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cerebel) wrote in bakerstreet2013-02-24 05:27 pm
The Dragonriders of Pern AU Meme
WARNING: Contains situations of dubious consent, violence, and triggers. Click with caution.
Pern is a planet with an unusual problem. Every 250 years or so, orbits in the system bring the planet into a fifty-year shower of a substance they call Thread. Thread consumes every organic substance it comes into contact with, dissolving plastics, plants and people alike. It is stopped only by metal and stone. In order to combat this menace, the early colonists on Pern created dragons.
Now, thousands of years later, dragons are an ordinary institution. They carry passengers and transport messages, since they are able to go Between, a teleporting ability that produces several seconds of cold sensory deprivation every time it is done. They live in weyrs, places reserved solely for dragons, riders and support staff, usually in caves, often in volcanic areas in order to create warm grounds for egg-laying and hatching.
The dragons themselves bond with, or Impress, humans immediately upon hatching, creating a deep, psychic and very intimate connection. Dragons and humans are a pair, and they tend to bond based on personality, gender and sexual orientation. This comes into play during mating flights, when female dragons go into heat and fly away, requiring a male to catch her and mate mid-air. Often, sex between the riders of the mated dragons is not optional, no matter who the riders are or what they feel about one another. This creates a general atmosphere of sexual openness in the weyr.
That's a dragonrider's life. Skipping out to fight the latest shower of Thread, taking care of their dragon, hopping Between, and dealing with the occasional unwanted desires from a mating flight.
For more info, feel free to check out Wikipedia!
HOW IT WORKS:
1) Post with your character and canon. Feel free to take this opportunity to make a note about which sort of dragon your character would have, and any roleplaying preferences.
2) Tag around, and dragon this shit up.
3) Stick to canon, if you like; disregard it, if you like.
4) Have some goddamn fun with some goddamn dragons.
CANON:
Gold - the largest of the dragons and most rare, queens and egg-layers. Those who Impress a dragon like this generally end up in a weyr's leadership. These dragons canonically always have women as their riders.
Bronze - second largest, male; the gold's mating pool tends to draw from these. These dragons canonically always have men as their riders.
Brown - slightly smaller than bronze, male, steady and strong with a lot of endurance. These dragons canonically always have men as their riders.
Blue - the smallest male, and a somewhat awkward compromise between strength and small size/agility. These dragons canonically nearly always have men as their riders.
Green - quick, agile and flighty, without much endurance, making up about 50% of all canon dragon population. Female. Greens almost never lay any eggs, and lack much of a maternal instinct. These dragons may take riders of either gender.
NON-CANON/SLIGHTLY MODIFIED CANON:
(In case you'd like a few more options to play with.)
White - A mutation, but a surprisingly common one. White dragons have little to no sex drive, and are very small, but unusually intelligent and sometimes have strange and unique abilities.
Black/Dark Blue - Another rare mutation. These dragons can be of either gender, but are incapable of chewing firestone and producing flame. They tend to take dragonriders who are deceptive, sneaky, clever. They are often used as messengers or as night-riding spies.
Red - Female and medium-size, this dragon is a fighting dragon that does clutch, if not as numerously or as productively as the golds. They tend towards passion and strength, deep emotions that make them fervent fighters.
Yellow - Male, on the small side, jumpy and often somewhat thick-headed, yellows take longer to mature and are more difficult to train to work in groups, but once you do, the result is worth it. They are impulsive and brave and vicious.
Purple - Another dragon type that can be male or female. Small-bodied and huge-winged, this type is somewhat rare but ideal for long patrols. Their eyesight is famous and keen, so they're good spotters as well.
Other - If you have a particular idea, feel free to make up your own!
1 - Threadfall. Time to get out there and burn this stuff before it manages to hit the ground. Hopefully you won't find yourself or your dragon in the path of this stuff. Otherwise, you might be out of commission for a while, and the scars never heal.
2 - Gather Day. It's a festival today! Get out there and spend some money, hear some music, and have some lovely food.
3 - Hatching. The candidates are ready, and those eggs look hard enough to break. Hatching could happen at any time. Are you ready for Impression?
4 - Feeding/Bathing. Dragons need a lot of taking care of. Whether it's feeding a hatchling an enormous basket of meat, taking a full-grown dragon out to hunt, or having a bath in the lake outside the weyr, keeping your dragon happy is a full-time job.
5 - Mating Flights. It's time. Your dragon is feeding on the blood of their kill, and they're about to take off. Who's going to catch them this time?
6 - Other. Wild card, if there's any other situation you'd like to explore!
Re: Hatching day?
The candidates had enough to worry about than moving all the tables anyway. Daniel smiled down at her, pleased (and he could feel it in the back of his head: Yuggoth had heard and was preening to himself) to hear it
"Thank you. But don't let him hear you, it'll go to his head."
Re: Hatching day?
Two young men in particular seemed to be watching for Hinata and looked relieved when she returned with help. "I was the s-smallest," she confided to Daniel softly. "So I was sent to get help."
Re: Hatching day?
"No, not at all. Pride and confidence always helps, as long as you don't overindulge in them for no reason," Daniel replied. Fondness crept into his voice. "Yuggoth is a handsome dragon, and a brave one."
He followed her to the trestles, and leaning down, wrestled one up as much as he could. "There's no harm in asking for help. Better to band together and get it done than struggle at the same thing all day and get nowhere, right?"
Re: Hatching day?
And barring the actual hatching of course. The eggs had been rocking for over a day now without cracking, so!
"Ahno...I think they may have given us this task to k-keep us all busy?" Hinata giggled.
"Yeah," one of her friends noted, coming around to Daniel's end to try to help. "Immovable tables keep us all from being underfoot!"
Re: Hatching day?
Re: Hatching day?
"Ahno..." Hinata noted from the other end, lifting for all she was worth beside the so-far-silent boy. "We c-could fail. There's a lot of people to choose from!"
"Pheh, not gonna happen. Relax. You tell her huh? It's isn't bad!"
Re: Hatching day?
"The dragons know who they are meant for. I wouldn't worry too much about it."
Re: Hatching day?
Hinata had the grace to blush a little and nod down at her end. "I know! Ah...I just...my father..."
"Your father can't influence impression and the dragonriders like this guy will stop him from going down into the sand right?"
Re: Hatching day?
Re: Hatching day?
"Hinata, candidate," she corrected softly...to the table top. YES STARING AT THE TABLE NOW OKAY?!
"Weyrbound!" Kiba cheered. "This is a good place, right? A good weyr to be at?"