#the dragon prince tinker

[apogean-tides]

Nothing says "come home safely" like an enchantment at the zenith of the harvest moon:

The fact that Ethari is out there casting every spell imaginable under the zenith of the blood moon just to ensure his loved ones come home DOES things to me.

[colliebroccoli]

A Collage of my favorite character

[mathanpoppy27]

[onejellyfishplease]

Shame I will never be pronoun king...dont think I'll ever use she/her so we at least have SOME exclusion. Also does all pronouns include neopronouns

i dont mind!! give me allllll the pronouns

[rainwalker-dragonblade29]

Day 12, HOT DAD(S)

Pardon my audacity to post this 10 days late, but it's Ruthari, can you blame me?

I needed an excuse to draw em, I miss my dads.

[cottoncandybitchfuck]

Gorgug Thistlespring, a Half-Orc Barbarian raised by gnome tinkerers. His parents don’t fully get him but they love him and support him as he is. He dated a 4’11” girl and He’s 6’4”. He offered someone a metal flower on the first day of school, punched them, still offered them the flower, and sang in class. He died on the first day of school and went to hell. He bonded with Kristen because they both died that day. He became a drummer because Fig saw him sing about rage and wanted to share her coping mechanism. They became a rock band. He protects his friends. He loves his friends more than anything. He helped Ragh accept himself by kissing him at Prom and getting him to help fight a dragon. He left Elmville without telling Zelda goodbye and spent an entire season trying to fix it. Fig was missing, Riz was dragged into a mirror? He had to get to them, but he should have called her. He’s the greatest wizard of the age. “Spring Break, I believe in you.” He is the crab king and the shrimp prince. He figured out how to use his parent’s satellite to talk to Zelda. “It’s Gorgug, keep going.” He hugged Fabian, who punched him on the first day of school when they got back to each other in the Nightmare King’s forest. He multiclassed without anyone doing it before him and without help. He mixed his parents together and made a new multiclass. He built the solar lasso that caught the night yorb, he helped Riz gain some of his arcano-tech! His van is holding the Night Yorb. He uses his rage to protect people, he took 4 years of school at once to make sure he got to multiclass because he was not gonna be told no. He stayed on the Owlbears for Fabian even though he didn’t want it anymore. He took the Last Standard Exam and he crit so. many. times. He didn’t fall and neither did his friends! He flew a boat and killed dragons and he protected his spellcasters from Porter because that bitch was not gonna kill his friends. He hugged Kristen and told her she looked better. He looked better too. “Remember when we died?” He posited “It might happen again,” she responded. He didn’t let it. He wouldn’t let that happen. Not to them, never again. His new girlfriend is 2’.

I genuinely can’t get over him I love him and I have so many more analyses of so many more characters coming and hopefully they will be more coherent but it’s 4 am in a warehouse

[sarasade]

Since The Dragon Prince is ending (or at least the second arc is ending) in December I'll celebrate that by listing the funniest things I've witnessed in the fandom during these years:

-The Great Aaravos Thirst of 2019.

-Knowing The Thirst™ had been even greater if Tumblr wouldn't have banned porn just a year earlier.

-Aaravos' character designer being very happy with all the thirst posting.

-The Great Virst of 2019 that was balanced out by the people who thought Viren was a total troll.

-Rayla-Claudia-Callum love triangle speculations before s3.

-"Viren actually killed everyone, including Sarai and his ex-wife", speculations during s1-3.

-Aaravos Is A Good Person and a cinnamon roll -speculations.

-Fandom calling Ethari "The Tinker" before his name was revealed and also correctly predicting him and Runaan being a couple long before it got confirmed.

-Jason Simpson (Viren's VA) being grumpy about people shipping Aaravos and Viren while Todd Erik Dellums (Aaravos's VA) egged the fans on and seemed to find the ship pretty funny.

-After the Midnight Star poem's full English translation got released some fans concluded that Elarion was a human girl Aaravos once was in love with and thus Elavos was born. You can still search the ship name on Tumblr to experience the time campsule of 2019 era of the fandom. Yes, people shipped Aaravos with a literal city and I think that's beautiful.

-The drought period of 2019-2022 hiatus where it was just a couple really weird terminally online fans posting their harmless headcanons, including a small fandom of a. ten people forming around Viren's ex-wife Lissa.

-Unhinged TDP fan theories like "Aaravos is Callum's Dad" and "Callum will learn every primal source" aka wanting TDP to be Avatar 2.0 but with elves.

-The fan response that parodied these theories including "Everyone is a Startouch elf, especially Bait"

-The Great FartGate of 2022 aka all of TDP Twitter collectively complaining about the fart jokes in s4.

-These 2024 Valentine's Day posts most likely done by the lead writer Devon Giehl.

-If you search Aaravos on Google the most frequently asked question is about his gender.

-TDP wiki gleefully listing Aaravos and Viren as Sir Sparklepuff's parents after s5.

-The fandom never letting go of the "Viren imprisoned Harrow in Pip" theory.

-Which Primal Source Are You -Quiz from 2018 foreshadowing events of the show like "where would you hide a dangerous magical object" and one of the answers being "in the bottom of the sea" possibly referring to Aaravos' pearl.

-A tweet fans thought was a mistake actually foreshadowed Aaravos being a giant.

I'll add more later if I feel like it.

edit:

ok one more: behold, one of the most popular TDP posts on Tumblr

[flipppyflopp]

Been going through brainrot thinking about a neverland au with the twst boys, specifically the Diasomnia boys as fairies. 🧚‍♂️✨

I don’t remember much of the lore of Pixie Hollow, but I mashed what I remember with my own ideas for this Neverland AU. I wanted to show off Malleus’s design first and for the pose I was inspired by this art book for Pixie Hollow I found in my research, which I included on the last slide. I also made some doodles of Malleus as well as some notes on his design as well as the AU in general, so be sure to swipe!

So Malleus is still a Prince in this au and not to mess with Queen Clarion ruling over the Diurnal Fae, I created the Nocturnal Fae who instead of having talents, like animal, light, tinker, water, etc., they train as warriors and are able to use a range of magic. Overblotting is still a possibility, so magic can only be used so much, unless you are of the royal bloodline as they have a greater pool of magic due to their distant relation to dragons. If Pixie Hollow is ever threatened whether by hawks, pirates, or mermaids, the Nocturnal Fae come in to protect the Pixie Dust Tree and the other fairies. The land of the Nocturnal Fae is called Briar Valley and is characterized by its sprawling Briar patches and usually cloudy weather. Diurnal Fae that travel to Briar Valley become fatigued and sleepy (wonder who might be plagued by this 👀) due to the difference in light vs. dark nature.

I could ramble on and on, but I’ll save it for some later posts. Any questions about the AU, like what the other houses would be, leave a comment or an ask in my inbox! I hope to post Silver and Sebek’s designs next, but I might get distracted and draw some Basketball Club 😅

[hannahhook7744]

Who Teaches What At Auradon Prep (Headcanons);

Canonical Classes:

Art= Bess the Never fairy.

Acapella Music Class=Flora.

Bad Fairies= Fauna.

Basic Chivalry= Prince Edward (from Enchanted). 

Belle’s Book Club (Class and Club?)= Belle.

Biology=Abigail.

Chemistry=Mr. Deley.

Cooking= Attila (from Tangled).

Dragon Anatomy Class= Mushu.

Enchanted forestry= Honeymaren Nattura.  

Flying Carpet Driving Class= Eden. 

Grammar=Ms. Vitelli.

Heritage and History= Cavin (From Adventures of the Gummi Bears). 

Heroism= Hercules. 

Heroic Leadership= Beast.

History of Auradon= Bruce Davis (Haunted Mansion). 

History of Woodsmen and Pirates= Tinker Bell. 

Honors Alchemy= Xavier the blacksmith (Tangled).

Jousting Class=Princess Calla.

Life Skills Without Magic= Merryweather.

Magical History= Fairy Godmother.

Mathematics=Ms. Vitelli.

Mermaid Language Class= Aquarianne.

Mindfulness= Mrs. Potts. 

Mining for Beginners= Grumpy.

P.E= Coach Jenkins.

Philosophy=Margaret.

Remedial Goodness 101= Fairy Godmother.

Science=Daedalus (from the Hercules TV show). 

Smiling= Ryder Nattura. 

Unabridged Fairy Tales From The Nineteen Regions= Jiminy Cricket. 

Virtues and Values= Miss Nettle.

Non-Canonical Classes:

Geography=Milo Thatcher.

Thanks for the help @panthera-tigris-venenata ,

@casinotrio1965 , and @igetthedisneybox .

The ones colored green are canon.

[fanfictionroxs]

The Pirate Queens

Pirate Queens Baela and Rhaena who kidnap the crown prince Jacaerys and the lord of the tides Lucerys.. well, it's more a rescue since the brothers' ship is sinking.

Baela & Rhaena ran away from home long time back because misogyny denied them their birthright. They were mere 8 years old then and their mother had just died. Horrible stuff happens and they sneak after their uncle Laenor who fakes his death to escape the tragedies of their house (and his homophobic father), but the ship the girls' follow him in crashes. The girls barely hold onto each other and survive, but their uncle never finds out that he was being followed. 30 years pass and the girls have grown to rule over all pirates with hair died black and enough scars to completely detach themselves from the identity of rich ladies.

They do not remember much of their previous life, only their mother's loving face and the dragons.. but their love for the skies and to take flight never leaves. However, they have no wish to return to dragons and the so called honorable houses where little girls are thrown under grown men. Baela and Rhaena have been free at the sea long enough to understand the madness they come from. However, one day, Rhaena hears of the tale of the flying ship and curiosity makes her seek out the storyteller who sits on a grand ship. The man is tall with a head full of black curly hair and his skin has just the slightest bit of green tinge to it. Rhaena snorts because she sees his commander clothes, but also knows a person out of their depth.. she has learnt to recognize it otherwise she would just send more people to absolutely unnecessary deaths. Better that the land creatures stay on their lands instead of trying to find fins and gills at the bottom of the ocean. The seas didn't come naturally to many, not in the way it did to her and Baela, so she wonders how this man came to be commander.

The commander/storyteller is joined by an older man with a striking resemblance to him and together they continue his story about Peter Pan helping Wendy fly with a bit of magical dust and then.. oh! A flying ship!

Rhaena almost gasps, but a hand closes around her mouth before she can and she relaxes in the hold. Baela

The older man (brother to the storyteller, Rhaena guesses) has a small ship figurine he mimics flying in the air and the sailors around the two men look enchanted. Rhaena looks back at her sister and there is a twinkle in her older sister's eye..who looks enchanted at the sight of the man with the figurine just as the sailors do and Rhaena can see the trouble the pirate queen is going to bring on their heads.. she cannot wait to assist her.

And so, by absolutely no evil machinations on the part of Baela and Rhaena, the ship of the storyteller crashes and well, what are pirates to do but sack and steal? Rhaena is disappointed at the lack of pretty dresses (Luke makes sure to always stack his ships full of dresses later on so that the pirate queens may sack happily). She's not the world's most fashionable pirate for nothing. But she guess the storyteller will have to do. He can regail her with stories of Peter Pan. And if she feels like Peter Pan stealing herself a Wendy who will tell her stories, she keeps it to herself until maybe the sisters' 4th or 5th kidnapping of the princes.

And one day, she hopes, maybe they can find a tinker bell who will sprinkle her magical dust to make Baela and Rhaena's ship Laena, fly. The magic would have to be strong to achieve such a feat, but with the help of Jace and Luke's aunty Alys, they just might be able to do it.

Epilogue: Captain Hook Aemond One-Eye comes to steals Wendy Luke who goes with him happily.. Apparently being kidnapped is not a new thing for the princes. Sometimes it's dragons, sometimes it's wolves and recently it's pirate queens. Basically, Jace and Luke become Baela and Rhaena's land husbands whom they come to visit from time to time unless the girls get impatient and just steal them. Baela has other land husbands too and Jace is a lovely addition to her harem while Jace has other husbands and a wife (Cregan, Aegon, Helaena) and Baela is a positively feral enchanting addition to his harem. Rhaena and Luke share a more platonic love much like Rhaenyra and Laenor once did because they are both super gay, but also soulmates because Peter Pan and Wendy will always be soulmates. Captain Hook cough Aemond cough is a jealous dragon, but he has no choice but to concede to his beloved. He anyway has Alys to keep him company as he follows after her like a lost boy handing her this potion and that herb to help Laena take to the skies.

[bestanimatedmovie]

Welcome to Revenge of the Underrated!

Some of you asked me to put a "haven't watched both" to be more fair to the more unknown movies, but I've seen other tournaments doing this and I think it limits too much who can participate in the polls. So what I decided to do is a double elimination!

What does that mean? That means a movie has to lose twice to be eliminated. In other words, there will be a sorts of losers bracket that'll be part of main bracket. I'm undecided on whether to do this for only one round or the whole bracket, as it would make the tournament very long. Do let me know if you have any opinion about it.

Anyway, Revenge of the Underrated, Round 1:

Miss Hokusai vs Happily N'Ever After

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children vs Tiger and Bunny: The Rising

Ballerina vs Book Girl

On-Gaku: Our Sound vs Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie Part 1

Cats don't Dance vs The Flight of Dragons

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge vs The Girl Without Hands

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix vs Flatland: The Film

Felidae vs Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West vs Unico in the Island of Magic

Rock and Rule vs Rock-A-Doodle

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning vs Freddie as F.R.0.7

The Plague Dogs vs The Magic Riddle

Pokemon Heroes vs The Pebble and the Penguin

Strange Magic vs Sea Prince and the Fire Child

Help! I'm a Fish vs Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs

16.Azur and Asmar: The Prince's Quest vs Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

17.Titan A.E. vs Ico, the Brave Horse

18.The Adventures of Mark Twain vs A Troll in Central Park

19.The Case of Hana and Alice vs Once Upon a Forest

20.Underdogs vs Long Way North

21.Mars Needs Moms vs The Twelve Months

22.Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Candace Against the Universe vs Blinky Bill

23.Robot Carnival vs Revue Starlight: The Movie

24.One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island vs Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

25.Ruben Brandt, Collector vs Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie

26.Lupin III: The First vs Pippi Longstocking

27.The Three Caballeros vs The Legend of Manxmouse

28.Princes and Princesses vs The Snow Queen

29.A Letter to Momo vs Seven Days War

30.The Wild Thornberrys Movie vs The Rabbi's Cat

31.Night on the Galactic Railroad vs The Boy who Wanted to be a Bear

32.The Swan Princess vs Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito

33.Patema Inverted vs Bartok the Magnificent

34.Next Gen vs Padak

35.Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods vs Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

36.Thumbelina vs Catnapped!

37.Early Man vs Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island

38.Junk Head vs Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie

39.Charlotte's Web (1973) vs The Princess and the Goblin

40.Shaun the Sheep Movie vs Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

41. Redline vs Balto

42. The Addams Family vs Inu-Oh

43. Epic vs Mary and the Witch's Flower

44.The Girl Who Leapt Through Time vs Vivo

45.Barbie: Princess Charm School vs Kronk''s New Groove

46.Waking Life vs The Transformers: The Movie

47.Barbie in the Nutcracker vs Barbie as Rapunzel

48.Pokemon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back vs Cool World

49.The Land Before Time vs When the Wind Blows

50.The Secret of NIMH vs Summer Wars

51.The Black Cauldron vs All Dogs go to Heaven

52.The Red Turtle vs FernGully: The Last Rainforest

53.Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas vs Ron's Gone Wrong

54.The Boxtrolls vs Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

55.Arthur Christmas vs One Piece Film Red

56.Barbie of Swan Lake vs The Rescuers Down Under

57.Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole vs Secret of the Wings

58.The Castle of Cagliostro vs Pokemon: The Movie 2000

59.Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust vs Arthur and the Invisibles

60.Tinker Bell vs Barbie as the Island Princess

61.Mind Game vs Tekkonkinkreet

62.The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh vs Dragon Ball Super: Broly

63.Mirai vs Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

64.The Lion King II: Simba's Pride vs Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase

[quotidianish]

“Where’s Winter?” he whispered, nudging Ostrich with his elbow. She sat up and looked around with blurry confusion.

  “I don’t know,” she said. “He was here a moment ago.”

Qibli twisted in a frantic circle and spotted a shadow flitting through the pear orchard. He couldn’t shout for Winter lest he alert the whole compound. Qibli groaned internally.

  “Stay here,” he whispered to Ostrich. “Stay as hidden as you can. We’ll be right back.”

She nodded, strutting back into the shadows.

  Qibli hurried after the Icewing prince and realized that he was aiming for the courtyard, separated from the orchard with a wall. It was enormous, surrounded with buildings and a partial bailey, blocking his view of the inside. The bricks were painted in a turquoise and amber mosaic of snakes and lizards chasing one another endlessly.

  Before even seeing where Winter was headed, Qibli knew all too well what he was planning to do. The courtyard was noisy with birds and other pest-like creatures, alongside the distinct growl of a dragon.

Arrrrgh, Winter, you obsessed ninny.

  He caught up as Winter was tinkering with the lock of the metal gate. It stretched up to an arch at the doorway, where the mud had begun to crumble, smelling of spoiled food, live pigs, and dates. 

“Are you serious?” he said, and Winter jumped a mile, which was almost hilarious enough to make this side excursion worthwhile.

  “Shhhhh!” Winter hissed.

“What are you thinking?” Qibli whispered.

  “I’m thinking your horrifying grandfather will make this poor dragon into tomorrow’s buffet,” Winter whispered back. “Unless I save it.”

“Right now?” Qibli asked. “In the middle of our own precarious escape?”

  “Well, I’m not planning on coming back!” Winter said, tugging on the lock again. “Hey, you’re a street thug. Can you pick this lock for me?”

  “An Outclaw is not the same thing as a criminal,” Qibli protested. “Oh, fine, move over.” He studied the lock for a moment, unsheathing his kirpan and inserting it into the mechanism, wiggling it around until he heard a click.

  “Now what?” he asked Winter as he nudged at the gate, careful not to open it too wide so the hinges wouldn’t creak. “We shove it in a bag and carry it off into the desert with us? I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this, but dragons aren’t exactly travel-sized.”

  “We’ll just let it out,” Winter said, pacing past him into the moonlit quadrangle. “It’s smart enough to fend for itself after that.”

   Qibli decided not to point out that it hadn’t been smart enough not to get caught in the first place.

  Winter crouched beside a large chain, bound against the beige dragon’s hind leg and anchored into the ground with weights. Despite having thrashed helplessly a moment ago, this time it peered curiously down at them.

  “Don’t be afraid,” Winter said softly. He looked around for the small alcohol lamp by the window they’d seen earlier, and carefully reached for its shackle. Upon bringing the flame close to the brass chains, the heat thawed through the metal like snow. They both stepped back and waited.

  Slowly, the levitation-esque creature raised its head, tearing its obsidian black eyes from the two humans and towards the night sky. A plume of smoke shot through the air as it flapped its enormous wings once, then twice, then lifting itself off the ground, sending a whirlwind of sand flying into Qibli’s face, before swiftly gliding away to freedom.

[neteyammeowmeow]

Snippets of fun facts from my Genshin Impact/Ninjago AU :3

Spinjitzu is interpreted as an ancient art made to mimic or channel a dragon's breath. If the case were an elemental user, they are able to infuse their powers with the technique, and making it stronger than it was. (Still an early sketch of the concept. It was either to honor "Rex Lapis" or as an interpretation of the Dragon Sovereigns) It's not called Spinjitzu in this au though.Lol

Most of the Ninja are all reincarnations of the previous Elemental "masters" or those who were part of the Elemental alliance.

Lloyd is also part of Alice's family (he was taken in by Alice, she is his godmother (and aunt??)), one of the witches from the Hexenzirkel. He is Albedo and Klee's older brother. However, unlike the two who are live in Mondstadt and are part of the Knights of Favonius, Lloyd lives his own life in Liyue (often residing in Qiaoying Village). This doesn't change the fact that he cares for his siblings, and he makes visits for Mondstadt to see them.

Zane's overall character is inspired/based on a greek mythology of a robot called Talos: "a giant automaton made of bronze to protect Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders. He circled the island's shores three times daily." (cited from Wikipedia), he was also called Talos by his inventor, though was also named as "Anthelme". In the Genshin au, his character is centered around the fact that he long yearns to understand humanity, and his sense to protect them is due to his fascination and fondness for them - knowing that though he was built to stand alongside them both through appearance and mind, he will always remain as a machine.

Zane is a friend of Jay, who is an automaton researcher (dubbed by himself of course), who's incredibly curious about how machinery works, he was especially curious on pre-Teyvat civilizations, and how far they advanced. He collects all sorts of ruin machine scraps, and he has a Commision event dedicated to him. Many of his friends joke that he could be qualified to become an Akademiyan student, but Jay would rather work under his own choices than be under someone elses. I really love the idea that Jay loves machinery and tinkering, so I developed this concept more in the au.

Benthomaar is a very well known actor around Fontaine, his noblelike and benevolent nature has made the nation dub him as their Prince, of course, in theatre. He excels in melodrama, and his performances have been very appreciated by many. Though under his guise, his penchant for theatre does not just go on stage, but beyond and behind. Aside from being an actor, he works as part of the Marechausee Phantom: from gathering intel, to even capturing the target, it is the opposite of his stage acts as he works under the spotlight.

Similarly, Harumi works the same way, though she is talented at her ways of deceipt, she shares masks of many, that which have fooled more than dozens. However, she works under the Fatui, as she was raised as part of the House of Hearth, and looks up to Arlecchino's ways greatly. She silently despises Lyney, though she is friends with Lynette.

Cole and Kai, though their stories are still vague at the moment, are actually friends. Cole is a Sumerian from the forest, while Kai is a Sumerian from the desert.

[onejellyfishplease]

@tinker-the-dragon did a design of you as the pronoun prince based off of your design! i hope you like it <3

[addystuffs]

Behold!! Some of the esteemed members of @onejellyfishplease's Prounoun Court!!

waahHAHAHA i spent wayyy to long on this anyway heres who eveyone is from left to right!!

@cosmocafe - the aviary master!! @tinker-the-dragon - the pronoun prince!! @onejellyfishplease - of course, the pronoun king/queen/monarch!! me! - the bard!! and @allmightyscroll-swag - the jester!!

so ig this a big collective fanart!!

[lunarmoonanons]

Nuada x Reader

🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕  

Nuada spends the day with his lover, waiting for the birth of their children. A birth that will reassure his hope and joy in the world.

🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕  

Masterlist

In a cottage nestled in the Appalachian mountains, two bodies cuddled in a warm bed. The sounds of the mountains awoke the elven prince. His long white hair spread across the pillows that cradled his head. He sat up slowly, looking down at his lover who rested on her stomach, smiling as he traced his fingers around the designs of her wings that rested so close into her skin. She always slept on her stomach so that her wings could rest peacefully.

“YN… my dear we must wake up.” Nuada whispered, leaning down to kiss her cheek. She opened her eyes and smiled.

“Good morning. You look excited.” She teased. They both were waiting for today, as her dragon eggs were showing signs of opening. YN sat up and placed a kiss on Nuada’s lips. “I’m excited as well.”

The prince stood and carried the half fairy in his arms bridal style to the shower. It had been several months since he was sent here for “house arrest.” Following the event of him trying to take over the world with the golden army, the B.P.R.D. had him under heavy surveillance and lock up, once it was deemed he was no longer a threat to humanity or his sister via their bond Nuada was released to a trusted ally of the agency who could watch him closely. The house arrest involved him being close to nature so that the elf could still be a part of his preferred habitat.

She was instantly nice and open to him, he was still reserved and mistrusting, believing her to be a mere human who couldn’t contain him. Nuada had the surprise of his day when she was revealed to be a half fairy. Perfectly capable of watching and containing him. Once the initial mistrust was out of the way, the two bonded over their love of the earth, their stories about the old magic kingdoms (his from firsthand account and hers from her mothers account), and how they both just wanted what was best for their peoples.

Conversations gave way to genuine feelings of affection. Love and Friendship. Eventually YN felt comfortable enough to show him her children. Three dragon eggs nestled in the fire, she had been watching and caring for them as if they were infants. The eggs were likely thousands of years old, but they seemed so fragile in the embers on the fireplace. Nuada hadn’t seen dragon eggs in so long he nearly cried at the sight. They were hope, showing that in this age where so much of his world had died not everything was killed off. There was still magic in the world.

So the two dedicated themselves to the eggs, and their work seemed to be paying off. Under the stream of water they kissed and held each other. Seemingly unable to keep apart from one another. The time it took to get ready was filled with soft touches, eager glances, and many many kisses on each other's skin. Their domestic moment was interrupted by the sound of soft scratching from the eggs that rested in the lit fireplace.

“Nuada? I think they’re getting ready.” YN whispered against his lips. They both pulled away for a second to listen for the tell tale sounds, and like it was waiting for an audience the sounds began again.

“Scrich scrich scrich… scrich scrich scrich…”

They came in threes and were just loud enough to be heard in the house. YN and Nuada pulled away from each other, quickly putting on some clothing and running over to the fireplace. Nuada’s little golden contraptions fluttering away to keep the fire lit and active, for a prince bent on revenge for magical creatures he was also quite the tinker. YN had been amazed when he described the device he made for the forest god seed. If only things had gone a different way, he would’ve been famous for his machines.

The two lovers sat by the fire all day, and by night the sounds grew louder and louder. YN sat right next to the heat and focused on her eggs. The deep dark red shells had started to crack with little golden bleeds. The golden lines glowed and contrasted the dark shells, reflecting how soon the dragons would be ready. The objects shook slightly, and soft sounds of growling could be heard if one put their head to the flame. YN merely waved her hands over the three, smiling at them as they shook more in response.

“It’s going to be very soon my love. They already recognize you as their mother.” Nuada was breathless at the sight. His hand was grabbed by his lover as she waved it over the eggs as well. Eliciting the same reaction.

“And they know you to be their father. I think it’s time for the second phase.” YN remarked, standing up to grab the golden powder. The one that would catch fire easily and light the eggs aflame harshly. Nuada took the powder from her, as his hands were more adept and delicate at handling something so dangerous.

“I’ll handle this part.” He reassured her. Reaching into the bag to dash the powder on the three eggs. When it made contact the eggs lit on fire aggressively, blackening the red shells and illuminating the golden streaks.

YN rested her hand over her chest in slight worry, though she knew that this was the way to bring them out, it still worried her to see her babies alight. Nuada made sure all the powder was off his hands before resting his hand against her shoulder to comfort her.

“It’s almost over. Soon you and I will hold them in our arms.” His reassurance made the next phase just a bit easier.

YN nodded, and grabbed a golden dragon tooth. It was the length of her forearm and weighed like several novels. She whispered a spell into its side before planting a kiss on the shiny side, Nuada repeated the process before creating a divet in the center of the embers in the middle of the eggs.

YN breathed quickly.

In. Out.

And plunged the tooth sharp side down into the center. The sound of cracking earth ripped through the cottage, and for a moment it seemed like it had gone completely black. All lights were gone, only the red embers glowing before the lights returned. The shells were broken and disintegrating into the fire. Three little dragons remained in their place.

One was golden. With three heads and wide wings. Each head seemed to tangle into the other and bump around before catching their bearings.

One was black with red streaks going down its black. The undersides of its feet were red, and its wings were sharp and slim.

The final was green with long open ears on the sides of its heads. The wings on its body were akin to a butterfly design.

Each of them had long tails that flapped around for balance as they began to sit up. YN laughed in excitement and reached forward to hold them. Two curled right into her arms and began sniffing her in excitement, as well as in hunger for some milk. The Black dragon, acting haughty, stood up on it’s own and made its way to Nuada. Sitting daintily in his lap.

“Oh that one is just like you.” YN teased as her dragon children scrambled all over her. Nuada merely rolled his eyes and brought the young one to his face.

“You are a gift to this world, my child. You bring hope and a promise. Promise that you and this world can live in this world in peace. I promise you that We will always be here as your parents and protectors.” Nuada proclaimed and nuzzled his face into the smaller being's nose.

YN smiled and leaned toward him, kissing him affectionately. Their hands on each other’s cheeks, they pulled away and rested their foreheads together. The dragons curiously scattering all over them.

“I’ve just realized something.” YN whispered.

“What’s that my love?”

“We haven’t picked out any names.”

They both paused and looked at each other, before bursting into laughter. Today was the first of many days that would be filled with love.