A lot of details in the story- universe that we write in, are still in flux, not fully decided on or codified. Here are some comments on the Waxy world I have that are a corrections or additions to what Nancy said. They may change was we write more or edit more.
All dragons have a name for the person they are with. No non-dragon fully knows where the names comes from or what it actually means. When asked, the dragon will usually break out into giggling fits and never end up giving answer.
While they sound like the words we have in our common language, they are not really. they just seam to sound similar to our words. The sounds are really in dragon-speak. they usually only come up with the name if they are attached to the person. Even a strange dragon will know the name of the person when they meet the human. It just goes with the person.
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On Waxy's likes and dislikes, Waxy also has a distaste for fairies, No one is sure as to why, but one suggestion is because Bubblehead loves Fairies and uses their dust to do magic. She will deal with them when she has to. but would rather not.
Waxy loves to eat bugs and worms, but will never knowingly harm a spider or an animal. They all have a higher level of intelligence creature. Insects, except for the possibility of dragon flies, are without any intelligence at all and are good food.
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Another change in Nancy's note is that Waxy has pretty much the build of a cat, but has a longer neck, about twice as long, wings to fly, long tail that is thick at the base, dorsal plates down the back, has no fur, and is striped in varied colors. On a dark night, she might easily be mistaken for a cat when she has her wings against her body.
It is thought that Waxy's mother was bout the size of a horse or cow, not really big on the scheme of things.
Lazlo can maneuver tighter, quicker and faster than Waxy can, but she has more endurance and has less caution than Lazlo has. In all their races, they end up coming in tied.
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There is a saying among people who have been around dragons and cats. When a cat purrs, Cats only know the rhythm, When Dragons purr, they know the whole song.
Dragons learn a basic purring tune from their parents when they are in the egg. Puppy mill eggs are removed from the parents only a short time after being laid. They have to be with the mother for a period of time or they won't be viable. In that short time, the babies know something of the song the mother sings to them and the world they will be entering into. In the wild, when a baby hatches, they learn the full song from their parents. With eggs are removed from the parents, They will adjust their song to some popular song one hears that has some similarities to their original song.
With the dragons in our story world, none of them were hatched near their parents so they take on the songs that we know.
Dragons can talk while purring, but it really sounds weird.
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While Waxy's reputation is to hate baths, That is not really true. She just does not like baths from Bubblehead. She does not like being handled by Bubblehead. There is nothing she likes about Bubblehead bit since he is really the only parent she knows, she is stuck with him.
One thing that she will do with Bubblehead, is that she will be enjoying some attention, realize what is happening, then Bite Bubblehead. She will then relax and enjoy all the attention he will give her as she has gotten her vengeance already.
When it comes to baths, She resists being cleaned behind the frills. That is because she hates being cleaned behind the ears.
Waxy will tell anybody who will listen, that Bubblehead is mean, dirty, rotten, always angry and never gives her enough chocolate. She might get a just a taste of chocolate from someone else and that will seam like a lot to her. If Bubblehead gave her a whole case of chocolate she will still take that as a sign he is holding back on her.
Because of her metabolism, chocolate syrup gives her a buzz like Alcohol would do to us. It is common for her to post on line that "the syrup is half drunk and so am I." Bubblehead is famous for bribing her to post jokes that she does not think are funny.
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Waxy knows by definition, that she is a good girl. She just does things that get people angry, especially bubblehead.
Waxy will obey adults, at least while they are looking. In her childlike mind, she believes that if an adult did not see her do something, they cannot really blame her for it. They did not see it.
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There is the joke that according to the Egyptians, People descended from cats. Cats will never let you forget that either. It just happens that Cats descended from dragons.
Waxy gets into trouble once in a while when she brings that sequence up to a human, especially when she is arguing with them.
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Dragons have many eye spots on the back of their eyes, each patch sees different types of light, even when there is no light. They can also see different types of magic. Dragon eyes can also change focus, to zoom if needed. When watching a dragon make these adjustment, their eyes tend to swirl and sparkle.
Because of all the adventures Waxy has been on, she is an expert in the use of the eye spots. She learned to set each eye to a different view, like watching magic and low light, or watching two different levels of magic.
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I should explain that Bubblehead has a computer operated portal that allows him to visit all sorts of worlds, meets strange peoples, follows weird creatures, sees wondrous events, and spectacular scenery, and then returns to write dry, humorless, unimaginative descriptions of what he saw. he posts them on line as fantastic wild science fiction or fantasy story ideas so other authors can use them to write their own stories when their minds are blank as to what to write.
Waxy uses the portal all the time, and she knows she is not supposed to use it.
Many of the worlds Bubblehead visits involved devastating diseases, wars, monsters, entire universes blinking out of existence. Bubblehead uses fairy dust to create a protective bubble, sort of like god-mode in a game, where the stronger it is, the less he can interact with the world. Most of the time, he can observe, but no one knows he is there.
Waxy could easily get caught in those worlds so Bubblehead has screen savers set up to show the most horrendous of the worlds as a warning to Waxy. Waxy will always give second thought to using the portal, but she really needs to give a third thought, and that never happens.
Waxy always finds the safe worlds that Bubblehead has found and hidden for her and she has many adventures through the portal. He "hides" them to make sure she will find them. She would never go to them if she thought he placed them just for her.
Waxy also has play-adventures with her teddy bears, that are almost as exciting as her portal adventures.
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