Some Alexstrasza art I did a bit ago

Festive Dragon Aspects! 🎄 I was in the mood to do another holiday drawing yesterday, so I drew this!

Recently decided to give Dragonflight a go (and also digital painting, since I haven’t done any in CSP) so it’s Alexstraza time!

Wrathion Slander

I really need to vent about this as it's REALLY bothering me.

Wrathion is... or WAS... such a better character. He's a far more complicated character than most might realize, and is a character I can personally relate to as an abuse survivor.

I'm so pissed off about Wrathions "development" in Dragonflight. In Visions of Nzoth; we get to see him being more mature, more calculated, more tempered compared to when we meet him in Pandaria. HE WAS ACTIVELY GROWING UP AND BEING MATURE. But blizzard turned it around and DESTROYED ALL HIS PROGRESS JUST FOR "haha young dragon is brat!"  and just.... It's so frustrating as someone who watched a character grow and mature and living vicariously through that.

I'm so pissed how people treat him. Both players and npcs. Sabellian and co had DECADES on Outland and had SO MUCH time to learn how to free their kin. Yet they CHOSE NOT TO. Now they scream and cry "OH WRATHION IS SO HORRIBLE! HE CHOSE TO KILL THEM INSTEAD OF HELP THEM!" When they BLANTANTLY leave out massive facts... ya know... Like how Wrathion was hatched DURING the Cataclysm??? The time where the entire flight was ACTIVELY RIPPING APART AZEROTH?!!?!?! His choices at that time were  a) get killed by the black flight. b) get killed by the red flight. c) get corrupted and then killed like the rest. or d) Protect azeroth from the flight.

Wrathion wasn't born with the information OR time to learn how to free them. Had he tried, he would have put himself at GRAND danger of being killed by the old gods or by Deathwing and the flight themselves. THERE. WAS. NO. TIME. contrary to what Sabellian and co say.

Wrathions trauma stemmed not just from Deathwing, but from the Red Flight too. We the players, get to help Rheastraza purge a black egg... which turns out to be wrathion. But those who didn't play Rogue in Cataclysm; don't know that. Which pisses me off as his origins are so hidden. and It's so vital. Now you and this red dragon put this egg through so many tests, which we later read in Wrathions journal; HE REMEMBERED THEM. And they were intrusive, violating, painful. But the agony doesn't stop there; he was taken to a red dragon area where he was "looked after." Based on the way the leader there (i forget her name) spoke about the egg when it was stolen away by the Rogues of Ravenholdt manor she clearly didn't care about him as a whelp. Just as a thing.. or seemingly worse. A *black egg.*   ya know.. despite being let in on the fact that this egg was purged.

now when the Rogue player character gets sent to steal him back; we find that he's hatched... and pissed. Wrathion hires you to help him fight off the flight, while sending back the red dragon who accompanied said player with broken legs with a message that "he won't be a prisoner to anyone anymore." ya know... reasonable. a tiny bit aggressive but reasonable. But that's the worst he did at this point. AND IT WAS JUSTIFIABLE.

Once you finish his final quest, "Patricide." You come back TO FIND THE WHOLE MANOR BEING ASSAULTED BY THE RED FLIGHT. Instead of trying to reason with him, treat him as a sentient person, or any care; THEY JUST DECIDE TO MURDER HIM AND EVERYONE IN THE AREA.

Now to Pandaria.. We find him a lot in the Valley where if we remember well, is DESTROYED with Sha menace. Sha.. or also knowns as "the Breaths of Y'sharj"... old god. If we remember how old gods work; they THRIVE on negative emotions; paranoia, fear, anger, pride.... Gee sounds familiar?? Ya, Wrathion was a PRIME target and was so actively close to it all. But we forget; N'zoth was still active at that time too. Wrathion makes a comment in later years, during Visions of Nzoth, about despite him being purged; ***he wasn't immune.*** Now why would Wrathion who wants to help and protect azeroth, go to lengths for chaotic actions?? He was led astray without being aware of it. And since he was so secretive; all we could assume was that his attitude was just him and that he was just a dumb idiot.... I believe that Wrathion during pandaria was influenced. And having consumed the heart of Y'sharj... only worsened his chaotic emotions that OTHERS have destroyed. Yet he's treated like he's just an idiot... Ya he fucked up; but there's so much more to him.

Now i'm so pissed how Alexstraza treats him. She seems aware of how his situation started; yet still makes scathing comments and COMPLETELY disregards the idea of perhaps mending the rift between them???? Some fucking "Queen." And from the history I've seen of her; she only really cares about herself, her flight and those she chooses. Unless it's a Very Big Event^TM which was like... 2 times?? So many things could have been stopped had she done her damn job.

SPEAKING OF DOING HER DAMN JOB: Doing quests with Emberthal, we found a recording of Neltharion talking about how Alexstraza and the other aspects refused to believe him when he tried to warn them about the Incarnates war. HE TRIED TO WARN THEM AND GET HELP. THEY ABANDONED HIM! THEY BETRAYED HIM AND HE SUFFERED FOR IT.

UGH!! I'M SO PISSED HOW THE BLACK FLIGHT IS BEING JUST... THROWN AROUND STUPIDLY. THEY'RE SO MUCH MORE. THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL AND THEY DESERVE TO BE WRITTEN BETTER.

Today’s Pineapple Pizza Lover of the Day Is:

Alexstraza from World of Warcraft!

Alexstraza is just one of my absolute favourite warcraft beings in lore. Whilst the current day is lore certainly butchered.. I couldn't help but create something to congratulate the launch of Dragonflight. So here we are. If you want to take on the aspects then check this out! I'll be posting Ysera tomorrow as an accompaniment. So don't miss out!

And here's the Hello Kitty Club's Pic for Dragon Flight =D

Quick thought: crossover of dragon aspects from WOW with few first books of warrior cats.

Tigerclaw as Neltharion, Bluestar as Malygos (went through depression because of the betrayal). Fireheart as Kalecgos as he's become leader after Bluestar. Tallstar is a Nozdormu - somehow he's still alive

Drew my mom

Available in sticker form!

Them

listen malfurion didn’t get fridged for them to stick ysera in that monstrosity of an outfit

2 9 and 10 for the blorbo fandom

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

i'm gonna squiggle out of this one by saying that while sylvanas strongly prefers to top she will sub on occasion to the right person and for the right scene, and while jaina strongly prefers to sub she will dom for the right sub and the right scene. so. technically they're both switches :)

9. worst part of canon

FUCKING SHADOWLANDS.

10. worst part of fanon

not making myself any new friends by saying this but what is going on with alexstraza/alleria. the fuck. is there no one else you can pair with alleria.

Sobs

Okay I am so sorry for my ooc spam and just blurting my love out for this woman but-- I got to the part in Dragonflight where you get to see her again <3 also yes my ass named my Evoker after Su'en because it just felt fitting

The Dracthyr and Dracthyr Visage models I made in the model viewer on Wowhead, can you guess what my favourite colour is? Hahaha. I do like the models but there are some off things about the Visage form, especially the lips, they need to tone down on the lip filler look on the pout.

Also using their starting Evoker armour here on the Visage model because I had trouble finding decent mail armour that wasn't class bound. It’s not the the best looking because it's that painted armour look, which does not look good, especially on the human body 2 option (for those who don’t know, they are changing the female and male body names to body 1 and body 2). But it is low level armour so it doesn’t matter as much, haha, their raid set armour looks good though.

intentionally sabotaging my demon hunter’s leveling up because i wanna go ride dragons