07/13/08 [Hybrids #8] - I foresee speculation and fan jobs.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Heh.


Nice art, though, Amber. Especially the two-form panel.

[!KCA]

I wonder if dragons can breed with drakes. . . .

[silentassassin]

yeah we kinda figured out that much with pyroduck but it atleast answers the question #598 left

[e_voyager]

Er what question would that be?

edit it seems that there was already a topic for this comic but as i clicked it form the index window i didn't see it till after i posted.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Nicely done, silentassassin.

You missed the previous thread, which I've merged yours with.
And you missed titling it properly.

I do recommend you do better, next time... ;-]

[Jairus]

That may be the first time we've seen an Elephant Being (yes it's a dragon, but still). Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

All in all, it's nice to see this stuff written out.

[Jigsaw Forte]

That may be the first time we've seen an Elephant Being (yes it's a dragon, but still). Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

All in all, it's nice to see this stuff written out.

There's an Elephant at the end of the Fashion Arc, not to mention the "Egyptian Girls" art Mab keeps redoing...

[Jairus]

That may be the first time we've seen an Elephant Being (yes it's a dragon, but still). Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

All in all, it's nice to see this stuff written out.

There's an Elephant at the end of the Fashion Arc, not to mention the "Egyptian Girls" art Mab keeps redoing...

Ah, you're right about the fashion art... but what is the "Egyptian Girls" art? This is honestly the first thing I've heard of it.

[Tapewolf]

Ah, you're right about the fashion art... but what is the "Egyptian Girls" art? This is honestly the first thing I've heard of it.

http://www.mabsland.com/Art5/Egyptian_GalsV3.jpg

I'm not sure I see an elephant, mind.

[Aleolus]

Umm, "Exceptions are there?"  OK, that's either a typo, or Fluffy is doing a bad impersonation of Yoda.  Yoda would have said "Exceptions, there are," and the proper grammatical way to say it would be "There are exceptions," but never mind me, I'm just nitpicking.

[Jairus]

http://www.mabsland.com/Art5/Egyptian_GalsV3.jpg

I'm not sure I see an elephant, mind.

Me neither... a hippo, certainly, but no elephant. Wow, that's a great picture. I need to flip through that site more.

Aleolus' Comment: Well, we all know that occasionally typos creep through into Amber's writing. It happens. It's actually helped me get over my anal tendency to go librarian at the sight of typos: I just note them and move on.

[Lucheek]

Woah...took me a while to figure out Fluffy's doing a handstand in the last panel. It's kind of hard when she/he's just a ball....

[Sunblink]

Ah, you're right about the fashion art... but what is the "Egyptian Girls" art? This is honestly the first thing I've heard of it.

http://www.mabsland.com/Art5/Egyptian_GalsV3.jpg

I'm not sure I see an elephant, mind.

I do see a black-backed jackal, though.

Notably, Amber drew an elephant for the comic Carpe Diem: Click here.

I was really curious about the breeding habits of the dragons myself. Makes sense that they'd be purity fanatics, I guess. I love the elephant-dragon.

~Keaton the Black Jackal

[Jairus]

I was really curious about the breeding habits of the dragons myself. Makes sense that they'd be purity fanatics, I guess. I love the elephant-dragon.

~Keaton the Black Jackal

I have to confess that that took me by surprise: I'm so used to working and developing my own fantasy universe that the idea of a "purist" dragon is quite foreign to me. Don't get me wrong, this is interesting. Of course, the only two dragons we've really met are Pyroduck (currently dating Alexsi) and that one dragon who married the canine and had two kids, we really don't have much of a wide database to call on. Plus, Fa'Lina did imply that Pyroduck is a bit weird for a dragon... wasn't her exact term "nice?"

Please don't take my comment about my universe as me tooting my own horn. I'm genuinely interested in how other people design their universes.

[Feather Dancer]

There's an elephant far Way back here too

[Mao]

Bah, all this fuss over elephants when the mice and rabbits are clearly the cute ones.

[Ganurath]

Umm, "Exceptions are there?"  OK, that's either a typo, or Fluffy is doing a bad impersonation of Yoda.  Yoda would have said "Exceptions, there are," and the proper grammatical way to say it would be "There are exceptions," but never mind me, I'm just nitpicking.

Exceptions are there, but not here. There, it's grammatically correct now.

[Zedd]

I heard the sound of many fanbois/gurls screaming and suddenly silenced...

[Slowtini]

...So what would happen if said half breed, bred with another dragon?

Would the offspring have more dragon, or more of whatever the other race is?

What would the main/secondary forms be?

Would the non-dragon form be mostly draconic in feature, with a few non-dragon traits?

[AmigaDragon]

Of course, the only two dragons we've really met are Pyroduck (currently dating Alexsi) and that one dragon who married the canine and had two kids, we really don't have much of a wide database to call on. Plus, Fa'Lina did imply that Pyroduck is a bit weird for a dragon... wasn't her exact term "nice?"

You're forgetting the red one who Dan owed ten bucks.

I recall discussions on this, but I don't recall any definitive race being verified for Pyroduck's being form.
If the dragon genes "sometimes stomp out other traits", what determines the dragon's smaller form, is it a conscious decision (like cubi shape changing) or genetic? If genetic and the mother's and father's being forms (whether one or both are dragons) are different, like for example canine and feline, which is passed on?

[!KCA]

http://www.mabsland.com/Art5/Egyptian_GalsV3.jpg

What, no ibis?

I heard the sound of many fanbois/gurls screaming and suddenly silenced...

Not when there are exceptions to be made.

I heard the sound of many fanbois/gurls squealing, and much rejoicing...

(1.) ...So what would happen if said half breed, bred with another dragon?

(2.) Would the offspring have more dragon, or more of whatever the other race is?

(3.) What would the main/secondary forms be?

(4.) Would the non-dragon form be mostly draconic in feature, with a few non-dragon traits?

1.) I believe Amber (er, Fluffy?) indicated that the result would be mostly draconic, if not a full dragon.

2.) Dragons, as per above.

3.) It'd probably follow the standard rules for interspecies. . .dating.

4.) The alternate form probably wouldn't be any different from other alternate forms, actually.

[DarkAudit]

1.) I believe Amber (er, Fluffy?) indicated that the result would be mostly draconic, if not a full dragon.

2.) Dragons, as per above.

3.) It'd probably follow the standard rules for interspecies. . .dating.

4.) The alternate form probably wouldn't be any different from other alternate forms, actually.

Stomp! STOMP I say! 

[Jairus]

Stomp! STOMP I say! 

I feel like I should immediately understand this and be LOLing on the floor (or at least groaning at a bad pun), but I don't get it.

[Ganurath]

Stomp! STOMP I say! 

I feel like I should immediately understand this and be LOLing on the floor (or at least groaning at a bad pun), but I don't get it.

Dragons stomping on little people.

[Jairus]

Stomp! STOMP I say! 

I feel like I should immediately understand this and be LOLing on the floor (or at least groaning at a bad pun), but I don't get it.

Dragons stomping on little people.

But do they really mean it, or is it just accidental as a result of being the size of a small building?

[Tapewolf]

But do they really mean it, or is it just accidental as a result of being the size of a small building?

Since they can adopt a more suitable form, I'd say it's deliberate because they chose not to...

[Jairus]

But do they really mean it, or is it just accidental as a result of being the size of a small building?

Since they can adopt a more suitable form, I'd say it's deliberate because they chose not to...

Well, sometimes it's accidental... remember how a dragon accidentally wiped out the vampire race? But, yeah, I can imagine that good portion of the squishing is on purpose... after all, that's how Pyroduck got Abel to go along with their plans.

[DarkAudit]

ahem:

dragon genes sometimes stomp out other traits

Stomp that speculation! STOMP it flat!

[rocket_red1]

well, I make no assumptions, but in D&D dragons can breed with ALL inteligent races.

[techmaster-glitch]

well, I make no assumptions, but in D&D dragons can breed with ALL inteligent races.

And even nonintelligent ones, actually. So can celestials and fiends, except the celestials are the ones who actually do stick with sentience