#other creatures

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

monstersovka

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“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.” ― Richard Powers, The Overstory

[ghost-bxrd]

Headcanons for hurt Fae!Dick Grayson?

What can hurt Dick? How does the family react when he is hurt, and they are possibly clueless how to help him or if he would be okay?

How does the manor and surroundings react when Dick is hurt, especially if he is badly hurt enough to be unaware what is happening? Or if it is one of the family's fault (unintentionally) that he got hurt?

Ksksks I totally expected this ask to come in at one point or another.

Alright, so with other creatures it’s kind of tricky.

The traditional fae can be hurt by iron, and while this particular version of fae!dick certainly doesn’t like it (at all) it’s more of a… strong allergic reaction than anything. And only if he’s exposed to it long enough.

What can truly hurt an other… well, that depends on the individual. On what they’re tied to, and what feeds their existence.

Some of the other beings live in the shadows, hiding.

For instance, my family used to tell a sort of story where a kind creature would wait for us at the very top of our house, and when it saw us coming home it would make sure it was safe for us to enter and then turn on the light if it was. If it wasn’t, the house would remain dark. Obviously I wanted to catch a glimpse of that “creature”, but stopped immediately when I was told that if I laid eyes on it, the creature would vanish forever.

So this particular other was dependent on remaining “unseen” to keep existing. Another kind would depend on having stories keep being told about them. Yet another creature would need to keep consuming a certain food to stay alive.

I headcanon that Fae!Dick would irrevocably tie himself to Wayne Manor, the surrounding lands, and its occupants to keep himself alive. Which in return makes him very powerful! But also very vulnerable.

He would quite literally feel family members getting hurt, depending on the severity of the injury. His connection to the manor and the lands would mean that any kind of environmental poisoning or damage going on inside the boundaries of his “domain” would directly affect Dick, ranging from mild discomfort to a sort of “withering”.

If what happens was severe enough to cause Dick to become temporarily unaware of his surroundings then nature would react accordingly. If he’s outside manor grounds during this instance, then it would be mostly animals responding to his pain and attacking anybody in close vicinity he isn’t tied to. (Animals with very strange and discordant features)

If he’s inside manor grounds… the entire place becomes ground zero for “magical” activity. Nobody would be able to get in or out. Any kind of “demolishing” going on would be stopped by some very angry plants and animals.

… unless the damage to the lands is too great. In that case Dick wouldn’t be able to do much, and everything that is/was dependent on his magic to grow would quickly atrophy. :(

The family probably wouldn’t really know how to properly deal with it the first time it happens. Obviously there’s the physical repercussions of Dick’s injury they’d have to deal, which usually has roots in something else so treating it wouldn’t be like treating the flu or a paper cut. They’d have to find whatever is wrong with the land (or one of the family) to help Dick.

Of course there’s also the possibility of an other creature hurting Dick. Or a very lucky criminal manages to land a hit (maybe even with an iron bullet). In that case Dick would be looking at a much longer recovery period than a regular human.

Fae!Dick is very difficult to injure, but he’s also very slow to heal.

[the-fraggles]

Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk?

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. [...] Man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest.

from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (1949)

[beleznegra]

“We make this sacrifice to our mothers, the goddesses of the water” - Adrielle Cuthbert

[rani-karenita]

Idk guys I just find it interesting as to how the concept of beastmen (BNA), Strain (K Project), and "fairies" (Fairy Gone) is pretty similar but also different.

Like I can see the glimpse of what happened in beastmen's daily lives and the issue inside it.

I know that Strain has exceptional power that sometimes made us think that it was magical and that's just how it is.

And "fairies" is not any fairies from the fantasy you'll know. Rather, they look like something from your nightmare and have special power too, like the Strain.

The difference is:

I don't fking know how beastmen are created, are they just born that way or something? They can shapeshift into animal but the ability they have doesn't always represented with their REAL animal counterpart (as seen from Nina's change as mermaid/fish/something but she can't swim).

Strain is created by Dresden Slate that gave them that power. (Also is there any canon story that Strain can be made by "messing up with the Slate"? I wonder).

The "fairies" are exploited and almost extinct. But something happened between the 10 years gap, that somehow made them appear again. (And I still don't know the "how" of this).

One same thing:

There's an unresolved tension between those people/creature with the normal human civilization. And there's like no room for their improvement (for Strain and fairies) because the major characters has nothing to do with them, or being one of them (for the fairies, although they also help both the protagonistic and antagonistic sides). And I'm kinda... uh, don't like this.

Like "okay they might be just another figure in the story (at least for the Strain and fairies) but I also want to see from their perspective about what they think of the normal people/human". And how the tension between them are solved.

This might sounds pointless and has no similarity at all but I don't care. I just wanna leave this here.

[Also please correct me if there's something incomplete in this post]

[beyondedenton]