thats a pretty big existential thing for dragons to just... KNOW will happen to them 0.0

O_o uhh brand the hell ya doing ya gonna spook her and ya can't do crap without roko cuz uhh ya.. i get the fact roko screwed up but he's the one who needs to fix it... unless thats the reason cuz ya trying to get her attention to fix this

Brand needs to sleep this anger off or something. I mean Roko's in a worse position - he has no body to go back to

sigh.. well considering the fact that uhh.. O_o she accidently threw up fire and uhh.. .w. burnt his corpse.. okay honest that one was an accident really

nono Brand is in the quetzalcoatl body, they switched

ahh

but poor guy though but ya i agree brand needs to sleep his anger off and well see that he screwed up cuz they need to work together

I don't know what's going on here

Brand is being Saida's shoulder devil.

Well thats... something.

Whoa, this is intense. Where’s this come from? O_o (honestly feels like some other force might be in control here or something, so I’m curious to see where things go!)

I doubt it. It seems that Brand is quite upset. It sounds like he's exaggerating

Brand is trying to have Saida hate Roko. He knows how much of a pacifist she is, so by telling her the inevitable fate of being a volcano dragon, he's basically telling her that it's Roko's fault that she'll eventually be the cause of so much destruction if they don't switch back.

It's helped a lot by the fact that it is Roko's fault...

What Brand is really saying is - getting old sucks. Even for a dragon.

I don't blame him for being bitter and cynical, but, y'know, the one thing you don't lose as you age is your heart. You're the one that collects bottle caps for your hoard because it makes your neighbors happy, Raybrand. Not all volcanoes erupt all the time. Those that do erupt, if you've the sense to get the hell out of the way, deposit upon the earth the richest fertilizer the planet knows.

It's just not all bad.

Indeed, everything has a balance to it.

True, but Saida isn’t a dragon. As a quetz, Saida has lots of family and worshippers loving her. As a dragon, most will end up avoiding and resenting her. Is that something Saida can handle? If they don’t switch back, they will have to live each other’s lives. Even if Saida would resign herself to this, Brand wouldn’t have saved a quetz if he believed that quetz should suffer. In a way, Brand is more upset for Saida’s sake than his own, because Roko got her involved and now they’re caged in each other’s bodies. As a quetz, Brand would have an better life, but that means condemning Saida. It may be why Brand is so focused on switching back rather than Roko’s situation. Besides, how would Brand help Roko? He is dead, and there isn’t an awful lot Brand or Saida can do to change that.

Unpacking: Yes, this is mostly true. Quetz are... functionally immortal, I think, and their bodies don't really age or get infirm in this universe. But Brand's body will age, albeit slowly, and it will not be a pleasant experience for Saida to get decrepit.

But Roko isn't dead. His body is, yes, but he's still a yōkai and a kitsune. He has an intact sutābōru. I believe that given enough power, he'll be able to simply transform himself into a new flesh and blood body. He doesn't even need Brand and Saida for that - he just follows the sutābōru to the Eye Stone, draws from its power, and bam, new body. He is just too distraught to realize that quite yet.

Until the Reapers send him to the Other Place, he's as alive as Saida and Brand are. Just temporarily mode-locked in his balloon body.

Wait, if the Eye Gem had a tail that Roko would want despite it clashing with his original body, along with multiple confiscated body parts, and Roko has magical power from using his item bag to the point he can move between suitable “bodies”…

"Surely they'll address these inherent racial problems in the next patch, right?"

Geez, Brand. Why do you even want to be a dragon then?

I think someone has issues with his previous species.

I'm expecting Saida to have her own opinion on this outcome.

Brand, stop trying to sway Saida’s opinion. Let her reach her own conclusions.

So that's why they call them that.

The truth hurts.

what are you doing?

Oof. =(

Volcano dragons must mate at a pretty early age if they are such a sedentary race. Maybe the species is dependent on younger males seeking out an already established female.

Right, so... instead of pointing out that Roko technically brought everything upon himself, and maybe giving some much-needed character development, we instead have Brand turning into this manipulative/abusive shoulder devil.

...

Right.

I believe brand is either trying get Sadia to dislike roko or focus on the main objective.

Probably both, actually. The thing is, Brand isn't even wrong; their plight is entirely Roko's fault. Assigning blame isn't all that helpful currently though.

Brand's words are becoming venom.
For the sake of his future, that needs to change.

That is a very dark future for the volcano dragons. It makes me wonder, how much of that is inevitable, and how much of that is by choice?

But Brand really does need to cool off...