>>43325581Our young dragon girl absolutely loved the idea of heroic knights and swinging swords and defending the weak and all that very romanticized stuff. Nobody ever bothered to tell her it was romanticized, though. To her, it was totally real (ANIME IS REAL, DAMMIT) and awesome.
In time, she started to learn how to be a knight, or whatever she figured knights were. She dug up a serviceable sword from the hoard, got attached to a shiny helmet like it was a goddamn teddy bear, and wandered around the surrounding countryside pretending to be a knight. There were some monsters around, but most things knew how very goddamn stupid it would have been to attack a dragon's ward, so she was left alone most of the time, and sometimes rescued by the dragon or something like that. There was always much grumbling. Eventually, though, she started to get a little bit competent at it, and actually kind of learned how to use weapons. Mostly at giant rats and particularly stupid goblins, but hey.
Ultimately, though, every child has to leave home. The grumpy old dragon had enjoyed the child's company, however begrudgingly, but he also knew that despite his own misgivings about the world, it was not healthy to keep a young girl (now more of a young woman) holed up in some backwater cave all her life. So he ultimately told her to git, as gently as a grumpy old dragon could. She wasn't exactly happy, but at the same time it gave her the opportunity to actually see the world. And so she left.
So, I played a female half-dragon (a very humanish one) fighter who was a knightaboo and way too fucking loud about heroic deeds, chivalry and shit like that. She had a lot of waking up to do in the real world, but she never really gave up on being the knight she wanted to be. She even doodled her own chivalric coat of arms, which was herself with a sword. She was quite liked by the other players, despite how fucking bad the race and gender sounded.
