For the wbw ask meme; 22 a and b, 4, and 87!
ayy I thought I wouldn’t be getting any of these. Thank you!
22. How clean is your clan’simage? Are they really that way?
Overall, the Mothgraves have a pretty good reputation! They’re known for delivering good quality food, always fresh despite it being a freaking desert, and they’re reliable. You want a half a ton of apples on monday, 6am? You’ll have them.
They’re also known for being kinda pricey, but then what can you do, it’s a freaking desert. And while there have been instances of clans managing to haggle their way into cheaper stuff, or special treatment of any kind, it’s really fucking hard.
So overall, good, reliable merchants, bit on the pricey side, really difficult to haggle with but will compromise if you can convince them that you really need it. Absolutely impossible to lie to, though, and if you try to be a little shit they will go from friendly to kicking you out on your arse into a lightning storm with absolutely no remorse.
Now, most of the time, this applies. Or, rather, this applies, but there’s a few things no one ever asks about. Where do they get their seeds, where do they get their water, how do you gain access to highly dangerous medical plants, who do you ask?Most of the stuff has been acquired through legal means, although some members of the Mothgraves aren’t below bribery, threat and violence to get their paws on stuff they really want (here’s looking at you, Steppe. Some of the books in her library are decidedly suspicious). But no one ever asks.
4. What or who would be mostlikely to attack your clan at this point in time? Is your clan aware of thispotential threat?
The biggest threat to the Mothgraves is actually the weather. Lightning and sand storm are not fun, my man, and broken windows in glass houses are even less so!
But as far as direct, targeted attacks go, they’re pretty safe. They’re mostly on good terms with the local beastclan, of which there are few and far in between anyway because ew deserts, and the occasional bigger wildlife threat isn’t hard to deal with.They do sometimes get attacked by bandits and pirates who want to try their luck, but those guys usually learn pretty quickly that Gargoyle and her mates are not to be messed with. And neither is Pumpkin. Seriously, don’t fuck with the tiny Fae. He will crush you like a peanut, dust himself off, and then offer you tea. That is, if his bodyguard hasn’t gotten you first.
As for the delivery dragon, Temper, she’s never hurt a fly but somehow no one has ever dared to lay a finger on her. It will end badly. You just know.
So all in all, they’re currently pretty safe. You’d need a small army to cause them serious damage, and who the fuck wants to drag armies through the lightning farm? Not me, that’s for sure.
87. Are hatchlings raisedcommunally or by their parents?
AYY THANK YOU FOR ASKING THIS I’ve been meaning to talk about hatchlings for a while.
So, as a preface, my headcanon has dragons with external fertilization, so babies don’t just happen by accident, barring some really suspicious shit.The Mothgraves dragons, as a general rule, don’t have a lot of offspring. Hatchlings take time and resources to raise, and if you suck at parenting your kids end up with a lot of baggage. It has happened. No one wants that.
But hatchlings do happen, and everyone is free to breed as they wish, obviously. Since the choice to make kids is in the parents claws, they carry the main responsibility for them, but hatchlings are still reared by the whole clan. Some of them like children and enjoy caring for them (Temper, Gargoyle, Chapel, Blackcurrant, Lavender to name a few) and since everyone has their job to do they tend to take turns watching over hatchlings and teaching them.Kids are expected to grow fast and work for their food early, and leave as soon as they’ve learned to fend for themselves. Pumpkin was head of a nomadic wind clan for a long time, and the idea of finding your place is a pretty central principle. Along with earning your place, which… probably living in lightning for a long time has drummed that one into their skulls.
