#trashsavage

Are Charms purely decorative or do they have a martial/magical purpose?

Charms are spells that have been cast earlier, and thus can be used without preparation. Casting a spell at the best of times can take at minimum ten minutes, so having a suite of spells prepared and ready to be unleashed is standard practice for elves.

Sure thing! Also, colored horns just means that her horns are colored. Being highly magical creatures like elves, dragons have a high amount of variation in the species, unlike humans.

Transcript:

PANEL 1

Gwen: Oh! Alyszithira! What brings you to my court, darling?

Alys: Uh, yeah, Hi... Look, uh, Gwenthasluzit, you know about boys, right?

Gwen: I would hope so! Oh ho ho ho

PANEL 2

Alys: So, uh, um... How do you get them to know... um, uh, that you... uh... Want them? (aside: I brought gold as payment)

PANEL 3

Gwen: Oh sweet, sweet, naive Alys... Just bare your teeth, (but not too much) spread your natharan (But not fan them) curl your tail, and just show a touch of breath.

Gwen: Oh! And if he has a rival, just mention that you’ve heard of them. Gets them allll fired up!

PANEL 4

Gwen:Oh, also... Just do this to them. Drakes just Love this <3

Alys: Uh I... The boys might find this a bit threatening?

Is he really a prince if his indiscretions don't threaten to collapse the fragile peace between nations? I think not. As an aside, do Elf horn decorations mean anything?

Well, to be fair, his hedonistic indiscretions are threatening the fragile Vassal/Lord dynamic under the Tyranny of Dragons, so arguably that’s worse (And Thus, more Princely). And, besides that, he’s actually quite adept as policy, domestic statecraft and skill at arms and spell, so he’s got good qualities. Good qualities that are of course easy to leverage into convincing an impressionable drakine into something... unwise.

Thanks so much, that’s so nice of you to say! <3 I had a ton of fun with the expressions and designing her dress so it looked modern but also recognizably “MAGICA~” about gave me conniptions, it’s really nice to hear someone liked it. I also almost never get asks on here so I was extra-delighted to get an actual COMMENT on something, lol, so thanks for that happy little thrill too. 

And protective Gladstone is an awesome idea, I agree, but actually, in this case it’s a different Matilda! In one of the comics, Magica disguises herself as an “ordinary girl” to flirt up Gladstone and get closer to Scrooge/the dime. She goes by “Matilda” in said disguise, and it goes . . . about as well as can be expected? I used a @modmad design for that Gladstone, and @modmad uses “we don’t talk about Matilda!” as a recurring callback/joke in a lot of their own comics and it’s one of my favorite lines. 

Is Lucky Green Elf the menthol cigarette equivalent in your world? If there Lucky Red Elf? Blue Elf? If you smoke Lucky Elf tobacco in the wrong part of town will people insult you and tell you to smoke a man's tabacco?

It’s just a normal cigarette, but the rest of that is there. There are three big brands in the city, and numerous small ones that are imported from other cities.

Was Alys there when Thraz and Zhou dropped by? Did she witness the spaghetti hitting the floor?

Do young dragons often have to hurt or kill each other as mercenaries? Is there some sort of protocol for meeting a dragon on the battlefield wearing the banner of an enemy house?

There is a reason that out of clutches of 5-6 only 1-2 dragons survives to adulthood.

Generally speaking, a dragon isn’t supposed to go out of their way to kill another drake, but if they get in the way or your orders, well... The appropriate response is to kill the fuck out of them, make certain everyone saw it/knows, and then eat their heart.