determine what I think are the most likely candidates from the chests in the prison, Las Nevdas, Quackity’s inventory and Sam’s inventory.

Now I’m gonna assume that 1 of the 3 axes thrown on the ground and 1 of the 3 swords are WARDENS HAMMER and WARDENS WILL, because there are not enough reasonable or qualifying sword or axe options in the locations we have to look at (this of course all based on the assumption that they aren’t in this storage room on the other map they filmed it on or didn’t have Mending and broke).

The second axe dropped I’m gonna say is the one with low durability seen in both the streams where he tries to get Dream to write the letter and the one with Techno later, which matches the one in Quackity’s ender chest with Efficiency V and mending. This axe is pretty interesting for the fact that is does not have sharpness on it, perhaps that is because that does too much damage. It’s low durability makes a lot of sense based on the lack of Unbreaking, and the Mending actually confirms what I had already theorized based off of the bottles of enchanting in his inventory when he visits rivals duo, which certainly has some implications about how much he used this axe to the point he needed to mend it mid session…

After the 2 axes, we see a sword and again I’m gonna just say this is WARDENS WILL. The last axe I’m gonna say is most likely the one in Quackity’s inventory with Efficiency V, Fortune III, Mending, Sharpness V, Unbreaking III. This one has much more durability, perhaps because of the Unbreaking or because we don’t see it in the visits we get, maybe because it has Sharpness V he doesn’t use it as much.

The second sword I’m gonna say is also one from his inventory called SPIDER MASTER 2000 with Bane of Arthropods V, Fire Aspect, Unbreaking III, and Mending. Based on the name and Arthropods, this sword was likely made for the purpose of farming xp in the spider farm, but I’d say it’s not unreasonable to think Quackity used it for other things too. Makes me wonder if that Athropods enchantment has any strange effect on a person. And don’t even get me started on the Fire Aspect. :]

The third sword I’m gonna say is this one in a chest in the prison with Knockback II, Looting III, Mending, Sharpness V, Sweeping Edge III, and Unbreaking III, for 2 reasons 1) the chest it is in includes building items such as Quartz and Smooth Stone [highlighted in yellow] which are not present in the prison but are in multiple areas of Las Nevadas and 2) It has full durability, but has Mending to explain that unlike the other nethrite swords in the prison (minus the Guard Sword, which I doubt he let Q use) and Sam’s inventory, all with high durability. Perhaps we could make up some reason like perhaps using the Sweeping Edge or Knockback to explain the full durability and why it’s in a chest in the prison. Perhaps it is Sam’s sword but Quackity was miss using it or the enchantments on it made it too dangerous or something, so Sam made him heal it and return it. Maybe that’s why he stops giving Quackity his Warden weapons too… who knows.

Then we see a pair of unenchanted shears, which we see him with in his first visit and the one with rivals duo. Give that shears durability doesn’t last long in general and that these are unenchanted, it’s probably reasonable to say that he perhaps broke and brought multiple pairs of unenchanted shears so to pin down the specific pair isn’t great, but we do see a pair in a hidden chest under the Needle in Las Nevadas (and irl wise it’s not like they did 80 scenes of torture so this could technically be the pair from the rivals duo stream (and maybe even the first visit)). Especially since it also has a pair of iron pants and an enchanted diamond sword like we see in his inventory during that stream. An enchanted diamond sword also appears in the letter visit and I’m gonna say they are both this sword with Sharpness I. It has higher durability than the one seen in the rivals visit, but perhaps he healed it with a diamond or something. This diamond sword is pretty interesting in the fact that it isn’t netherite like the ones shown in the montage, so it also than does less damage, even more so due to the minimum enchantments. Perhaps that’s what makes it such a good option for torture as it doesn’t do too much damage and kill Dream on accident.

During the rivals duo visit, we also see WARDENS TORMENT which to my suprise only has Unbreaking III not Mending. We also see an unenchanted diamond pickaxe. Now we could say he only brought the pickaxe with the purpose of getting his revenge or we could take it as a sign that he used pickaxes too outside of just shears, swords and axes. After all, WARDENS WILL BREAKER is the name of Sam’s pickaxe, so surely it was used when trying to break Dream’s will (and if that then perhaps the netherite pickaxe in Quackity’s inventory as well).

Furthermore, when Quackity runs into George outside the prison, we see him carrying an enchanted diamond pickaxe likely the same one in his inventory with Fortune II and Unbreaking III, which I’d say can be reasonably assumed to have been used inside the prison (perhaps just for convenience sake). Especially because, also in his inventory at the time is a stack of seeds, which appears in the chest with the enchanted diamond sword and shears which we already determined were likely used.

So, those are all the things we can more reasonably conclude with some reasonings and conclusions definitely stronger than others. Even further though if we wanted to really start to theorize, there is an also an argument to be made (that I’ve actually highlighted before [posts - <> <>]) that if he uses pickaxes why not also shovels? And hoes? And maybe even one of Sam tridents, perhaps WARDENS MERCY with Channeling [post]? [potential weapons used highlighted in red] I don’t know, it’s really mostly all theoretical but fun to think about anyways, I mean we do have Quackity’s comment in the letter visit, “I’ll show you which one I’ll use this time around.” [clip] and Dream’s comment to Foolish, “Sam, you know, let him in the prison, let him bring in tools—and shears, and they tried to torture the revive book out of me…” [clip] which does somewhat support the reasoning for more variety of tools. After all, why doesn’t Dream say weapons and shears? Seems to me like you’d use tools to include the shears, cuz swords and axes are just weapons. (We can obviously explain this away for many reason but that’s besides the point). Plus I mean based off of what Dream said in Daedalus as noted we tend to like to reasonably assume a knife and chair was involved (further supported by ccSam if we chose to believe his unhinged comments lol XD), and that certainly opens the door for other things…

[beepsalotl]

never gonna get over MOON rising and WINTER turning. enough.

[twistofstory]

- You're the best dragon for this job. - Because of my skills, right? - ... - Right?..

[spookyvalentine]

Scavenger’s Reign is phenomenal