@The Observer
Oh yeah, wings+hands beat wing-hands any day of the week. Sorry Papi.
And hot giggidy damn, that last image. Talk about mothers swelling with pride.
Heh. You like Cveta?
What the harpy princess said is true, though. If you want a serious looking bird, who if translated into a person would never smile, you take an accipiter or eagle. Buetos like the red-tail or common buzzard (in the European sense of the word, not vulture) are too laid back. But accipiters just look angry a lot of the time. Because they are. Especially sparrowhawks. Those are the berserkers of the avian world.
Falcons just look stoic a lot of the time. It's not surprising why a lot of my bird ladies' personalities are based off accipiters or falcons.
Harris Hawks, though, Harrises are perfectly fine with being your friend, what with being the only social birds of prey in the world.
But yes. I enjoy birds, I enjoy Slavic women, I enjoy pregnancy and lots and lots of fluffy little chicks. Which is unsurprisingly why the first thing I write for any text-based game I've ever authored stuff for ends up being a no-nonsense broody Slavic bird who ends up having a whole passel of chicks. Elbow-length gloves, green-eyed redheads and never using contractions in speech are optional.
Like I said, there might have been a bird TF if Avanai had ever gotten into TiTS, since there was a TF item I was writing for in conjunction with the race, but that got recycled when I went to write for FoE. Some of the material may be getting recycled for my first project for CoC2, of course...