I don’t really hate scavengers, but rather just that Tui doesn’t really do anything with them. They aren’t utilized very well.
Dragonslayer held a lot of interesting ideas. To imagine all of these people trying to live in a world where it common to be attacked by giant dragons is pretty interesting, especially when said giant dragons are just as intelligent as they are. The idea of cities like Valor and whatnot are really cool.
It’s just that 90% of scavengers have no personality and are incredibly boring. Leaf and Ivy are forgettable at best and infuriatingly bland at worst. Cottonmouth is haphazardly shoe-horned in to replace Wasp. That’s not even to mention a good chunk of side characters.
That’s the thing with having human characters in a series where the dragons are the main stars. It’s hard to compete with having literal dragons as protagonists. There’s so many ideas and concepts for scavengers and just…Tui never acts on this. Arc 3 is the worst offender of this as she introduces the idea of the two species making an alliance out of NOWHERE. Why??? Why??
I feel like Tui loves to just give all the WOF characters copious amounts of issues in short spans of time..Especially the Arc 2 Dragonets IMO.
Moon: Isolated because of something she couldn’t control and now has so.many.fucking.issues. and she can hear everyone all of the time, CONSTANT MIGRANES. She was emotionally manipulated by the only other mind-reader she ever/may ever meet and then took part in killing(?) the only dragon that could have ever understood her to her full extent. She felt as if she was constantly invading everyone’s privacy because of something she couldn’t control (Moon is my favorite other than sunny or winter)
Winter: Bro got the shittiest WOF parental figure other than the ARC 1 Dragonets he constantly had to succeed at virtually impossible tasks in order to survive. He has been practically brainwashed by living in a society with centuries of fear of Darkstalker, then got brainwashed by him. The society He was raised in pushed unrealistic expectations for survival, the gifts from the Animus dragons were even strictly controlled. He lived in a controlling and environment that valued status more than someone’s actual worth and acted out against his peers because of that
Kinkajou: D: she was kidnapped and experimented on by her best friends tribe but still has the kindness and grace to “get over it” and then proceeding to find out that that bestie has been hearing her every thought (JARRING) she still had the strength to forgive(?) Moon and move past it because she understood. She almost died because she wanted to help Winter find his brother and Scarlet and save Jade mountain. Everything she goes through is because she’s too kind for her own good, even the venom incident with Glory’s queen trials. And then she was enchanted VIA Anemones version of kindness to be in love with Turtle.
Quibli: he grew up in an abusive and dangerous environment where he had to steal and fight for basic resources to survive. His kindness was met with hardness and violence. His siblings were vindictive and just jerks and his mother was even worse, she gave him a scar because he tried giving her a coconut. Thorn was a savior to him and I’m like 50% sure that Quibli saw her as a god? He’s so loyal because he’s scared she’s going to abandon and have no use for him :(
Turtle: Queen coral really had so many sons she didn’t notice he was magic. He grew up worrying about his soul going bad. Food scarcity was mentioned once or twice in his book. I think Coral does care about her sons, she’s just really worried about her daughter’s safety, losing her husband and daughter in a very short amount of time had to have a lasting effect on her. He enchanted his little sister because he was scared of being strapped in a harness like his sister or even ending up like Albatross.
Peril: mind washed murder weapon who is slightly codependent…
Kinda really still miffed that the false DoD are just permanently seen as “terrible and annoying bad kids” by the books when really they’re just incredibly traumatized children who are dealing with their horrible circumstances. Really wish we got a winglet of like…Flame or Fatespeaker or anybody to show off the terrible situation better.
Basically while deciding Belos’s “punishment” he drags Caleb into it with him, and now the two are stuck like this until they can find a way out of it, the only problem is they have to get along and work together. Philip’s punishment is to be a the one thing he despised, a witch. While also having his curse, he is also now a child, because Evelyns smug like that. Caleb is bird now lol dont know, thought it be pretty funny. They have limited amount of time to find a way to somehow undo it before theres no going back. Or somethin like that idk
This started out as a silly idea that eventually grew more and more over time. Ive grown rather attached to it and im even thinking about making some comics but i wanna explore some more ideas first…
I have no idea what to call this au so some ideas would be greatly appreciated :)
