au where the garde have wings.Â
hilde tells one to hide them - âthe second theyâre seen, weâre caughtâ - but one doesnât listen, she never listens. she wears them with pride, big and grand and stretching, and when the mogs catch her they tear them off she thinks âfuck, i kinda had that coming.â
maggieâs are tiny, and fluffy, and easy to hide underneath layers of coats. the mogs donât bother to get rid of them when they take her body.
threeâs are dark, but oily, and when they get to earth his cepan cuts them off.
âweâre living in a hot climate,â he says, as three cries and he himself is close to tears. âiâm sorry, but thereâs no way to cover them up. forgive me.â
(three never does, but when his cepan dies he still feels the loss as badly as when he lost the wings.)
john keeps his hidden, has always kept his hidden. later he lets sarah trace the edges, lets her say âtheyâre beautifulâ. he lets sam admire them and six critise how out in the open they are. they move with his feelings, sagging when heâs sad and lifting when heâs happy, and theyâre an extension of himself as much his limbs are.
five hates his wings, but doesnât say so. theyâre shitty, anyway, brown and small, even if heâs one of the rare lucky garde who can use his wings to fly.Â
after she escapes from the mog prison, six cuts her wings off herself. theyâre a liability - they look nice but accomplish nothing, and if she wants to stay hidden then she canât have two pitch black wings looming over her.
(she misses them, though. misses the way katarina would take care of them and teach her to keep them to herself even during battle.)
(but six is a soldier, and soldiers make tough choices sometimes.)
marina knows she canât show hers - sheâs in a church, theyâll think sheâs an angel and thatâll draw attention and thatâs the last thing she needs. her wings are smallish, and blend with her skin well enough that, somehow, no one ever notices.Â
when hector ricardoâs mother calls her an angel, she is so tempted to show her the wings.
lola waited until they were sleeping to pull out a knife, and the charm only ever worked against mogs and not humans, and eight canât save her or reynolds or his wing, but he has one and thatâs some small comfort.
(when he learns to shapeshift he changes so he has two again, but itâs not the same, never the same. itâs not natural or right and he prefers to shift into looking human than to make it look like he has two wings when he only really has one.)
nine is ever so proud of his wings, their power and size. sandor rolls his eyes with fondness whenever nine goes out with them, but he says âsay youâre a cosplayerâ - and, miraculously, it works.
ellaâs are the smallest of them all, but theyâre precious to her. when marina finds out who she is the both of them finally reveal them, and the wave of relief they share is identical.Â
idk, just - the garde with wings
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