uncanny

Sometimes I think of things eerily similar to things that become popular without any explanation.

For years I wanted to be a writer and did develop a fantasy universe in my head in which to set the stories I never wrote. This world and its 'rules' and inhabitants were somewhat detailed. There were humans as well as shape-shifters who lived as humanoid dragons or griffins and could physically morph into full dragons or griffins.

But it came with a price.

I don't give a fuck about Twilight but I know this much: in the Twilight universe the vampires will 'forget' their humanity and go all-out animal and prone to attacking loved ones.

Over ten years ago I invented a world in which the dragons and griffins, when taking on full animal physical forms, would take on animal brains as well--in essence lose the ability to think, reason, and remember life as a human. Leaving them prone to attacking people or things they otherwise cherished. They also had no control over what they did as animals, leaving them vulnerable to whatever the animal wanted to do--and occasionally they would not turn human again for a long time (the characters were extremely long-lived), or ever. It was a risk they had to be willing to take in order to tap into that power.

This universe also had its own version of the Medieval mythology of St George and the dragon. In THEIR version of events, St George and the princess (called Sabre, I found out) were lovers. St George was an unwanted human suitor and the romance was considered shameful. The Dragon only took on his dragon body to defend Sabre from him, on the provision that she should instruct St George to kill him and go with him should he turn violent against her. When he did just that, Sabre told the unwanted St George to kill him and married him as she promised.

I don't know what made me remember this.