The Archive’s Wings
Alright, I’ve been seeing quite a few posts about Jon with wings, so I raise you this: Jon with 14 wings, one for each Entity that has marked him. And, of course, the wings reflect the Entities with their substance and appearances! Here’s my thoughts of how those might look like:
Beholding: The feathers and structure of this wing are dotted with eyes of all colors and sizes. Some do not appear to be of human origin. There is always at least one looking directly at you.
Web: This appears to be a wing filled out with normal feathers, albeit from multiple birds, but the feathers are from indigobirds, whydahs, cowbirds, cuckoos, and other known brood parasites. If you sink your hand into this wing, you will find that its down feathers are actually webs.
Corruption: This wing appears to have a mix of ratty, decomposing feathers and the wings of ants, beetles, and flies. If you agitate the feathers too much, you will find that its powder down is actually spores.
Spiral: This wing is unnerving, as, at first glance, it seems perfectly normal. But if your eyes unfocus or you see it at the edge of your vision, you find it is a constantly shifting expanse of fractals, lightning, unnatural proportions, and eye-straining spirals.
Desolation: You are reminded of Icarus, as this wing is made of wax. However, instead of this wing melting in the sun, you feel as if you might melt if you go too close due to the dangerous heat it emits.
Vast: There appears to be a gap between wings, leaving them asymmetrical. However, if you put your hand between this gap, it seems like the air itself is offering resistance, engulfing you, filling you with an overwhelming feeling of vertigo.
Hunt: It is easy to identify these feathers as originating from birds of prey. There is a predominance of feathers coming from those raptors that are avivores.
Stranger: This wing appears to be a normal, if eclectic, collection of feathers from ostentatious birds such as peacocks, parrots, and birds of paradise. If you inspect a fallen feather, though, you will find that they are not feathers at all. Plastic, glass, resin, and other synthetic materials have been shaped to recreate plumage.
End: The bones in this wing are exposed. Yet, the feathers of crows and vultures are still attached to form the rest of the wing.
Slaughter: You aren't sure what birds these feathers belong to: they are ragged and drenched with blood, as if pin feathers growing beneath are constantly being ruptured. Despite their state, the feathers look razor sharp.
Flesh: You're almost uncertain that this can even be called a wing. Its shape appears to have moved beyond the common shape and lost all aerodynamic properties in the process. No two feathers are of the same origin, and some individual feathers appear to be a composite of multiple.
Buried: When this wing isn’t drenched with water as if it had been through a heavy storm, it is caked with dirt. The feathers are from subterranean nesting birds such as burrowing owls, shearwaters, and puffins, but they have an unnatural weight to them.
Dark: This is actually the large, leathery wing of a bat. Even when the sun is out, the light is not enough to penetrate the wing and show the membranes within. The shadow it casts is disquieting in its size and intensity.
Lonely: Is there a wing under that dense cloud? You feel like you would get lost in it if you tried to find out.
EDIT: @distortionrights made some absolutely amazing art based off of this! Go and feast your eyes on it over here!
