MOD: A few couples of dragons in my stories have been same-sex for longer than I’ve had this blog, for those out of the loop about this, and I’ll explain where that was inspired from and how it’s changed, for me, over the years.
Back whenever TLoS first came out, an artist by the name of Razzek did a couple of same-sex ships, including one of my old-time favs CynderXElora. In her story the two eventually have egg(s) (its been years and I can’t remember if it was multiple), which I thought was really cool and cute. She also explained a theory about how the classic dragons from Spyro the Dragon were all male-coded with male voices, and the question of ‘where did all the eggs come from in Year of the Dragon???’ In Razzek’s writing, the dragons from the classic PS1 games did not have genitalia, and thus reproduced via magic. Neither parents actually carried the egg, they would just all appear at around the same time during a breeding season, and magically would know when the safest time was to hatch.
It’s still essentially the same basic concept for my same-sex couples. Mostly it’s just magic mumbo-jumbo that’s aided with prayers to the respective dragons’ gods, blessings from religious figures, and a lot of hope and faith and love for one another. So far Brissa is my only canonical magically conceived egg with a Wind and a Water lesbian couple as her parents. Actually scratch that, Brissa’s last son is actually one of these, too.
So kind of spoilers not so spoilers if you read their bios, but Asiirha and Brissa have a parent-studen relationship that evolves when Brissa is an adult, well after the fall of the Dragon Temple. Asiirha is visited by Brissa in dreams, the latter of whom has learned some spells that allow her to ‘dream visit’ others. It’s not necessarily creating dreams like the Dream Weavers do, as she’s literally left up to the subconscious whim of whoever she visits. (She’s done this to Ignitus, Vulcan, her sister, and even Malefor.) It’s nearly gotten her killed, but Asiirha’s dreams are the only ones that Asiirha himself can control when he becomes aware that the visiting Brissa is actually her. In these dreams the two fight back and forth for some time, as Brissa believes Asiirha is indirectly to blame for what happened to her. Eventually they reconcile and their feelings become different for one another when they begin to know each other in their adult lives. No ‘I love yous’ are exchanged but they’re both aware that if the circumstances had been different, they could have made a great couple. It’s probably the whim of the universe (or a really mischievous wish granting cosmic being) that an egg materializes.
Neither Asiirha nor Brissa know where it materializes, but they can sense it and see it in their dream visits. Eventually the discover it’s materialized near the home of adult Cynder and Spyro, who believe the egg is their magically conceived egg. They both agree not to step in, as they both believe the pair are capable of raising the egg, and the dream visits end after that.
Essentially it just boils down to how strongly the pair feel for one another, and how close they are as a couple. Not all of the magically conceived eggs end up doing amazing things, but quite a few of them do end up achieving small miracles; Brissa founded an organization that acted as guides to the impaired (because she did the same for her blind sister), Brissa and Asiirha’s son Calden becomes the first Kuros Guardian in Chroma society, and others leave small changes in history that are generally pretty good. Some of them end up being not so good if the parents are too desperate, but that basically sums it up.
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