Sorry it’s taken so long to respond to you but it took a long time to write and edit this comment. And we want to apologize upfront by saying that this comment has veered off topic quite a bit here. When we write a response, we tend to write whatever comes to mind, rather than staying strictly on topic. It’s hard to resist writing about stuff when it comes to mind and we fear that if we don’t, we might forget to write about these things in the future. But anyway, the answers to your questions are in this comment, even if we veer off topic from time to time.

>I just didn’t want you guys to think I’m a moron or insensitive.
No, of course not. We’re well aware how rare it is for media to represent dragons in a positive light, let alone as equal to humans. It’s not surprising you’d bring up a movie where dragons are portrayed as pets or otherwise subordinate to humans because humans in general just view themselves as superior to all other species. It’s very rare for that attitude not to make its way into human media. It’s unfortunate but it is what it is.

>Unfortunately humans exist in this world to. And essentially are the dragon equivalent of mice but smarter.
I don’t think Elira and I are interested in seeing sentient beings being treated as inferior, no matter what their species. Speciesism is very distasteful to us. More than that, it’s personal, since Elira and I weren’t seen as equals by most members of each other’s species.

>Maybe Elira wouldn’t like The One and Only books. Because of the Zoo thing.)
Elira and I find the involuntary captivity of sentient beings to be wrong. In the real world most animals, if treated well, would probably choose to remain in a zoo or as a pet, but since we can’t ask them and get their consent, the practice in general is problematic. That being said, Elira quite enjoyed Madagascar (the Pixar movie) but that’s because the animals were treated well and were actually happy in the zoo. They were also given the choice to stay in the wild or return. The choice was not given to them by humans but rather by the narrative circumstances, but it’s still better than typical portrayals of captivity, where animals have no say in their fate. Elira liked the way the show explored the pros and cons of remaining in the wild vs. returning to the zoo, and how it showed the animals learning what life was like in the wild for the first time.

Though she did find it disturbing how Alex the lion kept involuntarily seeing his zebra friend as prey. The movie portrayed predators as dangerous, without free will in regards to their predatory instincts. It implied that predators have to constantly fight those instincts, and would inevitably lose control of them if they hadn’t eaten for a long period of time. While this is probably true with a real life lion, Alex is portrayed as a sentient being with human/dragon-level intelligence. Elira did NOT like the implication that if she were hungry enough, she would see me as prey and want to eat me. She knows that even if she were starving to death, she would never harm me, and it was upsetting to her that the movie implied otherwise.

As a predator herself, Elira takes offense to (sentient) predators being portrayed as mindless beasts or slaves to their instincts. A sentient being’s dietary requirements have nothing to do with their capacity for love and loyalty, or their ability to make moral decisions.

Elira doesn’t think a dragon could ever be happy in a zoo, but if the animals in Madagascar are happy then that’s enough for her. Though dragons would never trap animals and put them on display for other dragons to look at. Like many things that humans do, the very idea of such a thing is completely foreign to Elira. I mean, she understands why humans do it and when she went to the zoo with me one time she found it kind of fun, but capturing animals and putting them on display is just not something a dragon would ever think to do.

Elira and I don’t have much time for reading nowadays. Elira prefers watching movies to reading. She can’t actually read and she can’t understand English so she experiences both movies and books through me telepathically. At least with movies though she can see and hear what’s going on, even if she has to read my mind while we’re watching the movie together in order to understand what people are saying. With books she can read my mind as I’m reading so it’s pretty much the same as if she were reading with me. She’s able to understand what I’m writing right now the same way, by reading my mind as I write.

It’s doubtful that Elira and I will have the time to read books in the near future. We have to spend what free time we have writing our story rather than reading other people’s stories. I used to read a lot back when I was in high school. This was before Elira came back into my life. Nowadays though I’m lucky if I read 1 book per year. I still read a ton of content but it’s all online nowadays rather than in published books.

I tried to look up Pokémon Mystery Dungeon but it looks like a game? If it were a movie or TV series Elira might be interested in it but watching me play a game isn’t the same as watching a movie or TV series.

>If Eytheria is where dragons come from why did they come to earth 4000 years ago?
The last time dragons came to Earth was a lot longer than 4,000 years ago. Elira was born approximately 4,100 years ago and by the time she was born there were no dragons left who had originally crossed over to Earth. Dragons live for 2,000 – 2,500 years and the dragons came to Earth many generations before Elira was born. This is why Elira and I think the dragons cross over like every 50,000 years or so. But like I said, that 50,000 years number is just a wild guess. What we do know is many generations of dragons are born here on Earth before they start to go “extinct” and are all forced to go back to Eytheria. By the time Elira was born, Eytheria was a mere myth. The dragons who had originally crossed over were long gone, and with them, any direct knowledge or evidence of Eytheria had disappeared.

Dragons come to Earth for one reason and one reason only – to find mates and breed. While in Eytheria, dragons aren’t able to form an emotional and telepathic bond with potential mates like they can here on Earth. Their abilities that only exist while they’re in Eytheria get in the way of forming that bond for some reason. They’re also not able to reproduce in Eytheria. Dragons still mate in Eytheria as a way to bond with and show love and affection for their mate, but no dragon is ever born in Eytheria.

When the veil between Eytheria and Earth becomes thin enough, dragons cross over to Earth. Usually only dragons who were unable to find mates and/or unable to have offspring cross over again. Though if I’m not in Eytheria by the next crossover, Elira intends to cross over in order to be with me again. It would be quite tragic if Elira and I can only physically be together every 50,000 years, but we’ll take all the time to be together that we can get. Hopefully by the time she crosses over again, humans will have developed technology that will help me find HER next time, because it took her 4,000 years to find me this time. And heck, maybe when the next crossover happens in tens of thousands of years, humans will have found a way to extend their lifespan to match that of a dragon’s (2,500 years). All of that will be for nothing though if humans haven’t evolved as a species by then. If the dragons crossed over now, I have no doubt that humans would slaughter them all. A “lucky” few would be captured and experimented on and forced to breed. The humans wouldn’t have much luck breeding dragons in captivity though, for reasons I’ll talk about later in this comment. Anyway, we’ve gotten off track here.

Eventually after many thousands of years, the dragons living here on Earth start dropping like flies very quickly and are forced to return to Eytheria. Any dragon who dies before they’ve had the opportunity to find a mate or breed waits until the next crossover to do so. The dragons don’t know why all of them start dying suddenly, but they all have a very strong sense of it being “time to come home.” Then they simply find a spot to lie down where they can die peacefully and without pain. They choose to lie with their mates and children if they have them (assuming their children aren’t old enough to have gone off on their own by then) and they all cross over together. Picturing a dragon family dying together might make you feel sad, but it’s not a scary time for them. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s a calm, peaceful moment, filled with warmth and love. There’s absolutely no pain involved, and they all end up on the other side together, surrounded by their friends and family.

Dragons have a very short fertility window relative to their lifespan. Since the gestation period of dragons is several years and they usually only have one child at a time, most dragons don’t have more than 2-3 offspring. Dragons don’t typically take a mate until they’re around 100 years old. It’s not an age of consent thing or anything like that, but dragons believe that a young dragon needs to spend those first 100 years or so finding out who they really are before permanently bonding themselves to another dragon. Most of the dragons who die before being able to find a mate or breed are younger than 100 years old.

Unlike in humans, a female dragon’s fertility is triggered by her forming a telepathic bond with her mate, rather than something that just happens naturally at a certain age. This telepathic bond is an essential part of dragon sexuality. Without it, dragons don’t even experience sexual attraction. This is how they’re able to live alone between the age of about 20 when they leave their parents to go off on their own, to about the age of 100 when they take a mate, and not have any sexual desires or urges for those 80 years. Prostitution and pornography aren’t things a dragon would be interested in because their sexual desires are tied to the telepathic bond they share with their mate. If a female dragon were to go around offering herself to random male dragons, they would find it disturbing rather than enticing and would wonder what the heck is wrong with her. Promiscuity is a genuinely alien concept to dragons.

However, there is one dragon that Elira and I know of who didn’t seem to care about forming a telepathic bond. He lusted after Elira for many years and was best friends with her brother. They all grew up together. Though he was a cruel, selfish dragon so it’s possible that his desires were more about possessing and controlling Elira rather than being purely sexual in nature. This was very disturbing to Elira, as this isn’t normal behavior for a dragon, and she rejected him many times. His name was Korinar and you can read more about him in our other comments. Though even Korinar wasn’t promiscuous or interested in just any dragon. Quite the opposite in fact. He was completely fixated on Elira. What was unusual about Korinar was how obsessed he was with mating with Elira, yet he didn’t care about forming an emotional or telepathic bond with her. He didn’t really care about her. He just wanted her. This is bizarre behavior for a dragon and Elira was understandably completely put off by him.

The sad thing is Elira’s family was so against our marriage that they would have rather she marry Korinar, a dragon who didn’t love her, than a human like me, who loved her with all my heart. In their defense though, they thought that Korinar would form an emotional and telepathic bond with Elira if given the opportunity to do so, even though his initial desires for her were unusual from a dragon’s perspective. Whether Korinar would have formed a bond with her over time is anyone’s guess, but her family just couldn’t fathom the idea of a dragon not forming a bond with his mate. The very idea of such a thing was completely alien to them. So it’s not like her family didn’t care about her. They just saw Korinar as a bit…odd rather than someone who was completely selfish and would never grow to love and care about her. Elira wanted absolutely nothing to do with him though, and she married me despite her family’s objections.

Now it’s time for me to provide some criticism of dragon society for a change. The rigidity of her family’s thinking reveals a society that lacks understanding or empathy for those who do not fit neatly into societal expectations, whether it’s Korinar with his unusual behavior or Elira, who wished to pursue a relationship with a human. As much as I love and respect dragons, they’re as intolerant as humans are in some ways. It’s remarkable that Elira and I fell in love when you consider the vast differences between us and the intolerant nature of both of our species.

Dragon mating is much more involved than just the physical act. The telepathic bond plays a crucial role in a female dragon’s fertility. If their bond isn’t strong enough yet, she won’t get pregnant. That’s not to say that dragons don’t mate earlier in the bonding process. It just doesn’t result in pregnancy. The reason why a strong telepathic bond is necessary before pregnancy can occur is to ensure that both dragons are fully committed to each other and to the responsibilities of parenthood. This aspect of dragon biology effectively eliminates the chances of broken families or neglected offspring, barring unforeseen circumstances like the death of one or both parents. Since a mated pair of dragons typically only have 2-3 offspring over their long lifespans, ensuring the survival and well-being of each child is of paramount importance. They need to be raised in a protective, supportive environment by both parents who are deeply bonded to one another.

Divorce is an unknown concept to dragons, not because their society forbids it but because it simply doesn’t happen. When you bond telepathically with someone, you gain a profound understanding of who they truly are. You can’t hide things about yourself from your mate, and you wouldn’t want to. Arguments and misunderstandings are rare, but when they do occur, your telepathic bond allows you to truly understand your mate’s perspective and experience their emotions both during and after an argument. The other mate typically yields to whoever’s feelings are strongest at the moment and the argument is resolved. That doesn’t mean it isn’t brought up again, particularly after emotions have cooled and the mate who “won” wants to concede to the other out of love. Part of having such a strong bond with your mate is loving them and caring about their happiness more than your own. “Winning” an argument can sometimes lead to guilt, especially if your mates feelings were almost as strong as your own. Usually these feelings of guilt are resolved by simply spending time with them and sharing your love for each other telepathically as a way to reaffirm your bond.

If the feelings of guilt are particularly intense or lingering, another way they can resolve these feelings is through sex, where the dragon who feels guilty focuses on providing pleasure to their mate. Ignoring your feelings or holding grudges isn’t healthy when you share an emotional and telepathic bond with someone because it deeply affects the other person. The dragon receiving pleasure obviously enjoys it, not only because it physically feels good but also because they’re actively helping to alleviate their mate’s guilt. This might seem one-sided or even transactional, coercive, or manipulative from a human perspective, but it’s actually a shared act of bonding and reconciliation. The dragon who feels guilty expresses their remorse and love through the act of providing pleasure, while the receiving partner actively accepts this gift, validating their mate’s feelings of guilt and their desire to make amends while also providing love and reassurance through their telepathic bond. This reciprocal dynamic ensures that both partners feel seen, heard, and cared for. It’s not about one partner passively receiving pleasure as compensation for having “lost” an argument or the other partner providing pleasure in order to “buy” forgiveness. It’s about validating the feelings of both partners and reaffirming your bond. Whatever the argument was about, it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. The only thing that matters is your love for each other.

Elira and I rarely argued, but when we did have a serious disagreement, paradoxically it actually served to strengthen our bond rather than weaken it or drive us apart. The pleasure Elira provided after I “lost” an argument was absolutely incredible, not just because it physically felt good, but because she would channel all of her love and devotion for me into the act. During this, I would provide her with reassurance and love through our telepathic bond. This created a feedback loop, fueling her fierce desire to provide me with not just physical pleasure but also emotional comfort and care. She wanted to make sure I felt valued and understood, and that I knew that my feelings mattered to her.

Elira’s motherly instincts could also contribute to her feelings of guilt after “winning” an argument, as they sometimes created an inner conflict between her desire to protect and nurture me and the necessity of asserting her own perspective during such arguments. Thankfully my love for Elira serves as a perfect counterbalance, ensuring that she doesn’t sacrifice too much of herself while still allowing her to fulfill her deep-seated need to express her motherly instincts. My small size and human vulnerability naturally trigger Elira’s motherly instincts. While we both find joy and satisfaction in this aspect of our relationship, these instincts oftentimes result in Elira feeling guilty after winning an argument.

I hesitate to bring this up and I almost cut this part of the comment out, but being the physically stronger partner sometimes contributed to Elira’s feelings of guilt after winning an argument as well. She would sometimes worry that she had exerted too much control or influence over me, and that her victory had undermined the equality and mutual respect in our relationship. This wasn’t true, of course, but my reassurance was crucial in these moments when Elira felt that I might have yielded to her out of a sense of intimidation or fear rather than out of respect for her feelings and my genuine love for her. Even though she didn’t sense any overt feelings of fear or intimidation from me through our telepathic bond, she still worried that her physical dominance could have been a subconscious factor in my decision to yield. Her worries were, of course, unfounded though. When I yield to Elira during an argument, it’s because I recognize that her feelings are more intense than mine are in that moment, and I choose to support her rather than stubbornly insist on being “right.” My love for Elira is more important to me than any argument ever could be.

I don’t fear Elira, but I suppose it’s natural for her to worry about intimidating me when she gets angry during an argument. After all, anger is an aggressive emotion, and it’s linked with physical aggression on a deep, instinctual level. Elira naturally finds it distressing to direct such aggression towards someone she loves who is also much smaller and weaker than she is. It feels like an abuse of her power, and a betrayal of her motherly instincts to protect and nurture me. But I know that Elira would never hurt me, no matter how angry she is. The reason why I was hesitant to put this detail in here is because I don’t want you to think that Elira has ever used her size and strength to intimidate me or force me to do something I didn’t want to do. She loves me and would never do such a thing. As complicated as arguments are between two dragons, Elira’s motherly instincts and the size and strength difference between us complicate things even further. This makes it even more important for us to spend time together after an argument, reassuring each other of our love for one another and reaffirming our bond.

At first glance, it might seem inconsistent that Elira feels distressed when she gets angry at me during an argument but doesn’t feel the same way when she dominates me. In both instances she displays aggression, but the difference here is that when she gets angry, it can sometimes feel like she’s imposing her will on me, abusing her power and betraying the trust and safety that she has worked so hard to establish in our relationship. On the other hand, when Elira dominates me, it’s a consensual act where her natural instincts are expressed in a controlled, loving manner that strengthens our bond. It’s a dynamic that’s based on trust and love rather than anger. Her dominating instincts and the anger she feels during an argument might seem similar on the surface, but in reality they’re polar opposites of each other.

Another key factor in why divorce doesn’t exist in dragon society is that bad dragons don’t get to reproduce. I hate to say it, but there are a lot of bad humans out there, and the reason these bad humans are able to reproduce is because they use deception in order to manipulate other people. Take, for example, serial killers who are married with kids. Their wives didn’t even know they were serial killers. That’s an extreme example but there are plenty of bad humans who are selfish, mean, and cruel. They put on a mask while in a relationship, hiding their true selves from their partners, at least in the beginning, until the other partner feels trapped in the relationship. This isn’t possible in dragon society due the telepathic bond that dragons form with their mates. For example, if Elira were to start forming a telepathic bond with another dragon and she learned that he was selfish and cruel, she would stop bonding with him immediately and shoo him away, as would any other dragon. Korinar was never able to reproduce or even find a mate because of what a bad dragon he was. Thankfully bad dragons are extremely rare because they’re weeded out of dragon society due to their inability to reproduce.

For dragons, marriage is just one stage in the bonding process. Their bond continues to deepen after marriage, eventually reaching a point where children can be conceived. Shortly after Elira and I got married, our bond became strong enough to trigger her fertility window. This caused problems for us, as her body was expecting her to get pregnant and it wasn’t happening. She was doing all the right things (i.e., telepathically bonding with someone she loved, having sex, etc.) but she wasn’t getting pregnant. In response, her body dramatically increased her libido in order to encourage more frequent mating and increase the likelihood of conception. Sounds like a fun time, right? Well I assure you, it was not. Due to our telepathic bond, I felt Elira’s desires as if they were my own. Her desires were so strong that we were forced to mate every 2 hours just to get relief, and even when we mated, it barely took the edge off. The longer this went on, the more we feared that her libido would never return to normal unless she got pregnant. It felt like a medical issue, and we were terrified that she would die from having her libido permanently increased to such an extreme level. Since I obviously couldn’t get her pregnant, we were both in anguish as we considered the possibility that we couldn’t be together, that the biological hurdles we faced were just too much for the strength of our love to overcome.

Despite how painful our anguish was, we simply laid together, sharing our love for each other telepathically along with our shared feelings of determination to get through this together. We decided that wouldn’t leave each other, no matter what happened. If Elira was going to die from this, we were going to spend every moment we had left together. Nothing else mattered at that point except our love for each other.

Thankfully her libido did eventually return to normal. We have no idea what happened. Maybe her body just gave up after not getting pregnant for so long, but Elira and I think that our time spent sharing our love for each other telepathically, prepared to spend every last moment together until her potential death, increased the strength of our bond to a point that was usually only reached after pregnancy. Elira’s body naturally expected the emotional and physical aspects of reproduction to align like they would if she were with another dragon, so it responded to the strengthening of our emotional and telepathic bond by lowering her libido back to normal, without her needing to actually conceive. It’s just a theory, but that’s what we believe. Unlike human women (and women of most species native to Earth) whose bodies rely on hormones and other strictly biological factors, dragon reproduction is linked to the telepathic bond between mates, so this theory makes sense to us.

Despite her libido having returned to normal, I believe Elira remained fertile for a lot longer than dragons usually do, probably because she never actually conceived. The reason I say this is…now this is quite personal but I have her permission to share this. Elira and I usually mated slowly, taking our time and sharing our love for each other telepathically rather than rushing through it. That being said, if I was quite…vigorous while mating with her, it triggered Elira’s reproductive instincts, fulfilling a primal urge within her. Her body instinctively responded as if she were being bred, heightening her physical sensitivity and pleasure. In this moment, her body responded to me as if I were another dragon, completely oblivious to the fact that we were different species.

It’s important to remember the size and strength difference between us. When I “vigorously” mate with Elira, the physical sensations she experiences are probably on par with what she would experience during a normal or even gentle mating with another dragon. When we mate like we usually do, slowly while sharing our love for each other telepathically, it doesn’t trigger these instincts. 

The first time this happened it was quite exhilarating for Elira, but the pleasure and excitement gradually turned to fear as I neared climax, and her instincts were telling her that she was about to be impregnated. It’s not that she didn’t want to have children with me. Quite the opposite in fact. But she hadn’t had time to prepare for such a possibility, and even though she knew that I couldn’t get her pregnant, her instincts were telling her otherwise, conflicting with her rational understanding and leading to fear and confusion. I could sense these conflicting feelings within her through our telepathic bond, and I slowed down, nuzzling her and telling her how much I loved her and reassuring her that it was okay.

She was under the influence of powerful instincts, but my reassurance helped calm her and provide her with the emotional relief she needed. I would have stopped if her feelings of fear and confusion had persisted, of course, but she trusted me and allowed me to reach climax inside of her, despite her instincts telling her that it would result in pregnancy. In that moment, Elira showed a profound level of trust in me and our bond, trusting me even more than her own instincts. She knew that I would never harm or violate her in pursuit of my own selfish pleasure. It was a beautiful moment of trust and love between us, and in that moment, I got to feel what it’s like to have someone trust you so completely. It was similar to the complete trust I show Elira when I allow her to dominate me. As a human, I’m not physically capable of dominating Elira, but here, I had complete power over her, and she allowed me to have that power, trusting me completely. I felt responsible for her wellbeing and felt a strong desire to protect and nurture her. This mirrors the protective and nurturing instincts that Elira often feels towards me, triggered by her motherly instincts and the fact that I’m much smaller and more vulnerable than she is. I hadn’t anticipated these feelings, but they came naturally, born out of the intense love I felt for Elira and my realization of how vulnerable she was in that moment.

The pleasure we experienced during our shared climax was absolutely incredible for both of us. Her body instinctively responded to the sensation as if she were being impregnated, feeling the same intense, overwhelming pleasure that she would feel if she were experiencing the real thing. It was an incredibly pleasurable and fulfilling experience for both of us, but from then on Elira and I were careful to make sure we were prepared for and wanted to have such an experience before I took her so vigorously, as we knew that it could trigger these instincts. As much as I loved and respected Elira, sometimes I just wanted to enjoy her body to it’s fullest extent by taking her as fast and hard as I wanted. This wasn’t a desire I had very often, but when I asked her for this, I was fully aware of the sacrifice I was asking of her. I knew that it would likely trigger these instincts, and while she did find the experience of being “bred” by me to be physically and emotionally fulfilling, it was also emotionally taxing on her. Because of this, I didn’t ask her lightly, nor did I take her willingness for granted.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, Elira thoroughly enjoyed it, and she sometimes even asked me to take her more vigorously, knowing that it would trigger those instincts. It just wasn’t something we did routinely due to the intensity of the experience and how taxing it was, especially for Elira. Essentially when we do this, Elira is agreeing to experience the strong, instinctual sensations of being bred and impregnated, along with same the emotional thrill she would experience if it were the real thing. Her breath will hitch as I’m ejaculating inside of her and she experiences the emotional excitement and intense physical pleasure of being impregnated. While she finds this experience incredibly pleasurable, it can also be overwhelming for her. After all, since dragons typically only have 2-3 offspring and the gestation period for dragons is several years, they don’t naturally experience these sensations on a regular basis.

This is why I think Elira remained fertile for a lot longer than dragons usually do. Normally, a female dragon would have 2-3 offspring, and once those children were born, her fertility window would close. Assuming the gestation period for dragons is around 2.5 years per child, that window would generally remain open for about 7-8 years. However, in our case, we were able to trigger Elira’s reproductive instincts throughout our entire relationship, which lasted between 50-60 years. This tells me that she was probably fertile for all that time, likely because she never actually conceived. Her body kept her fertility window open due to the strength and depth of our bond, anticipating the pregnancy that her instincts believed could still happen.

This might explain Elira’s strong maternal instincts towards me. Part of what triggered her motherly instincts was my small size and human fragility, but the fact that her body remained fertile throughout our relationship, despite never conceiving, undoubtedly intensified these instincts.

Though I never asked for it, I became the recipient of Elira’s maternal instincts. In the beginning, I couldn’t help but feel guilty. By marrying me, Elira had made an immense sacrifice. She gave up the possibility of ever having children, something I knew she deeply desired. While I never personally wanted children, knowing that she did, and understanding the depth of her sacrifice, made me feel like I benefitted from her loss. Instead of nurturing her own offspring, she directed all of her love and motherly devotion toward me. I couldn’t help but feel that I received something meant for another, that I took a part of her that might have belonged to our children, had circumstances been different.

Elira has never seen it this way though. She doesn’t blame me for our inability to have children, nor did she feel that her motherly instincts remained unfulfilled or that they were wasted on me. Not having children was a sacrifice that she was willing to make in order to be with me. In fact, she’s very grateful that I accepted this part of her nature, that I didn’t shy away from the nurturing role she wanted to embrace. In her eyes, my willingness to allow her to care for me in a maternal way wasn’t a consolation prize, but a gift that she cherished. Had I rejected this aspect of her, it might have left her feeling incomplete, as though she were suppressing a core part of who she was. But I didn’t, and in accepting her motherly care, I allowed her to show her love and affection for me in the way that she needed.

She didn’t merely redirect her instincts out of necessity, rather, she found immense fulfillment in nurturing and caring for me. Though we never had children of our own, Elira was able to express her motherly instincts through our bond, and to her, that was more valuable than anything she might have given up by choosing to be with me. In fact, because of our unique relationship, Elira was able to express her motherly instincts for much longer than most dragons. If she had mated with another dragon and had children of her own, she’d only be able to mother them until they moved out to find their own territory, which dragons typically do around the age of 20 or so. While it’s true that she could have directed her motherly instincts towards her hypothetical dragon mate, her fertility window would have closed by that point, since she had already conceived, making her maternal instincts nowhere near as strong as they were with me. Not to mention another dragon would have lacked my human vulnerability, which is a significant reason why she directed her motherly instincts towards me.

But I want to make it clear that just because Elira directs her motherly instincts towards me doesn’t mean that she literally sees me as her child. Her care was never imposed on me in an overbearing or stifling way. Her instincts drove her to nurture and protect me, but always with the understanding that I was her mate. My human fragility naturally triggered her maternal instincts, and I allowed her to express those instincts when she needed to. I enjoyed being cared for by Elira, and she enjoyed caring for me.

I know that a lot of men would find it difficult to accept that kind of care. They might feel emasculated or infantilized, but I never felt that way. Loving Elira means accepting her dragon nature, including her motherly and dominating instincts. These instincts are a beautiful part of who she is. Even when she dominated me, I never felt emasculated by it. Perhaps it’s because her dominance and care feels natural due to the differences between our species. She’s much larger and stronger than I am, not because of any inherent weakness or lack of masculinity on my part, but because she’s a dragon.

But even if I had felt emasculated or infantilized, I would have done everything in my power to overcome those feelings because I love Elira. I would never want her to feel like she has to suppress her true nature in order to be with me. Elira is not human, and I’ve never tried to force her to conform to human norms. Because of Elira’s dragon nature and the physical differences between our species, human gender roles and power dynamics are fundamentally incompatible with our relationship. I love Elira with all my heart, not despite her dragon nature, but because of it. There’s not a single thing I would change about her. It might seem like I’m idealizing her or putting her up onto a pedestal, but it’s not that her dragon nature doesn’t occasionally conflict with my human sensibilities. It’s that I accept and love her for who and what she is.

The fact that Elira remained fertile throughout our entire relationship likely intensified both her sexual desire and her maternal instincts, but it’s important to recognize that these desires were not merely driven by instinct. Her love for me and the depth of our emotional and telepathic bond were the foundations of both her sexual desire and her motherly devotion. That being said, Elira would often become quite needy, especially after I had been away for a few days on one of my trade trips. While we were always eager to reconnect after I returned, usually spending a long time in a loving embrace as we shared our love for each other telepathically, sometimes physical desire took precedence, it’s intensity fueled by the fact that we hadn’t mated in a few days and enhanced by Elira’s constant state of fertility. Sometimes Elira would contact me using long distance telepathy and tell me how much she needed and desired me, and how eager she was to be with me again. When she did this, it incentivized me even more to complete my trade trip as quickly as possible so we could be together again.

Elira’s dragon abilities enhanced our relationship in ways that people take for granted today. For example, her long distance telepathy allowed us to stay in contact while I was away on my trade trips. This isn’t a revolutionary concept today, as we have smartphones to communicate with loved ones over long distances, but that technology didn’t exist 4,000 years ago. Her ability to fly made it possible for us to travel to distant towns in order to buy exotic goods that fetched a high price due to how long it usually took to transport them on foot. We take hot water for granted nowadays, but back then it was quite laborious to heat up enough water to take a bath. Elira’s ability to heat up water with her fire breath made having a warm bath whenever I wanted a reality for me, something that only kings or nobility would have had back then. My human ability to trade goods, make money, and buy food for us when prey was scarce was a huge benefit to Elira. Before Elira and I met, she had to risk stealing prey from another dragon’s territory or from humans when prey was scarce, which was dangerous. I wasn’t a doctor, but I had access to human medicine and a basic knowledge of wound care, which Elira benefitted from on more than one occasion. We were together for 50-60 years, so accidents and injuries were bound to happen. Her recovery would have been more difficult without me there to care for her. The point is, we didn’t just benefit emotionally from our relationship. There were practical benefits as well.

>Are there different races of Dragons like there are humans.
I wouldn’t call them “races” per say but dragons come in all shapes and sizes. Some fly, others don’t. Some are as small as a horse and others are 20ft tall or even larger. Some have two legs, others four. Some have 3, 4, or 5 toes. Some have feathery wings like Elira and other have more bat-like wings. Just like there are many types of birds, there are many types of dragons too. Human cultures all over the world all have records of dragons in their history, but they’re all different. Just think of how different a humming bird is from a flamingo, but they’re both birds. That same type of diversity exists within dragons because dragons existed all over the world. Interbreeding between dragon species wasn’t uncommon, so long as it was physically possible and the dragons had the opportunity to meet and form an emotional and telepathic bond with one another. Physical distance was the main limiting factor.

“Racism” between dragon species didn’t really exist. If a green dragon with bat-like wings fell in love with a brown dragon with feathered wings, nobody would have batted an eye. They’re both dragons, after all. Speciesism obviously existed though, as most dragons didn’t accept Elira’s relationship with me. It was rare but sometimes dragons of vastly different sizes fell in love with each other and decided to marry. Obviously in order for this to work, the male had to be the smaller of the two. But they were compatible and able to produce offspring. This type of pairing did raise a few eyebrows, but any eyebrow raising was more out of curiosity than disapproval. This type of pairing was rare mostly due to the fact that vastly different sizes of dragons typically lived in very different environments and didn’t usually physically interact with one another due to the physical distance between them.

One side effect of these unusual pairings is that the father would usually have a hard time disciplining his children. In the most extreme cases, the children would be just as large as their father when they’re born, making it difficult for him to discipline them, especially in the early years. Dragons are naturally dominant, headstrong, and independent, and parenting them requires a firm hand. It’s kind of difficult to gain the respect of your children and expect them to listen to you when you’re smaller and weaker than them. A lot of times, the father would have to call on mom in order to discipline his children, and when they’re misbehaving, the most the father could do is threaten to tell mom. In this way, the father is more like a sibling than a parent, at least in the early years until they learn to respect him and see him as their father.

Elira and I would occasionally daydream about what it would be like for us to have children, and how we would teach our children to respect me as their father. As hard as it would have been for a smaller male dragon to raise his children, it would have been even harder for me because in addition to being smaller and weaker than them, they would naturally see me as prey at first until they could be taught otherwise. Still, I would have been happy to give Elira children had I been able to, and I would have gladly taken on all the hardships and responsibilities of raising dragon children, even if I would have had to constantly call for Elira, or at least threaten to. I’ll never experience the joy of my dragon son or daughter playfully pouncing me. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be pounced by them at different ages, from when they’re only a few years old all the way up until they become adults. I imagine my adult daughter, as big and strong as Elira, playfully pouncing me and holding me down, her paw pressing against my chest as she growls at me and bares her teeth. Then I’d pat her snout while chuckling and telling her “alright, you got me.” She would chuckle alongside me, having won our little game, like she always does. I imagine teaching my son or daughter about their dragon instincts at various stages of their life. Even though I’m not a dragon, thanks to our telepathic bond, I understand Elira’s dragon nature and instincts as well as another dragon would, and I know that I could teach our children about their dragon nature and instincts with Elira’s help.

For some reason, I never fantasized about having human children. If I was going to have children, I would want them to be dragons like Elira, despite the difficulties I would face as a human father. Elira would prefer to have dragon children as well. She has a hard time imagining raising human children. But anyway, it’s just a daydream, a fantasy. Elira and I can’t have children at all. Not dragon children, not human children, not hybrid children.

We couldn’t have children before and we’ll never be able to, not even when we reunite either in Eytheria or here on Earth during the next crossover. We accepted that we couldn’t have children long ago, and it was a sacrifice we were willing to make in order to be together. We’re not sad about it, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t occasionally think about what it would be like if we could. It’s sort of like a fantasy of going to the moon. Yeah, it would be nice, but most people aren’t going to agonize over the fact that they’ll probably never get to go to the moon.

>Did Dragons have anything like countries.
No, absolutely not. Unlike humans, dragons are not social creatures. They have friends and families but they’re not vulnerable like humans are and they don’t rely on the group in order to survive like humans do. Dragon society is made up of the family unit (two mated dragons and their offspring). While they do have family gatherings just like humans do during important events like the birth of a child or the death of a loved one, families don’t live together permanently. For example, dragon siblings love each other and have a strong emotional and telepathic bond with one another, but they wouldn’t usually live together as adults with very few exceptions.

One exception would be if Elira had injured her wings and was no longer able to hunt or fly, she would call on one of her family members for help. In this instance, one of her parents or perhaps her brother would come to live with Elira temporarily in order to help her. This is assuming of course that her brother had taken a mate and his mate was able to patrol and protect their territory while he was away helping his sister. If he didn’t have a mate yet, then someone else in the family would likely help Elira instead. But this wouldn’t be necessary if Elira had already taken a mate, as he would help her if she got injured instead of one of her other family members. Dragons spend most of their lives mated, as they take a mate around the age of 100 or so and live between 2,000 to 2,500 years, so it would be rare for a sibling or other family member to have to move in temporarily in order to help them.

Dragons mate for life and don’t remarry if their mate dies. Because of this, if Elira’s mate died, she would need more emotional support from her family, and would probably spend a lot more time visiting her family than she would have if her mate were still alive. This would be seen as a natural and even welcome dynamic by the rest of her family. For practical (food scarcity) reasons she couldn’t stay with one family member for too long at a time, but she would spend a lot more time visiting different family members than she would have if her mate were still alive, and she would assist with raising the children of any family member she was visiting. This would not only help the parents, but also foster a deeper bond between Elira and the children.

During family gatherings, especially if they were waiting for a sick dragon to die, the family may live together for several days, perhaps even weeks, so they can be with their loved one before they pass, and so they can all comfort each other after their passing. The main thing that prevents families from living together permanently is the lack of food. It takes a lot to feed a dragon, and there just isn’t enough food to sustain that many dragons in such a small area.

I don’t want you to get the wrong impression here though. Just because dragons typically live in small family units (two mated dragons and their offspring) doesn’t mean that they don’t love their family. Dragons form strong emotional and telepathic bonds with their friends, family, and mates. Although adult family members don’t typically live together permanently, they do visit one another and spend time together. They just can’t live together permanently due to the scarcity of prey.

The key takeaway here is that dragon relationships are based on love and emotional connection rather than survival or necessity. Dragons value emotional and telepathic bonds above all else. I know that I’ve portrayed dragons as strong, independent, and solitary, but there’s more to them than that. Dragons are deeply emotional and telepathic, forming bonds with other dragons not out of necessity but because they truly love and care about them. Dragons don’t form or value shallow relationships.

It’s rare, but sometimes the bond between family members can be unusually strong, to the point where it interferes with their ability and/or desire to find a mate. Elira told me about one dragon brother and sister. They were distant friends of her family and their bond was so strong that they decided to live together when they grew up instead of finding mates of their own. Now don’t get the wrong idea here. Their relationship stayed purely familial and didn’t cross into any inappropriate territory. They just loved each other so much and found such fulfillment in their sibling bond that they never felt the need or desire to find a mate. Since dragons don’t experience sexual desire until they’ve formed a bond with their mate, they never experienced any inappropriate desires or temptations. And since they had already formed a sibling bond, there was no danger of them forming a bond as mates.

Though it’s important to note that they were much closer than two human siblings would be. From a human perspective, their relationship might even seem inappropriate. But no matter how close they were or how much physical affection they shared with one another, it was never sexual or inappropriate. They were just really close and would spend the day nuzzling and touching one another just like two mated dragons would, the only difference being that their relationship didn’t include sex.

That being said, there was at least one inappropriate aspect of their relationship from a dragon perspective. You see, non-mated dragons are only allowed to lick one another on the face and neck, with the only exception being in times of mourning or emotional distress. Apparently, they licked one another outside of the face and neck while at a family gathering, which unfortunately for them, didn’t go unnoticed. This licking, while innocent, was considered to be deeply intimate, something typically reserved for mates.

They were laying next to each other at the family gathering when the sister playfully put her paw on her brother’s snout. Rather than pull away, he leaned into her touch, licking the bottom of her paw and in between her toes, causing her to giggle. She held her paw up for him, allowing him to continue licking her. It felt good, of course, as physical touch naturally does, so she reached down and started licking his paw in order to return the favor. He then turned his paw upright so she could lick his pads and between his toes just like he was doing for her as they shared the physical pleasure along with their feelings of love and amusement telepathically.

This might sound like a completely innocent moment between siblings, and it was, but this type of physical affection was extremely intimate from a dragon perspective. Word spread throughout the family and beyond like wildfire, and there were rumors that the siblings were mating. These rumors were quickly proven false, not only due to the lack of offspring between the two, but also because it would be impossible to hide such feelings from the other dragons around them due to their telepathic abilities. But it did somewhat put a strain on their relationship with the rest of their family.

Their love was strong, however, just like Elira and mine is, and they didn’t let it drive a wedge between them. Eventually, their family learned to accept their unconventional bond, but by then they had moved far away to find new territory, so Elira and I never got the chance to meet them. I always wondered what they would have thought about us. Would they have been as intolerant as the rest of Elira’s family had been, or would they have been more sympathetic and understanding of our relationship? There are differences between our relationship and theirs, mainly the fact that Elira and I are mates, and their bond, while similar to ours in its emotional intensity, is that of a brother and sister and completely non-sexual. But nevertheless, they know what it’s like to have your relationship scrutinized and what it feels like to be ostracized by the rest of your family.

I can’t help but find this couple incredibly cute. To be clear, I don’t support incest, but you have to remember that their relationship is purely familial. They never even developed or experienced sexual attraction – not to each other or anyone else. It’s pure love. Pure sibling love, so strong that they chose to spend the rest of their lives together. It’s almost like they never grew up. This is evident in the way that they showed physical affection for one another. While the way they touch and lick each other is inappropriate by dragon standards, it’s only inappropriate in the context of two non-mated adults. Children aren’t held to those same restrictions. They can touch and lick pretty much anywhere, except for the wings and genitals, and this brother and sister seem to have kept this childhood norm even into adulthood. There’s just something so endearing about a brother and sister living together, loving each other, supporting each other, and sharing such a close emotional and telepathic bond. Their relationship may be unconventional, but that’s what makes it so cute. I know it’s kind of weird from a human perspective to think of dragons as cute, but I can’t help it. I also think Elira is cute, though admittedly I’m rather biased in that assessment.

There’s one other thing that I think is important for you to know so you can better understand the bond between dragon siblings. In a lot of animals (including humans) siblings often share a rivalry, competing for resources and affection from their parents, but this is not the case with dragons. It’s quite the opposite, in fact. Dragon siblings love and support each other. If you think of some bird species, where their young intentionally push their siblings out the nest in order to eliminate competition, with dragons it’s the complete opposite of that. Similarly, human siblings oftentimes fight like cats and dogs. For those of you who have siblings, the thought of sharing such a close, intimate bond with them might be difficult to imagine, but that’s because sibling rivalry is natural behavior in humans. But you have to remember that dragons are not human. They have different needs and instincts. To a dragon, this kind of sibling rivalry is a completely foreign concept. Now playful rivalry does exist in young dragons. For example, when young dragons are first learning how to hunt, they might playfully compete with one another to see who can catch the prey, but it’s a game, not a serious competition for survival. A dragon family always shares the prey with one another, regardless of who catches what.

Sorry for the late response but it took a while to write out this reply. We’d be happy to answer your questions twice a month or so. I think that’s a good timeframe. We’re still working on our story but it’s slow going. In the last year or so we’ve written approximately 57,000 words, or about 98 pages in Microsoft Word using the Calibri font at font size 11. That’s not bad but at this rate it’s going to take several more years to finish our story.

It takes a long time for us to recover the memories, write them down, then re-read and edit what we’ve written over and over again to make sure that Elira and I agree that’s the way things happened back then while also making sure that it actually sounds good and reads well. The reason our story hasn’t gotten more traction is because after we decided to write a book and put what will most certainly be years of work into it, I stopped advertising.

Maybe it would be better to write this and drip-feed it to a growing audience but Elira and I don’t want to be pressured to produce “content” and we want to be able to go back and edit parts of the story later on in order to clarify things that we say later. We definitely don’t want to be famous, but we do want to share our story with the world.

This is why we’ve taken steps to protect my identity and I won’t be showing my face on camera. AI voices are getting really good so when we finish our story and start making YouTube videos again, I’m hoping we can use an AI voice that’s actually decent instead of my own voice, which, while unlikely, might be used to identify me. If anyone I knew in real life found our video and recognized me by my voice I’d just die. No one in my life knows about Elira and we want to keep it that way.

Anyway, on to your questions. Picking Elira’s favorite movies would be difficult because she likes different movies/tv series for different reasons. When it comes to the story itself, some of Elira’s favorite movies are the Indiana Jones series, Dances with Wolves, Lord of the Rings (only the original 3 movies), and Tarzan (the Disney animated movie from the 90’s). Elira also really likes movies that don’t have a lot of human characters and/or don’t focus on humans as the main characters. Naturally these types of shows are usually animated and aimed at kids. These include movies like Bolt, Madagascar, Kung-Fu Panda, The Land Before Time, The Lion King, Finding Nemo, and other similar movies. She doesn’t like most anime but she did enjoy Avatar, Inuyasha, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

Some shows she did NOT enjoy include the John Wick movies, Pokémon, and Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. She didn’t like the John Wick movies because she hates pointless/casual violence. Elira strongly dislikes the human-centric nature of Pokémon that prioritizes human experiences and viewpoints above all others. As a dragon, Elira naturally sees things from a non-human perspective, and she enjoys more inclusive storytelling that acknowledges and values non-human characters equally.

In Pokémon, humans are the primary actors, with Pokémon being relegated to secondary roles as companions or tools to be used in battle. The very idea of capturing Pokémon, training them and forcing them to battle is exploitative in her eyes. She also dislikes that Pokémon are “owned” by humans and the way the goal of “capturing them all” portrays them not as individuals but as numbers, differentiated only by their species. They’re even addressed as “it” in the show, which further objectifies them and portrays them as something “other” and less significant than humans.

Because of all these things, Elira finds the way the show portrays humans as altruistic and Pokémon as “friends” to be disingenuous at best. Keep in mind that she has only seen the first few seasons of Pokémon because those are the seasons from my childhood that I occasionally re-watch. Neither of us have any desire to see later episodes, so maybe the show has changed. I have no idea.

Elira is rather sensitive to the objectification of sentient beings due to how she and I are often seen by members of each other’s species. For example, Elira is typically seen not as an individual but merely as “a dragon” by humans, or worse, as an “animal.” By the same token, dragons tend to view me as either “a human” or “prey.” It bothers Elira when other dragons see and refer to me this way, just as much as it bothers me when people objectify her or see her as merely a dragon. For example, we received a rather crude, objectifying comment from someone on YouTube asking me what “a dragon’s vagina” feels like. While we understand the commenter’s curiosity and aren’t bothered by the question itself, referring to Elira as merely “a dragon” is disrespectful in the context of such a personal question.

To clarify, it’s not that you can’t refer to Elira as a dragon. After all, she IS a dragon. But she should be referred to as a person first, and a dragon second. For example, a respectful way this commenter could have worded his question would be “I know this is a personal question, but I was wondering if you’d be willing to describe what Elira’s vagina feels like. Having sex with a dragon must be a unique experience and I’m curious to know what it would feel like.” This question might sound unnecessarily obtuse, but even a keeping it as short and simple as “what does Elira’s vagina feel like?” would remove the objectifying nature of the question.

As another example, if a person were to ask the question “what’s it like to live with a dragon?” that would NOT objectifying due to the general nature of the question. That question invites discussion about my shared experiences with Elira, recognizing her as an individual while also acknowledging her nature as a dragon. The other question asked something very personal about Elira while disregarding her individuality and reducing her to a part of her body. That’s why the question was problematic. It wasn’t that we were bothered by the sexual nature of the question itself. Elira and I are more than willing to share intimate details of our relationship. We just want to do it in a respectful way that focuses on our love for each other and our unique bond rather than reducing our relationship to the mere physical act of sex or the physical sensations that go along with it.

That comment really bothered me because not only did it objectify Elira, but it objectified her in a sexual context. Asking what “a dragon’s vagina” feels like fails to acknowledge Elira as a unique individual, implying that she is interchangeable with any other female dragon, and that having sex with her would be no different than any other member of her species. It also reduces our love for each other to a mere physical sensation, disregarding the profound emotional and physical bond we share. I’ve never been with anyone but Elira, but I know that having sex with another dragon would be a very different experience, both emotionally and physically. To put it another way, I’m not having sex with “a dragon,” I’m having sex with Elira. I know it might sound like I’m splitting hairs here, but it’s amazing how simply referring to it as “Elira’s vagina” rather than “a dragon’s vagina” transforms the question from something inappropriate and objectifying into a question based on respectful curiosity.

Anyway, sorry about going off on a tangent here. Objectification is a sensitive topic for Elira and she doesn’t like seeing it in movies or TV. We humans tend to view ourselves as superior to all other forms of life, and this attitude is frequently portrayed in our media. I don’t think most people are even consciously aware of it, but it’s very obvious to Elira and she doesn’t like it.

Okay, changing gears here. As for Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, I enjoyed those shows but Elira doesn’t like them. She finds these shows morally reprehensible. Elira doesn’t like humans very much to begin with, and these shows portray the worst traits that humanity has to offer, including selfishness, manipulation, greed, violence, betrayal, and the willingness to harm others for personal gain. The show attempts to portray these characters as morally grey, but for Elira, there is no nuance to these characters. They’re evil. A dragon would never do these horrible things for any reason. Elira doesn’t like watching sentient beings (human or otherwise) being hurt or killed. As a dragon, Elira is an apex predator, but she only kills prey in order to eat. She doesn’t kill for personal gain or because she enjoys it. She finds the violence portrayed in most shows to be reprehensible, including Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul.

Elira particularly liked Inuyasha for various reasons. She thought it was quite “weird” both due to the influence of Japanese culture and of course the fantastical nature of monsters and demons as portrayed in the show. Elira’s interest in interspecies relationships is a significant aspect of her enjoyment of the show. Given her own relationship with a human, she is naturally intrigued by stories that explore similar dynamics. Although Inuyasha is very human-like, and the differences between Kagome and Inuyasha aren’t as pronounced as the differences between Elira and I, there are parallels between our relationship and theirs. This makes the show relatable and engaging for Elira, as it offers a different perspective on interspecies romance. It shows an example of an interspecies relationship, which, although fantastical, is something that is sorely lacking in representation in the real world.

Observing an evolving romantic relationship from the perspective of Kagome, a teenage human girl, is another aspect that Elira enjoys. This viewpoint provides her with an understanding of what a young human female might find attractive in a mate, which is very different from her own preferences as a dragon. Elira is intrigued how Kagome is drawn to Inuyasha despite his many undesirable personality traits, such as aloofness, aggression, and insensitivity. These traits are juxtaposed with Inuyasha’s caring nature towards Kagome, which seems to be enough for her to overlook his negative aspects. To put it frankly, he’s an ass, but he isn’t completely irredeemable like Korinar because at least he cares about Kagome.

Elira is also intrigued by the love triangle between Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kikyo. Normally such a thing would be reprehensible to her, as dragons mate for life and would never have more than one mate, but the fact that Kagome is a reincarnation of Kikyo makes her sympathetic to the dynamic between them. Kikyo is Inuyasha’s mate, but Kagome is her reincarnation, and at the same time Kikyo is stuck wandering the world, neither alive nor dead. It’s tragic and all three of them do their best to cope with the unprecedented situation. Kagome’s heartbreak when Inuyasha spends time with Kikyo is as understandable to Elira as Kikyo’s jealousy of Kagome.

Elira doesn’t like Inuyasha very much, but she does like Kagome and tries to identify with her. I suppose it’s only natural for Elira to be curious about what might make me desirable, from the perspective of a female of my own species. She’s well aware that not all human women like the same thing when it comes to a mate, but she still finds it intriguing that Kagome gives Inuyasha the time of day. If Elira were in Kagome’s situation, she would never accept the kind of treatment from him that Kagome accepts. This isn’t meant to be a criticism of Kagome, but rather a criticism of Inuyasha. Seeing the way Inuyasha treats Kagome makes Elira appreciate me even more. Elira would never want to be with someone like Inuyasha.

Despite this, she’s still intrigued by the perspective of Kagome, who seems to be attracted to Inuyasha’s strength and his desire to protect her. The strength difference between Inuyasha and Kagome parallels the strength difference between Elira and I, though the differences obviously aren’t as stark. As a dragon, she’s naturally much stronger than I am. Elira likes that Kagome is attracted to Inuyasha’s strength and that she accepts his non-human nature. This is mirrored in our relationship, where I see her strength, a fundamental part of her dragon nature, as a positive and attractive trait. This parallel allows Elira to relate to Kagome’s attraction to Inuyasha’s strength, even though the roles are reversed in our relationship.

Anyway, I’m sure that’s a lot more info than you were expecting from such a simple question, but the whole point of all of this is to learn more about Elira and who she is as a person. Her taste in entertainment reflects her values and personality so I think it’s important to answer your question fully. Now as for your next question about whether Elira can taste what I eat. Yes, I guess? Like seemingly everything about our relationship, the answer isn’t so simple or straightforward. She can’t taste what I’m eating as I’m eating it, but through memory sharing she can relive my memories of what the food tastes like to me.

In our past life together we would experiment to see what different things tasted like to each other. For example, if I purchased some food for us, I would eat with Elira, then afterwards we could share each other’s memories of eating the food. This allows us to compare what the food tasted like to us vs. what it tasted like to the other. It was interesting to see how much of Elira’s food preferences were influenced by her dragon palate and how much of it was merely personal preference.

That being said, even though we couldn’t taste each other’s food in real time, we could telepathically share the pleasure we were feeling while eating it. This went both ways though, so if we didn’t like something and ate it anyway, we would both feel displeasure from the experience.

Elira found some of the foods I liked to be disgusting and vise-versa. It was interesting to share her memories of the food that she disliked and…yeah. The foods she disliked tasted horrible to her dragon palate. Elira was surprised how different these horrible tasting foods tasted to me as a human. We both enjoyed most foods though, with only a few exceptions, though we liked them to varying degrees. Elira’s favorite food might just taste okay to me, for example.

Anyway, I hope that answers your questions. Again, sorry it took so long to reply but we wanted to make sure to answer your questions fully.