#see stuff like this in canon; I'd like David to not die from burnout please

[madsciencestudent]

Hey, for the record, while I'm over here like foaming at the mouth over Idyia and Rubra-Harenas, I don't actually think that STATISTICALLY they're the only ones like this in the whole world of Sauria.

We might not get to see it in canon- because holy fuck animation and story telling takes so much time and if background info doesn't matter too much to the stories and characters you want to tell then you're not going to put it in- but I'd totally buy there's other stories like theirs out there in Sauria. I mean like, Blue Song members who got stranded on the mainland back before the invasion and ended up making new lives there and now don't agree with the rest of the empire and feel more at home with the other Saurian races. More civilian type members of the Kindred of the Tusk who care for the injured or young and aren't meant for constant combat and have positive connections with other Saurians outside of the Kindred. Pachi-Saurians who aren't just farmers or are even sort of working their way up the Blue Song's social ranks as merchants or other fields of expertise. An Arctic Saurian who-while of course cautious and will defend themselves- opens their doors to lost travelers and is more social than the norm. Blue Song soldiers who became disillusioned with the empire (for many, many reasons but I could especially see ones who quickly realize that 1. Avi-Saurians just aren't physically as strong as the other races and can't take the same amount of damage so they've watched too many of their fellows die and 2. if the Chancellor really wanted to tame the land then why aren't they more willing to compromise and just TALK to the people already here who have managed to sort of do so?), and deserted, becoming farmers themselves or helping the more civilian members of the Tusk or becoming hunters and gathers as well. Non-military and or lower to middle class Blue Song not being very pleased with the monarchy ditching their duties to the people left back on the island to go skipping off to the more exciting main land.

Yeah, the only group I could see not being part of the mixing and not-black-and-white social world of Sauria is the Fell and that's mostly because of their feral nature. (Even then, the idea of a Fell who gets entertainment out of just observing the rest of Sauria at a distance makes me happy. They're still a Fell and more evil than anything but they're just observing and studying others and I like that.)

I think I'm just really excited and am having so much fun kicking around and sharing ideas for Idyia and Rubra-Harenas in particular is because they're more mobile characters, actually traveling throughout Sauria and getting to experience the world through them. (Also, I just like their personalities and character traits.) But I really don't think their story and circumstances are THAT unique in world. Just not entirely the norm, you know?