Hummingbird Hiro AU: Winged people tend to get a lot of broken arms or legs, although their wing bones are VERY strong. Also, no, Fred would not bite people. Fred would be a really fancy pigeon breed, like, a Saxon Fairy Swallow or something. He's still obviously a pigeon, and none of the Nerd Herd are pigeon fanciers, so they just assume that he's just one of the many pigeon-people, who DO tend to be poor and can eat pretty much anything. And then someone sees a pigeon show.
Winged people are born with the wings and tail feathered, and by around 14ish the feathers have spread so there’s some on the back of the neck and mixed in with the hair, and some more on the chest and back. Arms and legs are never, ever feathered. Also, actually, Fred would NOT be a Saxon Field pigeon. He’d be a show racer type. The sort that looks relatively normal, but is actually both crazy expensive and able to find their way home from anywhere.Emancipation for winged people took place in different countries at different times, with the freest countries now freeing the wingeds earliest. (San Fransokyo had a bylaw that freed them well before the rest of the USA. )
Hmm, that could work. You’re right, pigeons are kind of EVERYWHERE. That could work. Also I can just picture Fred carrying around bags of bread crumbs and eating them, not because he actually likes them or anything, he just thinks it’s funny
Oh man, winged peoples needed emancipation? Hmmm, that seems a bit strange, considering humans typically thought of winged humans as good things (The goddesses Isis, Nike, many gods, angels, Valkyries), although I guess there’s bad winged things in myth too. Maybe they were kept as decoration? Especially if they’ve got as much feathers as that. CAN YOU IMAGINE A PARROT PERSON? THEY WOULD BE SO COLOURFUL AAAAH
