If There Could Be One F-bomb In The WOF Books Who Would Say It And What Line Would It Be?

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Starflight!

“Is it better to be safe and broken than it is to be dead?”

M. L. Wang, Blood over bright haven

so that's what christianparentsreviews was talking about

I've personally always found it weird that Burn was a c@nnibal and everybody just forgets and ignores that. I mean like I get she was already a little kooky with the Weirdling Tower but c@nnibalism??

In book one, when Scarlet shows Glory to Burn, Burn says "Waste of food." and although it states immediately after that that she looked jealous, it does indeed mean that Burn would eat her own species, and she may have possibly already done so with her prisoners.

I think she’s saying that feeding Glory would be a waste of food, not that Scarlet should eat Glory or otherwise it’d be a waste of food.

It is entirely possible a bunch of parents end up naming their kids after The DoD and I find that cute

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Kestrel: Good lord, he's a monster! Look at him trying to crush their eggs and kill them before they hatch! We've got ourselves a true killer it seems. Utterly heartless in nature and incapable of anything but harm

The monster in question:

glar

we made stickers in art class:D

ill post the printed sticker later

my interpretation of dune's attitude towards the dod is that he was so bummed over his boyfriend leaving him that he forgot to not be violent towards children

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Yet another reason T. T. Sutherland is a coward and a fool for going "Peril has never been touched in battle before, the dragonflame cactus was her first time experiencing real pain" and I refuse to accept it as canon:

Cooler Headcanon: the reason Peril immediately had the idea of burning the venom out of Clay's wound when he got bitten by the Dragonbite Viper was because she's had to do that to herself after getting puncture wounds from sandwings that injected venom past the superheated layer of skin. It didn't do as much damage to her as it did to Clay because Peril's pretty much completely fireproof even under the skin, so the scars are pretty small and not that noticeable, but she does have a few.

The couple times she de-venomed herself during a battle were pretty much the most metal thing ever to happen in Scarlet's arena. A dragon getting an apparently mortal wound, jamming her claws right into the open wound, writhing on the sand in apparent death throes, and then after like a minute getting back up with "smoke" rising from her eyes and nose as well as the bloody, sizzling puncture, and proceeding to limp across the arena and utterly destroy her terrified opponent.

The dragons she was fighting didn't try to finish her off because they'd already severely burned their tail barbs and probably talons and wings doing it and weren't going to risk getting hurt even worse by a dying dragon. Then of course when their one hope of killing her turned out not to work they kind of lost the will to live.

This contributed significantly to Peril's reputation as an invincible monster, but on the other hand seeing the queen's champion curled in a fetal position, screaming, sobbing and obviously trying not to pass out, made some of the spectators present for those fights somewhat remember that this was a 2-3 year old dragonet being thrown in the arena with full grown adult enemy soldiers, which was pretty messed up even if the small child kept winning. These feelings of sympathy were often diminished a bit by what Peril did to her opponents afterward, but Queen Scarlet was still not pleased, and after it happened two or three times she got a supply of the antidote cactus for "if a guard accidentally gets gotten by a sandwing prisoner" purposes.

Ruby absolutely never saw this because she made a point of watching fights in the arena as little as possible, especially Peril's for obvious reasons.

On the other hand I just thought of the perfect explanation for why Carnelian was like "I wonder if she remembers me?" when Peril showed up at JMA instead of freaking out like most of the dragons there. At some point, early in her career as a child soldier before she ended up in Ruby's unit, she was working in the palace and got voluntold to help out during an incident when Peril got stabbed in the shoulder or something where she couldn't reach with her claws so somebody had to very carefully burn the venom out with a red hot nail and a pair of tongs. Carnelian's actual job was probably something like holding a bucket of water and pouring it on the spear haft a third dragon was holding Peril's wing closed with, but she met Peril in a vulnerable state when she wasn't trying to perform for the crowd, and also saw her trying really hard to avoid accidentally injuring anyone, which led to her being one of a small number of skywings who are capable of being normal about Peril.