HE'S BEAUTIFUL

dont you just love narrative parallels because i sure do

Cooking! I have had a hard time making this thing look okay in the past, but it's LORE significant!

I mean who doesn't have a lil skyfire after fighting in the war of silver stars (A Nightwing Icewing conflict very relevant to the Lore in Fortress of Mirrors, ended nearly 20 years ago and has had a ripple effect.)

A wings of fire (?) AU/ og story/??? Snippet. Verglas is an icewing. And newly queen at this point, though her troops don't now that. What more Context couldya want?

Several years ago

The sounds of battle beat against her ears like waves on the shore, metal scraping metal and scales and leather and fur.

The blunt spiked metal mass crashed through armor, scale, and bone alike.

That was the beauty of brute force weaponry, wasn't it? Swords, axes, arrows, and claws could be stopped by enough layers, but the iron and steel plates of the Nightwing's armor turned against them, shards piercing their sides as their protection crumples under the crushing weight of her mace.

Her vision blurs with pain as something slides between her scales near her shoulder blades- she hadn't been quite careful enough, swept up in the rush of combat.

Wings flared for balance, she turns, face to face with a deep green nightwing snarling from under their helmet, the force of her full body behind her swing. Her weapon connects cleanly into the jaw of her assailant, her own blue blood splattering outward in an arc, right alongside the nightwing's teeth. Her icy blue companion finishes the job with a sharp jab of her spear directly downward, splitting their sternum, and letting the fresh red life drain out of them.

And moments later, the battle field is quiet, the enemy having retreated, leaving their dead. Reaching up with  purple stained talons, she tugs her own helmet from her brow, the stumps of her antlers exposed to the icy air, piercing yellow eyes followed the faint dark mass of nightwings fleeing between into the valley.

A useless endeavor, unfortunately for them. Nightwings were terribly obvious in the white landscape, and thus very easy to track.

She knew exactly who was waiting on the other side- they were as good as dead, once cornered between them.

Verglas replaces her helm, pulling her mace out from the snow and resting it on her shoulder.

"Forward! The fight does not end here- were you given serrated claws for nothing? Do not let your prey escape. Forward!"

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BITES onto your ankle so i can share my similar seawing headcanons

they bleach as they age.

the dragonets are all dark green/blue/purple originally. this helps camouflage them from predators.

seawings in the deep palace tend to be darker colored, but the shallower water they live in, the lighter/more vibrant their colors will be.

seawings in the summer palace tend to be lighter or have brighter colors.

the royal family, that lives at the top of the palace, are frequently light/pastel with pink and white accents.

since tsunami has barely seen the sunlight, she’s very dark for a seawing.

HELLL YESSS!!!!

Js imagining some pale ass old seawing judging tsunami for being wayyy too dark for her age, almost like a nightwing, or maybe the oldie is remembering back in her day, when they used to be raised in deeper water, and seeing tsunami and thinking ‘finally, a seawing who’s been raised right.’

But like it would be rlly cool if they bleached

Imagine some ANCIENT seawing with like huge horns that’s literally ghost pale white, and scared everyone 💀

@flightstalling

But mooom! the aberrations get to swim in the soup! why cant i?

As I have said before; they are built different. Just like Timothy.

:0!!! Obsessed.

i'm planning to do a tribe redesign of every tribe in WoF and i think scarlet would be so much better with a little more variation on the skywings

like its just red boring dragons cmon

prob gonna make a full sheet for her so yeah

MORE sketchbook sillies

Close ups below in case tumbley r eats the quality

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

Blessings on your house op

so whats a guy gotta do to get some good rarepair content around here