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| title1= Dragons | |||
| image1= Dragon Versus Parsifal.png | |||
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| sentience= Variable | |||
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| type= Supernatural, non-humanoid reptilian creature | |||
| notable_individuals= The [[Snap-Dragon]]<br>[[Lauren Ipsum Drake]]<br>[[Rain]] | |||
| list_of_individuals= [[Category:Dragons|'''''See list''''']] | |||
| first_seen_in= [[COMIC]]: ''[[Beauty as a Beast (comic story)|Beauty as a Beast]]'' | |||
| also_seen_in= [[Dragon/Appearances|'''''See list''''']] | |||
| copyright= Public Domain | |||
}}'''Dragons''', sometimes referred to as '''Drakes''', were large, winged reptilian creatures. Often found in magical realms, they had a voracious appetite. While, in some universes, Dragons were intelligent creatures with the power of speech, in others they were mere beasts, albeit with the cunning of a predator. | |||
== History == | |||
While in [[Hideea]], [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Beauty as a Beast)|Jenny Everywhere]] helped the knight [[Sir Parsifal]] slay [[Dragon (Beauty as a Beast)|a red Dragon]] which had eaten Parsifal's horse. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Beauty as a Beast (comic story)|Beauty as a Beast]]'') | |||
Shortly after gaining her [[shift]]ing powers, the [[Jenny Nowhere#Agent of Chaos|Jenny Nowhere]] of [[Westbrook]] in [[Universe C (The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)|one universe]] accidentally summoned a [[Dragon (The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)|blue Dragon]] while trying to summon a gun. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles (comic story)|The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles]]'') | |||
In [[Universe B (Infinity Apartment)|one]] of the universes in which the [[Infinity Apartment]] existed, bipedal, talking Dragons were a normal part of society, and indeed possibly the Earth's dominant intelligent species. Jenny showed [[Keith (Infinity Apartment)|Keith]] a [[Dragon (Infinity Apartment)|Dragon door-to-door missionary]] as proof of the Apartment's multi-dimensional nature. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Infinity Apartment (comic story)|Infinity Apartment]]'') | |||
[[The Topiary Veranda]] located within [[the Gardens]] of [[the Strange and Wonderful House]] took its name from being surrounded on three sides by bushes shaped into “dragons, [[unicorn]]s, and less immediately identifiable things”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 37: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 1)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 1)]]'') There were also rumours about there being “one or two dragons” lurking in the hair dye closet of the House's [[the Fabulous Salon|Salon]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 47: The Fabulous Salon|The Fabulous Salon]]'') giving one of these dragons a sky lantern full of hydrogen in exchange for being “beamed up” to [[the Roof]] was the final step in the necessary ritual to get onto the Roof. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 49: The Roof|The Roof]]'') “[[Dragon spit]]” was one of the various dangerous substances with which the drinks served in [[the Cotillion Cavern]] were randomly laced. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 48: The Cotillion Cavern|The Cotillion Cavern]]'') “Romances told by dragons” were among the shows one might witness on [[the Stage]] of the House, and more generally, the performers who dared to perform on the Stage included “singers and musicians who [had] sung to pirates, princes, dragons, peasants, and spies and lived to sing the tale”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our_Strange_and_Wonderful_House_(novel)#Chapter 50:_The_Stage|The Stage]]'') | |||
[[King Arthur|Arthurian]] [[England]] in [[Reality Z-25 31-H]] was home to at least one talking, bipedal [[Dragon (Defying the Dragon)|Dragon]]. After he made off with a [[Princess (Defying the Dragon)|Princess]], it was assumed that he had abducted her, and [[the Blue Knight]] was sent after him to “rescue” her. However, it transpired that the Dragon and Princess were actually in love, and they left the country to seek a land that would be accepting of their relationship. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Defying the Dragon (comic story)|Defying the Dragon]]'') | |||
In Reality Z-25 31-H also, a non-sapient “flame dragon” called [[Puff]] was the familiar of [[Neo-Atlantean]] mage [[Hailey Storm]], who could summon it at will. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Angel Falls: Vengeance Sought (short story)|Angel Falls: Vengeance Sought]]'') | |||
[[File:Dragons in 24 Hour Comic 2019.png|thumb|left|Visiting the [[Land of the Naked Emperor]] aboard [[Jenny Anywhere's car]], [[Jenny_Everywhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Jenny Everywhere]], [[Jenny Anywhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Jenny Anywhere]] and [[Greta Överallt]] are attacked by Dragon-riding mercenaries. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[24 Hour Comic 2019 (comic story)|24 Hour Comic 2019]]'')]]To aid in his takeover of the [[Land of the Naked Emperor]] in [[Universe B (Enchanted)|one universe]], [[Baron Tarquin]] enlisted Dragon-riding [[Argothian mercenary|Argothian mercenaries]]. The Dragons ridden through the air by these warriors were reddish and scaly, with two legs and two wings and overall a loosely pterodactyl- or pteranodon-like appearance . They were mere non-sapient steeds. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[24 Hour Comic 2019 (comic story)|24 Hour Comic 2019]]'') | |||
In the [[97th Cosmos]], Dragons only existed as “[[fairy]] stories”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]'') | |||
During the 2019 quest for [[The Frost King (The Frost King's Realm)|the Frost King]]'s treasure in the frozen mountains of [[Manik]], [[Alistair Neezley]] attempted to blame his fall on having been “thrown off the back of a [[snow dragon]]”, while [[Madame Tarsa]] regretted not having brought her “[[Fire-Breathing Dragon automaton]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'') | |||
One of the ''non sequtiurs'' with which [[Hector Fenwick (in-universe)|Hector Fenwick]] nagged the [[Copper-Colored Cupid]]s during his 2019 visit to the [[Cupid Homeworld]] was asking whether the offspring of a Blue Dragon and a Red Dragon would be purple, striped, or polka-dotted. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Metafictional Meddler (short story)|The Metafictional Meddler]]'') | |||
The [[Snap-Dragon]] was a Dragon with a snapping beak, horns, wings and a long coiling body, wreathed in blue flames, which resided in the depths of [[Snapdragon Lake]] inside [[Madame Tarsa]]'s [[Madame Tarsa's Toybox|Toybox]]'s [[Christmas Toyland]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | |||
One of the creatures in [[The Beastmaster (38167th Universe)|the Beastmaster]]'s service was an ochre-scaled, wingless Dragon with a red mane and a pair of yellowish horns. It was non-sapient, but [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] was still able to befriend it, treating it like a big friendly dog, when the Beastmaster tried to have it attack Jenny. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters]]'') | |||
In [[Dimension 77]], after learning that [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] had lost the magical shoes he'd made for her, [[the Lurigadawne of Tipperary]], unable to make her a second one herself due to some obscure laws of the Fair Folk, recommended that she visit “a tribe of cobbler-[[Dwarf|dwarves]] of great renown,” who lived beyond the magical land of [[Kalterskelter]]; he warned her that among other perils on the way, she would have to “fight a few Dragons” to get to them. She was unwilling to embark on yet another grand quest and declined. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
While travelling in the [[Makara Isles]] in [[Universe (Jenny Everywhere's Twitter November 2023)|one universe]], [[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere's Twitter November 2023)|Jenny Everywhere]] befriended a young “water dragon” called [[Rain]], who appeared as a “goopy”, translucent creature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere's Twitter (November 2023 short story)|Jenny Everywhere's Twitter]]'') | |||
=== Laura Drake and Dragons === | |||
In at least [[Universe (Truth in Labeling)|one universe]], [[Lauren Ipsum Drake|Laura Drake]] was actually a Dragon, over a hundred feet in height. She had the ability to adopt human form. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Truth in Labeling (short story)|Truth in Labeling]]'') In another universe, a [[Laura Drake (Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral)|human Laura]] was noted to wear underwear with a dragon pattern printed on it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral]]'') Multiple universes saw her adopting the supervillainous alias of [[Doctor Draconic]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Attack of the Rise of the Revenge of the Scheme of Doctor Draconic (short story)|Attack of the Rise of the Revenge of the Scheme of Doctor Draconic]]'', ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'', ''[[Games in the Woods (short story)|Games in the Woods]]'') in some cases wearing a dragon-like exosuit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'', ''[[Games in the Woods (short story)|Games in the Woods]]'') | |||
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[[Category:Sapient Species]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 15:11, 4 August 2024
Dragons, sometimes referred to as Drakes, were large, winged reptilian creatures. Often found in magical realms, they had a voracious appetite. While, in some universes, Dragons were intelligent creatures with the power of speech, in others they were mere beasts, albeit with the cunning of a predator.
History
While in Hideea, Jenny Everywhere helped the knight Sir Parsifal slay a red Dragon which had eaten Parsifal's horse. (COMIC: Beauty as a Beast)
Shortly after gaining her shifting powers, the Jenny Nowhere of Westbrook in one universe accidentally summoned a blue Dragon while trying to summon a gun. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
In one of the universes in which the Infinity Apartment existed, bipedal, talking Dragons were a normal part of society, and indeed possibly the Earth's dominant intelligent species. Jenny showed Keith a Dragon door-to-door missionary as proof of the Apartment's multi-dimensional nature. (COMIC: Infinity Apartment)
The Topiary Veranda located within the Gardens of the Strange and Wonderful House took its name from being surrounded on three sides by bushes shaped into “dragons, unicorns, and less immediately identifiable things”. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 1)) There were also rumours about there being “one or two dragons” lurking in the hair dye closet of the House's Salon; (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Fabulous Salon) giving one of these dragons a sky lantern full of hydrogen in exchange for being “beamed up” to the Roof was the final step in the necessary ritual to get onto the Roof. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Roof) “Dragon spit” was one of the various dangerous substances with which the drinks served in the Cotillion Cavern were randomly laced. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Cotillion Cavern) “Romances told by dragons” were among the shows one might witness on the Stage of the House, and more generally, the performers who dared to perform on the Stage included “singers and musicians who [had] sung to pirates, princes, dragons, peasants, and spies and lived to sing the tale”. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Stage)
Arthurian England in Reality Z-25 31-H was home to at least one talking, bipedal Dragon. After he made off with a Princess, it was assumed that he had abducted her, and the Blue Knight was sent after him to “rescue” her. However, it transpired that the Dragon and Princess were actually in love, and they left the country to seek a land that would be accepting of their relationship. (COMIC: Defying the Dragon)
In Reality Z-25 31-H also, a non-sapient “flame dragon” called Puff was the familiar of Neo-Atlantean mage Hailey Storm, who could summon it at will. (PROSE: Angel Falls: Vengeance Sought)
To aid in his takeover of the Land of the Naked Emperor in one universe, Baron Tarquin enlisted Dragon-riding Argothian mercenaries. The Dragons ridden through the air by these warriors were reddish and scaly, with two legs and two wings and overall a loosely pterodactyl- or pteranodon-like appearance . They were mere non-sapient steeds. (COMIC: 24 Hour Comic 2019)
In the 97th Cosmos, Dragons only existed as “fairy stories”. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)
During the 2019 quest for the Frost King's treasure in the frozen mountains of Manik, Alistair Neezley attempted to blame his fall on having been “thrown off the back of a snow dragon”, while Madame Tarsa regretted not having brought her “Fire-Breathing Dragon automaton”. (PROSE: The Frost King's Treasure)
One of the non sequtiurs with which Hector Fenwick nagged the Copper-Colored Cupids during his 2019 visit to the Cupid Homeworld was asking whether the offspring of a Blue Dragon and a Red Dragon would be purple, striped, or polka-dotted. (PROSE: The Metafictional Meddler)
The Snap-Dragon was a Dragon with a snapping beak, horns, wings and a long coiling body, wreathed in blue flames, which resided in the depths of Snapdragon Lake inside Madame Tarsa's Toybox's Christmas Toyland. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
One of the creatures in the Beastmaster's service was an ochre-scaled, wingless Dragon with a red mane and a pair of yellowish horns. It was non-sapient, but Jenny Everywhere was still able to befriend it, treating it like a big friendly dog, when the Beastmaster tried to have it attack Jenny. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters)
In Dimension 77, after learning that Jenny Everywhere had lost the magical shoes he'd made for her, the Lurigadawne of Tipperary, unable to make her a second one herself due to some obscure laws of the Fair Folk, recommended that she visit “a tribe of cobbler-dwarves of great renown,” who lived beyond the magical land of Kalterskelter; he warned her that among other perils on the way, she would have to “fight a few Dragons” to get to them. She was unwilling to embark on yet another grand quest and declined. (PROSE: The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)
While travelling in the Makara Isles in one universe, Jenny Everywhere befriended a young “water dragon” called Rain, who appeared as a “goopy”, translucent creature. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere's Twitter)
Laura Drake and Dragons
In at least one universe, Laura Drake was actually a Dragon, over a hundred feet in height. She had the ability to adopt human form. (PROSE: Truth in Labeling) In another universe, a human Laura was noted to wear underwear with a dragon pattern printed on it. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral) Multiple universes saw her adopting the supervillainous alias of Doctor Draconic; (PROSE: Attack of the Rise of the Revenge of the Scheme of Doctor Draconic, Family Business, Games in the Woods) in some cases wearing a dragon-like exosuit. (PROSE: Family Business, Games in the Woods)
