sam should have been a woman and pregnant in lebanon and john should have shot whiskey with dean and said in the most tired, defeated voice “she’s your little sister.” and dean at forty years old should have pathetically looked at the table all scorned like a disobedient child and muttered, “i know.” and then they should have sat in gruesome silence with john pouring himself another shot.
Oh, Apple White, they could never make me hate you. You've made every wrong choice and you're trying your best, and I love you.
I'm gonna be renaming. . . Pretty much every other dragon lol. But I really like the name Braebyrn I think they got it spot on! It's a type of apple, making it a pun on Apple's name the same way Nevermore is a pun on Raven, plus it ties into Apple's familiar Gala (an arctic fox and another type of apple), and there's the whole pun about Brae-BURN and dragon fire.
I wanted to make Braebyrn look really non-threatening as far as dragons go, and I really wanted to incorporate traits from two other animals: doves and deer. Snow White, and Apple by extension, is supposed to be the epitome of "innocence" and "goodness," and she's also an archetypical helpless damsel in distress. Both doves and deer are frequently associated with all those qualities, and Apple herself has a strong dove (and songbird but mostly dove) association in canon.
But just like Apple is much more complicated than that and can be extremely destructive to both herself and others when she feels unsafe and backed into a corner, and often is harmful to her environment (her friends) without trying to be, so can both doves and deer. So I love those associations for her and wanted to really weave them into her dragon! Braebyrn ended out mostly dove with a little bit of deer in the face and horns, and I'm pretty happy with that.
I also kept the colors pretty much unaltered from canon because I like them a lot! I love that Braebyrn, like Apple, is a blondie with gold as the strong accent. Apple being blonde is a major point of insecurity from her as it's the only way she's different from classic descriptions of Snow White. Gold is usually used in the show as an accent color for the Royals, while silver is used for the Rebels.
Dragon Games is basically Apple's backsliding arc where she caves to societal pressure and loses everything because of it, but will emerge fundamentally changed tor the better. At the end of this story, Apple finally understands that she has to be her own person---destiny as she understands it is a lie, and only she can make create the future she wants herself. She can't force Raven to, and no amount of helping abusive adults will get it for her either.
So I really love that her dragon has both a tie to her being the Royalest Royal that ever did Royal and to the one trait Apple has that has always belonged to her and not to the Snow White story.
(Main design notes done, bonus art plus some other misc. rambles under the cut)
Welcome to Under The Cut Land where I don't know when to stop yapping!
That thing about Apple's and Braebyrn both being blonde as a representation of Apple taking ownership over her own life and personhood gets really fun if you've ever seen this post and this one btw!
I loved this headcanon so much (thanks @thelilylav and @fashion-foxy ) that I couldn't resist making a black-haired Apple for this too (sry for the pings lol). I like it even better if Braebyrn remains blonde because then he (and Gala if I got to rewrite the show) gets to be both a representation of Apple's true self and also her only supporter as she continues to throw herself further into the hole she's digging. Something about how he can represent her true feelings and desires while Apple is busy sucking up to the Evil Queen.
Oh, btw, officially Braebyrn is a girl, but I wanted to give him stag horns, so Braebyrn is a boy now. It's not super important, don't worry about it, it's not like they ever specify in the show anyway.
You may also notice some size discrepancies in this art! This is on purpose! First off, even at the largest he's get during the special, Braebyrn is significantly smaller than Nevermore. This is actually accurate to their sizes in the show. Nevermore is like a tween/teen dragon in age, and is closer to her adult size (although she has the ability to shrink at will down to the size of a large dog). Even with the growth serum, the newly-hatched babies are still much smaller.
Secondly, both the "reference" shot and the "action" shot are meant to be post growth serum while the "cute" shot of him comforting Apple while she's breaking down is meant to be pre-growth serum. This is also why his plumage is smaller and more ruffly. He's just barely growing out his baby down!
Also, I do want to give all the dragons some more distinctive personalities instead of all just being a vaguely chaotic hoarde. Nevermore is of course going to be the closest with her rider, and also the most reserved because she doesn't have baby zoomies and is very intelligent + has an extra magic bond with Raven, and can sense Raven is here not entirely of her own free will.
I think Braebyrn is technically one of the most well-behaved babies---he's usually quite easy to manage and takes to training quickly---but if he decides there is something he wants to do, then he's gonna do it consequences be damned. So he's great on the day-to-day but has occasional bombastic outbursts. Hence the difference in attitude between dragon and rider in their action shot.
I wanna start talking about the au online and such especially since I plan on eventually doing some art and writing + having friends that??? Wanna make and have made art for my au?? Insane. So this is a sorta semi masterpost. Questions about the au are like always welcome.
What’s it about?
Break The Narrative is basically an au with Click Clack (and later on Thespius) at the focus. Basically, the sorta figurative wall that keeps Click Clack from fully affecting the narrative of his world and such gets broken. Things that he would narrate without acknowledging are now things he can fully acknowledge and he can now enter something known as The Narrative Void. The more he tries to edit The Narrative, however, the more that things go awry in ways he could never predict. It eventually turns into them trying to control the “script” of the world, nearly destroying it in the process.
Timeline of events below the readmore
- Someway, somehow, something goes wrong and that little like glass wall between Click Clack and the game narrative gets cracked and breaks
- Click Clack can now actively interact directly with the script of the universe he’s in. Full awareness and such
- It’s a good story, but, well, the god of storytelling can always do a few edits
- butterfly effect of all time, he edits one thing, something else changes in a way he didn’t want
- hm. Click Clack vc well i can fix this <bearer of the curse
- He cant fix this, actually. Every time he edits the script something goes wrong. What the fuck. He’s the god of storytelling he’s supposed to be the editor of everyone’s stories how is this not going right
- it gets to a point where he’s actively fighting the narrative and the narrative is reacting to his meddling. Imagine if you had dev tools but the dev tools were calling you a bitch. That’s where Click Clack is at
- Of course, no one else has awareness of the narrative bc Click Clack was the one that would narrate it out loud. The wall is much stronger for everyone else. But they can see that he’s getting so much worse mentally and it’s. Strange
- Like hey. Is click clack supposed to be melty and have a cracked mask. Wgat the fuck is happening
- also him often going missing from his domain. Which just can’t be good
- Click Clack just wants to get some kind of control over the narrative at this point. It’s not about editing the story now it’s that he wants to have control over the story because the story keeps fighting him
- it gets so bad, in fact, that the narrative goes “ah, but this is a love story, isn’t it”
- You Can Now Play As Thespius(/ref)
- Now Thespius has narrative awareness. Which is *insane* to be hit with bc at this point Click Clack is like in a full spiral
- Because like. How long has Click Clack been messing with the narrative? How long as he been going back and forth? How long has Thespius been unaware of Click Clack going through all of this???
- Click Clack is aware of the narrative. Then Thespius becomes aware of the narrative. Then Click Clack realizes that Thespius is Aware Now
- Oh god. Oh fuck. Oh no. Click Clack wake up you fucked up big time your not-boyfriend knows what you’ve done. You dumb bitch
- Click Clack gets worse because instead of being like “oh Thespius is worried because he cares” he’s like FUUUUUUUCK EVERYTHING BAD FOREVER I NEED TO BLOW UP
- So he keeps fucking with the narrative. He keeps changing things, it’s getting to the point where everything’s just breaking completely. Everything he tries to fix gets worse. He’s the god of storytelling and he can’t even fix the story.
- uhhh something something Break The Narrative name drop. Sorry
- End up in front of a glitched out rift that’s freaking the fuck out, he’s a big inky just absolute mess of a monster. He’s only just barely recognizable through a mask that’s just pieces by now
- Thespius is standing on the spire. The realization hits him that he’s been played into the most convoluted roleswap known to man.
- He’s the villain now. Of course he is. Of fucking course he is.
- of course, at this point, a few other gods have caught on as well. Keeping with the convoluted roleswap thing, he gets so upset that he starts trying to rewrite what’s happening.
- he can’t
- why can’t he rewrite the characters
- ….when did he start thinking of them as characters?
- when did his friends stop being people?
- He finally crashes. He gives up and collapses from the stress and exhaustion
- He passes out. The narrative is finally given enough time to fix itself.
- Click Clack wakes up. He’s in his office. What day is it? Is his mask on?
- …Godpoke walks in. It’s. It’s like nothing happened
- ….theres signs, here and there. That this all happened. Things that the story didn’t clean up. Didn’t edit out.
- ….They all know it happened, don’t they. If he remembers then surely the others do too.
- Well. It’s time to resume our play, isn’t it
Thank you for reading, I’ll prob add more to this post over time etc etc
Anal only with F/O who won’t fuck your other holes anymore.
F/O who makes you agree to it beforehand, making you think it’s temporary, it’s just a joke, whatever they can do to get you to agree.
But they take it so seriously, and they know you can’t handle just that forever, not even when they fuck you nice and long and good in doggy.
Eventually you’re aching, pleading you want it in a different hole, pointing to your neglected cunt and spreading your legs wide to show how desperate you’ve gotten.
It’s been a few weeks now and they don’t care, even mocking you, mocking your voice and how pathetic you sound begging to be fucked in the cunt. You’re flushed from embarrassment, but you can’t take it anymore.
“Please, I need you in me so badly, please please please.”
“Fine, get on your hands knees honey.” You feel like you’re on fire, so excited you could burst, immediately getting in position and kicking your pants off for them to finally give you that relief you’ve been craving.
But next thing you know their slipping into your ass, stretching you out and pinning you beneath them. You cry and sob, saying that’s not what you wanted.
“Too bad baby, you never said there, just that you need me.” They laugh, “Besides, I’ve got a thing that’ll be helping with your little problem once I’m done with you.”
They hold it up in front of your face, dangling it for you to see. A chastity belt made of thick leather and somehow made perfectly so they still can fuck your ass.
This isn’t what you wanted but it’s your life now, so you better get used to it, for them of course.