#ripnami

the ugly ass groom and the WIFE:

ripnami content!!

"he makes me laugh"- Tsunami

i forgot Riptides wings- hes a walrus because i was trying out sea lions for seawings, i mentioned this in a discord, and someone told me to draw walrus riptide. i love him. to be clear, i do not think riptide or walruses are ugly, this is just inspired from that stupid mlp meme lmao.

i used Tsunamis 'book' ref from the wiki cause i wanted to try out different colours on her, and bcs Riptide and Tsunami are kinda similar colourwise.

valentines day post early i guess?? i dont rlly like or celebrate valentines day but its a ship post,,

not my best work but i like em.

Arc One Clay would not pass this test. TDP Clay is notoriously bad at figuring out the intentions and implications of people's words, especially when it comes to anything romantic in vibe. He'd be blindsided by the question, and have no clue what the expected response would be. By Arc 2, Clay would be way more prepared to answer this kind of question from Peril, and he'd probably say something super encouraging about how he cares about her, and that she doesn't need to worry about it.

Riptide would simply respond with 'yes, I would still love you if you were a worm', because he knows that the reality in which Tsunami is a worm is not real and is never going to be real, but the reality where she gets annoyed because he answered wrong is real. Also, Riptide is an incredibly unfazed dragon in general--I think he would take it in his stride if Tsunami was suddenly turned into a worm.

Deathbringer would go to great lengths to clarify that Of Course he would still love Glory if she was a worm. She'd be a beautiful worm. He would cherish that worm. He'd go to such great, dramatic, over-the-top lengths to reassure her of this that she'd roll her eyes so hard about it (note: I seriously doubt Glory would ever raise the 'would you still love me if I was a worm' question, but we imagine that she has for the purpose of discussion).

Starflight...I do not think Starflight has it in him to handle hypothetical questions very well, and I imagine it would go something like this:

"Would you still love me if I was a worm?"

"Fatespeaker, why would you ever be a worm?"

"I don't know. But would you still love me if I was one?"

"You're never going to be a worm. This is a very stressful hypothetical over a situation that will never happen!"

"You don't know that. An animus dragon might get so annoyed at me that they turn me into a worm. I'm told that I can be very annoying."

"If you somehow turned into a worm, well, I'd still care about you of course, but I can't accurately predict how I'd respond in the situation, especially with such limited information? Can you still talk as a worm? Is the worm state permanent and--"

"Most people would just say 'yes', you know."

"It's all about the NUANCE..."

Fatespeaker absolutely knows and loves that Starflight is such an overthinker though, and she accepts this as his way of demonstrating that he cares about her enough to take a nuanced approach to the possibility of her turning into a worm.

Riptide has such an interesting arc about how Coral killed his mom over Tsunami and absolutely nothing is done with it. It's treated as an aside. If nobody's gonna address it, I will. (Excerpt from my fanfic, Fly Me To The Moons, which can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2854606)

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“You’re not going to give up, are you?” He frowned. One of the few times he ever did around her. 

“I just don’t want you to feel the need to lie around me.” Tsunami squeezed his wing talons. “I’m trying to be better about that myself. All those years we could’ve been together because I bottled things up.” She laughed without humor. “I just don’t want you to be like me. Relationship only has room for one of us, anyway.”

He didn’t laugh. He just stared. It honestly bothered Tsunami in a way she didn’t know she could be bothered. Riptide’s eyes met hers and she saw what he wanted to say in them. Then, he glanced up at the statue of her mother.

“I hate your mom.”

Tsunami blinked. “I… kind of figured you did, honestly.”

“Do you know why I hate your mom?” He slowly turned his head back to her. “Because it’s not what she did to me. Yes, that’s part of it, but it pales to the real reason.”

Deep down, Tsunami had a very grim realization as to why. She must’ve expressed this from the way Riptide looked at her.

“My dad, I understand why she acted that way,” Riptide continued. “I’d probably be the same if someone stole my egg.” He went quiet again. “So, why did she kill my mom?”

Tsunami felt like she was back in the Ice Kingdom as those words crashed into her like an avalanche. What she feared was true. And truth be told, a little part of her - always hidden away - wondered if this would ever come up.

“I don’t know,” Tsunami answered quietly.

“I know you don’t.” He didn’t smile, but it was clear he wasn’t taking out any of this on her. It did not stop the guilt that flowed in her veins anyway due to the second part of this realization. “She may not have killed my mother personally, but she sent her to the frontlines. Her, a non- combatant. No combat skills at all.”

His claws curled.

“General Shark realized what had happened and did everything in his power to keep her away from the main fighting.” His voice had become thicker. More ragged. “It didn’t matter; the line was broken. She was an easy target.”

“Two years old,” he snarled out. “Two years old and my mother left me against her will. Not three months later did General Shark show up to personally tell me what’d happened. The Queen was nowhere in sight. I deserved it according to her because I just so happened to be related to my father. We both had no idea he’d do such a thing!”

His tail slapped the ground in a fit of anger. Tsunami grimaced from the sound.