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its my 2 year anniversary of starting soon

And I have far too many gen1s needed attention to hatch anymore (not to mention I need the gems from eggs for said dragons lol)

so instead i’m going to finally open all the gilded chests i’ve been hoarding for 2 years. As well as the other ones I have and see how much treasure and gems I can make from them alone

#flight rising #i meant to open #the gilded on my #first anniversary #but then got sick and forgot lol #kinda wish id paid attention #so i could have #two full stacks #but oh well

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new oc just came dropped 🔥🔥 this is manatee (she/they), a mud/sea hybrid !!

she and her sibs grew up among the mudwings. i’ll probably design the sibs later.? ik they’ll have a brother named mudskipper and another one named silt but that’s as far as i’ve gotten

while they have a few phosphorescent scales scattered around, it isn’t enough for her to be able to speak aquatic. she also doesn’t have gills but can still hold her breath for up to an hour and is as strong a swimmer as any seawing

#wings of fire

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bet you didn’t know I have a trove of old wings of fire memes because I used to like it and I still do Qibli’s book is my favorite ok bye

#wings of fire #lmao

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im convinced I can scry any g1 dusthide. send me your g1 dusties and ill make scries for them

#ooooo nice! #thanks! #flight rising

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here are mine if you want

im convinced I can scry any g1 dusthide. send me your g1 dusties and ill make scries for them

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For requests, I have this goofy Sky/Ice boi! His name's SkyFrost!

He's got frostbreath, and attends Jade Mountain Academy! I don't have a whole lot for his lore, but I imagine he's a sweet guy.

(I'm also debating if I want to use Scarlet's arena in his story somehow. Like, maybe cause he's a hybrid she wanted to use him in the arena, idk)

His nose does have the little IceWing thing, but his face is a little more like a SkyWing's. Basically just like the first photo!^^

Sky/ice hybrids are fun and I love this dudes red and white scales <3

I see a lot of people with ocs that attend jade mountain academy and now im tempted to re read about it. Maybe make my own students lol.

#wings of fire

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commission for christiancutie of her dragon tumnus!

#flight rising

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#flight rising

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I think Peril and Winter not getting a chance to interact more on friendly terms is one of the many crimes that arc 2, even if, in all fairness, I feel that Peril's POV book/involvement would've been more suitable to some other point in the series.

Because they ARE foils to each other, in a way. They both play on a theme that crops up in a lot of characters of WOF, which is the way that types of trauma and abuse can shape a person and their worldview.

Peril is CONSTANTLY drawn back in by Scarlet through the repeated message of "I am the only person capable of loving you." She spends her entire childhood being gaslit (and I mean genuinely gaslit, not the meaningless twisting of the word that the internet has given it. The actual abuse tactic gaslit.) and manipulated by the only maternal role in her life to be so dependent on her. She's hailed as Scarlet's Champion and a monster alike. She's feared in a way not unlike how Scarlet is feared, but Peril didn't choose that. Her image and role in her society is specifically selected to further isolate her. It isolates her so severely that she is made to feel that she has no hope of integrating into society even IF and WHEN Scarlet disappears from the Skywing kingdom. She's instructed to burn up helpless eggs before she can SPEAK to plant these seeds into her as early as Scarlet can, both in Peril AND in the society which engages with her. Scarlet carves herself into Peril so that Peril is convinced that she can't live without her, and she DELIGHTS in having this kind of specific, all encompassing control over her. She WANTS Peril to stay, not out of any real love for her, but because she loves that she could do this to somebody at all. Peril is just like any other piece of her lavish, extravagant hoard; loved like something intended to be owned, to be possessed.

Winter, meanwhile, is made JUST as dependent on his family, but by opposite means. Winter being nothing to his family, being a constant disappointment to the people he loves, is something that is reinforced time and time again from a young age. He's a failure the moment he fails his first hunt. And thus, he becomes easy to scapegoat. Hailstorm isn't the perfect image of an Icewing in many respects from what we know of him before his capture; he's shown to be goofy, and his plan is what actively gets him and Winter in trouble, but he's still hailed as perfect. Not to say that Hailstorm's treatment was less damaging, we don't know what his relationship to their parents was like beyond reputation, but it showcases that these traits aren't seen as default flaws by Narwhal and Tundra. It's just that you have to be able to justify any deviation from the norm. Everything that deviates from the perfect, ethereal Icewing in Winter though, is something to be picked at, something to be shunned. Slow and obsessive and now the reason his perfect brother's gone. And failing his family doesn't just reflect on Winter, but it in turn reflects on his family, who he loves, within their society. He's made dependent on his family with the intangible promise that if he was just a little better, just a little tougher, just a little more like what they want of him, he could have that love returned to him, he could justify being the one who was left behind in their eyes.

I just think they're the products of very opposite but ultimately overlapping circumstances. Abuse as direct action versus abuse as neglect. Both dependent but in opposing ways; both convinced they can't live without their abuser, but one is convinced into believing she is literally, physically dependent on her abuser while the other is convinced that he is OBLIGATED to prove himself to his abusers, that to live is to justify himself in their eyes. "Champion" as a leash to keep her on and a warm light on the tundra skyline that's never possible to actually reach.

#wings of fire

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❤️ ~just big brother things~ ❤️

Clay: Glory I swear, if you don't go to sleep right the fuck now I will SIT ON TOP OF YOU until you pass out.

Hailstorm: Get out of here, Winter! I don't even care! *cares deeply*

Turtle: Anemone, PLEASE stop trying to kill our entire family!

Darkstalker: I will literally disembowel the first dragon that tries to make Whiteout act "normal".

#wings of fire

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Some of my old Wings of Fire fanart! I love playing around with dragon heads

2019

#wings of fire

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Less than a month on the website and I'm already crafting enemies-to-lovers arcs...I can't be trusted with these dragons. Anyway hello Flight Rising community 😬

Morphologies and more character info under the cut!

Sasha (Ice Shaggy / Lead Streak / Blue Shardflank)

A Gaoler of the Seeker Order currently functioning as a mercenary-for-hire. Most recently commissioned by the High Queen of the Reedcleft Fae Court to hunt down an escaped convict - a seemingly simple task compared to wrangling Shade creatures that has quickly snowballed into an infuriating game of cat-and-mouse as the convict proves to be exceptionally slippery...and obnoxiously glib about the whole scenario.

Skol (Black Piebald / Cream Striation / Fuchsia Peacock)

A solitary Mirror dragon is unusual enough; a robotically-enhanced solitary Mirror wanted by the Reedcleft Fae Court is more than enough to make anyone who crosses this wily convict's path wary. And Skol's hardly forthcoming with answers: no one knows what he's done, why he stays alone, or who was responsible for his enhancements. All that's known is that he takes very little seriously except his own survival. Everything's a game until it's life or death - but once it reaches that point, aggressors are lucky if it's anyone but Skol that gets the chance to walk away.

#flight rising

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#wings of fire #i was so surprised to learn she’s #like 20 #i thought she was like ~10

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Happy easter to everyone but these two especially

#wings of fire

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Spooky lad got a new skin!

#flight rising

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another oldie from my clan. one of the few who hasn't let the changing times make him jaded, but he withdraws considerably in order to do so

#flight rising

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I’m gonna try to get into the habit of actually posting art here since I’m getting back into wof again

anyways here’s a kinda messy Clay sketch I did in class, best boi ❤️

#wings of fire