Caliburn

@trapdoornumberthree knows who his ocs are -withers away-

WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEAN

Help I am falling to the allure of short, stout, n sturdy body types

Yeah to be quite honest, I think I hauve covid.

cause uh see. "the curse of scales makes you a dragon" and "dragons are pretty much always pretty tubby" are both hard-and-fast rules in my setting, which would- uh- kinda... manage to rob some of the drama of, say, a very tragic OC turning into one at the conclusion of her lowest point...

I think this might have taken some of the sting outta this for Rose.

As evidenced by this and the lore on the Curse of Scales, Rose very much was turned into a dragon as a result of exposure to an absurd amount of raw arcane energy, but this wasn’t so much a burden as it was an unexpected lifting of many other burdens.

Her commitment to the rebellion she had been a part of was twisted by its leaders, she was propped up as a figurehead, a “hero,” someone who would carve a bloody swath through the Coalition that had so betrayed them. Her strong sense of justice, her desire to free her people, these were turned by the manipulations of her leaders into suicidal commitment to ideals that became more and more empty revenge by the day. By the time she and Callie had their fateful collision, both were being pushed along more by the momentum of their orders than by commitment to either of their causes, and while their aerial duel over the burning land below was full of anger and betrayal, when it concluded with both pilots in stricken aircraft, Rose’s going down in flames while Callie ejected, there was nothing left between them. In a way, clarity ensued.

Which is good, because what happened next required clarity on both of their parts. The XFA-09 had ruptured what little containment it had, and awash in arcane energies, Rose succumbed to the Curse of Scales.

But it didn’t kill her- no, with Rose’s undoubtedly fatal wounds otherwise, the influx of raw arcana and transformation into a dragon saved her life.

Of course, it was a shock to Callie, who had rushed to find her crash site, but her presence kept Rose from wholly losing herself- and when the dust settled, both shared a lot of tears- and a vow never to be thrown into pointless conflict by self-serving politicians again. They established Pendragon together, and Rose, now fascinated by the possible applications of the transformative power of raw arcana and developing magical talents in her new form, would lay the foundations of what would become the Revenant project.