#the mutant wingless wyrm

[ninjagecko72]

A small thing that can't get out of my head. Still thinking of my own and @viridisvilla's AU.

The gecko mutant looked up at the Draconian man before her. He lowered his form, leaning his neck forward to directly glare at the much smaller lizard person. "All I ask is you to give him back." He sneered at her. The kunoichi however refused and spoke in a tone her family had never heard from her before. "Fuck you."

"What?"

"You heard me fuck you.” Leo gasped at hearing his little sister say that. “Isa!” Raph however grinned with pride. “Hold up, Leo. I wanna see where this goes.”

The Draconian was immediately taken aback by the insult but Isabella didn't stop there. "You only ever wanted him back to save face. You hadn't cared for him since he was a concept, a little egg who was unaware of the world and who didn't even ask to exist and the moment he hatched, what did you do? You.." She let out a half chuckle, half sigh, "Heh.. you're the one who turned away first. You were already disappointed in him all because of a thing that was out of his control." She accusingly point a finger at him. "He was a wingless little wyrm." He hissed back.

"He was a baby! He has done nothing but look up to you and you never once looked back, you selfish dick!" She barked. "So of course he spiraled into being some megalomaniac, trying to get power to chase after a father's pride that he never knew would forever be out of reach. He was doomed the moment he first breathed all because of a thing that wasn't in his control, that wasn't even his own fault," She had her teeth bared at him, something a normal gecko would not be capable of doing, but she was no normal gecko. "Because of that, it led to him to get horribly morphed into a mangled being just to survive being torn apart by space and time, got turned to ash and presumably died for all we knew in that moment. You didn't turn up to get his ashes then, no. Lady Crimson did. You didn't put two and two together and realize he could restart somewhere else, no, she did. You weren't there when a new parent got worried sick his egg could've been damaged, no I was ad you definitely weren't around when he hatched unscathed and finally got to see the world around him with a new set of eyes, I was."

Isabella pulled back from him, finally putting some pieces together. "Scratch what I said before you don't want him back to save face now. You want him back because if word got out that a little lowly lizard mutate like me had a draconian on her hands, then that means you lost. You lost what little power you had over him, you lost someone that was loyal to you to a fault, and you can't stand it. You as a proud Draconian man can't stand the idea of losing, you narcissistic piece of work."

The draconian man reeled back, sneering down at her. He hated how she immediately read him out like so. She was a little lizard mutate and yet there was something in her eyes. Her blue eyes with a silvery-gray stream striking across them, looking like a pair of marbles. An unnatural pair of marbles that stood out against her bright yellow skin and dark spots. Her pupils formed further into slits and he swore he heard something.

Some low rumbling that came deep from the smaller lizard's chest and yet that seemed physically impossible.

How..? His eyes widened and his fierce expression dropped a bit in realization.

She has the force of a dragon lingering under her skin. It growls at enemies and friends alike, reminding them of who she is. Of what she can do. It didn't help that she had the ferocity not only of the dragon, but of a mother too, despite her being so young. A protective nature she no doubt inherited from her own mother and reinforced by her rat father, if the draconian heard about the things the rat had done for his own children correctly. Things that the rat was never proud of all for the sake of his own surrogate family.

How did a little lizard have a power of the dragons more than the draconian race who were supposedly direct descendants of them? Something about that almost made the so-called proud Draconian feel the need to surrender and yet.. he never admit that.

The rodent came between the lizard and draconian, pushing Isabella behind him with her brothers now grabbing her, stopping her from tearing into him further. One of them, the previous Battle Nexus Champion Michelangelo, handed the small draconian child back over to Isabella.

“Might I suggest you take your leave now before the Daimyo finds out of your dimensional skirmish?” The rat bared his teeth at him with his back arched, his fur puffed up and his stance making him stand higher while his hands gripped on his walking stick.

The draconian man gave a growl and hissed, which made the dark green turtle in red, Raphael and the Kelly green turtle in blue, Leonardo both stand guard at the sides of their rat teacher and father.

"He will be too much for you," The draconian tried. Isabella bit back still, "And I've experienced the end of the world, watching every bit of life from buildings to people lose all color and get erased from existence. What do you think a baby is going to do?"

She has the force of a dragon lingering under her skin. It growls at enemies and friends alike, reminding them of who she is. Of what she can do.”

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

re the ask about Naerys' treatment if she had dragons, I do agree with you, but it reminded me that I'm sure in F&B there was at least one instance of a small/sickly child who became healthier when they got/hatched a dragon, a bit like how Summer helped Bran's health, which is interesting. Still don't think it would have helped Naerys much with Aegon IV as I think it was also a personality thing, but maybe the family overall may have done better if they were still around...

Yeah, that was Aenys, who was born small and sickly (and moreseo, his mother Rhaenys died when he was three, and he regressed back to crawling), but who began to grow and thrive when given the hatchling dragon Quicksilver. Also, when six-year-old Princess Daenerys came down with the Shivers plague, her father Jaehaerys hoped a dragon of her own might save her, but she succumbed too quickly before a hatchling could be sent from Dragonstone.

So yes, it could be that a dragon might have improved Naerys’s health. Though it’s also possible, since we know there was a tradition to put dragon eggs in the cradles of baby Targaryens (and which was done for Aegon and Aemon), that Naerys was given a dragon’s egg when she almost died in infancy and it’s why she got as healthy as she ever did. Or on the other hand, Naerys’s illness as a baby might be related to the death of the dragons, cf. the vicious wyrm that hatched in the cradle of Alyn and Baela’s daughter Laena. Unfortunately we’ll have to wait until Fire & Blood volume 2 to find out more…

[ratfantasy-sims]

Behold! My ratdragon.. thing? pt.1

Featuring: Petz 4

I started by breeding these two rats three times, to get something of a feel for the genetics / the way they breed. I got three mostly-identical babies with dad’s ‘panda’ colors. However, two of them got mom’s tails (in different colors) and they all got odd combinations of both parent’s eyes. Also notice the feet -

I was going to breed the other Rat variation and then crossbreed, but one of the dragons wanted to play - so I bred the two dragons instead next. Of the Blue and Black dragon, two of the offspring were.. white!

Specifically, they all had tiny bits of red coloring, but the black offspring had no blue or white at all (and mom’s eyes). The other two are near mirror-images. I thought it was strange that all of the rats were the same, and the dragons were coming up with completely new colors.. so what were to happen if I crossbred?

GENIUS (the wingless wyrm looking one was my fave). It’s interesting how ratdad’s coat still overpowers everything, and how black overpowers too and there was no solid white at all like when the dragons were crossbred.

Of the crossbreeds, one was male, so it gets to interbreed to thin the genetics a little bit and pull out the weird hidden traits - like, I assume, the brown fur and blue scales (and mutant body forms)

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Dinosaurs did and do exist. Like @queermystic said in the replies, there's velociraptors ("walking lizards") in Sothoryos:

"Hear me. The ships of Braavos sail as far as the winds blow, to lands strange and wonderful, and when they return, their captains fetch queer animals to the Sealord's menagerie. Such animals as you have never seen, striped horses, great spotted things with necks as long as stilts, hairy mouse-pigs as big as cows, stinging manticores, tigers that carry their cubs in a pouch, terrible walking lizards with scythes for claws. Syrio Forel has seen these things." —AGOT, Arya IV

Tattooed lizards stalk the jungles, running down their prey and ripping them apart with the long curved claws on their powerful hind legs. —TWOIAF, Beyond the Free Cities: Sothoryos

Also, wyverns may be less your typical fantasy wyvern and more actually pterosaurs:

Most terrible of all are the wyverns, those tyrants of the southern skies, with their great leathery wings, cruel beaks, and insatiable hunger. Close kin to dragons, wyverns cannot breathe fire, but they exceed their cousins in ferocity and are a match for them in all other respects save size. —TWOIAF, Beyond the Free Cities: Sothoryos

Since it was theorized by Septon Barth, in his book Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyverns: Their Unnatural History (which he wrote after witnessing the horrible mutant creatures that had infested Princess Aerea during her visit to Valyria), that the Valyrian bloodmages used wyverns as breeding stock (perhaps along with the firebreathing but wingless wyrms) to make dragons... yes, Valyria was literally blood magic Jurassic Park.

did dinosaurs exist on planetos because if so valyria is just blood magic jurassic park. dragons never existed they just blood magicked them into existence using giant dino bones. this is true and totally canon source just trust me.