SilverPeahen

It's so unfairly hard to sit down and write more than a sentence 😭

I completely missed this ask, sorry!

It was like 3-4 separate conversations if I'm remembering it correctly. I mean, I think some of the stuff does come up in chapter 7?

Not directly, I guess, but honestly the conversation snippets were all I had planned.

The important stuff was said, and I saved a lot of unnecessary words for myself right at the end of my patience with the chapter lol.

It was genuinely depressing! They're dragons on an apocalyptic surface of our planet, surrounded by the dead bodies of animals (humans, dogs, they once ran into a large dead herd of cows.) So that's what they had to eat because Terra refused to take them hunting. He was legitimately pissed at all the moons and everyone being on his surface. He was like more protective over his lifeforms and refused to even entertain the idea of leading them to interesting places. I just remember Terra being really angry almost all the time.

But it was the ending that shocked me! Somewhere along the way the Solar group runs into a human survivor group. I think the human survivors were trying to find a new place to settle that's safer. But along the way the humans discovered about the moons plan and who the leaders where. (I don't remember how, maybe overhearing the moons talk or something?) And they... killed Ganymede and Europa. Of course Jupiter was furious, but Terra stopped him by protecting his humans and even yelling that the two deserved it.

It legit ended with the Solar group splitting up with Terra, Mars, and their three moons going with the human group and everyone else going another way. And then I woke up and find myself annoyed upon getting a cliffhanger ending again. :/

Damn, I'm kinda jealous, all my dreams are completely illogical streams of random events lol.

A post-apocalyptic version of DtE sounds extra rough for the poor characters. Just the logistics of feeding them is giving me anxiety lol

This is just off the top of my head, so if I've very obviously forgotten something I've mentioned in the past I apologise. This kinda stuff just sort of comes up as I'm writing, and sometimes I completely fail to leave notes for myself lol

Earth- all-rounder, but definitely more suited to cold, dry climates. Scavenging and hunting in open areas to take advantage of flight without trees getting in the way. Terrible swimmer.

Mercury- either plains/cliffs, or cities. Very adaptable due to size and speed, though may struggle to take down larger prey.

Venus- similar to Earth, but in a warmer climate. Not much long distance flying, does best in group hunts with others to help corral and exhaust prey.

Mars- desert/savannah, possibly jungle but his colours would be a disadvantage. Stalks prey until he's close enough to land a hit, then tracks injured prey until it drops.

Jupiter- can handle most climates outside of extreme hot or cold, does best in forests for ambush hunting. His moons are strong, allowing them to drag down prey larger than them, especially in groups.

Saturn- hot, dry environments where he can blend in the wait for prey to pass by (obviously Saturn doesn't know this in the fic lol). His moons have various camouflaging patterns suited to different backdrops, and use stalking to get close to prey.

Uranus- shallow/murky water hunter, relying on electrosenses to ambush prey that doesn't see him. Less blubber than he'd probably need to swim well in colder water, but he could manage for a time. His moons, being more manuverble, dive into water for prey.

It's definitely been a while since I've thought about it, but I do have a few I quite like. Mostly herbivores, but I do think the carnivores are very awesome. I just like herbivore ecology a lot and imagining how similar/different dinosaur niches were to our time is fascinating to me

Any hadrosaurid, but Maiasaura and Shantungosaurus especially. I used to play this dino game called 'the isle' and I fell in love with playing those two species, especially when in a large group of other players.

Ankylosaurids. If anyone ever asks my favourite dino I usually say Ankylosaurus. Or stego sometimes. Huge, unbothered herbivores with tail weaponry are just so interesting to me, since we don’t really have any mammals that try a similar strategy. Most weaponry these days is front-end, for a variety of evolutionary reasons, but it's interesting to see just how much dinosaur niches varied from later mammals. And why the few holocene animals that tried to copy Anky might have failed.

That's hard to pin down, honestly. I started watching Solarballs just after the moon revolution arc ended (didn't properly get into the fandom until later) but I did really enjoy the solar system trials and the lead up to Planet X. Not sure if I'd call it my favourite as I loved the Big bang arc and any time Theia was on screen lol

Do you think there is a chance of Venus getting a pov in DtE or is he too back ground character for that? 🥹

I don’t think Venus is a background character at all...but he is currently the only planet without a planned chapter 😬

That doesn't mean he's not involved in the story, just that I haven't found a chapter that would benefit from his unique POV lol. I enjoy writing Venus but in a fic mostly about lots of characters doing lots of things, it's hard to find space for his very strong personality 😅

He's top of the list for backups, though! If a planned POV doesn't end up working or I find I need to add another chapter, he's first in line. And hopefully I'll be able to write some Footsteps chapters from his POV.