You mean I wasn't always half dragon? 🤔

But in all seriousness: I was building on top of the current incarnation of this character, which started as a Final Fantasy XIV Lalafell, and since this going to be my form of self-expression on stream, I needed an idea to make that character original and truly mine. At first it started with just adjusting the outfit, but with many of my fellow VTubers incorporating animal traits into their characters I felt like that wasn't nearly enough. To be quite honest I don't exactly remember how I settled on taking a dragon archetype. I think I was trying to figure out a reason why they had pointed ears without settling on races such as "elf" or "fairy", but also I think the series where I took my name from, "Dragon Quest", had a lot to do with it as well. Now that I really think about it, it seems like dragons always sort of had this constant background presence in my life as well, so maybe this was the chance to really bring that out more.

As for the "half" part? There's this funny trend in my characters where one character will be half of something, and then the next incarnation will be all of that same something. So I guess that means my next incarnation is going to be -all- dragon. Now doesn't that sound fun?