#planes as wof au

[flying-machine07]

Nick was bright pink for the rest of the day

[soumarhea]

So I watched Disney's Planes: Fire & Rescue some months ago and I found the characters and their dynamics so interesting that I've been thinking about them ever since. (And by "thinking" I mean editing the TvTropes character page for months now.) And then I found a post here about Wings of Fire au and that's my final straw. Two of my favorite things together?? Planes F&R Wings of Fire au had been living rent free in my brain for nearly a month now and I'm blaming @amethyst257 for it.

I'm gonna be honest, I read WoF Arc 1 nearly ten years ago, there's not much I can recall (aside from Clay is an adorkable himbo, Tsunami killed her dad and her mom is a helicopter, Glory is a sass queen of two tribes, Starflight went blind, and Sunny gave herself princess status). I haven't even start with Arc 2 but at least I know those exist, because I only know about Arc 3 this year. And I have not the time to refresh on Arc 1, much less start with Arc 2 and/or 3. But! I have read Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World to completion. It may not be entirely flawless info, and I still have zero idea about Arc 3, but now I at least understand that Jewel Hive is the best Hive to live in if you're a SilkWing (I confidently claims without actually knowing). So! Zero idea about 66% of the story and a very hazy 33%, this headcanons will have so many lore holes and may not even fly, but I'll be damned if I didn't try. I'm shoving all this headcanons off a cliff, so it better fly. "Planes" and "Wings" are literally in the name, that's double the flight power!

Since I can't draw dragons to save my life, I'll just colors Joy Ang's line arts of the dragon tribes instead. Trying to incorporate elements from the Planes characters (like the three white stripes and chevron patterns that the Air Attack team had going on as their Non-Uniform Uniform) is one hell of a thing. Who knows trying to translate vehicles into dragons would be absurdly hard (evidently, I don't). They wouldn't be using paints, so maybe ink or henna as staining materials? Nail Scale polish?? Iirc tattoo is a thing in WoF right??? Maybe I should just give the dragons some T-shirts instead.

So far I only colored Blade and Windlifter. That would be 2/12 (not counting size comparison pic). Will edit the pictures in as I'm done with them.

Edit [31/07]: Updated Blade and Windlifter's picture, added Cabbie and the smokejumpers' pictures (that'd be 8 out of 12 now, wow). Everything written in green is new added info (except for Windlifter's name, duh).

Edit [05/08]: Updated all existing pictures, removed the "outdated" size comparison pic, and added Nick, Maru, Dipper, and Patch's pictures (12 out of 12!) Everything written in purple is new added info (except for Patch's name, ofc)

Kinda long post ahead.

Air Attack team from Pantala

Blade

Blade would be too self-conscious to look this aggressive tho. I would pinch his mouth shut if I could. At first I tried making his chevron pattern to look natural by the color arrangement of his scales, but then I thought it'd look better if I just said Maru paints it on with scale polish. I changed his chevron pattern again. I am indecisive sue me.

A HiveWing with color mutation; he have white scales and blue eyes. His HiveWing fight/defensive mechanism is the one where he can spray boiling acid from his stinger. I would give him the "horrible stench" one just for shits and giggles, and for the smokejumpers to call him stinky, but nah Upon further revisions I decide to also give him nerve toxin (that he didn't even know about, since he never stab other dragons for shits and giggles), and you can't stop me. So now he can spray boiling acid from his tail stinger and inject nerve toxin from his wrists stingers. (Isn't that overkill? No its not.)

Grew up in Vinegaroon Hive, moves to Jewel Hive later on for a change of pace. This is where he met Nick and Maru. (He didn't know he already saw Nick before, when Nick performs at Vinegaroon Hive.)

Elaborating on the point above, while still living in Vinegaroon Hive, he dabbled in all sorts of professions; he had joined and led successful hunting trips, joined research expeditions as a research assistant and conducting studies on Pantalan wildlife species, and even took up culinary. It was fulfilling for a while… until it wasn't.

He moved to Jewel Hive after he heard about the lavish parties thrown every now and then from one of his acquaintances. ("So you're telling me, everyone partied all night long and woke up the next day, at midday, with a massive hangover? Alright, sign me up.") He just wants some excitement in his life at this point.

Nick and Maru spotted him at one of the parties, actually. Everyone else was ridiculously glamoured up, and Blade… was sorely underdressed. He sticks out like a sore thumb, and Nick wasn't about to let this crime go unpunished. The rest is history.

His entire life he's been taught about how great HiveWings are for winning the Tree Wars, and how the SilkWings should be thankful to them for protecting their "defenseless" tails against those "barbaric" LeafWings. Blade approach that topic very differently. ("Doesn't that just means we should keep protecting them instead of treating them so poorly?") He very much is in the "unpopular opinion" group and bullied by his peers for it.

After Queen Wasp's dethronement, he followed Maru and moves to LeafSilk Village. And later, among those who flew to Pyrrhia. Presumably, for another change of pace.

He just wants to be alone, but Maru have a different plan… And Windlifter have even more of a different plan. He got dragged to school against his will, and his life will never get anywhere near lonely after that.

How did he ended up as chief of Piston Peak Air Attack (PPAA)? (it wouldn't be called Piston Peak, there is no pistons in Pyrrhia and I might not even stationed them at any Peak here. But "Pyrrhia Peak" doesn't sound too bad. hmm...) I haven't come up with anything for that yet, but they're going to build their own Hive in Pyrrhia (its nowhere near as big as the Hives in Pantala). Its somewhere between Jade Mountain and NightWing Village (for reference), and the team calls it the Air Attack Hive, their base of operation.

Nick (I'll just sneak him right here)

Not sure if I manage to live up to the "most beautiful/prettiest SilkWing" description with this, but my reference is literally a helicopter with police livery. Also, Nick wouldn't look this submissive. If I could crammed him full with cheeky confidence and flirtatious charms I would. Also also, WoF canon of SilkWing can't have black scales is dumb. Most if not all butterflies have black in their palette, what do you mean SilkWings can't have black??

A typical SilkWing... and one of the most beautiful around. Even gets himself nominated as the prettiest SilkWing multiple times. And more often than not, wins.

Grew up in Jewel Hive. One of the best artisans, but well-known particularly for his charms and theatrics. Upon revisions;

Grew up in Jewel Hive, he's well-known for his charms and theatrics, which lands him the profession as a performer. He puts on plays and concerts for the HiveWings and travels from Hive to Hive. Nick had performed in every Hive and comes to the conclusion that; he's never going to travel to the other Hives anymore. Like, "damn, those Hives don't deserve me tf". (He's not impressed by how those Hives treated SilkWings.)

When Maru was stationed at Jewel Hive, he decides to work for Nick instead of his employer. The second Nick gave him the opportunity, Maru quits his old job and moved in. (I'm giving these SilkWings too much power, they're going to unionize atp)

Nick caught glimpse of Blade during his short stay at Vinegaroon Hive. They didn't get to interact since Nick was performing on stage and Blade was all the way at the back seating. By the time the play was over, Blade was already gone.

How did Nick manage to notice Blade when they were so far apart? Blue eyes are not only uncommon for HiveWings; they're unusual. Nick had always wanted a closer look, and boy did he get it. When they spotted Blade in one of Jewel Hive's parties, Maru had to practically peel him off of Blade. ("What's the matter with you? SilkWings have blue eyes more often than not." "Yeah. But have you seen his??") Nick thinks they're very pretty.

From Nick's experiences with HiveWings, they're generally rude and condescending towards SilkWings. Even in Jewel Hive, SilkWings would sometimes get objectify to sit around the shops and look pretty to attract customers. He was ready to be disappointed, but when they approached Blade and he treats them no lesser than himself, Nick was pleasantly surprised. They were inseparable since, until... y'know.

Maru

Just imagine his tail is prehensile. Also, Maru wouldn't look this submissive either, if I could give him shit-eating grin I would. Also also, I am still not satisfied with the lifeline pattern, so I might change it to something else. Maybe as part of clothing article or something. Stealth edit is stealthy ;p

SilkWing with major mutation; his tail is prehensile. (Presumably inherited from the RainWings who fled to Pantala along with the BeetleWings, the LeafWings, and the SeaWings all those centuries ago. Don't ask questions! He need this because;) He uses his tail like an extra arm, specifically to hold his coffee while he work.

I would give him flamesilk ability but then he'd be one of Queen Wasp's flamesilk production slaves, locked in a dungeon somewhere, so nah.

Studies in Mantis Hive and moves to Jewel Hive after he graduates. (Heavily assuming Maru even gets to enroll into the universities since, y'know, he's a SilkWing. Probably Definitely not but shut up. I'm keeping this.) He's not only good with works, he went above and beyond. But he was still assigned as web workers (a "lowly SilkWing" profession) despite being one of the best inventors in the Hives. (This is an exaggeration; you can hear him exclaiming "It's better than new!" even if you're in TseTse Hive while he's in Mantis Hive. For reference.)

Despite getting his profession assigned to him, he still do whatever tf he wants, much to the disapproval of his HiveWing employer. They told him to fix the webs, he did… and make them better! And he got yelled at for it. So he ditches them to work for a fellow SilkWing instead (it is, of course, Nick).

Once Blade enters the picture, Maru spends more time trying to get Nick on schedule. Why's that? Nick just wants to spend time with Blade instead of doing his work.

After Queen Wasp's dethronement, he moves to LeafSilk Village together with Blade. And later, among those who flew to Pyrrhia… along with Blade. Personally, he just wants to be there for Blade.

Windlifter dragged them both to Jade Mountain Academy. And by "them both", I mean Blade. Windlifter dragged just Blade specifically. Maru would be eating popcorn or honey drops (if he packed any) watching it all go down.

He built the Air Attack Hive with the team's help and made it even better than the Hives back in Pantala.

Windlifter

I might tweaked his design a little bit more. I'm still not satisfied with this. Alright, I change the white chevron patterns to yellow-ish, hoping it look like it's stained using henna instead of painted on with white paint. Did I changed anything? I did tweaked something, I forgot what.

A LeafWing with leafspeak ability, just like his parents.

Grew up in the SapWing Village. He was just a little dragonet when the Tree Wars starts warring properly. Which means he's around 50 years old. (Dragons live up to over hundreds years old right? So about time Windlifter having mid-life crisis.)

After the Tree Wars conclusions, he moves to LeafSilk Village. And later, among those who flew to Pyrrhia. Personally, he wanted to broadened his worldview and to learn more about all the other tribes at Jade Mountain Academy. It's "life long learning" after all.

Despite being in the same continent, in the same village, and in the same group when they flew to Pyrrhia; Windlifter officially meets Blade and Maru only upon arrival at Pyrrhia. He dragged them along to Jade Mountain Academy, much to Blade's annoyance.

Windlifter's justification for dragging Blade along is due to his own prejudice against HiveWings, he wants to know them better. And Blade was (unfortunately) within his reach at the moment. The two did have a rough start, and Maru is there as the peacemaker with popcorns making sure they don't kill each other.

Windlifter sets out to understand other tribes, especially the HiveWings, better. But ended up understanding Blade, as his own person dragon, better.

Cabbie was an enigma at first, but doable (mainly because they shares some common grounds). And Dipper... took him the longest to understand. By the time he finally gets her, Dipper calls him her best friend, which he agrees.

(This point is entirely inspired by C130's fic on AO3, specifically Q is for Quarantine Chapter 48) By the time Dusty joins Air Attack, Windlifter already found himself a partner and have two dragonets. His partner is named Tulasi, a LeafWing who grew up in PoisonWing Village. They first met at LeafSilk Village when everything on Pantala started to settle down. Their relationship begins on a friendly terms and they maintained that even when Windlifter went to Pyrrhia for studies (only returning home for a short time whenever possible) but they manage to make it work.

Air Attack team from Pyrrhia

Dipper

Dipper wouldn't look exactly like this, this is a typical SeaWing line art. Dipper's dorsal fin would tapered off to a SkyWing's spikes; her tail is slightly narrower than a SeaWing's but still thicker than a SkyWing's; she wouldn't have the barbels on her lower jaw or the webs between her talons; and her wingspan is greater than the typical SeaWing's but are still inferior to the SkyWing's. And as mentioned below, her bioluminescent stripes doesn't function. She put more effort to her chevron patterns than her three white stripes.

A SeaWing/SkyWing hybrid. She looks like a SeaWing… maybe a little funny-looking here and there… and a little too yellows and reds instead of greens and blues (did I say a little? I mean a lot). She have gills, but not the webbed talons. Her bioluminescent stripes are non-functional, and she can breath fire. (not underwater though)

Since she looks too different than the regular SeaWings, she grew up alone in one of the many islands in the Bay of a Thousand Scales. Being all alone by herself made her a bit loony… and socially stunted.

She did try living underwater with fellow SeaWings but since her bioluminescent stripes doesn't functions, she simply can't converse in Aquatic even if she knows a word or two.

So her next best move is to live on one of the islands and hoped fellow SeaWings would surface and socialize with her above water. But after a few attempted socializing, her visitors dwindles out until none for months. She'd be lucky if she even gets a visitor within a year.

By behaviour, you'd think she'd be on the young side… She's older than Windlifter. (Between a few years to a decade older.)

One day, she got word about Jade Mountain Academy, and was interested to see "what's up with that? sounds fun!". She was apprehensive at first, but it's worth a shot. She thought it would just be a short trip; just a little visit and then go back home. "No need to overstay your welcome". The risk she took was calculated, but damn, was she bad at math.

This is where our Pantalan trio just picked up strays whenever they could. Windlifter, Blade, and Maru thought she's a norm, and by the time they realized that she's an outlier, Dipper is already a part of this "not quite, but not so dysfunctional famil—I mean, group".

Cabbie

This is where I took even more creative liberties with the lore. sue me

Cabbie wouldn't look this friendly. Maybe a bit more aloof. Also, this is a typical MudWing line art. Just imagine he have the SkyWing's wings instead. That red thing on his backside isn't a scar (though I should give him some scarring from his wartime) or the blood of his enemies (honestly, he would have some on him just because), it's his red chevron pattern painted on with scale polish by the smokejumpers (its' messy, and they waste bottles of scale polish on it) and so does the three white lines on his hind legs. Gave him some scarring, and the smokejumpers insist on painting the "51" on his face as part of their bonding activity. Someday, Drip and Blackout would paint "PP" on his right wing and Avalanche would (unhelpfully) adds "F" to it. That's how Cabbie got his PPF 51 call sign. A lot of scale polish will be wasted that day.

A MudWing/SkyWing hybrid. Bred for war in the past. He's built like a MudWing with the SkyWing's impressive wingspan. Easily pass off as a MudWing. You know volcanic mud? That's his coloring. (see picture above lol) He can breath fire without the MudWing's "need to be warm enough" rule.

~120 years old. Lived through wars and he didn't want to live through another one so he sits out the SandWing Succession War. One war in a lifetime is more than enough for any dragon really.

He lives in a cave somewhere between the Sky Kingdom and Mud Kingdom's borders, somewhere close to Diamond Spray Delta.

One day he went down to the Mud Kingdom for some mud bath; unintentionally discovered several MudWing nests; and noticed some of them contains blood-red eggs. Long story short, "no thoughts, head empty. ooh shiny!", he took all the red eggs with him and by the time he flew back home, he realized he have five blood-red MudWing eggs to look after now. Why didn't he just leave the eggs? Being a hybrid, he's wired differently than purebred MudWings. And, they're his now so shut up!

Being a single da— I mean uncle to five very loud, very messy, very energetic, young dragons tire him out really fast. So he went to drop them off at Jade Mountain Academy for the weekend. And what an adventure that would become.

The smokejumpers

From top to bottom: Dynamite, Drip, Blackout, Pinecone, and Avalanche. I tried so hard to not make them look related but still maintains their vehicle coloring, and also stick to WoF canon of MudWing coloring, which means Dynamite, Drip, and Avalanche all have eye color mutation. Dynamite and Drip still looks like they're related fml. I'm going to add the smokejumpers' team logo and their call sign numbers later. The logo would be their tattoo and the numbers will just be painted on. So I also added reflective scale polish on their wings' scales to evoke those reflective safety vest. If they could get their way, the jumpers would be painting themselves head to toe with it. Maru made sure they don't waste a single drop of it, that scale polish was costly.

All of them are MudWings, hatched from blood-red eggs, so they have fire resistant scales. And quite the bunch of daring little dragonets. They even make a game out of jumping over bonfires. Cabbie lovingly calls them "smokejumpers".

Since Cabbie egg-napped them from their original nests, they're not actually blood-related. But that doesn't make them any less siblings than the blood-related MudWing siblings.

Dynamite is the big wing. She wouldn't have been the big wing of her original siblings. So in the siblings of smokejumpers, she turns out the smallest. From smallest to biggest; Drip (only slightly larger than Dynamite), Blackout, Pinecone, and Avalanche.

Pinecone and Avalanche would've been the big wings of their respective blood-related siblings.

If you think "Avalanche" doesn't sound like a MudWing name, it was either that or "Mudslide". He picked "Avalanche" because it sounded better and badass.

How did they get their names? Dynamite suddenly sneezed fire once and gave Cabbie a heart attack. Drip always dripping with mud and trailing messes everywhere, and Cabbie clean up after him of course. Blackout accidentally put out their bonfire once. Pinecone collects funny shaped pinecones as a hobby. And Avalanche caused a landslide once, he pleaded not guilty. (Saving these from tag limbo, should've been included in post proper from day one.)

Cabbie sent them to study at Jade Mountain Academy so they'd stop giving him more mess to cleanup. They made messes along the way anyway.

At this point in the story (of them going to Jade Mountain Academy), they're tween to young teen dragonets, so 3-4 years old (6-7 is the dragon age of maturity iirc). By the time Dusty joins Air Attack, they'd be somewhere in their mid-late thirties, still as energetic, playful, and daring as they were.

How did they determined who get what number to paint on their faces? They roll two dice; Dynamite got 22; Drip got 36; Blackout 25; Pinecone rolled 1 and lost the second die, so she got 10; after they search for the lost die, Avalanche rolled 55; and they got Cabbie to roll 51. And then they get to painting the numbers on each other's faces. It's part of their bonding activities.

Patch

WoF canon: NightWing can have dark green eyes, Me: lime. Same as Maru, I might change how I want the lifeline pattern to look, maybe as an arm band (leg band??) instead. xp

A small NightWing, due to genetics but mainly, malnutrition. She have future vision, but she can only see as far as… 2 hours into the future.

Grew up in the volcanic NightWing Kingdom. She's somehow lucky enough to manage to hatched under one full moon… even through all the soot and smokes from the volcanoes, and the clouds. Everything just lines up exactly right for her to be under one full moon when she hatched. How did her egg got out in the open instead of safely in the caves with the other NightWing eggs? Well, some dragon manage to misplaced it somehow idk.

Currently lives in NightWing Village of the Rainforest Kingdom.

One night, she dreamed about going to Jade Mountain Academy… and interesting things happens. So she went. And interesting things did happened. It's a fated assembly.

WoF headcanon; the respect that HiveWings and SilkWings have towards NightWings borders on reverence (all thanks to Clearsight). Therefore neither Blade nor Maru will argue with Patch. If they didn't know any better they'd worship the ground she walks on. The two would eventually grow out of this blind respect to actually respects her for who she is.

Size comparison is its own post now.

I have plans for the Propwash Junction peeps too, they'll have their own post. Dusty won't have his picture here (he's not counted in the 12 pics at the start of this post) but I need to include some info about Dusty here before I forgot anything. So,

Dusty

A small RainWing/MudWing hybrid. (I haven't come up with anything else)

Suffers a serious, near-crippling, wings injury due to Ripslinger (I haven't come up with what the injury is, or whether Ripslinger is responsible for it directly or indirectly) so Dusty needs support equipment to help him fly (I haven't come up with what invention Dottie made to support Dusty yet). So anyway, by the time Planes F&R events happened, that support equipment starts to fail, and they're out of materials to make a new one. And that's how he joined the PPAA team.

[sgdragon]

Who asked for a biblically accurate Blade and Dusty as WoF dragons? No one. Did I do it anyway? Yes.

I hope you like it @amethyst257, I saw your Planes F&R Au and just had to draw it since both Planes and WoF are my two absolute FAVOURITE fandoms out there!

I also took inspiration from Gold07.arts on instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CwbOg2PP5He/?igsh=OWszMXpremtyc2kz

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[boeingboingboing]

I tried drawing Blade as a hivewing after seeing Amethyst's designs. So credits to @amethyst257 as the design of hivewing Blade as well as the Planes as WoF AU belongs to her.

Sorry if the coloring ain't up to mark. It was rushed and it was hard mixing color pencils cause I'm too stubborn to use paints :')

Anyway, Hivewing Blade>>>>

[kengi-bengi]

oh look who it is!

Now I personally don't remember much of Qibli [i don't remember much of wof to begin with, this au is like half the time relearning things] But the Fanon interpretation of him grew on me. That added with the little I remember of him, when he worked and planed with Turtle how to learn more about Darkstalker. And even covered for Turtle when he was still hiding his magic and very existence from the wanna-be-Laviathan.

Overall Ive written quite the fun relationship that grows in this au with him and Turtle- they already have some "taking down big evil forces" history so I think we are all in for a bit of a fun time with these two haha

[Qibli will be getting a sketch dump sheet; i will try to provide one for every character given a ref]

[princeturts]

The “real” historical explanation for the Floewings

So I just posted the Howling Winds story, which is the Floewings’ own beliefs about how they ended up in the Northern Pole, based on the little information that has been passed down through their tribe orally. I thought I might as well share what *actually* happened considering it’s kind of important to my AU.

In this universe the Scorching happened millions of years before the current wof timeline, and before the Scorching Pyrriah had another peninsula where the Seawing kingdom would be

At this point none of the dragons in Pyrriah had united into tribes yet. So what would eventually be the Floewings were a slightly bulkier and less colorful group of seawings. They would only diverge from the Seawings as their own subspecies when a massive volcano on the peninsula suddenly erupted, causing a chain reaction of fissures along the coastline. Even more deadly, the volcano ejected a pyroclastic surge (the thing that wiped out Pompeii go look it up) and coated the sky in dust. The violent underground shifting caused huge chunks of land to go hurtling into the sea, and with them went the Floewings —the very few that weren’t wiped out by the volcano. They were now drifting northward on an unanchored island which provided and attracted enough food to sustain a small population. I refer to this as ‘the Morphing Period’ as during this “drifting” time the floes lost their gills and developed smaller and smaller wings, among most of the many other differences that make them very unlike Seawings. It’s at the end of this period that Floewings can be officially classed as a subspecies of dragon, their own tribe.

The “floating island” did eventually hit the northern pole and glaciers began to form over it. The glaciers spread and connected with the ice planes forming the Northern Continent. And the Floewings prospered for millions of years until they became the dragons they are now.

Howling Winds WAS a real dragon who existed at the time of the Scorching, and he did gather and unite the Floewings on the floating island, and he did probably irreparably burn one or both of his wings into tattered stumps. But unfortunately you can’t fight a volcano and he definitely didn’t live long enough to see the Floes reach the northern pole -more likely his descendants kept being named after him. However, he was still a very influential and heroic dragon, and the first King of the Floewings.

[flying-machine07]

blade how are you still alive with all these burns you've gotten /j

[flying-machine07]

I don't have any headcanons about her HELP uh but she's a skywing

[soumarhea]

My Planes Fire & Rescue Wings of Fire au size comparison. This is just an "extras" to the main post. If you want to see their pictures individually, go ahead to that rambling post!

The aerial crew

Left to right; Cabbie, Windlifter, Dipper, and Blade.

Cabbie could easily crushed Blade like the insect his tribe is, or snapped Windlifter in half like the twig his tribe is. Dipper have more volume than Blade and Windlifter. Within the aerial crew specifically, Dipper would be second largest by volume (Pantalan tribes are twinks compared to the Pyrrhian tribes fr), but Windlifter have height superiority (Dipper is slightly taller than Blade if she held her head high).

The smokejumpers

Left to right; Avalanche, Pinecone, Blackout, Drip, and Dynamite (Cabbie and Blade's silhouette for scale).

The smokejumpers when they first went to Jade Mountain Academy. Look at how small they were, aww. And then,

the smokejumpers when Dusty joins Air Attack. They have grown, and are still slowly growing in size. Dynamite is already slightly taller than Blade if she held her head high. Blade will be vertically challenged by everyone but Maru and Patch lol.

Bonus, the smokejumpers' logo;

Left; my WoF au version of the logo and, Right; the original version.

At first I planned to just use the original logo, and then realized why/how would they know about parachute and off-road tire?? And then I tried redesigning it; swapping the parachute with wings, and the tire with (at first dragon footprint but I can't make it look good orz so I settled with) a dragon scale. (Does it look like a scale?? Even I am not convinced, and I'm the one who made this smh) Am I satisfied with it? No. I might tweaked it a lil bit more if I must.

The support crew + Nick

Left to right; Nick, Maru, and Patch (Cabbie's silhouette for scale).

I did not realized how BIG I made Cabbie until this point. I did not realized how small I made Patch until this point. The Cabbie-Patch size difference is crazy, Patch is about the size of Dynamite when she was a dragonet...

Bonus #2. The reference I used to determine their sizing, the Piston Peak Air Attack crew;

From left to right: Dusty, Dipper, Patch, Maru, Cabbie, Dynamite, Avalanche, Blackout, Drip, Pinecone, Blade, and Windlifter.

Note, their tires/tracked treads (front tire for the aircrafts) are on the same level (I checked). So yep, the Cabbie-Patch size difference is as biblically accurate as it can gets. This also means the only one on base who could fit in Blade's cabin space is Patch (trust me, I checked). Might be too cramped for comfort, but it is manageable. Sadly, the jumpers will never out-size Blade.

The entire Air Attack team + Nick;

I'm being repetitive atp Left to right; Cabbie, Windlifter, Dipper, Blade, Avalanche, Pinecone, Blackout, Drip, Dynamite, Nick, Maru, and Patch.

Note, biblically accurate size chart would put Dipper between Avalanche and Pinecone, and Blade between Dynamite and Nick (blame those MudWing beefy genes). I couldn't be bothered enough to rearrange them. But, I am bothered enough to make this last minute addition, the Pantalan quartet specifically;

can't believe I nearly forgot to put Blade and Nick together smh

[soumarhea]

Back at it again with Planes WoF au, this time with the racers of Wings Around The Globe Rally. Or, in this au, Wings Around The Continent Rally. This is going to be a short one since apparently Meet The Planes and The Art of Planes (I don't have any other books on them other than these two) have very little material on the racers for me to work with.

Anyway, when I gave the smokejumpers their call sign numbers and Dusty his "D7", I didn't think much of it. And then, half way through working with the rest of the racers, I got hit with the realization, "Shouldn't Pyrrhia have their own version of alphanumeric characters?? Like, sure, every time us readers were shown in-universe writings, it's still A to Z and 0 to 9, but that might as well be for readers' convenience. Shouldn't the dragons still have their own lettering??". But by this point I'm already in too deep, so I'll just say the alphanumerics lean more towards World of Cars than Wings of Fire because it's a pain to go back and change things atp. fml

[Propwash Junction] | [Piston Peak Air Attack] | [PPAA Size comp.]

Ripslinger

The green of his wings is due to his hybrid-ness. And since green isn't a regular color for SkyWings and NightWings, he took pride in it so much that he had the tips of his horns, spikes, talons, and claws painted in the same shade.

He's a SkyWing/NightWing hybrid. As if a SkyWing's pride isn't enough, he also have a NightWing's superiority complex. He didn't have any NightWing powers tho.

He has a natural-born talent for fast flying and is blessed with high maneuvering speed. His life growing up was filled with praise and adoration by everyone. When he won first place in his first ever race, to say it didn't go to his head would be an utter lie. And he'd proceed to make a winning streak that was yet to be broken.

The only thing bigger than his wingspans is his ego. The fact that Dusty, a lowly "lazy" RainWing, joins the big race doesn't sit right with him. There's no way this puny little farm lizard could even dream of comparing to him!

Ned & Zed

I keep forgetting which one am I working with at some points (only way to tell them apart is their wings' gradient and the little detail in their eye), so I choose to include their names with their numbers. Yep. These goobers is the reason I even noticed the alphanumerics issue.

They're SkyWing twins. Neither developed firescales, so they very much live a regular healthy lives.

Before they become racers, they're very much a pair of troublemakers in the Sky Kingdom, from swindling to stealing and every other crime they allegedly committed. Until the twin crosses paths with Ripslinger, who see how their underhandedness can come in handy for him.

What they don't have in talent, they make up in cunning. Ned and Zed are superior at playing dirty.

El Chupacabra

I want to give him cape, but damn, I don't wanna draw cape. He can't shame me if he don't have cape.

A typical MudWing. He has quite the passion for art, from literature to music to theater. He also likes to play wrestling with his siblings. But most of all, he loves racing.

He never missed a single race held by the Mud Kingdom. El Chu won enough times to self-proclaim himself as a racing champion of Mud Kingdom. The reason he joins the Wings Around The Continent Rally is to see what it's all about.

His siblings made the mask and gifted it to him as a good luck charm. He's very touched by the gift and never took it off since he got it.

Bulldog

Uses armband (legband??) for his number. He's not comfortable with painting his scales, especially over his bioluminescence scales.

A typical SeaWing. The oldest dragon in the race, he was a veteran of the SandWing Succession War (everyone else here is below 30 years old).

The reason he ventured into racing was to see more of the world that was once plagued with war. But he'd soon find the enjoyment in racing itself.

He's faster underwater in his element, but that doesn't mean he'd lag behind in the air. In fact, he put up quite the challenge for the other racers.

Rochelle

I'm trying to come up with some interesting commentary here... She has a flower tattoo on her hind leg.

An IceWing with minor mutation. Her scales are pinkish than the typical blues or silvers.

She came from the Ice Kingdom village, Hamlet-That-Worships-the-Whales-Who-Sing-at-Night. (I just found out Ice Kingdom have stupendously long names for their villages, and I shall proceed to use the longest named village as her hometown.) Most in her village would describe her as beautiful. Dangerously beautiful.

Rochelle worked as a mail carrier and developed an affinity for flying fast, which inspired her to give racing a try. She has never looked back since.

Ishani

I want to use more colors for her, like oranges, purples, and greens, but then it'll take me next year to make up my mind on her design.

She's ¾Sandwing, ¼RainWing. One of her parents are SandWing/RainWing hybrid. Due to her RainWing-ness, her wings and dorsal frills can shift a limited color palette.

The reason she tried her luck in racing is due to a need for a change of pace. One of the things she finds to love about racing is the scenery around the continent. One other thing is, surprisingly, beating other racers in the race.

Her singing voice is otherworldly. If she hadn't made it as a racer, she'd do just as fine in theater.

Size comparison of the racers! Of course there's actually like 21 racers in total participating; they're just the notable ones.

It's funny that there's no NightWing representation here. There's Ripslinger, yes, but he's still more SkyWing than NightWing. And of course, Dusty is still the smallest.

So for the Wings Around The Continent stages, I look at the stages of Wings Around The Globe Rally and see if I could translate it on Pyrrhia's continent,

and this is what I ends up with;

"Washed-up Junction" still cracks me up, just the image of the little town being a retirement town full of old retired dragons y'know. Also, I might move Air Attack somewhere that actually have a peak...

So the race would start from the Sky Kingdom to the Ice Kingdom; from the heart of the Ice Kingdom to the border separating ice and sand; and then two races throughout the Kingdom of the Sand; one race across the mountain range to the east coast of the continent; a race across the sea to the Summer Palace (hc the palace would've already been somewhat rebuilt by this time); and then the race back to the Sky Kingdom.

The reason why the race doesn't go through Rainforest Kingdom is, because. I don't want Dusty to be anywhere near home when he got lost over the Bay of a Thousand Scales.

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what do you think he saw

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Nick

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dusty! He got a new ref for art fight