#dragon fury

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Oc sketch

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I just wanted to imagine myself as a night fury... And in the end it turned out to be this...

Я просто хотела посмотреть на себя как на ночную фурию, а тут вот...

Как же бомбезно... нужно уходить в фотошоперы...

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Here are some quick photos of a comission I worked on last month using my dragon LARP mask and leather scraps for scales

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Dragon Fury Review (Spoilers, obviously)

What I Liked:

- “THIS IS FOR THE ALEX.” Everything about this was just amazing. Going into the book I had been hoping one of the Stowes would kill the Revinir, but honestly, this was better. Spike is amazing, and I think it’s really fitting that Alex’s creation is the one who killed the Revinir.

- That moment between Aaron and Samheed was great. They very clearly don’t like each other, but I’m glad they were able to get over their differences.

- Drock becoming the Dragon Ruler! He’s clearly earned it, and I’m happy something finally went right for him.

- Dev and Asha being siblings and descended from Ashguard. I definitely saw it coming, but I still liked that Dev has family.

- Maiven Taveer being a badass queen while also being an old lady. Everything about her is awesome.

- Simber. Just being Simber. 

- The afterlife. Especially the Alex and Aaron moments. They have one of the most complicated relationships in the books, and I’m so happy about what it came to. I’m also glad it ended with Alex and Aaron vs Fifer and Thisbe. Seeing the dead characters was great (Meghan!!!!), and Aaron’s being forgiven by Eva and Marcus was beautifully written.

What I Didn’t Like:

- Fifer x Dev. Why, why, why. Fifer was very clearly touch repulsed and aroace-coded, and then all of a sudden she just... kisses Dev. Dev x Seth would have made way more sense.

- Rohbe. Maiven, who is Thisbe’s biological grandmother, adopted Rohan, so... incest. They’re also just... ugh. Rohan has no personality besides loving Thisbe, so while she is a great character, he’s pretty one-dimensional.

- The treatment of gay characters. There are two gay couples in the series: Henry x Thatcher and Clementi x Asha (both of which I absolutely love). Only Henry gets a POV that is ridiculously short, especially since he was a main character in the original series. Neither couple gets any moments together, and Clementi and Thatcher each have like two lines of dialogue. They were completely sidelines, and Lisa clearly only included them so she could say that she has LGBT+ representation.

- Seth x Prindi? WHY? There was no point to this unnecessary het couple. Prindi barely has a role in the story, and we haven't seen her and Seth interact once. Like I said in my point about Fifer and Dev, Seth and Dev would have made way more sense as a couple than either of these.

- Why does everyone need a love interest? In both The Unwanteds and The Unwanteds Quests, every major character gets a love interest, who is usually someone of the opposite gender. In the original series, we had Skylex, Lanheed, Aaron x Kaylee, Sean x Carina, Crow x Scarlet, etc. Even Florence had a male love interest, which is ridiculous. Then in Quests, we got Fifer x Dev, Thisbe x Rohan, Seth x Prindi, plus all of the couples I mentioned above. 

So, looking back on everything I said: I liked the plot a lot, but I don’t like the way some of the characters and romances were handled. I also think a huge problem is that Lisa just had too many characters. Fifer, Thisbe, Aaron, Dev, Rohan, and Seth were all in the center of focus, but there were awesome characters from the original series like Lani, Samheed, Carina, Sean, Kaylee, Sky, Crow, Claire, Henry, and Thatcher that were all sidelined, as well as new characters like Clementi, Asha, and Ibrahim that were sidelined as well. I enjoyed reading it, but there was a lot that could have been improved.

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I am alive for Aaron Stowe and Aaron Stowe only.

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Dragon Fury spoilers

Who needs comprehensivle thoughts when you can rant?

Yeah. Two scenes have been playing on an endless loop for nearly 12 hours now, and that's not fair. It's nice, but also I have stuff to do.

I can't stop thinking about "This is for THE ALEX!" Seriously. I would like to not keep thinking about how sad it is that my favorite character lost the person most important to her that even though she has a deep understanding of right and wrong, she did a very morally questionable action without so much as a second thought. Is it maybe because her love of Alex was such an important part of her that it was inextricably tied to her sense of right and wrong? And the Revinir killing Alex put those two ideas in opposition and one eventually won?

It would be one thing if she said it was for Artimé, but she said "The Alex" so it was revenge. Spike Furious killed someone for vengence. I wish I could say it was out of character, but it wasn't. At some point, Spike must have either disregarded her moral compass, or determined that it was okay to take the Revinir's life because of what she did to Alex. Two defining aspects of hwr character came in conflict, and she chose one. I can't fully explain in a logical way at this point, so feel free ro interpret this as you like.

I have other thoughts about other scenes (epilogue), but not the mental capacity to make more than this intelligable at the moment.

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Check out my time lapse drawing to my new book series, Dragon Fury!!!!

Sneak Peek to come soon!

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