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Hollyyyyy shitt—

I’ve been on here for 1 year now and I’ve learned nothing-

Got bored and decided to do some sketchy, ended up redesigning Sea wings to how I imagine they would be-

Just some peacemaker sketches! Got bored and decided to do an Aged up AU—

Enjoy these random sketches! There’s another post I have to figure out how to link to this about Nightwings powers, I liked the head cannon so much I put my own spin on it, where if there’s a night wing hybrid even if they don’t get the powers, they get false marks, but don’t worry, in this AU, peacemaker still has the ability to see the future, but only every now and then, and it’s usually just something happy!

HOLY SHIT— this is the best headcannon I’ve ever seen!! Seriously more people need to see this! How does it only have around 40 interactions!? This is amazing!!

About Nightwing Powers

Wow it turns out you can attach titles to posts, awesome. I will now make another post.

It always drove me kind of crazy how Nightwing powers are presented in canon. I think it drives a lot of people crazy because I've seen more than one person's headcanon adjustments to them. So here is my contribution to that genre.

Some Nightwings have perceptual abilities that other dragons -- other Nightwings and members of other tribes -- lack. One is the ability to read minds, the other is the ability to see the future.

All Nightwings develop both future sight and mind reading in the egg. The mind of a fetus can't integrate any of this information, and most will lose both abilities long before learning to understand what they mean. The dragonet's third eye closes, so to speak, within hours after hatching, and will stay that way for the rest of their life. For unclear reasons, the loss of these abilities is prevented by exposure to the light of a full moon immediately after hatching.

Nightwings always hatch at night, at least if the eggs are exposed to the sky. Those who hatch under a full moon retain the ability either to read minds or see the future, whereas those who hatch under two or three full moons retain both. The presence of these abilities also causes the development of silver scales on the face. A mind reader has a silver scale at the outer corner of each eye, whereas a prophet has a silver scale in the center of the forehead.

The appearance of the silver scales correlates with the strength of the ability. A larger, rounder scale indicates greater power.

A dragon hatched under three full moons inevitably has the most powerful prophecy and mind reading. Other than that, it's unclear what exactly makes the abilities of one Nightwing stronger than those of another.

Raw power isn't the whole story, though. Clearsight is the greatest prophet of all time, but she isn't the most powerful prophet of all time (or even the most powerful in her immediate friend group). It just turns out that a dragon who diligently works on her abilities will have a certain advantage over one who believes he is already the most powerful and has an inevitable destiny.

It may not be immediately obvious what it would mean for someone to be "more" or "less" powerful at mind reading or prophecy, but there are two relevant metrics: clarity, and control. I think the names are self-explanatory, but just in case, here's a metaphor. If you imagine Nightwing powers as a flashlight shining into a dark room, clarity is the brightness of the bulb, and control is how easily one can direct the beam. These metrics are not really independent: weakly empowered Nightwings will be weak in both aspects, and strongly empowered Nightwings will be strong in both aspects. For those in the middle, who make up the majority, clarity is more developed than control.

The strongest prophets can direct their vision down many different paths, examining the futures that cascade out of intricate chains of decisions, possibly centuries into the future. The weakest prophets have occasional, muddled impressions that a certain decision in their immediate future might lead to something good or bad. In between are the average prophets, who have clear visions, but little ability to control when they occur or what they are about.

Similarly, the strongest mind readers can root around in another dragon's mind and examine any fact, belief or memory they're interested in, whereas the weakest may have a vague impression of the most immediate, intense feelings of whomever they're around. Average mind readers can clearly read the surface thoughts of other dragons, but can't probe arbitrary mental structures without somehow activating them -- by inducing the target to actively reminisce about a memory or some such thing.

In the old days, back when Nightwings understood where their powers came from, it was quite common for ambitious parents to try to time the conception of their eggs so that they would hatch under the full moon(s). For a single full moon, this is almost pointless: the quickest of the three moons cycles through its phases in just a few weeks, and the variation in the incubation period for a Nightwing egg is great enough that it can't be reliably timed to any specific moon phase. For two and three moon nights, this practice is more meaningful, but only in the very general sense that someone who doesn't conceive an egg roughly a year before the brightest night definitely won't have any thrice-moonborn dragonets, whereas someone who does, might.

Some seers would also offer advice about how to do this. For the most part, this advice was snake oil; only the most powerful seers could decide to have a vision about a particular egg's future. Even among the few who could, it would be extremely difficult to see and articulate all the subtle factors that lead an egg to hatch after a longer or shorter incubation, and most of them would be far outside the ability of the parents to really control anyway.

More unscrupulous parents would occasionally try to break an egg open under the full moons, regardless of whether the dragonet was ready to hatch on their own. This practice has never been successful, as hatching in this way disrupts the delicate developmental process needed for the dragonet to retain their power. It is also quite dangerous, and many of the dragonets who were subject to this simply died.

Foeslayer and Arctic didn't do any of this, incidentally. They just got lucky. Or they got unlucky. Depending on which of them you ask.

Speaking of Foeslayer and Arctic's kids, Whiteout has both Nightwing powers. It's not because she hatched one day after the brightest night, though. Hatching a day after a full moon doesn't grant any power. It's actually a manifestation of synesthesia. Synesthesia causes sensory modalities that are unrelated in most people to correlate in a specific way. Whiteout, like all Nightwings who hatched under no full moons, lost direct access to her abilities shortly after hatching. However, she's still able to use them indirectly via synesthetic influence on her other senses. This is why she describes Clearsight as "azure on the inside": to her, Clearsight's thought patterns are azure in a fairly literal sense.

Another Nightwing whose power manifests in an unusual way is Flame. I mean, Flame isn't actually a Nightwing, but he has a semi-recent Nightwing ancestor. That's why he has a forked tongue, unlike other Skywings, and why he has darker scales than any other Skywing. And he hatched under a full moon, so he can read minds. But since his Nightwing ancestry is slight, his power is extremely weak. It's so weak that he has never become consciously aware of it, and most of the time, it doesn't really affect anything. But if someone thinks really hard about him, he senses it. This is why he's the only dragon Moon has ever met who can tell when someone's looking into his mind. It's a very weak form of the same two-way communication she uses to talk to Darkstalker.

In the year 5000, Nightwings have largely lost access to their powers, since they no longer allow their eggs to hatch under the moonlight. Contrary to what Moon thinks, this isn't because they're afraid of hatching another Darkstalker. After all, if it were specifically desired to avoid hatching eggs under the full moons, we would expect to see some kind of active prohibition, or at least some sort of legend about the terrible consequences of doing so. What actually happened is that the Nightwings' new home prevented them from hatching eggs in moonlight, and after a few generations with no mind readers and no prophets, the dragons started to believe their own abilities were legendary or allegorical.

Despite the Nightwings' present powerlessness, belief in their abilities persists. The Nightwings encourage these rumors, and also train their dragonets to imitate the power they lack. This training mostly consists of cold reading and theatrics, not unlike the techniques human con artists use to simulate psychic powers. However, they also leverage the one sensory ability that Nightwings still have over all* other dragons: an extremely strong sense of smell. Most dragons are aware that Nightwings smell better than members of other tribes, but they don't grasp that they may leak private information through subtle odors that only Nightwings can perceive. By examining the smell of another dragon's body, modern Nightwing "seers" and "mind readers" deduce information in a way that is easily mistaken for magic by the uninitiated.

Darkstalker is highly scandalised by this practice when he wakes up, not least because he has an Icewing-tier nose and can't do it.

Now that Nightwings are living in the rainforest, it's likely that their extrasensory abilities will start to become more common again. Unfortunately, their only connection to the ancient techniques for controlling those abilities turned out to be evil and was sent to gay baby jail. It will likely fall on Moonwatcher to begin the process of re-developing these practices and teaching them to a new generation of Nightwing dragonets.

*Actually, Seawings can smell nearly as well. But only underwater.

So my friend group is filled with members of the LGBTQ plus community, so I’m making everyone their own pride flag keychain! And I think they’re adorable!!

I FOUND WHAT THIS DRAWING IDEA CAME FROM!!

thinkin bout SkyWing weddings....

I would choose to be a night wing rain wing hybrid, I don’t care if I get any special abilities, as long as I look cool, I shall be happy

Comment or reblog if you choose to be a hybrid!

Ah yes, the power of having Ash’s blood, meeting a god!

Which Legendary Pokémon would Delia + Jessie befriend?

I want Jessie to befriend Mew so bad since there’s ~history~ there

Delia befriending Arceus I think would be really funny

Can’t find the original post, but I remembered a post about how when idea for sky wings, mating rituals would be locking claws, and doing a Freefall,

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Got early morning inspiration, working on the penguin, it looks better in real life-

So I’m writing down ideas on how to traumatize a character I just made- I had five ideas, wrote down two, now I have seven-

Send help please-

Ah yes, the peaceful noise of the city :)

trash birds being quite silly

ALRIGHT FOLKS

I had to add her  Pride flag-

Another observation.

Jokes on you I just made one named crocodile! They are my wingless baby!

(Art description!: crocodiles balancing on two legs, One lifted up in the front of her on her right side and one in the back lift it up on her left side, she is smiling and has green eyes, she also has giant splotches of slightly different colored browns all over her body!)

Another observation.

O R C

THE MONUTIN

(F*ck, I can’t spell-)

IS TJAT FLAPJACK IN THR BACK????

FANCY TIE

fancy pigeon

People have bats in there homes!?

Do reblog if you answer, I need a large test group. 

Do reblog if you answer, I need a large test group. 

LOOK

I LOVED THIS SCENE SO MUCH! I LOVE HOW MUCH THEY DEVELOPED THE RELATIONSHIP LUZ HAS WITH HER MOM! WHKDBSKD I love Camilla so much too 💕 and ofc I had to draw this scene! It was so SO GORGEOUS I simply had to ✨

I really like the Tumblr bot so far! even though it’s easily confused and bugged out it’s still fun!



Found this guy in my backyard! Don’t worry, I only took pictures!

 Here’s a cute picture of my bird in a tent that I built her being confused!

Over thinking: part one

Technically speaking, if human start out as an egg, we hatch inside of a mother and then be birth. Humans could technically be reptiles and we would never know, like a scale less one-

(THIS IS A JOKE-)

:p

(This is a sh*t post-)

My bird waits see you with a stare, and food stuck on her beak, in pinfeathers that aren’t ready-