#i should draw them...but the assignments.....and the finals....oughhh

[b1asho]

(Sees the expressions ask) What about the Pantalon dragons?

Augh the bugsss

Silkwings and Hivewings can see UV! They move their iridescent scales to flash different colors convey emotions, which happens very quickly. No one else can see this happening.

Silkwing-specific visible signals are done through the antennas, spinnarets/tongue, and general mouth region. different positions mean different things (for example, open mouth/bared spinnarets combined with forward-facing straight antenna means happy :) ). Tongue and arm grasping is a common way to show affection or show that you have their attention (like eye contact for others) but otherwise theyre pretty adverse to touching. Other than ruffling their hair things and rotating their wings for the aforementioned color language, they don't do any other kind of body movement and their face doesn't really move otherwise. They do produce scents that can mean certain things (in very broad and simple strokes, usually only as support for one of the other forms of communication, such as making a Im scared or Lets mate gesture more intense and concrete), but those arent as complex as the pheremones of hivewings (they can still detect and understand hivewing pheremones because of their shared ancestry). Silkwings can speak, but its quiet and wheeze-like (they rely a lot more on the colors). Adults will raise eggs communally. once they hatch and pupate, those kids leave their birth region to go join up with unrelated individuals (who they will work together with to gather food n such. These flocks tend to be small and self sufficient, but there were some larger ones with divisions of labor. Their sizes can fluctuate as adults and kids come and go) Before hivewings did their thing, they were largely decentralized and did not recognize a single authority among their flocks.

Hivewings have more robust communication/emoting system because they're strictly social. A lone hivewing will die of depression, pretty much. The face is very important for emotion (like with silkwings) but they are way more tactile. They use their whole body to convey things, moving their legs, wings, arms, and tail to show other emotions and ideas in tandem with what is being said with their colors (usually while pressing against the person/people they're talking to). They produce pheremones that can induce some behaviors and feelings in others (such as "go forage" or "work faster/follow me" Soldiers can make the "SWARM KILL!!!" pheremone, which can also affect workers). Theyre capable of speech too, but its usually shrill and brief to convey something that their other signals can't show (such as if they're in a low light area or are trying to say something that colors/pheremones are too blunt to convey). Like their name suggests, hivewings live on colonies where there is one queen who has hundreds of kids. Nearly all of them are female, with some males who only associate with the Queen. They dont have a shared consciousness, but a lot of their movements are coordinated together and decentralized (like real bees, murmuration of birds, or shoal if fish) They have multiple queens/colonies across their territories, but currently those queens answer to one Queen (who's doing something with Magic to make them all more like a shared-mind hivemind with her at the center) (I think)

Leafwings emote in ways more familiar to the mainland dragons, using their hood and other frills to emphasize what they're feeling. Their skin is translucent, so blushing is very evident and is a sign of either anger or being flustered. While able to pitch down to an audible range, they usually emit ultrasound clicks to communicate (something that also helps them hunt. When combined with their Massive eyeballs, theyre crazy good at hunting at night) however, the clicks make it harder for the silks and hives to hear them (they aren't really built for verbal communication). Leafwings are mostly solitary and only pair up for a brief time to have kids, where afterwards the female raises them alone. Males are smaller and are more likely to live in little groups, females are all solitary. In terms of society, they don't really have one (at least not in the way a silk or hive would understand). Depending on whether one decides to get rid of the other, multiple leafwings can live on the same tract of land, hunting the same area but not sharing kills or other resources with the others on purpose. They will sometimes communicate and do things to benefit themselves and sometimes each other (such as having a shared herd of animals or one of them making shelters that others can use when they arent there). However, they dont live together and dont speak to each other for casual purposes (mostly to just share something important, like a new invention or danger in the area, before leaving again. They also dont tend to share information with those living outside their territory, so one area of leafwings could have discovered iron while the others are using bronze, and they would never know.). Comparatively, the other see them as completely alien and indecipherable (their skin-color changes make no sense, they live alone and with no queen, they don't do anything with their mouth/face and don't touch eachother, we can't even hear them, they're only out at night, they can't detect our pheremones and can't reciprocate, etc). These differences, along with their physical freakiness (theyre clear-skinned, big-eyed, carnivorous, nocturnal bone-havers. Very scary to the average bug) made it easy to depict them as uncivilized monsters.

I should probably note that I haven't read these books and even on the last post I'm just making stuff up based on what I remember from their general vibe lol