“Your glider is magnificent, Commander! Wherever did you get it?”
“It’s, ah... they’re wings, actually. My wings.”
A headcanon and story point for Tangled Paths that hasn’t happened yet, I wanted to talk about the wing-thing this morning. Cause it’s been mentioned in a couple oneshots and... idk. Need to type it out.
Being connected to a Dragon - even a baby one like Aurene (at the time) - can cause changes, I reason. We see this with Caithe later on, though not to the same extent. If the Commander is Aurene’s Champion, it makes sense they’re getting something out of the Bond - stronger magic, resilience, something.
Shortly after arriving in the Crystal Desert, Terra starts to notice an itch, along her shoulder-blades. Not necessarily painful, but irritating, and one that doesn’t go away. It turns into a dull sort of ache while she travels, and she gets used to it - not noticing the tiny clusters of crystals that have pushed through her skin, blending in with the glow of her markings.
It’s not until sometime late Act 1 when the wings emerge - snapping out on instinct to catch herself from a sharp fall, glider unprepared in this territory that favors mounts.
She’s clumsy, at first - and only uses them when she needs to, pretending that they are a glider, as much as possible. Terra’s not entirely sure where they go, when she ‘tucks them away’ - it’s like an Aasimar summoning their wings for battle, almost, where they vanish again shortly after.
She gets better at using them with practice - and they get stronger, over time, especially after they’ve visited Glint’s Lair, which is when her hair also begins to change and grow - but rarely keeps them out ‘on display’.
I need to work on the hows and whys a bit more, but this will come up in TP soon enough, so. Hurray.
Top two screens are early PoF before I swapped her hair up - last screen is near the end/ POSSIBLY while hunting for Griffon things. It’s been a while.
