aeternasomnus

[flawseer]

#11 - "Hybrid"

Smaugust 2024

Everyone is gangster until the Sandwing gets the cosmic powers.

I had an idea for a much better version of this comic, involving the hatching of a moon-empowered Starflight and everyone being in awe of him, until his moment of fame is cut short by Sunny hatching with the same powers. Unfortunately I couldn't get that version done in one day, so this is the one that got made instead.

I am aware there are several things here that do not make sense. Don't worry about it, this is just a dumb joke.

Man, Morrowseer is such a crusty old baguette.

[wolfdog-weatherman]

Mastermind has a very good head on his shoulders, and another one in a dish on his desk!

Rbs>likes!

Bonus sillies under cut!!

[liothebiblioklept]

I FINISHED IT :DD!!!! So happy with how it ended up looking, Mastermind is my fav atm :]! I love the wet cat energy he and Starf give <33

[ninoxwof]

Mastermind the Nightwing

[Image Description: A digital drawing of a desaturated purple gray nightwing named Mastermind. He has graying bushy eyebrows, spines and a graying muzzle. The stars on his wings only cover the bottom portion of them, and his wings carry a gradient of dark gray to purple like it's midnight to early morning before the sun rises. He's tall and looks similarly to his son Starflight, carrying the same box stripe scale markings on his legs. His bat nose has five points with the middle being taller than the others. He is wearing glasses with crazed swirls on them. He's sitting looking like he is explaining something enthusiastically. /.End ID]

[resident-wof-dumbass]

Mastermind:

[sidyashchiy-na-plakhe]

Guys.

Very important information. Hear me out. Stonemover x Mastermind. One is a chaotic crazy smartass, and the other is a depressed and calm smartass. And they kiss.

[flamebringer0]

Genderfluid Mastermind

“Observe her scales. Every other RainWing we’ve picked up turned instantly green — the color that seems to indicate fear. But this one — I don’t know what it indicates, but I’m seeing shades of red and orange, perhaps a little black here and here.” The NightWing used a thin stick to point to spots on Glory’s wings with clinical detachment. She could have been describing a moderately interesting beetle for all the emotion in her voice.

I've never seen anyone mention this before.

[atlasmothsilove]

WINGS OF FIRE REDRAWS!!

the originals r from 2021 im p sure!

ORIGINALS UNDER CUT!

[floofyflooftheallmighty]

could you please do mastermind x chameleon for the wof crackship requests?? (their ship name is maskscience btw)

"A raining that can't change scale color? Fascinating!"

(crackship requests still open btw ^^)

[icecreamsodaaaaa]

HI!!! Either 40 or 45 with mastermind please >:}

He’s so fucked up and evil he probably listens to Lemon Demon

[flawseer]

"#21 - Ancient", follow-up

I'm not going to be able to finish Smaugust #23 today, so that will have to wait until tomorrow. Apologies.

Instead, for a change of pace, let's talk about something different. I've seen a few reactions to my submission for day 21 that wondered what on earth must have possessed Secretkeeper to romantically pursue Morrowseer, and what that must have been like. Did they love each other? Was there any tenderness or affection between them? I figured I should give you my take on them.

I believe that Morrowseer--somewhere deep within his black, twisted lump of a heart--did indeed have feelings for Secretkeeper. You can kind of see this in the Prisoners short where he very unfavorably compares Farsight to Secretkeeper and sings the praises of the latter. He holds her in high esteem and seems to value her intelligence. He probably really wanted to have a meaningful relationship with her.

Unfortunately, he is wracked with the burden of having to be Morrowseer; a bitter, deeply unpleasant, emotionally shallow old dragon incapable of the humility required to be compassionate. For all the prestige and clout that Morrowseer has as an elite member of the Queen's court, his social life seems very empty and sad. He has no friends, only co-workers (who don't like him) and underlings (who butter him up), and I think he feels incomplete because of that. To fill this void, he fixates on asserting his importance and is desperate to maintain his status. He deeply desired to be the father of the prophecy Nightwing--which would have cemented him as the one dragon who saved his tribe--and the fact that he failed to sire a child in time not once (necessitating Starflight), but twice (necessitating Fatespeaker) eats him up on the inside. He perceives this as a huge failure, and Mastermind (who succeeded where he failed) picked up on this and mocks him for it. His entire conversation with Farsight reeks of "I am mad and jealous that your kid is special! It should have been mine!! Goddamnit why wasn't it mine!??"

For Secretkeeper's side... no, I don't think there's any deep affection there. I don't think she anticipated this relationship happening in the first place. But she did want to have a child, and when Morrowseer approached her, she weighed her options. If one can stomach living with someone like Morrowseer--who always has to be the most important person in the room--it's not an entirely bad deal. You get a lot of social clout as the Queen's right hand's mate, and since Morrowseer is exempt from the strict food rationing policy, you also get to eat. And he actively wants to have children to secure his legacy, which, if that's what you want as well, is pretty good. So in my mind she probably just went "Yeah, I can probably make this work. I'm sure he's not as bad to be around when he likes you." and agreed out of convenience.

But I doubt she loved him. There isn't really a reality where I can reconcile "She loved him" and "She kept their shared child a secret from him because she did not trust him". The only thing Secretkeeper genuinely loved about Morrowseer was that she was able to have Moonwatcher. So she stuck it out for her daughter, and I don't think she was upset for very long when Morrowseer died. She might have even felt a sense of relief that she didn't have to keep lying anymore.

I've seen people point to the fact that Secretkeeper felt a desire to tell Moonwatcher who her father was, and then posit that this means she did have feelings for him. I'm not sure I really agree. All that tells me is that she has feelings for Moonwatcher and wants her to know the truth. But if the truth is "I didn't really love your father, he was an awful and unpleasant person and I was just with him so I could have you", it becomes understandable why she would choose not to tell her.

That's my read of the situation anyway. Yours might be entirely different!

[wolfdog-weatherman]

THE ENEMY IS POVERTY

AND THE WALL KEEPS OUT THE ENEMY

AND WE BUILD THE WALL TO KEEP US FREE

THAT’S WHY WE BUILD THE WALL

[treefory]

Am I the only one who sees the vision?

[scrollwyrm]

Fav arc 1 supporting side characters?

I’ll be back with an arc 2 version later!

[resident-wof-dumbass]

Mastermind: Queen Glory. Looking radiant as always.

Glory: Mastermind, there's nothing I hate more than an ass kisser.

Deathbringer: *smooches Glory's ass and runs away*

Glory, shaking her fist: Damn you, ass kisser!!

[ilikemicrowaves]

Thinking about them