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As you stood over the newly deceased, peering down upon the body, your body, a cold chill crept in. Your breath became ragged, as if the air went thin all at once. You thought at first it was the shock of seeing your own corpse, but the growing feeling that you were not alone nagged at the back of your mind. Giving in to the paranoia, you looked up and started at the sight of the figure standing in front of you, seemingly waiting.
It appeared to be the skeletal remains of a wildclaw, fleshed out by a shadowy form that looked like it was rendered from captured spirits blurring in and out of existence. The figure was draped in a ragged black cloak with a heavy hood obscuring half its face, dried roses and brittle old lace decorating the frayed garment. The bone claws grasped a large scythe that stood tall over the dragon’s head.
A reaper had come for you.
Your instincts told you to flee, but it was as if you were frozen at the sight of the creature before you. Your muscles, if you still had them, would not obey. The figure let out a sound, like a sigh, and stepped towards you.
All at once, the form seemed to solidify, as if the dragon was whole and not the ghostly apparition it had been moments before. Close as it was now, you could see the face beneath the hood. Where you expected to find some grizzly disembodied skull grinning at you, instead you found a gentle face with soft chestnut eyes that seemed to hold a sort of timeless empathy.
She held out a hand, now solid like a living dragon’s would be, and spoke in a low, soothing voice.
“I am here for a soul and must have one, one way or another. But the choice is ultimately yours - do you live or die today?”
It appeared to be the skeletal remains of a wildclaw, fleshed out by a shadowy form that looked like it was rendered from captured spirits blurring in and out of existence. The figure was draped in a ragged black cloak with a heavy hood obscuring half its face, dried roses and brittle old lace decorating the frayed garment. The bone claws grasped a large scythe that stood tall over the dragon’s head.
A reaper had come for you.
Your instincts told you to flee, but it was as if you were frozen at the sight of the creature before you. Your muscles, if you still had them, would not obey. The figure let out a sound, like a sigh, and stepped towards you.
All at once, the form seemed to solidify, as if the dragon was whole and not the ghostly apparition it had been moments before. Close as it was now, you could see the face beneath the hood. Where you expected to find some grizzly disembodied skull grinning at you, instead you found a gentle face with soft chestnut eyes that seemed to hold a sort of timeless empathy.
She held out a hand, now solid like a living dragon’s would be, and spoke in a low, soothing voice.
“I am here for a soul and must have one, one way or another. But the choice is ultimately yours - do you live or die today?”
Amoureux is a grim reaper who has a soft spot for dragon kind. She is enamored with life.
She falls in love freely and frequently with the mortals whose souls she comes to collect, and so will often offer them a choice - she can take your soul as a reaper should, or you can offer her your soul as a way of professing your love and go on living.
She knows that she cannot spend much time among mortals, and that all must move on without her if they are to truly go on living, but the time she spends with these suitors keeps her spirits up. It isn't long before they'll need to part ways, though sometimes new little dragons are brought into the world as a result of these love affairs - hatchlings that are part reaper and part mortal.
This is my 100 hatchling challenge, with my matriarch, Amoureux, a grim reaper.
The rules of the challenge are as follows:
- Start with a female dragon that has never been bred. [Amoureux!]
- Mates for Amoureux must be studded males (or permas from my own clan if I run out of suitors). I cannot buy a dragon I don't intend to keep and exalt him after he's sired the hatchings!*
- I will need to keep count of hatchlings and careful logs of which studs I've used in this thread to make sure I don't use the same male twice and know how many hatchlings are left in the challenge! (See my stud list below!)
- I must do my best make sure every hatchling goes to a good long term home. Hatchlings may never be sold or exalted, they must all be giveaways!**
4.b. The hatchlings I produce should never be allowed to be without a home. If the users that adopt them fall out of love with them, they are always welcome back in my lair!
*For this challenge, I am renting studs to pair her with. I didn't want to add dragons to my lair just for the sake of pairing them with her, and feel that exalting them rather than finding new homes would not be in the spirit of the challenge. Finding hatchlings homes is going to be enough of a challenge without doing the same for their fathers, so studs seems like the best choice.
Stud owners can request a fee or the first pick of the hatchlings, but are welcome to request hatchlings from any pairing regardless of existing stud deals.
**All hatchlings produced by the pairings will be free to good home and will be offered for adoption both in this thread and elsewhere. As per the original challenge rules, I ask that you only request a hatchling if you would like them as a potential perma dragon, not to immediately sell or exalt.
Suitors and hatchlings are allowed (and encouraged!) to reference Amoureux's lore in their own.
Table of Contents:
- Intro and Rules (You are here!)
- Suitors and Adoptable Hatchlings
- Adopted Hatchlings and Pinglist
- Nest #1 (2 eggs, #s 1 - 2/100)
- Nest #2 (3 eggs, #s 3 - 5/100)
- Nest #3 (3 eggs, #s 6 - 8/100)
