Dragon Boy

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Title~ Dragon Boy
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ Completely mine~
Notes~ This is a story written for creatore_magico, who has been going through a tough move to London, and I thought could do with a bit of a cheering up-come-welcome back to the Internet thing, albeit a very slow, very problematic Internet. So yeah. Plan is to write a Llayan fairytale for all my friends who know the Yrae Chronicles as birthday presents this year :D Saku loves dragons, shippable characters and sexy older men. Throw them together and you get something like this!

Welcome back to the Internets, Ku! I love you~!

( 10 401 words ) <-- that cut is fake. It turned out a good deal longer than expected so it's got a page on bloogum instead of making you read the whole thing in LJ.

Comments

[ladylight.livejournal.com]

Eee, they are so cute, hon! Now I understand where the picture came from (and really want a tree-dragon) ;D

The tone was very light and regional folktale-ish, really well gauged for the subject matter (especially when talking about naughty little dragons), and I think you judged the length well too. But it was the little details about the dragons I liked the most. I loved the defiant little fog-clouds they huff when they're peeved XD

Something about the ending did nag at me slightly - I was a little surprised at how easily Lord Allandridge makes a deal with the dragon that destroyed his brother. He seemed to change his mind fairly fast, and even if he decided to believe the creepy tree-dragon was right about his brother, I'm not sure why the town at large (apart from sweet little Ackerley) would feel negatively towards dragon-hunters.

So damn cuuute X3

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Yeah the ending's been bugging me, too. This'll probably be one I actually come back to at a later date to fix, cos I've really grown attached to these two <3 You see now why Rutherford's doing everything in his power to make himself canon and not just a fairy tale? =( SAVE MEEEEEEE.

Incidentally, does the reading of this count as a Thing? X3

[ladylight.livejournal.com]

IT DOES.

Heh heh, I can see how this would cause you canon headaches, but it's certainly a cute sideline worth keeping. Even if you couldn't account for the existence of dragons in Nimayworld, perhaps Rutherford and Ackerley could be legendary Llayan folktale heroes?

Or I wonder whether dragons and yrae aren't magically related? ;)

(like I'm going to save you after you went around rattling the Acarthian pot)

[annarti.livejournal.com]

They're definitely part of Llayan folklore, but the problem is that they're trying to invade the actual world and meet people, and that's just Not On D: Think of the implications! I've already got an undead 4000-year-old tyrant. Sticking an ageless and still alive dragon man in there just messes with my mind~ man D: Dragons on their own, sure, I'll take them, cos damnit I've wanted dragons in Tsyllaes for ages. Rutherford tho? Let him prove why he needs to be there before he invades XD

(I did nothing >> You and I both know Acarthians are quite capable of rattling their own pot. Possibly setting it on fire and blowing it up in the process.)