#animus wof

[ladevottee]

This is a drawing I did of someones OC on a discord server it's a Rainwing that was cursed by an Animus dragon! Also I drew this a good quite some time ago so it's one of my older drawings.

[sadnessdesigns]

Turtle

my baby

[that-artistic-writer]

Darkstalker can see Fathom in him

It runs in the family

(yes, that is turtle; the younger nightwing is the Darkstalker, back before his mother passed, and before Fathom betrayed him; the smiling seawing is Fathom)

[threemoonwatchers]

I’ve been rereading Winter Turning (for GTM!Pyrite reasons) and I came across this lovely little line from Moon, referring to Pyrite possibly being an animus.

(transcript in alt text. If I forgot something I apologize in advance it’s a big block of text qwp)

And I just LOVE the idea of Turtle in the background just quietly being a lil bit panicked and sneaking looks at his skyfire like “girl is this thing ON???”

And then you turn the page and Moon goes and says THIS (transcript in alt text again)

And Turtle just sits there wondering just how similar the two of them really are because this is getting ridiculous

Anyway yes this is more Horrible Powers Squad propaganda specifically on the Moon-Turtle front :)

It really is too bad he wasn’t on that trip lolll

[hastvic]

The Glass of Eternity - An indestructible wine glass with carvings depicting the Sandwing dunes. Enchanted by the Sandwing animus, Sahara, it refills with the finest of wines with the vocal command of "Drown my sorrows!"

[lynxexists980]

woah a wof oc drawing for once?

this is my son Neptune he's one of my oldest wof ocs from before I had properly read the books and was going off my friend's lore explanation

obviously I have and continue to tweak his design and lore to better fit canon

He's a Seawing dominant Seawing Nightwing hybrid and an animus and skyfire repressed seer. Timeline wise both my main wof oc stories (His and his half-sister Jellyfish's) take place in roughly 5027 AS (15 years post the flames of hope) in a AU where Boa doesn't erase animus magic.

He's aroace and a demiboy (he/they).

His backstory has been changed a bit but the current rendition is under the cut due to length

content warning: discussions of murder, child death, implied neglect and aphobia (specifically arranged marriage involving aroace individuals) also just crappy writing I am bad at this and most of this story has gone unchanged for 3 years.

Following the flames of hope in the descendants of Whiteout the animus gene becomes particularly strong. The Nightwings fully break off from the Rainwings starting a new royal line beginning with Fierceteeth's daughter. Due to the new abundance of Nightwing animus dragons the Nightwings become reliant on them to rebuild their tribe. One animus Nightwing named Mythseeker begins a secret relationship with a Seawing messenger called Marine. Shortly before their eggs are laid Mythseeker is killed by a group of Rainwing assassins to eliminate the threat of the Nightwing animi. Marine leaves her clutch of three hybrid eggs on a bay watching over them until a tropical storm washes all three eggs away with only one egg surviving. The remaining egg washes up on the shores of the Nightwing kingdom found by a Nightwing called Stargazer, a Nightwing seer who interprets the future through astronomical events. Stargazer having recently had her own eggs adopts the egg. When it hatches under a full moon she realises, having been a close friend of Mythseeker, the hatchling is his son. Assuming he would inherit their father's animus magic she fakes a prophecy that her adopted son would be an animus.

Her prediction proves true and Neptune is brought before the Nightwing queen to be the new animus. From a young age Neptune is trained as a tool for the Nightwings and celebrated to the near point of worship for being an all powerful prophecised animus. Stargazer in secret takes him to visit his mother but Neptune decides to stay with the dragon who raised him only occasionally meeting Marine. Neptune is made to wear skyfire as his Seawing genes cause the seer abilities he gains from his full moon hatching incredibly distressing and painful. The skyfire also masks his inner doubts from the Nightwings, he is haunted by stories of animus dragons like Darkstalker and Albatross and fears the seemingly pointless enchantments the Nightwings demand will lead him down a similar path. Despite having no interest in ever marrying or any form of partnership he is placed in a arranged marriage with a high-ranking noble's daughter named Honourbringer. She has similar intentions to him and they bond over plotting to escape the arrangement. He enjoys the one friend he is allowed to have.

At 6 years old the Nightwing queen allows him to attend jade mountain academy so he can receive training from other tribes on how to master his animus magic. He insists his adoptive siblings he was hatched with also attend guilt-ridden that they are neglected in his favour. He struggles to make friends in his winglet outcast for his upbringing. Except for one dragon a fellow hybrid named Venus Dragon-trap the infamous 'hybrid princess of the leafwings' the rainwing hybrid niece of the queen she tries so hard to silence. Venus encourages Neptune to learn to stand up for themself and be assertive and the two become close friends. In the end both push eachother towards a better life Neptune stands by Venus as she challenges her aunt for throne. And Venus stands by Neptune as he demands to be treated as a real dragon by his tribe loosening the constant demands and ending the arranged marriage with Honourbringer. He continues to work on carefully crafted projects with his magic and spend time with his family and his two best friends Venus and Honourbringer.

oh god this was meant to be a short summary

it's a little cliche but I like it. Arguably Stargazer is an awful parent (well-meaning but it only gets you so far) but it's rare for any of my OCs to have moral parents Marine is also worse. My OCs tend to have a dead dad,morally questionable mother and morally better (though how much is better changes) adoptive parents. I don't know why this is not reflective of my real life parents.

anyway as a reward here's a scribble of him invoking his purest essence which is sad wet cat.

[everythingismadeofclouds]

actually now that i think about it, i need to use animus magic as symbolism for being trans

like i havent written any trans turtle (yet) but i really need to and this could be good wait

[pinewing]

The essential problem with the narrative that Animus magic is corruptive simply because of how powerful it is, is that almost every Animus we see is either suffering under the immense control that queens grant themselves over their lives or recently escaped it. And yet a society that permits one dragon absolute power over the lives of her citizens is a perfectly tolerable amount of power that a wise queen can easily manage properly. Apparently only supernatural power is inherently corruptive. Which we all as irl humans know because of our extensive interaction with supernatural powers.