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July 10, 2023

• Me and Tails
• I have my shifter abilities and background via my alicorn form
• We're traveling
• I'm open with my powers, but they don't really understand who I am and what's going down A young, rampaging dragon shows up, just on the cusp of puberty--where they all go a bit mating crazy--they get kicked out of their clans at about that age to find a mate and get the destructive mood swings out of their system. It's cruel
• She's temporarily contained with a quick-built magic fence
• But before we can do anything more to help her or even talk to her at all, a war breaks out
• A company (literally) attacks with guns and tanks. They've had their eye on this area for awhile and the young dragon just makes it all too juicy
• Like, they were gonna do this anyway, this just made it be now
• Establish before this point Susie the T-Rex and the local unicorn wizard who works for the kingdom...and apparently didn't realize I too am unicorn, whoops
• We take out most of the tanks and big artillery between our powers and skills, our new friends' powers and skills, and abusing my shapeshifting
• Establish that I literally think of my friends as perfect--especially Tails, but like, Susie's a huge sweetie of a bruiser, but a bit dim and easily confused or tricked--but it doesn't matter, she's perfect. Tails is fucking amazing, but when he isn't able to pull something off he starts beating himself up, and I'm not having it
• But if I can't do something perfectly or immediately I'm trash
• We use a train to take out some of the attacks, Tails ends up needing to do some repairs only he can do, but he's taught me to drive trains before. We both know he's better at it, but I can do it--I just think I'll do it badly and that it's a shame they won't get to see him show off his skills I start to do it, it starts to go wrong, I start to tell myself I'm trash, and Susie busts me out of that--I pull the thing off, but it's not pretty
• With most of the main forces curtailed, we switch focuses to making sure this preteen dragon is safe
• I shift to dragon form before we go into the enclosure so I can hopefully get her to talk easier, or handle her if she's egg-crazy
• My dragon form's even closer to the rage-fucking (taboo) age, shhh
• We head in, having sent Susie ahead, keeping an eye on our unfriendly allies.
• We're also making sure they see my dragon form beforehand so they can recognize me once we've gone in
• The unicorn wizard is disappointed for some reason (she thinks this is my true form, she'd been feeling the unicorn in me but now thinks she was mistaken--me being a taboo age dragon answers some of the weirdness about me)
• We head into the enclosure to meet the pre-teen dragon
• We're talking to her, she's scared and alone, she feels betrayed and is doubling down on how her friends and family must have been justified to send her away, and how she could snap and do monstrous things at any moment
• Oh...honey, no. They weren't right to do this. This is just cruel. To you and the people outside. They're dragons. They're equipped to handle your mood-swings when and if they happen. These people aren't.
• And now a military force is out here, trying to get to you, so they can weaponize you at your most vulnerable
• She's just a kid who wants to go home, who's been told puberty makes her a monster
• Naturally she assumes we're the bad manipulator people
• So then the last of the tanks show up, and a mediocre white guy steps out to tell her how they can give her anything she needs if she just comes with them--riches, power, more money
• "I changed my mind, they're obviously the ones trying to use me." "Right!?"
• I don't have enough juice left to shift and stay conscious, so we'll have to do this dragon-style
• We do--with flying and fire and the power of friendship and all that
• Finally mediocre white guy is defeated, and so's his army. Yay
• But we were separated from dragon girl in the fight, and now our allies have her, oh no So we go up and ask them to let her go, and they're all, "Sonic, you're even closer to taboo age than she is, how could you endanger us like this?" And I'm all, "Dudes. I'm not actually a dragon."
• And unicorn wizard's been sensing something from me this whole time, and their magic sensing tools have been reacting oddly to me, and they're like, "Fine, explain it." And I'm like, "It's complicated, but okay."
• And I shift to alicorn form and pass out, letting Tails deal with it
• Then we denouement after I wake back up, back in hedgehog shape--unicorn mom's an asshole, shoved me off to live as a "mortal" animal, ended up thriving instead, touched some magic, got more magic, yadda, yadda
• We're all dangerous, but it's how we treat each other that's important