#arc 1

[sadnessdesigns]

Peril

My design is based on a phoenix

[raayllum]

does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes

[l-ii-zz]

Are you guys ready for the next comic? Because I am not 🫣

[dungeonisle]

i for real don't remember how i feel about him

[errorwing]

hi starflighr!!!

i might turn this into an art print…. I like Money

[daily-tess]

This jolly Tess is from 1.20.3!

[thatonegeekygirl]

comic of a scene in chapter 6 of my phantom of the lecture hall arc 1 fic!

requested by the lovely @mostlikelynothuman :]

[thenweatefivesoups]

One sad thing about Arc 1 and the DoD's story is that they each have a moment where they realize that because of how they were raised, they will never fit in with their own tribe.

As much as he loves his biological sib group, Clay can't be their bigwings because it would mess up the dynamic they already had. He leaves them with Reed knowing that he only causes tension the longer he stays. Not to mention that it would be difficult to lead a MudWing troop properly with a lack of their tribe's culture.

Tsunami was never taught Aquatic and doesn't know royal customs. Languages are very difficult to learn after a certain age, and though she can be taught how to be royal, she would never feel like she belongs there, since that's not how she was raised.

Glory feels disconnected from the RainWings the second she gets to the rainforest. She worries that she would be a completely different dragon if she wasn't kidnapped, someone who she wouldn't recognize. As her current restless, anger-prone touch-averse self, she feels like she will never mesh with such a relaxed tribe.

Starflight cannot have the "all-knowing aura" of the NightWings under the volcano because he was never with them, so they all reject him. He was also under the belief that he was "defective" because he didn't have powers, and was never told that nobody had them, so he was already doomed to be separated from his tribe before he even met them.

Sunny, arguably, had the best situation, with a mother willing to take her in at a moment's notice. But she ultimately cared about the prophecy she was raised for than finding her parents, since she was led to believe she was thrown away. She felt like the prophecy was all she was good for - after all, who would take in a weird-looking SandWing?

All of them have one thing in common: feeling out of place.

Because at the end of the day, they just want to be with each other, whether they're stopping a war, running a school, or just hanging out and eating fruit together. When they find that they can't fit in with their tribes - with the dragons they were supposed to be raised with - they choose to be their own tribe.

And that's beautiful.