DA also I think people are forgetting just how clunky a lot of old light apparel was. Light is not solely the delicate filigree flight. I feel like you'd be hard-pressed to call the Sunguard Chestplate or even the Sunchaser Jewelry "elegant".
Saethuryx has a good point in the "Anyone else disappointed" thread: "it's probably because they're new and don't have a historical lore entry that solidly links them with Light's existing story."
"the only reason we identify dragons with their current flights is because many of them were around since the beginning, and we forget that the overarching dragon theme we associate with the flight originated with the dragons already there, not from the flight itself."
"the only difference between a new breed like the Everlux and a breed that's always been there like Imperials and Pearlcatchers are that we've had 11 years to integrate those dragons (Imps/PCs) into our minds as being from that flight."
[Snipped some sections of the post, but just wanted to port over some quotes]
Adjacent to all these good points, it was the playerbase that decided Light was angel themed, not the staff. Staff sort of fed into it with some of their fest picks, but like... clunky apparel is right! Light has always been a bit horror-ish, a bit round, etc.
YEP Like I will toss them the bone that there are some angel-ish light items... like the halo, but EVERY flight got a halo and also what else do you do for a light halo. in fact they made it jagged in a way that is expressly Not a round angelic halo
but people have massively overblown the focus on angelic aesthetics, and expecting a straight up ""biblically accurate"" angel was setting themself up for disappointment
Right? Especially given that'd be referencing a real religion, which again, staff tolerates for fest skins and UMAs, but I can't see them doing it for a whole dragon breed.
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(frozen comment) Re: FAT FUCKS YES
(Anonymous) 2024-11-12 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)Saethuryx has a good point in the "Anyone else disappointed" thread:
"it's probably because they're new and don't have a historical lore entry that solidly links them with Light's existing story."
"the only reason we identify dragons with their current flights is because many of them were around since the beginning, and we forget that the overarching dragon theme we associate with the flight originated with the dragons already there, not from the flight itself."
"the only difference between a new breed like the Everlux and a breed that's always been there like Imperials and Pearlcatchers are that we've had 11 years to integrate those dragons (Imps/PCs) into our minds as being from that flight."
[Snipped some sections of the post, but just wanted to port over some quotes]
(frozen comment) Re: FAT FUCKS YES
(Anonymous) 2024-11-12 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: FAT FUCKS YES
(Anonymous) 2024-11-12 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)YEP
Like I will toss them the bone that there are some angel-ish light items... like the halo, but EVERY flight got a halo and also what else do you do for a light halo. in fact they made it jagged in a way that is expressly Not a round angelic halo
but people have massively overblown the focus on angelic aesthetics, and expecting a straight up ""biblically accurate"" angel was setting themself up for disappointment
(frozen comment) Re: FAT FUCKS YES
(Anonymous) 2024-11-12 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)