Dr. Harlequary's Homozygous
Biochromology Experiment: Iteration 2
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Biochromology Experiment: Iteration 2
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A while back, I started a little project to collect an XXX dragon of every color. Easy enough. I never finished it. Got a bit mired in lore. It was all good fun, but I realized that while I do like XXXs, I like them because of hidden variety. I like how the right combination of genes can bring out all sorts of beautiful accent colors, making even the most uninteresting color combination absolutely gorgeous.
So I thought, perhaps a new project aiming for a wheel filled with those kinds of genes would be nice. 'Course, even old reliable poi/tox or fla/fla doesn't always get the most interesting results, especially on duller colors. But then we got some new genes. Some really lovely new genes. So I scried what an XXX soil harlequin/jester/opal dragon would look like...
And that's when realized I was going to have a Problem. It's. Uh. It's beautiful.
oh no.
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...Alright, but what about beige? I'm not expecting-
...Oh no.
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...Flint? It's usually rather bland, even poi/tox isn't-
.....OH NO.
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- The goal: XXX harlequin/jester/rare colorwheel.
- Dragons may be bought or bred. I imagine I'll be doing a lot of the latter.
- Dragons may be gened, but I mean... uh... it's harlequin/jester. That ain't happening 177 times. If I nab an otherwise-neat XXX (sub-8-digit ID, lineage, glitch, palindrome, etc.), I may set them aside to be gened eventually.
- Breed is mostly irrelevant. There aren't any modern breeds I don't like. All are welcome, variety preferred... though I have a very soft spot for coatls, and probably prioritize those if I can.
This will get easier as time goes on, since breeding projects can intermingle with each other, and successes may be bred together to fill in intermediary colors.
I do also collect other XXX dragons with matching genes, ones with neat accent colors in particular. Who knows, maybe by the time I get anywhere near running out of space, we'll have enough hibden slots available for several colorwheels. A guy can dream. May try for cinder/blaze one day, just since I really love that pattern as well.
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Last time I tried I had a much easier goal, and got derailed by the urge to write ludicrous amounts of lore about it. Chances are this will happen again. Ah, well.
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Cue spotlights, red. The audience may flee the theater; the stagehands will run close behind them and cover their footprints. Cue the susurrus of hushed leftovers, dregs of the Auction House and gems of chance. Does he remember them? No. He saw their colors and nothing more. #0086ce rescued fish who made their homes below melting icebergs; her numbers were the same back-to-front. #e77fbf was a child of luck, the odds one in one-thousand and fourteen for her birth. #236925 was old, #292b38 older, #3b2f45 older still. He never asked by how much, nor did he ask their names. This time, we will not let him forget.
Cue bubbling beakers, a bit of smoke for atmosphere. Enter stage left, Dr. Humphrey Harlequary, amateur alchemist, hobbyist geneticist, maker of questionable decisions.
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