A Little Practice With The Dragonets Of Destiny!

A little practice with the Dragonets of Destiny!

darkstalker w blue fire...... consider.....

Have I ever posted Hyena's ref?

He's a Night/Sand hybrid (two of my favorite tribes) and his colors are loosely based on the TLG hyenas

Darkstalker is such a tragic character to me.

He experienced so much suffering from Arctic alone. He abused him and no one reacted (despite other Nightwings clearly being aware of it) until it was too late. He snapped, killed his father in a very gruesome way and he was remembered as a monster. Monster everyone watched grow into one. I don't buy this whole "born evil" bullshit. Darkstalker was narcissistic, arrogant and often selfish but that alone doesn't make someone evil. I feel like he could've been a better dragon if only he had a better environment.

I've talked about it a couple times with how Arctic's death isn't as descriptively gorey as one may lead you to believe. With how the fandom talks about it, you'd think that Tui just went fully creepypasta levels of describing it. Just violent detail that goes on and on for pages and–

Yeah. Yeah that's it. 'Messy' is the closest we get to anything.

I can see the disappointment. It's a horrifying scene on its own (with Darkstalker forcing his father to disembowl himself), but it should be a bit more descriptive, right?

Eh. I'm quite fine with it being this way. For starters, you all seem to forget this is a kids series. Funny how I'm bringing this up when I'm talking about the more disturbing death in the series, but it's true. The series gets dark, but at the end of the day it's for children. Tui can't just do that. Scholastic won't let her (and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have the heart to write it and present it to millions of children to see).

Secondly (and the much more fascinating reason to my writer brain) is how it's reflective of Darkstalker's mindset. See that? Darkstalker reflects on how killing his father, this figure that he blames literally everything wrong in his life for, wasn't rewarding to kill. He feels empty. It feels lifeless.

But why? He should be happy, right? This is all he ever could've wanted. He's feared by the NightWings and has finally killed the dragon whose done nothing but hurt others.

Yet, it's a meaningless death to him. He went in expecting that this would solve everything, only to see that it brings no life or joy to him.

Now, he stands on the stage. The crowd has ran off, horrified at the events that have transpired in their very own kingdom. Clearsight has abandoned him and Whiteout, his very own sister, loudly sobs behind him, scared and traumatized. Before him is his father, Arctic. His organs strewn out onto the stage, icy blue blood pooling out and staining his perfect white scales. There is nothing but a look of horror etched into his lifeless eyes.

All that's left in Darkstalker is nothing. Not even a flicker of satisfaction or joy. This was all in vain. A lonely king, his crown earned through lies, manipulation and selfish bloodlust.

Darkstalker, I think I love you, until I don't. How do I make sense of you.

This Darkstalker drawing is almost a year old reminding me I need to draw this bitch again. It's so easy to make him over-dramatic, so I'm excited.