Woooo questions! I've slowly filled this out over the course of the entire day, whew. It took a while, but it was really fun, so thank you for putting it together!
1) Do you coli grind? If so what's, your favorite venue? If not, why?
I'm in the coli most days! It's usually for levelling fodder, or during fests I'll be in whichever venue has the highest currency/chest drop rates (so, right now I'm spending a lot of time in Redrock Cove). Mire is my go-to for levelling fodder, but I also spend a good amount of time in the Golem Workshop, Ghostlight Ruins, Forbidden Portal, and occasionally the Kelp Beds, Harpy's Roost, and Crystal Pools. But I also just have way too many level 25 dragons, so I can move around wherever I feel like it lol
As far as favourite venues for general grinding (not necessarily fodder levelling), I'd say Redrock Cove is actually one of my favourites, along with Sandswept Delta (I once got I think 4 or 5 eggs in 1 week from that venue, if I'm recalling correctly? So that definitely has left a lasting impression lol), and I think I spend a fair amount of time in the Volcanic Vents as well.
2) How many dragons have you exalted? (For anyone who may not know, you can check under account settings!)
6,503 so far! The total number of dragons technically sent to deities by my doing is bigger than that, as I've done a fair amount of levelling dragons and sending them off to others (mostly as mercenary work for Gale Force).
3) Are you active in your flight's dominance scene? What kind of activities do you like participating in?
Only vaguely, for the most part! I kinda like just doing things on my own, and will go out of my way to level/exalt more dragons when I know my flight is actually pushing, but I don't really participate in much else other than that.
4) If you could pick the April Fool's joke one year what would it be? What items would you add?
Hm, I haven't really thought about it much before. Maybe inverting all dragon colours would be funny? And I guess to go along with that theme, some apparel items that are labeled as a colour, but actually coloured the inverse (so like, "blue cape" would actually be an orange coloured cape).
That, or the item we get is "Mysterious Unhatched Egg" which of course cycles between different variants. I think it would be hilarious if it was like, little mini-figures or tiny plushies of modern breeds that are apparel.
Actually, thinking about this has made me realize that with the release of Obelisks being after the paper masque apparel, they're the only modern that doesn't have a masque based on them. Maybe one year we'll get that plus ancient masques as well? That could be cool.
5) If you could add any color what would it be? What would the accent colors be?
Birch.
(Or Ember, in that same thread)
6) Do you have any OC dragons? Have any of your dragons wound up turning into an OC?
Definite yes to the first part of this question,
kind of maybe-ish yes to the second part?
For dragons based on my OCs, the most obvious one is
Razatharia, who's based on/inspired by my OC/sona. She deviates quite a bit from the character she's based on, simply because she exists in a completely different world. She's a character, based on a character, based on me, so there's a few layers of separation. But counts as an OC dragon regardless!
Looking through my dragons, I've realized I actually have more OC dragons than I thought I did—although several of them weren't specifically made to be such, they just kinda had similar vibes so I named them after my characters.
Memory,
Illusion,
Paradox, and
Zero, are all characters from one of my universes, in which I deliberately made dragons as a fun challenge to try to capture their likeness (some of which I did breeding projects for, all of which were mostly or completely regened to fit the vision). I don't really have much FR in-universe lore for them yet, mostly just some personality notes between them so far (and two of them still need to be levelled to 25). There are about 6 or so other dragons who are named after OCs of mine, with varying levels of similarities to the characters they're loosely based on, but weren't projects in any way, just dragons I happened to acquire in some way that matched their vibes in some way.
Now, if we're classifying OCs as any character you've built a personality or lore for, one could argue that 90% of my permas are OCs,
however I personally classify my OCs as characters I have personally created and designed (I'm an artist and writer), so while I wouldn't necessarily post a picture of one of my FR dragons and call it an OC, I do have some dragons that inspired some colours and minor designs for a couple OCs that I had the basic vibe for, but not the complete design figured out. So in that regard, I've had a dragon influence an OC, but not really anything where a dragon straight up became an OC.
A bunch of my dragons have art! My (somewhat improbable) goal is to one day make art of all my permas, but I do have over 400 of them, so that definitely won't be done anytime soon lol.
Currently,
Amity has the most individual pieces of art (7), 2 of which I made. She's followed by
Tiercel at 6 (Amity and Tiercel share some artwork), then
Comet and
Enzoa at 5. Several others have 1-4 pieces of art (around 90-ish so far), but those are the ones with the most as of right now!
NotN is definitely the biggest event, and I always love seeing the new content and grinding for strange chests, but I also really like Warrior's Way a lot.
I really hope we get another site effort like Dustcarve Dig again sometime in the future, because that was a lot of fun to be a part of, and probably one of my favourite site events that have happened overall!
10) Which of your dragons can out-cook Gordon Ramsay? Which one is burning water?
Melwyn is a skilled chef who uses her keen sense of smell and excellent olfactory memory as a Tundra to create cooking masterpieces, even if she can't for the life of her ever remember what any of the ingredients are actually called.
I hadn't really considered who might be
bad at cooking before, but now that it's been brought up,
Nightshade absolutely fits the bill. He is such a disaster, this makes so much sense for him (and it is now an important lore note). This man will not only burn the water, but will somehow manage to catch it on fire. How? No idea.
11) If you could have any familiar as a pet which one would you choose and why?
Probably a
Parda, they're so cute. I love cats and anything with feathers, and they just look so soft and cuddly <3
Hm... I'm not sure, exactly. I spend way too much time on FR to consider it casual, and I do spend a lot of time in the coliseum. Mostly, I really enjoy gene-ing dragons, leveling them, giving them lore, etc. I also just love collecting things, and FR lets me be a hoarder without cluttering my living space further :P
13) Which of your dragons is the most special to you? Why?
Don't make me
pick! I have hundreds of dragons, and I am very attached to most of them.
I have some G1s I've hatched at a few really low points in my life that mean a lot to me as comfort dragons, some dragons I've had with me since I first started playing FR, the dragon based on my sona of course (who is actually a fairly recent acquisition! A G1 replacement for the previous dragon I had as a Raza stand-in who I really wasn't happy with, but I'm finally happy with the dragon representing her/me), and several dragons hatched on special days, or even just dragons I've put a lot of time and effort into.
There's no way I could choose just one dragon to definitively be the most special to me. BUT, if I MUST pick someone...
*spins a wheel*
Sorrow is one of my aforementioned dragons hatched when I was going through a lot irl and just really needed something to give me a little respite. I ended up hatching a blue/storm xxy from that single egg—normally I prefer xyz dragons over doubles, and especially not a fan of triples, but g1s get a pass from me, and storm capsule is one of my absolute favourite terts, plus with the matching blue? Needless to say, it was a pretty big surprise, and working on getting him gened, thinking about possible lore, and honestly just looking at him really helped me focus on something positive during that time. Even now, I visit him a lot when I'm stressed and he helps me find some peace.
Uh oh, I'm so terrible at names... Maybe something with "Dragons" in the name to be "to the point" with it, or the world name (Sornieth) to make it a more lore focused name? I'm so used to the name Flight Rising at this point that I don't think anything else would feel right.
15) If you could make any scene what are you making and why?
I really wish we had a deep sea scene, like, really dark and deep in some trench or something (maybe some subnautica vibes with a bit of glowing plants and critters). All the underwater scenes we have are nice, but really bright and vibrant, and don't match my deap sea dragons very well at all.
16) There is now furniture apparel, what furniture are you putting on your dragons?
Bookshelves, probably. I have so many dragons that would have bookshelves, whether for notebooks and research, cookbooks, library-related things, personal collections, etc.
17) You get to rename one color, which are you renaming and to what?
Uhhhhh, I dunno, I don't have any issues with any of the colour names. Maybe change Antique to Eggshell if I was forced to choose something.
18) Do your dragons have any specific jobs in your clan? (Gladiator, librarian, artist, ect.)
Absolutely! My eventual goal is to have my main clan (which doesn't have a name) be completely "functioning" as an isolated community, having at least one dragon for every main job/role needed for an independent clan to be self-sustainable, and then a bunch of supplemental jobs/roles to better aid in the comfort and quality of life for the entire clan, or otherwise ease pressure on other jobs.
There's still quite a bit of work and organizing to be done, but there are plenty of warriors and sentries, as the clan is situated in a weirdly dangerous place that has frequent wild animal attacks and needs to be able to defend against such things. There's a caretaker for the nesting grounds, hunters/fishers/gatherers for finding external food sources, gardeners/herbalists and such for a partial internal food source, healers/medics for tending to anyone who gets sick or injured, some merchants/traders who make the trek to more central clans and cities to make some money and obtain anything the clan might be lacking, architects (one of which is also an archeologist), tailors, a couple of therapists (many of my dragons really need therapy lol), some animal/familiar caretakers and a zoologist, currently just one chef but will probably get a couple more, some librarians/archivists, a messenger with a flock of tradewinds gulls, some artists of various mediums (including a cartographer), some dragons who study science, alchemy, and/or magic—
And that's not even all of them that currently exist or will end up existing. Some of them don't have such easily-defined roles/jobs, but still help out around the clan where they can.
19) What's your 'we don't talk about this one' dragon?
Well if I
told you, then it wouldn't really make sense anymore, now would it?
Anyway, probably
Kyrin, just because he's my Legacy of War founder/progen dragon and I have not worked on my LoW in far too long
Ohhh... maybe
Feldspar? Just because she's pretty :) She's been one of my favourite dragons since I hatched her, her colours are just too perfect.
I mean, I draw FR-related art all the time (mostly digital, but I do have a fair few traditional sketches and such), but other than that, nothing I can recall.
While it would be super cool to have plushies of some of my dragons, I definitely don't know how to make them, nor the patience to figure it out. I have too many other hobbies already anyway lol.
22) If you could make a board or card game based on FR what would it look like? How would you play it?
Uhhhhh.... r..runestones of the arcanist but irl?? I have no idea. Maybe something similar to settlers of catan, but like, FR themed. Flights of Sornieth. Maybe taking inspiration from the dominance aspect of FR being a conquest for territory and whatever.
23) Do you use any silly names for the breeds? (Tunga instead of Tundra, Snip-Snap for Snappers, ect.)
Not really; I have some shorthand/nicknames for some breeds, but for the most part it's pretty normal/straightforward, and most of the time I just write out the entire name.
24) What's that one dragon that you aren't quite sure how they wound up in your lair yet somehow managed to stay?
Black/Obs/Obs my beloathed, how and why did I get you and why do I
still have you?? YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE TEMPORARY!! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!
(Answer: impulse bought a dark coloured dragon for the cool fest accent, which is something I have never done before and don't believe I've ever done since, and have put too much time into her to get rid of her at this point, between getting her to level 25, figuring out some lore, having her for 5 years, etc. I honestly would love to replace her with a different dragon, I just Cannot, for reasons I that are not fathomable.)
25) Which dragon is next for a turn on the xbox?
Yeah, I have no idea. A
child, probably?
Rhythm, probably. He's blind, so it wouldn't really be the appearance of the bunny slippers that draw him in, but he likes soft/fluffy things, and one of his best friends is a rabbit, so I'm sure he'd appreciate wearing something in her image.
27) FR releases a comic book, what would you want it to be about?
Probably a Guardian on its Search, and the subsequent challenges of protecting its Charge once found. It's one of my favourite breed lore bits, so I always love lore and stories relating to Guardians and their Charges
I've had tons of great interactions with people on FR, the community here is one of the most welcoming and friendly I've ever encountered! Unfortunately, I am a very socially anxious and shy individual, so I mostly keep to myself.
29) Our standard closer that isn't a question but I include it anyway. Tell me three positive things! It can be about your life, FR, or just in general!
1. Well, I mentioned it in one of the above questions, but I somewhat recently managed to acquire a G1 to replace my sona-inspired dragon that I wasn't happy with, and I'm super stoked with how she turned out! I'm in the process of writing out some proper lore and backstory for her, and also have a fullbody art reference in the works to better reflect how I see her, lore-wise! For fun,
here's the new one whom I love, and
this is the dragon she replaced (who I renamed to Arayzedae because... Ar(R) ay(A) zed(Z) ae(A) = Raza. I don't really know what to do with her, I'll probably still keep her (and maybe rename her again), I'm just very happy to have a g1 representative that better matches what I wanted for her!)
2. I came up with a new book idea that I've been very happily world-building for lately. I may not know the names of any of these characters yet, but I'm attached already, and it's a much happier overall story than what I usually write (I'm a sucker for some good angst and hurt/comfort lol), which has been really nice and peaceful to work on.
3. I finally put aside some time to continue catching up on a D&D podcast I've been really enjoying, and it's such a delight to experience! (Just Roll With It: Riptide)
Do any of your dragons have lore/stories you've written? If so, do you have a favourite? totally not because I want to read some lore, why would you think that
yeah i'm sure you'll get those genes someday buddy...
she's just really pretty i love her :)
don't remember when or where they came from but they fit in just perfectly
and Snurges 
