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my dumb netherwing dragon baby got her grandpa’s fangs B)

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moira headcanons

approximate timeline of my bby

BC (Year 26) > Moira is an egg, rescued from Dragonmaw forces by unnamed hero.

BC > WotLK (Year 27) Sometime after the death of Zuluhed, Moira hatches, growing up among a freed Netherwing flight (likely year 27)

WotLK > Cata (Year 28) Netherwing grow concerned as some of the dragons sent to investigate the Dark Portal and Azeroth go missing. (Some of those dragons in the first round included Zzeraku’s bunch) Moira herself is still a whelp raised in Netherwing Ledge

Cata > MoP (Year 31) At some point, Moira matures into a drake and masters a mortal form. A new set of scouts is sent to discover Azeroth and see it for themselves--Moira volunteers

MoP > WoD (Year 31) Moira makes it to Azeroth, explores the area, manages to get message back to her family, decides she wants to stay and explore the world more. Eventually runs into the Trifang Syndicate and joins them

Legion (Year 32/current) Sometime as Legion activity sparks, Yubao leaves Trifang and Moira follows after.

More precise numbers--Moira is somewhere in her fourth year and still has some of her whelpling scales, she’s very much an adolescent

-Has likely known Yubao for a year or so at this point? Still has HARDCORE latched onto bearmom. no mercy. By year 31, Yubao is in charge of Trifang, Moira is one of the earliest members to join. Yubao grows attached to weird dragon daughter.

-by year 32 moira is still fairly young, although she’s starting to grow into her drake form a little better. is still fairly lanky tho and unbalanced. has become one of the “founding” members of the gilded serpent, although really it’s just yubao in charge, the survivors of trifang who came after, and awkward tag along moira

other notes about moira:

-has not been to Northrend, Pandaria, or Draenor. Was born in Outlands, has traveled to Eastern Kingdoms obviously as well as Kalimdor, is active on Broken Isles

-Will in fact write to her family, there’s likely a mage somewhere in the guild whose job is to go with moira to shattrath through a portal so she can send letters back. they are not to ask questions. yubao has ordered them not to ask questions. so they don’t.

-from a later brood of neltharku/karyarku, although they’re her parents, making mordenai her brother obviously, and most of the netherwing either her direct siblings or uncles/aunts (assuming most of the older netherwing were from the original clutch) relatedly, deathwing would be her grandfather, with all of his children being.....great uncles/aunts?

-was conscious in the egg like any dragon, thereby fully aware of how her flight was enslaved. unsurprisingly, she hates dragonmaw with a passion. has also been raised in aftermath of that, making her generally distrustful of any darker skinned orc (either dragonmaw or blackrock, green or brown skinned orcs she’s not too fussed over). if she ever heard the voice of whoever rescued her egg, she’d know them even though she never saw them.

-likely saw yarzill as a favored uncle as well for his efforts to smuggle her egg out of netherwing ledge

-was familiar with and friends with the BEM black dragonflight, as both flights ahd a connection after the netherwing were free. the BEM had no idea of sintharia’s plans. the netherwing on outland are still clueless of what sintharia did or where their eggs went, as moira has not found them, and zzeraku’s nether drakes were killed.

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All multiples of three for the OC question thing. You can choose any OC to answer each question about (so they don't all have to be about the same one)

/clutches fist

you’re just

so good to me

To make it simple though, we’ll stick to Moira, my shitty nether dragon, Caecillia, my new GW2 charr, and Solara, the light of my life, the trashiest espeon.

3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory? 

This one goes to Moira! Dragons tend to understand what’s going on around them while in the egg, so before she hatched, Moira had a bit of a bad time. Nether dragons were enslaved to serve orcs and as a result, in the egg that was in theory Moira’s destiny. (She had been hidden away among some crystals on the Island, found by an adventurer and brought back to one of the nether dragon infiltrators, who got her to safety). After that whole incident though, by the time she hatched the orcs had been pretty much destroyed, so as a result her childhood wasn’t terrible. She’s a bright kid, generally enthusiastic and easy-going, and so even under the constant warnings and paranoia of her elders, she thrived. Generally she’s fond of her childhood--lots of memories of playing around with other tiny siblings, her first attempts at flight, etc etc.

6. What were they like at school? Did they enjoy it? Did they finish? What level of higher education did they reach? What subjects did they enjoy? Which did they hate?

Cae gets this one, being the only character to technically “go to school”. Charr go to fahrar which is like boot camp. For kids. Cae didn’t particularly like her time at the fahrar, usually seen by her twin’s side because while both she and Vex were small, Vex was real good at being snarly and intimidating and Cae wasn’t.

Cae never enjoyed one on one combat, working far better with Vex by her side as a distraction while Cae swung around and picked at enemies from the side. She’s learned how to fight on her own more or less, but she’s not a fan.

She did excel at tactics though. She’s learned all sorts of battle strategies from her Legion, and when she grew bored of that, picked up how Ash and Iron battle strategies worked. It’s gotten her into a lot of trouble when she calls out flawed strategies, but still.

9. Do animals like them? Do they get on well with animals?

Moira gets along great with animals. She’s very excited by every new creature she comes across, loves to give everything scritches even when it shouldn’t necessarily get scritches (MOIRA DO NOT PET THE GIANT SPIDER).

Her favorite though is her own black kitten named Aces.

12. What is their favourite food?

Solara, my one true love, my sun in my life, really like lemon flavored things. When she eventually becomes a god among mere mortals, the people of the town she watches over often leave offerings of lemonade and lemon candies.

15. Are they good at cooking? Do they enjoy it? What do others think of their cooking?

Caecillia’s idea of cooking usually boils down to “Make a stew! :D” So she’s actually not terrible at cooking, but mostly because her cooking is done while she’s on the road, over a campfire, dumping whatever edible she scavenged into a pot. And considering she’s a fan of bread and stew, she’s always happy.

Don’t make her cook in a kitchen though. It’ll end with something on fire.

18. What’s their favourite genre of: books, music, tv shows, films, video games and anything else 

Modern au Sol would really dig long, complicated fantasy novels. Mostly because she likes catching the references to like, three books ago and screaming to Ghost and Brina “LOOK IT’S RELEVANT OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!”

As for music she’s not picky and will listen to pretty much anything. She’s not the biggest fan of slower music like classic or jazz and prefers something more upbeat or at least faster, like pop.

TV Shows/Filmwise, Sol digs procedural crime dramas mostly cause she likes figuring out the killer before anyone else. She’s also a fan of really trashy television like MTV stuff. She also watches the TV renditions of any of the fantasy books she likes. Film wise, she’s not the pickiest and will pretty much tag along to whatever Ghost/Brina wanna see in theater.

Video games, give her either anything that’s first person shooter, because she likes screaming and gunning down people and cackling, or hardcore fantasy RPGs.

21. Do they have a temper? Are they patient? What are they like when they do lose their temper?

Moira is disgustingly patient. Her tolerance for pretty much anything is insanely high, and even around things she doesn’t like at all, the worst is she’ll cheerfully recommend taking them out. Losing her temper though, she’d be like. You know that one trope where the cutesy person finally loses their shit and they brutally murder everything. That’s Moira.

24. What is their sleeping pattern like? Do they snore? What do they like to sleep on? A soft or hard mattress?

Cae catches up on sleep whenever humanly (charrly?) possible. Being a mercenary, her sleep pattern is fairly erratic so basically if she can sleep for the next five to eight hours, she’ll do it, she doesn’t care where or what time of day it is. She’s used to sleeping on pretty much all surfaces, although she generally prefers a bed. Doesn’t sleep with covers cause she’s covered in fur. Shamelessly leaves the bed all fuzzy for whoever gets it next. Rude.

27. What makes them sad? Do they cry regularly? Do they cry openly or hide it? What are they like they are sad?

Solara likes to claim she doesn’t cry. She’ll absolutely go out of her way to hide crying, and rarely actually cries so much as gets morose and despondent if she’s really upset. It’s generally hard to snap her out of those phases, best one can do is just sorta support and wait for her to get over it. That kind of really broken up sadness is rare though, usually if something upsets her it just sorta makes her shrug, she cracks a joke, and moves on.

30. Do they exercise? Regularly? Or only when forced? What do they act like pre-work out and post-work out?

All three are part of generally fighty-fantasy kind of things, so they have no choice but to exercise semi-regularly. Mostly when trying not to die.

Cae complains about it for hours after though.

33. What underwear do they wear? Boxers or briefs? Lacey? Comfy granny panties?

Modern!Sol would probably wear boxers? I guess? I don’t know?

36. What are they good at? What hobbies do they like? Can they sing?

Moira is disgustingly good at card games. For some reason she’s awful at everything else, but she’s got uncanny luck when it comes to card games. Otherwise, she generally just likes flying or hanging out with people or people watching--it’s not unusual to find her in pubs or taverns or whatever just sorta chilling and watching people talk and hang out. Also, she’s never really tried or felt the need to sing?

39. Do they like letters? Or prefer emails/messaging?

Modern!Sol far prefers messaging. It’s way faster.

42. What are their goals? What would they sacrifice anything for? What is their secret ambition?

Cae hands down wants to be recognized. She hard core craves approval, for recognition independent of what her mother achieved. She wants people to see her as someone great.

She totally wants a statue.

She absolutely wants a statue.

AND a cool legend.

And for people to name their kids after her.

But definitely the statue.

45. How do other people see them? Is it similar to how they see themselves?

Being tall and bulky, Sol comes off as intimidating. But honestly she’s actually the biggest dork, so like, there’s no reason to be afraid of her.

48. Do they enjoy any parties? If so what kind? Do they organise the party or just turn up? How do they act? What if they didn’t want to go but were dragged along by a friend?

Moira thinks parties are the coolest idea ever. She absolutely shows up to every single one she hears about if she can, regardless of invitation, because it’s an opportunity to meet new people. She’s very chatty and friendly and amicable and totally brushes off the whole “wait are you even supposed to be here” with aplomb.

On the off chance she doesn’t want to go (all orc party 0/10) she’d be absolutely super sulky and just stick to her friend’s side and glare at everyone ever.

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anyways as i was saying

nether dragon headcanons and assorted junk

the way i broke it down was nether dragons that were adult were considered first gen and thereby siblings of the matriarch/patriarch. dragons that were drakes or younger were considered second gen and thereby their kids.

i added the black dragon family tree or the important parts for reference and for funsies. wrathion is debated to be deathwing’s grandkid apparently which is weird because it was confirmed nyxondra is in fact deathwing’s daughter. your guess is as good as mine, folks

ash is a friend’s oc for the record, she’s an OL black dragon

so basically all im getting out of this is it’s a good thing incest is apparently magicked away because kary and nelth are brother/sister just saying

and wrathion/moira/ash are all cousins haha that’s weird what a weird family reunion

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because i have a rogue, i’ve decided im gonna do the fangs of the father chain because a. ROGUE LEGENDARY and b. i want cool wings

...which leads to me making up headcanons about how my tiny nether drake deals with wrathion. the actual quest chain probably isn’t canon, but at some point with wrathion being such a huge lore figure im sure moira has encountered him so most of this is vaguely relevant

-moira is still technically older than wrathion. but on the other hand, wrathion seems to be infinitely more mature.

-this leads to a weird imbalance of power in which moira listens to wrathion for two reasons--1, he comes off as older, stronger, and otherwise more dangerous, and 2, he senses black dragons.

-this leads back to my headcanons on nether drake scale color and magic saturation. azure/viridian/violet have some of the most magic saturation and as a result seem least like their black dragon cousins. onyx and cobalt have far less and are more like black dragons. the rough order is my head goes:

onyx (being most like a black dragon and the least nether saturation) > cobalt > purple >  violet > veridian > azure

THUS moira, being azure scaled, would come off as odd and definitely draconic to wrathion, but hard to place because she’s distant from her black dragon heritage, even if she’s literally a grandchild of deathwing and wrathion is debatedly her uncle, assuming he’s descended from deathwing (which according to lore is up in the air)

-SO it’s obvious that some sort of alliance would be struck--especially as moira would be sympathetic to wrathion’s plight. while she has some sympathy for the reds, who suffered at the hands of the dragonmaw, she certainly has more sympathy for wrathion, a relative, and because she too knows what it is like to be talked about as a prisoner while an egg, as she was laid/incubating while dragonmaw still had the netherwing enslaved.

-(also, being a weird bastard grandchild of deathwing, i don’t imagine the red dragonflight immediately trust the netherwing, especially as they were the indirect cause of the nexus war, and many of them would be converted into twilight dragons)

-additionally, moira’s abilities to phase means that she makes a great scout, which made it easy for her to sneak through ravenholdt, making it impressive

-despite their alliance, moira is uneasy around wrathion because of his aggressiveness and capabilities.

-probably got twitchy on how mostrasz was handled but says nothing

-doesn’t mind ganking the black dragons--she doesn’t know ‘em, and they aren’t exactly friendly. (there’s enough of a difference between nether and black dragons that black dragons in azeroth have little sympathy or affection towards them. totally different story in outlands though, where the black and nether dragons work together)

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further pictures of my dumb shitty netherdrake pretending to be a blood elf

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headcanon for moira

basically even though she can’t keep her mouth shut and lacks common sense, moira is hands down one of the best scouts/spies/intel gatherers the syndicate has. her disarming personality easily gets her involved with anyone, and her ability to phase between worlds makes her practically invisible (and even invulnerable) when she wants to be

the only downside is she usually has to have a partner with her, because otherwise the accuracy of her reports leaves much to be desired

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since blizz has like. zero lore on nether dragons, here’s a terrifying amount of headcanons i use for my nether drake moira

disclaimer: they’re headcanons. im not. telling you you have to accept them. they’re only for my own rp purposes. so like. chill.

-nether drakes and blue dragons are eerily similar in the way they have incredibly close ties to magic and the ley lines (it’s part of the reason why malygos assumed the nether drakes he devoured were aspects of the nexus--they’re saturated with arcane)

-however, whereas blues were naturally born to be magical, nether dragons were created from black dragons. thereby, the way they handle magic can be dangerous. (the azure dragons suffer from similar problems that nether drakes too, explained below)

-in essence, because of the way they are made of magic, they can burn themselves out to the point of death (IE valoku, who apparently burned himself out when fighting the nether dragons in the Shadow Wing manga) and in essence the stronger magic they use, the more likely they’ll kill themselves. azure dragons suffer a similar fate because the sigils on their hides are designed to amplify their magic to dangerous levels--though they’re less likely to destroy themselves if only because of their inherent magical state as altered blues)

-WHICH LEADS into the magic/mana vs. energy kinda thing. magic unsurprisingly pertains to spellcasting and things like that. it allows a dragon to take a mortal form (though not the only way) and some dragon flights are, unsurprisingly, more magical than others (im looking at you blue dragonflight)

-energy is literal--and is another way a dragon could take a mortal form. energy is literally life essence, energy used to cast a spell, and dragons that are less magically inclined use that instead in order to change forms.

-as a result, while the netherwing are INCREDIBLY magically inclined, it’s not unusual for a netherwing to either stay in dragon form to prevent burn out from changing forms all the time and so they can devote magic to spellcasting, or they may use energy to maintain a different form.

-moira for example is incredibly inexperienced with her magic, being adolescent. (many adolescents are in fact trained to use their abilities calling upon energy first, because it’s far easier to tell your limits than with magic). moira effectively uses energy to take her elf form as well as phase when needed.

-the reason why many nether dragons die young is they use their magic to burn themselves out without realizing it--once the spell is released it is hard to break and the magic is used. running out of it is fatal, because it’s their entire essence.

-unsurprisingly, many younger dragons use their life energy  to power their abilities, as it requires less of a toll--almost negligible with an appropriate amount of nutrition and sleep (though their metabolisms are notably faster than an average mortal, and in fact is one of the slight clues one can use to tell something is...odd about their companion. moira for example keeps snacks on her all the time to munch on)--but as they get older they tend to adopt spellcasting as their mana reserves grow (although many adult nether drakes half-phase using energy. to kill one, you wear it down until it can’t phase anymore)

-her rare magic manifests predominantly in using it to startle or stun enemies.

-the netherwing also typically are far faster than their azerothian cousins, that’s predominantly because they’re streamlined and generally lack scales and instead have have thick leather hide instead. (’older’ or less magically saturated nether drakes may have scales, because of their black dragon heritage)

-also due to their ability to phase between worlds, placing them in a half corporeal state, they’re incredibly stealthy and incredibly hard to hit when they want to be. unfortunately, phasing requires some degree of magic or energy. as stated above, phasing is generally negligible with proper amounts of food and sleep compensating for the loss of magic or energy.

-they’ll typically devour mana crystals to regain lost magic.

-magic saturation in the egg affects the color hide a nether drake may be. the less magic saturation, the darker the hide. (an onyx nether drake had the least saturation, and in fact, is closest to their black dragon kin). on the other hand, something like an azure drake, the palest colored, has some of the most magic reserves (hence why adult nether dragons are also blueish in color--many darker hided nether drakes foolishly use magic, overestimating their reserves, and burn out)

-moira is azure, although she’s barely grown into her drake body and as a result has yet to play with her magic reserve much. given time however, as she gets older she could be an incredibly powerful spellcaster