Does Dawn know about Cody being an alien? (EX: Aura reading?)
I’ve gotten this question a few times, and my first instinct was to say something along the lines of “yes, of course she can see his alienness through his aura, and she still accepts him for who he is because wholesome”. But I never made a complete artwork depicting this.
And in retrospect, I’m glad I didn’t. Because something I realised was actually more interesting and had more story potential was if that part of his aura was completely uninterpretable to her. She knows it’s there, but she can’t decipher anything from it.
That’s because her powers are bestowed to her by tuning into the Earth’s energy, but Cody’s not entirely made of Earthly energy. He’s half human, half alien. So the alien part is sort of like a radio station she can’t tune into.
She can definitely learn more about him the old fashioned way though; conversing with him like a regular person. Which is what I imagine contributes to her caring about him on more than just a surface level, having invested time into building a relationship instead of knowing everything she needs to at a glance.
But because he’s still half-human, and has spent pretty much his whole life on earth, she can still read most of his aura, and ascertains a lot of his character from that.
It reminds her of a bunch of dandelions.
Don’t ask me to write that story though, because I’m terrible at writing.
Anyway, here’s a (joke, non-canon) comic that’s laterally relative.
Sorry that the art style changes every other panel, I was trying to find the most time-efficient way to get it done.
I think this is gonna be the last CoDawn thing I do for a while, since most people don’t seem to like the ship (fair enough).
Also, this Dawn design takes inspiration from this design by u/pearlcoffinn and this design by u/yvesyn.