My God These Cats Are Gay Good For Them Good For Them

My god these cats are gay good for them good for them

WOF marriage hcs:

Icewings: Marriage is absolutely expected and societally pressured for everyone, Marriage for political reasons is common, Monogamy is a must, children are raised by both parents

Skywings: Marriage is mostly for the rich, monogamy is common, children are often raised by only one parent

Sandwings: Marriage is for political leaders (Royal Family & Nomadic group leaders) only, Marriage for political reasons is the rule, polyamory is common, children are raised by whoever wants them

Mudwings: No concept of marriage, romance is stigmatized, Children raised by the fathers sib group and the community as a whole

Seawings: Marriage is for whoever wants to get married, Political Marriages are common amongst the rich, equal split between monogamy and polyamory, children are raised by parents and extended family

Rainwings: No concept of marriage, polyamory is common, children are raised by the community as a whole

Nightwings: Marriage is for spiritual reasons, Marriages for the right kind of fate or power are common, monogamy is very common, children are raised by both parents

WOF Dragon Taxonomy

I was kind of thinking of doing a semi rewrite of the WoF backstory / lore. No new species would look as different as Wof dragons do in that short amount of time (come on drastically different dragons in roughly 5k years?). For my rewrite I'd say the scorching was actually at least 1 million years before the first book starts. Probably still not enough for the drastic changes, though since the different tribes can still breed with each other (hybrids exist after all) I would say they're either still the same species (or subspecies) or closely enough related because breeding (with fertile offspring) is still possible.

I'd also say Nightwing, Icewings, and Skywings existed in some form when the scorching happened since I believe they're the "common ancestors" for most of the other tribes.

Since I believe the dragons are subspecies of an "original" species of dragon that existed way before the scorching here are some hypothetical scientific names! The basic scientific name for all of them would be Draco Sapien (The Wise Dragon). Here is the list:

Nightwings: Draco Sapien Noctis (Wise Dragon of the Night)

Icewings: Draco Sapien Nivis (Wise Dragon of the Snow)

Skywings: Draco Sapien Caeli (Wise Dragon of Heaven, just thought this sounded cool)

Mudwings: Draco Sapien Terrae (Wise Dragon of the Earth)

Sandwings: Draco Sapien Solis (Wise Dragon of the Sun) or Draco Sapien Desertum (Wise Dragon of the Desert) Couldn't choose between the two.

Rainwings: Draco Sapien Silvae (Wise Dragon of the Forest)

Seawings: Draco Sapien Maris (Wise Dragon of the Sea)

Hivewings: Draco Sapien Wasp (Wise Wasp Dragon, since they kinda look like wasps)

Silkwings: Draco Sapien Serico (Wise Silk Dragon)

Leafwings: Draco Sapien Folium (Wise Leaf Dragon)

Wow, that was a lot. I'm not exactly a professional in species names, but I tried my best. I would say the WOF dragons would be most closely related to Birds! They're definitely reptiles, and I think it makes the most sense for them to be related to Birds. So WOF dragons would be part of the Archosauria (Ruling Reptiles) Clade which in the real world is made up of Birds and Crocodiles. For extinct members, it also includes Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, and extinct Croc species. In my opinion, the WOF dragons would technically be more closely related to Dinosaurs, but their closest living relative would be birds (which are dinosaurs technically).

Did Dinosaurs even exist in the WOF universe? I mean, birds are a thing so I'm guessing that's the case.

Yo can y'all stop calling Splashtail an Atheist. He's not. Atheists don't believe in a God or Gods. In this case an Atheist in the WC world would be a cat not believing in Starclan (like pre end of Oots Mothwing and Cloudtail). He still believes Starclan exists, he just has zero respect for them. Which doesn't make someone an Atheist.

Sincerely,

An Atheist :)

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Panel redraw from the Moon Rising Graphic Novel. This legit took me forever to finish bc I gave up on it for months.

The Moon cycle graphics on the border are wonky unfortunately. RIP. Also, I tried making Icicle look similar to my design of Winter, not sure that worked bc honestly all Icewings look the same.

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I will forever be infuriated by the fact that they never did anything with Foeslayer being a soldier. Her name is FOESLAYER for moons' sakes! There's so much potential there!

Not to mention the drama. Like, Arctic is already not into this whole war thing, but his wife actually physically going into war and killing his people??? DRAAAMAAA. Not to mention the stories Icewings would come up with about her. It would make sense for such a dragon to be able to kidnap one of their royals, no? And the fact that her deployments would mean that Darkstalker and Whiteout spend more time with their father.

I want Foeslayer rapidly climbing the ranks due to her military prowess. I want Arctic to start wondering if his wife has been using him against his own Queendom. They were both raised in politics after all, it would make sense that she could manipulate if she chose to. I want that growing tension. I want no resolution. Foeslayer leaves for her service as usual, but this time a different Nightwing is at the door after the battle.

Imagine if instead of the whole argument, Foeslayer is lost on the battlefield. Maybe one of Darkstalker's spells to keep her safe failed or Queen Diamond found a way around the enchantment. Hell, maybe it was a regular soldier who accidentally found a loophole through the protection magic with a lucky slash.

In any case, there's no one to blame. In the books, we know for sure it was Queen Diamond cause it couldn't have been anyone else. And for whatever reason Darkstalker chooses to hate on all Icewings instead of the one person he knows is responsible for his mom's presumed death. But if Foeslayer was MIA (or dead, I haven't decided yet) and no one can give a clear description of what happened? And since there's no one to blame, Darkstalker blames the whole Icewing nation?? gimme.