Quote:Sure. Probably Keiu, since she's the one more likely to wait and talk if an opponent gives the chance, rather than just jumping in.
You do realize that either Keiu or Tsuchi is going to have to have a tragic romance with the obligatory redeemable-villian character?
single children, or (rarely) twins - sounds about right. The birth rate is kept even lower than among professional humans, due to the fact that dragon children take about the same amount of time to reach self-sufficiency but their lifes spans and the practical fertile ages for females are much longer than a human.
(As a side note, young and adolescent dragons? They scarf like a Saotome when in human form, and consider it a light snack - it's a good thing magic can make them invisible even to radar so they can fly out to sea and hunt every night, or they'd starve. It's just not possible to support that rate of growth with a human-size mouth and stomache.)
Further, the Antler dragons, while still cross-compatible with their kin, must perform complicated rituals over the egg shortly after it is laid, to either give the offspring functional wings and a wing-flier boody shape or six legs, rather than being stuck in between. Dragon/human crossbreeding requires a spell to reinforce the natural transformation ability, and will result in a child that is mostly human but with higher muscle power per pound, a much higher base mystic energy, and a few superficial dracnic features. And despite being oviparous and scaly, dragons are warm blooded and breastfeed until the children start to grow front teeth.
Quote:Mmmm, catgirls... H_H Okay, you're in. Tell us about these enemies you see.
I'd like the demons to be Rakshasa instead of Oni, just because of the fact that dragons and tigers are supposed to be natural enemies in Oriental tradition.
Plus, this lets the character designer throw a catgirl or two amongst the enemies....
- CD is distracted by the thought of the catgirl from Tenchi Muyo GXP with tigerstripes... white tiger nekomimi, rrrrowl. Super space-hottie.
ETA: There's something we've forgotten, here - if Kennan is a dragon in human form, able to change back whenever he likes, why is it so dangerous when he's dangling over the side of the stairs? Did he get so wrapped up in the moment that he just forgot he's not a normal guy? Did he have some special sealing done, locking him in human form for a while so the priests wouldn't be able to detect his otherworldly nature? He couldn't just not know yet himself, could he? If the last, then cancel the bit about flying out to go fishing every evening , but I think the second is most likely.
ETA2: I forgot this twice now... but the reason interclan relationships and childrn are rare among dragons is simply that there are so few of them that the main place to meet another dragon is when all the families in the clan meet every decade or so to trade news, air greivances, etc. There's more than enough subfamilies to prevent inbreeding even for the Antler clan. 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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