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DynamiteByCruz
Here are some of my favorite matches from my lair! I match all of my dragons with familiars based on color, but my favorites are color AND lore matches. My dragons are fandragons, which makes that kind of match harder, but I get so excited when I can make them work!
The Spirit of Light was perfect for Bitty not just because of the matching colors, but because the character he is based on canonically loves bunnies!
Chowder here has a similar deal with his Shale Thresher. The character loves sharks/a sports team called the Sharks, so a shark familiar with eyes that match C's tertiary was perfect.
It's a little harder to explain why Holster's Featherback Boar is so great for him, beyond the obvious color match. Partly it works because Holster is canonically huge and physically imposing, but the real reason I love it is that the angel-like boar is a reference to an obsure-yet-technically-canon alternate universe made by the author where the character becomes a guardian angel (this is also why Holster is a guardian with a seraph secondary).
Dex here is basically the team's resident mechanic in the source material, and he has sizeable ears, so his Monkey Wrench is an excellent match for him!
Athena is based on the ancient Greek goddess of the same name, and her Coppercoil Creeper is a reference to the myth of Arachne, who Athena turned into a spider.
Hawkeye and his Hawksbill Goliath still makes me smile. The dragon is based on the Marvel character Clint Barton, who has at times gone by both Hawkeye and Goliath in the comics and dresses in purple. Perfect, right?
I have some others like this, but I think this post has gotten long enough. Basically, I love familiar matching!