Listen, it’s a delicate situation and he doesn’t want to talk about it and it has nothing to do with having rewritten a lot of the Dis story in the years between Orientations and Now and that I don’t really know how to resolve this part of the story, okay???
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Okay!
I am reminded of the Astro City story about the man who lost his wife in one of those Cosmic Retcons that happen in superhero universes, and still dreamed about her even though she never existed in the new timeline.
I vote that adorable green snakey dragon to be his wife.
As far as I remember she actually spoke in agreement with Blood Carver and didn’t attack Carver and Michelle when the others did
Are you open you suggestions?
what would a dragon / sphinx hybrid look like?
I’ve just assumed they divorced after he failed the Father, tbh.
Or she “separated” from him rather than face Dis Pater’s wrath for being related to a “failure” and a “traitor”.
He had a crisis of faith and committed treason. It’s hard for a relationship not to fall apart after that kind of thing.
Aw, was hoping for a nice female dragoness character… they are always dudes or if female, a bad guy! Maybe one day, the hope is not gone yet.
There’s Dragon from Shrek, a number of characters from series like Temeraire or Pern, and of course Kazul from The Enchanted Forest Chronicles off the top of my head.
Nudelschlange the green noodle dragon is female :) Many of the dragons shown in Skin Deep have been female!
Some of the dragons from Deltora Quest are ladies (but they’re only in the third series).
Lots of female dragons, including a main one, in the How to Train Your Dragon series!
Fandom: “Pssst, Vera … any chance you can tell us some more about Bloodcarver’s wife?”
Vera: “Sure, but which of the three do you want to know about?”
Fandom: “Umh, the current one …”
Vera: “Ah, good that you remind me, yes, there are two exes as well …”
Fandom: [THEORIZING INTENSIFIES]
“…Then there’s the husbands….”
You just reminded me of a comment in one of Heinlein’s Lazarus Long books to the effect that personal longevity decreases marital longevity. Most couples can’t stay together for a /really long/ time.
I vote that adorable green snakey dragon to be his wife.
As far as I remember she actually spoke in agreement with Blood Carver and didn’t attack Carver and Michelle when the others did
Diversity win! Bloodcarver is Divorced!
Something I have been musing on for a while: Asian Dragons have a better rep than most other Dragons, and a few having notable shapeshifting. So the question is this: Did they suffer the same fate as the rest, or did they play the “Highly Evolved Fish” angel and avoided the war altogether?
Eastern dragons are fine. I can’t pull it up at the moment but a Reader Question from many a year ago confirms that they weren’t hunted down like the Western dragons.
Headcanonig that it’s Nudleslange
I like think his wife is very supportive. She comforted him and listened to him when he came back from his first mission empty handed, and tended to him best she could after the Father brutalized him. Her faith in the system had begun to waver by then but like all dragons she still hoped the Father still had their best interests at heart, even if his treatment of Bloodcarver had shaken her. She’s having her own crisis of faith following the events in Dis but is more than anything worried about Bloodcarver. He in turn is worried about her and lashes out because he doesn’t know how to handle the uncertainty and fear.
His wife may or may not be Nudelschalnge, given she was the one who stepped forward saying that maybe Bloodcarver was right about returning to Earth, which seemed like a pretty brave thing to do in the face of the Father.
They’re going to have a LOVELY REUNION and it’s going to be VERY SWEET and I just want Bloodcarver to BE HAPPY.
Are there any part-dragon creatures? Maybe a humanoid with dragon wings, a dragon lamia, or something?
How old, relatively, is Bloodcarver anyway? Like in dragon society is he considered a child, adolescent, young adult, middle aged…? For some reason I got the vibe that he was on the younger side (mebbe a little older, relatively, than the Michelle & co) for a dragon
A wizard did it(her)….
hIS wIFE?? dID i MISS SOMTHING FOLLOWING THIS cOMIC FOR THE LAST NINE YEARS?
He mentioned her when he was speaking with Gabe toward the end of “Orientations” (the original story arc).
Obviously his wife is going to be coming for revenge here in a year or two for abandoning her in Dis.