#wounded bird

[deludedflower]

Eva Rubinstein, Wounded Bird

[vixymix101]

I always felt a sorta father/daughter bond between them

[awkward-sultana]

Dilsiz, s. m. names of the mutilated mutes who usually accompany the great lord when he goes to the various apartment of the old and new serail. They are in particular the gellaks, i.e. the executioners whom he employs whenever he wants to kill someone in secret, such as brothers, or other relatives, sultanas, mistresses, great officers, etc. Then the dilsiz have the honour of being the privileged executors of his policy, his vengeance, his anger, or his jealousy. They preface their execution at some distance with a kind of owl-like howl, and immediately advance towards the unfortunate condemned man or woman, holding their silk cords [cordons de soie] in their hands, the fatal marks of a death as swift as it is infallible. This simple apparatus, but by that very fact even more sinister; the unforeseen mortal blow which is its effect; the beginning of the night, the time usually prescribed for the execution; the silence of these half-monsters who are the executioners, and who have for all use of the voice only a clear and fatal yelp which they tear from their own throat as they seize their victim; all this, I say, makes the hair stand on end, and freezes the blood of even those who know these horrors only by story. — L'Encyclopédie

[rvspecter]

(via @harveyspecterx)

[youryurigoddess]

Turns out that Aziraphale has another, very strategically placed statue in his bookshop.

L’oiseau Blessé (Wounded Bird) after Hippolyte Francois Moreau, visible just above Crowley’s head, depicts a young huntress with a bow and a small wounded bird (nightingale?) cradled to her chest.

The statues in Aziraphale’s bookshop are carefully selected and as a rule depict his internal struggles; the huntress who hurt the little bird even though she obviously cares for it represents the angel himself. Which means that the bird must be his demon, now left alone on Earth.

‪Crowley as a wounded bird makes even more sense if we think about the parallel between the Starmaker’s Fall and the Icarus mythos, revolving around the sin of pride (as in fashioning oneself greater than a god, in this case Helios) and disobedience towards one’s parental figure‬.

A story that seems so important to Aziraphale that it appears even on his commendation medal.

And if you think about it, it was Daedalus’ attempt to protect his son and save him from imprisonment that ultimately drove Icarus to his untimely demise.

Just like Aziraphale tried to protect Crowley in the Final Fifteen.

[soupy-sez]

Rango (2011)

[the-apology-girl]

"In the ruins of my dreams, hope lies like a wounded bird, waiting for a chance to fly."

— PRADO, Adélia. From "Poemas de Adélia Prado"

[pesky--dust]

A wounded bird... (analysis below gifs)

Chilton comparing Will to a wounded bird

Bedelia about a wounded bird in the grass

The Wrath of the Lamb

Rewatching season two again, I realized that it wasn't Bedelia who first said something about a wounded bird, but Chilton! In "Takiawase", Chilton states that Will is a poor, confused, wounded bird for Doctor Bloom and Jack Crawford, but he sees psychopathic tendencies in him.

In "... and the woman clothed in the sun" Bedelia talks about a wounded bird in the grass and that her first thought would be to kill it, but of course she wouldn't do it. She claims Will isn't a killer, but Hannibal made him think he is, and out of his compassion, he's capable only of righteous violence, so in other words (and according to me): in her eyes Will is as weak and defenseless as a wounded bird. Bedelia also advises him that the next time he wants to help someone, he should consider to crush them instead to save himself trouble, because extreme acts of cruelty require a high degree of empathy (and Will is an empath). And that's what Will decides to do in the last episode.

Will Graham was an wounded bird the whole time. In the eyes of his friends and co-workers, he was a poor, little, wounded bird, a fragile teacup, as Hannibal put it. Bedelia's words also suggest that she considers him as a wounded bird. In the final episode, Will decides to kill the said bird and show everyone that he is neither weak nor wounded bird at all. (Chiton isn't such a dumb-dumb after all...)