#red-hooded tanager

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A new variant has been added!

Red-hooded Tanager (Piranga rubriceps) © Matt Clark

It hatches from clear, dark, extensive, female, high, male, red, short, similar, small, striking, uncommon, and yellow eggs.

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[excalisi]

Idk if anyone has said this already or you saw it yourself but you had that HC about the bird that could be joker and there's also this bird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-hooded_tanager

i feel like this could be jason, honestly. the bats assign him a bird after that "woah decapitated heads stuffed in a duffle bag uh oh" ordeal, and the decision was pretty much solely determined by the red hood name. jason likes his bird bc it has no real connection to the joker, not even as a call passed down as a mantle the way the robin one is (joker's red hood era was during bruce’s early days, before robin and therefore before the bird code system). the red-hooded tanager isn't even really a tanager, so there isn't even the relation of being in the same taxonomic group; it's technically a cardinal.

after the reveal when tensions aren't so high tho, i think someone (dick, maybe?) would give jason an obscenely neon yellow jacket as a gag gift. and that he'd gleefully incorporate it into his daily wardrobe, enjoying the way people almost refuse to acknowledge he's wearing it at all in order to resolve the cognitive dissonance. no one's going to tell the extremely dangerous crime lord that his jacket looks like something straight out the closet of haikyuu's sakusa kiyoomi except painted with the vomit of some person obsessed with radioactive bananas. they all want to live, thank you very much

[magnetothemagnificent]

I guess it's time I share my list of birds from this past Jewish year (I've been keeping two Big Year lists, Jewish year and secular year). All are from the US, except the last few which are indicated.

1. Ruby-crowned kinglet

2. American Robin

* Leucistic American Robin

3. Song sparrow

4. Rock pigeon

* Melanistic rock pigeon

5. Chipping sparrow

6. Hairy woodpecker

7. Mourning dove

8. Northern flicker

9. Eastern towhee

10. White crowned sparrow

11. White-throated sparrow

12 Savannah sparrow

13. House sparrow

14. European starling

15. American Crow

16. Common Raven

17. Gray catbird

18. Northern mockingbird

19. Canada Goose

20. Spotted Sandpiper

21. American herring gull

22. Marsh wren

23. Limpkin

24. Great white heron

25. Cattle egret

26. Anhinga

27. Snowy egret

28. Great blue heron

29. Black-crowned night heron

30. Wood stork

31. Common gallinule

32. Blue-gray gnatcatcher

33. Turkey vulture

34. Black vulture

35. Yellow rumped warbler

36. Tufted titmouse

37. Little blue heron

38. White ibis

39. Cooper's hawk

40. Cardinal

41. Green heron

42. Carolina wren

43. Palm warbler

44. Pine warbler

45. Sandhill crane

46. Carolina chickadee

47. Bluejay

48. Osprey

49. Chimney swift

50. Red-tailed hawk

51. Prairie warbler

52. American kestrel

53. Glossy ibis

54. Pied-billed grebe

55. Double-crested cormorant

56. Grey kingbird

57. Brown pelican

58. Fish crow

59. Royal tern

60. Bald eagle

61. Painted bunting

62. American white pelican

63. Common grackle

64. Boat-tailed grackle

65. Great-tailed grackle

66. American purple gallinule

67. American coot

68. Brown-headed cowbird

69. Tricolored heron

70. Mallard

71. Black-bellied whistling duck

72. Eastern kingbird

73. Yellow-billed cuckoo

74. Muscovy duck

75. American bittern

76. Ring-billed gull

77. American Pekin

78. Mallard-Pekin hybrid

79. Eastern bluebird

80. Yellow-bellied sapsucker

81. Red-winged blackbird

82. White-eyed vireo

83. Mottled duck

84. Broad-winged hawk

85. Dark-eyed junco

86. Brown thrasher

87. Sharp-shinned hawk

88. House finch

89. Eastern Phoebe

90. Downy woodpecker

91. Fox sparrow

92. Loggerhead Shrike!!!!

93. White breasted nuthatch

94. Red-bellied woodpecker

95. Brown creeper

96. Pileated woodpecker

97. American goldfinch

98. House wren

99. Barn swallow

100. Tree swallow

101. Black and white warbler

102. Red eyed vireo

103. Yellow warbler

104. Mute swan

105. Rusty blackbird

106. Common yellowthroat

107. Warbling vireo

108. Northern waterthrush

109. Veery

110. Swamp sparrow

111. Wood duck

112. American redstart

113. Orchard oriole

114. Greater Yellowlegs

115. Lesser Yellowlegs

116. Baltimore oriole

117. Hermit thrush

118. Wood thrush

119. Ovenbird

120. Indigo bunting

121. Black-throated blue warbler

122. Scarlet tanager

123. Worm-eating warbler

124. Northern rough-winged swallow

125. Blue-headed vireo

126. Northern parula

127. Prothonotary warbler

128. Philadelphia vireo

129. Blackburnian warbler

130. Magnolia warbler

131. Cedar waxwing

132. Blackpoll warbler

133. Yellow-throated vireo

134. Eastern wood pewee

135. Acadian flycatcher

136. Tennessee warbler

137. Caspian tern

138. Laughing gull

139. Forster's tern

140. American oystercatcher

141. Green-winged teal

142. Purple Martin

143. Least tern

144. Field sparrow

145. Killdeer

146. Grey-cheeked thrush

147. Rose-breasted grosbeak

148. Great-crested flycatcher

149. Swainson's thrush

150. Bay-breasted warbler

151. Chestnut-sided warbler

152. Willow flycatcher

153. Ruby-throated hummingbird

154. Peregrine falcon

155. Hooded crow IL

156. Laughing dove IL

157. Eurasian collared dove IL

158. Eurasian jackdaw IL

159. Common myna IL

160. Rose-ringed parakeet IL

161. White spectacled bulbul IL

162. European bee eater IL

163. Chukar IL

164. Short toed snake eagle IL

165. White stork IL

166. Little egret IL

167. Pygmy cormorant IL

168. Eurasian hoopoe IL

169. Alpine swift IL

170. Graceful pinia IL

171. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler IL

172. Tristan's Starling IL

173. Fan tailed raven IL

174. Eurasian black cap IL

Here's to at least 200 next year!

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

List of Birds organized by Order + locations:

Accipitriformes:

Bearded vulture

Cooper's hawk

Osprey

Red-shouldered hawk

Steller's sea eagle

Anseriformes:

Bar-headed goose

Barnacle goose

Black swan

Common merganser

Red-breasted goose

Snow goose

Trumpeter swan

Apodiformes:

Common swift

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Bucerotiformes:

Eurasian hoopoe

Cariamiformes:

Red-legged seriema

Casuariiformes:

Emu

Southern cassowary

Cathartiformes:

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Charadriiformes:

American oystercatcher

Atlantic puffin

Black-headed gull

Black skimmer

Black-tailed godwit

European herring gull

Killdeer

Northern lapwing

Ruddy turnstone

Ciconiiformes:

White stork

Columbiformes:

Common wood pigeon

Eurasian collared dove

Luzon bleeding-heart

Nicobar pigeon

Victoria crowned pigeon

Coraciiformes:

Blue-capped kingfisher

Common kingfisher

Cuculiformes:

Asian koel

Greater roadrunner

Yellow-billed cuckoo

Eurypygiformes:

Kagu

Falconiformes:

American kestrel

Common kestrel

Galliformes:

Palawan peacock-pheasant

Western capercaillie

Gaviiformes:

Common loon

Gruiformes:

American coot

Australasian swamphen/pūkeko

Blue crane

Common moorhen

Sandhill crane

Sora

Whooping crane

Passeriformes:

American bushtit

American robin

Australian raven

Baltimore oriole

Barn swallow

Black-billed magpie

Black-capped chickadee

Black-throated sparrow

Blue-headed vireo

Blue jay

Bluethroat

Brown thrasher

California towhee

Canada warbler

Canyon wren

Cedar waxwing

Common blackbird

Common chlorospingus

Common raven

Eastern wood pewee

Eurasian blue tit

Eurasian bullfinch

Eurasian golden oriole

Eurasian jay

Eurasian magpie

European robin

Goldcrest

Great-tailed grackle

Great tit

Hooded crow

House sparrow

Indigo bunting

Kirtland's warbler

LeConte's sparrow

Long-tailed tit

Mexican jay

Painted bunting

Phainopepla

Pine siskin

Pin-tailed whydah

Pinyon jay

Pygmy nuthatch

Red winged blackbird

Rook

Saltmarsh sparrow

Satin bowerbird

Spotted towhee

Steller's jay

Tufted titmouse

Wallcreeper

Warbling vireo

Western tanager

White-breasted nuthatch

White-throated dipper

White-throated magpie-jay

Yellow-rumped warbler

Pelecaniformes:

Brown pelican

Great blue heron

Great egret

Great white pelican

Least bittern

Roseate spoonbill

Shoebill stork

Snowy egret

Phoenicopteriformes:

American flamingo

Chilean flamingo

Piciformes:

Acorn woodpecker

Clark's nutcracker

Lewis's woodpecker

Northern flicker

Pileated woodpecker

Red-bellied woodpecker

Red-headed woodpecker

Podargiformes:

Tawny frogmouth

Podicipediformes:

Pied-billed grebe

Procellariiformes:

Wilson's storm-petrel

Psittaciformes:

Australian king parrot

Chestnut-fronted macaw

Citron-crested cockatoo

Cockatiel

Galah

Gang-gang cockatoo

Pacific parrotlet

Rose-ringed parakeet

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Strigiformes:

Barn owl

Barred owl

Eurasian eagle-owl

Suliformes:

Anhinga

Blue-footed booby

Double-crested cormorant

Trogoniformes:

Elegant trogon

Locations:

Africa

America

Antarctica

Asia

Australia

Central America

Eurasia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

[graham-cracker-guillotine]

JOYFIRE!!! (read my new fic!)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings

Relationships: Roy Harper/Koriand'r/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd

Characters: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Roy Harper, Koriand'r

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[wildcactuskat]

Fun fact!

The red hooded tanager is a type of songbird

Like robins they’re passerines

Have fun with this knowledge

[bird-goofle]

hi! thank you for your kind words on my ST ii fanart!! to draw i referenced sparrow wings for the shape which is why i put it in the tags but your suggestions are intriguing. tbh i havent decided on which bird i want to go with for the actual design for ii (and for the rest of them). i was thinking something along the lines of spotted woodpecker iii and maybe hooded crow iv?? no clue about vessel q-q though i would prefer it if his type of bird displayed very clear sexual demorphism. just rolling around concepts in my brain atm--- i would love to hear your thoughts if thats ok with you! if not, then thats perfectly fine too, of course. either way i wish you a lovely day :>

Right, so I’ve taken enough time to somewhat compose my thoughts here. I have many more.

Okay I can go a couple of routes:

- Per this ask: woodpecker III extremely good, the jokes about head banging would write themselves. Hooded crow IV also very good. That man refuses to take off his hood, huh. Species thoughts as far as sexual dimorphism go: I’m back on the northern cardinal track. There are also a couple of chicken breeds and specific varieties with bigger color differences. Brown leghorns are particularly striking. If waterfowl are appealing, mallard and wood ducks, eiders, and mergansers

- Taking height into account because I think it’s a little funny: II and IV get the shorter, rounder, more maneuverable wings- game birds and passerines, possibly hawks and kestrels thrown in. Low aspect ratio. Vess and III get longer- sea and shorebirds, soaring raptors. Very high aspect ratio. Vess with water bird wings very much fits with the aquatic theme.

- The Miscellaneous: I wanna give III some nice heron wings or maybe secretary bird wings because their legs match, but really the funniest option for him that still follows that line of logic would be flamingo wings. I have a note elsewhere for a mostly unrelated thing where I want Vessel to get golden Sebright wings, which is famously a chicken breed that exhibits far less sexual dimorphism than other chicken breeds. Essentially the opposite of what you’re talking about, which I thought was an interesting coincidence

- Also very good: catbird!Vessel, hoatzin!III, Give That Man Peacock Wings (which one? I have yet to decide. Probably IV because I can)

Themed ideas:

- All red: wallcreeper, turaco, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird, summer tanager, etc. (Saw red wings, brain said “that’s a wallcreeper.” And then I wanted to give IV red and black wings because of his jacket. And then I started spiraling.)

- Oops all cockatoos: sulphur-crested, black palm, cockatiel, red-tailed black, Mitchell’s, Moluccan, umbrella, etc. because: noisy, II going bangbangcrash, III occasionally headbanging, and Vess and IV screaming. The intro to Gods really gives me big parrot vibes.

[archive-of-artprompts]

🦚Send in a number + Character and I'll draw them in an outfit based on that bird🦚

Allen's Hummingbird

African Crowned Crane

African Emerald Cuckoo

American Goldfinch

Anna's Hummingbird

Asian Emerald Cuckoo

Asian Koel

Atlantic Puffin

Azure Kingfisher

Bald Eagle

Barn Owl

Barn Swallow

Barred Owl

Bat Falcon

Bearded Vulture

Bee Hummingbird

Black Swan

Blue-And-Yellow Macaw

Blue Crowned Pigeon

Blue-Footed Booby

Blue Jay

Bohemian Waxwing

Brahma Chicken

Broad-Billed Hummingbird

Bronze Fallow Cockatie

Canadian Goose

Cassowary

Cardinal

Common Raven

Coua

Dusky Lory

Diederik Cuckoo

Eastern Brown Pelican

Egret

Emerald Starling

Emperor Penguin

Emu

Eurasian Hoopoe

Eurasian Magpie

European Starling

European Turtle Dove

Flamingo

Frigatebird

Fruit Dove

Galah

Gambel's Quail

Golden-Breasted Starling

Golden Pheasant

Gouldian Finch

Grandala

Great Hornbill

Great Horned Owl

Greater Blue-Eared Starling

Green-Legged Partridge

Gurney’s Pitta

Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Hoatzin

Hooded Crow

Horned Sungem

Hyacinth Macaw

Kadaknath

Kakapo

Keel-Billed Toucan

Lilac-Breasted Roller

Long Tailed Tit

Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove

Mandarin Duck

Mountain Bluebird

Montezuma quail

Mute Swan

Nicobar Pigeon

Northern Oriole

Painted Bunting

Paradise Tanager

Peafowl (peacock/peahen)

Peregrine Falcon

Pileated Woodpecker

Pink Cockatoo

Rainbow Lorikeet

Red Crested Turaco

Red-Necked Tanager

Resplendent Quetzal

Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Scarlet Macaw

Secretary Bird

Snowy Owl

Stork-Billed Kingfisher

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

Superb Bird-Of-Paradise

Superb Starling

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Violetear

Violet-Backed Starling

Violet-Green Swallow

Wood Duck

Wilson's Bird-Of-Paradise

Yellow-Crowned Woodpecker

Yellow-Faced Myna

Zanzibar Red Bishop

[violet-foxe]

The bird and bat names could use a makeover

'Red Robin'? Seriously? I mean, at first I get it, he still wants to be Robin, but can't because it was stolen, but I feel like he eventually gets over it at least somewhat. And it's confusing, you can't call Tim 'Red', because here is Jason being Red Hood, and you can't call him 'Robin', because Damien is Robin. So. He should rename himself to another name. Probably a bird, maybe Cardinal, or Sparrow. Maybe Sunbird, they are red.

Or if we want to forget the red theme, than we can do a smart bird that uses tools, like Raven, but then again that is taken up by another hero. Maybe Crow, or Bluejay or Rook. They are smart.

Maybe Spurwing, they have literal spikes on the wrist of their wings.

Jason got his name, Red Hood, from it being a past alias for the Joker for irony purposes. He could have gotten a cool name like Phoenix. Seriously, he rose from the dead, he is a bird, he dresses in red, he likes FIREarms. Phoenix. It's right there.

And Duke, buddy, why are you Signal, is it like the Bat Signal? The light with a bat on it because you have light powers? Boring. You could have been a bird too. And Oriole is basically his design anyway, yellow, black, and white. Other cool birds are Tanager (many different colors of those) or Goldfinch.

Or you could have referenced light or shadow. There are several birds-of-paradise that have blackhole-like feathers. The one that most closely resembles the design of Signal being the twelve-wired one. And while that is not the best name, there are a few better ones. Superbs have vantablack feathers. Manucodes have iridescent black feathers, which is cool. There are Riflebirds that have superblack feathers too, but I'm not too sure that Bruce I-Hate-Guns Wayne would allow RIFLEbird.

The point is, why didn't the boys continue the bird theme? Like. Why?

But then the girls are bats, and it makes sense, except Stephanie being Spoiler... But she was Robin at one point, and Batgirl at another, so really either works. I think Batgirl fits more tho. If she wanted to be a bird, I think some kind of hummingbird would work with her personality.

Literally all the guys are birds, and girls are bats... Except for Batman... Lol

[wrencatte]

behind the scenes ask meme! ✍️🖋️❤️

ngl, i have no memory of reblogging this meme, but that doesn't matter! Answers!!!

thanks for asking! <3

✍️ I have a concrete date for my first posted fanfic :D 2007. I remember writing "serious" stories in 2006. I was more of a doodler before that, thinking I would be a visual media artist. Then writing grabbed me by the throat and never let go

️🖋️oh gosh. i get inspiration from a lot of places. quotes. pictures. other people's writing. prompts. if you give me a specific fic I could probably tell you what inspired me

️❤️uhhhh my favorite scenes. there's so many. I *Really* like this scene from my tanager WIP (under read more cos it's longer)

He leans back as the rest of the group is taken down swiftly and brutally. His attention follows the figure that’s doing the beatdown. They move like a Bat but a little choppier. They have the initiates on the ground, groaning, before Tim can fully finish his next thought. They’re fast like a Bat too.

Interesting.

The guy doesn’t leave after, just stands there sizing Tim up in return. He’s taller than Tim by half a foot at least, shoulders broader but not by much. His outfit is homemade – a black cloth mask that takes up the bottom half of his face, a thick red hoodie is pulled low over his face, a black canvas jacket with various patches and pins. His jeans are dark blue and worn. He wears biker boots and fingerless leather gloves. There’s no visible weapons except the studs on his knuckles and the four-way lug wrench that’s spun deftly in one hand then stopped smoothly to tap against his thigh –

Like a threat.

His head tilts. Tim can feel the intense gaze staring at him from under that hood and he stands firm under it even though his skin crawls. There’s something off about this guy.

Tim stiffens when the lug wrench is lifted and tucked under Tim’s own hood. It’s cold against his skin. His gaze flickers from the weapon – confirmed now. There’s blood on two ends. Dried so not from the grounding bodies around them – then back up. The guy is so disconcertingly quiet.

The lug wrench lifts then pushes the hood off Tim’s head. It stops when the wrench taps the brick tall, fabric pinned, metal pressed against his ear.

It stop. And it doesn’t move away.

They stared at each other for a long, long moment. Tim’s curiosity has a too tight of a grip on him to even think about fighting back.

“…long way from home,” a low, hoarse voice rasps out.

[floridensis]

when i was like 9-10 i had a guide to florida birds that i would just look at constantly. i would take it with me everywhere. i still have it

i have a mental list of a bunch of birds i liked and formed a vaguely parasocial relationship with but hadnt to my knowledge seen in my one decade of life but really wanted to. the mental list has never left me and i get so excited every time i see something on the Mental List that i havent seen before

the birds:

common loon [i found a dead one once does that count]

pied billed grebe ✅

white-tailed tropicbird

northern gannet

american white pelican

magnificent frigatebird ✅

american bittern

least bittern

snowy egret ✅

little blue heron ✅

reddish egret

glossy ibis ✅

roseate spoonbill ✅

wood stork ✅

fulvous whistling duck

wood duck ✅

bufflehead

hooded merganser ✅

ruddy duck ✅

crested caracara

american kestrel ✅

northern bobwhite

purple gallinule ✅

black necked stilt ✅

black skimmer

white-crowned pigeon ✅

common ground dove ✅

downy woodpecker ✅

pileated woodpecker ✅

loggerhead shrike ✅

florida scrub-jay [i apparently saw them as a child but barely remember]

cedar waxwing ✅

blackburnian warbler

black and white warbler ✅

ovenbird ✅

summer tanager

scarlet tanager

rose-breasted grosbeak

indigo bunting

painted bunting

bobolink

red winged blackbird ✅

scarlet ibis

dovekie

.

dovekie

dovekie

[999moneyglobal]

Colombia 10,000 Pesos Banknote, 1994 The Colombia 10,000 Pesos banknote was released by the Bank of the Republic in 1994 to commemorate the Quincentennial of Columbus' voyage. The banknote comes in a color combination of green, brown, red, and yellow. Its obverse design features a plant, two sailing ships, an Embera Indian woman, a plate, and a gold figure. The back of the note depicts a greater flamingo, an Andean condor, a green honeycreeper, an Andean cock of the rock, a blue and yellow macaw, a hoatzin, a scarlet ibis, a yellow-hooded blackbird, a metallic green tanager, a white pelican, a frigatebird, a keel-billed toucan, a Baltimore oriole, a scarlet macaw, a yellow-crowned parrot, and a red-capped cardinal. It also shows Martin Waldseemullers 1507 world map, the cornucopia bank seal, and Cristobal Colons Santa Maria sailing ship. The paper bill is 140 x 70 mm in size and bears one plain security thread and one with printed BRC 10000. The banknote also has a watermark that reflects an Embera woman

[spacefinch]

I have some more birds!

Golden-hooded Tanager (They look straight out of a fantasy world)

White-throated Swift

Pied Lapwing

Violet-tailed Sylph

Horned Lark

Costa's Hummingbird

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Varied Thrush

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

[hardheadedbighearted]

Onscreen npc’s thus far (just for my own organizational purposes)

💕 Winter Schneebird: (Black-legged kittiwake gull) James’ niece, heir, and protege. Disowned in her late teens, she turned to the only family she had left, her then-estranged uncle, who took her in. They have a very emotionally dependent relationship that runs in both directions, but they love each other devotedly and are very good for each other in the long run. She lives with Clover, and they have a very love-hate relationship.

A secret about her: Winter kinda sorta doesn’t want James to have kids because she’s afraid he’ll stop caring about her once he no longer has a need to project onto her. Oh, Winter.

💕 Pietro Polendina: (Louisianna black bear) One of James’ oldest friends and one of the people responsible for his change in character in his youth. Widely considered one of the most brilliant minds in the world and regarded as the kindest man you’ll ever meet. Knows James better than anyone, including Qrow, and can usually talk him into things others would never be able to. Unable to have children naturally himself, he shares James’ frustration with his lack of parenthood, and this is one reason he’s poured himself into developing Penny. Qrow sometimes refers to him as James’ boyfriend.

A secret about him: He sometimes worries that James and Qrow’s relationship is one-sided and will ultimately end with James getting his heart broken.

💕 Qrow Branwen: (common Raven) James’ husband and emotional anchor. Recovering alcoholic. After dating James in their youth, they broke up because {redacted}, and got together again a few years ago. This time their relationship panned out and they eventually got married. For all his outward behavior, Qrow is actually very devoted, often quietly shouldering some of the many burdens James insists on carrying for everyone else. He wants children as much as James does, but feels that he would be detrimental to them in his current state, so they have put off parenthood for awhile.

A secret about him: He regrets how badly he messed up with Winter, because he feels James would have adopted her officially by now if it weren’t for Qrow, and knows she moved out because of him.

💕 Clover Ebi: (golden retriever) Head of security at Amity Labs and one of James’ proteges. Secret identity of Ace, the leader of the Ace Operatives, the Twin Cities’ mahou sentai team. Clover is earnest and sincere and completely loyal to James, who he regards as having given him everything. Despite some rather apparently tunnel vision, he likes to help people, and is always happy to escort the kids if they’re at the lab for the day. He lives with Winter and is also close to Qrow, and both like him more than they’re willing to admit; both are also sure that they’re going to put him in the ground one of these days.

A secret about him: He has a girlfriend who works for SALEM, and is worried James will consider him a security breach if he finds out.

💕 Ruby: (red-hooded tanager) James and Qrow’s niece on Qrow’s side of the family. Thirteen and very excitable. Ruby wants to grow up to study robotics one day, and often hangs around at the lab trying to soak up information. While most of the staff at the lab know her and are somewhat okay with letting her observe their work, she spends most of her time in Pietro’s lab, where she is most comfortable and feels most welcome. Overall a positive force and a friendly girl, she was deemed a perfect first friend for Penny when they got her working.

A secret about her: She has a crush on a girl way too old for her. She knows it can’t be (for that and other reasons) but that isn’t going to stop her daydreaming anyway.

💕 Ozma: (red bantam rooster) A fairy. A troll. A cryptic bastard. James met Ozma in his teen years, and has always found his brand extremely frustrating, especially as so many people take things as evidence of magic at face value instead of looking at the logical explanation. Ozma rarely leaves the tower these days, to the point that most people don’t even know he exists. Those that do are agreed that he’s a fairy, though. Though he won’t give details about himself, he will sometimes drop hints to a sad, despair-filled past.

💕 Ozpin: (red bantam chicken) Probably an immortal wizard and Ozma’s counterpart. Met James when James was a teenager, and is one of the other people responsible for James’ change of tune in his youth. James once considered him a father figure; while he still has confusing feelings about him in regards to this, recent actions have led him to feel betrayed by this, so their relationship is messy and complicated as a result.

💕 Arthur Watts: (saddle-billed stork) James’ ex. Hacker for SALEM. Bastard man. Ninety percent leg, even by stork standards. He and James met through Pietro when James was recovering from his accident, and there followed a very toxic couple of years that James would spend far longer recovering from. After James started dating Qrow, Arthur did a tabloid interview about their (up to this point unknown) relationship, both outing James when he’d preferred to keep his sexuality private, as well as casting aspersions on his character (the implications being that James cheated on him, among other things). He is James’ main link when doing his work with SALEM, and never fails to use his visits to remind James he still has a measure of power over him.

A secret about him: He’s still in love with James

💕 SALEM: Not so much a person as a company. On the surface, SALEM is just a regular old r&d company (and a much smaller one that Amity). What’s known is they do medical and robotics testing, do contract work for the military, and develop prosthetics. What’s rumoured is that they engage in shady, unethical practices, experiment on humans, and may have done the sort of genetic experimentation that horror movies start with. The company’s ceo’s identity is unknown, even down to pronouns, so the company is usually referred to interchangeably with whoever is in charge (so “SALEM” could refer to the company and its practices, or the person in charge). James has business with them through some inherited contracts he can’t get out of, but he’s working on that- in the meantime, it’s hinted that he knows more about the inner workings of the company than he lets on.

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