I’m a cosmic dragon who crash-landed here on Earth. I’m made of rocks, comets, and stardust. I use this blog to show my work (art/writing). My navigation is as follows:
✧ #SOTSart | Artwork featuring my characters
✧ #SOTSinfo | General lore, character insights, and world-building details
✧ #SOTSstory | Scenes, one-shots, arcs, and any other narrative-driven content I create
✧ #CalsArt | Art and creations unrelated to SOTS
✧ #CalsLog | General thoughts and musings
✧ #reblog | reblogs from other accounts
✧ #Self Reblog | any time I reblog my personal work
Attributes: Green Fire, Fire Immunity, Scale Armor, Dragon-Shapeshift.
Brief: Kayda is an adventurer/archeologist who makes a living raiding old temples and abandoned towns. She searches for trinkets and objects of interest that she can sell at her traveling cart, the Bizarre Bazaar. Her prices are high, but her wares are rare and (mostly) legit. She cares deeply for her girlfriend Naomi, whom she is rarely seen without. Kayda would do anything to protect Naomi, which might be true considering Naomi’s ex-husband has not been seen in quite some time…
Narrative Role: True Dragons used to be respected and revered in Pyris and Colere. Their fierce power and undying loyalty became their undoing when humans decided that sacrificing them to the gods yielded more blessings than the dragons could offer. Dragon hunts became popular centuries ago, and the population has diminished greatly since.
Kayda is forced to reconcile with a broken past as she fights between her pride as a True Dragon, and yet, learning to trust others with that secret. She is naturally wary of humans and downright disgusted by the “other” dragons, who seemingly turned a blind eye to their shared history, and whom either went into hiding or have attempted to distance themselves from the draconic title.
Kayda must meet all types who, in her mind, have played some part in their lives to hurt her, and come to terms with the fact that people can and will change if you let them.
Her backstory and the dragons in general are heavily inspired by LGBTQ+ history. True Dragons represent those of the community who were involved in politics, working to make real change by exposing themselves to ridicule and violence. Long Dragons represent those in the community who do not involve themselves with the political side, preferring to distance themselves from “those” queers, while still reaping the benefits of their labor. Siren Dragons (or mermaids/merservants), representing those who now use the acronym “LGB” or who go by “terf” in a futile attempt to appear sanitary in a world where they would not have rights either if the government could comfortably get away with it.
Likes:
True Dragons
All types of history, but especially draconic history
Starting fires
Dislikes:
Cold climates
The "other" dragons
The Festival of Dragons
Trivia:
Kayda eats bugs and especially loves the hard crunch of a nice shiny beetle.
She has exactly one plushie, a small purple dragon named "Baby." Naomi won Baby for Kayda during the Festival of Dragons in Pyris.
She wears a breastplate made up of her own shed scales. Because her scale pattern is considered common, it is believable that she would shell out a pretty penny for a practical, if less "showy," scale armor.
She has one snaggle-tooth that doesn’t quite fit in her mouth; otherwise, all her teeth are the same, spiky length.
The metal clasps on her leathers she smelted herself to subtly resemble the True Dragon insignia.
Her hair color is natural, but if anyone asks, it's dyed.
Apparently, the folks over on TikTok are super judgmental about favorite animatronics. Anyway, mine is Roxy. Love her. Tell me all about your favorite animatronic.
I recently rewatched Helluva Boss and kinda want to redesign the 7 deadly sins but idk if I’ll actually commit to doing all of them (plus I have no notes about Mammon, his design is awesome)
I have for a while HATED Bee’s design tho, there’s way too many things going on and ideas being mixed but here we’re my thoughts:
Gluttony is about over indulgence, typically characterized as heavy eating and heavy drinking but I think this can apply to other things such as self care and entertainment. For this reason I definitely think Bee is heavily pampered and very used to getting what she wants as soon as she wants it. I think her short attention span but extremely kind party girl personality is a great fit for her.
I liked that she had dominion over the hellhounds but I think her being a fox bee is kinda… stupid lol. I gave her more wolf/hound design aspects but kept her yellow because… bee.
I, like nearly everybody, love the lava lamp design but the execution is cluttered and inconsistent. I instead opted to make it more like multicolored hair/fur.
I don’t like that the insect bits are just kinda randomly thrown in? I made her fur pattern resemble typical insect segments and kept her multiple arms, but dropped the tiny bee wings and whatever is going on with her neck. I also decided to make her eyes one solid color to make her look more bee-like and to give her a slightly more powerful look.
She’s definitely inspired by Kesha in some ways (obvi since she’s the VA) but Bee’s outfit just doesn’t really give party girl to me. It’s super lack luster so I made it a little skimpier in resemblance to 2000s rave style + bonus glow sticks
I actually didn’t find out until AFTER making this design that she’s meant to be an animal tamer??? I knew all the sins were supposed to be circus acts but I genuinely thought she was a trapeze artist… if I knew that sooner I would’ve scrapped the wolf idea completely and made her a full bee to make the distinction more obvious.
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