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Do the Ends Justify the Means?

tfw you confront your parents for sending you into the army as a child soldier

just throwing vague low effort sketch ideas around for how a confrontation between some side characters goes. and the first post wahooo just to get that out of the way.

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short short version of the lore:

local angry son takes revenge on family by giving his illegal siblings to the queen of his kingdom and yells at his parents for making him a child soldier

short version of the lore:

Ardor (featured dragon) was sent off to be a soldier in an active war by his parents 3 years prior. He receives news that his parents are expecting a new child and is only permitted to visit upon their first birthday. Upon returning, he learns he has not 1 but 2 siblings, a firescaled and fireless dragonet. The village had kept them secret thus far.

Ardor keeps a facade to them but when he returns he shares this information to the Queen, who yoinks his siblings into the kingdom for further study (requested not to be killed by Ardor himself). Ardor and his parents, who are about to be arrested, have a high tension conversation where Ardor explains his reasoning behind the actions. His parents do the same, and in the end Ardor regrets his choice. His anger never should have been taken out on people who were never related to his problems.

Ardor's rank as a soldier is bolstered by it all, but the cost is great. And thus begins Crimson's perspective in the story.