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"No, no, no! I said 'SLAY the dragon' not 'lay the dragon'!"

A trope that plays on the phrase "slay the dragon" — lay the dragon describes situations where a knight or adventurer has relations (usually sexual) with a dragon, despite the established idea that knights and adventurers in fantasy settings are typically tasked with killing dragons.

This particular trope is often used for comedic effect in non-pornographic media; the most likely example involving a knight ignoring the princess, who are often captured by dragons and in need of being rescued in the first place, and going after or preferring the dragon instead.

Tagging Notes

• While often directly sexual, can apply to cases where a character or the dragon are attempting to seduce their way towards, or are implied to want to have, sex or romantic relations with the other
• Can be applied to non-knight characters, such as the aforementioned adventurer, as well as bards and squires, who are often captured as members of a party sent to kill the dragon, which they subsequently have sex with
• Size difference (and even extreme size difference) and size play are often invoked, along with the following tags:
• small dom big sub or big dom small sub, depending on whether the knight or dragon is the dominant party
• larger penetrated/smaller penetrated
• Human on anthro or human on feral are often invoked by the relations between the "slayer" and the dragon, but other types of "slayers" are of course not out of the question

See also

• adventurer
• damsel_in_distress - Can be portrayed as the opposite of this tag where a princess has relations (usually sexual ones) with a dragon.
• dragon
• knight
• squire