If there's one thing I love in fiction it's parental love, but if there's something I find more interesting is parental instinct in avian characters, and i don't know why, i just do.
for example: ahit
Dr Groves judging the jewelry your lover gifted you, especially if there's jewels involved. Scrutinising each scratch and fingerprint on the crystal, taking into account the size, the more gaudy the gift the more desperate it is in his eyes.
The Conductor fixing you up before a shot, even though you've already spent plenty of time prepping yourself by the mirror. Going over your outfit, dusting dust of your shoulders, making sure not a hair/feather/whatever is out of place before releasing you.
: Count Duckula
Despite the fire puting a hypnotic spell on the pyromaniac. Don Diego keeps you close as it creeps closer, shielding you with his cape, puting it between you and the hungry flames.
Aunt Lucrecia and Uncle Vlad asking you about your stay overseas over a wine glass of blood, the vampire equivalent of “so, met any cute girls/boys” topic but morbid.
Rory taking in, you, a discarded fledgling under his wing, showing you the ropes of vampirism and in general how to maintain a castle.
Being reincarnated alongside Duckula, re-establishing your relationship as family, meeting each other all over again, and again and again.
Guillame Bill inviting you to poker night at his chalet, offering you to taste of his charcuterie board adorn with cheese he made himself, unless you're lactose intolerant.
: Ducktales
Donald showing up to ceremonies when he finds out no one is coming with you.
Scrooge guiding you with a hand on the nape of your neck through a sea of facades, the power hungry "echelons of society” behaving like sharks catching the faintest with of blood in their waters. And you're reeking of insecurity and potential to widen their place in the wedge they made for themselves in the eye of the populous. But as the clever fisherman says, there's always a bigger catch, and he's looming behind you, with a thinly valid facade of his own.
REAL!! Birdies being just soooo sweet to someone they cherish deeply is (chef's kiss) and especially in such a specific way. Fluffy feathers... I feel like some could follow some kind of built-in nesting protocol, especially the birdies that are for cold weather (Grooves, bc penguin... even if the studio itself might be warm lmao). All the blankets, just for you ✨️
