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Rhea, Dom's mother, is a White-bellied eagle/Canadian lynx mix and his father Faust is Steller's sea eagle/white Bengal. Dom inherited his father's shoulder height and his mother's hindleg height which makes him look like a gorilla gives him a sloped back. Because of this, Dom walks around more comfortably with his head and neck lifted up rather than downwards like Faust.Rhea originally hails from Twistoult and moved to Skrekrill to be with Faust. She is softspoken and has a passion for growing things. To more easily garden, she chose a human form for the manual dexterity. In this form, her hair grows thick, fine and short, much like her lynx fur. She worries constantly about her two boys with the onset of war. The bloodshed makes her sick.
Faust is a crotchety retired fighter and is a very politically involved Skrekrill. He was decently happy with his life until a group of Grandesque scouts caught him and clipped the shoulder muscles of his wings, rendering them useless for flight. For this, he developed a hatred for all Grandesques and rigorously advocates for war.
Disgusted with his crippled gryphon form, he chose a human form, which ended up with wings! Initial delight turned to digust once again when Faust discovered that he could not use his wings in his human form either.
Faust then shamefully retired from the fighting force and let Rhea coax him into raising their young son, Dom. He taught Dom what he knew best: how to fight.
Dom eagerly took to the fighting lessons, but Faust saw with some frustration that his son lacked bloodlust. Dom had inherited Rhea's dislike of unnecessary bloodshed, preferring to wrestle instead of ripping and tearing.
Once Dom was an adult, Faust started teaching other young gryphons his Skrekrill ideals and fighting techniques. Rhea now uses her limited knowledge of herbs to heal the injured.
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Comments: 21
SoldierToger [2012-02-27 01:39:28 +0000 UTC]
Nicely done. Very cool. Love how beefy they are!
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Shadow-and-Flame-86 [2012-01-23 12:26:03 +0000 UTC]
ooooh nice! I especially like dom's dad, I had a similar idea for a relative of my potential-mebbe-if-I-get-my-arse-in-gear-skrekrill gryph with fighting and not being able to fly, I imagine that its a pretty common injury as wings are so vulerable >.< sucks that he went human, got wings and STILL can't fly! thats a great twist
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Quisum In reply to Shadow-and-Flame-86 [2012-01-24 23:52:04 +0000 UTC]
ooo, another skrekrill! I'd like to see that
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Shadow-and-Flame-86 In reply to Quisum [2012-01-25 00:06:53 +0000 UTC]
hehe I've got two gryph idead for skrekrill, I can't decide which one I like best! The one I mentioned is a scrapper who just loves fighting and is basically based on a typical spartan warrior, the other is a seagull gryph I thought up while on my seal colony and had to watch gulls eat a seal pup alive >.< needless to say she's not too pleasent...
BUT need to finish what I started with Milvus first
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comixqueen [2012-01-22 21:22:39 +0000 UTC]
Whoo! A family of sea eagles! No wonder why Dom is so awesome!
Their backstories are very interesting! Poor Faust :C
.....
Also, I just realized! They are a sideburn family!
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wyrd66 [2012-01-22 03:21:34 +0000 UTC]
I really like how Dom is a combination of his parents' phenotypes. And their personalities are fascinating. I especially like Faust's story.
And Dom is still one of my favorite gryphs.
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Quisum In reply to wyrd66 [2012-01-22 15:46:22 +0000 UTC]
Thanks It is fun to play geneticist c:
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terceleto [2012-01-22 01:01:41 +0000 UTC]
It's great to get the back story... Faust seems like someone my young Yarak would love to look up to as well... and since he's goshawk/lynx he likely would in a literal manner too. I'm super excited to be working on challenges now Would it be OK if I were to use them in challenge work at some point or another?
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Quisum In reply to terceleto [2012-01-22 15:44:06 +0000 UTC]
Go right ahead, I'd be honored! I'd like to draw your Yarak at some point too
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terceleto In reply to Quisum [2012-01-22 22:35:47 +0000 UTC]
that would be so awesome He really is a feisty little guy.
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milinkre [2012-01-21 20:30:37 +0000 UTC]
WONDERFUL! I love hearing about the parents, it's a window into the lives of the gryphons. by the way.... can I use Dom in a comic Im doing for the war?
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Quisum In reply to milinkre [2012-01-22 15:35:24 +0000 UTC]
I like learning about the parents too
Go ahead, I'd be honored! T_T
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milinkre In reply to Quisum [2012-01-27 06:02:19 +0000 UTC]
Another question.... would you like me to use his human form since you just updated his reff pictures?
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Quisum In reply to milinkre [2012-01-27 15:21:55 +0000 UTC]
I really have no preference, it's up to you c:
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