First appearance: S1E9 — Fizban’s Dragon Battle Royale — Amethyst Dragon v Dracohydra v Hollow Dragon v Topaz Dragon · watch it on YouTube
Vashon, the Amethyst Dragon, was a living amethyst die who finally got the chance to stop being rolled. He was pulled into the Void for the Halloween dragon battle royale in S1E9 — Fizban’s Dragon Battle Royale — Amethyst Dragon v Dracohydra v Hollow Dragon v Topaz Dragon, where the Arbiter turned him into an adult Amethyst Dragon. He then fought Narfi’s Dracohydra, the Grandmaster’s Topaz aspect and the Arbiter’s shadow in its new form as the Hollow Dragon. He killed two dragons, spent a good stretch of the fight hiding in his bedroom, and went down last, still convinced he had won.
Story
The Arbiter presented the bout as “Vashon versus Narfie,” and Vashon arrived with a declaration of freedom: “You are no longer held by the confounds of Captain Robert’s birthstone, not really his birthstone dice. I will emerge and break my shell and let my purple amethyst rain all over your faces.” When the Arbiter opened a tome labelled Fizban’s Treasury and tossed a glowing purple essence into his chest, Vashon rose as “a wondrous gem dragon with floating purple crystals over my beautiful body, a very long chunky tail, and a thick gullet.” He then campaigned for the Acolytes’ favour like a student council hopeful, promising amethyst rock candy and water fountains that ran with grape crush. Along the way he started a feud with Narfi, the arena’s lemonade vendor, vowing to dip his blackberries in Narfi’s lemonade and calling him “Draco Morphoy.”
Vashon struck first in the open sky. His gravitational breath rooted the Dracohydra in place and cost it a head, and then he blinked psychically to the far corner of the field, which the table placed somewhere in Nebraska. When the battlefield shifted to a cave behind a waterfall, the Arbiter told him it was his own lair, and Vashon sang, “I’m coming home, I’m coming home.” He whispered to the Grandmaster’s aspect that sandwiches would be ready soon, flew over and mauled her with three claws and bites, and vanished again. She turned to the crowd with her face freshly scarred: “Does it look like the sandwiches were good?”
From there things wobbled. His spectral projection ate a healing mushroom that did nothing for it, then whiffed an attack so badly that Vashon admitted, “My projection is a bitch,” and shut himself in his bedroom. The Topaz Dragon coaxed him out (“When you make a good sandwich, you finish it”), and he came out coughing and spat an explosive amethyst crystal at her. “Did you just try to throw up on me?” she protested. “I was offering to help you, not be your vomit bucket.” The crystal bounced off her shimmering shield and hit the Hollow Dragon instead, collapsing its armor into a talking puddle. He later dispelled that shield and planted himself over the arena’s spinning green crystal (“It is my egg now”). After his projection fumbled a second time, the Grandmaster declared every consequence on the field doubled. Vashon’s breath of singularity then hit the Topaz Dragon at double strength. She tried to sit on him to crush the crystal with his own weight, and he held firm, expecting to die there: “This will be my grave.”
In the Topaz Dragon’s island tower he played both sides. When the Grandmaster’s aspect offered him a place on her team, he told her, “Let’s kill the other two and make sandwiches,” then psychically promised the Hollow Dragon, “Don’t worry, I’m totally gonna double-cross them, and then we will make sandwiches.” After that he argued that the seven-headed Hydra had to die first, because it would eat all the sandwiches. In the underwater cavern, after the Hollow Dragon fell, he declared, “Once team hollow, always team hollow.” His breath killed the newly hatched Junior Topaz, and then he fled (“And like a little bitch, I am out”). His next breath finished off the Topaz Dragon. Left alone with the Dracohydra, he swore off running (“This is it for all the marbles, baby”), but his last breath failed to move it. The Grandmaster halved his flight and told him to “end in bravery.” The Dracohydra charged with all ten heads and bit him to death, while Vashon insisted to the end, “Hence I win… Sandwiches are mine.” Afterwards, in Dried Blood, Narfi offered to add blackberry lemonade to the stand’s menu and fumbled his name as “Mr. Varshan or Narshan.”
Personality and Abilities
As a dragon, Vashon was a proud chunker, crowned with floating purple crystals and so heavy that nobody could knock him off his feet (“I’m so fat… I’m just such a chunker”). He fought by hit and run, dashing in, breathing or clawing, then blinking away, which led the Arbiter to complain about how cowardly champions had become. He was a homebody at heart. His lair had a bedroom with a door he could shut, and inside it he watched Diego and played the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” on his Walkman.
His signature weapon was his gravitational “breath of singularity,” which crushed foes, pinned them in place and kept recharging at the worst possible moments for everyone else. He could also teleport psychically, send a spectral projection of himself into the fight (which rickrolled Narfi), whisper beguiling suggestions, spit explosive amethyst crystals, dispel magic and try to trap enemies in a cage of force. At the table, CaptainRobear explained that he chose the Amethyst Dragon because of a meme about buying amethyst dice that weren’t even his birthstone. The dragon battle royale itself was his idea.
Relationships
- Narfi: His lemonade rival, the Dracohydra he wounded first and the one who killed him last. Afterwards Narfi offered to sell his blackberry lemonade.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: Her Topaz aspect was his fiercest opponent and, briefly, his life coach (“You were the best of us!”). The Grandmaster herself demanded he end the fight bravely.
- The Shadow of the Arbiter: As the Hollow Dragon, it was his secret sandwich ally, though Vashon still managed to hit it.
- The Arbiter: He turned Vashon from a die into a dragon, then grumbled about his running away.
- The Acolytes: Vashon promised them rock candy and grape crush fountains if he won.
Memorable Quotes
“It’s better to be dragon than dice, I promise you.” (S1E9)
- “I am not only just a dragon part-time, I am a dragon all the time.” (S1E9)
- “I’m not coming out until I watch this episode of Diego.” (S1E9)
- “In order for us to eat, we must destroy the mouths of the many.” (S1E9)
- “I am not running away. I am dancing around.” (S1E9)
- “Sandwiches are mine. This sandwich is so good.” (S1E9)