Okay, hear me out.
What if Pern dragons were WAAAAY more like colony insects?
Gold = Queen
Bronze = Drone
Chromatics = Workers
Brown = Soldier/Major
Blue = Media
Green = Minor
So you've got these pretty obvious and almost perfect correlations. But if you make them actually function like their ant/bee counterparts, a bunch of fun things happen!
Queens are still the baby-makers, but Bronzes/Drones are the ONLY ones physically capable of mating with them.
Browns/Soldiers and Blues/Media are not actually "male", they're the same caste/sex as Greens/Minors (which is not exactly "female" either).
Bronzes/Drones do not have fathers! All Bronzes/Drones are born from unfertilized eggs (they have a set of single chromosomes, instead of the full set of chromosome pairs).
Chromatics/Workers can rarely lay eggs, but they can only produce Bronze/Drone eggs because they can't mate to produce fertilized eggs.
Fertilized eggs become Chromatic/Worker eggs.
To get a Queen egg, you need a Queen, a Drone to fertilize her eggs, AND THEN you need a bunch of Chromatics/Workers to coat a Chromatic/Worker egg in Queen goo, causing it to change from a Chromatic/Worker to a Queen.
TO RECAP:
To create a Bronze/Drone, you only need a Queen.
To create any Chromatic/Worker, you need a Queen and at least 1 Bronze/Drone.
To create a Queen, you need a Queen, at least 1 Bronze/Drone, and a hoard of Chromatics/Workers.
I'd also like to note, in RL insect hives, the Queen doesn't direct the workers to create or choose a new Queen. The workers collectively decide when and which egg to convert. I feel like this helps with the common Main Character Syndrome that Golds and Bronzes get in Pern stuff.
So... Yeah. For your consideration.
If anyone wants to do anything with this concept, do! Have fun!
He’s like a kid on his first day of school I adore him so much you don’t even understand what he means to me
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im only a man when im a grown ass man and im only a woman when god forbid women do anything
any time other than that? im a fucking Echidna
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I can’t wait to see Revenge of the Sith in theaters it’s gonna be sooo much fun
Anyway here’s my silly fursonas as Anakin and Palpatine cause I can :3
God I can’t wait
Some fun doodling of my little guy Altair :3
yes there's a lot of things to criticize about Star Wars but one thing i will always love it for is being so unabashedly tragic
i'm sure it's been said before, but one of the main things i think powers the SW fandom (fics in particular) is the (in)evitability of it all
time travel fix-its are one of the most popular sub-categories of fics that i've seen (for the prequels at least) but i see it much more rarely in other fandoms. i know each fandom has their own niches that they dig into but star wars fic writers took one look at this decades long story of people who were doomed from the start and said 'not in my house bitch'
and i'm never tired of it, because there's so many places where just one different action could have changed the story entirely, but didn't
was it over the moment Palpatine succeeded in feeding Anakin's fears and his distrust toward the Jedi? the moment the Sith gained control of the senate? what about when the war started, when the Jedi were made generals of men designed to be their executioners? what about when Dooku left the order? when Qui-Gon Jinn died, leaving barely-knighted Obi Wan Kenobi to raise a child he had no idea how to care for? when the Jedi massacred the Mandalorians at Galidraan, leaving Jango Fett primed (hah) for revenge? when Palpatine, and thus the Sith, first gained influence? when the Jedi were tied to the Republic, all the way back at the Ruusan Reformation?
there are so many little moments that turn into this huge web of cause and effect when you take a step back. and in canon, these characters are dooming themselves while we watch, but what reason do they have to do anything different? they don't know they're in a tragedy - its dramatic irony at its goddamn finest
but there's this thing about decisions: for it to be a choice, there has to be another option. and our heroes make their mistakes because that's what they do, while we aren't privy to that other option, leaving that little what-if. it's a favorite human pastime, to think about what might have been.
we start at episode 4, though, fourty or so years after what you could arguably call the start, and find ourselves watching the dominoes fall in place throughout 1, 2, and 3.
and we can hate the choices, hate the tragedy, hate what happened to our beloved characters, but we knew. we had the luxury of knowing.
it's a love story, it's political intrique, it's sci-fi at its finest, and they were dead from the start.
Omg YES!! I want this
Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.
@pbxjami I had so much fun with the Art Trade
Hope you love him too. Loved drawing Prince<3
i feel like the most insane thing in star wars that im not seeing enough people using in their fics is that fact that, even under the chip, cody just fucking abandoned the empire.
dude's literally under a chip that commands him to be loyal to it, and he still ended up going "nah fuck this shit im out"
codys a fucking badass
Many more Pony Town players!!
I’ve given up I’m just gonna do the in game names it’s a lot easier haha
I hope y’all find this
Enjoy :3
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