#slitherwing

Here’s some of your old OCs!

For those who don’t remember or weren’t around at the time, last year Tea came up with this INCREDIBLE AU called “Atychiphobia” (the title meaning “fear of failure”), and in it Griselda, Ragnar, and Chaghatai Khan all got dragons of their own.

Let’s start with Ore; he’s Griselda’s Razorwhip, and she’s raised him since he hatched. Because he’s male, one is quick to assume he has that instinct male Razorwhips have to eat their own offspring, but because he didn’t grow up around other Razorwhips, he didn’t develop that instinct. In fact, he think’s it’s quite barbaric and counterproductive if their species is meant to survive. Windshear is instantly captivated when she meets him, and he is very much a kind, considerate gentleman towards her.

Next, Mango!! He’s the youngest of the trio and the exact reflection of his rider, friendly and bubbly and completely oblivious to his own size. He also loves to talk (like, a lot), and he sometimes makes Krogan wish he didn’t understand dragons at all. Mango thinks Skullcrusher is the coolest guy ever and will constantly pester him asking the older Rumblehorn to teach him cool moves.

Lastly, Shendu! He’s Chaghatai Khan’s Slitherwing, and I know what you’re thinking: “But Shendu is a Slitherwing! How does Chaghatai ride him with all that poison coating his body!” And therein lies the rub. When Shendu was born, he came out of the egg runty and defective, so he simply has no venom anywhere on his body and his bite is much less fatal. This is why he’s missing that yellow stripe down his side that most Slitherwings have, because if there’s one rule of nature that every creature must live by if they’re meant to survive, it’s “bright colors = touch me and you die”. When Shendu was a baby, his family was attacked by a Death Song and he was trapped by the amber while the rest of his family escaped (cuz the venom on their bodies makes the amber just slide right off, like water on duck feathers). Baby Shendu dragged himself through the woods, starving and half-dying of thirst, until he was rescued and brought to the North (the island where Tea’s old story takes place), where Chaghatai nursed him back to health and raised him. And because Shendu spent so much time alone, he never really learned Dragonese all that well, so he’s mostly mute but communicates through physical gestures and simple words, kinda like stereotypical caveman speak.