I recently discovered your blog so I Gotta ask - was there an inspiration for you to make these comic about adorable dragons? The first thing that came to my mind was Wings Of Fire tbh XD. But anyway, you make amazing comics that always light up my day, thank you for that.
(Some of these asks are ancient at this point sorry!)
Flight Rising: I used to be an avid Flight Rising player (joined in 2017 when I was 13 years old), but I don’t play anymore. No reason in particular, my interest just died out. I sometimes hop on to read the news and take a look at new content though
Wings of Fire: So I actually didn’t know anything about it, but every comic about Swordfish brought on a gazillion comments of “is that a Seawing??” (mostly on TikTok), so I got curious and read through, I think, the first issue of the graphic novel? And although it has everything I like in theory, I just didn’t get hooked nor attached to any of the characters. I do like the dragon designs though! And yes, Swordfish does look similar to a Seawing - not intentionally though :)
Both Swordfish and Hopper are actually from the game Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted! It’s an old MMORPG where you can play as a dragon (and other fantastical races) and it was THE game of my childhood!!! These are the “canon” appearances of Swordfish and Hopper from the game I drew up right now:
Try making cute dragon comics with these faces lol
But yeah, Istaria was the birthplace of these two, before they developed into their own thing. I still rediscover the game every 1,5 years and hop on to play! It has a very small playerbase, but they have a tight-knit Discord server with very-very sweet players. The game is very grindy with outdated graphics, but it singlehandedly shaped my taste in basically everything. I live and breathe the Istarian aesthetic I really do love it so much. So I really recommend checking Istaria out because I want to pay homage to this uniquely beautiful game! Maybe you’ll even see Swordfish or Hopper running around
Screenshots of Hopper with another Istarian player below cut.
