Heh.
Nice art, though, Amber. Especially the two-form panel.
I wonder if dragons can breed with drakes. . . .
yeah we kinda figured out that much with pyroduck but it atleast answers the question #598 left
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.
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... ;-]
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.
Quote from: Jairus on July 13, 2008, 10:57:22 AM
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...
Quote from: Jigsaw Forte on July 13, 2008, 12:02:31 PM
Quote from: Jairus on July 13, 2008, 10:57:22 AM
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.
Quote from: Jairus on July 13, 2008, 12:08:20 PM
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.
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.
:erk
Quote from: Tapewolf on July 13, 2008, 12:30:45 PM
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.
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....
Quote from: Tapewolf on July 13, 2008, 12:30:45 PM
Quote from: Jairus on July 13, 2008, 12:08:20 PM
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, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-backed_jackal) though. :3
Notably, Amber drew an elephant for the comic Carpe Diem: Click here (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/graveyardgreg/carpediem/character.php?character_ID=1804).
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
Quote from: Keaton the Black Jackal on July 13, 2008, 01:34:31 PM
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.
There's an elephant far Way back here too (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_843.php)
Bah, all this fuss over elephants when the mice and rabbits are clearly the cute ones.
Quote from: Aleolus on July 13, 2008, 12:38:02 PM
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.
:erk
Exceptions are there, but not here. There, it's grammatically correct now.
I heard the sound of many fanbois/gurls screaming and suddenly silenced...
...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?
Quote from: Jairus on July 13, 2008, 01:42:02 PM
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 (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_142.php).
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?
Quote from: Tapewolf on July 13, 2008, 12:30:45 PMhttp://www.mabsland.com/Art5/Egyptian_GalsV3.jpg
What, no ibis?
Quote from: Zedd on July 13, 2008, 06:51:39 PM
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...
Quote from: Slowtini on July 13, 2008, 08:40:40 PM
(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.
Quote from: !KCA on July 14, 2008, 12:08:11 AM
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! :mwaha
Quote from: DarkAudit on July 14, 2008, 10:34:31 AM
Stomp! STOMP I say! :mwaha
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.
Quote from: Jairus on July 14, 2008, 11:08:46 AM
Quote from: DarkAudit on July 14, 2008, 10:34:31 AM
Stomp! STOMP I say! :mwaha
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.
Quote from: Ganurath on July 14, 2008, 12:48:04 PM
Quote from: Jairus on July 14, 2008, 11:08:46 AM
Quote from: DarkAudit on July 14, 2008, 10:34:31 AM
Stomp! STOMP I say! :mwaha
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?
Quote from: Jairus on July 14, 2008, 12:50:21 PM
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...
Quote from: Tapewolf on July 14, 2008, 01:57:58 PM
Quote from: Jairus on July 14, 2008, 12:50:21 PM
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.
ahem:
Quote from: Fluffydragon genes sometimes stomp out other traits
Stomp that speculation! STOMP it flat!
well, I make no assumptions, but in D&D dragons can breed with ALL inteligent races.
Quote from: rocket_red1 on July 19, 2008, 08:17:58 PM
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 :erk
I didn't know about celestials... but demons, well, that just makes sence.
I noticed someone cited "exceptions are there" as a typo, and I'd like to say that when read as saying exceptions are there, like there: the place instead of, there: there are, it reads correctly. The word was meant to indicate position rather than an abbreviation for there are.
If this is already said, I apologize. I tend to get ahead of myself.
Quote from: Slowtini on July 13, 2008, 08:40:40 PMWhat would the main/secondary forms be?
I would assume that the seconday(Smaller) form is just personal preference...
But that makes me wonder What would happen if a dragon was given an amulet similar to Kira's... It sorta forces a more being look upon the holder.. so what would it turn a dragon into? a Lizard Being?
well i guess it depends on the parents secondary forms :mowtongue
Quote from: Tapewolf on July 13, 2008, 12:30:45 PM
Quote from: Jairus on July 13, 2008, 12:08:20 PM
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.
*Charline points to the lioness in the upper left corner* That's my Mum there with the Grimjow-adjuchas-like snarl. I miss Mum. I wonder where she is? I was all alone as a cub... so alone... :<
*sigh* A nice dragon would help me feel better... and he could stay in full-size form too... mmmm, hybridization... :love2
*Alondro was about to walk in and comment, until he heard Charline.* D: Well, there's always that alien invasion on Pontark IV to deal with... *flees*
the effect of the amulet on a dragon would likely justput in its secondary form... a dragon/ drakes secondary form would likely be alot like pyroduck's...