Dragon Share

So one of my dusty hatches was gorgeous and the other... Well not so much. [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/94380353][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/943804/94380353_350.png[/img][/url] On first glance the colors seem promising. Yellow (lemon) and purple (violet) are complimentary colors after all! And the tert mauve is purple-y too so this should be doable! And then I started scrying and boy is it hard. Lemon pulls a lot of browns or reds in most of its genes which don't particularly go. Some of the violet secondaries give a nice gradient that work decently with the yellows. But mauve is just all over the place and pulls pink more than anything else and just looks out of place. So many ugly possiblities. [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=295&breed=25&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=279&winggene=311&wings=17&auth=1c43879f7337aeee5e7a326f2d8209b66d4da5bc&dummyext=prev.png[/img] I've managed to find one scry I think works. ONE. And it used blossom of all things. [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=294&breed=25&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=281&winggene=309&wings=17&auth=ec7b28d4353dca959455e5df5c6125fbaaf944ab&dummyext=prev.png[/img] As nice as I think this is, I'm not sure if it's worth the frustration of trying to farm for blossom materials and then wait around for the scroll to manifest in Swap. All this to say, do I keep him? Or is it time to let him go?

I don't think any dragon is ugly! And especially not this one! Look at this scry I made just a few moments ago: [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=298&breed=25&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=282&winggene=295&wings=17&auth=5930511f041363bc2e092c9c46b22f93fa2c7558&dummyext=prev.png[/img]

I think Fade/Eel makes him workable at least? [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/scrying/predict?breed=25&gender=0&age=1&bodygene=296&body=42&winggene=311&wings=17&tertgene=276&tert=73&element=3&eyetype=2][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=296&breed=25&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=276&winggene=311&wings=17&auth=9467c9a622cfc363e318d1c9f820b3a446462d16&dummyext=prev.png[/img][/url] A lot of people see stained as "cheating" but I think it could work wonders here. It brings in some colors not normally on the wheel [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/scrying/predict?breed=25&gender=0&age=1&bodygene=310&body=42&winggene=304&wings=17&tertgene=274&tert=73&element=3&eyetype=2][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=310&breed=25&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=274&winggene=304&wings=17&auth=f7af21fc86dc24891dd35d69fe9258c996c72062&dummyext=prev.png[/img][/url]

You could always put him up for trade in the Dusty swap thread if he's not your thing! Might get something more your vibe in exchange

[center][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=298&breed=25&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=300&winggene=293&wings=17&auth=9f9f8affc7df951d412b8bb7fdaa6516d40c4a6b&dummyext=prev.png[/img] Harlequin/Chess/Wavecrest [/center] Lemon Harlequin is a lot of fun!

[quote name="greenishechoes" date="2024-04-25 11:16:38" ] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=298&breed=25&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=282&winggene=295&wings=17&auth=5930511f041363bc2e092c9c46b22f93fa2c7558&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [/quote] honestly, I was going to recommend letting him go - lemon is so hard to work with - but then I saw this scry. harlequin absolutely saves this guy (and is cheaper and less annoying than blossom). I tried messing around with other scries but this one just feels super canonical

lemon is a tricksy color bc of the brown; its not always matchy with the other bright colors. I think if you have a primary gene that can minimize it youre set, and thus I think he can look real cute as other breeds! [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=166&breed=22&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=144&winggene=162&wings=17&auth=1d06d4785196bc325eca27f69ca149d6e3f3d3f6&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=162&breed=22&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=140&winggene=149&wings=17&auth=38332a7c2884ae42c76ec576c2dffad02060724b&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=251&breed=24&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=214&winggene=245&wings=17&auth=526643d6471fd7d97e06b3b88ba6bfeda50570d4&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=42&bodygene=101&breed=20&element=3&eyetype=2&gender=0&tert=73&tertgene=204&winggene=112&wings=17&auth=13a44c9c2501c354029627244d2501ff7692660b&dummyext=prev.png[/img] two aethers bc I love how they look with wind unusual...anyway this isnt to say "you should change his breed", more like, there are gene sets that can make his combo work well its just that dusthides dont have all of them yet. so I think its a viable option to just wait until dusthides get a few more genes, if you want to keep him a dusthide! but that also could take an indeterminably long period of time, its really a toss-up: gene expansion could come in a week, could come in two years (im not talking about a breed-specific gene expansion but like "every breed has twinkle now" or something)

You could also scatter him?

You could wait for new genes, they got too little and surely will acquire more with time.