Random dragon headcanons?

[troisroyaumes]

I'm not really much of an RPer, and I can't say all of my dragons have characters or backstories, but there are a few in my lair that seem to have sprouted personalities.





Her black steampunk apparel actually looks a lot like motorcycle gear! She's the no-nonsense, taciturn sort who likes going very fast.





This one, on the other hand, is a complete Romantic (capital R intended) and loves running (flying?) to the fog-shrouded moors with impractical frilly apparel.

Meanwhile, my Coli team (consisting of my two progenitors and one of the first dragons I received in a giveaway) have somehow formed a sedoretu with a fourth Guardian. He's the only one of the four who's not at level 25, but they have adopted him anyway. They all wear fedoras and have either scars, bloody bandages or armor for apparel. I kind of thought they'd be the dragon mafia of my lair, but surprisingly, they seem more social and laidback, possibly due to the long hours in the Coli, grinding for festival currency or leveling up other dragons.

Has anyone else ended up forming random headcanons for long-time denizens of their lairs?

Comments

[lea_hazel]

I love the pose on female Pearlcatchers because it's so evocative. With one of mine, shortly after picking her up I started picturing it as a pose of prayer or supplication. I put a burlap hood on her and decided that she was a pilgrim on a spiritual quest.

[troisroyaumes]

Oh, that's lovely!

[alias_sqbr]

Mine are all named after characters or concepts from Homestuck and Dragon Age, so the character of the dragon influences my name choice and then the name choice further influences my feelings about the dragon.

And then there's Brosca, who in addition to being the Dragon Age dwarf commoner player character her name comes from is apparently a Gryffindor.

[troisroyaumes]

All of mine are named after plant or bird species so it was quite surprising to see them develop personalities nonetheless!

I do feel tempted to create character dragons though. If I had infinite lair space!

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah I love my character dragons but they produce a lot of unsellable babies and eat a lot of food.

[yhlee]

...mine are named after characters out of my Millstone Space Opera Trilogy, so they sort of come with personalities already attached.

[troisroyaumes]

Nod, none of mine are character dragons, so I didn't expect them to develop personalities. It's pretty awesome though to have dragon versions for your own characters!

[aris_tgd]

Heh, I named all my dragons after dorms and other in-jokes at my alma mater. That's definitely influenced their personalities. Here are a few of my faves:





Blitz is named after Blitzmail, the now-defunct campus email system that was running when I was a freshman. She's the messenger girl of the clan, zipping back and forth with packages or notes or important news.





Her mate is Quest (named after the campus newspaper), who mainly hangs out in the quad with a drum circle with Woodstock and whoever else wanders by.





And this is Abbington. While McGriffley is the leader of the clan, Abby is the one who organizes everything and gets stuff done.

[troisroyaumes]

That's quite a nifty lair naming scheme. I also like how you matched their apparel to their characters!

[aris_tgd]

I find that I get much more of a sense of their personalities after I start putting on apparel, so for me it kind of works the other way around!

[karalee]

Dang, these are gorgeous! I hadn't even thought about it, but now I really look forward to giving mine stories :D

[chomiji]

Um, OK. To begin with, as some of y'all have figured out, my dragons are named in Hebrew. The original and green-range ones have plant names (either varieties of plants or parts of plants etc.), and the Neon Wings ones have astrological or astronomical or weather-related names

Korach, my male progenitor, was a bit of a joke to begin with. By sheer accident (I knew nothing of how the breeding worked), I picked a really good color combo for my first dragon, Yarok, because I made her basically XYX in shades of green. So Korach was XYX too ... in pink and blood red. D-:

After trying and failing to get him to throw any hatchlings that weren't butt-ugly, I stopped breeding him. But I hated the idea that he wasn't involved in the daily life of the clan. So he's not only my highest-level Coli magic dragon, but I have decided that he is also the clan's religious leader — our Gladekeeper's Friend — and teacher, and have chosen his apparel (and more recently a skin ... wow, did it take me a long time to think of that!) with that role in mind:

All the hatchlings love Korach because he is so gentle and such a good storyteller.

Gilia is my bomb lady. She is strong and fierce in the arena and excellent at teaching the arts of combat. Yarok got her the ocean skin because her attacks are as irresistable as the ocean:

Tsemakh is our wildest magician. He's terribly handsome, vain, and eccentric. He has fathered some beautiful dragons and is competent in the Coli:

Pardess is our princess, and every bit the daughter of her father Tsemakh. All the breeding-oriented male dragons admire her exceedingly. She has a sweet nature but is a bit spoiled:

(I have more, actually, but I think this is enough for now ... .)