lupisrising:
thinking on plague zombies-
it’s never something i’ve gotten too up in arms about! i feel bad saying that anyone’s lore is wrong, exactly, and if someone is enjoying their plague zombies, then dammit, I hope they have the best plague zombies in the land. i used to have a few myself, and technically I sort of still do, if you could Broadwater as a zombie vs “not dead yet bc they took a nap and missed their date with the reaper” or whatever they are.
i love that plague hates zombies, though. it’s a super interesting bit of lore that goes against what everyone would expect from plague- and yet it makes complete sense! they have an incredible reverence of life, the sort that can rival Nature dragons- taken in a completely different direction. all life is not precious. the only one that’s precious is your own, and you’d better protect it with everything you’ve got, because living is the greatest of glories.
plague dragons live with a sense of permanence. if you die, that’s it. there’s no trying again, no take two- and in lands that harsh, every day is another fight to make it by. to make it through a day is precious, enough to be celebrated. the old and frail are titans.
that doesn’t mean they need to be harsh- i imagine because of it, plague dragons feel very, very strongly. love and hate and happiness and anything between is felt in full force, and expressed among the clan freely- this day will never happen again, the life lost will never return, and when tomorrow may be the last one, there’s no other time to express what’s felt. they feel, and feel, and feel.
zombies don’t feel. they’re a cold spot. a harrowing dullness where there should be the warmth of blood and pulse. a denial of permanence, a break in the only truth of the world- that what’s done is done.
other dragons may be afraid of Plague- nothing scares Plague more than coming back.