#so then fintan became my solution. and from there it really helped characterize his place in the story

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If Fintan were to have wings in your wings au, what would he have? Also yes the pirate shirts are very sexy and brb gonna go read chapter twenty to see the Fintan boyo

!! wings au questions, the way to my heart!

If Fintan's wings had grown, I think they would've ended up as an amalgamation of a bunch of different wings all thrown together due to...lore things in the story I haven't fully touched on yet. I mentioned scales around the base, so I think he would also have some dragon inspiration--but not necessarily the same species/coloration as either Marella or Linh. I don't think I specified the color in chapter 26, but I'm thinking a deep deep maroon bordering on black in terms of scale color, but that the leathery appearance of those wings would be mixed with feathers. Phoenix feathers, more specifically.

Phoenix's have kinda become an important motif in the story and Fintan would be another great place to add one. It fits with the fire theme he's got going along with his mindset of a new world rising from the ashes that he had in canon, which has kinda carried over in a new application in the wings au. And I tried to make all the wings a representation of some aspect (or more than one) of the character, like them in wing form.

A few areas of leathery wing would likely be replaced with sections of thin insect wing membrane, though no specific insect comes to mind. Aside from the dominating dragon/phoenix combination there'd just be a confusing mix of other animals/creatures showing up in little places in contrast with everything else that doesn't quite work together but has been forced into cooperation, if that makes sense.

Essentially, his wings would be confusing and not fully one kind if his had grown. They'd have been incomplete, pieces put together in ways they aren't supposed to be but that he has to work with.

And hooray! Glad the pirate shirts are sexy enough for you. He is wearing them in I think every scene he's in simply because I decided that's what he was going to do

I hope you enjoy chapter 20 for the Fintan content at the beginning. He comes back after that in chapter 26-28, though I will say if you just skip around some things might not make sense at all because there are like 250k words of content all related to each other to give context that is missing if you just skip around. But! Either way I hope you enjoy!!