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intro
hi, i'm dot! i'm 21+, i use they/them pronouns, and i've been playing dragonfable since about 2018. i'm trying to crawl my way back into being active here again. feel free to come chat!
if you like my art, feel free to take a gander at my commissions carrd. if you like dragonfable OCs, here's a directory of mine!
enjoy your stay! 🐉
The Reason Mira Hangs Around Valentine. cw: implied sexual violence (not between mira and val), implied sexual content (the FWB relationship).
for a long time, mira does not like to be touched, and she will not talk about why. it isn't difficult for valentine to guess, being one of the only people who does actually have explicit permission to touch mira; ze moved wrong once in the middle of an Encounter and mira nearly ran out of the room. ze hasn't asked about it outright, only for a list of things ze shouldn't do, but between the reaction and the requests and the fact that valentine knows what she came from, there's not a lot left to the imagination.
when they know each other better (once mira has stopped tensing every time she's touched, only when ze surprises her) (ze starts approaching her from the front, or else making purposeful noise so she can hear zem coming), ze does ask, in a roundabout sort of way, why mira is doing this at all, considering she disliked being touched for so long. ze's not sure ze'll like the answer, but she's honest about it: she wanted to learn to like or at least tolerate being touched, wanted control over her body and her reactions.
what she does not say, but valentine understands, is that she wanted to remind herself she had agency, didn't want the past to keep digging its claws into her. (it probably helps that she could throw zem like a rag doll if she wanted.) ze falls silent for a while, overcome; mira by this point is newly the sunbringer, newly Hero of Lore, and to have her outright say she trusts valentine to help her with this, to have her put herself in zir hands and trust that it won't hurt, is--
ze stops being able to lie to zirself about mira, after that.
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*i would put these thoughts in the tags, because it's sort of a tangent, but it also talks a bit more about The Incident, and i want that to remain behind a cut, so. cw again for more explicit discussion of rape/sexual violence i am not joking.
mira will never talk about it. if you did manage to pry the admission out of her with a crowbar, she would say that what happened to her was not rape and would barely admit it was assault; she would say that it didn't go that far, and anyway it was just an idiot looking for power over someone lesser and she was a convenient target. (if it had happened to someone else she would call it what it is. she can't admit it, even to herself, because - )
(the lord sunbringer is untouchable. the lord sunbringer walks among the nobility with her head held high, and she never flinches, and she has never been small and scared and at the mercy of someone who thought themself better than her. the lord sunbringer is both mask and shield for a small, scared child, who remembers what it is to be powerless.)
(it's also not the only reason she hates being touched - she's just straight up Not Used To being touched kindly, if at all. with time and people that care about her, she gets used to it and can even find comfort in it, but it's always going to be...a little strange.)
i realize i only explained half of it.
mira also hangs around valentine because ze makes her feel...normal. ze is a very good actor, and regardless of what ze feels ze has always treated her with the same vaguely benevolent flippancy ze does everything else, even way back when mira was mostly sharp edges and hurts; valentine does not appear to care what mask mira does or does not wear, and ze never asks anything of her except stories and companionship and perhaps letting zem test zir newest melodies out on her, and in a world that increasingly demands more of her...she's too weak not to accept the comfort ze offers.
The Reason Mira Hangs Around Valentine. cw: implied sexual violence (not between mira and val), implied sexual content (the FWB relationship).
for a long time, mira does not like to be touched, and she will not talk about why. it isn't difficult for valentine to guess, being one of the only people who does actually have explicit permission to touch mira; ze moved wrong once in the middle of an Encounter and mira nearly ran out of the room. ze hasn't asked about it outright, only for a list of things ze shouldn't do, but between the reaction and the requests and the fact that valentine knows what she came from, there's not a lot left to the imagination.
when they know each other better (once mira has stopped tensing every time she's touched, only when ze surprises her) (ze starts approaching her from the front, or else making purposeful noise so she can hear zem coming), ze does ask, in a roundabout sort of way, why mira is doing this at all, considering she disliked being touched for so long. ze's not sure ze'll like the answer, but she's honest about it: she wanted to learn to like or at least tolerate being touched, wanted control over her body and her reactions.
what she does not say, but valentine understands, is that she wanted to remind herself she had agency, didn't want the past to keep digging its claws into her. (it probably helps that she could throw zem like a rag doll if she wanted.) ze falls silent for a while, overcome; mira by this point is newly the sunbringer, newly Hero of Lore, and to have her outright say she trusts valentine to help her with this, to have her put herself in zir hands and trust that it won't hurt, is--
ze stops being able to lie to zirself about mira, after that.
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*i would put these thoughts in the tags, because it's sort of a tangent, but it also talks a bit more about The Incident, and i want that to remain behind a cut, so. cw again for more explicit discussion of rape/sexual violence i am not joking.
mira will never talk about it. if you did manage to pry the admission out of her with a crowbar, she would say that what happened to her was not rape and would barely admit it was assault; she would say that it didn't go that far, and anyway it was just an idiot looking for power over someone lesser and she was a convenient target. (if it had happened to someone else she would call it what it is. she can't admit it, even to herself, because - )
(the lord sunbringer is untouchable. the lord sunbringer walks among the nobility with her head held high, and she never flinches, and she has never been small and scared and at the mercy of someone who thought themself better than her. the lord sunbringer is both mask and shield for a small, scared child, who remembers what it is to be powerless.)
(it's also not the only reason she hates being touched - she's just straight up Not Used To being touched kindly, if at all. with time and people that care about her, she gets used to it and can even find comfort in it, but it's always going to be...a little strange.)
Mira has an adoptive sister? 👀
yes - quenelda from @theloverofdragons , who is a writer and can probably explain some of the dynamic better! tl;dr she appeared at the beginning of book 1 and celestia took quenelda under her wing. mira and quenelda were exactly the right flavors of abandoned child/teenager to mesh well, and after celestia dies they begin calling each other sister.
mira and quenelda, who chose each other as sisters, who have known and loved each other the longest
celestia gently guided them towards each other, sensing they would need companionship, and they ended up grabbing onto each other with both hands and not letting go, calling each other friend but knowing there’s something more there, and ‘sister’ just feels right, that perfectly encapsulates what they mean to each other
they grow into their roles as The Hero and The Dragon Whisperer (for better and for worse), but they always have been and always will be themselves, mira and quenelda, with each other, love every part of the other with everything that is in them, they will always be there when the other calls, they want each other safe, they will protect their sister
quenelda will steal mira’s stuff, mira will initiate the squish hug on quenelda, they will meet for tea and fly on their dragons and just enjoy being in each other’s company
‘my sister’, it carries with it the choice they made and the love that comes with it, you belong with me, by my side, you are my sister
the world changes. they will always have each other
Mira has an adoptive sister? 👀
yes - quenelda from @theloverofdragons , who is a writer and can probably explain some of the dynamic better! tl;dr she appeared at the beginning of book 1 and celestia took quenelda under her wing. mira and quenelda were exactly the right flavors of abandoned child/teenager to mesh well, and after celestia dies they begin calling each other sister.
should be asleep. instead having a lot of half-thoughts about relationship hierarchies and why i find them exhausting and why mira does not technically have them
mira's relationships mostly go
- people she loves and would die for
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- everyone else
with a few outliers in the middle. everyone in category one is equal with each other and can be counted on one hand; aegis, valentine, her adoptive sister who i do not talk about in public. (tomix was on the list but, well.) (celestia occupied a weirder place on this list and i will explain why in a second.) (draco is more like a limb than a separate person, or like a dæmon if you've read HDM. part of mira is draco and part of draco is mira.)
it is not a concious choice mira makes, but everyone on that list is also someone she is fully herself around - whatever that looks like. lately she's been giving so much of herself away that it feels like there's only scaffolding left, and lately taking the mask off hurts more than leaving it on. but she is a liar by necessity rather than nature, and she loves too much to offer anything less than all that she is.
(with celestia it was more like - here are the pieces of me. show me what to dispose of, so that i might be what you wanted. make me perfect. remake me into something that can be useful. celestia might have gotten more, if she'd had time, but...)
idk i'm just generally exhausted by "this person is the Most Important To Me! everyone else is a few steps below!" in fiction because it feels like, idk, het romance expectations repackaged? it's just never something i've experienced. i don't quite know how to do it in my ocs. the relationships are important in different ways HFDJJGS.
two characters who absolutely Will Not say "i love you" trying to tell each other that they love one another is so good actually. more of that please
You can tell a lot about a person by entering their mind palace and encountering their greatest fears and darkest hopes in a labyrinth reflective of their subconscious thoughts.
Serenity
comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.
Artist Note: That's right, folks! A redesign of Miss Serenity herself in my art and fashion style!
Artist Note: As you can see, I've tried to keep most of the same elements--including the pose and such--whilst adding some things that are relevant to her Valtrith backstory.
giving mira my own problems: got told to open her eyes more because she was told she looked tired/angry, and then wondered why she had a headache all the time
its a 9 hour flight, where are you sitting
i should change mira's hero tag to something else bc calling her miranai does feel a little bit like deadnaming her. but there was confusion a while back bc there was a different mira the hero...
Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.
Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.
the beloveds 💞💞💞
mira and the artwork belong to @dragonfabled-dotventures
late night miraval posting part billion: ship meme template. i should be asleep, i have somewhere to be tomorrow, but. they called to me
notes:
- mira being hornier than valentine is funny to me because it is shocking to literally everyone involved, including people irl. if you assumed valentine was the hornier one, congratulations! you fell for the act!
- (if i was not sex repulsed and exhausted i would describe their dynamic because it is really, really funny to me, and also explains a little bit why a half-feral mira who hated to be touched entered a FWB relationship in the first place. not tonight, but maybe someday.)
- mira does not have a jealous bone in her body i just thought giving her little shoes was funny. valentine...would be less jealous of mira if ze knew how highly she does actually regard zem. unfortunately they're never going to talk about the state of their relationship. i hate them
- valentine is more likely to order fantasy takeout than cook, but ze can do it, zir mama raised zem right. Mira would sustain herself on nothing but protein shakes and nutrient bricks if she could.
- mira actually does not care about spoon sizing. unfortunately for her, valentine isn't really a cuddler (ze says).
- probably there were other things but i'm tired
we've only just met her and already we love her
mihyun!
