#swan tim

[brucewaynehater101]

there's a fairy tale where a hunter is hunting and he finds a lake where swans land, the swans then take off their feathers and become beautiful maidens, the hunter decides to be a super creep and watch them bathe and swim and have fun and then returns the next day and steals the feather cloak of the youngest of the swan women and tricks her into becoming his wife

she finds her cloak and escapes later and he chases after her and turns out she's the daughter of a powerful wizard, unfortunately she goes back with him after he proves his "love" and that he knows her

whether or not the girls were always maidens who used magic to become swan versions of selkies or if their mother had been a swan before their father decided that he wanted a wife and the girls inherited feathery inclinations is not mentioned at all

Swan Janet unfortunately died from poison as per canon before she managed to finish off jack, she spent too long tormenting him

Tim never turned into a swan prior to finding and wearing his mother's feathers, any magic he had was bound by Janet because she didn't want to risk Jack hurting him for being "other". Jack holding onto her feathers and keeping them hidden from her gave him an edge against her so there was only so much she could do, much like a selkie

Tim can absolutely eat bread, though it's not a good idea while he's a swan, it's fine when he's human shaped, there is nothing particularly swan like about him when he's not wearing the feathers

Tim may end up discovering his own magical talents now that they've been unlocked and probably will need to consult with Zatanna or Constantine. He also may or may not think about finding his bio dad, mostly to get the man's medical history in case anything pops up in Tim that might be biologically linked.

Ooh!!!! More Swan Tim lore!

Thank you for explaining the OG story for me. I've seen some stuff, but I wasn't quite clear on it.

I adore the idea of Janet making Jack's life hell and the stupid bastard refusing to let Janet go (maybe he was scared that she would finish him off if he did).

I'd also be so down to read Swan Tim interacting with Constantine. I think that would be hilarious

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[alicemain0541]

-“Escape pods still working fine”

-“I won’t leave you”

YALL I CANT TODAY

[bruhaalla]

I’m so tired of asking can someone look at me like that.

[belljargirl]

back from the dead ₊˚⊹♡ 𐙚 ˚₊‧꒰ა❤︎໒

[swansstuff]

sorry

[ultrataintedviolence]

♱

[cmonbartender]

Sarah Daykin wearing John Galliano (1997) - Tim Walker

[oldheartbrk]

[brucewaynehater101]

Turns out Janet was actually a swan maiden, Jack stole her cloak of feathers. Instead of being an obedient, biddable wife, as he expected, Janet channeled the swan. She was unruly, aggressive, and utterly two faced since to everyone else she looked like the epitome of grace and serenity.

She was also very monogamous and even more angry at being caught by Jack because she was already pregnant when he took her feathers! Tim's bio parent was some random wizard who turned out not to be worth Janet's loyalty, especially since the idiot assumed that Tim was Jack's child despite the timelines not actually working. Jack was also stupid enough to assume Tim is his son.

Tim finds his mother's cloak after he gets back from the Brucequest. It doesn't have the same power to bind him the way it bound his mother, but they were her feathers, she is his son, her blood, and he can wear them.

Tim mostly takes to napping in the pool at the manor or some other body of water there since none of the Bats, or Damian's pets, will bother him while he's a swan making it a safe place to sleep. He does not tell the Bats that he's the swan. YJ knows and they put a pond into their base where Tim can hang out.

Yo? Is this based off of that one myth/legend/story where magician turned swans into women to try to marry them? I don't remember much about that story, but hella sus for the magicians. They can't manage to find someone they are compatible that they try to turn animals into humans hoping the animal will be so grateful they fall in love with the magician 🤨

I don't know about y'all, but if someone, without my consent, transformed me into another being hoping I'd marry them, I would commit a murder. This is all I've known. I don't want to be anything else.

Anyways, I'm not too sure about the cloak of feathers part. Is that similar to the selkie? Selkie have a "coat" that allow them to turn into their seal counterparts. In the legends, humans who obtain the coat thus trap selkie on land and can force the selkie to do what they want (like pieces of shit). This usually leads to nonconsensual marriage. I'm not an expert, so feel free to look more into this myth. I like AUs that chat about it.

Anyways, good on Janet. I hope she made Jack's life hell for that stunt. What a piece of shit. Also, since the magician doesn't have her feathers, I hope Janet killed him. May the gods never rest his soul.

I'm curious if Tim, since he's the son of the magician, has any magic powers.

How much did he know about his mom and her situation before her death?

Has Tim ever turned into a swan before finding the feathers, or did he just suddenly become a swan and have to deal with it? How much part swan is he? Does he have any physical traits when he's human? Behavioral tendencies? Can he eat bread?

This is a cool AU I'd love to explore more of ^^

[hannahleah]

Sarah Daykin and swans in John Galliano, England, 1997 by Tim Walker

[tim-dennis]

Mute Swan displaying

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[swansstuff]

worm wife summer!

(tumblr butchered it, click on it!)

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