#my blorbo. blorbo from my dragons. sauteeing her in a frying pan with bacon fat and mushrooms. dont even need a stove. heat source

[unstablepuddles]

better to be lost than loved

(alt ver. + me yapping under cut)

i have VERY complex thoughts about peril and kestrel and their relationship, especially related to the dod. kestrel is actually such a complex character i love when bitches are morally grey and selfish and make bad choices and hurt people. anyways i imagine peril probably has some really confusing feelings around the fact that kestrel was forced to leave her with scarlet but then went and abused a whole bunch of other dragonets their whole childhoods BECAUSE of losing her. like. the gutwrenching combo of guilt (because its technically her fault kwstrel hated the dod) and jealousy (why did THEY get to be raised by her mom and not her, why was she stuck being a weapon for scarlet while they had a family) and then more guilt (how dare she be jealous of them, they had a terrible childhood, why would you be jealous of someone who was abused thats messed up, especially since it was your fault) and hate (kestrel abandoned her [even if she couldn’t help it], killed her brother as far as she’s aware, made her very first friends’ lives a living hell, and got her only childhood teacher and support [osprey] killed for defending kestrel from scarlet). ANYWAYS. yeah. kestrel i assume also has similarly mixed feelings but at the very least she loves peril and peril can’t even be sure of that.

also first time drawing my kestrel design!!! i based it more off of european and common kestrels than american kestrwls like ik a lot of people do. she also has the same horn and spine colours as my peril, and markings around her wingclaws /the edges of her wings (which u cant see here) that are inverted from perils explodey markings bc i wanted to have some distinct familial traits in them. she also has a bigger schnozz-horn than most of the skywings i draw bc i wanted to give her an interesting trait not based in her name or her relation to peril. also i find it rlly funny that she’s described as being rlly big and taller than scarlet when kestrels are one of the smallest birds of prey (altho i do imagine scarlet as being diminutive for a skywing, in canon she is big and kestrwls just even bigger).

alt ver w/ peril coloured that i dont like as much,,, i rlly wanted kestrel to be the main focus here + for peril to look very clearly strange and alien (bc firescales and also they never knew e/o) and i think the pure orange peril does that better here.