i knew the carey designs were bad before, but goddamn this one is just taking years off of my life
:) and yet people will still ignore us when we say blue Taako, and brown Lucas were bad (and racist) character design choices, or how the GN team CLEARLY needs some creatives of color, Carey’s old designs are so bad and bland and lack clear diversity.... like it’s so obvious in the little details, it is SO clear to me, but sometimes it takes shit like that for it to get through peoples skulls smh
Oh my god I completely remember this shit happening when I was in private school. American Fundamentalist Christianity is fucking wack. I could go into a whole dissertation about how many of the narratives exist solely to keep people in the mindset that Christianity Is the Only Thing That Exists and Anything Else is the Devil in Disguise. My cousins parents wouldnt let her watch ANYTHING that wasnt veggietales/Christian movies because it would "open a door". Shits wild.
Oh I encountered someone once who was even anti-veggietales and in fact did not allow their kids to watch anything with talking non-humans because that implied non-humans could have souls.
I've always associated blueberries with Loki. They have different colors depending on how they're prepared (genderfluidity), they seem like a color he'd like, and they're Vaguely Chaotic (I worked at a bakery and those little fuckers kept rolling off the table. Always thought of him when they did.)
As someone who identifies myself with blueberries there are literally not enough words that exist that could express how much delight this ask brought me
…Soooooooo I doodled a blueberry!Loki instead. The queer fashion icon we deserve. Rolling off to some act of berry-sized mischief or the other, no doubt
Petition to rewrite the entire DnD system with “chaotic blueberry” as a valid alignment in it which is coincidentally also my gender IRL
I apologize for any dream inconveniences Nathan has caused, and would like to make clear that Dream Nathan’s actions are not condoned by Normal(ish) Nathan or myself
so they would pretty much juggle this person and take other near-death people in the meantime? yeah, it could work. the smallest wrench in the works could break this whole relationship and there might be some upsetting side effects from the constant Pact switching on the person (that’s a lot of magic that’s not doing what its supposed to be doing. its gonna find ways to imitate that thing) but it could work.
anon 1: power doesn’t help. separating them does but the creature will get Very Angry. they are capable of impressive amounts of damage unless heavily confined.
anon 2: the pact is broken and the visitor dies like it was going to. creatures are very hard to kill though. lots of healing magic.
anon 3: the old fashioned way i assume. they don’t reproduce very often (many have never seen a child of their kind) but they do have live births. just one or two dragon pups at a time. they care for them for a while but they’re a wandering species and they tend to scatter. they like their own kind just fine and will congregate at certain times of the year to remember their visitors and share news but they don’t stick around. they’re pretty chill with each other as long as no one touches anyone’s people/stuff or abuses the visitors. that’s a fight.
(edit: whoops forgot the last question. yes they do but they have a tendency to switch it up after long streatches of time. usually by translating their name into different languages taught to them by their visitors. they like languages.)
@2bruza: their inner selves. literally. the bit that lives in the shell and talks to people.
physically attached, but stretchy. they have a lot of leeway. like a snail. its a practice to take the person outside and leave them for a day so the pact doesn’t set in if they can’t consent. when they take them back in, the time resets.
there’s a reason some terminally ill people search them out. some creatures even work at hospitals, serving as roving intensive care units, letting their visitor get to experience an outdoor adventure or just allowing them to travel long distances in comfort before they have to go.
