(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:
"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"
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it takes an embarrassingly long time for soap to notice ghost’s irises are two different colours.
for a while now, he’d been operating under the assumption that they were both brown—it was true enough that the colour was dark, though maybe some of his perception was marred by the fact of often only seeing ghost in low lighting and with a mask to shade his eyes. so it’s not soap’s fault, not really.
but he does still stop in his tracks when a proper, direct stream of sunlight briefly drapes over ghost’s face one early morning during an op, just as the sun was rising. he does still have the breath stolen from his lungs when he sees that his assumptions were wrong—at least in part.
because one iris is brown—it’s deep and rich like freshly-brewed coffee, flecked with a honey gold like tiger’s eye. it’s warm in spite of ghost, and anything but dull.
the other, however, is a mellow sort of green, hazel in that dark lighting soap had grown so used to. but with the sun in ghost’s eyes, even for such a short time, reveals it to be almost forest-like, the vibrant foliage to match the sturdy trunk and roots.
together, ghost’s gaze is mesmerizing. and now knowing the truth about their colour, soap thinks he really sees it no, no matter when or where. he sees the subtle difference from afar, in the dark; the stark contrast in the light. soap thinks ghost’s eyes are beautiful. lovely.
now he just needs to figure out a way to get to admire them from up close.
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Here's another concept for Broken Horizon - a dragon pilot saddle! Ft. Alex as the model (and Riptide as the pilot, even if you can't see his face)
Modern saddles were jointly developed by dragons and humans post-war to make dragon riding safer and flying more precise, as regular reins and voice commands quickly became obsolete.
In these saddles the control sticks on the pilot's seat transmit inputs to the steering modules, which are then interpreted into nerve impulses for the dragon to follow. However they are not hard commands, and the dragon can still choose to ignore the impulses for any reason. This means that the dragon and the pilot must have an incredibly strong trust bond for the best performance.
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[ID: a digital redraw of the scene where chuuya shoots dazai in the shoulder. on the top of the drawing is chuuya holding a guy to dazai's head in the red and grey hallways of the prison. on the bottom of the drawing is dazai's pained face. the gunshot is shown stylistically as hectic lines behind his bloody shoulder. over the image is half a quote from goncharov that reads 'if we really were in love you wouldn't have missed.' the signature says dandelion-roots. end ID]
This quote from Goncharov (1973) in relation to soukoku has been haunting me from before I even got to that scene in the anime (the full thing is: Katya- Of course we're in love, that's why I tried to shoot you/ Goncharov- If we really were in love you wouldn't have missed). Violence as a tool for communicating emotions, especially love and hatred, especially love and hatred makes me go feral- how could I not think of the iconic quote that says that katya's miss was a sign of a lack of love/a fake love when chuuya didn't miss? Just... losing it over here.
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