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BotanyBlack
You think Dave would fit in on this thread? I'm not sure if he would or not but he's the first dragon I thought of when I saw this.
I have a couple odd finds, mostly from my newbie days when every dragon was cool because they're DRAGONS!!!! My weirdest might be Moonbiter.
I bought him as a hatchling and did not initially realize that, well, his nose would grow :P So when he first grew up I was a little disappointed, actually. But then I realized something that saved him:
Male Ridgebacks look amazing in fancy hats.
And so began the quest for the Fanciest Hat. His first hat was a red fedora, which Tannie (another oddball who I'll share in a sec) now wears. His second was a Squire's Beret, now worn beautifully by his neighbor
Lenka. And then I found the cavalier hats, and I was sold.
Then I dressed him up like a pirate for Halloween (this being my first Halloween on the site and me still learning the ropes, I wasn't even fully aware of the existence of Actual Pirate Apparel and definitely wasn't going to buy some) and that's been his outfit ever since.
(Oh, and the name Moonbiter? Wasn't even originally intended to be funny. I got it from the randomizer, and I thought it fit because of the way his Clown made his face lighter.)
I'm still not big on male Ridgebacks in general - it's hard for me to take them seriously - but recently, another one snuck into my lair, with somehow even weirder colors and genes:
His name is Ethan, I got him from a friend's Pinkerlocke, and the lore potential for him was just SO GOOD I could not resist.
And then here's Tannie:
Honestly I don't mind Basic. One of my favorite dragons is Basic and I wouldn't consider her an oddball. I'm not even sure I could pinpoint why I consider Tannie an oddball, she just... is. Also, I love her just the way she is, especially with her accent and stuff, but I dare you to find a scry for her that makes her look bad. Especially keeping her a Fae.
Ooh, ooh, actually, one of my favorite dragons EVER is kind of an oddball! Meet Riverwanderer:
It wasn't too strange at the time to find dragons with no tert gene, I actually have a couple, but anymore it's not super common even in fodder. It's a decent tert considering his general theme, too, and there's some decent genes out there that would keep the theme, but I'd rather keep his look as-is. And his colors?? Are so bizarre if you think about them too much?? The two colors he's showing are two of the least-liked colors on the site (although I do like Stonewash a lot, personally) and they're not two I would ever consciously put together in a scry but in this
particular combination, on this
particular dragon, they meld perfectly into a perfect emulation of a sun-dappled river with silty banks.