#darkwinganimus

i drew both of them! tailwind has become one of my favorite random side characters in the series, i loved their entry in the guidebook XD. both of them have colors taken from pictures of the grand canyon, and tailwind is wearing blacksmith goggles!

Ah BEANS I totally forgot about him!!! I can't believe I forgot Umber was in Jade Winglet, that's so embarrassing > <

Ughhhh AND he has a double bass in the books... (At least I think it is it's not named but the description matches the double bass) If I had remembered that I would've thought about giving Winter something else, the cello and the double bass aren't identical but they look really similar at a glance >.>

Ah well. No point crying over lost prey, hopefully it being played pizzicato makes it feel different enough

I actually think this is my favorite one of these so far he turned out so cute x3

Irina obviously was caught up in horror over the presumed immortal child- but if Aro read her mind (a reasonable assumption?) then how would he not have caught the extraneous sensory detail of a sounding heartbeat do you think? Or is it more Irina genuinely didn’t register it despite vampire senses? (Or Aro didn’t check with his gift?)

Just thought it’d be interesting to see your thoughts on logistics over that aspect.

My post discussing Irina's death.

The reason why I think Irina's death was unjust was she acted in good faith, and had no organic venue of finding out she was wrong. She fully believed Renesmee was an immortal child, she had no reason not to and it was smart of her to run when Bella spotted her rather than risk getting in a fight with a newborn vampire.

She clearly hadn't registered Renesmee having a heartbeat, and if she heard something then at a distance, given the vampiric appearance and behavior she had just witnessed, and Renesmee's heartbeat being so much faster than a human's, Irina would have been reasonable in assuming it was some other animal's heartbeat she was hearing or something else entirely.

The only way she had of finding out Renesmee wasn't an immortal child was by approaching the Cullens, which would be a death sentence as Alice and Edward would know she wasn't going to cover for them (and what is there to approach them about? They've made an immortal child, "Thought I'd say hi before telling Aro. It's been good!"), and even if she had her phone on her (which seems to have been the case, as her sisters tried calling) that's no good once she's entered a body of water, which she would have to to hide her trail and get to Italy (And to my recollection, the Cullens' attempt to stop her ended when her trail did, ergo she did this early).

The only hope here would be if she thought to call her sisters from a payphone to let them know what had happened and not to go near the Cullens, but she clearly didn't do that.

was just thinking about Ibis yesterday and how i miss his lil nose. RIP Ibis, gone but never forgotten

I know there was a bit I was convinced it was slytherin as that’s how he knew the slytherin’s prefects name and was in a place to be caught by said slytherin prefect, figuring the prejudice was a response to being expelled before getting fully attached to it (he’s one of the good ones! He swears!). But the prejudice and Dumbledore liking him (the sad state of the series) would probably indicate otherwise.

If, whenever you answer, it’s simply to point out you don’t much care for the houses enough to arbitrarily pick one then fair enough.

I believe canonically, Hagrid's a Gryffindor, I think we learn this in Chamber of Secrets when Tom Riddle is telling Harry all of Hagrid's dirty secrets and how it was totally Hagrid who opened the Chamber totally. He refers to him as "a Gryffindor third year" and some other choice words.

@therealvinelle and I always go with this and put him in Gryffindor. We didn't see any reason he shouldn't have been placed there given his personality/who he aspires to be/his hatred of Slytherins in canon without going "I had a traumatic past, Harry, in which I was a Slytherin"

(And yes, this means one of Hagrid's roommates must have tried to nark on him to the Slytherin prefect several times for several different creatures, probably not getting anywhere with Dumbledore who was head of Gryffindor or for some reason any of the Gryffindor prefects who probably then went to Dumbledore.

🧡 A color you can’t stand? Neon yellow

Before Rabbit ate the happiness and love elf tasks what would they have been? Did you always plan to have them eaten and never decide? Is there a particular reason they got the short straw?

The last question is possibly they had less narrative focus mostly, the happiness elf particularly, but it's because of authorial choices and deliberate writing why it's possibly fair game to inquire about.

The Heart of the World by me.

And sure, submit anything you like! Even spoilers, depending, I might answer if it's spoilers for the single book thus far, just not anything that will spoil things ahead.

With that said.

You nailed it, there weren't any. They were always slated to be eaten, I never had to come up with anything, for which there was much rejoicing on my end, and the why is... well, that actually is something of a spoiler. It's not so clear yet as of book 1 but there are things Rabbit does and doesn't eat and there is something of a pattern to them.

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Oh my god!