User blog comment:Sky-Dragoon-Twilight/Weisslogia and Skiadrum, Alive or Dead?/@comment-7418318-20141208173058

I'll try to go through this by theory.

1) They are alive and only faked their death

Possible I suppose, but how could they fake it so well that Sting and Rogue swallowed the lie so completely without even the shadow of a doubt?

It would be suspicious if their "dead" bodies simply disappeared. And if they just played dead, wasn't there a big risk of their sons coming back to their corpses to mourn ever now and again. A Dragon Body is too big to just assume that animals took it, so even if they discovered the missing body a year later, it'd still bound to raise some eyebrows.

Also why fake their death early, instead of just doing it in 7.7.X777?

2) They are dead, but still acting.

As Atlas Flame showed, under certain (unkown) circumstances, dead Dragons can stay in this world and affect it. Atlas Flame seemed to have only limited ability to interact with the world, but then he was dead for 400 years not just 14 like the other two. On the other hand Roubaul, who was also dead for 400 years, seemed to have had no trouble from being so long dead.... Now that I think about those, I wonder why that is? Was Roubaul somehow linked with Nirvana perhaps? But I digress...

3) They are dead. The two we saw are their children

If they had children, they could look and feel similar enough for Rogue and Sting to mistake them for their parents at a distance, so it's possible I guess. But with this theory I have the problem that it's unlikely that neither of the Dragons would ever mention their other children/unhatched eggs to their adoptive sons over the years they took care of them.

So to sum it up, all these seem equally likely and yet I have problems/unanswered questions about all of them too... that's why I think it's too early to judge for me.