I’ve been re-reading Bruce Coville’s The Unicorn Chronicles and about to start The Last Unicorn with my audible because I’m on a unicorn kick lately, and it really makes me want to write about unicorns. I have an OC that is a qilin, but I haven’t thought as much about the western “counterpart” (I dunno that this is a good way to refer to them but they share common traits, so I think maybe they are semi-analogous to one another, if we draw some cross-cultural comparisons). I realized that if I had unicorns in my fantasy realms, I don’t think I’d want them to all be white (in all senses of this word). I mean, what about paint or roan unicorns? Zebra and donkey unicorns? I think I would want those as well. I think I need to research cloven vs. uncloven hooves and their evolutionary purposes, but I think I would want some unicorns to have the traditional cloven hooves and some to be more horse-like. I’d definitely place cloven-hoofed unicorns in the more mountainous/craggy areas as they’d fare better balance wise.
I think a unicorn character would be a great way to explore gnc and genderfluidity stuff, at least the ones who are popping up in my head seem to think so. Maybe I could do a story where the mains are basically reverse animorphs, as in, none of them began life in a humanoid body and have, for one reason or another, have had to make use of one while the story takes place. I mean, imagine a kumiho, a selkie or kelpie, a unicorn, a wyvern, maybe even Quetzalcoatl/a plumed serpent, a phoenix, and a cait or cu sidhe all hanging out and bonding over how odd the confines of human bodies are? Having to come together and work towards a common goal? I think it’d be fun, and I think I may have found something for nanowrimo. It’s between this and three or four others.
ETA: I think I’d love to put this group + hadrian&illaria in the delilah/psychics-verse as a spin off. They’d definitely be great for enriching the world. I mean, delilah is only part faery and hasn’t been exposed to the deeper parts of magic society, which isn’t, y’know, a secret from humans in her ‘verse, but I imagine that it’s very much like how if you only know a culture from books and the odd festival. Not to mention, a lot of these magical beings are probably still prone to reclusiveness and a general shyness of humans for varying reasons.
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