#wof silkwing

[no7v3rsu1]

Pepper!

I don't have much lore for her yet, but she's a bug conservationist, so I named and designed her after the Pepper Moth :]

[no7v3rsu1]

Silkwing design! - Colors inspired after a Rosy Maple Moth :]

I wanted them and Leafwings to look pretty similar! They don't look too similar in the long run, but they are both creature that evolved to master the same environment with gliding and climbing!

I didn't draw it very well, but their hands and feet are pretty prehensile, similar to Leafwings. Silkwings don't have the same amount of climbing ability as Leafwings, but this is because they would create structures using their silk to stay safe, and their claws are specialized to traverse their own silk structures instead of tree branches!

I wanted to make Silkwings more bird-like - simply because I wanted to do the animals that are masters of tropical rainforests - Monkeys and Birds! This does mean I had to sacrifice some of their bug-like features, but I kept the antennae for fun, some dragons can be literally on fire, they can be a mammal with antennae HEHE

[here4dragons]

New oc

[cheddarcheezee]

ok ill probably draw up some diagrams for this in future but i think I would like I talk about my arc 3 headcanons and theories?? Filling in the blanks?? Rewrite stuff idk what to call it but u get me u get me

Ummm hivewings first because theyre my favorite . I never thought that them evolving solely from clearsight made much sense so I decided that their evolution into a tribe was animus assisted. Clearsight would've had a piece of darkstalkers scroll (for?? Some reason but if we dont think too hard about that then we live happily and peacefully) in her book that was used to aid in creating hivewings, along with granting queen's the hivemind ability. I LOVE the hivemind concept but I think the plant is stupid so its animus magic now. Im not sure if they still have the scroll?? I'd imagine not, they mightve lost it or something

Hivewings have a strict matriarchal royalty system! There is only the queen and her sisters! I suppose there could be dukes or something if the sisters choose to marry but I don't think that'd really be classified as "royalty" in their society. There is technically a "king" but his only job is to produce eggs with the queen and die or something, he doesn't have any power. Whenever the queen decides to start the timer to the end of her reign, she will take said king and produce a batch of 9 eggs (one for each hive) (i think thats how many there are i cant remember and im too lazy to check) and select one of them to be the next queen. The chosen egg goes through some kind of royal jelly kind of process I dont quite entirely know what happens and as the queen will inherit the hivemind. As soon as the heirs come of age the old roster of royalty will be booted out and replaced with the new one. I imagine there is a point where the queen has to produce heirs but she can choose at any time before that. The queens are significantly bigger than the regular degular hivewings also. I also think sometimes being queen makes you a little weird . I think sometimes they get the thought in the back of their minds to eat the kings but we dont worry about that too much

Ok regular bees . Males are Significantly smaller than females and maybe tend to have shorter lifespans but probably not by much. They have black eyes and teeth, and weird skinny tongues that are also black usually. Fuzzy, but not really? Its not really soft fuzz its more prickly. Usually they have more scales than fuzz. have Hole Ears like Birds and Reptiles. I personally draw them with more beetle-like nasal horns just to draw a connection between them and beetlewings and how their evolution was kinda rushed so they still have pretty prominent features. They also typically have more nightwing traits (at least according to my own nightwing headcanons) like dark underbellies and more freckled scales about the place.

I have less stuff for silkwings but enough to talk about i think. They also have black eyes and teeth! Their tongues are weird too. Silkwings have 3 hooked claws on each foot and spurs on their back legs! Hivewings also have those I forgot to mention it. They do have nasal horns, but they're filed down or cut off (as well as their claws post-metamorphosis) so they don't use them to attack random hivewings. Troublemakers often have this done to their teeth as well.

I've deducted that being assigned a partner is like a permanent roommate. You are expected to have offspring with whoever you're partnered with but I don't think that'd be something that'd get you arrested if you decided not to in any regular case. Ive also deducted that partners that are chosen to be part of the flamesilk program will always be same-sex partners. These guys in particular do not have any choice whatsoever whether they have offspring or not, as they'll be briefly paired with a flamesilk and then put back with their partners. If the partners are both male, the eggs will be given to them to take care of once theyre laid or however the silkwing egg system works.

I thiiiiiinnnk thats it .I dont have anything for leafwings as of right now as I like these two more but I will eventually! I will get back to you on that

[macawthestarwing]

IOSAU dragon tribe designs pt. 9

Azure the SilkWing

Males typically have longer antennae than females, but females are physically larger

[sassabat]

silkwings! sooo many colors but SO pretty! next up is rainwings 🌈

[extenentialcrisises]

it’d be neat if HiveWings also went through metamorphosis like SilkWings. maybe one difference is that HiveWings go through it at 5 or maybe even 4 years old compared to SilkWings going through it at 6 years.

also i think it’s bullshit that SilkWings canonically only take a week to make their wings. like some actual butterflies take that long, but they’re TINY compared to them. it should be at least a month.

hmm. also the way HiveWings would go through metamorphosis is by going into a designated cell and having it be closed off by adult HiveWings (idk how). i can’t decide if HiveWings would put metamorphic cells at the bottom or top of the hive. like there’s strategic advantages to both i feel.

ALSO ALSO it’d be neat if some of the HiveWing insect abilities either disappear or appear with metamorphosis. why? idk.

[luckyylaurel]

i have this horrible disease that's called "making wof crossovers with everything i like" and you have three tries to guess who the latest victim is