Okay I know I already wrote a silly fic with Temeraire as a Sui-Roi, but imagine: tiny jade-dragon courier Temeraire.
Tinier than a horse. So small, so eager to talk with everyone. Laurence mentions in Tongues of Serpents that Rankin had many opportunities to converse with people of Society, being a courier-captain and traveling so much. Imagine Laurence taking his tiny dragon everywhere and at first Temeraire is kind of a spectacle, but then people get used to him? And he seems so harmless, so when he starts saying stuff like “Dragons should be permitted in the main cities, dragons should be able to get paid for other work like ferrying goods/transport/travel/building/etc” people are like “yeah that seems reasonable”.
Meanwhile the aviators are just like… should we stop this?? This captain is so weird. His dragon is basically a radical. And they’re so great for our image but???
okay i have more thoughts
tiny Temeraire would be the most spoiled English dragon in history. Really there’s no reason he can’t go to the opera-house with Laurence, right? If people want to be cowards and get nervous about a dragon in their midst Laurence can rent a box. No big deal.
It’s so easy to get proportional-jewelry and shiny things when you’re small! Temeraire starts to look like one of those old spinster grandmas with a thousand dangling necklaces but he’s so happy Laurence keeps buying him trinkets anyway
Temeraire follows Laurence into every building possible and sleeps in his room because guess what! he can do that now! and no one can possibly say Temeraire is frightening so if they want to complain then Too Bad.
It also helps that Laurence just… can’t even justify, to himself, turning away Temeraire and making him wait away from people. It’s easy to tell a Celestial, ‘well you are very large and that scares strangers, you must understand why we should stay away from cities’, but he crumbles in the face of tiny-Temeraire’s logical arguments and now they’re just always together. Temeraire is so pleased. Laurence is the reason Parliament is seriously considering a law to ban dragons from cities, mostly because Temeraire keeps inciting poor people to riot.
Anyway tiny Temeraire
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