Dragons but they're actually herbivores, as typically it's a prey animal that would be extremely well-defended with armor and horns and spikes and breath.
Used to be some now extinct Super Species. Nowadays though its other Dragons, though not as an actual predator.
I subscribe to the belief of Hoard Larceny. Stealing another dragons hoard/territory is a quick way to sidestep the relatively slow process of building a rapport with oneâs own power, after all.
Draconomers* have found that territory size/quality and hoard size/quality greatly affects how successful a dragon is in dragon society (and thus how viable they are as a mate). This means that the more vigilant dragons who are able to successfully guard their hoard are more likely to pass of their genes.
This too means that the Dragons able to steal other hoards and territories are also more likely to pass of their genes.
Of course, all of this is supplementary to the actual power displays seen in Dragon Tournaments.
*people who study dragons (not to be confused with dracologists**)
**dracology, the proposal that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent behavior of draconic creatures.
An account gets featured on libsofbsky on twitter and six hours later them and anyone they've regularly interacted with gets labeled as CSAM and instabanned. The head of the moderation team follows libsofbsky and libsoftiktok on twitter. They played all of us for fools.
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So I keep seeing people warning others about a "gore raid" that is supposedly going to happen and to close their inboxes to 'stay safe'.
And I want to remind people that most of the time the warning itself IS the attack. It's people trying to make you afraid and shut down your blog without having to do anything.
It's like how people call in a bomb threat without there actually being a bomb at all.
The threat is the point.
I know a lot of the people spreading the message are well meaning, but never capitulate to mysterious warnings of impending terrorism.
I am re blogging this for further reach. Please read the rest of my post, however, as it is perhaps even more important than the one above.
I have been tagged on this post, and I thank you all for your concern. My anonymous messages are currently turned off. However, I have to advise you that posts like these are often blatant fearmongering, similar to the one that goes around every year about Operation Pridefall.
The people behind this are common trolls, and likely have no way of spreading things on as large of a scale as people claim. While it is important to be safe on the internet, you should also be cautious around things like this.
This goes for the fandom at large as well. Please do not believe everything you read on the internet.
iâve got a lot of beef with dreamworks because of their obsession with needing toothless to be the most special unique god king dragon ever because itâs ruined a lot of things including his character, but iâm kind of petty so the thing that makes me the most upset about them needing toothless to be special is the sand wraiths.
explanation: sand wraiths are my favorite fury species but i found out earlier this year that they were originally supposed to be called sand furies, and were only renamed to sand wraiths because they didnât want them...to compete with toothless.
nevermind the fact that we light furies now and i know people like to point out the individual light furies that show up in blink or youâll miss it moments but the light furies are a non-species of dragon if i have ever seen one. they made the light fury first and all the other individuals might as well be plausibly deniable animation errors because across all of httyd canon you will start to realize that they shouldâve just made her the last of her kind like toothless instead of going through the trouble of saying sheâs a species of dragon.
the nonspecies thing really annoys me when the 12 year olds on youtube/insta try to claim that her design isn't sexist because the other light furies we see look identical to her so the male light furies must look like exact clones of her too therefore not sexist.
like, a) yes they do look identical because the light fury was designed first under sexist design principles and then they just copy pasted her design into the background a couple times because the other light furies aren't plot-important i guess???? even thought they fuckign should've been???? literally they were just copy and pasted her. there was no thought put into her species. only her. she's sexist.
b) but actually wait no they don't look identical because look here. look how beefy that one on the right is compared to the one on the left. look at how gender coded they are. and whats worse is that there literally have been no examples of sexual dimorphism in dragons like that except for that one mutated deadly nadder in gotnf (which at this point doesn't count because we've seen so many other male deadly nadders that its hard to look at that thing except anything other than a mutation). boom sexist. like you can come up with all the theories in the world about how maybe the beefy one is a girl and the petite one is a boy but we don't know that. all we know is that what we're being presented with is classic cartoon sexual dimorphism happy-feet-style, in a movie which disrespects the intelligence of its audience. i'm pretty sure we can safely assume that what we're seeing here is just blatant sexism.
there's also this one here that bugs me a lot because its wings look identical to toothless' which. you know. we could make a case for this one being a male and the two ones above being females which. uh. okay i mean maybe. because boys gotta be sharp and agile and have very distinctly arrowhead-shaped tailfins and girls gotta be round and smooth and have heart shapes tailfins. at least one girl got jacked (it's a fucking boy. look at it, it's a fucking boy. this movie doesn't respect its audience. it's a boy).
you know whats worse than the fact that what we're being presented with here is assumedly quite sexist?
the fact that we don't know.
we never met any other light furies. we dont know what males look like or if all females look like the light fury we met. they are a nonspecies. for all intents and purposes, they don't exist outside of our light fury. and our light fury IS the result of sexist design. the other dragons? doesn't matter their genders, they're an afterthought. they don't count.
After so many years we finally have another Night Fury and she is beautiful. I started to grow fond of her.
In the game she is bigger than Toothless and the rest of the Furies, both were at level 180 and it was their maximum size, I don't know if all the Epics are like that or just Midnight.
Anyone who says THW Toothlessâs characterization, or lack thereof, is based in anything weâve ever been shown prior is kidding themselves. Toothless in httyd 1 and 2 was snarky as hell.
In HTTYD2 it was glaringly obvious that Toothless had become more domesticated since we saw him in the first movie. He lost more of his wild, mysterious aura, but cushioned the loss with personality. He was snarky. He was aggravated. He ran around through snow and struggled to fit between rocks. Growled at dragons when they got in his personal bubble and tried to befriend Cloudjumper by using his wing as a hat.
And yes, those moments were silly. They were so silly. But the difference between them was that they still felt natural. It felt like Toothless. Because even after spending the first movie as this mysterious dragon that could have killed Hiccup with one plasma blast, we saw him do this.
And this.
And this.
All very silly moments, yes. But the point is: they had a purpose. It wasnât just Dreamworks going âHey, letâs just have him keep his tongue out all the time.â or âLetâs have him jump around and slobber excessively.â They were little sporadic moments of cute dragon antics to show that dragons werenât always the big, scary murderous beasts they were thought to be. If you got to know them you could witness them acting like cats and bats and dogs. If they really wanted to they could wag their tails, go fetch sticks or learn to smile like you. Theyâd learn to give you kisses to annoy you or cheer you up and they could bumble around your house on a path of destruction because they donât know their own size, just like a lap dog. Even a Night Fury was not above this.
But then we look at Toothless in the 3rd movie, and everything falls apart. Eyes always dilated. Scales so shiny that they look like bubble wrap. Tongue constantly out. He wonât stop jumping around. They couldnât even make him a good alpha. All that characterization? Gone. Heâs no longer an interesting creature. Heâs no longer a long-feared dragon that will love humans and throw down for them because of said love. Heâs just a slobbery oversized dog. Walking slowly towards enemies and licking walls.
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Became curious based on a Smaugust piece: What are your thoughts on everyone's favorite royal suck-up, Pike? (also ofc compliments to your writing and art)
Surprise, I am still kicking. And thus my Sisyphean quest to answer all the questions in my inbox continues.
I like Pike. I used to think moderately favorably of him, but pondering this question and then drawing a bunch of pictures of and about him made me realize that, yeah, I am rather fond of him. He is funny and cute in the same way a small, yappy dog is.
I remember once talking to my partner about Pike and I asked: "Do you think the JMA staff has to deal with Pike constantly trying to sleep in the hallway in front of Anemone's room?" Only to then realize, upon re-reading the books, that this actually happens in canon. I was thrilled.
Most of the time when people ask me what I think of a character, they want to hear what my take on them is, so I'll get into that.
Background
I don't think a lot is known about Pike's life, outside him having been assigned as Anemone's (questionably) covert bodyguard. He is one of those background characters that fill out the student roster at JMA but don't get a lot of development, though he is one of the more lucky ones as he gets comparatively more lines and scenes than, say, Barracuda, or Garnet.
We don't ever hear about his home life or familial situation, but I think he comes from a common military family. Not a particularly prestigious one, but rather one of middling significance. I imagine one of his ancestors--like his great grandmother--once made it to captain and ever since the whole family has prided themselves on their military legacy and loyalty to the Seawing throne, even though nobody else really knows who they are.
Pike's parents are both bottom rung palace guards; trusted enough to be stationed vaguely near the seat of government over a remote outpost, but nothing more. As is tradition in their family, they signed up as soon as they were old enough to hold a trident. Pike was expected to follow in their footsteps, and so did the same. He is naturally eager to please, doesn't ask many questions, and knows how to follow orders, so he took to this life relatively well.
One thing immediately apparent when observing Pike is that he is very blunt, headstrong, and reckless. He is prone to self-injury and mishaps, routinely making a tail end of himself during exercises. One day, I imagine, he was out in the courtyard, practicing his combat maneuvers, when he somehow managed to trap himself underneath a training dummy in a humiliating way. Unbeknownst to him, the Queen and Princess were walking past a window overlooking this scene, and the latter happened to spot him.
Princess Anemone, starved for normal social contact due to being permanently leashed to her overbearing mother, immediately took a liking to the clumsy guard and wished to take Pike into her service. The Queen though, hated the idea. Anything she couldn't control with 100% certainty was not to be let near her only living daughter. She didn't even let her own sons approach the Princess for this very reason. So she refused.
But Anemone, sensing an opportunity to finally snatch a tiny mote of control over her own life, didn't relent. She would never overtly defy her mother, but pushed back against her in the most passively aggressive way she could muster. She WOULD have this one thing that was hers, no matter how many times she had to sigh wistfully or forget to eat.
Coral meanwhile still disliked the idea, but after some pondering figured this could work to her advantage. Granting her daughter this favor would make her grateful, and thus easier to keep in check. It was not like the boy would be able to do anything undesirable since she would always be there to watch anyway. And if he ever displeased her, a random guard was easier to dispose of without turning heads, than if she let Anemone play with one of her brothers.
So eventually, she acquiesced, and extracted Pike from the palace guard to assign him to her daughter's protection.
The news hit Pike's family like lightning. Suddenly, after decades of being nobodies with delusions of grandeur, the whole palace was paying genuine attention to them, and the new recruit who, overnight, got assigned to be the Princess' personal retainer. Pike's parents took him aside and impressed on him how important of a task this was. If he did his job well and kept the Princess content and safe, not only would the current Queen think favorably of all of them, but Anemone would remember his service and reward him once she took the throne herself. For his sake and theirs, this was an opportunity not to be squandered.
And thus, Pike shouldered this great responsibility suddenly thrust onto his wings and embraced being Anemone's personal servant and protector. Pushed forward by his sense of honor and loyalty, a desire not to disappoint his family, and the knowledge that, if he were to fail and lose the only heir, Queen Coral would surely kill him.
Day-to-day life
Pike takes his duty very seriously, both out of loyalty to his liege, and because of how much is at stake for him personally. I picture him getting up during the small hours each morning and beginning his daily exercise routine, to stay in shape for his job. His roommate Flame often wakes up to him noisily doing squats in the middle of the sleeping cave and yells at him. "Am I cursed to be tormented by a diminutive idiot Seawing wherever I go!??!" Pike is lucky that his other roommate, Bigtail, is a heavy sleeper. Otherwise the training session would likely be cut short, with Pike tied to the ceiling lamp.
After wrecking Flame's sleep, Pike usually seeks out Anemone and attempts to stay near her at all times. Initially this caused friction between him and the teachers, as he would often skip his own classes to attend Anemone's. He only stopped doing this when Tsunami made it clear skipping classes would get him sent home, and thus away from Anemone permanently.
As they spent time at the Academy, the Princess began to get better and better at giving Pike the slip whenever she got fed up with his overprotectiveness. He freaks out whenever she vanishes, which is often. To help manage his stress, the JMA staff make him attend regular seminars on inner peace and meditation hosted by Fatespeaker. He is not very good at it, but enjoys the exercises that involve listening to running water.
He began to mellow out for a bit after initial growing pains, until the History cave incident occurred. The bombing shook him back into the bodyguard mindset and he began sleeping in the hallway outside of Anemone's sleeping cave. It weirds out Ostrich whenever she has to climb over him. Attempts to get him to stop this have been unfruitful. The current policy seems to be to let him do this until things calm down and he stops on his own.
Anything else
I believe Pike may have a thing for Rainwings. He is generally hyper-aggressive and rude towards everyone he talks to, with two notable exceptions. One of them is Anemone, whom he is sworn to serve and keep safe. The other is Tamarin, whom he is uncharacteristically kind to. My personal impression is that he may have a bit of a crush on her, but keeps himself from pursuing it as to not upset Anemone.
To my knowledge, Pike never really interacts with Turtle. That is a shame, because I would like to know how they would get along. Pike may be greatly disappointed at Turtle's general un-regal-ness, but still begrudgingly respect him out of obligation. I can picture a scene where he berates Turtle for his demeanor, only for someone else to chime in with an affirmative "Yeah Turtle, you suck", upon which Pike turns around and starts ripping into them about disrespecting Seawing royalty.
Concerningly, Pike's future is very uncertain. He is actually in grave danger right now. If Queen Coral ever finds out that he allowed a murderous, seawing-hating ancient wizard to abduct Anemone, she will have some opinions on that. If Coral has one consistent character trait, it is homicidal vengefulness against anyone who fails to protect her children, regardless of circumstance, regardless even if the perpetrator IS one of her children. That means there is a very real chance she will recall Pike from Jade Mountain and try to tear him apart.
I don't think Anemone would allow this to happen, mind you. She has been privy to her mother dragging poor sods out to the plaza to rip their teeth out, enough to recognize the signs of it coming. If she suspected Pike's life was in danger, I believe she would prevent him from leaving.
For now though, he remains at Jade Mountain, doing the best he can with the responsibility he was dealt, acting as Princess Anemone's retainer. It is a difficult, stressful, at times thankless job, but he would not have it any other way.
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