#Some feather on fire?

[guess-i-do-art]

Sky because he’s a baby and his color palette is SOOO PRETTYYYY

[salty-an-disco]

here, have a nice and an evil Hero for these trying times

[threeaxolotlsinatrenchcoat]

Sundering the space rock with but a gesture of my most potent art, the debris surrounded me and with it came the sorrow of your absence.

[justrookthings]

"Kneel now and swear fealty to me. I will accept no other alternative."

Elgar'nan, First of the Firstborn

[kastalani123]

Consider:

Leo Valdez was not born. Instead, two pairs of hands form him from bronze and steel and gold. His hair is copper wires so thin they bounce like natural curls, and his eyes glimmer with silver flakes. The joints of his body are plated so delicately, so perfectly, the segments are near indiscernible, smoothly gliding over each other. Faint traces of fingerprints and flecks of impurity are deliberately left behind for their uniqueness, a form of impossible signature of his creators.

Most importantly, gilded bars curl around each other in his chest, protecting the red-red-red flame that pushes his eyes open everyday, that beats in tune with his thoughts, that heats his body to expand and grow.

A metal child is not so different from a human one, and yet is so far from it at the same time. He is curious, about the world, about himself, and he picks apart toys and TV remotes and his arms, spilling their secrets before his constantly shifting eyes. He does not cry from fatigue or thirst or hunger, but a bump, a dent, a scratch never fail to draw tears. He splashes in the rain and snow, carefully bundled in waterproof coats and jackets, and runs from baths like he's possessed, fire flickering in fear.

The first time he meets someone like him, an endeavour he had long thought hopeless, it is a malfunctioning dragon others call for the death of; he is too unpredictable, too dangerous, too broken. Leo looks him in ever-shifting eyes glimmering with silver and sees himself if the cage in his chest ever bends, cracks, shatters, if the gears beneath his skin ever jam and stick and wear down irreversibly.

It is not golden flowers and godly aid that preserve him; just as he'd done for his twin-in-all-but-appearance, he creates a new body, with new fingerprints and impurities mapping his design. His hair is more bronze than copper, now, and his eyes more gold than brass. The plates of his joints scrape against each other faintly, and the gears of his bones grind together uncomfortably — he only had so much time, so much material to use, he could not polish every element of himself in the way he wished, but it holds together.

Most importantly, he reinforces the cage in his chest, coats it in layers upon layers of metal, to ensure his flame will not go out in the explosion, that Festus will be able to salvage it and lay it gently in the chest cavity carefully carved in his new body, bringing it to life.

He returns to Camp, movements more clunky and mechanical than should be, and his siblings finally pin down his segmented limbs, his shifting eyes, his clicking fidgeting. They are ecstatic, just as fascinated with him as they had been with Festus, and he lets them. He lets them take him apart, piece by piece, clean out the sand of Ogygia from his organs, polish and oil his gears until they glide against each other, press new fingerprints, new signatures of belonging, against his skin.

Most importantly, they craft him a secure, intricate cage, with golden flames licking up the bars, with delicate chains shielding it from the elements, and his flame settles inside it, flickering happily, finally truly, truly comfortable in the cage of his body.

Leo Valdez may not have been born, but he was crafted with the most loving hands imaginable, and is that not so much better, for a son of the Craftsman?

[rozzywell]

Shout out to early 2021 when I was freshly in my Knight Rider fixation era and was in deep enough to make an AU bc of it. I don't think I EVER posted about it here. It was confined to my brain only. But ohhh "Knight Industries also gave Michael weird techno-organic phoenix wing implants during KotP for some reason (he was their guinea pig / Wilton's pet project and I love the phoenix motif)" AU I do miss you sometimes.....

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

Love it when mages/spellcasters in stories have slightly otherworldly traits. Unnatural eye colors/pupil shapes, unusual skin tones/hues, sharp/animal like teeth, nails, or ears, fur/horns/scales/feathers where they'd normally have none, etc.

[hermitdragons]

pesky dragon!

huge huge credit of the idea to @art-by-fate they made some sketches of WOF hermits and I absolutely fell in love with the idea and created an entire story and I have so many design ideas and now I have this account :D expect more dragons soon!

[localacegoblin]

i think it'd be funny if air ghouls were like real bird species in terms of looks. the ghouls are just covered head to toe in bright feathers, cool plumage and funky patterns meanwhile the ghoulettes are just variations of brown beige and grey. air and zephyr being walking art exhibits meanwhile copias panicking because his newly summoned air ghoulettes dont look as flashy and he thinks he fucked up the ritual.

[wraithdolll]

sandwing garbo

[chericheribaby]

I’m listening to Ed Sheeran again,,,,,what is happening to me,,,,,

[iturbide]

How old would be like, an actual adult for a manakete? Nowi's "1,000 something" and she seems. Like a child. Tiki's what, like 3,000? She seems like an adult... is it like humans x 100? How does the dragonstone thing work? Are they born with them now or does each generation have to seal their power in stones? Do taguel actually need stones or is that a gameplay mechanic?

At least for me, I tend to interpret dragon ages along the lines of human age x 100 based on what we've seen in most of the Fire Emblem games. Tiki when she meets Marth is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,100, but she looks like a kid -- at best a very young teenager, more likely a preteen, so 10-11 range by my read. Nowi, similarly, says she's over 1,000 and both looks and acts like a kid, so I struggle to see her as older than a teenager (and a particularly childish one at that). By the time of Awakening, though, Tiki's around 3,000 years old, and is clearly an adult at that point, so that really does seem to line up with the dragon age being two orders of magnitude removed from the human equivalent.

As for the dragonstone thing...that's open to interpretation, I think. I know some people interpret them as something dragons create themselves (@anankos has a fun bit in one of their old Fates fics that goes into it), but in Awakening it's frustrating because dragonstones are sold and they come in multiple flavors. Awakening why do you do this to me.

So I've tentatively adopted a concept where dragons (and taguel) use a specific type of stone as a form of energy storage: specific stones have a crystal matrix able to receive magical energy, and by taking advantage of this specific resonance, dragons can siphon their power into the stone in their possession and adopt a human guise; if they need to transform, they pull the energy back out to resume their original form.

Of course, I'm damned either way because Awakening's mechanics make no sense and a dragon/taguel can't transform without a stone, leaving them trapped in a human guise -- which frankly makes no sense: if the stone breaks, the power can't go anywhere but back where it came from, so logically they should be stuck in beast form rather than the other way around. So I picked my battles and decided that when I work with dragons and taguel, if they don't have a stone, they don't look human. (On a related note note, if a dragon or taguel loses their stone but it doesn't break, they'll be stuck in human form for a while but eventually revert back to dragon form if they don't find it because eventually their energy levels are going to replenish naturally and they'll transform back whether they like it or not. Nowi has this problem...a lot.)

[wellthatschaotic]

gotta love not trusting your own memory

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

Decided to mess around in FEH, then made a new Aether Resort Facility

The Messengers Aviary.

The Messenger bird of the Order come here to rest and have treatment for their loose feathers! Assign Heroes here to get random amounts of Hero Merit at each weekly changeover!

[mostrandomgallery]

More album cover designs for my Black Eagles KPop AU.

So, we have AQVILA's "Taking Flight", and their hit single "Revolution", which features a musical guest—a soulful female soloist who simply goes by "BLYTHE". (lol anagrams)

...Speaking of which, I decided to make an album cover for BLYTHE and her single "Voice In My Head (So Divine)". Fun fact: the cover design for BLYTHE's single was loosely based on EXID's "Eclipse".

Here's the cover for the debut mini album ICYMI.

I do also wonder if any musical groups go by similar names in the real world. Tried researching it and haven't turned up anything. Well, this is just a story set in a fictional world after all.

[tredispade-a]

for funsies i'm giving soleil a goddess themed default set of equipment. he as a sword, shield, and gauntlet with a goddess image on it. its a family heirloom that doesn't really hold any meaning anymore. since the family just kinda stopped paying homage to her.

but its totally minerva