I tamed one of the crows in our town. I feed it with bread crumbs and he sometimes brings me little gifts like pennies or colourful buttons. When I open my bedroom window in the morning to let him in, he greets me by saying "Wakey wakey". Then we watch your show together while eating breakfast and he likes to repeat some of your words or sentences. I called him Jack because I found it fitting. 🥰
Hi there, its Athena. Welcome to my new Thursday Ask-A-Thon where its basically a Thursday version of my Sunday Ask-A-Thon where I ask ya'll about your wips: Has there been any major changes in a character in terms of how you created them, to how they turned out as the wip went on?
ALRIGHT!
I am here to answer and whooo boy, I can talk about Elijah Venwood.
So fun fact, my original introduction of Elijah actually set him up to be a Seer, prophetic type character who took a complete 180. I had this idea of a white haired young man with a Crow who sounded a little off, but he was pretty wise. We've all seen that before, right.
Well, Half Crown took a different turn, as did Elijah when I actually started writing him. He was sparky, sarcastic, and lo' and behold, related to another character?
So within a few lines he changed. Over the course of the WIP he got a lot of depth. Turns out he was a blind assassin with psychic abilities and a bond to his childhood pet crow, Calix.
Well I enjoyed him as a sort of vengeful but snarky brother character.
Then we entered Fifth Icarus, the prequel to Half Crown, where I took a moment to focus on the Venwood's, pre-Half Crown's MC Emris.
Here Elijah really surprised me by taking over the story as a new MC. He was again a complete 180 of himself, and I wasn't ready for it. Innocent kid turned murderer...and I never expected how it would happen, but that's Spoilers. All I can say is, cults mess you up, and if you're thinking it's bc he joined a cult, you are wrong.
So yeah. Elijah is my favorite boy because of all the characters he surprised me the most. He went from loveable wiseman to loveable idiot to merciless killer to sympathetic friend and finally, a vengeful sorrow filled soul. I put him through so much, and well, he took ahold of his own story.
I hope you all will like my interpretation of her and I’ll try to draw her more often
Also I feel like Pandora has a similar vibe to Kate bush and the hc that she’s a seer speaks so much to me. I envision her witnessing the events unfolding around her and expressing them through song, unable to directly warn others.
After Danny died he noticed that some animals had become more attached to him while others had moved away. Aggressive or death related animals seemed to react positively to his presence, although friendlier animals such as birds tended to fly away.
Of course, none of this prepared him for the number of crows that landed on his window daily. At first he was scared that they would consider him a corpse and try to eat him but after the third time they brought him a shiny object he assumed they just liked him.
Those crows became very fond of him, they let him pet them, they would perch on his head or shoulders, always present and sometimes even watching over him (A particularly intelligent crow he named Poe would drive his parents away with distractions).
So when he moved to Gotham to complete his studies he prepared for a farewell to his feathered friends; said friends simply ignored him and followed him around the city. Danny assumed he wasn't going to be able to fight them, so he let them be.
This is how the phenomenon called "The Invasion of Crows" began in Gotham, the animals were not aggressive but mostly indifferent, some of them agreed to carry letters as homing pigeons (After Danny asked them for the favor) starting "Crow services"
As long as you had the money or something shiny to pay them the birds would carry messages from one place to another, ironically they would give that payment to Danny, who only sighed and let them pass to his apartment, giving them: some food, shelter and a place to sleep, although he was worried the moment his neighbor would complain about the noise.
At first he let them stay on the streets because they were supposed to be free, but after the sixth time he caught Damian Wayne trying to adopt one he just rolled his eyes and now the little ones were living with him.
So yes, when Jason finally decided to visit his neighbor he didn't expect the red eyed crowd staring at him and judging his actions, one in particular lunged at him and he swore he was about to gouge his eyes out before a voice yelled "Poe, wait! "
Said crow looked at him for a few more seconds before perch on the head of the prettiest boy he had ever seen, who approached to offer him a hand "I'm sorry, they're very overprotective" he muttered worried.
Jason almost fell over laughing when he noticed that this was B's "weird case" about the rise in crows alongside the supposed "new rogue" in town, when all he saw was a college boy with a murder of crows living in his house, maybe creating a new messaging system.
He was going to have so much fun with this, maybe he'd even manage to go on a date with his eyes intact, who knows.
Dimension 20 features a sliding scale of pet owners, with Zayn Darkshadow on one end (was actively dying and spent time freeing his rat) and Pinocchio on the other (“die for me, Pinocchi-crow!”)
“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows