Pre-Game Brainstorming

[jademountainmods]

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Brainstorming

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Do you want to work though some ideas for characters or AUs?
Are you not canon familiar and would appreciate a little help from others?
Need help coming up with themed dragon names?
Do you have too many great ideas and what to see what others think?Feel free to use this post to bounce around ideas with other potential players, see what others are thinking, or just have fun talking about dragons at dragon school. If you have any general game questions, be sure to comment to the FAQ or contact a mod.

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[strawberryredgrave]

In preparation for dragon AU, I'm bringing out my Sunday best. Give a warm welcome to Dante from Devil May Cry, the stylish bombastic demon hunter who is king of the dorks. Here, he's gonna be a Skywing/Icewing hybrid with the name Raptor.

His mother, the skywing Temperance, and his father, the icewing Permafrost, happened upon each other one day, likely through battle, and fell in love. Because it just Seems To Be The Case With Icewings, Permafrost was a royal with animus blood, so their children would naturally inherit that power or at least have the ability to pass it down. Raptor takes more of a Skywing appearance with Icewing features. Unfortunately, Icewings had enough of this with prince Arctic and Skywings actively kill anyone with any unnatural abilities. Both dragons were punished (presumably killed) and Raptor had to fend for himself for most of his life.

But hey, even if both of his tribes hate him and at least one makes efforts to kill him, he became a very lax dragon who likes having fun and doesn't have a care in the world. He traveled through Pyrrhia on his own for a while. Eventually, set up shop in the town of Possibility after the Sandwing/Skywing truce during the war as someone who took on all sorts of odd jobs, from tracking down Scavenger villages to roughing up a few individuals when needed. No one's been able to confirm if he possesses animus magic, but it doesn't stop some from viewing him as a threat or even a pariah. With the school opening up and interracial tolerance growing, Raptor's packing his bags and moving in to teach.

Naturally, he wont' be an animus for the purposes of this game, but Raptor will be making regular use of the Rule of Cool; that might confuse a few dragons and that's the point~

I haven't totally decided what he'll teach as a professor, but he will be a professor. He might teach survivalism or geography or cultural studies or something like that. He's the cool uncle that'll let you in on a few cool things if you want him to. Normally Raptor would have a twin to bounce off of, but I'm leaving any sibling stuff open to interpretation and the occasional AU shenanigans. Maybe you've met Raptor before, maybe you wanna punch him in the face, who knows! This is Dante we're talking about. Hit me up with any ideas you may have on this!

[moonlitwitch]

Out of curiosity for those of us looking at playing IceWings/SkyWings, would this affair be the kind of thing that would have some notoriety, or have been swept under the rug? I'm guessing the latter but figured I'd ask, since my plan is to bring Diana in as a first or second circle IceWing, so she would be familiar with the royal gossip but she IS relatively young considering (probably 6-ish but I haven't sat down to bother with the math yet)..

[strawberryredgrave]

Oh that's a good question. I was actually gonna default to the first option because it feels like something fun to play with. Pretty sure Icewings do not want another Darkstalker on their talons, but this time around the disavowed royal's part of a tribe that wants him dead because no freaks allowed. Shame they haven't succeeded.

Not sure if icewings would also try to kill him, but I'm sure his story's brought up as a cautionary tale at the very least. A smart girl like Diana would have no trouble learning about the story, either way!

[moonlitwitch]

Good to know, I'm sure given her family's proclivity to gossip, she would definitely have heard about it.

[the_parent_trap]

Oh man I'll also be playing an Icewing hybrid...I'm also curious about how much notoriety you'd think he'd have in the Icewing tribe, but I think Sizhui's the sort who'd want to get to know him on his own anyway. especially since he'd a teacher at the school. He'd really be interested in learning from him!

[strawberryredgrave]

Raptor will appreciate the kid wanting to learn things from him, first and foremost! As I mentioned to Lex, he'll likely have his share of notoriety because god damn it, when will other tribes stop stealing our animus touched? I left it up in the air if Icewings will want him dead and try as hard as the Skywings, but Raptor's left them alone for now and they're okay with that. Three Moons help them if they provoke him.

Fortunately, Raptor doesn't really go out and hunt for retaliation, so he's chill with meeting others from his tribe! Even the ones that try to kill him have a...uhh...memorable...experience.

[the_parent_trap]

Yeah, it sounds like he definitely would've heard of Raptor, in that case!

Honestly though, since Raptor's a teacher at school, Sizhui's definitely going to respect him and try to encourage his fellow Icewings to do the same...probably with some varying success.