It's nice to see another disabled FR user in the wild. And your dragons (especially Skittles, given all the art you made her for the latest tumblr dragon tournament) are so lovely to see, with so many beimg queer and/or disabled.
Friend! Hello! It's wonderful to see you too! ^^ <3
It's really meant a lot to me how much people have loved seeing Skittles over the past month, because I definitely have that thing where... you know, I'm thinking 'am I just annoying all the ableds by going on and on about disability all the time' and I've definitely neglected characters of mine like Skittles in the past because of that worry, so it's been lovely to see people really support her and want to see more of her in future ;u; <3
Earth folk! Is there anything specific you guys say to each other during a Dom battle to cheer each other on? I need a piece of text to put on this thing I'm working on ^^
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Zeare is the leader of The Sanctum of Outcasts. He lost his sight early on in the founding of his clan in a battle with a Ridgeback, the only reason he survived was thanks to his Guardian, Ezra. His thermal vision still works somewhat, though it's not as precise as it used to be and is getting worse as he ages. He also has quite a few old battle wounds that cause him chronic pain but is managed through a combination of Nature and Plague magic. It's not perfect but it allows him to still move around his clan with minimal assistance. His daughter Phantasma also assists him, she's in line to take his and his mate's place eventually so she's with him in order to learn most of the time anyway. His clanmates have come up with a variety of accommodations to help him as well, including but not limited to; carvings in the floor and walls so he can identify where he is within the tunnels of the Sanctum, a unique greeting system that involves flapping wings or clicking claws that started as a way to alert him that someone was there and evolved into the norm for everyone, and magical braille signage on doors and entrances that can be altered with various extra information.
Osiris is entirely non-verbal, so in addition to being a Fae and not showing much facial expression naturally, he struggles a lot with communication and being understood. He also wasn't around other Fae much in his youth, and because of this learned body language from other dragon breeds, leaving him without much knowledge of complicated Fae crest expressions.
As he got older he learned to harness his magic in order to create glowing pictographs in the air that allowed him to get basic ideas across, but it wasn't until he met Faye that he started getting his confidence. She was the first person to actually take the time to learn how to communicate with him and the first person he was able to have real conversations with. They developed their own language using his pictographs as a starting point and they freely teach anyone who's willing to learn. Watching the two of them have a conversation with each other is like watching a mini light show.
I have more but I don't have as much more about them as these two!
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warning my lore is a bit dark (I am a shadow lair after all)
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so i'm about to go and rename most of my dragons, so i'm only going to talk about this guy
Brambles used to be a Aberration, but his other head, Thorns, got cut off in an attack from a certain group of Zealots. He was found barely alive, a skydancer scroll was used to try and save his life, but it left some deformities: his right wing is tiny, his right eye is blind, and has chronic pain on his right side (he also has "scars" there, looks like vitiligo). He wears a blindfold as the skydancer's empathy magic/antenna is pretty overstimulating (he is using this as an excuse, he does not want to see himself)
note: in my lore, breed changes leave types of "mutations", and any scars or injuries they had before translate over, sometimes in strange ways.
note 2: there's a big difference between ancient dragons and modern dragons in my lore. All dragons are made of magic, Modern dragons are kinda a blank slate, their magic depends mostly on where they're hatched, but is generally more 'flexible', shapeshifting, to some degree, comes naturally to them, they usually have a smaller, humanoid form. Ancient dragon are made of more concentrated elemental magic, they cannot shapeshift into said humanoid form, and regardless of where they're born, they still keep their base elemental affinities (ex. Gaolers have ice magic even if born in the fire flight)
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so my guys live in a monarchy, the last empress was a tyrant, and there was a huge class divide. Long story short, her daughter overthrew her and has been rebuilding the empire from the ground up. Right now there is one section of Nevergreen (the city) which has been outfitted to accommodate the disabled. Is there a problem with shoving every disabled person into one small section? Well, yeah obviously.
The city is currently being rebuilt, and at the same time the new government is trying to deal with the rampant crime problems among the lower class, while demolishing the upper class entirely, and also updating so many records that haven't been touch in years
note 3: the disabled people are not forced to stay in that sector, it's just the only one with proper accommodations (it's like the equivalent of 2 apartment building)
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I don't have super coherent thoughts right now but
Swell is blind, my own riff on what Facet eyes would do to a dragon. (Fantasy logic) Because the lense is warped, he sees better underwater than in air. In day to day life he spends much of his time submerged despite being a non-aquatic breed. This has led him to build up a sub community within the clan based on the healing and freedom water can offer. Within this group I have a dragon with chronic pain named Burke whose aches are eased by the water. She spends a lot of her time with the aquatic dragons but would also venture out to mingle with the rest of the clan.
Not sure if she matches the pride of it so much, but I have another dragon with chronic pain and resulting mobility issues. Her name is Empire and she cannot fly without assistive devices on her wings (represented by the steampunk set). She is incredibly bitter towards her "weak flesh" and wishes she could replace more and more of herself with robotic augmentations. Over time she's come to accept it a bit more and find things she can take joy in despite/including her difficulties.
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It irritates me how canon Plague tends to interpret "survival of the fittest" as meaning "survival of the physically strongest," so my Plague subclan is centred around it meaning "survival of the best adapted," which is the actual meaning of the term!
Summerwrought here is a former Pinkerlocke dragon. He was abandoned as a hatchling because of being blind due to canon-Plague beliefs, but his mother Zola adopted him and nursed him back to health. Now he's his clan's herbalist, with a seeing-eye Infestation Hound named Lichen. Summerwrought mostly uses his sense of smell in his work.
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My girl Plasmosis has narcolepsy with cataplexy! She works as a manager for the clan's resident radio station, and to accommodate, her office has a whole separate chamber for naps and magical "alarms" set to call in staff for when she suddenly falls asleep on the job. Luckily her job isn't too intensive, as the station only really has one radio host who needs supervising, and she gets assistance from her familiar, a magical Seastar, for sleep paralysis and cataplexic attacks. She also sees a team of dream mages for help with her insomia and daytime sleepiness.
She's a bit of a grump, though, with zero tolerance for tomfoolery. It doesn't help that her only radio host, Raiju, is a real handful even on good days.
thank you so much for noticing the scars under his prosthetic. i like to add details to my dragons outfits that often go unnoticed and i appreciate when people see stuff like that.
It was a really great detail! The enhancement apparel on its own could just be a robot boot or something, but layering leg scars under it really sells the fact that he's actually an amputee and the leg is a prosthesis! I love little touches that enhance the visual storytelling like that <3
I had a wonderful time reading the article because I feel like 90% of it was headcanons I already had about them anyway ^^
I love the importance of both seers and scavengers in their culture, because that covers my entire little Maren family <3
I love the confirmation again that not all of them need to be scaled and can have the tails of marine mammals instead, and that arctic Maren are much fatter than tropical Maren (also I want to see some of these funky abyssal Maren as familiars next please FR, they sound badass o-o)
I love that they changed 'they can't breathe above the surface at all' to 'they can breathe above the surface but not for long, and it isn't easy' so all my comics of them hanging out on the beach and docks still work
Also shout-out to this lovely lady, because little Tarni already loves collecting shells and was going to have a similar scavenging job herself when she grows up, along with her best friend Grub (but I'm going to continue drawing them both as little kids because they're adorable)
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taking this as an excuse to ramble about dragons without drawing anything because my head hurtsss
Rafa used to be a high-ranking officer in the Earth exalted army, but lost most of her wing in a battle and was forced to retire. She moped around for years until meeting Lin during a Rockbreaker's Ceremony event. She was convinced by Lin to move to Podsgarden, which was lovely, but she found it very boring until she recognized a need for a town guard. Now she is the Captain of the Guard and trains dragons and beastfolk to be able to defend the town, mostly by patrolling for highwaymen. David is Lin's other good friend and the reason she recognized Rafa needed some help. David has PTSD and insomnia, and chronic pain from lots of ancient battlescars. Thankfully, Lin is an herbalist who specializes in medicinal teas.
Banquo is deaf and uses a common sign language that was developed long ago by a community of mute Fae dragons that mixes head crest movement and hand signs. It is easily adapted to anatomy like feather crests and large ears, but dragons without head decoration can also use wing motions. Banquo can also form handwriting in the air using colorful paint-like magic for quick communication. His friend Donalbain, who is a centaur with dwarfism, acts as interpreter sometimes (he uses his big horsey ears for signing).
Sagan lost an arm in a portal accident! Luckily his mom is the CEO of a cyber-enhancement company in Goldensparc and got a state-of-the-art magic robo arm to use as a prosthetic. It works well enough to do complex spell motions with, so that's great. Triske has arthritis in their legs and uses a cane whenever they have to walk around for extended period. Walking is uncomfortable at the best of times for fae dragons, but its often necessary when doing things indoors.
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Cahrid was disabled due to spinal injuries she sustained escaping the coup that overthrew her kingdom, and as a result lost her ability to walk or fly and is very limited in her hand movement as well. She uses a wheelchair and moves it assisted with locomotive magic due to her arm weakness, or by being pushed by her guardian or trusted friends. While some locations are only accessible by air, those on the ground try to accommodate for her, especially larger buildings like the library (where she spends most of her time)
Caeca was blind from birth, with very limited light-and-shadow based sight. She has a seeing eye familiar and navigates the world very well using that and her cane, but obviously has certain other accomodations like wearing heavily tinted glasses to aid her light sensitivity and using braille (or the Sorneith equivalent) in order to read and write. She will also ask other dragons to read signs or letters aloud to her when needed.
Scroll has a chronic musculoskeletal disorder resulting in weak, underdeveloped wing muscles and joint issues that makes flying difficult and causes chronic pain. He has worn orthopedic braces on his wings since a young age, and while his current set is very advanced and beneficial, he still resents having to wear them due to those childhood experiences. He's working on it, though!
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Due to injury, Cerasus's wings are non-functional for flight, and he has difficulty moving them much to begin with. The steampunk armor serves as a brace, usually keeping them closed but able to adjust for whatever reason, and if he must travel anywhere, he makes use of a flight bot, Pteryga.
who I'm using the outfit plan for because its outfit currently isn't finished oops
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this is ayers. he is missing his back leg. it was pinned under a boulder overnight in the shifting expanse while he was scavenging scrap. he deals w chronic pain especially due to barometric changes (and lives in the shifting expanse) and hes an asshole. just like broadly.
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