#dragonbent

Was in the mood for writing and a friend suggested I do something about this AU again so I started... and I couldn't stop. Well in the end I did because I'm really tired, but this is pretty much the result. It's unfinished and I'm hoping you guys can tell me if I should continue. (though I probably will because I really like the challenge of writing Karkat's dragon form)

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“Have you ever tried morphing just one part of your body?”

“And why the hell would I ever want to do that?”

“I don’t know, just a thought.”

“Hm.”

Hands behind his head, he played with her suggestion for a few minutes. It did seem possible, but he had never bothered to try. More often than not, his transformations had been sporadic and impulsive, but of recent, he had managed to get reign on them. It had taken awhile – with a frustratingly unlimited amount of prompting from the blind girl to his right – but he had learnt to control it. Undoubtedly, it did wonders to his social circle. With the fear of randomly transforming out of the way, his total number of friends had reached a grand total of two, Terezi included. Despite that, he was really grateful for her support and obstinacy, though he’d never admit it.  Without her, he’d probably would’ve just gone into isolation and wait for certain death to befall upon him.

Dramatics aside, the idea of morphing just one part of his body had occurred to him before. It could be handy to be able to whip out his snout to shoot a little fire for a smoke in the absence of a lighter, or a claw in the absence of say, a can-opener.

As he toyed with the thought further, the girl next to him sat up from her spot on the grass. She sniffed the air a little as the wind blew past. A smile formed on her face – no trespassers within a 5 mile radius, this spot had proven good for practicing Karkat’s transformations. After finding out about his secret, the blind lawyer-to-be had taken it into her stride to ensure that the quiet boy sitting at the back of history class would never need to feel alone again.

Sure, the journey had been long – breaking down the needlessly high walls, both physical and emotional, he put up around him, braving all his spontaneous rages which inevitably lead to the risk of the revelation of his “talent” to the whole town, and eventually appreciating his sweeter sides and becoming his best friend. Thankfully, with her advanced spatial awareness and excellent maneuvering of the two of them to obscure corners when necessary, no one had found out yet – with the exception of Sollux Captor, a male friend Karkat had taken a liking to recently. Of course, Karkat voluntarily telling someone about his secret had been a great milestone but sometimes Terezi missed being the only one who knew about his other form. Nevertheless, she was glad he was beginning to open up and take the risk to trust more people.

part of this karezi dragon au dfghj

ok so the intro story thing I thought of so far was like karkat being in a family of knights and going into the woods at some point when he's like 13-15 to let off steam because bro kankri made him really angry and he just wants to punch something and then he comes across a weird cottage in the woods and just outside there's maybe like a pot of boiling water over a fire and strange flowers growing around but he's just mad and not thinking straight and he doesn't care about the occupant at this point so he like kicks over the pot and stomps on the flowers and just wrecks the whole setup until he's able to calm down and then it's like 'crap what did i do i have to try to set this right again' but then a lady comes out of the cottage and sees and is very angry because that was a spell/potion thing she'd been working on for months and now it's ruined so she's like 'oh inconsiderate uncaring little angry boy likes destroying things and rampaging well fine go take out your anger on things then' and then bam curses him

and then he gets turned into a dragon and she sends him to destroy his town and then after its done she releases him and he realises what he is and what he just did and now he can't turn back, the witch is gone, and he can't really try appealing to his family anymore since they're knights and he looks like a dragon they would just shoot first ask questions later, and so he runs away and lives by himself in the woods for a few years until he meets terezi

but then yeah here's some other discussions with sarah again

[20/01/2014 7:13:18 PM] Peregrine: I've come to the conclusion that dragon terezi would be the most annoying thing ever [20/01/2014 7:19:36 PM] Sarah: sounds about right [20/01/2014 7:19:53 PM | Edited 7:19:58 PM] Sarah: EXCESSIVE BUT MIGHTY DRAGON CACKLING [20/01/2014 9:21:55 PM] Peregrine: ok that took longer than expected but i did the thing [20/01/2014 9:23:18 PM] Sarah: lil kk [20/01/2014 9:23:20 PM] Sarah: but then [20/01/2014 9:23:21 PM] Sarah: majykks [20/01/2014 9:23:37 PM] Sarah: bIG DRAGON KK TRY PICKING ME UP NOW YOU GODDAMN IGUANA. [20/01/2014 9:24:06 PM] Sarah: "YOUR3 4 'GODD4MN 1GU4NA' TOO YOU KNOW" [20/01/2014 9:26:26 PM] Peregrine: AT LEAST I DON'T ACT LIKE ONE. I DON'T DO THAT TONGUE THING. [MUSHU IMPRESSION] [20/01/2014 9:26:42 PM] Sarah: what if he did tho [20/01/2014 9:26:45 PM] Sarah: sssss [20/01/2014 9:27:41 PM] Peregrine: 1 H4V3 4 D1S4B1L1TY J3RK [20/01/2014 9:29:56 PM] Sarah: "WAIT. THE MAGIC COULD TURN YOU INTO ONE OF MY KIND, STARTING WITH A SPINDLY-LIMBED PINK MONKEY- ERR, NO OFFENSE, BUT IT COULDN'T HEAL YOUR EYES?" [20/01/2014 9:30:05 PM] Sarah: the majykks are v specific [20/01/2014 9:31:18 PM] Sarah: kk and tz finding an open but private area to bask tho bc dragons lizardy reptile things cold-blooded [20/01/2014 9:31:31 PM] Sarah: kk doing the casually covers with wing thing [20/01/2014 9:31:32 PM] Peregrine: it's a curse it's not supposed to help you [20/01/2014 9:31:38 PM] Sarah: oh right [20/01/2014 9:31:55 PM] Sarah: with tz tho its like thank holla [20/01/2014 9:32:38 PM] Sarah: granted probs couldnt walk into the store to get say edible chalk candy or maraschino cherries anymore but hey dragon forms hella cool ill live [20/01/2014 9:32:54 PM | Edited 9:33:11 PM] Peregrine: terezi is better off than a human tho because her sense of smell and taste would be way better than a humans and she could probably even do that thermal imaging thing like snakes do [20/01/2014 9:33:24 PM | Edited 9:33:30 PM] Peregrine: rather than being a blind human I mean [20/01/2014 9:33:56 PM] Sarah: ye ye i gotchya [20/01/2014 9:34:13 PM] Sarah: ye ye the thermal imaging thing would work p well [20/01/2014 9:36:42 PM] Peregrine: [19/01/2014 11:30:52 PM | Edited 11:30:58 PM] Peregrine: dragon au terezi after she gets turned into a dragon learning how she can use her other senses to get around more easily than when she was a blind human [19/01/2014 11:31:03 PM] Alexa K (Mituna): ;u; [19/01/2014 11:32:40 PM] Peregrine: and karkat teaches her how to fly and it's scary at first because when she gets in the air she can't feel anything like where the ground is and stuff but karkat lets her take the end of his tail in her mouth so he can lead her around [19/01/2014 11:33:00 PM] Alexa K (Mituna): ooooooooooo [19/01/2014 11:35:41 PM] Peregrine: before she got changed karkat was trying to talk her out of it so much because it took him years to figure out how to get as human as he is so if she turns she's going to be stuck like that for a long time and she won't be able to make any other human friends really and she'll get bored of him pretty quickly but terezi's like no [19/01/2014 11:36:09 PM] Peregrine: ur a big dumb ilu [19/01/2014 11:36:39 PM] Peregrine: I'm not going to get bored of you and I'm not going to let you be alone anymore [20/01/2014 9:39:04 PM] Sarah: do u hear that [20/01/2014 9:39:10 PM] Sarah: thats dokis from north america [20/01/2014 9:39:17 PM] Sarah: precious dragon kiddos [20/01/2014 9:39:23 PM] Peregrine: dfghj [20/01/2014 9:39:44 PM] Sarah: have u seen the documentary dragons: a fantasy made real [20/01/2014 9:40:42 PM] Sarah: when they cover the mountain dragons the traditional four legs plus wings ones they portray their mating ritual as v similar to eagles u know with the talon locking and plummeting bit [20/01/2014 9:40:44 PM] Peregrine: yes [20/01/2014 9:40:55 PM] Sarah: p much the same thing actually but with dragon fire at the end [20/01/2014 9:40:59 PM] Sarah: fwooosh [20/01/2014 9:41:15 PM] Peregrine: ARE WE GOING TO GO ON ABOUT BIRD MATING RITUALS AGAIN [20/01/2014 9:41:22 PM] Sarah: mb [20/01/2014 9:41:43 PM] Sarah: dragon kk doing the eagle mating ritual tho [20/01/2014 9:41:54 PM] Sarah: with tz like pchooo [20/01/2014 9:42:20 PM] Sarah: but like tzs just kinda [20/01/2014 9:42:33 PM] Sarah: "SO YOU GUYS JUST K1ND OF" [20/01/2014 9:42:39 PM] Sarah: "SP1R4L DOWN" [20/01/2014 9:42:46 PM] Sarah: "UNT1L TH3 L4ST S3COND" [20/01/2014 9:43:00 PM] Peregrine: he would have to be careful not to let her crash into anything [20/01/2014 9:43:05 PM] Sarah: p much [20/01/2014 9:43:23 PM | Edited 9:43:29 PM] Peregrine: since she can't see at all in the middle of the sky [20/01/2014 9:43:45 PM] Sarah: basically i think like if it ever came up itd be just [20/01/2014 9:44:54 PM] Sarah: "YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK FORMALITIES CAN BE FOREGONE HERE, ALL CONSIDERED." [20/01/2014 9:45:42 PM] Sarah: "Y344H 1 DONT TH1NK 4 HUNDR3D OR SO FOOT DROP 1S N3C3SS4RY 1M TOT4LLY JUST F1N3 W1TH JUST 4N 1 LOV3 YOU" [20/01/2014 9:46:17 PM] Peregrine: they aren't even real dragons anyways [20/01/2014 9:46:35 PM] Sarah: fakey fake fake [20/01/2014 9:47:06 PM] Peregrine: I wonder what they'd do if they met an actual dragon [20/01/2014 9:47:27 PM] Sarah: who would be the actual dragon tho [20/01/2014 9:47:44 PM] Peregrine: pyralspite [20/01/2014 9:48:06 PM] Sarah: stumbles on old as dirt white dragon like [20/01/2014 9:48:07 PM] Sarah: oh [20/01/2014 9:48:07 PM] Sarah: hi [20/01/2014 9:48:44 PM] Sarah: u got cursed too or [20/01/2014 9:48:50 PM] Sarah: oH YOURE LEGIT [20/01/2014 9:49:42 PM] Peregrine: TEREZI THAT'S A REAL DRAGON THAT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH AND PROBABLY SEES US AS RIVALS AND WE'RE PROBABLY IN HER TERRITORY AND SHE KNOWS HOW TO BE A DRAGON A LOT BETTER THAN ME EVEN SO YOU SHOULD BACK AWAY SLOWLY [20/01/2014 9:50:08 PM] Sarah: terezi ending up being hella tight with pryalspite and kks just [20/01/2014 9:50:12 PM] Sarah: u tho [20/01/2014 9:51:00 PM] Peregrine: how did i get stuck with like the one girl that actually /likes/ dragons [20/01/2014 9:51:09 PM] Sarah: ~~majykks~~ [20/01/2014 9:52:10 PM] Sarah: kk being a dumb tho or mb not even kk being the prob but something else and terezi just casually ends up going to pyralspite and holing up there [20/01/2014 9:52:32 PM] Sarah: and when kk goes looking and finds her there hes all concern and such but pyralspites just protective warning growl [20/01/2014 9:53:01 PM] Sarah: pyralspite is best friend good dragon [20/01/2014 9:54:26 PM] Peregrine: pyralspite not being able to talk to terezi but being super intelligent still and she manages to teach terezi a lot of things and becomes like her wise 1000-year-old grandmother dragon [20/01/2014 9:55:44 PM] Peregrine: inside she's actually just laughing at these dumb baby dragons that don't even know how to hunt properly [20/01/2014 9:57:44 PM] Sarah: back in my day we just kind of terrified the countryside [20/01/2014 9:57:58 PM] Sarah: more or less [20/01/2014 9:59:31 PM] Sarah: pyralspite casually adopting tz (and kk) and gently just family nuzzling and licking and kks just y this and tzs just lit the best tho got turned into a dragon have a dragon boyfriend now chill with an actual dragon [20/01/2014 9:59:51 PM] Peregrine: dfghjjhgk [20/01/2014 10:00:03 PM] Peregrine: terezi dream come true [20/01/2014 10:00:19 PM] Sarah: just fill your life with dragons [20/01/2014 10:00:21 PM] Sarah: just do it [20/01/2014 10:01:08 PM] Peregrine: kk warming up to it though and glad to have some kind of parental figure that actually knows what she's doing and can protect them if something bad happens [20/01/2014 10:01:19 PM] Peregrine: because he's been alone for so many years [20/01/2014 10:01:19 PM] Sarah: p much [20/01/2014 10:01:29 PM] Peregrine: trying to do it all by himself [20/01/2014 10:01:53 PM] Sarah: so usually i bring the sads but for this one time i havent done anything its all on u per [20/01/2014 10:03:02 PM] Peregrine: not being able to ask any humans for help and being isolated in the woods in a new body and he doesn't even know how to fly or get food or fight or find shelter [20/01/2014 10:03:13 PM] Sarah: per pls [20/01/2014 10:03:56 PM] Sarah: rly young dragon kk skittering around in the woods and making frightened/generally upset bby dragon noises [20/01/2014 10:04:33 PM] Peregrine: and he's all alone for years managing to get by and figure things out on his own and at some point he figures out he can try to fight back against the magic [20/01/2014 10:04:48 PM] Sarah: i remember in the eragon books i think when saphira hatches shes bumping into things and stumbling and bby dragon distress where am i how do i do the thing now im picturing that with kk no bb [20/01/2014 10:04:53 PM] Peregrine: nah he's like at least 13 by the time he gets cursed [20/01/2014 10:05:11 PM] Sarah: ye true i gotchya but still tho poor kiddo [20/01/2014 10:05:15 PM] Peregrine: ye [20/01/2014 10:06:11 PM] Sarah: fighting the magic tho like imagine him getting a mildly humanish form but still has like overgrown sharp dragon teeth [20/01/2014 10:06:32 PM] Sarah: rly overgrown just kind of "ok this is a problem" [20/01/2014 10:06:39 PM] Peregrine: and him trying to figure out like if he can change what should he try first probs work on getting smaller and bipedal so he can use his hands properly and not frighten people as much [20/01/2014 10:07:00 PM] Sarah: ending up being like a raptor tho or wyvern [20/01/2014 10:07:08 PM] Sarah: manages to tone down the forearms but [20/01/2014 10:07:14 PM] Sarah: diffICULTY [20/01/2014 10:08:04 PM] Sarah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A19tJa-9Zw [20/01/2014 10:08:07 PM] Peregrine: do u want to see a thing [20/01/2014 10:08:12 PM] Sarah: sure yo [20/01/2014 10:08:23 PM] Peregrine: gghgjgkhjghfgdhfdsgfhgjh [20/01/2014 10:08:30 PM] Sarah: generally the idea with trying to downsize in general but just managing his arms and its just unbaLANCED [20/01/2014 10:08:51 PM] Peregrine: ghjkl [20/01/2014 10:09:07 PM] Peregrine: ok but someone wrote a little thing for me [20/01/2014 10:09:07 PM] Sarah: #cursedworldproblems [20/01/2014 10:09:14 PM] Peregrine: kjhggfhjj [20/01/2014 10:09:21 PM] Sarah: ooh a thing [20/01/2014 10:09:23 PM] Sarah: hella [20/01/2014 10:09:35 PM] Peregrine: of dragon kk first meeting terezi [20/01/2014 10:09:46 PM] Sarah: holla [20/01/2014 10:10:05 PM] Peregrine: [[insert story by buttrezi]] [20/01/2014 10:11:57 PM] Sarah: hella [20/01/2014 10:13:34 PM] Sarah: oh so its medieval i kept picturing modern [20/01/2014 10:13:48 PM] Sarah: this is p good yo [20/01/2014 10:14:24 PM] Sarah: kk and tz getting into an argument tho and they both just end up storming into pryalspites cave [20/01/2014 10:14:36 PM] Sarah: and pyralspites just hey--- whats up with u guys [20/01/2014 10:15:30 PM] Sarah: idk maybe they end up bunking with pyralspite sort of and they just kind of split off to their own private areas and pyralspites just u two tho [20/01/2014 10:16:02 PM] Sarah: pyralspite gently just dragging these two back together and not letting them out until they make nice and get over their dumb argument [20/01/2014 10:16:08 PM] Sarah: oy hatchlings [20/01/2014 10:16:15 PM] Peregrine: aww [20/01/2014 10:18:34 PM] Peregrine: karkat finally getting a mostly human face so he can attempt eating actual human food instead of raw meat for the first time in forever but he can't actually make anything for himself because he was just a kid when he turned so he resorts to stealing but tries not to hurt anyone and still feels badabout it but he's just so hungry [20/01/2014 10:18:46 PM] Peregrine: cue terezi entrance [20/01/2014 10:20:14 PM] Sarah: casually just t [20/01/2014 10:20:18 PM] Sarah: there u go kk [20/01/2014 10:20:34 PM] Sarah: wait when did u put the meat over the fire again [20/01/2014 10:20:45 PM] Sarah: accidentally burned food whops [20/01/2014 10:21:00 PM] Sarah: trial and error with kk and tz is best [20/01/2014 10:21:12 PM] Peregrine: pfft

[20/01/2014 10:34:25 PM] Sarah: http://casuistry.tumblr.com/post/74039987810/josiahfiles-i-mean-smaug-knows-no-one-can on another note speaking of dragons [20/01/2014 10:35:34 PM] Peregrine: karkat having to go through human puberty and dragon puberty [20/01/2014 10:36:40 PM] Sarah: that poor boy [20/01/2014 10:37:04 PM] Sarah: kk as a dragon tho and his big monstrous voice just suddenly cracks a little [20/01/2014 10:37:11 PM] Sarah: and its just kind of gdi [20/01/2014 10:38:56 PM | Edited 10:39:17 PM] Peregrine: dragon puberty being uncontrollable desire for shiny things and chest pains as his fire abilities develop and every time he sneezes there are sparks and he can't control it yet so he keeps burning up all his bedding that he took so long to gather [20/01/2014 10:39:39 PM] Sarah: literal heartburn [20/01/2014 10:41:08 PM] Peregrine: and he would have no idea what was going on because there are no adult dragons around to tell him about dragon puberty he's just scared and alone [20/01/2014 10:41:37 PM] Sarah: u tho [20/01/2014 10:42:09 PM] Sarah: kk toughing through eating raw meat and such for the first time [20/01/2014 10:42:45 PM] Peregrine: it's all squishy and spirting blood [20/01/2014 10:42:56 PM] Sarah: bones and gristle and hes just rghrgrh [20/01/2014 10:43:46 PM] Peregrine: eventually he figures out he's not supposed to chew his teeth are just made for tearing and then swallowing whole but it takes him a while [20/01/2014 10:44:56 PM] Sarah: no molars kiddo [20/01/2014 10:45:36 PM] Sarah: u know how in some stories some things are actually really bad for dragons food wise and other stuff is actually like its own medicine [20/01/2014 10:45:40 PM] Sarah: for them anyway [20/01/2014 10:45:49 PM] Sarah: kk trial and error with that kind of stuff [20/01/2014 10:47:47 PM] Peregrine: but him getting really sick at some point and no one is there to help him or bring him warm food or get him new bedding or hold him and he's just sitting there alone in a damp cave sniffling and hungry and sick [20/01/2014 10:51:01 PM] Sarah: a lot of this is just "is this how i die" [20/01/2014 10:51:45 PM] Sarah: kk not being able to scratch places on his back and ending up rubbing up against trees like a cat but like he knocks one over and its just oh whooPS [20/01/2014 10:52:18 PM] Peregrine: the only hope he has being working to turn human again but then [20/01/2014 10:54:01 PM] Peregrine: terezi happens and starts being his friend and then she finds out what he is and starts sleeping in his cave with him and suddenly he wakes up one morning and feels the tiny warm body under his wing and is just like maybe this isn't so bad [20/01/2014 10:54:41 PM] Peregrine: because he doesn't have to do it all alone anymore [20/01/2014 10:54:51 PM] Sarah: tz sitting in the curl of his tail tz sitting on his back and finding his fav scratching spot and affectionate dragon noises [20/01/2014 10:56:26 PM] Peregrine: WOW 1 D1DNT KNOW YOU COULD PURR [20/01/2014 10:56:34 PM] Peregrine: ... I DIDN'T EITHER. [20/01/2014 10:56:57 PM] Sarah: ;u;

At first you were…confused.  Everyone else ran away at first glance.  Who wouldn’t?  There you stood, with your wings spread to make yourself look bigger, with your sharp teeth bared, and with your tail snapping back and forth.  But there was one--one person who didn’t run.  She was the only member of the traveling merchants you intercepted for food who didn’t turn and run.  She definitely knew something was happening, she knew everyone had fled the horses and wagons and goods, but she didn’t know why.  Maybe she didn’t see you?  You were hard to miss, that couldn’t be it.  Still, you growled even louder to catch her attention.  You rose up on your hind legs, sharp red eyes piercing through the girl.  You even widen your wings some more to look intimidating.  No one ever stayed behind after seeing you.  You should’ve been relieved about it or something, but instead you try to scare her.  She noticed you, all right.  She stopped trying to calm down the frightened horses and pulled out a dagger.  Most merchants were armed to protect themselves from thieves and wild animals, it wasn’t uncommon.  But she wasn’t really looking in your direction.  You snarl and charge towards her, stopping a tails length away, and let out a loud roar.  You didn’t want to hurt her, you didn’t really want to hurt anyone, but you always defended yourself.  She was frightened, obviously.  Everyone was scared of you.  But she didn’t move.  Her mouth was closed, her knuckles were white from clutching, and her eyes—her eyes.  They weren’t a normal color they were…a foggy blue.  Your scowl dropped when you realized she didn’t run from the sight of you because she is blind.  You snort angrily and turn, jumping away, then crouched.  You clear your throat, willing yourself to become a bit more human to make it easier to speak.  “You should go,” you said.  Growled, really.  You don’t talk much. 

She was silent for a few moments, enough time for you to up your ‘human’ form.  You couldn’t get rid of your wings, tail or horns, but it made you look more human than before.  “Or what?  Where did that…beast go?” she asked, turning her head to listen closely.  So she thinks you’re a different being?  She was blind and you did go from roaring in her face to starting a conversation.

“…It’s gone,” you say, carefully pronouncing the words.  “I…scared it away.”  Maybe she’d believe it.  She did. 

At that time, you didn’t know this chance encounter with a girl who couldn’t see you would become anything more than what it was.  And now, you wonder what would have happened if she could see you as the monster you were when you first attacked the merchants.  You certainly wouldn’t been in the position you’re in now.

(LAST PART IS KINDA SHITTY I DIDNT KNOW HOW TO END IT WITHOUT WRITING A TON MORE AND IT IS LATE;;)

((referring to this and this))

this isn’t exactly that but I tried doodling a bit sdfghjk

this is so dumb sdfghj I had a dream and I turned it into karezi

idk like in the dream I was cursed by a witch to turn into a dragon so she could use me to destroy towns/be her own personal attack dog monster kind of thing but I eventually escaped I guess. So I did it to karkat and after a few years working at it and getting a hang of manipulating the magic of his curse he's slowly able to learn how to transform himself more human, but he can't go human all the way yet like he's still got the wings and tail etc but he's working on it, but every time he feels in a rampage-y mood he reverts back full dragon.

And then he meets a blind girl who is the like first human to approach him and actually talk to him without running away and screaming because he looks like a monster. Y'know because she can't see him. So she's like his first friend since he'd been cursed and he tries to not let her touch him too much so she doesn't find out, but of course she finds out because I mean it's terezi. But then she's like HOLY CRAP I LOVE DRAGONS and he's like wait what seriously you're not afraid???? NO YOU ARE PERFECT TAKE ME FLYING