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#14 - "Fish"

Smaugust 2024

Here is Webs. Oh Websy... Perhaps one of the few dragons who can give Starflight a run for his money in regards to attracting misfortune. Much like Dragon Ball's Yamcha, nothing ever seems to go right for this old guy.

Here are some depressing facts about the life of Webs:

He was a soldier who became a pariah among his people for deserting during an important battle. This brought infamy and stigma to himself and his family by association.

He joined a group of political dissenters to end the war and redeem himself. Under their orders he was made to stage a kidnapping of the royal heir, which enraged the local government and necessitated his immediate escape from the country.

His wife got implicated in the kidnapping, and since she didn't flee with him, she was left to bear the brunt of a tyrannical and vengeful queen's fury. She died a cruel death for his crime.

His then-two-year-old son was left parent-less and grew up shunned by the populace for being his kid.

He can never return home, as he is a wanted man and will be killed on sight.

The organization he ruined his own life for later tried to kill him too.

He nearly got himself and his son killed by trying to appeal for mercy to a queen who he knows not to be particularly merciful.

While escaping from said queen he got poisoned and would have died, if his foster children hadn't bailed him out.

He is currently employed by the daughter of the woman who arranged his wife's death.

Said employer is also his foster daughter, who is dating his biological son, meaning said wife killer will eventually become part of his family via marriage.

It is unclear whether he is on good terms with his son, since they don't share many speaking scenes together and live in separate places.

When he was raising his foster children, he had an opportunity to teach the one who shares his heritage about their ancestral language--aquatic--which is very culturally important to their people. He declined to do this.

What he DID teach her is that the primary purpose of said language is to get hook-ups.

There is only a single moment in the graphic novels that shows him smiling.

Said moment occurs in someone else's imagination.

Everything in his life that he ever had a hand in has turned into abject failure. Everything that did not end in failure did so in spite of his actions, not because of them.

This is so sad. Why did I make this list? I'm sad now.