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You don't have Dragons behave like giant cats do you?
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Smaug is the best interpretation of a dragon in anything ever.
>To further prepare for the role, Cumberbatch told the Los Angeles Times last year that he went to the London Zoo every day to study animals including lizards
I want to believe that that's real, but I strongly suspect it's from SNL or something.
Oh no it's real lmao.
Then this is definitely the best part of the Hobbit movies.
Not Smaug, but these behind-the-scenes shots of Burbledorf Camelot being filmed.
Yeah this is what costume and character actors do for a living
I feel like he re-used that same expression for his role in 1917.
The CGI artists when they got his mocap footage:
>Is turned into a wyvern
I like Grigori from Dragon's dogma
That sounds super moronic, what?
Dragons are first of all, intelligent
Second of all... cats? Why?
Also FPBP
>Second of all... cats? Why?
Cats epitomize alot of the characteristics that people think of: Vain and prideful, they are also sociopathic being that LOVE to abuse and toy with weaker beings in the same way that cats toy with and dismember small animals. Cats are also lazy beings that spend most of their time sleeping, imitating dragons slumbering on their hoards.
Cats likewise are actually pretty hoardful, as they gather a large number of useless toys/ect. into select spots.
Cats are a long established thing for people to portray dragons as acting like in a number of literature and stories.
also many dragons in classical art basically are part lion or big cat in their design, if not in a literal chimeric fashion then at least in the posture and facial structure. to the point that some even theorize dragons are a subconcious amalgamation of the most common dangers to man's primate ancestors, cats, large birds, snakes and reptiles, and fire.
the dragon as cat angle is also versatile as it can also make them apporchable while still adhering to alot of the behavior patterns noted in the post Im responding to. Ideal for both malicious, non malicious dragons alike
I don't think it's even top 5.
It isn't even the best version of smaug.
But Smaug is characterized HEAVILY as a cat? He even ours and stretches for crying out loud.
I have dragons behave like dragons.
I came here to write exactly that.
>don't fly
>don't breathe fire
>aren't that big
>don't even really move much
>mostly just sit around and smell bad
>occasionally eat some carrion or bite passing livestock and follow it around until it becomes carrion
Mudcore to make the grimmest Game of Thrones larper blush
Simultaneously contemptuous and jealous with the added spice that what's merest pettiness to an immortal is centuries-long plotting to a man. They were unliving motes long before life infested the world. Consumption, reproduction and death are all affectations to them rather than necessities, mostly in the form of parody (rarely as inept yet sincere aping). Humanity's innovations fascinate/enrage them the most hence hoarding currency despite loathing exchange and kidnapping royalty with no intention of degrading themselves by participating in society.
>incidentally lash out then patiently follow as sepsis sets in
Not appropriate for all dragons but effective horror in a survival situation. Might suit something like a lindwurm where inexorably blighting the land's a theme.
Fafnir's dwarf-to-dragon would only make this all the more insufferable.
Pretty much applies to any asocial intelligence to a lesser degree. Hell, to more humans than it's comfortable to admit.
>don't even really move much
Frickers can run down sprinters, and regularly do just that to inhabitants. Also they literally regularly feed on the dead Nidhogg style.
Don’t forget the most disgusting, infection-inducing bite ever.
AKSHULLY, their mouths aren't any more disgusting than other carnivores. They have venom. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0810883106
Magic dinosaurs that are as into themselves as your average kid who's obsessed with dinosaurs.
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>I just found this book, read it like yesterday, so I've made a whole seminar for ya.
my dragons are autistic. they have photographic memory of their horde and will go on a city-flattening chimpout if they find a coin flipped the wrong way. outside of that they're computer-tier rational and think like 500 years from now is tomorrow, which is mostly an excuse to make them do strange shit
Hoard
A horde of Mongols, a horde of mint-condition action figures.
Frick, I fricked it up.
Hoard of action figures.
see, it's hard isnt it
Just don't touch Genghis Smaug's Mongols, alright?
>OP Pic
The typical 4 legged dragon is just a snake headed lion chimera so I don't see why that would be a problem
Except they're supposed to be intelligent and live for hundreds of years.
>supposed to be
According to who? Tolkien? I like intelligent dragons but in Western myths they weren’t the masterminds we depict them as in modern fantasy. They were destructive forces of nature.
Intelligent dragons are a lot older than Tolkien dude.
Like ancient folklore and shit.
My dragons behave like drunken elephants crossed with early, debunked theories of therapsid behaviour, but they have a code of ritual combat similar to the early Armenian knife fighting shepherds. They also use Junker-style honourifics and greet each other by clicking their tails against their hindclaws. Additionally my dragons don't have the traditional prismatic colours, their scales reflect light on a entirely different spectrum to the one the human eye is able to perceive. That's why humans might refer to a dragon as "The Crimson Thunderbolt" when elves known him as the "Ochre Death-Hewer."
But yeah, base your dragons on crocodiles or kittens. Not being creative must suck.
Dragons should behave like entities of pure dominance. They are entities of Greed, Pride, and Wrath. Their hatred should be inhuman. Their desire for dominance should be inhuman. Their desire for wealth should be inhuman. They aren't humans psychologically and should act like monumental psychopaths with no other goal than to control and own all that they see, and if denied that they know no concept of mercy.
>Dragons should behave like entities of pure dominance. They are entities of Greed, Pride, and Wrath. Their hatred should be inhuman. Their desire for dominance should be inhuman. Their desire for wealth should be inhuman. They aren't humans psychologically and should act like monumental psychopaths with no other goal than to control and own all that they see, and if denied that they know no concept of mercy.
This is the perfect interpetation
They have a completely alien mindset anything they do stems from their desire and if they like it. Morality, goodness or evil is something humans made up and Dragons simply dont care about
>Their hatred should be inhuman. Their desire for dominance should be inhuman. Their desire for wealth should be inhuman. They aren't humans psychologically and should act like monumental psychopaths with no other goal than to control and own all that they see, and if denied that they know no concept of mercy.
You are literally just describing human capitalism.
Insofar as corporate entities are people it applies. All the privileges and none of the responsibilities, the bastards.
Dragons as an emergent property might be a cool concept, kind of like the state patrons in Qin: the Warring States.
I like it.
What the hell does that have to do with anything?
Largescale corporations do act like inhuman manifestations of greed. When you obfuscate responsibility over dozens or hundreds no single person sees their personal actions as that of a larger malevolent entity. That's how you get shit that is inhumanly greedy from a group of humans.
Hence
. Could be an interesting cyberpunk spin on Fafnir though if futuretech's on the table even a less deranged transhumanist could incrementally stray from humanity and over a mental event horizon all on their own.
Well said.
It's a really transparent take, that's why I said it; he seemed to overlook it. There's nothing special about it. Are you okay?
The thing is Corporations are manifestations o greed, and maybe stupidity. But they aren't manifestations of sloth and wrath, so they don't really fit for dragons.
Not all dragons are just one of those things though if pressed we can expand the definition of inhuman group minds to include bureaucracies which easily cover sloth with their sheer inertia and hostility to upsetting the status quo. Wrath's harder since even a military's all about self preservation, fanatic "kill at all costs" arises from the populace (or a few lunatics at the top). Maybe a demagogue memeplex or media empire stoking rage for clicks?
I generally don't see dragons as sloth. Pride/Greed/Wrath fit them better.
Sloth is definitely part of it. They laze around sleeping for ages.
Lust is in there too, or they wouldn't have a thing for maiden princesses.
Even then it's profiting off rage, not raging for rage's sake.
True, hence my misgivings.
I'd argue sloth's an element to any immortal if not necessarily the main one. Even if you're not a beast prone to admiring your hoard for as long as you like your sense of what's a pressing issue might be degraded from a mortal's perspective.
I bet you smelled your own fart and loved it after posting this big brain take.
Mine behave like a big snake, like vid related but a little more malicious.
I prefer the vatnik version tbh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gn2OV0Lv4I
Roque Ja from Bone would make a pretty good dragon tbh. Powerful, huge, smug, lazy, greedy, thin-skinned and prideful. Plays at being neutral in the war but flirts with joining the bad guys to his own benefit, furious when they inevitably betray him.
Mother frickers, have you SEE what cats can do?
hexapodal dragons should probably have the forelegs as the "extra limbs" instead of the wings. take a monster hunter style quadruped dragon but add a second smaller pair of arms below that. traps and pectorals connect to the wings, smaller muscles underneath them work the arms, which are weak and used for fine manipulation. it walks on its wings. more like a spinosaurus with wings than a cat or lizard
You mean like Gore Magala?
God I love the Gore Magala design so fricking much
Shut up nogames
They act like cats because the modern dragon has a cat-like body plan. Also, reptiles are considered slow and dumb.
No they behave like dogs & birds.
My dragons are of the land.
Land is a dark swamp of shit? Have a knobly dragon with poison & twisty mishapen horns. Stumpy wings & a broad fat body. Its gonna be lazy & disgusting as the fetid swamp it wallows in.
Elfen forest beyond the kin of history? Spindly graceful dragon with a long sinewy body. Patient as a stump, quick as a doe.
Mountainous rock, home to hardy men?
Have a raptor like hunter with scales hard as stone & massive wings.
Dragons are manifest reflections of places, cultures, or people. One will hoard wealth out of vanity, one will sleep for aeons, one will frick a princess & sire a royal line as he carves out an empire