#two hawks

[imblueker]

Well guess who got sucked into a niche ship!!! Wondering if I'm gonna make a second blog just to post hannibal stuff lol If I make more fanart of it I probably will actually Had this on my mind one night and ended up finally finishing it, shading is hard but we prevail ✊

[sweetlullabyebye]

All he did was be gay do crime

[murdurhurdur]

Had a sketch sitting unfinished because I didn't know how I wanted to go about it, but I ended up just merging everything and changing the angle of the lighting lol Anyway Matthew liking being gobbled up, lol I didn't mean it this way, but the nosebleed does remind me of how it's a common stylization in anime to show they're horned up and I think it does oddly fit 😭 Also deer eyes :) I like to imagine Matthew is willing to give up anything even his flesh, I just doubt it'd be something Will would take up unless he really got a taste for human flesh because of Hannibal pfff Maybe it's just Matthew's daydream of wishing to see Will's other side

Only really used very basic brushes since I wanted to block out the colours, could clean it up, buut it's good enough for what I want and with the energy I have P.S. ty anon who left an ask because it reminded me to look through my brownham sketches and finish it heehee

[justiceforplutoo]

when i get into a new fandom with actually interesting canon (or canon-adjacent) ships that i love and am excited to interact with the content for. and then the multishipper/rarepair lover in me shoots me in the chest 57 times. come on man

[goingghostagain]

How life feels after seeing a brownham/two hawks post on my tl

[pool-boy-at-the-psych-ward]

i wanna say this right now AND LET EVRYONE KNOW brownham SUCKS as a ship name.

THIS IS 🦅TWOHAWKS 🦅NATION!!!!

[americangirlstar]

Two Hawks’s Name

So. I got curious about what Two Hawks’s name would be in his own language. I mean, I’m curious about what all of Kaya’s contemporaries would be named, but a few weeks ago I got hit with a strong desire to look into Two Hawks’s name specifically while doing research on the Salish nations.

As Two Hawks lives in the general Washington area, he would liikely use the Kalispel or Spokane dialect of his language. In both Kalispel and Spokane, “Esel” means “two,” but it was a bit hard to find a word for “hawk” or “hawks.”

So I ended up on native-languages.org, a non-profit organization site dedicated to the survival of Native languages. They have a specific page in which you can email their experts and request to know a word in exchange for a $10 donation. So I did send them a request, telling them that a character in a book I liked was named “Two Hawks” in the Salish Kalispel-Spokane language and I would like to know what his name would be.

They actually did respond to it, which I’m very excited about! I’m posting the email they sent to me below w/ a transcription under it. (Note: I wasn’t sure if Ms Redish’s email was from the site or personal? So to be safe I blacked it out). The tl;dr is there’s three possibilities for Two Hawks’s name, which is very exciting!

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Well, the Salish word for "Two" is "esel," but there are several different words for hawks in Salish. A fish hawk or osprey is c'ixʷc'xʷ. It's very typical of Salish words to be eye-popping tongue-twisters like this, the Salishan languages are considered to be among the most difficult in the world for English speakers to pronounce. The c' is pronounced like the "ts" in "cats" but with a clicking sound, and the "xʷ" sounds a bit like the "hw" sound you might make blowing out a candle. So c'ixʷc'xʷ is pronounced a little like tseets only with extra clicking and guttural blowing sounds. A red-tailed hawk is c'lc'lšmu, which is easier to pronounce, it sounds a little like chull-chull-shmoo only with clicks.

A sparrow hawk or falcon is the easiest to say, Aatat (pronounced ah-tot.) So this character's name could have been something like Esel C'ixʷc'xʷ, Esel C'lc'lšmu, or Esel Aatat.

Hope that is interesting to you, have a good day! Laura Redish Native Languages of the Americas

Everyone say thank you Laura Redish!!

What do you think is most likely to be Two Hawks’s name? Personally I think Esel C'lc'lšmu is the most likely, as I feel the translated name would have reflected it if he was named after an osprey or falcon, but any of them are possible.

[tredawakandan]

Just a general salute to Two Hawks🫡. He showed how somebody can reclaim their family culture and heritage . Not to forget becoming a chief which who does his best in leading his people

✊🏿💯💯💯