#strix struma

[minifrau]

STRIX STRUMA

“If beggars belief to think that these brave owlets would fly here by themselves to spin a fairy tale.”

[starmi-designs]

#19 Strix Struma

🤨 idk

[jasmineowlet]

This is my first fanfic I’ve written for years, it’s safe to say that my writing skills have improved and it’s nice to return to my roots regardless of how cringy it is.

Before Otulissa became the bright and often annoying owl that we came to know and love, what if she was a bashful fledgling who didn’t know how to socialise when she first came to the Great Tree? A heartwarming tale about a fledgling’s first meeting with her mentor, the distinguished Strix Struma. I present to you ‘Something Familiar’:

[a-little-monotonous]

OH I thought that was otulissa in the parliament hollow but ig that was actually strix struma

[incorrectguardians]

On Otulissa, and her similarities to the villains.

I don’t have to go into why she’s such a loved character, I could gush so much about Otulissa just in general, any day of the week, but there’s something curious about her growth and development throughout the series. 

Otulissa is a very fun character, because she very much, more often than not, acts as a foil to the major and sometimes minor villains. Most notably to The Striga and Gemma, yet surprisingly, also to Nyra.

While I wouldn’t go so far as to call Otulissa and Nyra foils, they are connected and quite similar, Otulissa is the one who gave Nyra her scar, after all.

Here, so:

Nyra’s a very vengeful and vindictive owl, she’s named after an ancient tradition of Nyrolian Owls, and takes pride in it, reminding everyone of it when she can. 

She believes that violence is the only way to achieve what she wants. Violence and conquering, to achieve full and total control of the owl kingdoms. 

She loved Kludd cause he was the only one who could match her, they could create a powerful union together, and bring the Pure Ones to a new era. They were perfect for each other, complimented each other. 

That sounds a little familiar, doesn’t it? At its core at least.

While I would not call Otulissa a vengeful owl as in that she believes in an “eye for an eye,” but she is vindictive as in, how to put it…

It’s partly due to the fact that Otulissa and the rest were only just ‘grown’ when the first whispers of the Pure Ones arose, they still had so much left to learn. The scar she gave Nyra was during the first official battle she ever fought, and it was out of revenge. Nyra had just killed her beloved mentor, Strix Struma. 

Otulissa has a very strong sense of what is right, and what is wrong. When she feels she has been wronged, she’ll do whatever she can to make it right. This does lead to spats, disagreements, this can lead to violence. She's demonstrated moments of rage and anger when she has been wronged, but it’s not because she believes in an eye for an eye. 

Otulissa is a very traditional name for a female spotted owl in the Northern Kingdoms, a mark of very distinguished heritage, and she takes a lot of pride in that fact. 

But Otulissa is not from the Northern Kingdoms, she knew that her ancestors came from there to the south at some point (evidenced by the discovery of her beloved Strix Emerilla), but she’d barely have an idea of how many generations separate her from that era. Otulissa was born and grew up in the Southern Kingdoms. She was also orphaned very young, like the rest, it’s likely she only knew the tip of the iceberg regarding her family (added to what Audrey may have told her). Everything she knows about them is from her own research. She wanted to be just like her distinguished predecessors. 

Nyra, however, is from the Northern Kingdoms, and she’s similarly named after an ancient tradition that spans back centuries, maybe even before the time of the legends. She carries the name of that first, ancient, Nyra. She also takes a lot of pride in that fact, naming her son after the same tradition. Nyra is just like her predecessors, born on the night of an eclipse, but she uses that power for evil. In comparison to Otulissa, she knows her heritage, grew up at her roots. She also describes herself as a very practical owl, much like Otulissa.

Regardless, Nyra thought she was better than everyone else. 

But in Otulissa’s case, if her peers only thought that Otulissa thought that she was better than everyone else, it didn’t matter. Because whether or not she, at some point, actually believed so, very soon her and everyone else were going to get a shock that made them stop believing that. You can thank the Pure Ones. 

There’s a dangerous slope there, between what is simply just pride in one’s heritage, and the great evil that Nyra was threatening. 

Everyone is going through their own struggles, everyone is just like everyone else. Otulissa just needed to learn how to live with it. 

Even so, Otulissa puts quite a bit of emphasis on this heritage of hers, something that I cannot accurately claim is unique to her, but is definitely brought to attention more through her than anyone else. 

This gives her a contrast to other characters we meet, who are often instead proof that it is not someone’s origin that matters, it’s their actions that count. While Otulissa still knows this, she struggles with it at times, and is shown to be close minded, calling Soren treasonous when he had refused to train Skench and Sproon in The Burning. 

When she met Cleve, she grew interested, they were much alike, he was perfect, such a distinguished gentleman, in her eyes. Like Nyra, It certainly felt like another match made in Glaumora (well, Hagsmire for Kludd and Nyra). 

Otulissa was shocked to find out that he was a pacifist. Because he was a prince with such an illustrious history! From a long line of warriors! From the same hollow Strix Emerilla came from! For Glaux’s sake! 

If Nyra were here, she would have spat at something and called him a coward, yeepish, etc etc. 

Otulissa? Otulissa did not say any of those things out loud.

She’s instead just, extremely confused. Because why wouldn’t she be. For one, she’s from The Great Tree, she’s been growing up and learning how to fight. At the moment she met Cleve in The Burning, she’s coming into her own, preparing for a war strategy that she came up with, that she knows is vital to stopping the Pure Ones and vanquishing the evil. She knows that there would be no simply talking to them, that there would be no ‘negotiating for peace’ with the Pure Ones, that war is the only option. 

And for another, Cleve is from an aristocratic family that is drenched in a history of warfare. Otulissa herself is very proud of the weathertrixes in her own family. She doesn’t understand why he would still choose to be a pacifist, isn’t he proud?

On the other hand, a Nyrolian owl is always destined for great things. To Nyra’s credit, conquering the owl kingdoms believing it is their Glaux-given right as Barn Owls, is a ‘great’ thing indeed (Even if horrific). In fact, in her eyes, the only great thing worth striving for. As a Nyrolian Owl, shouldn’t her own son agree? Be striving for it as well?

But… back to Otulissa, if there’s one thing she’s been learning to do so far, it’s how to open her mind. So she and Cleve begin to understand one another, even if their differences are vast.

And then when Coryn, the son of Nyra, came to the Beyond and met Otulissa. It was part of a continuous lesson she’s been learning, that heritage doesn’t have to mean anything to you if you don’t want it to, and it dictates nothing.

It’s what you do with it, whether it’s in spite of, or with respect to, or in defiance of it, that matters from start to finish. 

Gemma was the creator of the Guardians of the Guardians of the Ember, so otherwise, she’s not a major villain. There’s a bit of foreshadowing at the beginning of The Golden Tree, where she constantly mentioned Ezylryb and how she shares a kinship with him because they were both Whiskered Screeches. Trying to claim things about him that were completely incorrect, of course everyone in the moment who knew him personally had something to say about it. But again, it sounds familiar. 

You could say that Gemma started out the same way as Otulissa, not knowing who she was, relying on how others similar to her, who came before her, were like. Gemma never knew her heritage face to face, neither did Otulissa, she likely read about it, just like Otulissa. 

Like Otulissa, Gemma has a strong sense of what is right in her eyes, and what is wrong. But Gemma didn’t care whether or not what she was saying was factually correct or not, she was okay with lying as a means to getting her way. Because, according to Gemma, if she’s just like her ancestors, then clearly her ancestors were just like her and believed the same things she did. Otulissa however, all she did was read, read, read, and read, searching for what was fact and separating it from what was false. Otulissa leaves very little to assumptions, and further still has very little patience for what’s fictional. 

However, I’m not sure if anyone tried to help Gemma or not, because it’s clear that she’s younger than Otulissa, or at the very least hasn’t been at the Great Tree for as long. But not young in general, because she’s in parliament. 

Yet she remained as she did, and the events of The Golden Tree happened as they did. Gemma did not develop an open mind and instead let herself get consumed by her own fear and ignorance, and Otulissa didn’t. 

Mostly because Otulissa was sitting in jail the entire time.

In general, Otulissa always hated anything and everything that could be considered flashy, vulgar, and completely unnecessary. Always has and won’t budge. No owl would need to wear clothes, that’s an Others thing. Her hollow only needs what is beneficial to her work, and of course, a perch and nest to sleep on. She’ll pursue her own comfort, evidenced by her keeping a coal grate in her hollow in The Hatchling. But she wouldn’t keep anything solely for its aesthetic value, and, when she was younger, actively scorned others when she saw that they did. 

Of course, as an adult, she now mostly begrudges it, accepting that it’s just not for her, and would not deny an owl the right to have them. Even going as far as agreeing to hide Madame Plonk’s teacup for her during The Golden Tree.

Similarly, Otulissa despised joke books because she found them completely vulgar and they taught nothing. She didn’t mind, but could not find herself interested in fiction. She wanted to know what was real and true. But she loved poems and music, because they often reflected things like the writer’s personal life, the state of the world, and the feelings in one's gizzard, and that was real to her. 

Once again, despite her reservations, she would never prevent another owl from reading any sort of book. 

She couldn’t stand it when others would mess around and make unprofessional what an important outing with the chaw was going to be, especially when it’s her own teacher perpetuating and encouraging it. It’s very undignified, nothing like her. 

So when The Striga was welcomed to the Great Tree and began talking about ‘vanity,’ Otulissa, now grown, found that she could agree, to an extent. But what The Striga was suggesting bordered on dangerous. 

At a glance, The Striga assumed that he and Otulissa were very much alike, two birds of a feather, but the feeling was absolutely not mutual. 

When he met Otulissa in the library, The Striga claimed that only the practical studies were free of vanity, that anything else was “anti-glaux,” and that he approved of Otulissa’s choice of book at the moment (a book on atmospheric pressure, by Strix Emerilla, of course). But added on that one should never be too prideful, that pride was another vanity. 

Otulissa was very proud of her ancestors, but was never one who did something for the approval of someone else. Everyone is different, going through their own struggles, just like everyone else. Due to previous events in her life, Otulissa was also instinctually wary of any owl that attempted to preach an ideal Owl World based on quantities of “purity.” Even if The Striga had tried to call it “true owlness.” 

The Striga then attempted to use this encounter to get Otulissa out of the Great Tree, along with the band, but he clearly underestimated her, since she elected to stay behind. The encounter also later gave Otulissa what she needed to make the decision to smuggle books out of the Great Tree, the ones she felt were at risk of disappearing thanks to The Striga. 

Then later, when she lost her eye, she went one step further to separate herself just a little bit more from The Striga’s ideals. With Trader Mags’ help, someone who she historically never got along with, she picked out a rather “jaunty” bandana for herself to wear over the injury. Saying that there was nothing wrong with a bit of vanity. 

I don’t believe that were Otulissa left to her own devices, she’d grow up to be something evil. Likely only just bitter, snooty, stuck-up, and snobbish and a ryb who was a horrible teacher that everyone hated and would celebrate when she died. Much like Dewlap, who I omitted from this analysis because …. I forgot, my bad, because this is long enough as it is.

But she had friends and rybs who taught her as much as she taught them, and instead she grew up to be a, still a bit snooty, ryb whose a great teacher… despite the mixed opinions of her students. 

I just think it’s very interesting that she’s had so many similarities to the villains that seem purposeful. 

Because Otulissa was never something to be fixed, there was never anything wrong with her, she didn’t have to get a new personality. Everything she grew into was something she did herself, she just needed someone to see who she truly was, what she could do.

[arthurian-owls]

Hi! I wanted to ask about your headcanons about human versions of ga'hoole characters; you mentioned Soren with long hair, and I'd like to hear more ^_^

Omg omg okay SO

Soren:

Long auburn hair, pale skin, straight and narrow nose. Dark brown or black eyes, possibly glasses? He wouldn't figure out that he needs them until after he's been at the great tree awhile. This man wears sweater vests and the most torn-up, schmutz-covered jeans you've ever seen. I picture Soren to be tall and lean and deceptively strong.

Gylfie:

Gylfie is our short queen standing around 4'11 with medium-brown skin and dark hair with what I would describe as an "interesting curl pattern" in that some parts are very tightly curled and some parts are more fluffy and loose, which altogether creates a difficult to maintain but very lovely head of hair. In my mind's eye I see it cut just below the shoulders so when it's up in a ponytail it lands just above them. She definitely has freckles, both lighter and darker. She has pale brown eyes that look golden in the right lighting. Gylfie is definitely the most put-together of the Band, but not quite as much as Otulissa. I picture her having a very neat but practical sense of style, and can be found wearing lots of neutrals and heavy-duty materials unless it's a special occasion or she has a day off. Owns many many funky earrings.

Digger:

Digger is probably average height, with deep brown skin and a charmingly crooked nose. His eyes are black and downturned, heavy on the bottom lashes, and he keeps his hair in dreads and those dreads in a ponytail. This man wears flowy, layered clothes, and definitely paints his nails. He's generally just a solid, down-to-earth presence.

Twilight:

Twilight is a large man. Tall, broad shoulders, shaggy hair, pale eyes that feel like they're looking right into your soul. Honestly, I have very few headcanons on what he looks like, but I do like to think he's transmasc. Just for funsies. I also think as he gets older he wears a pair of half-moon glasses for reading. He's covered in scars and spends half his life just totally sunburnt but the guy just exudes a zest for life that is completely unmatched.

Otulissa:

Otulissa is always, entirely and completely, put together. Rarely a hair out of place, rarely an even slightly ruffled appearance- which is why it's so funny to the others when she gets so frazzled in the weather chaw, and so frightening when she's tearing through the halls of the great tree like a woman possessed after Strix Struma's death. Otulissa is tall, with lean muscle and a keen eye. I always imagine her having wavy brown or blonde hair and a button nose that becomes crooked after so many battles. She has a charming gap in her front teeth.

Eglantine:

Eglantine is a redhead and I will die on this hill. Much like Soren, she has a straight and narrow nose and dark eyes, and I honestly picture her wearing lots of gold and pink. She also needs glasses, and I like to think that when she laughs, it's *loud* and *joyful* and extremely infectious. I can see her wearing a ponytail with a big floppy bow in it. I think her style is casual and honestly reminiscent of a cozy 80's mom.

Primrose:

Primrose has straight dark hair and green eyes and wears sweaters and lots of fun jewelery and that's all I have in my brain for her atm 😅

I may come back with more but it's so hot rn that my brain is melting into a puddle of mush haha! Feel free to add on your own headcanons 👀

[lillytr-archive]

If you’re still taking requests, could you please draw Strix Struma sometime?

Strix Struma! Definitely want to design her actual helmet sometime, but I like the thought of the Strikers having big ol plumes on their helmets :3

[avesdraws]

some rybs

[glazeliights]

finally, after over two months of work, my multifandom megapiece is complete!!

closeups and character tags of the specific fandoms will be in the reblogs

[behold-the-guardians]

Trying my hand at owl badges again! I really enjoyed making the last ones but I kinda forgot about it for a while lol

[poisonedwell]

gylfie/otulissa remains a galaxy brained ship but i think i prefer otulissa/cleve for bisexual reasons

[tree-spright]

Some books I've reread from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series

Ratings Here

The Shattering - 4 stars This book starts out with Eglantine slowly getting shattered throughout this book by being betrayed by Ginger. Ginger places flecks in her bedding and over time starts taking her to see her "mother" at the beaks. In reality it's Nyra from the pure ones. At the end, Eglantine snaps out of it and steals Nyra's egg. There's a fight in fire and the egg is shattered. The band meets with the Parliament and it's decided they're going to go to the northern kingdoms. After hearing so much about the northern kingdoms the last few books, I can't wait to see how different the northern kingdoms are. I also found it odd how quick they were to trust Ginger, so it's nice to see a little pay off from that.

The Siege - 4 stars This book features the most anticipated return to St. Augie's and at the end the very first battle with Kludd. I think the duality of the guardians compared to details about st Augies and the pure ones gives you a very clear picture to how different they all are. At the very last few pages were hit with the death of Strix Struma and Sorens future sight which leads us to conclude that this is indeed not the last we'll see of the pure ones. I look forward to reading more because I think these books are truly special in their own way.

[kiwikipedia]

Oh also one of the birds has ankle swords, I forgot to mention that part

Anyone who says dumb shit like “oh we can’t animate expression onto animals it’s not realistic enough” has never seen Narnia, yeah, BUT YOUVE ALSO NEVER SEEN THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE

Fellas when I say that movie is sO FINE

There is rage in the expression of a barn owl, pure disgust in the expression of a Boreal Owl, pride in the expression of a whispered screech owl. And that doesn’t even TOUCH on the animation put into the movements each owl makes, the way that Digger’s head tilts and how he moves about while talking, the way Gylfie situates herself, how she looks around, how Twilight, Bubo, and the other massive sized birds keep still, hold their balance and, how Barron and Borron watch over the others and have the air or regality that snowy owls do.

the animators spent time studying how owls acted and how they flew and moved. Modern CGI have since with Marvel and Disney, but it thrived under the direction of Zack Snyder

[detective-with-one-arm]

🎥 Movies or books?

Honestly, that really does depend. More often than not, though, I tend to prefer movies to the books, even if I’ve read the book first. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, for instance, I’ve read the books before I saw the movie and I thought the movie was better overall, even if there were some things that I thought they kinda didn’t do very well. I like how Digger and Twilight are basically a married couple, but I wish that they weren’t just reduced to comic relief characters because their book selves are very interesting mellow companion characters and it could’ve been fixed if they’d just kept that deleted scene with the Band at the burned hollow. And I also didn’t like how the Spotted Owl characters like Strix Struma and Otulissa were changed to Short-Eared Owls to make them pretty, because...that was very much not the point of either character and it annoys me because Otulissa has such a great fucking arc in the book that directly parallels and ties in with the themes revolving around what the antagonists represent and it’s fucking great and she deserves better, damn it! Also the echidna was a pointless edition and served absolutely zero purpose and if he was cut out, nothing about the film would change. If it were up to me, I would’ve stuck in Hortense, Streak, and Zan where the Echidna was and it would’ve helped give more context to exactly how far the Pure Ones were willing to go to achieve their goals without detracting from the main protagonists or story.

I also ended up reading HTTYD after I saw the first movie and I thought the book was really fucking dull and boring and I honestly didn’t really enjoy it that much. Movie was way better in my opinion.

...this just became a rant, whoops.

[bean-bam]

This post contains spoilers for the Guardians of Ga’hoole books.

So I watched the Legends of the Guardians movie last night and forgot just how many inconsistencies there are with the books. Don’t get me wrong, I love the movie but fuck. I just feel like I need to tell someone. 

Sorry for the long post, but there is just so much different.

Here we go:

1. Soren is not fully-fledged at the beginning of the books

2. Eglantine hasn’t even hatched yet

3. The legends all the chicks are told are not about Lyze of Kiel

4, Lyze of Kiel never fought Metal Beak 

5. Kludd is Metal Beak 

6. Mrs. Plithiver does not have eyes, she is blind

7. The Guardians never fought in the Battle of the Ice Claws

8. Literally, everything about Metal Beak is wrong

9. Eglantine and Marella don’t have the speckle under their eye

10. Kludd and Soren were not branching at the same time

11. Soren didn’t really roleplay as a guardian

12. Noctus would not have told Soren that when he started branching, the noise wasn’t important. Noisy branching leads to noisy flight.

13. Eglantine would not be eating fur on meat or meat on bones yet, her first pellet would not have bones or fur in it.

14. Soren did not try and branch/fly while his parents were gone

15. Kludd isn’t as much of a dick in the movie as he is in the book.

16. Kludd didn’t push Soren off a branch, he pushed Soren out of the hollow

17. Kludd pushed Soren to kill him, not because he wanted Soren to shut up.

19. Kludd did not fall out of the nest. 

20. Soren did not get attacked by an animal on the ground

21. There were no Tasmanian devils

22. The books were not explicitly set in Australia/New Zealand/that general area

23. Jatt and Jutt are doofuses in the movies, they are a lot more serious in the books

24. Kludd wasn’t snatched

25. The St. Aggies owls didn’t sing their song when bringing the owlets back

26. Soren was a lot more confused and frightened by the different owls because he had only seen Tytos before

27. The Pure Ones did not control St. Aggies

28. Nyra is not the Ablah General of St. Aggies

29. There is no Skench and Spoorn, the Leaders of St. Aggies in the books.

30. St. Aggies is not affiliated with the Pure Ones

31. Soren and Gylfie worked in the Pelletorium by choice

32. Not pits or pit guardians. In the books, Gylfie and Soren were kept in different pits and both of their pit guardians make a comeback later in the books.

33. St Aggies, in general, is just all messed up

34. Jatt and Jutt instructed the owlets in the sleep march seemed a lot cooler in the books

35. Soren and Gylfie weren’t given number designations

36. Gylfie doesn’t know how to navigate

37. They don’t start their first moonblinking session together

38. Soren would be the one bad at acting moonblinked, not Gylfie

39. Jatt and Jutt didn’t instruct the new owlets in the Pelletorium.

40. Again, no Pure Ones in St. Aggies

41. St. Aggies owls care a lot about number designations

42. Flecks were kept in the Library and no owl except for Skench or Spoorn could go in there.

43. Bats literally had nothing to do with the flecks

44. Flecks didn’t immobilize owls like that, they are just little bits of magnetic metal

45. Honestly, the Metal Beak in the movie doesn’t even look like a Tyto

46. Grimble didn’t confront the owlets about not being perfectly moonblinked. Gylfie confronted Grimble.

47. St. Aggies didn’t take Grimble’s family. They tried to snatch Bess, Grimble fought back, and St Aggies promised to leave his family alone if he came with them

48. There were a lot more flying lessons with Grimble

49. No Hortense :(

50. In the Pure Ones, Tyto Albas were much more highly ranked than other Tytos and would not have been trained together

51. Soren and Gylfie had to fly straight up out of the canyonlands, they didn’t get a ledge to fly off of

52. Grimble was killed in the library

53. Grimble didn’t say shit about finding the Guardians

54. Soren and Gylfie met Twilight first, not Digger, when they tried to land for the first time

55. Twilight and Digger were not buddies/living together, they didn’t even know each other.

56. Soren, Gylfie, and Twilight found Digger running in the desert

57. Digger is not eccentric and crazy

56. Twilight did not catch Mrs. Plithiver for dinner.

57. Soren found Mrs. Plithiver

58. Digger was the one that had a slip up about eating Mrs. P

59. Mrs. P didn’t know what happened to Soren’s parents

60. Twilight didn’t have a lute

61. Twilight was not a poet or musician. He. is. a. warrior. He just has his battle taunts

62. Mrs. P flew on Soren or Twilights back, not in a lute.

63. Soren and Digger went and looked for their parents, Gylfie wanted to but just assumed they were dead.

64. Twilight talked A LOT more about the Orphan School of Tough Learning

65. The band got mobbed by crows during one of their first flights together, Digger was hella injured

66. The crows did not try and steal Mrs. P

67. Um. Mirror Lakes? Hello?

68. There were no echidna’s in the books

69. Nice

70. Um. Ice Narrows? Dumpy the puffin? Hello?

71. Seriously who is this echidna?

72. Digger isn’t a tracker yet. Gylfie still isn’t a navigator yet. Twilight would not refer to himself as a poet warrior

73. Pretty sure Boron was the one to speak to the Band when they got close to the tree, not Barran. I could be wrong

74. Nearly forgot about this, what about the rogue smith in the beaks and the bobcat? What about the “You only wish”?

75. Ezylryb is not a crazy owl

76. I really hate how they portrayed Ezylryb

77. Who the fuck is Allomere? He sure as hell isn’t in the books.

78. The band does not know about the Pure Ones when they get to the Great Tree

79. Barran is the leader of the Search and Rescue Chaw

80. Ezylryb would not get in a fight with another owl

81. It’s tweener, not dinner

82. Otulissa may be snobby but she isn’t a total bitch

83. Nestmaid snakes are the tables in the dining hollow

84. The band did not have their classes together

85. Using an Owl City song was very cash money of them (not an inconsistency)

86. Ezylryb doesn’t lead colliering, just weather interpretation.

87. What happened to getting tapped for a chaw

88. Pretty sure a big part of Soren’s character is that he is a phenomenal collier. They made no indication that he is a collier in the movie.

89. Eglantine wasn’t moonblinked, she was stone stunned/damaged by flecks

90. I’m kind of sad there is no Poot

91. Ezylryb didn’t just tell owls to rely on their gizzard when flying in a storm

92. No Octavia :(

93. Guardians didn’t fight with metal swords

94. They also didn’t use helmets until the band and Otulissa figured out mu metal could protect them from flecks

95. Ezylryb didn’t tell soren he is Lyze of Kiel

96. Ezylryb had his old battle claws hung up in a secret hollow

97. Eglantine was found in the Great Downing

99. Hundred of owlets, not just two

100. The downing was this huge operation, took the whole tracking and search and rescue chaws

101. Also, no Primrose, Martin, or Ruby :(

102. The guardians didn’t go straight into a war.

103. Ezylryb would NEVER PUT ON BATTLE CLAWS

104. Ezylryb would NEVER FIGHT IN A BATTLE

105. We just going to ignore The Rescue, The Siege, The Shattering, and most of The Burning?

106. This battle is the most like the battle of the canyonlands but in reality this battle just never happened in the books

107. No trader Mags

108. Strix Struma is still alive in the movie

109. Really, everything after this point is different than the books

110. Bats didn’t fight for the Pure Ones or St. Aggies

111. Ezylryb would never.

112. Why the fuck are they having Twilight carry a lute into battle. Fuck that

113. Fire doesn’t stop the flecks by destroying the contraption that is exposing them.

114. Fire literally demagnetizes flecks

115. This really isn’t how flecks impair others. Like at all

116. They really don’t show Soren getting one coal in the movie :(

117. I’m serious, this battle and everything that happens in it did not happen in the books

118. Oh yea, Kludd and Nyra were mates

119. By Glaux I hate that they show Ezylryb fighting

120. Kludd would never beg for help, especially from Soren.

121. Soren didn’t kill Metal Beak. (See 5 and 121)

122. Metal Beak wasn’t killed by a burning branch, he was killed by an ice sword

123. Speaking of ice swords, where the heck are the Northern Kingdoms in the movie.

124. Soren’s parents are fucking dead. They literally did not come to the Great Tree because Kludd killed them. (Ngl I like the ending of the movie better because its a happy ending with Soren and his family all together.)

125. Kludd most definetly died after the Guardians had their big battle with the Pure Ones in the canyonlands

Okay, thats it. If there are any inconsistencies I missed, feel free to let me know.

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Twilight And Barran

What I said: I’m fine

What I mean: I feel like the relationship between Twilight and Barran is too underrated, and such a missed opportunity. We know that Barran was the ryb of the Search and Rescue claw, which was Twilight’s chaw. And we can only assume that he took over as ryb after Barran died. Like I mean Soren had Ezylryb, Gylfie and Otulissa had Strix Struma, Digger had Sylvana, and even though Twilight and Barran never really interacted, they do mention each other at times. Their relationship seems professional, but with all the trouble Twilight and the band get into, their relationship is a bit too in the gray area. In this essay I will-

I assume you already know Twilight so let’s just focus on his relationship with authority.

Twilight, for the most part, definitely seemed to have a problem with authority, as shown with Soren, Dewlap, and the Great Tree in general. He’s fine to go along till something either doesn’t go his way, or gets boring. Of course he grows out of this later, but what’s really interesting is that he doesn’t seem to be like that with Barran, at last not after he formally met her. Now this may be because they don’t get any page time together, it probably wasn’t intended, but I’m willing to read into this as much as I can because Twilight can’t be the only one without a mentor figure considering how much he’s grown.

And there’s actually a moment here that may have been Barran's decision.

‘Twilight’s orphan school of tough learning had apparently taught him a lot because he had been placed in many advanced classes.’ - Book 2

Now this may not actually be a special case. There may have been millions of owlets with Twilight’s exact past. But Twilight never went to hagsmire and back like Soren and Gylfie, he was never really scarred. Nor was he picked up by the guardians of at a young age. He was orphaned. Simple as that. Twilight had so much time to learn and hone his skills that you cannot tell me that Barran, ryb of Search-and Rescue, didn’t see this kid and wasn’t immediately impressed enough that he pulled him aside for the advanced class and eventually her own chaw.

In fact there's a piece here lemme just-

‘Of course, Twilight came up to him first and Soren could barely squeeze in a word. “I did a fantastic power dive tonight. A tight spiral and I was down on the ground before you could flick a blink. Soren, I think Barran was really impressed. So you think there’s a chance that she might recommend me for search-and-rescue chaw?”

“But Twilight, if you were in the advanced navigation class with Barran why were you practicing search-and-rescue moves?”

“Because Barran also teaches search-and-rescue. She is the one who taps for the search-and-rescue chaw.”’

Twilight was so excited to tell Soren what he accomplished in Barran’s class, and Barran was genuinely impressed when watching him. I’m sure they aren’t supposed to show emotion when tapping for claws, or maybe that just because we’ve only seen it happen with Ezylryb. And Strix Struma I guess. Barran doesn’t seem to be one to impress easily after overseeing thousands of owls over the years for as long as Strix Struma has (cause I am SURE they came to ga'hoole at the same time). Admit it or not all rybs have favorites, and Twilight was Barran’s.

After that, their relationship is kinda fuzzy to me, because it was unimportant. We know that Barran especially chose Twilight, Digger, and Gylfie to be in the rescue mission during the Great Downing, maybe because of how advanced they were. But after that Twilight and Barran’s relationship became purely professional, for good reason. But we could have had so much more with them, and it was so underrated and missed. I’m not sure it was announced but Twilight obviously became search-and-rescue ryb sometime after Barran died, heck they ALL became rybs. But STILL.