Kestrel: Good lord, he's a monster! Look at him trying to crush their eggs and kill them before they hatch! We've got ourselves a true killer it seems. Utterly heartless in nature and incapable of anything but harm
The monster in question:
Mine is the jungle temple from terraria
no YOUR body is a temple. mine is the needle pit from saw 2
I passed oyt and was blessed with a vision...
The jade poly truth is the only truth
I think people arguing about ships is stupid after as log as it's legal let people like what they like
I deadass got threatened that someone would draw my oc dead because I shipped a big jade winglet polycule [winter/moon winter/qibli winter/kinkajou winter/turtle moon/qibli moon/kinkajou moon/turtle qibli/turtle kinkajou/turtle kinkajou and qibli arnt dating but are queerplatonic]
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I really wish we got a moments of Qibli and Thorn explicitly saying they see each other as family. it’s deeply implied, but a wish there was some seen of Thorn like calling Qibli her son or Qibli accidentally calling her “mom”.
Thorn: Good news Qibli, I’m having a baby!
Qibli: Oh, that gre-
Thorn: *slams adoption papers down on the table* It’s you, sign here.
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People stating that Sora is less sympathetic and/or is worser than Icicle and - God Forbid - stating that Sora only wanted to kill Icicle in order to take revenge of Icicle for killing Sora’s sister, Crane, honestly makes me feel the urge to rip my hair out.
Sora (unlike Icicle) grew up in a kingdom where dragons from other tribes are able to invade and then attack and kill dragons living within their homes. Her own sister was murdered by Icicle only a couple MONTHS ago when she joined the JMA. Sora is also the closest dragon who shows symptoms of having PTSD, due to the flashbacks she’s shown to experience from the war within Moon Rising.
Due to Sora’s trauma from Icicle killing her sister, she was fearful paranoid her own safety around Icicle, despite the fact that weren’t fighting in the war anyone.
Because of this, when Icicle mentioned in her sleep that “killing is easy enough”, Sora believed that Icicle would be the type of dragon to continue ending other’s lives with her own claws, regardless that the war ended or not. Which made Sora believe that Icicle wouldn’t just kill her sister, but multiple other dragons within the Jade Mountain Academy too. Sora didn’t just kill Icicle to get revenge on her for killing Crane. She did it in order to protect other dragons from being killed by her too.
Like- I’m not making it up nor even exaggerating this part of Sora’s character, this is literally stated in canon.
“Our very first night here, when I still wasn't sure — I was almost sure it was [Icicle], but I thought I must be mad, and I couldn't let myself sleep because what if she did the same thing to me that she did to Crane? And then in her sleep, she muttered, 'Killing is easy enough.' ❗️That's when I knew. She's a murderer and she won't stop until someone does what I failed to do.❗️
-Sora, Moon Rising, Pages 267 - 268
Of course, you could say “But that’s stupid for Sora to think! Icicle didn’t kill Crane because Icicle’s a bloodthirsty murder, it’s because they were fighting in a WAR!”
And while that’s true, here’s the thing: Trauma isn’t (always) logical nor rational.
Fear isn’t an emotion people experience from logic and reasoning.
Let alone for someone having PTSD from a War and living around the very person you saw murder one of your closest family members.
Expecting someone, specifically an Traumatized teenage ex-soldier who only JUST turned 18 - who only recently stopped fighting in a war & only recently clearly saw her sister being murdered - to think rationally towards the person (let alone their PoV) who murdered her sister, is honestly quite illogical and even unreasonable to expect from Sora and her character.
Does this make Sora’s actions excusable and/or justifiable, especially since she didn’t mean to harm any other dragons while attempting to kill Icicle?
HECK NO! It does NOT excuse nor justify literally bombing a room of a school, and attempting to commit literal murder.
Sora’s grief and trauma explains Sora’s motives and actions, and makes her PoV understandable and even sympathetic, but does NOT excuse and/or justify her actions and choices at ALL, what-so-ever - this is true about ICICLE’S character as well.
Then does this mean that Icicle is worser and/or less sympathetic than Sora? HECK NO to that too!!
Icicle was being manipulated by Queen Scarlet, who stated to Icicle that if she didn't kill the DoD, that her brother, Hailstorm - who Scarlet knows the whereabouts of - will DIE, resulting in Icicle to be forced into making the decision of killing multiple of her teachers and a Queen (who she doesn’t know very well) and her brother who she believed was dead for literal YEARS.
And Icicle not caring about killing others is due to her being raised as a literal child soldier throughout her life, being made to repeatedly harm and kill others out on the battlefield.
Sora and Icicle are BOTH morally-gray ex-child soldiers who've been traumatized by the war, who are both sympathetic or at least understandable characters who commit awful and/or immoral actions out of the fear and trauma of losing someone that they love.
So stating that EITHER ONE OF THEM is “less sympathetic” and/or “is worser than the other” honestly feels quite icky and/or irritating to me.
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Okay so no I didn’t have an ask to answer about him but someone did ask in the replies so I say close enough
I love these two a lot already
Caiman adopted Little Bug, calling him by that nickname since it was one of the only words he knew. Also yes, he has a genetic mutation where he has two tails and two stingers/barbs. Yes, she loves him very much and also yes sometimes he gets really confused why mom doesn’t have a stinger at all.
{ID: Three frames consisting of two dragons, a very small tan and brown one and a much larger maroon and red one.
The tan and brown one has two tails, and is a different kind of dragon than the large one.
‘yes he has two stingers’
‘I don’t think that changes anything’
‘Still my Little Bug.’
‘BUG!’
END ID}
One thing about WoF I really love is the variety of female characters and their roles in the books. Like they feel distinctive from each other and their characters and personalities are treated with a lot of respect and care. Like the books certainly don't feel like they're misogynistic or reduce the female characters down to basic stereotypes in order to focus on the cooler, much more developed male characters