Griffrin brained. Griffin Siffrin. Gonna spin this critter in my head and use him as art warmups. Little bit of lore in there somewhere. Maybe one day itll be a full au, but alas im already writing an insane amount for Starsent Wishes AU. Warmup sketches upon thee for now.
Just about every creaturefrin au is like this amd I love it. They aren't good at hiding shit. Especially from Odile.
Working lore:
Forgotten island creatures become mythical creatures because nobody can remember they're relatively normal creatures. This goes for the people too, Vaugarde and other places have like werewolves and vampires n stuff but anything from the island is a myth if it's even remembered in the first place. (I think the islanders would be a mix of humans, harpies, griffins, and dragons, feels fitting that its an island of flying races.)
Behold Griffrin, got separated because of a bet and forgot everything (children daring eachother to fly across the ocean).
Decides to just remain as a full griffin after childhood, can't hide among people anyways, they look at him weird and nobody knows what they are.
While traveling, people go like "wow, cool animal, yoink." It's a 50/50 between people attempting to poach him and people who want cool weird mythical creature.
This goes for all forgotten island creatures, get exotic pet traded, get circused, etc.
This could be where I pull out all the stops on the horrors of exotic captive animals. Can't have a fic without some good commentary on the horrors of the world and reality we live in.
Siffrin escapes by just breaking whatever he's kept in, can't break a chain collar though, he just carries that around. Turning into a human to remove it is too risky, can't even occasionally be a person to treat himself to some pastries.
Que the party, local griffrin is outrunning the timefreeze, meet party, panik.
Party starts to pspsps (to Odile's dismay, thats a wild animal.) Siffrin has a thought, they wanna help... hkt and run get them to remove the collar then he dips.
Success (who knows how to lockpick in the party? Odile of course!) Then he runs off, has a second thought, "wait now i owe them something."
Que animal following party for like a week and then mysterious person shows up in perfect deus ex machina (animal vanishes.)