Quote:Well, one of the relatively recent anime I found quite amusing was Airmaster, and one of the reasons I liked it was that the least capable fighter character, half-rival and half-comic-releif, was the first to discover and use what one might call a chi attack in the anime/fighting game sense. Given that her ideal of fighting is (similarly enough to a certain other project of ours) to invest her body with all of her passion and strike with its explosive force... Um, yeah. I think the super martial arts are likely for Tsuchi, in a worldwhere they are possible at all.
I can't wait to see if (Tsuchi) learns Super Martial Arts. ^_^
RE names - If I had any other suggestions, I would have made them, so these seem good enough. Have you a special rationale behind Miyou, or do you just like the sound of it?
RE Fanged Dragon physiology - sounds good mostly, thgouh I was figuring they'd be a little shorter in the muzzle than this sounds like, with the Stone Dragons (or Gemstone Dragons, if that's not too unweildy a word to make into a name, so called because of the bright almost irridescent colors of their smoothly rounded scales) being long in the face to go with their longer neck and generally slimmer, speed-over-power build. (Though with a dragon, saying that its speed is better than its strength is saying a great deal more about speed. "Weak dragon" is a null-sum statement.) The Stones still only have a relatively simple coloration, most of their body being a single hue, lightening on the belly and darkening in tigerstripes or dapples on the back, where Fangs tend to neutral earth tones.
Plumed dragons are the step between Stone and Antler Dragons, having the serpentine body form but feathered more brilliantly than any parrot, and use magic much more often than the more Western-style Fang and Stone clans. One of their subfamilies are known for their use f wheather-magic, and it was one of their wider ranging scouts who gave birth to the stories of the Thunderbird.
Antler Dragons are the odd ones out in many ways, favoring the use of magic almost exclusively for attack and defense, and are unique in having developed their wings into additional walking and manipulating limbs, also extending their body length so that all six legs are spaced roughly evenly along the central third. Thus, they must use a spell for flight, and an enchanted pearl with the spell pattern for this ability is implanted in the foreheads of their hatchlings almost as soon as they break shell. Their coloration also tends toward the brighter colors, with much more regular patterning then Stone types. They are the rarest and east numerous of the clans, outnumbered by other types even in the oriental regions most affected by sightings of their scouts. They often serve as mediators or magistrates in the dragon community.
Discussed in that order, they form a spectrum from the most physically oriented to most intellectually, though individuals buck racial trends as often as in any other intelligent species.
I think we need another character, a meek brain-type who's a Plumed dragon with an altogether ordinary, even mousy, human-suit transformation (and the two of them being in the same medium-size high school is about average population, probably, maybe even a bit high. Aside from their families, there should be one other, older dragon in the recurring cast, at the very most.)
Hmmm... Karai (cyclonic thunderstorm) + hane (wing/feather) Keiu (welcome/beneficial rain), who wears glasses, and whom Kogal and the Groupies mock by mispronouncing her name "Kaiu" or "strange, dark-colored rain/cyclonic rain storm that drops strange objects (ex: fish or frogs)" - she's one of the Thunderbird types, and completes the main combat team trio of bushi/mahoutsukai/ninja, plus Tsuchi as second-line fighter, and any of them can act as field medic in a limited capacity. Hey, you don't get to be a scrappy tomboy let alone a kunoichi without learning how to take care of cuts and scrapes, or splinting a broken bone (and for Miyou, stab wounds, basic tenketsu stirkes, and deep slashes). Minor healing magic is part of any young dragon's private teaching for much the same reason.
Why? Picture the comedic potential of a full-fledged if adolescent thunderbird, twiddling her thunbs and trying to hide the blush on her snout behind an orange and yellow wing.
Another family of the Plumed clan is Nejihane, or "rainbow+feather"
- CD World-building is fun!What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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