RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist#PhantasticsPrompts 2025.24.03.: What kind of fantasy creatures do you particularly like and why?
Um, dragons? Cut my teeth on Dragon Riders of Pern (not Tolkien, never Tolkien). But, right, cliché, a trope. So. I write this fantasy story and a secondary character is? You guessed it, a dragon. Hackneyed? Well, when the Red Dragon is shows up it has the flu. A fever means it's warm blooded. It walks on rear legs and wings, so a wyvern? It breathes fire so when it sneezes that's a problem. It's furry, pretty ugly, too. Well, maybe a giant bat? People don't know the difference; still a dragon. But it eats an orchard when hungry, so… a fruit bat?
I have a bit of fun with this.
They show up in an SF story, but that's a different prompt.
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