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[Dsarker]

Current fic is a no-go zone, so please edit your post so as to not do spoilers.


That could be a good story, Crazy.

[TheBronzePickle]

I wish my writing abilities were more than sub-par.

It's mainly characterization. I'm really bad at making predefined characters match their 'real' personalities. Otherwise, I practice good grammar and have a mastery of description, as well as a very good vocabulary.

[Dsarker]

So why not tell the tale of a character who hasn't been clearly defined, such as Snips or Snails, and why they got their Cutie Marks?

[TheBronzePickle]

The last time I did that, I still managed to fuck up the characterization. I'm that terrible.

I'm honestly not good at making characters at all. They end up being just one-dimensional tools to tell whatever story I make.

I guess that's a disadvantage of being emotionally detached.

[Flying Dice]

The last time I did that, I still managed to fuck up the characterization. I'm that terrible.

I'm honestly not good at making characters at all. They end up being just one-dimensional tools to tell whatever story I make.

I guess that's a disadvantage of being emotionally detached.

Fuckin' one-dimensional tools, how do they work? 

^{_{because juggalos are one dimensional tools /dontexplainthejoke}}

[Trapezohedron]

Is the fic almost done? I can't wait to read it! >:O

[TheBronzePickle]

I presume you have no idea what it's about. Once you start reading it, you may change your mind, unless you happen to be into slasher fiction (or better yet, you think slashers are too mild).

[Trapezohedron]

Well, I have no problems with graphic descriptions whatsoever, so I guess I'll be fine.

[Dsarker]

Just waiting on Impending.

[TheBronzePickle]

Impending is still impending?

[Dsarker]

Ha, but yes.

Anyway, some thoughts to punt around about dragons for my next grimdark fic.

Dragons:
Large predators. Flight gives them large ranges.

Gems for helping shed skin. Intelligent, but only basely intelligent. Lays large clutches (up to thirty or fourty eggs) but only one or two survive the hatching, in which they turn cannibalistic and eat each other to get the energy to eat past the layer of gems and the like that surround their nests. (other use for gems)

Protect their clutch for up to a year. After this period, the mothers sometimes turn on their young and eat them before they can escape.

When ponies take the eggs, three things cause loss of wild population.

1st - accidental egg breakage before they know where the eggs are.
2nd - loss of nutrients makes many nests 'stillbirths'.
3rd - loss of protective gem cover allows many egg eaters easier access to the eggs.

Ponies view these as necessary evils for the restoration of the dragon population as a whole. Usual programs include a release after twelve years, when the dragon grows to maturity.

These dragons are substantially more intelligent as opposed to their wild counterparts, and it is these that play the role of the dragons in the series so far. Wild dragons are next to extinct in Equestria.

[Flying Dice]

Ha, but yes.

Anyway, some thoughts to punt around about dragons for my next grimdark fic.

Dragons:
Large predators. Flight gives them large ranges.

Gems for helping shed skin. Intelligent, but only basely intelligent. Lays large clutches (up to thirty or fourty eggs) but only one or two survive the hatching, in which they turn cannibalistic and eat each other to get the energy to eat past the layer of gems and the like that surround their nests. (other use for gems)

Protect their clutch for up to a year. After this period, the mothers sometimes turn on their young and eat them before they can escape.

When ponies take the eggs, three things cause loss of wild population.

1st - accidental egg breakage before they know where the eggs are.
2nd - loss of nutrients makes many nests 'stillbirths'.
3rd - loss of protective gem cover allows many egg eaters easier access to the eggs.

Ponies view these as necessary evils for the restoration of the dragon population as a whole. Usual programs include a release after twelve years, when the dragon grows to maturity.

These dragons are substantially more intelligent as opposed to their wild counterparts, and it is these that play the role of the dragons in the series so far. Wild dragons are next to extinct in Equestria.

Hah, don't post this on the main thread or you know who'll start talking about how captive breeding programs are slavery. 

[TheBronzePickle]

Considering Spike's likely around 10 years old, I don't think that dragons grow to maturity in 12 years.

[Dsarker]

Spike isn't the same type as the other dragons we've seen. He doesn't have even vestigial wings, and he eats gems. Other dragons don't primarily eat gems, else why would they leave their caves? Then you've got the tail, too.

I'm thinking there might be a sort of breeding effect. You know how domesticated wolves don't have the wild version's straight ears? More floppy? That, and they only bark, instead of howling. Eh, meh.

[Trapezohedron]

Either that, or Spike is still incredibly young to develop such features, akin to that of puberty, except more like evolution rather than... you know.