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[dragonlady7]

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instead of whining about my guts i was originally planning to make some sort of deep point about using humor in fiction to make more brutally-incisive points, like you can’t be that savage if it’s all dark all the time you have to make people laugh to open up for the really insightful stuff, but. then i never got my shit together.

also i had planned? at some point? to update? a chapter of something? but i literally cannot stay focused for long enough to do it, pray for me, i’m really having Troubles this week.

BUT. I leveraged the sheer power of a Discord server to get me to buy shoes since I need fucking shoes and the shoes arrived yesterday, early!!! so I am wearing rose gold birkenstocks and it is amazing how good the arch support is in these things.

ALSO I have gotten a lot of writing done I think but I don’t actually know, including a fuckload of torturing Iorveth in backstory, so I don’t know where the fuck any of this is going but boy is it going.

also i have been doing a lot of worldbuilding about dragons don’t @ me i do what i want (Your picture was not posted)

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[harpers_child]

Tell me about your dragons. Big ones or little ones?

[dragonlady7]

Ha, specifically I am worldbuilding dragons for Witcher fanfic. Which like. The dragon in Witcher 2, the game devs clearly took "make it unfuckable" as a design note, because they made her gratuitously unpleasant-looking and like, raggedy and shit. There's no call for that. Her father is the beautiful golden dragon from the books and Netflix, and he's explicitly described as being neat and fastidious and beautiful and also very good at fighting and just in general a total peacock, and also has a foursome with Geralt and his two attendants in a hot tub. Like. This is a clearly-drawn character. Why would his daughter be in tit armor and have raggedy wings and nobody looking after her? No.

I've had the great good fortune to have several excited brain-dump conversations with a biologist about her, and so have come up with ideas like, did you know crocodiles have gizzards? with gastroliths? dragons could too, and so she'd have a habit of swallowing stones.
Since her father canonically has a pair of attendants who protect him and semi-worship him and also fuck him, she of course should have a small harem. Obviously the first one she recruits for that is Iorveth, since we know they have a close but not quite obviously-romantic relationship. It's clear to me at least that he's her attendant, and might have a slight sideline in worship where appropriate, in a lowkey kind of way. That's really up to him.
(She meets him before she's entirely mature, and doesn't undergo her final molt / sexual maturation until she's safely established in Vergen.)
But she definitely has a little hoard of people who are her attendants and in return she protects them. This is like, a baseline for her mental health. Beyond that I'm sure she has relationships like a human and is quite good at pretending to be one, but she's got to have that private little retreat of being dragonish. Next scene I want to write is Iorveth learning to care properly for her wings, which must be oiled regularly and she can do it herself but it's eversomuch more pleasant for her to have someone do it for her. (This is the majority of what kind of worship she wants really.)

Another biologist-given point I'm delighted with is that some kinds of lizards are capable of virgin birth basically-- they can lay eggs with clones of themselves. More common among hybrids; ovulation stimulated by non-reproductive/sterile sex with other females usually. Well, Saesenthessis is a hybrid green/gold dragon. She could super lay a viable egg after mating with a non-compatible species, and hatch a perfectly healthy daughter. It's not even cracky, that's just regular degular biology, no magic needed.

Is she big? I feel like since I'm wholesale abandoning the model from the Witcher 2 game as being just gratuitiously ugly, I can do what I want. I'm going with her head being about six to ten feet long, a 40-foot wingspan probably, at least 20ft nose to tail. Possibly a bit bigger. The only thing I've really specified is that she could hold a pair of adult human sized people in one of her forefeet, while they uhhhhhh are stably supported enough to be otherwise engaged.