i watched ii iv and the newbies are like. the shining beacon of that season
i especially like how they’re presented a lot more antagonistically to the other veterans since they’re all still dependant on their initial coding (ex. Magnet being genuinely disturbed about Pepper not liking her, Tapey being willing to manipulate her team, Teddy’s violence, JACK.)
poppy and metag dont really count in that regard but they still present at least to the cast as prompting more conflict
overall, i chose most of them to be birds you’d see in neighborhoods/around humans
liam - i thought that the fancy pigeon kinda fit with his round silouette + the backpack part is based on war pigeons and how they’d equip them with cameras to spy on the opposing soliders
bryce - i thought crows fit, not much to say. I think his silouette being much more sharper than liams is a nice contrast plus they keep their height different slightly
amelia - basically chose a blue bird, and i think one of the smaller birds fit better. actual finches don’t have like iridescent feathers like she does but uhh creative liberties
charotte - i wanted to give her a more imposing like height compared to the others, so i thought a duck would fit.
taylor - i thought the colours matched pretty well :)
charlie - i was most familiar with baby robins since they’re pretty common where i live, so i just chose that.
airy - i wanted him to be like really tall compared to the others who are relatively small/medium birds, and I thought cranes just fit. finding one that kinda fit with his colour scheme sucked tho 😭 the blue of his head/neck was supposed to be like the glass