I havenât cried over a celebrity death since Grant Imahara passed. Jurassic Park is such a huge part of my childhood and now who I am as an adult, my childhood love of dinosaurs turning into a lifelong love of birds. I was allowed to watch Jurassic Park as a baby, a surprising call in my family maybe. I think it snuck by on precedent (Iâd seen it since before I was conscious, were they going to stop now that I was a toddler?), or just because it was a good movie and they liked it, too. I had it on rotation with animated classics, one of the only live action movies I remember really loving and asking to watch again. Iâm crying again thinking about it. I donât know a time before loving dinosaurs and watching Jurassic Park, it might not exist for me. My husband and I dressed up as Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler to see Sue in the Flesh last year, we drove nine hours from home for it.
I donât think I have anything totally unique here to say. Sam Neillâs work really means something to me, and it probably will forever.
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it feels like all I ever want to draw is fire choros
Wanted to put up a few more fire choro characters on Art Fight so I picked the ones that are most varied in color and shape.
Nully has been on Art Fight for a few years now but Hawk, Ash, and Shell will be new.
Hawk
Hawk is half lightning, half fire, but inherited the element of fire. Her lightning choro features show through the most in her smaller size, as well as her longer, and more pointed tail and wings. Hawk is second in the pecking order in Nullyâs small flock, only below Nully herself. She is more contemplative than most fire choros and doesnât tend to rush into things. Like most members of Nullyâs flock, she a crush on Nully. Unlike the rest of the flock, however, Hawk does not make frequent advances toward her leader.
Hawk has an extremely good memory and sometimes acts as the unofficial flock historian and advisor to Nully.
Ash
Ashâs flock has a nebulous dynamic, being composed of multiple small flocks that are frequently splitting and joining to form one larger group that cooperate well enough to coexist without serious fighting (most of the time). Her flock includes both fire and lightning choros, and has been inclusive of lightning choros for many generations.
Although Ash does not think of herself as mixed, she has one lightning choro grandparent. This ancestry shows mainly in her talon coloration (gray is a common lightning choro talon color) and larger wings and tail.
Ash is in love with the rain choro, Mango. Although her flock eventually drives him away, she has one clutch of eggs with him before that happens. She is the mother of Juniper and Shell. She is rarely honest with her young about their heritage.
Shell
Shell is an unusual fire choro, being half rain and half fire, (although, like his siblings, he was told that he was lightning/fire). His rain choro side shows the most in his more dainty talons, small stature, and curly feathers. Shell also has a jolly personality and persistent courtship style, both of which are characteristic of a rain choro tiercel.
As a young adult he left his natal flock and travelled far enough that no one around had any clue where he came from or even what a rain choro looked like. He received the nickname Shell for having a beak that extends so far on his forehead, âlike the shell stuck to him.â as well as for appearing extremely neotenous in general.
Shell is among the lowest in the pecking order in Nullyâs flock, but not low enough to be in danger of immediate expulsion. He has a significant crush on Nully which is not reciprocated. Others in the flock view his courtship behavior toward Nully as a (somewhat pathetic) bid for power, as being the mate of a formel automatically raises a tiercel to directly below them in status. But actually, outside of his goal of wooing Nully, he is not ambitious.
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In summary these choros are Fire, Fire-Lightning, Fire with some Lightning heritage, and Fire-Rain. Keep in mind that choros only take one element from their parent, though. While Hawk is a fire choro with a lightning choro parent, by other choros she would never be referred to as a Fire-Lightning. The element itself doesnât mix.
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Someone recommended wolf eagle as a name for the modern nonsapient choro relative (ancestral eagle.) Iâm starting to like this as one of the names choros would call them. Choros hunted all the oppy world wolves to extinction, so calling them wolf eagles would be derogatory and ironic in that they outlived their namesake. Theyâre the only wolves choros couldnât get to.
Might be hard to write about without an omniscient narrator though.
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