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All I want for Christmas is for Jaxom and F’lessan to be more distinct foils of each other
#there’s so much POTENTIAL#both raised with the weight of expectations by someone other than their parents#lessa gave up everything for jaxom and nothing for f’lessan#jaxom inherits both gemma and lessa’s inheritance but f’lessan would never inherit benden#lessa being unable to look at jaxom because he reminds her of fax and her dead family#and lessa being unable to look at f’lessan because he reminds her of the children she can’t have#fax killing f’lon and f’lar killing fax and lessa debatedly almost killing gemma#the fact that in another life they could have been friends or rivals in the holds#all culminating in:#jaxom the son of a villain set up to repeatedly save the world and f’lessan the son of heroes set up to do not much at all#jaxom getting protagonist specialness with his special dragon#and f’lessan honestly being more of an ordinary dragonrider than most of the major characters#the beginning of dragonflight drawing this extremely clear line of right v wrong good v evil#and then that getting blurred as the story goes on#pern#dragonriders of pern#dragonflight#dragonquest#dragonquest reread#character analysis#jaxom#f’lessan#lessa#fax#stubbornly tagging pern characters names#also what’s up with f’lessan’s name#why could he not drop the last syllable like everyone else in his family
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We're planning an upcoming bonus episode where we delve into the demographic logistics of Pern—population numbers both dragon and human, mating flight frequencies, actual page percentage of green dragons, tracking plagues and broader mortality rates (though we will not be attempting to resolve the eternal question of Jaxom and F’lessan’s ages), etc.
We know that there's a 50+ year history of rich fandom discussion of these books—if you're aware of any helpful number-crunching forum posts or past internet conversations that seem pertinent, we'd love to check them out! And if you have any particular questions about the nuts and bolts of Pern's population, please let us know in the next few days so that we can try and incorporate them!
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You know, I’m only seven books into this series, but I swear, if I finish it all and there isn’t some book that covers Jaxom and and rest of this quartet (plus F’lessan) getting up to shenanigans as adults, I’m gonna write it myself.
#pern#dragon riders of pern#the white dragon#jaxom#ruth#ruth the white dragon#menolly#sharra#piemur#dragon#firelizards#art#drawing#ink#pen#thanks for reading all the tags#enjoy your day
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What is that thing about green rider choosing when mating flight occurs that F’lessan and Tai talked about in Skies? Someone care to tell me more?
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