#wingfic

okay okay okay. y'all i've got a wingfic concept for bloodymarry that is great for angst purpose. Has anyone considered wings in the iron lung verse being amputated as a food source? like okay, it's really not great but a lot of things taste like chicken when you've got nothing else.

What I'm thinking is that (at the very least) in Eden, wings are surgically removed around 15-17 depending. It mostly just depends on when someone reaches the full wingspan. Feathers can even be placed to try and help growth (don't ask me the science, they're in an apocolypse.) Give the body to the soil but leave enough to keep everything else alive.

and if it is just Eden and not the COI doing this it could make it so much worse. It's the 'are you willing to give everything for the community'. then you have the aspect where eating the wings could be like a version of sacrament.

but also another thing with it being just Eden was the fact it could be considered a 'punishment for their sins'. like humanity reached for the sky and because they flew farther and farther into the stars, they were at fault so they had to cut out the supposed evil. Supposed to remain on the ground; on the soil.

now I think there are a couple different ways that you could go with Grace

A) You give him wings. Simon wakes up and see's him with the appendages and either crashes out because off the hardcore cult programming OR he's overjoyed at the fact that Eden couldn't get to the man

B) Grace had wings but they got taken by Stratt because of something to do with space and if you damage the wings it's a lot harder to fix without a person there too help. Cue Simon getting pissed off on his behalf because off the loss of autonomy

C) Wings are only something that exist in the iron lung universe. Grace is absolutely confused about what Simons taking about. He hears the chirping and is so damn confused. Meanwhile Simons having a "oh god he doesn't even know they were taken from him"

(So i wanted to beat the shit out of him mostly)

Bird Grace (as I refer to him) is very fascinating because he glows. He's a glowstick. He glows in the dark. His feathers of course glow, but so do his scars, so does his skin, even the stretch marks on his body are glowy. So after he and Rocky make it out of their so called 'starting point', they're picked up pretty quick by some not awesome people. Super unfortunately for Grace, he is considered abnormally beautiful for an aasimar and, well, he bruises pretty- like nebulas. He and Rocky spend most of that time separated, so he does his best to try to talk to the folks running this proverbial circus. Also unfortunately for him, no one gives a shit what a pretty bird has to say when he's gonna net them more money than most of them could even imagine. So Grace starts to get really bitter and snippy with their captors. (Fortunately fortunately fortunately, he, Simon, Rocky, and the gaggle of younger teen birds stuck with them are rescued before that can happen!)

I read it sometimes! I actually don't read shipfics that much (or atleast ones that are focused on ships- I don't mind if there are ships in the background) but that's just because reading about romance in general isn't my thing, really? It can be done well but I don't go out of my way looking for it. if I had to pick a favourite pairing it might be like, speedingbullet or something because they have a lot of fics (similar to heavymedic) . I have also cried over a speedingbullet fic before, so. I would like to read some more engiespy fics, but unfortunatley I'm one of those people who is ENDLESSLY bothered by spelling or grammar mistakes or mischaracterization or making characters smarter/dumber than they actually are and I find theres a lot of that in shipfics. No hate, of course. I've probably mischaracterized my own ocs before. If I had to choose a tag, I LOVEEE LOVLOELVOELEOELOOOOOOVEEEE wingfics. Give them wings. Give them tails, too. Wings and tails are so fun to write and read about. I sometimes forget when I'm writing short stuff that the characters infact do not canonically have tails, and I can't describe their tails bushing up when they're scared or the tip of their tail twitching when they're happy or flustered or focused. I love wingfics because I love wings. I would have wings if I could. If someone told me in exchange for one of my limbs, they could give me functional wings that I could fly with, I would accept in a heartbeat. Wings are so beautiful and majestic to me and the amount of symbolism you can cram into them is insane, and the way you can portray a characters personality so much through wings and tails and animal ears is so amazing. I don't see many wingfics of tf2 sadly (tf2 is the main fandom I read fics of) , but I love wingfics and I love fics that give characters extra appendages.

Tails and animal ears are so amazing. They are so expressive and wonderful, I honestly think I would function better with them. I have a hard time portraying my emotions irl and I often come off as very bland or uninterested in whatever is going on because I simply do not portray emotion or talk as much as I do online. But if I had a tail and ears I think that would help me so much. They are so expressive and the amount of expressions or body language that you can add just by putting tails and ears on a character is amazing to me. I love them and they are beautiful and the amount of times I've daydreamed about having them or I have put them on sona designs is frankly concerning.

Wings are so so so beautiful. I love wings and I love how intricate feathers are. I love the patterns people can put on wings, I love how much detail and care goes into drawing them. I love the dynamics of figuring out just how so many normal things would work with wings. Tails and ears are relatively simple - make most headphones earbuds for ears higher up on the head, maybe some accommodations for tails, and you're done. But wings aren't that simple!! there are so many things you have to account for! Different types of wings- how do you differently handle bird wings, or dragon wings, or bug wings? How do clothes work, how does doing normal everyday tasks change when you have wings? Are there laws for flying? Is there beauty standards specifically for wings? How does it affect jobs? Are there more or less jobs on the market because of wings now being a thing? And the symbolism!! I've already mentioned how amazing symbolism can be but oh my god. Giving a character bright orange and red wings that look like fire when the sun shines on them when the character flies, giving a character wings that are broken and mangled and do little more than helping them glide to portray traumatic experiences they carry on despite, and all the types of wings too! Bird wings feel so free and light to me, dragon wings are heavy and dark (especially when the membrane is tattered!), and bug wings feel so bright and happy. There is so many ways to portray who your character is through wings and they amaze me. Not to mention flight! Flying after so long with your wings stagnant as a representation of letting go of something holding you down is such amazing symbolism and it moves me so hard whenever I see it in a story. Sorry, I don't mean to talk this much.

But yeah, this should (hopefully) answer your questions. :)

Also I'm realising you were probably talking about like. Fluff. And angst. Not how much I swoon over wingfics. Oops.

I love Jay Merrick (I only read fanfics abt him) and I desperately need more Wingfic’s of him, like, PLEASE someone make a 1k(+) Jay-centric fanfic where he neglects his wings or something. Heck, maybe even make a fic where he GROWS wings! That is something I would love to see, like somehow the operator or at least something makes Jay grow wings would be very fun to read (I love angst LOL)

"what would be the point of it being branded" so they have an excuse to give it for free to their baby drivers who very desperately need it

charles brushes a wing against max One Time and immediately there is a ferrari employee in his periphery with a towel 😭