Follow the Light

This was drawn because of my sudden realization that time has been passing really fast. I'm 26 now, only four years away from 30, which is incredible! Why, do you ask? Because, in all honesty, I never thought I'd live past 21. Now I'm here, doing better than ever mentally and physically five years past.

Both Furies are highly social species - something I think Toothless demonstrates well - and are raised from the moment they hatch. Their general intelligence is a trade off, meaning they lack instincts for their abilities that many other dragons have. This would explain Toothless's cluelessness to some of his abilities, if his parents were killed around the time he hatched.

As for their infants, Night and Light furies look almost identical owing to their close relation. While Light furies tend lighter with bluer markings, Night furies start darker with warmer markings. Night Lights are half-way between the two, which can appear as either mixed colors or mixed markings. Distinct divergence comes with age, the bright colors fading before adolescence and the markings fading even more by adulthood.

So I took the ideas of the original and flipped them around for a more lizardy dragoness.

Light Furies are large, stealthy dragons with highly reflective, transparent scales that allow them to blend into the background easily. They are very closely related to the Night Fury - a recent offshoot due to over-hunting - and this is reflected not only in their overall shape, but the common occurrence of dark grey patches. Said patches are a result of light scattering over black pigmentation on the skin.

They also tend to stand taller than Night Furies, such that even the smaller males would stand half a foot taller than Toothless, and the females nearly a foot.