#pern au

[sparky-draws]

The 141st Weyr ✨

(dw soap is alive, just retired from threadfighting 👍)

[dawnrider]

Some "Weyr" for your #WIP Wednesday! (I really need to come up with an actual name...) In case you missed it, this is the Dragonriders of Pern (by Anne McCaffrey) AU that I've been puttering with. Also referred to as "Princess Bride vibe but with Dragons."

Inuyasha recognized the woman guard, Sango, when she threw him a long-suffering look. It took him another moment to remember that her brother was the human rider he’d just had to deal with. “My Lady. Your grandfather has made it very clear that you are not to visit the Weyr without an escort.” “Hm. I didn’t know that I was still a child in need of minding.” Kagome didn’t look up, hands pressed against the dragon in front of her and fingers splayed. Inuyasha would have seen the tension in her even if his nose wasn’t completely overwhelmed by it. “If I’m old enough for grown responsibilities, don’t you think I should be able to go out when I choose?” Inuyasha frowned. What was that supposed to mean? It was clearly a loaded question, one that Sango understood, but he did not. “Lady Kagome, it is only a precaution to keep you safe. There are those that would try to do the hold harm by kidnapping you… or worse.” Kagome’s head turned away. Inuyasha didn’t miss the glance in his direction from the other guard. Oh ho! So this stranger suspected him of being one such disruptor. Little did he know how much of Inuyasha’s time outside of his normal duties was spent keeping this woman safe! “Yes, of course. Anything to make sure nothing hurts the Hold and its interests.” That was possibly the sharpest he had ever heard her tongue and the inuhanyou didn’t like it one bit. “My Lady…” Sango sighed. It would seem she didn’t like it much either, but her duty demanded that she ensure Kagome’s safety and return her to the Hold, no matter what her own feelings were. Haranth rumbled in displeasure as Kagome left his side, trailing past Inuyasha as she went. She let their hands brush just slightly, and it took everything in him not to grasp it in his and not let go. 

[lightshadowverisimilitude]

Question about that from a few months ago Marvel Pern AU, is the flight that pairs Tony and Steve together Tony’s first mating flight or had it happened before? Best case scenario Tony’s Queen got caught by friends the first few times but we all know Tony never catches a break in his sexual/romantic life :(

(Maybe Ty Stone or Sunset Bain (a Brown and a Green Rider respectively) got him to try and get his Queen far away from the Bronzes so Ty’s Brown and him could “take care” of Tony the first time. Maybe his Queen kept him away from that scheme, at the very least she would the 2nd time)

Happy answer is that it's the first flight, but you are correct and you did come to Angst Backstory Central, so.

I actually think the worst would be if his Queen's first flight was during like... the first threadfall? I believe we were discussing the timeframe for this being when thread has started to fall again after centuries. So, if someone...unsavory, used that as an opportunity to get the valuable (and vulnerable) Queen away, and then hmm, well, I guess we'll just help you along here? Yikes.

[auntieoneandauntietwo]

In a pern modern au Lessa is a powerful and terrifying world leader and F’lar is a decorated war vet turned FBI agent turned talk show host whose show is a news/politics show with an obvious and extreme bias he makes no effort to hide. He’s having less of a crisis of masculinity in this world and so can acknowledge he’s most useful doing what he does best which is talking a lot in a confident way. He’s vibing as first gentleman. Foreign dignitaries love his scintillating dinner conversation.

[ranticore]

estibarith & rider (some guy. idk who that is)

she has a typical green dragon conformation. i liked the idea of caterpillar imagery?? so spiracle markings along her side as well as (eventually) large eye spots on the second wingsail when she's in season (i may be taking liberties but in canon dragons do get darker around mating time so i'll call it plausible). the wing lineart was massively complicated and i despaired the whole time 👍

she has a relatively large vertical stabiliser due to her short body and stubby tail. this keeps her stable in the air and prevents uncontrolled yaw. but like most greens the aerodynamic drag is tiring for her, and her flight, while incredibly precise and acrobatic, is highly inefficient.

[notjustdragonspages]

PERN AU PERN AU PERN AU

Y/n rides a queen and Donnie gets to ride a bronze because I say so.

[calolily]

Astarion with a delightful 70’s sci-fi mullet for some dragonriders AU art I’m working on

[badsongpetey]

14yo Petey was completely obsessed with Dragonriders of Pern, so grown up Petey was very excited to discover there's a klance au for it!

Bronzerider Keith and Bluerider Lance w/ their dragons Red and Blue, who, thankfully, are far more self-aware than their riders. From @wittyy-name amazing klance au, Tilting Skies (rated Explicit, so please mind the tags guys).

I like to think all the dragons of Pern are not just the same design different color/size, but all unique. I think it's suggested in the books that dragons of different colors have different body types and strengths. I see Blue as a water dragon, so I tried to bring in elements of the ocean into her. Red is very much a powerful fire dragon.

[the-feels-assassin]

A Pern/Avengers Crossover (That No One Asked for)

So I was reading a recent popular book involving dragons and dragonriders, and thinking how much I like the Dragonriders of Pern better (lol), and of course my brain did it's thing. So here you have it. My definitive opinion on what sorts of people the Avengers would be in the world of Pern.

We're gonna start with Steve/Peggy/Bucky because I HAVE THOUGHTS:

Of course this is during a Pass, because Steve/Peggy/Bucky have to be during a time of War and a Pass is the closet we have to War in the Dragonrider sof Pern.

Steve Rogers: oh, Steve. Poor, tiny, sickly Steve. He and Bucky are fosters at a Weyr, but no one expects/wants Steve to bond a dragon because no one is confident this sickly kid is going to live through the night at any given time. So either they keep him off the sands during a hatching or he's up in the bleachers. But Steve, being Steve, we get a Jaxom or Keevan scenario. No one means Steve to Impress a dragon, but of course you can't communicate that to freshly hatched dragons. And so of course between the sheer determination of Steve pulling himself out of the infirmary (ala Keevan in The Smallest Dragon Boy) and the stubbornness of the dragon refusing everyone on the sands (ala Ruth looking for Jaxom), we get tiny Steve Rogers bonded to what will be the biggest, most powerful Bronze Dragon the Weyr has ever seen. Steve becomes a Wingleader and everyone expect he'll be Weyrleader one day when Peggy becomes head Weyrwoman. Which leads us to Peggy Carter

Peggy Carter: Peggy is a rider of a gold dragon, of course she is. She was fostered in a different Weyr from Steve and Bucky (hence the different accent), but due to injuries and deaths during the passes, she gets redistributed to another Weyr that is lean on Golds and their leading Gold and Weyrwoman are aging. Peggy will be the next Weyrwoman. She is Peggy Carter in every way, fierce and determined, and like Lessa she fights the leadership of her time to enable Gold dragons to fight. Because Peggy Carter is all about sticking it to the patriarchy.

Bucky Barnes: Bucky Barnes is solid and reliable and dependable. He Impressed one of those Brown dragons that's as big as a Bronze (ala F'nor and Canth). He is Steve's Wing-Second. And then something happens while they are fighting Thread. Bucky is hit. Thread takes his left arm and sears most of his dragon on the left side. His dragon jumps Between and never comes back. Everyone assumes Bucky went with him, dead.

Everyone, of course, assumes wrong.

So what happens to Steve?

Steve just fought Thread, the battle is over and he's beat, and he's just doing a sweep to make sure nothing got through. It's time to go home; he goes to jump Between. He accidentally jumps time. He envisioned something off--something in the stars, maybe it was a night jump?--and suddenly he's in the future. He has no idea how to get back. Steve Rogers is a bit of a legend. His arrival sends both the Weyr into chaos, but also no one really believes it's him. They need the Harpers to verify, since the Harpers hold the history of Pern.

Which of course...brings us to SHIELD.

Because we all know the Harpers are the Spies of Pern, and the Masterharper of Pern is the most powerful man on Pern (search your feelings, you know it to be true) so of course I'm saying that:

Nick Fury: Nick Fury is the mother-loving Masterharper of Pern. Look, I don't care if he doesn't sing or play an instrument that we know of in the Marvel movies. In the Pern novels, Robinton has his fingers in EVERYTHING. He is the puppet master. Nick Fury is the Masterharper of Pern. I will brook no argument on this. Which of course means all of our SHIELD agents are harpers. Yes. It's wonderful.

Clint Barton: I mean how could Clint Barton NOT be a harper? He grew up Holdless. He picked up his acrobatic, juggling, and archery skills as a Holdless kid. But a Harper (probably Fury) saw his talent and potential and recruited him to be a Harper. Sure the kid is partially deaf, but he's a natural with an instrument and a born-entertainer. He's also so darn personable. Everyone immediately likes him and trusts him and tells him things. So of course, of course he's a perfect Harper, a perfect person to collect information and brook trust with the Holdless, Holds, and Weyrs alike.

Natasha Romanoff: There isn't really an equivalent of the Soviet Union in Pern. Natasha grows up in the Southern Continent, maybe the child of an Oldtimer exiled there. I think like Menolly, Natasha naturally Impressed a whole little flight of fire lizards, because she is like that. While Natasha is raised in an environment where all those in the Northern Continent are the enemy, eventually she meets Clint Barton and is recruited to Harper Hall and to the cause of ridding Pern of thread forever (the Ultimate Goal).

Phil Coulson: Look he makes Harper Hall run. He mostly stays in Harper Hall while Fury is out doing God knows what, and it's Coulson who is keeping tabs and getting reports from Barton and Romanoff.

Okay but what about Tony and Bruce? They are the last two Main Avengers left.

Tony Stark: Obviously the youngest Master ever at Smithcraft Hall. Could be on track to be the next Mastersmith BUT you know Tony. He likes to work on what he wants to work on. He's a genius and we love him, but staying within an authority matrix or running one isn't his strong suit. Eventually he becomes the head of Computer craft, when he meets....

JARVIS: Obviously the AIVAS analog. Tony is just bitter he didn't invent JARVIS himself. In this AU, I think it's Natasha who discovers AIVAS, while messing around on the Southern continent, doing her undercover recon thing. She sends her queen firelizard (the only one with two brain cells, obviously) to report back to Fury, who immediately gets Tony down there via Dragon. And of course that Dragonrider is none other than Tony's best friend.

James Rhodes: Rhodey was raised in Smithcraft Hall, went to be fostered at a Weyr for a short period of time, mainly to learn more about the Weyr's needs and how Smithcraft Hall could better plug in and whoops, impressed a dragon. Tony is still mad his best friend "abandoned him" for a "giant lizard" (which really Tony is just incredibly jealous. Who doesn't want to be a dragonrider?).

Bruce Banner: Bruce is basically the opposite of Rhodey. He was a dragonrider and he lost his dragon fighting Thread. This has left Bruce teetering between suicidal depression and complete rage. He's found new purpose in Smithcraft Hall and has become friends with Tony, but there is just a pain in him that is indescribable and everyone who interacts with him can feel it. In this AU, General Ross is the Weyrleader of the Weyr that Bruce was in--Betty is still his daughter and a gold rider. But since Bruce's bronze dragon is dead, well, there is just really no future for him and Betty.

Okay that's it for now. I have no idea what happened to Bucky (how does he come back? What is a Winter Soldier equivalent in Pern??), and I have no intention of writing a story in this AU, but inexplicably this keeps coming to me.

[shipfishwrites]

tormented constantly by a pern AU @tygryph and i originally thought up.

it's werewolf tropes. a beast lives inside you and it hungers for a particular celestial event. it makes you seek a mate. it talks to you, even loves you. it makes you dangerous when angry -- it makes you dangerous in love. you must be krpt away from dociety for everyone's safety.

it's also colorcoded like a symbiote. like A SYMBIOTE!!!!!!

and werewhers!!!

[spotsandsocks]

Dragon embroidery I did cos I love me some dragons inspired by Pern dragons

Gold bronze brown blue and green

And speaking of brown dragons there may be an early chapter today it’s finished and I’m impatient to share the penultimate chapter of Good Knight Sweet Prince

[sparky-draws]

some more pern stuff :3

[dawnrider]

🧃

🏜️

🪲

(from the Truth or Dare ask game)

Thanks for the ask @neutronstarchild! 💕

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before

I wasn't sure if this meant lore about me personally, or lore I have about a character... So I'm going to go with the former, I suppose?

I lived in a dorm my first couple years in college and I worked the front desk overnights. (Lots of writing time when it was quiet!) Many of the other kids thought I was an RA, so when my floor's actual RA bailed mid-semester (and the next one mid-year) the kids on my floor thought I was their RA.

THEN I did become an RA my second year and an RD after that for a bit before moving out of the dorm entirely. The building administration didn't want to be "the bad guy" so they let residents get away with just about anything and I got tired of it.

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

Any. All. But I have a special place in my soul for comments where the reader felt that the characterization was done well.

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

From the Pern AU that might have a name? Not sure on it yet...

A dragon’s call from down below grabbed his attention, reminding him that he had preparations to make before the wagon caravan arrived. There were fences to prepare, dragons to either send away or get situated in their nests to keep them from bothering anyone while the visitors were there. He also had to line up the newer riders so they would understand the importance of keeping their dragons from trying to steal a snack.

Truth & Dare Ask Game

[kariachi]

Anyway I made the mistake today of finally watching Pokemon Concierge (so tick that off my watchlist, just 5 million other titles to go) and rewatching an old GBBO season with my parents, so my brain is officially stuck between 'fluffy pokemon au', 'aliens on GBBO', 'someone tells Paul Hollywood off', and 'how does pern work'.

[mr-bigdaddy]

[ranticore]

who's estibariz? is she some kind of faery?

estibariz is félix's daemon from a daemon au [His Dark Materials] i wrote a few years back :) she exists in my books in the form of his favourite tattoo

she is depicted here