#this is qibli's mom btw

[sinusoidaldysfunction]

Cobra. God gives his shittiest of mothers to his silliest of clowns.

[wof-reworked]

Thoughts on Thorn?

First off: sorry for the delay, this was sent to me during my drunk "send me opinions" moment but I only saw it when I woke up and was. very hungover and embarrassed lol. Will try to live up to the original idea tho (plus I am like 3 shots in so you did get your wish in the end !!)

ANYWAY. I really like Thorn. I wish we saw more of her being the leader of the Scorpion Den and what her actual life looks like bc rn it feels like she's become basically Sunny and Qibli's loving mom who all but shows up with cookies for them and their friends when she gets screentime. I think a lot of fandom oscillates between ignoring her and trying to pin some hypocrisy or villain arc on her bc she killed Preyhunter, which. btw. I do have an ancient draft about when I was rereading Sunny's book and taking semi-annotated notes. It's ruthless, but it's not the unwarranted murder people want it to be- she has no reason to trust the Nightwings and Preyhunter opens the convo being rude and challenging her. It's definitely there just as a fakeout to make you think Thorn is Bad News so the parent reveal is more shocking, but I think it shows a really cool and cunning side of her that I wish got more screentime.

Her and Stonemover are also one of my favorite side pairings in the series, not in that they could ever be together again but like. c'mon now. I'm a good sucker for a self made tragedy. I do genuinely believe they could've stayed together forever/become a truly happy couple if Stonemover didn't get in his own head and fall prey to the narrative about animuses and the Nightwing superiority complex. I find the way he describes her as "straight out of his favorite scrolls" as genuinely really romantic, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE m/f pairings where the girl is the headstrong, ruthless one and the boy is a flustered, hopeless romantic who wants to be her pet impress her and win her over. They have some really fun gender fuckery in their relationship and I think it's a missed opportunity to discuss wof's inverted gender roles, what with Queens being the standard. I like to hope they could (platonically) co-parent Sunny after some hard, necessary conversations, but Stonemover is really the big problem in that reconciliation because he's so stuck (ha) in his self-loathing and regret.

I think Thorn is a great side character, and I don't need her to be anything more than that. I would LOVE a winglet or smth like that about her time with Stonemover, but I feel like after the dynamic I've built in my head it would let me down. I think Stonemover should be a boygirl and just a little trans and Thorn should be a butch she/he lesbian but that's my own brand of interest.

tl;dr: that woman is so queer and so cool 2 me <3. I wish she wasn't shoehorned into a relationship w Smoulder since it feels like it was just added because Tui didn't want her "to be stuck as single forever" which is a lame way to approach a woman who absolutely did meet the love of her life and it just. didn't work out. I wish we let stories like that sit a little longer and showed her being happy with her found family of the Scorpion's Den pursuing casual relationships maybe but being happy with the life she's built that's filled with love from so many different places.

[cherryvanillacokee]

i love the concept of tall moonwatcher so heres some headcanons (human au btw) . One of her friends cannot reach something? she’s getting it for them (the main one who needs help is Kinkajou) . bangs her head on everything. EVERYTHING . Has been able to go on every amusement park ride since forever . Taller then her mom . Lets everyone in the jade winglet sit on her shoulders or gives them piggyback rides, qibli and kinkajou love it, winter refuses . on that note, Winter hates the fact that Moon is taller then him and still says he is taller then her (while he’s like one or two inches shorter)

[shiftywing]

okay everyone buckle up this au has been clanking around in my brain for too long and it is.....about fucking time i shared it sooo:

lemme put right here that a lot of this is based off posts already made by @ignoredtransartist, mostly this one in particular. :)

let us start this off by saying winter and qibli are aged up a bit here (not a lot, i'd say early 20s in terms of maturity. just enough for qibli to get a well-known reputation and stuff)

in addition: jade winglet academy doesn't exist, or if it did they had no part with it. they don't know each other

the whole darkstalker thing doesn't happen either, so glacier could still be alive (though that doesn't affect the au much tbh)

alrighty let's get into background information for qibli first:

he is unlike his canon counterpart by...a lot

seriously he's the cockiest little shit who always acts like they're 14 steps ahead of you. yeah.

but anyways!! basically in this au vulture realized qibli's potential due to his intelligence from an early age and lad...led a pretty good life so far

and what wasn't great he doesn't really comprehend because "it could have been worse"

vulture thinks qibli is ~untrustworthy~ or something so at the moment he's stuck as an assassin trying to prove that he is in fact incredibly trustworthy, so much so in fact that vulture 100% should promote him within his gang

and qibli's fucking BORED. he's really intelligent like i said and takes out every person vulture tells him to with ease

cobra's still around but she's more of an assassin for hire to anyone while qibli works pretty much only for vulture and the dirty work he wants done (a lot of it's taking out them pesky high-ranking outclaws)

also his sibling still loathe him, but for different reasons now

they're considered below him, even thought they're physically stronger and nothing ticks them off more than that

okay here's winter:

yeah this shit's just Depression Central ™ sorry lol

winter's a vampire genetically through his dear old mother (very few, if any, vampires possess the ability to "turn" others in this au, it's passed on pretty much only genetically)

none of the royal family's aware of this btw

winter was always ye ol' disappointment child that tundra was trying to distance herself from 'till she figured out he was the only one who turned out to be a vampire—she didn't completely ignore icicle though, even after coming to the conclusion that she wasn't one (girl still had dreams of getting a child on the throne, after all)

but yeah basically tundra is putting a ton of pressure on winter to be Best Vampire Ever and live up to her family's legacy and winter reaaaally doesn't want to (but also doesn't want to let down his mom either)

but she's the only direct family he has left haha...ha

icicle's in jail because she still murdered someone

they never got hailstorm back (tundra outright refuses to let winter out of her sight) so. yeah he's probably dead. or maybe just vibing somewhere in the sky kingdom, who knows.

and narwhal still died in battle, it was just one from the sandwing succession war, not the night/ice thing since darkstalker wasn't present

SO after icicle gets shipped off to jail tundra really just doesn't see a reason to associate with the royal family much anymore and distances herself from them and focuses all of her attention to her son (winter tags along bc he's still a minor when all of this goes down)

so, the au is basically: qibli gets ordered to kill this semi-isolated icewing prince that should be an easy target but no matter what he tries winter just won't fucking die—so, naturally, he strikes up a friendship with him to try to get closer and figure out what will kill him so he can get that dang promotion—except...the reason why vulture saw qibli as untrustworthy was due to a fun little flaw (at least in his eyes) called "deep down i actually care about people and can get attached and suff". 👀 anyways yadyada they run away together and start a new life eventually and get married whoop whoop. yeah i haven't thought of the middle part much, but....you get the idea. they actually do become friends and confess their love for each other but also have to build up the confidence and figure out how to tell the other their deep dark secrets to one another...while said secrets are becoming suspicious of them.

also winter's pastel goth in this au because uhhh i do what i want.

tbh if i could write i would do so for this au i really like it 😅 maybe i'll draw a little something, who knows

qinter au with assassin qibli but also with vampire winter hold on—