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This was only meant to be a doodle but here we are.
Woahhhh, actual doodles? More likely than you think. So, I just finished binging OTNWAS, and it was one of the most spectacular fics I’ve ever read. It got me thinking about an au where Jack managed to be able to tame and ride a snow wraith. But that’s the extent of my thought process, idk if in this au he has his powers or not, or if snow wraith’s trust was given or earnt through Jack’s actions. I don’t even know what he’d call the dragon. He seems like the kind of guy who names something with a lot of thought, but 99% of the time refers to them as nicknames or curses them out. Poor snow wraith has no idea what their name actually is.
I’m sure someone's already done something with Jack taming a snow wraith, so if anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d be very grateful. I am very hungry for content, but I may just be having to do my own thing.
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Me; Acts nonchalant about a new au
Also me; *frothing at the mouth, imaginary scenes in my head constantly, spending hours on this*
So, I kinda want Jack to be his usual mischievous self, accidently becoming a cryptid in the process. Obviously, I’m making it Frostcup too, cuz chemistry. But once more thats really as far as I’ve taken it. Idk about the time-line, why/how Jack is in the archipelago, or if Jamie should be in it. I think I should add Jamie, he’s great.
I finally have an idea or plot in the Jack rides a SnowWraith au!
So, I’ve decided that Jack doesn’t have his powers, but he does fall through ice and eventually gets white hair. I might do a small animatic with the story about that later. Anyway.
After Jack barely survives falling into a frozen river, Jack comes across an abandoned egg in a tiny burrow. Not knowing where he is, and the egg being warm to the touch -he decides to stay put and try to survive through hypothermia. Jack finds out he bit off more than he could chew when the egg finally hatches, and he doesn’t have the heart to leave the hatchling alone.
Imprinting was the most obvious choice with the fact that Jack doesn’t have his powers, but I wanted him to have a really close relationship with the snowwraith (still doesn’t have a name).
Also, take note I that I wasn’t looking at refs while drawing, and I’ve never seen a baby snowraith so I assumed they were like baby rhinos. Bad eye-sight and everything.
Also also, See 7? Well the reason the snowraith has their wing on Jack’s head is cuz I work with birds of prey and every now and then they’ll just drape their wing over your head. Some more than others, but they just leave it there sometimes and expect you to be fine with it (which I am). It’s normally the great grey owl, Misty, cuz she bites the glove looking for food and in the process flaps her wings.
I wanted to name the Jack’s Snowwraith ‘Windstrike’ but apparently there’s a dragon species called windstriker so back to the drawing board I go.
I did not expect this much traction with the Jack Frost rides a snow wraith au. I got another animatic/animation in the works but I’m on holiday and I’m not back til Thursday. Sooooo, don’t worry, I’m not abandoning it or anything. Take a quick doodle of a teething snow-wraith, done on my phone, for a bit of serotonin.
