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Spooky

Wyldfyre wakes up for no reason. 

Heatwave is still healing. His breathing is less strained than before, and his wound is looking much better after Kai’s stupid, begrudgingly-cool rock trick. 

Speaking of Kai, he’s awake, sitting, watching the dragon core glow. It illuminates his face in the dark like a fire, but without the cool flickering. It’s steady and uncomfortable, artificial, not a natural living, breathing thing like fire is. 

“Kai?” She rubs her eyes with her wrist until she sees sparks and colours behind her eyes and then squints when he doesn’t respond. It’s weird that he’s awake. Weirder still that he didn’t respond to her. Maybe she missed it. 

”Kai?” she tries again.

When he doesn’t respond the second time either. She feels a bit grouchy. Offended. Annoyed. She knows he’s awake, she can see the light from the dragon cores reflecting off the eye, almost white. She stands, giving him the courtesy of grunting and grumbling so he knows she’s awake and annoyed. She gives heatwave a pat and he responds with a low grumbling of acknowledgement back. At least someone isn’t ignoring her. 

“Kai.” She says. Nothing still. So she speaks louder and with more growl. “Hey. Kai—“ 

It happens so fast she doesn’t see it.

One second he’s looking at the dragon core and the next his head has snapped to look at her, but it’s not Kai; His eyes are white. 

His name catches in her throat. They’re empty. They’re too-wide. There’s no hint of pupils or anything else. There was no hint of feeling or a dragon—person. The hairs on the back of her arms, her back, her neck all stand on end. 

Then he blinks, and it’s gone. 

“Sorry,” says just Kai.” Were you saying something?” 

Wyldfyre doesn’t know when her arms came up, posed, ready to fight. 

Wylfyre was very awake now. 

“Wyldfyre?” 

“You were just…” She hears herself. Unsure, feeble. Very not-dragon. Kai’s looking at her. He looks like Kai. His eyes are brown with that warmth she’s gotten so used to seeing coming from them. He looks stupid. His hair is fluffy and soft. He looks soft. There’s no sign of what she had been so sure had been staring at her a moment before. It was so brief she couldn’t even be sure she had seen it. 

“Nevermind.” Wyldfyre forces her hands down and clenches them at her side. “I’m probably just sleepy,” is what she tells him, to make sure he knows she’s still more dragon-ish than him. “Why are you awake like a weirdo?” 

“Oh, hah,” Kai says. “Just thinking.” 

She’s squinting at him. “You do that?”

When Kai smiles. And it’s annoying, warm and soft. “Sometimes.” 

“Gross,” she says, crossing her arms. 

“It’s quiet here,” Kai says. It’s out-of-pocket. It’s not really relevant. When he says it, he sounds different.

”Whatever,” Wyldfyre says, turning away. “I’m going back to sleep.” 

“Okay,” Kai says to her back as she goes. “G’night.” 

Heatwave rumbles as Wyldfyre crawls under his arm. She pretends to get comfy and risks a glance back. 

Kai’s back to staring at the dragon core. His hair is over his eyes, blocking them from her view. But Wyldfyre thinks she still sees white between the strands.

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watched Monstrosity for the 8th time AND I NEED MOREEEEE

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Maid cleaning a massive chateau surely belonging to the richest people you’ve ever seen, and as she’s walking from room to room you notice that every single portrait is of her

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Me at 14 and me at 22 are having a bonding moment

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never getting over how Kai still sees Nya as a baby oh my god

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i hope this hurts

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how jinu recruited the saja boys

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badass jay baby

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my death tarot for @dokjasweep from a while back, their leftovers are open!

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I love your art! Would it be possible to do a redesign of Blister or Queen Moorhen or Sky?

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Thanks so much!! Here's my Queen Moorhen redesign:

As it turns out, this is actually the first mudwing redesign on my blog!

I honestly didn't want to change too much of her design at first, since I already liked Queen Moorhen's color scheme and thought the guide to the tribes did a really good job of illustrating her. However, I did have beef with her lack of drip, which is where this redesign started. For a queen, I thought that the jewels inlaid in her scales were cool but not nearly enough. My girl deserves more: so I gave her more.

This redesign aims to put a little bit more detail in Moorhen's current design: I tried my best to give her what I think would be royal scale patterns, using recurring patterns to give her a regal, almost terracotta-plate look. I spread her scale jewels more evenly throughout her design by adding them to her body and tail, and also bulked her up with some more jewelry all around. The most dramatic change I made was definitely to her wings, which got a whole makeover with some blue tones and a recurring eyeball pattern to match all the dots she already had. I chose to use eyes near her wings mostly because I thought it added to her intimidation factor, as well as making it look like she was 'always watching' which can give connotations of control and power. Queen Moorhen is seriously such an underrated queen, and personally I think she's going to outlive all of the other queens we started with in arc 1. I mean, she's only got to beat Coral (and Sequoia?) now, so it could happen.

As always, thanks so much for checking in for these redesigns! If you want to submit a character, my inbox is open and you can use my pinned post to find all other reqs + posts!

I also have a discord + art comp running, which you can access here!

later \( ˙▿˙ )/\( ˙▿˙ )/

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this scene had me giggling

especially the way Kai’s just sitting in the corner🙏🙏😭

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god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything