actually wait i lied about being too tired to have thoughts. if an au ever happens with elves having animal traits i vote that bronte gets a docile animal that no one is ever scared of really because i think itd be neat. fintan gets to be a fox or something idk.
- pyro
I tried to think of a docile animal for Bronte and my first thought was "cheep" which...isn't an animal. And the second one was a chupacabra, which is definitely not docile.
I could definitely vibe with a kotlc au where people have animal traits (I'm kinda doing that in the wings au already!) and would be curious what animals people would be! Knowing me, it's unsurprising that i'd want to take a turn into people having monster traits instead of just animals, but I can also tone that back to focus on just fun, cutesy animals or whatever it is this kind of au would entail.
I think there should be a scale of how animal a person is alongside what animal they are. Like they have a set animal, and they how prevalent that is is also a factor. Maybe two people are both wolves, but one person is more wolf than them with more traits and tendencies and a more wild side to them. That would make for an interesting dynamic, as thhe hierarchy of the intersectionality of prevalence vs inherent place on the food chain...hmm.
Proposal: animal type is most deciding factor, percentage then dignified your social standing within that group. For example, a cat would also be higher than a mouse, even if the cat was like 10% cat compared to a 50% mouse person. This makes sense in my head but I don't know how well I'm explaining it.
but now back to Bronte...bunny. Small and grumpy and lashes out. A rabbit. Rabbits can be very mean at times and absolute nightmares to deal with. Some aren't! My rabbit happened to be out in the wild for an unknown amount of time as a baby before we adopted her so she's a little chaotic and hates people, but I love her. If we're comparing her to my rabbit, though, this implies that Bronte was just left in the wild for a while as a child and now he's averse to people. He's just a grumpy little bunny man. His simply a little angry and takes it out by grunting at people.
Because people aren't really scared of bunnies and see them as quiet and docile and underestimate the work they take, but once you get closer they angry and wanna fight you. I think that's an excellent descriptor for Bronte, at least in fanon. Little grumpy man who lashes out when people get close.
Though if Fintan was a fox like you said, that could provide an interesting dynamic considering how infamously foxes and rabbits get along (or we could go the Zootopia route and Nick Wilde-ify him, him being Fintan). Lot of angst potential there, which seems right up your alley, Pyro!
if we're labelling this in terms of catboys the way we have been so far, they'd be a bunnycatboy and a foxcatboy, which is both cursed and beautiful. I love them. I'm occupied with the wings au atm, but if someone writes an au where everyone is animalistic...please put me on the taglist /srs