#dankleer

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🍇 🍋 🥝 my evil questions

🍇Share the “villain” or main antagonist of your clan and talk about them!

honestly that's a tough one..i definitely have some morally dubious dragons here and there, but they're generally either staying out of other's ways so as to avoid trouble, or they just have very specific rivalries. (looking at you, Warglobe.) for dragons that could be said to antagonize the community as a whole though...

Paragon's probably the strongest contender, he's a pompous tundra and a con artist lying about his fortune telling abilities, but he's also Tarragon's younger brother and he's more than happy to use Tarragon's innate protectiveness over him to his advantage, pushing around other dragons and facing relatively few consequences. I think he has somewhat chilled out since his earlier years in Florabrisa though. Like, other dragons definitely got sick of his shit and usually he'd just flee when things start to go south, but he already sort of came to Florabrisa as a last resort specifically for Tarragon's protection so dfgsdf with few other options he's mostly laying low now and is just a regular at the clan tavern. Other dragons at the tavern probably have lots of opinions on him though fdgsfd

i also just wanna give an honorable mention to my Pearlcacther Millisievert! She considers herself a pillar of the community, and in many ways she really is, but she's also a busybody and overly concerned with appearances, so bascially she tries to act like a self-appointed HoA for Florabrisa dfgsfd if you're doing something she disapproves of, she is going to let you know and has lots of words to say about it. dfgfd still, she's hardly evil. she's just not fun to rub shoulders with.

🍋What’s the most dramatic/emotional moment in your lore? Explain it, or write one short paragraph of prose set during that moment

ooohh..the most dramatic has gotta be Tamarind and Zaffre's divorce, which i 'summarized' here. Not great when two of your clan's four leaders have a serious falling out and one of their kids go missing dfsfdgfd Zaffre left the clan for half a year after that, before returning to her duties as leader.

and i don't talk about this all that much, but honestly i should and it is related to the above..Florabrisa's biggest victim (and really the only one thankfully) is Clash and I feel so bad for her fdgsfd She's Zaffre's eldest daughter, from her relationship with Kyurem years before meeting the other future Florabrisa leaders. Zaffre was a hardcore survivalist plague dragon who liked living on her own in the wilderness, far away from society, and Kyurem thought that was exciting and loved the adventure and the two fell in love. But then once they had Clash, Kyurem realized they didn't want their daughter to be isolated from everything and grow up with no friends or outside resources. Zaffre vehemently disagreed, believing Clash would have everything she needed in the Wilderness..so due to these different beliefs they split up (no divorce because they never married) and took turns raising Clash. The arrangement seemed to go well at first, young Clash learning lots of useful survival skills with Zaffre and getting more social benefits with Kyurem, but as Clash started getting older (like..6 or 7 at this point) it was becoming clear she wasn't really enjoying her time in isolated wilderness with Zaffre, and even in town with Kyurem where she enjoyed her favorite luxuries like candy, musicals, and indoor plumbing, she wasn't fitting in well with dragons her own age. Zaffre begrudgingly started letting Clash stay with Kyurem for longer periods, and then Zaffre herself decided she would start slowly reconnecting with society, starting by getting in touch with an old coworker/friend named Moraine, who introduced her to Tarragon and Tamarind too.

Honestly Tarragon tends to get the credit since he picked out the location and name, but in many ways, Florabrisa was actually Zaffre's baby. She had been burned by civilization and other dragons many times, but she always saw herself as a leader and she secretly wished she could start her own community. And she was really missing spending time with Clash too...basically after giving tons of pep talks to her friends who were all struggling with Dragon Capitalism in their own ways, she convinced them to start Florabrisa, in large part because she hoped this would finally be the right environment to raise Clash, and of course enjoy her new marriage with Tamarind and have a family with him too.

But then, once they all started getting Florabrisa set up and having to deal with leaderly duties and actually managing a community, Zaffre really didn't have all that much time to raise Clash, and in having a nest of eggs with Tamarind, then Moraine and Tarragon having their own kids too (including taking in Keiji when his parents suddenly died), they kind of ended up shouldering Clash with babysitting duties when she was barely a preteen fdsdgf Clash loves hatchlings, and wanted to be a responsible older sister, but it really wasn't fair to her. I like to think Tarragon, Moraine, and Kyurem did their best to make sure Clash wasn't having too many responsibilities put on her, but Clash tends to be very closed off and great at hiding her feelings, so they still missed a lot of things dfgsfd and there was still the problem of Clash not fitting in with her peers, given her odd fashion sense, stilted speech, and apparent lack of emotions, all of which other kids would mock her for. This unfortunately did not go away in Florabrisa. In fact, Millie up there in the first question is only two years older than Clash and for most of their teenage years was her biggest bully, since Millie (who of course cares so much about Florabrisa's well-being) saw the marital problems between Zaffre and Tamarind, and as a concerned citizen she loved throwing fuel into the rumor mill that Zaffre was cheating on Tamarind with her old flame Kyurem, with Clash right at the center at that,,, Clash had it very very rough growing up fgfdh

So yeah. Florabrisa's cruelest irony is that it was founded in part to be the ideal place to raise Clash, but then they all just. completely flubbed that part. i am so sorry Clash :(

sometimes i have to wonder if she should have even stayed in Florabrisa, but I think as an adult she's found peace and she's much better supported now. She has her wife Antikyra and they have a child who is going to get the dream childhood that Clash deserved!

omg. well, so much for one short paragraph dfgsfdg it's been years and i just finally needed to talk about Clash i guess xD;

🥝If you were to start over on your lore and remake it entirely, what would you change?

Kiwi time dfgsfdgfds. ummm lets see. give Clash a better childhood for starters sfdgsfd

For years I thought to myself if i restarted my lair, I would make it a swamp instead. but then i made my swamp tab and pretty much gave myself everything i wanted so dfgsfd i really don't know! I have thought before that if i had a chance to do something new with my progens, I would make them an M snapper and f bogsneak who are just friends instead of the typical married-progens-thing, but honestly i would never change Moraine and Tarragon and married progens are still fun regardless dsfgsfd having a snapper progen would rule though.

thank you!! and i am sorry for the length of this dfgsdfgdfg

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mircon if you havnet done them yet owo

Micron! A good boy c:

Pros:

Big friendly dork! He’s about as huggable as snappers come honestly. He’s very affectionate and loveable.

He has a strong moral compass! If you’re unsure about if you should do something, he’ll be very happy to consider every angle and help decide what’s the best path to take.

He’s a very savvy Snapper! He’s good at picking up on things that a lot of others miss. He’s done a pretty good job stopping small problems before they became much bigger and more annoying to deal with haha

Cons:

His closest friend is Matrix, a 40-year-old gambler known for picking fights with teenagers. Micron’s convinced himself he can help change Matrix for the better and is trying to teach her to be nicer. Any good results have yet to be seen.

He’s more aware than most of the dangers Xana and Iolite bring to the lair with their cybercrimes....... Xana doesn’t seem to think Micron is much of a threat for now, but if he did...things would probably not look good for Micron, or his potential partner.

He really doesn’t have a very good ‘no’ threshold (which is probably why Matrix doesn’t mind having him around honestly ffsdf). He’s done all sorts of things he hasn’t really wanted to do just because he couldn’t bear letting someone down.

thank you for the ask!!

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facts about zaffre and/or elder :0c?

ooh. an old woman and an even older woman!!

1. This might not even need saying at this point, but she’s one of Florabrisa’s founders! She’d always dreamed of having her own lair since she was a child and often made meticulous plans in her heard. She was so happy to be able to put things into fruition and definitely took the most control in actually building Florabrisa.

2. She’s absolutely feral. For real, she absolutely hated living in a city and much prefers living out in the wilderness, free from any needless hustle or bustle. Even in Florabrisa, she often stays in the outskirts, frying all the fish she wants for herself without interruption. She mostly refuses to eat anything she didn’t catch herself.

3. She never felt connected to her home of Plague, and left to explore Sornieth on her own at a fairly young age. Of all the places she went, she found really clicked with Lightning and had an affinity for its magic. She wasn’t very fond of the fastpaced culture though, and came to feel more at home in easy-breezy Wind.

4. She met Moraine in a city in Wind! She was taking whatever jobs she could in the city so she could survive and wound up as a hostess in a restaurant Moraine was a cook in, and they became friends pretty quickly - but Zaffre lost the job after a few weeks and gladly left the city behind. Unfortunately, she didn’t keep in contact with the few friends she’d made. After a few years, she reconnected with Moraine though!

5. She’s one of the strongest and fiercest dragons in Florabrisa, but she hates fighting. She was a resourceful kid and thrived growing up in Plague, but she became sick of having to constantly fend for herself, but had trouble making friends and working in packs. She’s better at cooperation now, but she’s still quite stubborn and greatly appreciates alone time.

6. Zaffre has a rather eclectic taste in names. When she and Kyurem had their egg, Kyurem shot down all her name ideas and she eventually relented to the name Sororia. But she ultimately won: at some point Zaffre started calling their daughter “Clash” because of her wild outfits, and over 20 years later, that’s the only name Clash responds to. Zaffre also got to name her later daughter Luckypheel, but Tamarind took dibs on their sons, Pelagos and Pocosin.

7. Despite her serious demeanor, she really loves cheesy jokes and puns, which was one reason Tamarind and her seemed to get along so well at first. She’s very proud of the name she came up with for her specialty dish: Zaffied Fish, and she calls her electrified trident the “Zaffre-zapper.”

8. One reason she wanted to make Florabrisa was to make a place for any dragon who needed to have somewhere they could just relax. She took on many roles in the lair to help make this possible, ironically not letting herself relax too much. Almost two decades later, the lair has a lot more dragons to help spread the work, so she’s finally getting to have more idle days. She particularly enjoys resting in the shallows to the south.

9. Her and Tamarind’s marriage lasted 8 years, but they only were happy together for a small portion of it. They met, married, had eggs, and founded Florabrisa all within a year, and didn’t really get to know each other well until it was too late. They were afraid to separate because they felt it would make them seem like weak leaders. And Zaffre in particular was afraid it’d mean she’d have to leave Florabrisa, as there was no way Tamarind would leave the garden’s he’d taken up as his Charge. They were very good at putting on a happy front for the rest of the lair, trying to mimic Tarragon and Moraine, but they reached the point of no return when their daughter, Luckypheel, disappeared. They were divorced by the next year, and it was such a huge weight off them. Zaffre did take a vacation from the lair for some months though, just to clear her head and not deal with inquisitive dragons or Tamarind existing in her vicinity.

10. (oof that one was heavy dsfdf here’s a bit lighter) Because of diet and frequent time spent in water, she has a varyingly strong fishy smell. This tends to ward off other dragons, which she doesn’t really mind. Kyurem, her current (and former-ex) partner, has never minded, thanks in no small part to their dull sense of smell. Kyurem won’t eat Zaffre’s “cooking” though. They’re not desperate.

Elder! The clan grandma! Well, one of several tbh but she’s the Elder.

1. Her age in unknown, but most dragons figure she’s at least 90. Some dragons, however, think she’s actually younger than she makes herself out to be. But no one will ever know.

2. She always seems to be carrying sweets to spoil the children of the lair with. Of course, she’s happy to share with the adults too c: Florabrisa’s has a lot of sweettooths

3. She watches out for the dragons in the lair, more than most others realize. She’s always ready to do what she can to help if she senses there’s danger, though that mostly would just be alerting more agile and youthful dragons.

4. She arrived to Florabrisa with fellow grandma Devilsaur, as well as young adult Concordia. Devilsaur is actually Artichoke’s grandmother, and she came to check up on him and brought along her friends! (Concordia may be decades younger than them, but she’s never been a very active dragon and Elder and Devilsaur are cool and fun grandmas so who wouldn’t wanna hang with em)

5. She’s a very experienced gardener and is happy to share her knowledge with the clan. She takes care of the plants in the lair to some extent, but she is very slowmoving and can’t garden like she used to. The young’uns are hard workers though. Florabrisa’s in good hands.

6. She loves providing a listening ear to dragons who need to vent. She’s great at helping them work through problems, even if she can’t always catch everything being said.

7. She’s as gentle as can be and tends to treat everyone as if they’re an old friend.

8. She knows so many old-fashioned remedies for whatever might be ailing a dragon. They may not always work, but she always succeeds in lifting spirits at least.

9. She claims her hair is natural and she takes very good care of it! She’s amassed many brushes to take care of it, but it still seems to collect plant debris. That’s life in Florabrisa for you.

10. She loves frogs! She just thinks they’re neat.

thank you!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHEEL!!

THANK YOU :D

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CONGRATS ON THE BIRTH CAPTAIN PHEEL !

omggg im a captain now haha

thank you!! doing my best B)

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red blue black <3

red: i’m going to attack you

blue: you’re the only bitch i respect here

black: maybe you’ll stop appearing in my house

wow thanks <3 i absolutely won’t stop appearing in your house

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