Again with the bearded dragon
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Kaya asking whether she is allowed to breath fire…
Anyone here who can check if hell froze over?
While we´re at it, Robin, can Kai and Kaya also blow fire out through their noses or mouth only?
That is a very good question. Not universal among dragon lore. Just by the design of their faces I kind of doubt it, but only Robin is to say.
Considering they can block smoke out their noses I’d say it’s possible. Though I doubt it’s a pleasant sensation.
Well, that’d be a great way to get rid of annoying nose hairs!
She’s surprised an adult is asking her to do this :p
Usually it’s ‘Don’t breathe fire!” all over.
As for fire through the nose. Maybe if they practiced a bit. :p
Technically I think it would be possible, but not very pleasant. You will see why later in the chapter.
Looking foreward to upcoming pages 🙂
I remember an article that made a credible attempt at explaining dragon fire. It involved an acid proof bladder connected to the windpipe that grew thin sheets of bone in it. When they want fire, they excrete acid, dissolving the bone, and creating hydrogen.
There would need to be some way of lighting it, and a way of preventing the fire from going where it isn’t wanted.
There is a movie Reign of Fire that explains dragon’s breath in a scientific way. At least i think that is the title of the movie. The way they explanation went is there are two glands that sprays vapor jets of two different chemicals in the mouth. when the chemicals mix it combusts into fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEtoQGqbyDc
and also just because science :3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuFPB7wNL2k
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I saw Reign of Fire long ago on a school trip. Don’t remember a lot of it, because it was a school trip and that’s always hectic. I should rewatch it again.
Panel 5: Warning Labels Robin!!! Gah my heart!!
Well, glad to see Kaya’s checkup continues to go so well, she got lucky with her doc!
Should I add spoiler tags to protect the weak of heart? :p
Just thought of something, can we get a flash back of when they were little and they sneezed or something and shot flames out for the first time?
Probably in the car on the way home from the hospital.
That would be cute!
That might come up in another chapter xD
No promises for when that is, but you can bet it will happen eventually. ^^
Kaya’s having her perfect day,
using fire to dampen doubt’s ire.
The Doctor is letting her play;
her admiration can’t be higher.
Normally ‘you put that fire out’
becomes the order of the day
but showing her what it’s about
means our Kaya can really play.
Why does she want her Doc up close?
Please, Kaya, don’t light up her hair.
You’ll hear things that are most verbose
and you’ll lose an ally there…
I was waiting for this. Thank you for this.
Jesse.
Awww, poor creature. It just wants to play and people are screaming at it and throwing towels at it! No wonder it gets grumpy!
In fairness, it’s probably thinking, “You call that a scream? I’ll show you a real scream!”
it will get interesting if the poll turns out that people want to see it friendly xD
So you’re everything that’s opposite of Spyro. Also, come closer? Is she trying to burn someone’s hair off again?
Let’s hope not.
The “come closer” part has me confused, too. Kai basically did a blowtorch. Maybe Kaya will do something more like a soldering flame?
Let her be, she wants to be like Spyro xD
The hair burning is definitely not the plan…
Well, I hope that the firestation is near to the hospital 😀
they have extinguishers :p
On the plus side, it is a hospital so any third-degree burns can be treated almost immediately. XD
That is true xD
alas poor doctor, we hardly knew ye, you know not what you do.
She realized she might have made a mistake asking for fireworks :p
Doctor: “I’m a Fern, you dork!”
I didn’t even think of this joke xD
Hopefully Kaya just makes a small puff of flame. But knowing her, probably not.
Well, she might have some self control xD
Usually, it’s bad when Kaya breaths fire, or funny
I have feeling this hospital is going to be going into something akin to panic mode, they likely don’t have the facilities for properly testing the capabilities of Mythic hybrids, on account of them being so rare, and you can raise that rarity significantly for cases like twins and triplets due to the fact those aren’t all that common among humans.
I did the math, these two are literally a one in a million event minimum.
“[Kaya] was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googolplex!”
Sometimes both 😀
Well, they at least know of mythicals. I would think they have some way of testing things.
I don’t doubt the hospital does have some sort of procedure for testing and gauging mythics, chances are they need a different metric than most other hybrids. That said, I’m pretty sure it’s somewhere around the bare minimum for gauging mythics with all the other materials needing to be outsourced to professionals that specialize in the field of putting rarer hybrid variants through their paces.
Well ; not a good idea , for a dragon , to ask to come closer when she/he’s ready to spit fire
That’s me or the ears changes of size from a strip to another ?
The ears can also go forwards and back so it’s probably a perception thing.
I might make a mistake in the size here and there. I’m only human xD
It shouldn’t be too noticable from page to page, though.
Panel 5 is weapons grade cuteness – that Doctor is doing an amazing job keeping her head.
Yeah, she’s definitely holding up well xD
Draconic skills to pay the bills… or to make bills when chaotic adventures go down
to then burn said bills :p
Well, she did burn one for Cleo… 😉
Exactly xD
No actual fireworks indoors please. Just some flame.
Spectators might be safer at the side rather than close in front. 😂
Is anyone safe if they’re close to Kaya? xD
Kaya: “Closer. Closer. Clooooser.”
Louise: “I-I think that’s close enou-”
Kaya: “Cloooooserrrrrr.”
@Jesse Adv.: Come on now, you’ve JUST met the monster and you’re already throwing in the towel. 😉
Kaya wants to make sure she’s in range xD
Kaya looks so happy this whole time. Careful Robin, you’re going to create a singularity if you keep packing so much adorableness into one page. Our reality was never meant to sustain Kaya-level cute for this length of time. I love the little details of all the gesturing and subtle ear movements. You can see in her body language that Kaya is much more expressive than her brother. (I mean, you don’t need to look for such fine details to see that.) It’s a great touch, an incredible attention to detail, and in general just an all-around awesome sign of how much effort and skill goes into each and every panel of this comic. That’s why it deserves every penny of that funding. This deserves to be its own book because it’s better than many of the already published works out there. Your future is bright Robin. I love being a part of your story. Thank you for sharing it with all of us. And as always, stay awesome!
👍❤️ 🅰️➕
I knew a guy who was completely deaf and a lip-reader. He said it was almost always easier to read women than men because women were so much more expressive in general. 🙂
Our reality could stand to be a bit cuter. I’ll pack as much Kaya cuteness as I can xD
And thank you for all the praise, Alpha 😀 It really brightens my day ^^
It’s a good thing that ‘fire breathing lizard’ is almost universally recognised as ‘dragon’.
So… when did the twins start being called dragons? Clearly their prior records just called them ‘lizards’.
They must not have had many other checkups if their records don’t show increased strength nor hardened scales. This could be put down to the remoteness of their hometown, and I suppose none of this would have been noticeable when they were born.
I’m starting to get an idea of how hard it is for people to classify hybrids, the stranger ones could take years or decades to identify, and discoveries like the twins clearly defy all current knowledge.
And I like panel 6, the doctor just realising she gave a dragon permission to light a naked flame, without knowing exactly how big that flame is 😛
Receptionist at the front desk changed them at check in
But that was single change. It seems that while they got “dragon” in “species” column, they didn’t have any records about their abilities in details.
Remember that their prior hometown was incredibly biased against them. My guess is that their previous doctors were uppity snobs, perhaps even going so far as to send all hybrids to the veterinarian. Again, that’s only a guess, but it has been stated in-canon that their old town treated them quite badly.
With that in mind, it’s no wonder that the twins don’t have a well-defined medical history.
Well, there’s a very good reason why the single change that the receptionist did at the start of the medical check stuck and is now used by the doctors. I would tell it here, but it will come up in a couple more pages, so I’m not going to spoil it now.
All I can say is, it goes way back and Kai and Kaya aren’t the only ones that had their species changed the first time they were checked.
Ah, so they were classified as dragons. I forgot that panel. As a bureaucrat myself, I can understand the need to put everything in a pre defined category. However, as someone who has an obsessive need for detail, I believed that everything should be properly labeled to describe them as accurately as possible. This usually means the creation of numerous subcategories. And usually cross checking, clarification and inspection to ensure original information is correct, at no point should you overwrite existing information until it has been confirmed as inaccurate. In this case, I would have just created a note: Species: Lizard, previously classified as ‘dragon’, further investigation needed. But many forms don’t really allow for this amount of note taking. Look forward to the next comics and the reasons.
That would have been an elegant solution to the problem. Unfortunately, as we all know, anything with bureaucracy tends to not go for the elegant solution, no matter how good it would be and no matter how much the person doing the bureaucracy would want it. Time and money often get in the way of good solutions and we all have to live with it xD
At least in my experience. Doing it right is usually not on the bosses’ agenda. Doing it ‘good enough’ in a time and money saving manner usually is :p
Yeah, that’s my experience too. I’ve experienced good and bad bureaucracy. They prefer we go for the 80% solution. But the honest thing is, even if we did it the fine detail way, you’d get other people overwhelmed by all the subcategories.
All about going for balance, which usually has a bit of good and bad.
But in any case, perfect worlds make for boring storytelling and less fire 😛
5 min later everyone is out side as the hospital on fire Kaya stand there with her brother and dad looking angry at her “ it was just a sneeze I’m sorry “
It’s great to see everyone seems to appreciate Kaya’s destructive powers xD
…from a distance. 😉
In panel five is that her I can light the fireworks face or is it her total destruction face?. is it too late to see kai and Kaya X-rays. Also since the doctor didn’t scream than why do i still have the recording hmm……(slowly fading) oh Time is so confusing it even confuses it sel…(poof) oh hi why is there a pile of dust next to my computer and why is it on twin dragons website?
you shouldn’t time travel, it messes with everything xD
Huh, this doc is surprisingly more understanding than the previous one, then again, I guess Kayla already demonstrated some superhuman abilities.
….. although not sure how good an idea it is to ask her to come closer when she’s about to breathe fire…
(Fun fact though, Spyro was originally going to be green too, but he was kinda hard to see against green/grassy floors so they changed him to purple so he would stand out)
She’s more open-minded xD
I heard that before. Can’t imagine Spyro being green, so they made a good choice in my opinion xD
OMG, those happy star eyes when she gets asked to breathe fire! So happy! ^^
Well, she doesn’t usually get approval to breathe fire xD
Now Kaya make sure you don’t burn the poor nice doctor.
But I love the star eyes……..ITS SO CUTE
She’s gonna grab the chance to breathe fire xD
weird question but in a world with hybrids, is dressing as furry considered racist.
In Jesse’s Adventure, there’s a character named Jackie who wears fursuits. As I recall, no one perceives it as racist or rude.
Maybe to some, but most of the hybrids have no problem with it.
Bearded dragons, goats and some dog breeds are a few obvious examples. There must be a few bearded hybrid females around. Could be a fun POV to be mentioned somewhere.
While possible, I’m sure most of them would shave if they can xD
But indeed, there are are possibilities there.
Oh lord.
*puts on abestos jumpsuit*
Don’t forget your BBQ meat xD
Well, if he’s standing at ground-zero, all he really needs is the -sauce-. 😉
Doc: “C-closer!? I’m not sure–”
Kaya: “Haha. It’s okay. I’m going to do a small flame, and I want you to be able to see it. That’s all.”
it’s the reasoning behind it :p
Heat and fire resistant apron and gloves? Ready!
Welding googles? Ready!
Sausages on sticks? Ready!
I’m prepared. ‘Tis gonna be good.
Well let’s see how this is going to end. Things are going well so far, except Kaya is glowing so bright the doctor is in need of sunglasses.
About the naming. Let’s see how long it takes for some nerd tries to call them dragonewts.
the sausages, you remembered the most important part xD
I see no possible way anything could go wrong here.
And for Jessie’s Adventures all I can say is,
“AAAAAAA~”
Jesse’s Adventure: I like how she never breaks her scream or eye contact, but still grabs and throws the towel quite accurately. 🙂
Nope, all is going well 😀
No, Dragon as in Komoto! Largest of the monitor lizards with a mouthful of septic bacteria that acts as a living venom in any prey it bites. Those things are really strong too, but generally do not have much endurance, being cold-blooded.