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Silverrocket—one of my starter horses—helping collect draconium

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App: Procreate

Time: 6h 30m

Tear It Down：　「2 reasons. 1. i made it. 2. it goes hard」

I Do Like You：　「You might be wondering how a Sondheim song could be a possible contender for this contest. That's because this song, which was written for the show A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, was cut from the final production. Not only was it cut, but it's also hard as hell to find a recording of how it would have originally sounded. There are a couple of versions online of other artists doing more swingy/jazzy versions of the song (and even THOSE have under 3k views on YouTube!), but this is the only version on the Internet that I can find of how this song would have actually sounded in the finished musical. I had to buy a vinyl record (Sondheim, 1985) and convert the record's audio to a digital file just to share it with people. In my experience, the only people who know about this song are hardcore musical theater/Sondheim nerds.」

This is a very interesting idea, and I'm very glad you put it forward.

I will say, though, that Black Dragons can mag white gear. I only remember one example off the top of my head right here, but it is something they can do.

But you still present an interesting idea! And you make an excellent point about the disguised Wraith gear. In fact, it's not even just the gear that Word specifically made for Beau.

If you look at every instance of the Wrath Dragons, it's the same exact gear for them across the board.

This very much lends to your point that gear can either be given a separate function, seeing as how Word was able to adjust the operations of the ramming gear's head piece to do something else. Cuz normally the cranial aspect of Ramming Gear normally forms a sort of shield that the dragon can then use to safely bash into stuff with their faces with both minimal damage, and maximum effectiveness.

Word was able to alter that completely to mix with Black Draconium, and thus function as the mind control gear.

I do kind of wonder if what Word actually did wasn't so much using Black Draconium to perform Green functions. Seeing as how the cranial segment is what performs the Black Draconium function, while the lower half still retains the Green Draconium function, it’s more like he Frankensteined two different gears together. Green provides the armor and projectile, while Black provides the mind control. Both the natural functions inherent in the respective draconium colors.

The whole point of the different draconium colors is that certain ones can only do certain things, and that’s why mankind bred away from gold in the first place. Different colors have unique specialties that the others can’t perform anywhere near as effectively. One couldn’t expect orange gear to be as effective as balancing a dragon’s movements as blue gear is.

And there’s a common misconception with the dragon colors that “best gear matches” means that’s all a dragon can mag. This is actually not true, and it goes beyond just the fact that Black Dragons can in fact mag white gear. Brown dragons only have green, light green, and blue listed as best matches. And yet we’ve seen Rumbull, my dear Lonely Mountain of the series, having magged both red and white gear in the final episode’s drag-ball match.

I do think that how your concept would best work is if Grey Draconium could be used to augment gear certain colors can’t use to make it maggable. I can’t recall after midnight while finishing this post in bed on my phone, but I’m pretty sure Grey Draconium is maggable by everyone. Assuming that is correct, one could make blue gear mixed with grey, that would makeup for any lack of power output and then be safely magged by a green dragon.

This has all honestly got me wanting to make a master post listing gear we have seen dragons mag in the show. That way as comprehensive of a list we can get could be out there, to recall which gears we know they can and to ponder which ones they can’t. I’m pretty sure only “green can’t mag blue” has been clearly stated. We do know that one rando was surprised to see Beau having red, blue, AND white gear all magged at once, after which he magged on green and then a second red gear. It’s also worth noting though that all gear has levels as well as colors, and the rando was shocked by all the high level gear Beau had on. So maybe “best gear matches” just means “can mag higher levels of these over any other color”?