Rambling about Fairies - Rhodonite Chapter 15 + 16
Unhealthily obsessed with how he’s drawn in this panel.
I’ve dropped my analyses on the dragons having different fighting styles dependent on their upbringing here and there, and I guess this is the most we’ll ever get from Cobra so here I go.
Cobra’s fighting style is a little more merciless and ruthless. I guess it makes sense because his element is poison. He’s a little more brutal and clear-cut in terms of lethality.
I do like the detail that Cobra is a little more ‘wild’ than Natsu. He fights, not exactly like a dragon like Natsu (wide, flashy attacks and loud prominent roars), but more like a smaller-scale hunter that waits for the right moment, then leaps and gets you in an instant. Like a snake, I guess.
If Natsu's a domesticated animal, Cobra's wild!
Cobra is similar to Gajeel in terms of both having violent elements, and both being former antagonists and thus a little crueler. But Cobra doesn’t hesitate to go to lengths Gajeel would usually hesitate to go to (using his poison breath on the kids) because he knows better than anyone how far determination to live can get you.
He doesn’t coddle the kids like Gajeel does, he wants them to grow up strong.