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Torch was a chubby and almost shy little guy, but dragons aren’t supposed to be cute… or meek. At least, that’s what his parents firmly believed. They weren’t very nurturing to say the least. At least he turned out just fine, right?
Poor guy, he’s such a colossal ham and the punishments he received as a young one were so disproportionately severe that it almost makes his absurdly abusive childhood hilarious. The former dragon lord still has some issues to work out.
His mother, Sconce, while complicit, doesn’t have it easy either; having to covertly love a dragon who doesn’t show her a lick of affection and actively combating her motherly instincts in order to raise a tough, successful son at the same time…
Dragons don’t do love!
Then why does she feel so bad?
Poor guy, he’s such a colossal ham and the punishments he received as a young one were so disproportionately severe that it almost makes his absurdly abusive childhood hilarious. The former dragon lord still has some issues to work out.
His mother, Sconce, while complicit, doesn’t have it easy either; having to covertly love a dragon who doesn’t show her a lick of affection and actively combating her motherly instincts in order to raise a tough, successful son at the same time…
Dragons don’t do love!
Then why does she feel so bad?
XD
I have exaggerated every part of Torch’s life to a level that is intentionally over-the-top as a running joke because he’s such a ham. From this description and image it isn’t too clear, but the abuse is supposed to be played up so much you can’t take it seriously anymore and it just becomes comical in its ridiculousness. Any time he is asked how he survived his childhood he just doesn’t answer the question as if he didn’t hear it at all and continues to be his hammy self. He’s fine. His parents are every bit as excessively theatrical as he is, implying it runs in the family.
In this picture his expression isn’t cartoony enough to convey his childhood is supposed to be funny. It is my fault for not drawing a different picture first to add this description to, because the juxtaposition heavily implies he is cowering from his parents in the depicted scenario when that isn’t the case.
The issues he has to work out are the same as the issues he has in the show. He was raised to believe strength is absolute and he has a hard time letting go of his old habit of solving all of his problems with brute force, since he was taught that might makes right and the only reason brute force could possibly fail is if you don’t use enough. This seems very in line with what we know about dragons. Dragons not being nurturing parents is not an outlandish idea considering they don’t even do hugs.
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