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Queen of Dinosauria

@carolyn-the-sword / carolyn-the-sword.tumblr.com

An intergalactic warrior who loves dragons, horses, and video games. Expect a lot of fandom things and cute animals.

I bought one of the How to Train Your Dragon surprise plush eggs today hoping to get the Crimson Gorecutter, and got this little guy instead.  He’s adorable, but I have no idea what he is.  I can’t seem to find another example of him in any pictures from the toy line including on the box, and I’m not aware of a dragon like him in the series (though I can’t say I know too much about the series).  Looks kind of like a green Nadder, but he doesn’t have the nose horn.

Does anybody have any idea what kind of dragon this is?  I’m just curious.

Post main story AU - Where Arthur and Charles meet up again in Tall Trees a couple weeks after saving Abigail. Charles thought it was best to find a place to lay low until things blow over, so they journey throughout the forest rural until they find a sweet tiny cabin overlooking the Lower Montana River.

The travel was rough and hard for Charles because of losing his appaloosa, but they persisted and it all really paid off. Both are settled in mother nature, and most importantly, are at peace.   

AHHH I WISH THIS WAS HOW THE GAME ENDED

Wow, the last two chapters of Golden Deer were a mess.  (Golden Deer and Crimson Flower spoilers, also this is a bit of a rant, and full of opinions)

We defeated Edelgard!  Everything is good now!  Oh wait, a letter from Hubert? There’s another enemy to fight?  Okay, let’s go to an unexplained sci fi underground base to fight an enemy we foreshadowed briefly in one segment of dialogue!

If we hadn’t played Crimson Flower first, the Slithers would have been completely random and had no explanation.  Claude and co never even find out the extent of what they've been doing.  Honestly, this chapter belonged in Crimson Flower.  It would have fixed my only big complaint about CF’s ending (the Slithers still existing after the war).

Okay, so we defeated the guys behind all the bad things that happened in the Academy Phase (and every bad thing that’s happened in the last 1000 years of Fodlan’s history).  Everything is good now!  Oh wait, Nemesis is back?!  How?  Why??  No foreshadowing, no explanation.  Unless that line about him living a long time because of his Crest was supposed to do it, but Seiros (brutally) stabbed him to death in the opening cutscene so....?

Then Claude somehow simultaneously fixes everything in Fodlan and runs away to become King of Almyra.  Leaving Byleth in charge.  And Rhea just... vanishes, and lets them reform her church that she spent 1000 years building and manipulating?

Claude honestly managed to lose most of my respect by running off to Almyra and leaving Byleth as Queen.  But I suppose that’s what happens when your Lord’s dreams and goals are so irrelevant to the main troubles of Fodlan that you wonder why he’s even in the story.  Crests ruining lives?  The Church controlling everything?  Those Who Slither in the Dark messing with the world behind the scenes?  Yeah, he fixes those, as an afterthought.  He’s way more invested in that darn racism that’s hurting so many people.  Which the plot also manages to undermine by having Nader and Holst get on immediately with very little prompting.  I guess they don’t actually hate each other that bad, huh?

If you wanted me to think racism was a real problem in Fodlan show it to me.  Show people in the monastery distrusting Claude because of his Almyra heritage.  Show Hilda being maybe a little hesitant to follow him as house leader because her brother fights Almyrans.  Make Lorenz side-eye him because of racial tension pre-timeskip, then come around after getting to know him.  Claude says he had it rough due to prejudice, but he mentions that in passing in maybe two supports.  His parents trying to teach him horseback riding sounded more traumatic than the racism.

Meanwhile, Edelgard is against a system that has destroyed lives.  At least three students in every house have been negatively impacted by the nobility and/or crest systems.  We see it.  I had trouble rooting against her in the Golden Deer route.  Was the war right?  Heck no.  Was she doing it for a goal that actually mattered to Fodlan as a whole?  Yep.

Rhea’s info dump about her motives and her past and the truth came much too late.  I didn’t like her in CF, and this route didn’t help.  The beginning of the route went out of its way to show that the Church was shady as hell, to the point of eliminating people with questionable beliefs and destroying books to keep the populace ignorant.  They waited till Chapter 21 (of 22) to give us a reason for all that obsession.  Sorry, writers, but I’ve already made up my mind about the Church and their actions by then.

Anyway, that was a rant.  My brother and I are playing Azure Moon next.  I’m waiting to form an opinion on Dimitri and his character until I’ve seen that route (if anyone was wondering why I didn’t mention him at all). 

Armored Lady Monday 

Noire! 

so, i was playing three houses and thinking about noire, as u do, and i went, what would she look like after the 5 year timeskip? and i also happened to get a patreon request to draw her as the 5 year timeskip so i did! hope you like it!