I wanna know what specific bird wings Angeal, Sephiroth, Kunsel, and Zack would have.
I already know Chococloud and Genebirb (chocobo and phoenix/whatever ridiculous birb I'm thinking of at the moment)
I think that Angeal would have dove wings, but more like a mourning dove - I know they aren't white but I can do whatever I want here in imagination-land. Pale cream colored with flecks of black and a little shading of blue along the edge.
I think it's pretty obvious that he has a lot of issues, many of them stemming from being forced to grow up so fast. He chose to go with making honor his entire personality and I think he regrets that because it means he had to be the responsible one at all times. Some people probably think he's a Debbie-Downer because he's always ruining their fun (when their fun is doing something rash and dangerous to life and limb with bonus thousands of gil property damage.)
Its easy to forget when he's mentoring a teenager that he's barely out of being a teenager himself.
Vulture wings. They're a symbol of his subconscious image of himself, something that's surrounded by and consumes death and waits for those around him to die.
He was sent into battle as a literal child, regardless of understanding how horrific the entire thing is. He knows that something about himself was a disappointment, he couldn't commune with the planet, so instead they twisted the purpose they'd bred him for from life into death.
I think it would be interesting if for some reason he just can't use Cure Materia because of his J-Cells since she's a parasite. So many people died around him and he couldn't do anything about it - casting a healing spell at someone across the battlefield would make so much difference but he can only use potions and you just can't get there in time in the heat of the fight.
So all he thinks he's good for is bringing death and having it follow in his wake.
First of all there's not really any real backstory for him, so my personal headcanon version of Kunsel is that he grew up in Wall Market and had to do a lot of shady things as a kid. His family owned a tiny shop and lived over it but they lost everything when they couldn't pay protection money and he ran errands to keep himself fed and sheltered and a lot of them were probably drugs and other illicit goods.
Wanting to make more of himself he used his skills and called in a lot of favors to make a new spotless identity for himself before he applied for SOLDIER. He never really gave up his contacts though and works both sides at times - selling and buying info from anywhere he thinks it will be and he's great at leaving false trails that don't lead anywhere!
So his wings are from a western scrub jay! They are very sneaky birds and hide hoards of food all over the place - but they're incredibly wary and watch out for any other animals watching where they go. If they think they're being followed they quickly grab their food and hide it somewhere else. Sometimes, if they can't shake a tail (ha!) they'll pretend to hide food to lure the other animal to that location and instead hide it somewhere else.
I've seen a couple people give him parrot wings but if anyone is going to have raven wings it's Zack! Ravens are so smart and incredibly social. They work with wolves in order to find prey and its almost a symbiotic relationship.
Zack makes friends everywhere, and he can look really silly sometimes and be very loud and boisterous but when it comes down to it he's intensely loyal and a lot more clever than he lets on.
He has such himbo energy, and his constant dropping into squats to burn some of that energy off remind me of how a raven bobs its head as it walks around.
Crows and ravens have been seen to have 'funerals' when they find one of their own has died - BUT researchers think they're actually investigating to see what killed them to determine if its a danger to their flock. A MURDER investigation if you will. Ravens remember and will attack people that have been mean to them as well!
He absolutely has the Raven attention span for ooh shiny with his ADHD but when its important he focuses everything he has on figuring out what he needs to do.
For the record I absolutely would like to see Genesis with phoenix wings - but only after Minerva has cured his degradation. From the black wings/ashes to red and gold rebirth.
For Cloud I like snowy owl wings. They're solitary and territorial and Cloud was lonely as a child.
