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Ok, yall asked for this…

Ok so basically in this au, the first book starts off with Luna and the secret alliance thingie (which actually has a purpose instead of just being filler and the idea of silkwings being against the alliance and is instead actually against them and they do shit abt it) ((but anyway-)) in this au she’s like, one of the big leaders and the book has her basically just doing rebel shit against the hivewings, raising tensions between the silkwings and hivewings and simultaneously bringing justice in some way, and eventually proving a bother enough for queen wasp to take over the hivewings and start, yah know, stopping, jailing and killing the found rebels and actually try and catch them and stuff, and shutting down meeting places and shit, bringing more tension.

So Luna, (who is instead blues slightly older half sis) basically doesn’t even have a chance to metamorphosis in this book, and is instead captured by the the hivewings in one of the raids. They jail her and blue, who was found as an accomplice, and are put in the cells with the fire silks (which they hadn’t known abt yet) bc high security ofc and bc blues father is a fire silk and he is suspected to be one too(Luna doesn’t have flame silk). After they learn abt fire silks and what the hivewings had been doing to them, they plan an escape.

So the escape goes to shit, theyre re-captured and Luna gets killed/executed for planning the escape and thats how book 1 ends

Book two starts off with cricket and she isn’t actually the “I shouldn’t be good but I am for plot reasons and love interest” and is actually pretty nieve and a little self centered, she hasn’t met blue or Luna at all so she’s still unbiased/more biased towards hivewings. Or that is until she meets sundew, one of the very few leaf wings still around, who had also happened to be assigned to follow cricket for gathering information for the leafwing rebellion (separate to the silkwings rebellion). Cricket finds out she’s being stalked and confronts sundew (who isn’t just a super “Im good at all things survival and thats all I need”) who messed up and gave herself away, and they pretty much hit it off.

Cricket gets a lot more educated abt the real silkwing/hivewing/leafwing situation through sundew, and cricket spys on the tribes to gather information for the leafwings.

They eventually are able to get in contact with the silkwing alliance, hoping for both alliances to join together, and find out about how one of their leaders (Luna) had been recently captured by the hivewings and before they can even decide to do anything they need their leader back. So cricket and sundew take off for the prisons in hope of finding Luna.

But when they get there they find Luna dead and a small group of tortured and enslaved silkwings in a highly secure prison with no way out and are horrified to find that hivewings are even worse that what they seemed to be. (End book 2)

Book 3 starts off with blue, and we get a recap on what happened after lunas death.

So basically they execute Luna, re-capture blue and the escapees and lock them up tighter than ever before. Blue ends up worse bc the hivewings think he is the main accomplice and they put him in a seperate cell, and like almost torture him?? Not really but, he has a far worse punishment than the rest.

So basically they torture him, and theyre like “this kids useless if he’s not a fire silk, so let’s just get him to metamorphosis early, see if he’s a flame silk, if he is we put him with the rest and if he ain’t then we can kill em off!” So they like, inject him with like special hormones that make him start to metamorphosis early and they find out he is a flame silk.

So he metamorphosises and we get a small time skip to close to the time when cricket and sundew get there and and in the middle of his little force induced goop coma, he gets interrupted by the guards splitting open his cocoon, mid metamorphosis may I remind you, so hes like only partially developed, and is forced into the rest of the silkwings cages. So basically hes like only slightly metamorphosised and is like a little deformed-ish, his wings are crumpled and unusable and the only thing he has is his flamesilk left, so he like can’t even fly now, which is like a silkwings only goal in life, so like hes left phisically mentally and spiritually broken, his sister dead, enslaved, his only defense (his silk) ripped away for resources, chained down, unable to move two feet and his wings, his last chance at true freedom, ripped away from him, not even able to metamorphosis on his own bodily accord, and now unable to ever fly again, with no second chance… well, you can see why he started to hate hivewings.

Not hate, despise. He fucking hated hivewings.

In the short time of him finally able to see through all their Bull shit he realizes that hivewings won’t change and have never been good to them, and he just fucking hates all of them.

So when cricket and sundew arrive, and he sees another hivewing, the only reason the doesn’t fucking maul her when they free him is bc sundews there. And well, it’s not like he can escape without them with the deformed wings and all. So he goes with them, dispite the hivewings presence and ends up traveling with them and the other flame silks back to the leafwing village.

They get to the village and shit, they do their thing, and blue finds himself more and more comfortable in the hivewings presence, dispite himself, and is more and more enraptured by her surprisingly calm and loving demeanor. Dont get him wrong he still fucking hates hivewings, but cricket has matured so much, she’s careing and loving and sympathetic, he can’t help but feel more and more whole around her. Not because she completes him, but because she helps him see that he is already whole dispite his wounds and scars,(his wings).

He doesn’t understand why he can’t hate her, and throughout the rest of the book they kinda pull toward each other more + more, and eventually at the end of the book they have their hugging-crying-i-love-you scene and they do their couple thing for the last two books.

Blue still hates what the hivewings did to him and his sister and tribe, but is now able to understand that they can change, and aren’t all just evil.

I don’t really have anything else for the last 2 books, or at least not yet, so yall have free reign for ideas and shit, and feel free to let me know if u guys want more!!

So yeee I love them actually so much

I’ll prob do more with this au and shit, so possibly stay tuned for that, other than that, If u you have any ideas for this au, or like it alr, feel free to do what u want with it! So art, reblog ideas, comment ideas or whatevs, fuckin love that shit, would be so fun.

Hope u guys like this, Ik it’s a long one this time, but I hope it like it!! Love yall frum the bottom of my heart, see yall next timeeee <<<3333333

Enemies to lovers blicket au

Dragons of Pantala (headcanon designs)

• Silkwings:

-Inherited from nightwings genes of fur on the chest and in their case they only progressed, thanks to which the wool is distributed throughout the abdomen, neck and front legs

-In addition, the shape of the scales is more like the scales of nightwings than the beetlewings. The hind legs are also inherited from nightwings (in general, silkwings closer to the nightwings while hivewongs to the beetlewings)

-Big Eyes

-Very long tongue

-Mouth are small and round

-Short, round ears

-Teeth are not very sharp, by structure more like the teeth of herbivores than of predators (transitional form from one diet to another; such a structure also came from the merger of nightwings (predators) and beetlewings (omnivorous, but preferring to eat plants; fed only under adverse conditions))

-Blood are beige, semi-transparent

-The shape before and after Metamorphosis is significantly different. The "caterpillars" (before metamorphosis) are covered with blistering scales, some have a greenish tinge, developed a cusptry at the mouth - the mouthparts helps the dragonets to feed (after metamorphosis only small mouthparts remain, which are rather rudimentary), very small antennae on the head, almost not functioning; their role replaces temporary growths on the lower jaw, which disappear after metamorphosis. Body consists of scales, fur missing

-After metamorphosis the skin color becomes much brighter, grow long antennae with fur at the end, also appears directly, the fur itself on some parts of the body

-The shape of the wings in some individuals may be different (similar to the butterfly wings after which they were named)

-Flamesilk dragons have patterns in the form of lights on their wings and also fire colors (red, orange, yellow) all over their body. Eyes are also very bright (before the metamorphosis it is not visible, also in normal silkwings eye color changes slightly, unlike flamesilk dragons). All this is a warning to other creatures that these dragons don't have ordinary silk (it is similar to how in our world poisonous animals have bright, warning coloring)

-Growth reaches 2-2.5 meters

*The design was based on butterflies and their caterpillars

• Hivewings:

-Round tail. Despite its external fleshiness, it is almost completely hollow and not overloaded with internal organs and muscles. It contains only organs of the reproductive system and a reservoir with poison. And even though there are these organs that contribute to the flying, 2 pairs of wings and a dense front of the body all compensate for it, and they restore balance

-The tail itself is motionless, only able to descend, in order to wound the opponent with a dagger. The front part of the body is more flexible.

-Ears are long but thin

-Blood as like silkwings, beige and semi-transparent, but has a darker shade

-The gait is more developed than silkwings

-Paw structure identical to beetlewings

-Thorns on the entire spine fall long, with a sharp end

-Horns are curved, facing the opposite direction

-Whites darkened but not entirely black, has a dark shade of the color of the iris

-Also prefer to eat plants, but unlike silkwings, their teeth are very sharp. The reason is defensive functions, the presence of poison in them.

-Mouth is sharp, triangular shape

-Growth reaches 2.5-3 meters

*The design was based on bees, wasps and some other insects

• Beetlewings:

-Horns curved and parallel to the mouth

-Sharp nose, able to pierce the opponent

-The mouthparts, which due to the long nose is necessary for beetlewings so that from the mouth as little food as possible. The long tongue also helps (but it is less than the silkwing's tongue)

-2 pair of wings: the first is twice as short as the second, it performs the role of elytra

-The second pair of wings can fold and hide under the first

-Double thorn on the tail. The structure of the tail is similar to the tail of hivewings (the tail of the beetlewings is longer than that of the hivewings)

-Large thorns on the spine

-Semi-transparent beige blood

-Whites are also darkened, but not as much as in their descendants, hivewings

-Ears are pointed but not very long

-Omnivores

-Growth reaches 2.5-3.5 meters

*The design was based on bugs and some other insects

• Leafwings:

-Horizontal eye shape

-The presence of a modified ruffs (they are related to rainwings)

-Wings, webbed spines, ruffs and ears are leaf-shaped, and they can be very different in each individual (often their appearance resembles the plant after which they were named)

-Their scales do not necessarily have a green tint in all individuals

-Long, multi-ended horns that resemble tree branches. Many bigger than rainwings

-Paw structure almost identical to rainwings

-Sapwings and poisonwings try to distinguish themselves by applying paint on small fragments of scales, often making a small pattern from this (the first are painted in pale colors, the second, on the contrary, in colorful, mostly consisting of red, yellow and orange shades)

-In addition to this poisonwings can sharpen their webbed spines and horns, make them sharper

-Height reaches 3-4 meters

*The design was based on trees, their leaves and partly rainwings

Red SeaWings are also plausible, mostly in deep sea areas!! Red is one of the darkest wavelengths, so to speak (it's not literally darker, just technically. colour theory stuff blah blah blah), so it blends in better than any other colour! Even blue! Many deep sea creatures are red because of this -- giant/colossal squids and scaly-foot gastropods, for example. They're both dark red.

And also, in super deep areas, if there are any SeaWings down there, they'd probably be white or very pale, because they don't need pigmentation to protect themselves from sunlight or to blend in.

I personally think leafwings and seawings should be allowed to be more colourful then they cannonically are because plants and underwater animals are very colourful 👍👍👍

I am a beleiver in Red LeafWings, whether that be their natural color or from changing seasons.