[WAR: Season II] Drawn Art

[monkeybard]

I honestly should have set aside a lot more time for this, but something is better than nothing, right?

Form
Name: monkeybard
Team: Jupiter Mining Corp
Myth/Legend: How Koi Become Dragons
Summary/Link: [link]
The essence of it is, many fish in the wild will travel upstream in breeding seasons; salmon are a common example of this, as are koi. There's a Chinese myth associated with this where when a koi successfully scales a waterfall with all its strength, it is rewarded for its efforts by transforming into a magnificent dragon. I wanted to draw some koi-dragon hybrid in mid transformation and ascending to the heavens where it now deserves to be. Incidentally, this idea is also where the concept of Magikarp (Koiking in Japanese) evolving into Gyarados originates from, if I'm not mistaken.
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