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Afternoon Daruk,

I have a request. The Village Elder has requested I teach my technique of creating an updraft to the other Rito Warriors in the Village - well, more challenged than requested. I may admittedly have been running my beak a little preemptively on certain topics.

Regardless, he is demanding to see results by tomorrow and thus far, I am having little luck. It seems my men simply are not up to the task no matter how many times I show them the technique, frankly it's getting sad watching them fall on their faces.

As such, I have had a brilliant idea to instead aquire one of the Gorons cannons in thoughts perhaps we could simply shoot Rito straight into the sky - solving the issue in an entirely different way. Genius, I know.

However, it seems my men are...apprihensive about taking on this endeavour. I am happy to take first test to ensure it is perfectly safe, though in truth I can't fathom how the blasted thing works.

Might I trouble you to make a visit to Hebra this afternoon, should you be free, so explain the controls and to shoot me out of a cannon in example? I hate to make such a request for assistance, however it seems there are times where one must utilise the knowledge of others.

I shall owe you a favour.

Kind regards,

Revali, Champion of the Rito, Master of the Winds.

Revali,

Never thought I'd get a request like this from you! All right, so the average Goron cannon works like this: you gotta get yourself some fruit from a bomb flower grown in the colder caves down in lower Eldin. Then bundle it up in our special fireproof padding (same stuff used for Flamebreaker Armor). That's to make sure Death Mountain's air can't set it off.

After that, ya stick the charge into the chamber of the cannon and shut it up. Drop a cannonball into the barrel and coat it with some oil resin. Then, you use a metal rod to jam down into the chamber really hard and burst the fruit. The pressure will push the cannonball right out, and the resin adds some nice flames on the trip.

Good news! Since you live up in Tabantha, we won't need the padding. Just bomb flowers and-- actually come to think of it, you're kinda small for the mouth of a cannon. You gotta be able to plug the hole or you won't get anything but an unpleasant blast of heat. Maybe we can just plug the rest up with blue Chuchu jelly.

Oh yeah, the heat! Cannons ain't exactly a day out in Lurelin on the inside. You're gonna need to coat your whole bottom end in fireproof elixir...

Maybe the top end too. Can't be sure what that Chuchu jelly will do. And also! I'm sure you already knew, but aim out into the wide open air, and make sure there's nothin' in your path. Don't think your beak would look too great if it got to know the side of a cliff.

All right! This is gonna be great. I'll be down there in a few. You get together some Chuchu jelly and I'll bring the fireproof elixir. We'll have your guys flying high in no time.

See you then!

-Daruk

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Revali’s bitch ass flew them through a rain storm

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How was being dead for 100 years?

Oh, wonderful. It was wonderful.

Just imagine the joys of being violently torn to pieces. Of fighting until your last breath and bleeding out on the ground while knowing you've failed your people, failed your one purpose, and now the world shall end all because of you.

Imagine being left with that thought for a hundred years. Entirely alone. Just you and the knowledge of your failure, watching from high above as monsters ravage the lands and puppet the very Divine Beast you should have been piloting- and life moves on without you.

Then one day, you get to watch as the 'great hero' you never even got a chance to prove yourself to turns up and succeeds at everything you failed to do as if to rub it in your beak that he's better than you.

Then, as icing on the cake, you experience the utter joys of waking from the dead to a world you don't recognise anymore. To a home that is no-longer your home. Everyone you grew up besides is naught more than bones in the ground, and there's nobody left who remembers you. You're entirely alone in an unfamiliar world, now surrounded by strangers who not only have entire history books written dedicated to your greatest failure, but to rub salt in the would they have also read your private diary.

So all in all, a truely delightful experience I would highly recomend. I'm doing great. Everything is wonderful!!!! What a plucking delight!

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Thanks for tagging me in the original post @hurricane105! Very Revali-coded hehe

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Have I already done this one? Lol

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How do Rito's kiss? Or is there an alternative way they show affection?

Tch - more Hylian ignorance, I see.

Thankfully Rito don't show affection in the same way as you featherless mammels do, with your disgusting exchange of bodily fluids slapping your fleshy mouth-bits together - ugh it makes me nauseous to think about.

We Rito are far more hygenic. There's four main ways that us birdfolk show affection.

I supose the closest thing to your... kissing, would be bobbing. This is where a bonded Rito couple touch the sides of their beaks together and brush them up and down. Dispite common misconception, our beaks contain a network of sensitive nerves - since Rito do not have a phenominal sense of taste like many species, we rely on our beaks being sensitive to textures in foods to let us know they are safe to eat. Rubbing beaks together in this way stimuates those nerves in a way that feels plesent to the recipricants.

Another way is tapping. This is where two Rito bump their foreheads gently together. Again, we have a significant amount of nerve endings in the tip of our foreheads to detect small changes in air pressure and tempreture while flying - it can really disorient a Rito to be hit in that particular spot. Tapping forehead together sends a serise of gentle vibrations against the skull that also feels plesent. This is something that not just bonded couples do, but newly courting Rito also.

Of course there's also preening. While grooming may be a personal task to Hylians - it's a very communal activity for us. Preening is a very time consuming task and it's significantly easier and faster to preen ones companions and to allow them to preen you in return rather than struggling to bend into difficult positions to preen oneself. However, its considered a sign of fondness to preen the small feathers around ones neck or crest - this is an area that one should only preen if they are considered a close friend or family member of the recipricant.

Finally there's harmonizing. Obviously singing is a large part of Rito culture, even if I don't see the joy in it much myself. A widely used way to show affection is to match the harmony of somebodies singing.

Each of these techniques is a traditional way of showing affection to a partner, a loved one, a family member or a friend, and has the same effect as...ugh, kissing, in releasing endorphins in the brain.

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here's a little ditty i made, ft dancing cursor :]

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OP I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

Super Graphic Ultra Asinine Bird Like Me

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and they say birds with blue hair cant pilot the divine beast (suddenly hears strange nigh-demonic growling from behind me) uh oh

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HIS EYES LOOK LIKE LITTLE AMONG US GUYS IM THROWING MY IPAD

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Bless this account, i hope you dont mind me keeping this in mind when writing stuff with my oc x Revali story?

Why is it that the rito prefer hammocks over traditional beds? I feel like that would do numbers on your back over time, and how would the village elder use one? wouldn't the ropes holding it snap under his weight?

'Traditional beds' - you mean Hylian beds. Hammocks are traditional Rito beds - much like pools of heated water are traditional Zora beds, and rock nests are traditional Goron beds. Just because you're a Hylian and something is traditional and normal to you, doesn't mean that it's traditional and normal to everyone.

I also find it incredibly insensitive of you to suggest that the beloved Village Elder has a weight problem because of his sizing.

Kanelli might be larger than the average Rito, but us Rito have hollow bones and small internal organs which makes us light enough to remain in the air for flight. Dispite his size, he likely weighs no more than the typical Hylian.

I shouldn't have to waste my time educating you Hylians on Rito culture when it's obvious none of you have the slightest interest in anyone other than yourselves. However, I am feeling generous today.

Unlike Hylians, Rito sleep on their fronts, a habbit from way back in the egg, then in the nest as a chick. It preserves heat and stops our tailfeathers from being crushed under us.

Trying to sleep on a hard, flat surface like a Hylian bed does nothing good for our postures. With our legs and wings underneith us while we sleep, we need a surface that can accomodate shape.

Hammocks are also efficint for a variety of reasons. In Hebra as you know the weather is very cold and wet, we experience heavy rains several times a year and due to our open plan living, everything inside of our nests gets wet. Hammocks are thin and dry quickly, thus aren't at risk of growing mould or spores. Their lightweight material also stops us from overheating with our thick feathers, whereas a Hylian bed is built to trap in the heat.

Overall, Hammocks are the superior bedding choice for a number of reasons when it comes to Rito lifestyle. Hylians are simply too small-minded to see past their own noses and think about our differences and how they may impact our ways of life.

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Day 24 - Deity

“Please just tell me… what is it…? What is wrong with me?!”

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Redrew an old Inuyasha screenshot and made it Mel and Hylian Revali between comms im doing.

These two make me ILL i love them SO MUCH and im finally happy with how i did a Hylian version of Revali 😭 90’s-2000’s anime style just fits him really well

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trick or treat 😖🙌

your trreat is this vali from back in like, june x)

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You all know I love 'Revali wasn't an adult yet because of the spots on his cheeks' (and the fact we all collectively pretend to be blind to Kass ahahaha.)

Consider instead as another concept - Rito grow out of their markings around adolecence. Painting them back on is the equivalent of humans wearing makeup to look younger/more attractive.

Birds are attracted by bright colours so giving yourself bright red blush and neon eyeliner makes sense for a Rito trying to make themselves pretty. (The only part of Revali that is yellow is his eyebrows, you cannot tell me he doesn't dye/paint them like that as a beauty choice.)

I think like - Rito Village seems pretty Gendered ™ in the sense that the NPCs talk about all the women singing and the men shooting.

However Kass is a man and his whole career is singing. He isn't bound by gender standards - he is built like a fridge and is a father of five but also wears makeup and sings songs and looks pretty.

Meanwhile Revali is The Standard for men in Rito Village to the point they idolise raising their little boys to be just like him. However he also wears makeup to look pretty. He's petite and dainty and colourful - and also a deadly war machine who could kill you with his eyes closed.

I just....I really like this. Pretty bois.

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Day 29 : Game Night