Flight Rising Discussion

drinking has been mentioned a few times across the site I wonder if they have drinking songs. I'd imagine wind would have a few just because of their minstrels... Come up with your own dragon drinking songs please.

(edit now we have an rp type thing going here part rp part chatter so have fun.)

I mean, if we want to be obvious, Drunken Sailor and Drunken Gaoler scan really well, and the themes of really brutal punishment go well with gaolers and ice flight... [emoji=gaoler tongue size=1] I have to wonder what drinking culture is like between flights, though! And species, for that matter. A coatl drinking song is going to be a lot different than an imperial one!

Some flight-specific thoughts--

Arcane: Lots of songs about lab mishaps and terrible transformations. Usually sprightly and bright in actual performance, but the lyrical dissonance is HEAVY here. Cheery nihilism shot through with hope.

Water: It's all sea shanties, but more enthusiastic. I respect this deeply. Very rhythmic and tends to lead to dance. Everyone joins in immediately. You're gonna have a good time with them. Also, that Guardian resonance, though. You haven't heard a drinking song 'till you've heard half a clan of soused guardians in a chorus.

Plague/Nature: Surprisingly similar, mostly songs in praise of drink itself. Both flights pride themselves on their unique brewing techniques, and the best (and strongest) alcohols come from here. (See songs like 'The Humours of Whiskey', almost worshipful in their praise of their chosen liquor.) Incidents with these two flights drinking together are either disastrous or the best night of your life.

Wind: Songs about travel and stories of individual people. Heroes and humor. Also often change with the winds (ha-ha) of fashion - new heroes and news come 'round almost every year, and the entirety of Sornieth needs to know about them!

Shadow: Fond of songs that go fast as all heck and make you trip over your own tongue. Dirty limericks and tongue-twisters are popular. Also songs making fun of any person in power that they don't much like. Anything irreverent quickly becomes popular in bars frequented by the Shadow flight. LOTS of nonsense lyrics.

Earth/Light: Tragic, but actually sounds it. More surprising crossover here. Lots of songs about days gone by, what could have been, and things that tearjerk. The main difference is that Earth has a more rhythmic style, whereas Light likes to be a little more melodic. That vibrato, tho. In this bar, you are going to cry, but it'll be a good cry. A nostalgic cry.

Fire: Every single bar in Fire will inevitably break into song, and it is either going to be rhythmic work songs or deep, thrumming harmonies that rattle you down to your bones. A Good Time. You don't need to know all the words to join in - humming along is perfectly valid, and you will be welcomed no matter your skill.

Lightning: I OWE MY SOUL TO THE COMPANY STORE. Cheerfully howling about being worked down to the bone. Maybe a little unhealthy, but also rowdy as heck. A very specific kind of bar scene. Either the most depressing night of your life, or deeply comforting in its solidarity. The nihilism of Arcane, but cranked up to eleven.

Ice: Surprisingly chaotic? Lots of songs about drinking to stave off the cold, the warmth of home, and about terrible harsh punishments that are sung about just cheerily enough to hide how disturbing it actually is. Solidarity of clan. At least one song about a frozen dragon waking up halfway through a funeral. Gotta get the energy out somehow when you're cooped up all winter, might as well be through singing.

woah some of these are interesting to say the least... especially about the mermaid thing that was interesting to say the least.