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It's me! And I'm pregnant! Holy heck in a handbasket! Also a big picture.


I... laid an egg. xd Also a big picture.


Bronwen hatched! Slightly more alert than a human child, but definitely not as alert as a full wyrmling. Also a big picture.


A picture of Bronnie and I, commissioned by The Poison Arrow.


My baby's growing up. Sniff. Also a big picture.


A picture drawn by Shiro Ookami. *loves*


After a difficult night, Bronwen discovers how to change her shape, at least in a limited way. She's growing up into such a beautiful girl. Big picture and really big picture.


Junyi drew this. o.o So pretty.


I drew this. Slightly less pretty. Bronnie's dragon form. I'm not an artist, mmkay?


Mom's playing with OpenCanvas. Eh.


Lovely art from Arafel! God help us if Bronnie ever gets that many shinies.


My little girl is no longer a little girl. She's becoming a fiercely individual young woman, with a penchant for really short skirts. :OBig picture and really big picture.

About the Family

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/photogallery/familyportrait.png" align="right">This is a story about a family. It is a story about dragons.

Sunny gives her age as twenty-one, though she's somewhat older. She was born in a time when the world was beginning to change for her species, and things were becoming dangerous. There were two eggs in that clutch, one of the last the tribe had before things became too dangerous. The eggs were thoroughly unremarkable, and when they hatched, the infants were thoroughly unremarkable, for the tribe and race.

One was a young female, silver-scaled with a gold crest, a gold spade upon her tail, and pale gold highlights upon her still-useless wings. She was given the name Bennali, which in the tribe's language meant "Dawn Star."

From the other egg emerged her brother. He was black rather than silver-grey, with red where she was gold. He was called Raynakre, which meant "Evening Sun."

It was the custom of the tribe in which Bennali and Raynakre had been born that children were given one name at birth, and another which they find themselves at some later point in their life. Bennali came upon her name by accident; she was careless, often seen by humans, and they referred to her as the Sun Dragon, when they saw her. Some thought she was good luck, others that she was bad. Bennali became Bennali Sundragyn, in this way.

Raynakre, like most of his race, had a love for metal and gems and semiprecious stones. He began experimenting with making his own objects in this way. To the dragons, fire is a natural thing, for defence and attack, to dispose of the dead, to warm. Making things with fire and heat is not usually thought of by them. He became fairly skilled at it, and a bit of a name amongst his tribe, and he was called "Firebrand" for it.

Bennali and Raynakre grew in a bad time for their race. They were aware of their dwindling numbers, of the scattering of the tribe, and at last, they had lost contact with all of the tribe but each other. Some of the others had died of old age; others had been killed by humans who feared them; others had simply disappeared as though they had never existed.

The siblings chose this third option. Their race had a secret magic, rarely used, as it was a difficult and exhausting enchantment. They disguised themselves as human, as their enemy, and chose to live in this way. Bennali chose to call herself "Sunny," and Raynakre used "Ray."

Still, they mourned the dying of their race. It was unthinkable to bring another dragon child into the world, even if they could, but still: it didn't seem right that the dragons should disappear entirely, forever.

About Uncle Ray

<img src="http://img8.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/photogallery/ray.jpg" align="right">Ray is slightly larger and stockier than his sister's draconic form, as the males of their tribe usually are. Rather than grey, he is black, and rather than gold, red, but their markings are otherwise similar. In the human form he wears these days, he is a pale young man with rather shaggy red-black hair, a highlights of true red and not auburn. His eyes are yellow, and he has a pair of small horns. He's a lot less careful than Sunny when it comes to hiding them. He loves jewellery, and it's rare to see him without at least a bracelet or two. More often he has a couple of bracelets and a beaded necklace. Most of his jewellery he made himself.

He's rather less easy-going than his sister, and makes what money he needs from selling the jewellery he can bear to part with. He can be sarcastic and critical, and is hard on his sister, though he's loyal to her, and she to him. He tends to call her "Ali," rather than "Sunny." Ray has a boyfriend, a young man who was once merely a cybernetic creation, yet through some extremely clever programming and neomancy (which, it is explained to me, is magic upon mechanical or electrical things) is now almost human. His name (given to him before he was ever really sentient) is Otherworld, but is mostly called Other. (No need to make the obvious "significant Other" joke, as it has been made.) Ray still, however, insists quietly that he was seduced and he is really mostly straight. He'll learn, I'm sure.

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/raynakresmall.jpg" align="left">He doesn't entirely approve of Sunny's actions, here; he doesn't quite believe his sister has the means to care for a child, let alone a child of a species that they both know is dying out. Nevertheless, he stands behind her, and he's secretly rather pleased to be an uncle.

Pets

A few of the pets that hang around here (there are many more):






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Oh, and 84 Pixapets, last count. gonk But they're small, so it's okay

Additional Cast

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/eldilasmall.png" align="left">Eldila Suivi of Last Home

Eldila is an influential Elder of Ray and Sunny's tribe, and he takes his role as head of Last Home quite seriously. He is extremely old and rather meddlesome, and, rarest of all among their people, a sorcerer. Eldila has been blind for a long time, though he rarely admits that this is the case. He is almost always accompanied by his raven familiar, Odin, who acts as his eyes.
Status: Missing in action, presumed dead

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/atiaosmall.png" align="right">Atiao Minato Ekeli, Wyrmslayer

A'o, as he's often called, is the eldest son of a famed dragonslayer, and was a dragonslayer himself, the last of a very great line. He's tried to kill Sunny and Ray several times, but he's also saved their lives, and Sunny's returned the favour many times as well. These days, he's a nervous sort of fellow with a tendency to hem and haw. He lives in mortal terror of his mother.
Status: In hiding

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/conasmall.png" align="left">Cona Crestrider of Last Home

Cona is a young dragon from Ray and Sunny's tribe. She, like the rest, has taken on a human shape; however, her own lack of skill causes her to take on a sort of half-and-half shape, nine feet tall. Her ancestry is mostly that of a race of ocean-going amphibious dragons of the Mediterranean, though she is mixed, like nearly all of the tribe. Cona is, perhaps, a little slow on the uptake, loud and boisterous and bold.
Status: Wherabouts unknown

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/wilhelmsmall.png" align="right">Wilhelm Strumbacher

Wil is one of Atiao's childhood friends. Actually, one of his only childhood friends. Wil is a member of another prominent dragonslaying clan, and has a desire to follow into the family business. What Wilhelm may lack in skill or cunning he makes up for with pure heart and a desire to do well. Wil has a secret passion for flowers, and in what was probably the most forethought he's ever displayed in his life, decided that when he retires from slaying, whether from age or injury, he will open a florist's shop.
Status: Hunting

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/thyresmall.png" align="left">Thyre Garloup

Thyre Garloup, formerly known as Thyre Legarrot, is one of the few people who is friends with both Sunny and Ray. He's a werewolf, originally from Quebec, and by human standards, possibly insane. He's impulsive and friendly, genuinely nice. He's a wanderer, with no permanent job or address, no money, very little other than the clothes on his back and his "brother," Esprit, who is just an ordinary wolf. He's not a terribly sexual person, and though he tends to flirt without realising what he's doing would be considered flirting, he'd almost never follow up on it. He is, however, a born romantic. Thyre has a fetish for purple hair.
Status: Wandering, prone to popping up randomly

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/siikalsmall.png" align="left">Siikal Roseash of Last Home
A member of Ray and Sunny's tribe, Siikal is upbeat, enthusiastic, friendly, energetic, optimistic--and generally drives Sunny nuts over long periods of time. Nevertheless, Sunny does like Siikal. Siikal likes Sunny, but likes Ray better as she used to date him; she tends to forget that she was the one who broke up with him. Being slightly less skilled than Sunny or Ray at shifting, even in her human form she possesses brown scales across her face and along her back and arms.
Status: Unknown.

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/sundragyn/stickart/dyminsmall.png" align="right">Dymin Ekeli

The mother of Atiao Ekeli and his younger brother Helos, Dymin is a middle-aged, imperious woman who is used to being obeyed. She has been matriarch over the Ekelis for much of her adult life; those older than her have mostly died carrying out the family business. She is clever, stubborn, and has a violent streak. Among dragons, she has a frightening reputation that is no laughing matter.
Status: Unknown, presumed burnt, but it's doubtful.

Entry 1

Sunny practically leaped into the house. She glanced around excitedly, spied her brother who was trying to keep cool in the corner, and she jumped on him.

Ray sputtered and tried to push off his clinging sister. "Get off, Ali! Get off!"

"Nooooo," Sunny laughed. "I have news. I've come back from the clinic. Everything's official, Ray. I'm pregnant!"

Ray stared at her evenly for a moment. "I see. What the hell are you doing jumping on me, then?!"

"I'm happy."

"Well, get off me so we can talk!"

Sunny laughed and climbed into an adjacent chair. "Talk, Ray."

"I still think you're an idiot for doing this."

"Of course you do."

"But... I guess there's no turning back, now." He raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You look good, though."

"Do I glow?" Sunny teased.

He snorted. "I wouldn't know what that's supposed to look like."


Sunny's Journal, Entry 1

Well, this is it. I'm really pregnant. I didn't think I'd ever be pregnant. Ever. I mean that.

I feel strange. Not sick. At least, I'm not morning sick yet, and I hope I'm not ever. But the idea that I'm carrying a tiny person inside me just baffles me. Hell, I come from a species that lays eggs. Live birth is sort of weird for me...

Ray told me a bit ago that's precisely why I shouldn't be doing this; I may be, for all purposes, now human, but as far as we know, no dragon has ever tried to reproduce like this.

Gah. I don't care what Ray says.


Ray's Journal, Entry 1

I dunno what Ali thinks she's doing, really. I'm worried this whole mess is going to put her in danger. I mean, childbirth isn't exactly easy, and I can't imagine it's any better when you're supposed to be oviparous.

...okay. Fine. I can't wait to see the baby. It's this whole pregnancy thing that worries me.