Discussion What do the dragons in chinese novels look like in your head?

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  1. Mount Tai Unleashed

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    Seriously though, for a long time pictured a western dragon and then the dragon from dragon ball z.
     
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    Something like Rayquaza.
    ^this too.
     
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    Shenron from dragonball. Eastern dragon yeah.
     
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    grish99 [Pelican Hater] [Hater of Face-Slapping]

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    dragon from spirited away + color that was described
     
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    dragons disticions
    western dragon: tailed scaled lizard with 4 limbs and 2 wings , can have spike in dorsal or head, can fly, possibily shot fire (or another element ) through the mouth
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    eastern dragon: tailed scaled lizard with some kind of fur along the dorsal, head and whisker, with 4 or more limbs, can fly (without wings) shot fire (or another element thorugh mouth)
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    Wyvern: tailed scaled lizard with 2 limbs and 2 wings , can have spike in dorsal or head, can fly, possibily shot fire (or another element ) through the mouth
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    SideNote: Fuck you skyrim and game of thrones, those are not dragons those are wyverns

    Drake: tailed scaled lizard with 4 limbs and , can have spike in dorsal or head, can't fly, possibily shot fire (or another element ) through the mouth
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    Shenlong from dbz
     
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    A danger noodle... with claw and teeth
     
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    Chinese dragons could have more legs. Iirc only the emperor's stuff may depict a dragon with ten legs.
     
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    Robbini Logical? Illogical? Random? Or Just Unique?

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    Take the little red 'dragon' from Mulan and make it much bigger, and that's essentially it.
     
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    the Asian kind
     
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    Really depends on the context, if there’s any comparison to snakes it usually ends with me imagining easter dragons, if it’s called an earth dragon I imagine a large komodo lizard. If it’s called a sky dragon I imagine an eastern white dragon while ice and/or fire leads me to western dragons with the respective colours.
     
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    sometimes asian, sometimes western. It depends on the undervibe i get.
     
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    Shenron was a good resembling
     
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    I usually read some darker tone of novels so my imagination would tilt towards that direction, to add more atmospheric views.
     
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    I think of them as an useless, snakey, inferior, worthless, ugly version of me but even worse.
     
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    like this one

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    the image I had of a dragon was a dragon
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    Recently I've been checking out Chinese-style dragons and they've got this dope red skin dragon style which got me super hype.