“Nooooo you can’t have nuanced or benevolent dragons, they can only be evil and kidnap princesses and hoard gold! That’s how it’s been for centuries, it’s totally not an overdone trope! Fantasy worlds aren’t supposed to have depth!”
Technically, it’s not an overdone trope. Because it’s hardly done at all.
In most folktales with a dragon as a villain, they either hoard wealth or hold a woman captive before eating her, rarely both. And they don’t even need to kidnap her, because she’s offered to the dragon as a tribute to avoid its wrath. And this isn’t even mentioning worldwide variations on dragon mythology.
“Nooooo you can’t have nuanced or benevolent dragons, they can only be evil and kidnap princesses and hoard gold! That’s how it’s been for centuries, it’s totally not an overdone trope! Fantasy worlds aren’t supposed to have depth!”
Technically, it’s not an overdone trope. Because it’s hardly done at all.
In most folktales with a dragon as a villain, they either hoard wealth or hold a woman captive before eating her, rarely both. And they don’t even need to kidnap her, because she’s offered to the dragon as a tribute to avoid its wrath. And this isn’t even mentioning worldwide variations on dragon mythology.
Username checks out.
That or some vore shit…