guess who has her ipaddd heee heeeheee
anyways this is still only partly thought-out but I’ve been cooking up ideas for the purpose of eliatrope wings, why eliatropes insist on wearing hats to hide said wings even around their own people (despite living on a planet when they were the only people/species for a time) etc etc
it’s hardly original but just like how oropo basically forced him and yugo to combine into one body, I thought that maybe the wings act as extensions of an eliatrope’s spirit and can go beyond the body in order to connect or reside elsewhere
basically the wings act as gateways to the mentalities of others
because of this, the eliatropes wear hats not only around other species but their own as well in order to provide a security from that type of connection. it’s not to say that they view this ability as bad, but they hold a respect for reserving one’s own thoughts and feelings for oneself. such interactions between two or more spirits is usually for more personal or intimate occasions. the hats act therefore as a double shield, protecting both the eliatrope’s physical weakness (the wings as a raw exposure of their soul) as well as their mental privacy and wellbeing from unwanted exposure
