After watching the dragons around here who seem to have themselves figured out, I've been thinking a lot lately about exactly what kind of (half) dragon I am. It's something that never bothered me before, but the more amazing dragons I see, the more I felt like I was lacking something.
I thought of just settling on the simple - a fire dragon, befitting for my red scales. A nature dragon, blending with my tanuki half. A wind dragon, simply because I love wind as an element and a symbol of freedom. That one came pretty close, but still... None of these felt completely right.
I decided to look for inspirations in those close to me. These inspirations are personal and not something I'm gonna get into here, but the main point is that the past year and a half I have found great comfort in the Abyss.
The Abyss... In my eyes, it is something that should by all rights be terrifying. It is the unknown itself, an emptiness which fills the space between worlds. A nothingness, yet Things are somehow born of that nothingness. My understanding is, admittedly, limited... But I don't think it's something to be understood anyway.
I believe I am an Abyssal Dragon. I may not have been born of it, but I have been embraced by it and let it become a part of me.
Will probably expand on this later but, well... it's 3am.