Welcome to Dragon of the Day, where I give you your daily dose of dragons. Here’s todays dragon. My favorite, Paarthurnax.
God I love Paarthurnax so much. I love that dulled golden color of his scales. I bet they’d be soft if I hugged him. Speaking of hugs, I bet being wrapped up by his wings would be nice…
Anyways, Paarthurnax is from the hit 2011 game, Skyrim. He does cool stuff like debate philosophy, teach you a new language, and get you to kill his brother. He is pretty epic, I give him a 10/10. Screw you Delphine for trying to make me kill him.
That’s all for today’s dragon. I would say come by tomorrow, but you probably shouldn’t.
Well, I managed to get this done today! I'm sketching to see how his body would move, focusing on the form not rendering him. I'll need to some more still.
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Welcome to Dragon of the Day, where I give you your daily dose of dragons. Today’s dragon is Calamity Dragon Kalameet from Dark Souls.
So dragons are ultra-cool, and cyclopses are pretty epic too. So Kalameet is super epic since he's a cyclops dragon. Oh yeah, and he can shoot lasers out of his eye. He's so cool that if you kill him he only gives you the calamity ring, which makes you take double damage. Even in death he still finds a way to screw you over.
Kalameet is one of the epic dragons ever. I give him a 10/10.
Come back to tomorrow to see me regret my life decisions.
Anyways while racism in the writer's room is definitely a thing and does affect how black characters are written and portrayed, to say "well this character wasn't written well (because of racism) so THAT'S why I find them boring!" is just disingenuous and trying to shove blame elsewhere.
Wyll may have been shafted in terms of writing, but he still clearly had more effort and time put into him than Halsin. And yet out of those two characters, which one is more popular in the fandom?
Dragon Age: Inquisition may bend over backwards to make Vivienne seem like a villain at times, and her opinion on the Circles is a bit complex, but that game also has Cullen in it - who was an antagonist for two previous games, and also has even stricter views on mages and the Circles. And out of the two of them, who's the one people are more forgiving to?
Preston Garvey might have a bugged radiant quest that means he says the same thing over and over and over again, but why is it annoying when he does it and endearing when it's characters in other games? (Brynjolf's "Sorry lass, I've got important things to do" comes to mind)
While yes, we should hold writers and developers accountable for the racism they bake into their games, this does not change that fandom is a transformative space. Fandoms will regularly take characters who were underwritten, who were treated poorly by their source material, or who were overlooked, and create beautiful works of art and fiction surrounding them.
So it's quite telling when they refuse to do this with the black characters.