#bird anon

[writercultureis]

Writer culture is remembering forgotten fandoms(looking at you Huntik) and being surprised you actually properly characterized the characters you haven't seen in forever

-Bird Anon

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[forsaken-headcanons]

Bird anon here!! Hi uhm. In celebration of me seeing the robin nestlings more often recently I want to throw more headcanons here. And not just ANY headcanons. No no no. (I open up my Google Docs and look through them before finding the one I need and squinting at it.) Pigeon Taph headcanons? Pigeon Taph. (Would this count as an AU?? I'm not sure.) Anyways. Prepare.

• OKAY SO you know about messenger pigeons, right. And a part of why they were often used was because they could memorize stuff quickly if given the opportunity. YEAH. So Taph is actually extremely good with memorizing directions and new areas. If not actively being chased, he tends to make a map in his head about the different areas that he's in and takes note of different landmarks in order to memorize the area. If someone needs to guide a fellow survivor away from whoever is chasing them, if Taph is nearby, he'll be one of the more likely survivors to do so.

• Taph does not like being alone. He'll be willing to if it's for his safety (I personally headcanon that as robloxians got more violent towards demolitionists and going outside became more dangerous, Taph sort of like. Isolated himself and stayed inside. Unless he absolutely had to go outside), but once forsakened, Taph often can be lurking in the presence of other survivors, especially ones that he trusts. When he enters a round, he also tends to stick with whoever he spawns with, or he'll flock over to the first person he finds (no pun intended).

• On the topic of this, sometimes after particularly rough rounds, since pigeons will flock together for safety in numbers, Taph will try to round up as many survivors as possible.

• Pigeons can be curious, and Taph is no exception. If something is of interest, he'll often go investigate it. Albeit, when forsakened, he tries to take another survivor with him to investigate stuff so that if something goes wrong, death isn't guaranteed. If the thing of interest is something another survivor is doing, Taph will walk over and observe. He won't announce his presence, but if he is noticed, Taph is willing to sign to the survivor that he's watching (if they know sign language. I actually have a list of different survivors who I believe known sign language and how well they know it. I'll submit that eventually!!)

• The other survivors refer to the areas where Taph sets up his tripwires and subspace tripmines as "nests". This is inspired by the fact that on the wiki, some people actually call these areas "nests". At the very least, they did the last time I checked.

• Sometimes, Taph will like. Tilt his head or puff the feathers on his wings in order to communicate. He'll also flap said wings. The force used and the context survivors can pick up on let them know if the flapping is a good thing or a bad thing. If he's angry, he also might nod his head up-and-down extremely quickly (which some pigeons will do!! Mainly when they feel defensive, especially over their territory or their nest). When angry, he might also stomp a foot alongside another trait of defensiveness or anger.

• Before being forsakened, Taph would sometimes laze around in the sun if he had free time. Nothing too much, honestly. It feels nice. He'd do this with other robloxians if he could, but if nobody was available, he'd do it alone. It's one of the things from his life pre-forsaken that he misses, honestly.

• I already talked a little bit about this one before (see previous post), but Taph can often be found in elevated areas. He'll often be in the rafters or trying to climb up a tree inbetween rounds. In maps that he can have a slight height advantage, he'll usually take said height advantage unless it's too risky and his health gets put at extreme risk. I'd like to think that for survivors that he'd be close to, he'd also be willing to help them into some of his favorite areas of the rafters or into some of his favorite trees, and just. Sit with them. Even if not having a conversation.

Thanks for attending!! Get pigeon Taph'ed. Heh. Anyways have a nice day, birds are neat. Birds are super cool. Bird anon out (for now).

Pigeon Taph,,, I love birds and I love Taph therefore I absolutely love all of these. I need to hold them in my hands and pat their head omg. I'm gonna be yoinking some of these

YOU get pigeon Taph'ed /silly

[onestepbackwards]

Hiii been a while! Hope you’re doing well today!

Have a question: how do you think many of the castlevania characters would react if they become self aware? Would they suffer a crisis?

-Bird Anon

SELF AWARE CASTLEVANIA YEAHHHHH oh absolutely.

I feel it would range between a crisis, and another Tuesday. At least it seems the force controlling most of them seems to care about their well being?

However, I imagine before they realize they are being controlled, it wouldn't be a fun time at first. Until they learn you actually care about them, it would be a set up for a crisis.

Just imagine Symphony of Night for example.

Alucard wakes up, feeling the pull to Castlevania. His former home that he thought had been destroyed with his father. Only to learn that no, it was somehow back, and his father had been revived several times while he had been resting.

So he goes to confront his father, meets Maria and eventually Richter, before confronting his father once again.

It was a lot. It felt like a never ending night.

Hell, it may as well have been. Given his father's powers, eternal night around his father's castle wasn't a long shot, per say. He wouldn't have been surprised if he had been in both Richter's castle, and his father's inverted castle for days...

Maria eventually chased him down, after the whole ordeal. She tried her best, convincing him to stay with her and Richter. Give humanity another chance...

...

...

Until he's waking up again in his coffin. Why was he awake again? Why did he feel Castlevania calling to him once more, after all these years?

It doesn't take long to do some investigating, and see its been what... 300 years? And his father has come back multiple times, only to be destroyed by a Belmont, again and again?

He finds himself traveling to where the castle calls to him, just barely making it past the gates before they slammed shut.

However...

As he marches through the entry halls, he gets the sensation that... he's seen all this before. Perhaps in a dream?

Death greeting him in the entry hall, before taking his equipment as a warning also left alarm bells ringing in the back of his head. Had he... Had this happened before? It was the oddest sense of déjà vu...

No, he thinks, proceeding to climb the castle walls once again. He must have dreamed this. He had many dreams he both remembered, and had forgotten while he had put himself to rest.

He sees a woman dressed in green, and has a distinct urge to call out a name, but paused. It was as if the name were right on his lips. But he had never met this girl before- couldn't have.

She introduces herself as Maria, and she is here to destroy this castle. Perhaps they needn't be enemies, if they desire the same goal.

Alucard doesn't say a thing as she runs past. He can't help but feel there is something else. She isn't here for just that. But what? Is she looking for someone?

He meets her once again, though not after climbing through the castle a bit further. He ignores how easy it seems. How his body almost seems to move more on its own.

"By the way... Have you ever heard of someone by the name of 'Richter Belmont'?"

He hesitates, Trevor popping up in his mind. But for a moment, a flash of blue runs through instead.

"Of the Belmont clan? Yes, but..."

Why... did he get an odd feeling he knew who she meant? Like he was forgetting something important.

Which of course, when he saw a Belmont as the lord of the castle not too much longer later... he wasn't so much surprised it was a Belmont...

...But more so surprised he almost expected it.

Alucard pushed forward, exploring the castle to its fullest. It almost felt like he was compelled to.

And it paid off, seeing Maria in the center of the castle, finally admitting that a Belmont was the Lord of the castle.

Promising to help try and free the Belmont, he went ahead to confront said 'Lord', but...

Why did this seem so... Familiar?

...

He wishes he could say he was surprised that he learned the Belmont was under the control of another. It's easy to logically say well 'of course', a Belmont would never willingly give in to evil.

However... it was almost like a nagging feeling in his mind said otherwise.

Of course, his father ended up being resurrected anyway by the time he got to the center of the inverted castle. It was bound to happen. Regardless of his actions, Shaft had already planned ahead to ensure his father would awaken once again.

Much like last time, He faced his father head on, alone in this battle.

It was hard fought, but he finally, finally did it.

His father was gone, plagued by his mother's last words as he disappeared with a painful farewell.

Richter was horribly apologetic, and Maria as well. Both felt horrible that he had to once again face and kill his own father. Alucard dismissed them. No need for any of that.

With a quick goodbye, he left them as dawn began to break, saying they wouldn't meet again. His blood was cursed, after all. No need for a being like him roaming the earth.

And yet...

Maria found him a few hours later, Richter on her tail. Both asked (begged) him to stay, to reconsider. He thought for a moment, before opening his mouth to agree.

...

...

Until he's waking up again in his coffin. Why was he awake again? Why did he feel Castlevania calling to him once more, after all these years?

He's groggy as he wakes up, and puts a hand to his head.

"How long have I-?"

300 years is immediately in his head. He knows it's correct. He already asked around. But he... didn't-? He did.

Yet he's already moving to the castle, compelled by something he can't explain.

How was his father back? How had Castlevania returned?

No, he knows this. A Belmont- Richter, Maria-

His head hurts. He wants to stop, try and find Maria, and ask if she knows what's going on.

But what about Death? How will he pass him? Maybe he can take Death on as he is now?

Yet instead of devising a plan, he finds his body stubbornly moving forward. Before he can force himself to stop, he's already confronting Death for the 'first' time. The fourth? Fifth? Seventh?

Alucard opens his mouth, attempting to speak reason when Death inquires about his appearance, but his mouth moves before he realizes it.

"I've come to put an end to this."

Alucard can feel his face scrunch up in pure confusion. Death even gives him an odd look, before the conversation goes the same as before. Death takes his precious equipment, and bids him farewell with a laugh.

"...Maybe I should learn that skip..."

It's distant, and silent, he almost didn't catch it.

But he swear he hears something.

Before he can speak, demand to know who is there, his body is moving. On it's own.

Alucard fought to swallow the panic. How could something against his will feel so natural? Like he was in control? It was more like he was thinking of moving, and his body loosely followed his command.

He felt like a ghost in his own body. What was happening?

Eventually he ran into Maria again, and desperately wanted to speak with her. He remembered her, recognized her, despite never meeting her before.

But his mouth once again moved on its own, and he felt like he was choking.

"...I've come to destroy this castle."

It felt monotonous, as he spoke to her, trying to warn her- yet he couldn't move. Couldn't do anything but repeat himself like last time. Like a script in a play-

Maria commented like last before (before?), teasing him for hardly talking to her, before running off. Though, he swears she looks back at him as she runs past... something he doesn't recall happening before...

Was he imagining things trying to reason with himself?

Slowly, Alucard can't help but wander as he watches her run past, if he's stuck in some sort of time loop. Or hell.

One of those two.

Until he hears it again as his body begins to move.

"Maybe I should play a run as Maria some time..."

The small voice has a grip on his heart. Why was this happening? Was Maria aware of this time loop as well? Who was it that was speaking?

Perhaps he was in a dream instead, and it was someone talking to him, awaiting him to wake? Or perhaps, this was more akin to a nightmare...

Memories of the castle continued to flood his mind. He began remembering where items were, what walls were breakable-

Alucard felt he must be going insane. His stomach had knots tangling in it as he pushed forward.

He wasn't positive how yet, but this was all his Father's fault.

At least having someone to blame made his descent into madness less... maddening.

Alucard fell into an odd rhythm after that, hardly able to focus. It was as if an invisible force was still guiding him, further and further into the castle.

Before he even entered the coliseum, he knew Richter would be there, waiting. Taunting him, unaware he was being possessed. Or was he? Though, as Richter mocked him, he heard it again. That one voice.

"God, he's so hot. I'm gonna kick his ass later."

Alucard didn't have time to register that as the Minotaur and Werewolf rushed him as Richter disappeared, though he was sure he would be taking mental damage later.

It was becoming clearer though, the voice. He was beginning to wonder...

...Was the voice controlling him? Why? For what purpose?

If you were controlling him, then by all means, you must be helping him defeat his father? But that didn't explain the odd time loop...

He'd still hear you on occasion, though the clarity was come and go. Sometimes you were less than a whisper. Other times he could maybe make out a sentence.

He wonders who or what you work for. What is your end goal? Why do you control him? Are you to deliver him to his father? Oversee his own horrors?

Different suspicions rise through his mind, thinking you are possibly malevolent.

However, it isn't the case.

It's a bit of a shocker, but he gets a gleam of your intentions when he fights Richter once again.

"Evil Richter, my beloved. We'll beat some sense into you. Don't worry Alucard, we'll get him free. I won't let him hurt you."

Alucard in that moment felt himself blink.

You didn't want him hurt? You really were trying to help him?

To your credit, you keep your word. Any hit Richter gets is minimal as you have Alucard dodge around the man in a game of cat and mouse.

You?? -He??- Makes quick work of Richter, and once again, he is unable to move his own mouth as Shaft is revealed, and Richter is freed from his grasp.

Alucard could only deeply sigh as he felt the second castle take form once again.

However, his eyes met Richter's who gave him an odd, confused look. Immediately Alucard felt himself tense.

That was not a look Richter gave him last time. Was Richter aware of this loop as well? Was Maria?

Alucard felt his blood run cold as he automatically told Maria to take Richter and leave, barely able to register his feet taking him to the upside down castle.

...Was his father aware of you, and the time loop too?

[tillydouspart]

Naming myself bird anon because you have unlocked a special interest.

I know a lot about birds! For the roundest of puffballs look up the Long-tailed tit or in it's native language, Shima Enaga! They are also called 'snow fairies'!

Fun fact about birds in general, the 'common names' of all birds are standardized in all languages (that I can think of) so a European Robin is called European Robin in english in every country that speaks it! Same in say Spanish, or Japanese!

AWWW WHAT AN ADORABLE LITTLE CREATURE!!!!! its just a little snowbal..............

also do you mean like, the spanish word for robin is the same in every country that speaks spanish or something like that? 🤔 i had genuinely never noticed, now im curious to check if there's really no differences hskjdhjksds

[unstable-design]

wow mr will why are you like so open about your fucking on here ... and why do all these people care so much about that.... im scared? (only a little bit) - bird

I didn't want to be. Unfortunately it seems we are not subtle. Everyone seems to know what our private lives are. At some point, I need to accept that and move on.

Why people care? They're perverts. That's all I can guess. Too invested in others lives, probably because they are unsatisfied in their own. Or curious about what the worst among them do in private. How far our depravity reaches

[hazbinsponsoredbyvee]

Its so cool vox had homophobic eyes when he was alive

—bird anon

"You mean heterochromia?"

"Guess that makes that the only hetero thing about you, huh?"

[definitelynotdistorter]

Angela is also a bird.

We love our birds

- bird anon

That bird is the best bird. Sorry the apoc bird trio, paradise bird trio, and the 5 finger birds, Angela is the best bird

[secret-third-thing]

🎶 Swan for the money, hoot for the show

I never was a bird, so I watch you float

Sometimes you just don't know the answer

Till someone flaps their wings and asks you

She would have made such a lovely bird

What a shame she's stuck on the shore, they roared

But you'll find a feathered amour

Who will kiss that same beak I adored

But I dropped your wing while flying

Left you up there crying

Airborne and wind-swept pining

Lakeside *problems* 🎶

🌊 🦢 🍾

HELLO!?!?! BIRD ANON.

Is this a cry for another koschei party?