Love Is Love

love is love

Just noticed I posted the wrong version akzjqlzl

Here's the correct one

I wanted to make my own designs of the characters, the way I do with Warriors + I could use the practice with drawing dragons

So I'm starting it off with Kinkajou!

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.

[ ID: A digital drawing featuring Peril, Qibli, Winter, Moonwatcher, Kinkajou and Turtle from Wings of Fire on a simple background, that vaguely looks like a cave. Everyone, besides Peril, are cuddling in the back of the image, while Peril’s head is visible in the front with a displeased expression. In her speech bubble is a screenshot of a tweet that says (in all caps): “The reason I’ve always felt so outcast in my friend group is bc apparently they’re all in a polyamorous relationship and I didn’t fucking know”. End ID.]

You know how Peril feels kinda left out of their friend group and she’s like only friends with Turtle? Yeah, I think I figured it out /j.

Was thinking about this ship more jokingly at first, but now I kinda like it :]

Close up and more thoughts under the cut:

[ ID: A close up of the cuddling dragons from the drawing above. From left to right: Qibli is sitting happily with closed eyes. Winter is right next to him resting his head on Qibli’s, smiling and looking in the direction of Moon. She wrapped one of her wings around Winter and Qibli, and one of her paws is resting on Winter’s and the other is holding Kinkajou’s. Moon is smiling at her, their snouts touching. Kinkajou is grinning with her eyes closed and wrapped one of her wings around Moon while the other around Turtle, who is leaning on Kinkajou’s shoulder with eyes closed and a peaceful expression. The rainwing also wrapped her tail around Turtle’s, while Moon wrapped hers around Qibli and Winter’s. All the tails are resting in front of the group and all slightly touching in the middle.

Qibli, Winter and Moon all have a gemstone earring, signifying their relationship. Moon also has a flower matching with Kinkajou and Turtle, given by the rainwing to symbolise their relationship to her.

They all drawn with slight blush and small pale hearts around each dynamic. The second image is the version without them. End ID.]

So my favourite ship is Qinterwatcher, but I like Moonjou too.. and I think Turtlejou is kinda cute. So this is a possible solution lol

Btw you can interpret this drawing with different combinations if you want, or even them all in a relationship or a QPR.

But for me I think:

Qibli x Winter x Moon definitely!!

Moon x Kinkajou is very cute :3 as platonic besties or a QPR they’re nice too!

Kinkajou x Turtle mixed feelings, but I kinda like, maybe more Queer-platonically even…

Kinkajou and Qibli ; Moon and Turtle - definitely besties!

Kinkajou x Winter - this one is kinda funny and I like it quite a bit!! I think they don’t quite know if it’s romantic or platonic so it can be a Queerplatonic, with fluctuations between purely platonic or a bit romantic maybe?

Winter x Turtle is nice, I think I like it is a QPR :]

Qibli and Turtle I like as friends the most, but Qibli will probably flirt occasionally lol

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]

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