Edit: Yooo Part 2 Is Out Go Look At It!!

edit: yooo part 2 is out go look at it!!

royal gals from arc 1! i used this as a way to further illustrate and explore my fashion headcanons, and i love how these turned out. design notes under the cut!

CORAL: i wanted her to look deceptively kind and bubbly, so i tend to draw her big and round like a whale. two inspiration for her design are king dorephan from breath of the wild and granmamare from ponyo. i give her a big coral crown and pearl jewelry. she has a lot of teardrop shapes bc she's probably sad about a lot of things

GLACIER: my favorite queen <3 i wanted her to look regal and no-nonsense but kind. with the exception of her crown, most of her accessories are very sleek and minimalistic. and of course i had to give her glasses because i'm obsessed with giving dragons glasses. i can't decide if the spikes on that crown are opal or enchanted ice, but the studs are black tourmaline.

SCARLET: the og bad bitch!! i love designs that make her look like the world's scariest, swankiest peacock, and the animated wings design was a huge inspiration here. her face markings are meant to look like a helmet. the mail vest she's wearing here is more for show than protection, an ostentatious piece she wears around the palace rather than something she'd don in battle. this is generally the fit i imagine she would wear to court sessions and arena matches.

MOORHEN: i would love to know more about her tbh. i like the colors i gave her, i think the shades of brown work really well together. the cord around her neck represents her sibs, the knot having four coils to symbolize each of them. she has agate embeds all over her, with the majority on her horns, wings, and wrists/ankles. i imagine she has tattooed wing membranes as well.

GRANDEUR: i wanted to make her look regal and positively ancient, and i think i succeeded well enough. her frill shape vaguely matches glory's, as well as her affinity for orange and gold color accents. the flowers are based on tropical rhododenrons.

BATTLEWINNER: ooo she was fun. basically no opportunity for fashion, as i'm sure anything she'd try to wear would burn or melt in her lava bathtub, but i got to do some fun scarring on her. her snout is all scratched up, one of her horns broke off at some point (i imagine that happened during her throne challenge, and that nightwings spar with their horns like rams or deer. she probably got slammed into a wall or something) and her ears are all kinds of shredded. any water vapor around her face and neck tends to solidify into ice, building up into big sparkly icicles over time.

The imagination of Fathom everytime Darkstalker tried to influence him to use his Animus magic was like:

HERE IS A MORE SERIOUS EXPLANATION TO THE AU CONCEPT!! As apposed to the original Albatross' Guide sketches hahah!

i wanted to use that goopy text to show him screaming lol, thats why it changes in the last page. the au will not be shown in this quality of comics lol- it will be more dabble sketches and PMV's

[apologies for any spelling errors, i type way to fast and also have minor dyslexia lol]

Our Choices Seal our Fate

I love Darkstalker and I love his "fall" from grace. Particularly since I don't every think he was good and just got worst as time went on. He's a man incapable of self-reflection and growth and was always destined to become a monster.

love is love

Is anyone else kinda grossed out by how young Darkstalker was when he went evil? Iirc, he was only about 5 years old, which I believe is the dragon equivalent of a young teenager. Yes, he turned over 2000, but he was asleep the entire time so he’s still mentally a child. Personally I think Tui should’ve made him waaaaayy older, like an actual adult or something, instead of basically just making him a power hungry kid with a huge god complex. Don’t get me wrong, he’s my favorite villain, but the fact that he’s technically a child makes me really uncomfortable when I think about how his “friends” treated him, even before he did anything bad. He did awful things ofc and deserved to be punished for them, but still, it would be much harder to sympathize with him if he was fully grown

exactly. it's yet another (and perhaps the most egregious) example of tui sutherland's attitude towards abused children that "dont act the correct way" or in other words, have maladaptive/unhealthy coping mechanisms and need help unhearning harmful behaviors. but nooo theyre just evil from birth and doomed to be evil forever lol