A trope that gets to me: ‘guard dog’ character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don’t care/kind of like it. Someone says “call your guard dog off” and their partner does call them off. That person, their ‘guard dog’, is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There’s no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.
The very rare time hes force to shift into feral is when his dragon side overwhelm him or lose control from burst of certain emotions. Kind of an allusion that not being his demi form represent the “absence” of humanity. He doesn’t remember when those moments happen, describing the feeling like blurry with wild in and out moment of lucidity. Being only half dragon he is not used to the sudden urge of primal instincts of a pure blood one, which just end up taking control until he can reverse back.
