Could I hear your take on skya from dinotrux's character? I've heard a lot of people interpret her in different ways and I'm really curious how you see her!!
I think Skya is one of the more well developend strong female characters. Strong female characters often dont get any flaws or personalities, they just disagree with the guys in the team or they are just cool because they hang out with boys.
I think they did a good job carefully showing how brave Skya is. They didnt try to shove it in our faces like "LOOK A BRAVE WOMAN OH MY GOD SHE IS A GIRL AND SHE CAN LIKE FIGHT OMG SO COOL" but it was shown through small things.
Skya is the only member of team Dinotrux who was not scared of Ty in the beginning or didnt try to fight him, whatsoever. Ton Ton was calm at first but later attacked because he ended up not trusting Ty. Dozer straight up gang attacked Ty with friends. Revvit and the reptools all hid and ran away first. But Skya had a normal conversation with him, she listened to him, she even asked him if he needed help with fighting Dozer. Wich is why i think the friendship between Ty and Skya works so well. Skya was the first out of the three to treat Ty like a normal person and Ty was the first out of the three to give her the lead in the group and show her that shes heard. I think they both gave each other something they wanted, Ty wants to be seen as normal and Skya wants to be seen as strong. They were the first two to treat each other as equals.
What i also think makes Skya likable is that she will handle when someone is in danger no matter how shes feeling or what shes doing at the moment, i remember in the second episode, when Revvit tried to get her to rescue Ty from the cliff, she at first had no interest because duh, argument, but as soon as Revvit says Ty is in danger, she immediatly complies. As soon as she hears there is someone in danger, she handles. She was angry. She wanted to be alone. But then she hears someones life is in danger. And boom. Instant attitude switch. Thats admirable.
I think the reason for Skya's attitude and wish to be seen as strong has something to do with how she grew up. She is a runner by nature, normally Craneosaurs run from predators, like T Trux or Poundersaurolophuses. When someone takes over their ground. They run. We have seen that Skya was almost killed by a Poundersaurolophus when she was a child, getting rescued at the last second. She was literally frozen in fear and almost got pounded when she was a child. I think that actually fucked something up in her. She remembers being frozen from utter fear, as a child, with a Pounder inches away from her, about to kill her. I think that is what drives her wish to be strong. She was frozen up from fear. She does not want to experience that anymore. Skya's attitude could literally be a trauma response. She was so scared that she didnt move. She fears to be seen as scared or weak. Its not just an annoyance of hers to be seen as weak, its literally something she is scared of.
