Note: Ippkyth's dragon description below was written by Blue - the admin and owner of the Wilds of Pern game.

Kaedence's Insane Coco Bongo Brown Ippkyth

Message From Creator

Say it with me: Ip-kith. Simple, no? That’s because your big bouncing brown is anything BUT simple past this point, so I figured his name should at least be easy, right? Brain said to create a craaaaazy brown. Well. Now you have one. Browns couldn’t possibly be any more crazy than your Ippkyth and I can’t wait to see him in action!

The Egg

Milo’s Dive Egg

Blue is the main color on the pallet of this LARGE AND IN CHARGE ovoid. At first, it looks like ocean waves crawling across the surface up towards the egg white sands of a beach near the tip of the egg. But as one gets closer, one notices a strange green shape in the water, closely followed by one with brown and white splotches. It’s an odd couple of colors to see amidst the serene blues and whites of the shell.

Egg Inspiration

The egg is inspired by Milo, one of the BEST characters in the Mask Movies. This little Jack Russel has some spunk and sass and it REALLY kicks in when he swims after The Mask and claims it for his doggy self!

Hatching Message

This egg has been doing nothing short of the egg version of Futurama’s Death Ball, each hop, jump, and stretch of it’s occupant sending it rolling around the sands like a giant boulder. Finally, it crashes into one of it’s brethren and pieces of serene blue shell go flying like shrapnel through the air leaving a thin, but large brown sitting in the sands looking confused and hungry.

The Dragonet

Insane Coco Bongo Brown Dragonet

Flowing from mahogany and klah colored eyeridges to his ebony splattered tail, unforgiving cherrywood creeps between peeling lines of cocobolo and wenge. The rough quality of his hide is not unlike that of rough bark, spreading across him in harsh and unforgiving angles. The dark colors of his hide seem only to fade into lightness around the odd oak coloring of his talons and the old parchment white of his wingsails. The long, whiplike line of his spine is covered in mountain-like ridges near black in color. Alert and keen whirling eyes nestle darkly within a craggy face, shadowed in umber as if etched in stone.

Public Impression Pose

Insane Coco Bongo Brown Dragonet swings his head from left to right, effectively shaking the last bits of his shell off. He’s known who was his since the first touching, and that mind burns brightly in front of him now. It’s a straight line to his eternal bond, though there are people in the way. Without a care for who he maims or knocks over, the brown sprints towards Kaedence with glee, wrapping himself and his tail around the youth with absolute certainty.

Private Impression Message

It is always a little unsettling when one mind touches another, but this feels like being on the brink of mental breakdown for a moment. A brief second of mental discomfort before an eternally young voice, with an edge of hysteria in it prods it’s way in as images of a life together done in what looks like children’s drawings invades your mind.

I am Ippkyth, Kaedence, and MAN are we gonna have some fun together. But first…. Is there any FOOD nearby, I’m starving!

Physicalities

Ippkyth will NEVER NEVER be a burly brown. He’s doomed to a waif-like thinness that while making him more nimble, means he doesn’t have the constitution that his other brown brothers do. He’ll have lean muscle, and lean lines, and one thing, you’ll never have to deal with thicktail!

Voice, Scape and Personality

Mindvoice and Mindscape

This is where Ipp REALLY gets some personality. His actual voice will be eternally youthful, he will ALWAYS sound like a cocksure 20 year old in his prime and has the ego to go with it. As for his scape, well, that’s an interesting thing to behold. Despite Pern not having animated pictures, this is how his scape will work, forever confusing and bemusing you along the way. It’s full of bright colors, Acme style antics and a drawn character for every important person or dragon in his life. Does he love you? Well then you’re bound to see this image, or something quite like it, at some point:

Is he mad? Be prepared for steam to shoot out of mental ears, or a steaming tea kettle. And well, if he ever thinks about exploding something or gets a chance to see something blown out of a mine, be prepared to have that image around for DAAAAYS, because Ippkyth here will find it quite the amusing mental image.

Personality

Here’s where Ippkyth will REALLY REALLY shine. He’s an eternal goofball, a hopeless comedian, your one stop shop to laughter or mental insanity! There will never be anything he’s truly serious about and he will forever be trying to make you smile, laugh and cavort around with him. YOU will have to be the solid figure in your lives, knowing when to be serious, and when to goof around, because Ippkyth will never recognize these things. The only thing he will ever take seriously is the looming threat from the skies, a dragon’s mortal enemy, Thread.

Ok. So. I may have lied when I said the ONLY thing Ipp will be serious about is Thread. Because he’ll take flights pretty seriously too. He will ALWAYS be chasing if there’s a flight, and if you try to hold him back, you might just lose. He’ll be chasing every gold and green hiney he can, and well, he’ll make you miserable if you don’t let him. He’ll crow for every victory and mourn every loss heavily (until he forgets that is). And so, mating times just MIGHT be a source of contention for you two, but you’ll make it through, I promise.

Thread. The forever threat. The mortal enemy. The proverbial pain in every dragon and rider’s behinds. And, oh, how Ippkyth hates it. He hates anything that disrupts his routine and shenanigans, but thread is by far the worst, and least tolerated of life’s disruptions. He won’t have enough stamina to fly a whole fall, but he’ll try his damndest, begging to stay in the air even when it’s dangerously obvious he needs to land and rest. Again, you’ll have to be the voice of reason here, because Ipp is incapable of doing so. He’ll mourn deaths quite heavily too, the cartoon image of his heart breaking over and over again until draconic memory is wiped and he forgets his fallen friends.

He won’t ever really WANT a position of power, such as Wingleader or Wingsecond, or Weyrleader, but you’ll forever be wondering if he’d be good at it, and wondering if you should try for it, and who knows, maybe you SHOULD.

The Quirks

Cuban Pete: From The Mask

Ok…. So, I might have gone a little on the head with this one too. But this dragon wants what he wants, and he wanted some Cuban Pete, for Pete’s sake!

Sacred Space

Ippkyth’s sacred space is, you guessed it, The Coco Bongo night club, or as close as one can get to it with Pernese imagery! He loves a party, and so, his special spot in his mind, that he keeps for JUST the two of you, is the best club/bar/entertainment venue ever!

Dragon Scent

Ippkyth thematically is a party goer! He loves the nightlife! In times of high emotion, whether happy or not, he’ll likely smell strongly of spirits and sweat and heavy colognes. It might get to be a bit much sometimes. Honestly, you might want to keep some heavy scented oils around to keep him soaked in for when that club smell becomes too much to handle.

Credits

We really must thank Blue’s boredom for this dragon, because without it, he would not exist. Huzzah for random ideas from nowhere!

Art Credit:

Dragon template from Christina Weinman, color by me.