#tragons

Day 2, Ice.

I think it’s safe to assume that since the hard rock trolls live in a volcano. I seriously doubt they have any experience with the cold, let alone ice.

So Barb and Korn aren’t really sure what to make of it.

"Dwellers of darkness, flyers of night,

Critters of cuteness but also of fright,

So dark of wing and keen of craft,

Of all night flyers the master's the bat." ~ Dub Skull

In the spirit of Halloween I wanted to do arts of my OC Dub Skull, the Terror Troll with things often associated with Halloween. For this piece its bats.

Dub Skull loves anything spooky based, especially critters. Snakes, spiders, bats, etc. Most of them he doesn't completely understand why others find them scary, he just finds them spectacular and misunderstood. Critters like those actually have a liking to Dub Skull. Which is why I can see him and Barb bonding over Debbie. So Dub Skull invited her and Korn to... Hang out! With more bats.

Each of those bats has a name:

Brown in the tree is Roger

Teal in the tree is Poco

Green hanging on DS is Ziggy

White hanging on DS is Lulu

Tan cuddled up in DS's hair is Copper

And the one with the bow... wouldn't you like to know.

Those three are all in costume:

Dub Skull for the bats is dressed as a vampire

Korn is dressed as Demon from the rock band Kiss

Barb is dressed as Thorn from the Scooby Doo's the Hex Girls.

It has been awhile since I last designed a tragon. This is Tafari, like Prince D funk from birth, hip-hop by choice. I based Tafari off of our sadly departed king Chadwick Boseman the Black Panther. The necklace might be the give away.

Tafari is like most tragons, honor bound and very loyal. While it is not required all tragons know how to fight. Tafari holds the title Tobosleam which means Strongest Male to the tragons. Where as the tragon Shaila has the title Togaleam, that means strongest female. The tragons who own those title are warriors not of royalty who's strength and fighting skills has made them the best. Of course being Tobosleam, Tafari is often challenge from other male tragons for the title. Frequently by the hard rock tragon Galveston, who trained long and hard most of his life for the title and refuses to be second best. Tafari is also the mate of Princess Marco, who when she becomes queen will make him her king.

Tafari is a defender. He would jump and take a blow for any one in danger. Tafari always tries to do what's right and what's merciful even when its hard. Most often he's stoic but he can be very witty when he wants to be. He is very traditional and it would take some convincing to have him change things up sometime. But when anything threatens his people, friends, or any innocent creature, his ferocity comes forth and his strength knows almost no bound. Tafari isn't just a fighter of course. He loves parties and celebrations like any tragon. Tafari's necklace means a lot to him. It's been in his family who have for a long time been different breeds of tragons coming together for generations. It is the greatest link he has to his past and an important piece of his family lineage. Tafari has a thing he does when he shows another respect or is simply greeting or departing, he brings his fists up to his chest as a sort of salute.

While He has sung funk, hip-hop is his preferred music. It is a custom of tragons that if one choses to be funk, they dull the edges of whatever points they have on their horns. Even if a tragon isn't born funk, if they chose it, they dull it. Since Tafari chose to be hip-hop he wasn't required to dull his horns.

In a probably to be rebooted story of mine, Tafari does meet Poppy and Branch. He recognizes both their potential of being great leaders. But worries on how only one of them will go to prove it.

His salute I based off the Wakandan salute.

June 12th 20 years, 2 decades ago I was born. So I drew this to celebrate it!

Why Techno? Out of all the trolls why them? Well it's because 1. My greek zodiac seems to align me with King Trollex and 2. Cause I took a quiz the other day and was pleasantly surprised to have gotten Techno as my troll tribe. Not who I expected, but I gladly accept!

My birthday is next week😄! So I wanted to share this poster I made for an awesome upcoming fanfic of mine Scars of the Past.

The destruction of the 6 stings unleashed a mysterious and sinister creature from long ago. One who knew the first leaders of the trolls and seeks revenge on their descendants. Believing all the leaders not just the pop trolls, did a great ongoing injustice that he intends to finally correct. For some reason he especially targets Poppy, Barb and Trollex in particular, but why?

Storm of course knows a thing or two about scrapbooking, living among Pop trolls and all. Just making a little pop-up of her and Poppy.

They say we all have our scars. Some almost identical to others, Elektra and Galveston just found that out.

Sure these two got their scars by different means. Galveston got his more traumatically. The day he got his scars was the day he had lost his parents. So his scars constantly remind him of that day and how he wasn't strong enough to save them. They also serve as motivation for him as he vows to never be weak again. His mother was a hard rock tragon and his father was a techno tragon(which is who he got the brighter shade of green from). Galveston himself is a Hard Rock Tragon.

The tragons believe there's a troll out there for each of them to one day be bonded too. Galveston personally doubted there was one for him. To be honest he'd done some terrible things and believed no troll would accept him. Perhaps he was wrong?