#birkans

Between them, the Fish-Men, and the Minks, they really got the short end of the design stick. With the other two, we have this broad, broad range of design choices with all manner of fish/fish adjacent and mammalian morphologies brought into the mix.

But then you just get people with tiny wings glued on their backs.

And at LEAST the Lunarians actually have some pizazz to them, but there’s still so much potential that isn’t being banked on.

Give them talons? Give them feathers for body hair? Give them species variation with their avian traits? Give them a double set of pectoral muscle groupings for wing locomotion? Give them pneumatic bones? Give them high altitude polycythemia?

And this is all 100% canon.

Just imagine if these two met, I think the other sky races hold the Lunarians as the supreme sky race or remember they once existed until something happened to them. Just imagine if Urouge met King and had an inkling he was a Lunarian and probably would be jovial to know about them. King on the other hand probably if he knew about the other sky races would probably wonder a bit about the Birkan especially if he found out how it was wiped out. I think he might have heard about them from his parents if they were still around. 

Wouldn’t it be interesting if they had a syrinx instead of a larynx? And a narrower hearing range with higher sensitivity? Language cues having insane levels of complexity that others (save for maybe a few avian zoans) can’t pick up on, them being essentially deaf when it comes to certain frequencies, unidirectional respiratory system making it to where they never have to pause to catch their breath in conversation? Could you imagine what singing would be like?