Sometimes I think about this post from CQ about True!Fresh (That's mostly because as we established he fully occupies at least 50% of my brain.)
I HC he probably looked kinda like that the first time he took a sans as a host since it's supposed to be him with no pretending and no fronts to uphold (tho the one depicted in CQ's post is also enraged so yk, bit more chill)
I'd just like to imagine he wouldn't have it all figured out all at once (he probably did but what are headcanons for lmao)
What's unique about bird fresh and does his parasite self have wings idk like downy (think that's name) feathers or no wings?
Ahh ! yes yes I have been turning this one around in my brain thank you for asking again dear bird behavior anon :)!!
Fresh hits me as a Cuculus canorus, or the comman cuckoo; he's a wonderful grey brown bird with some barred black stripes. These birds are verry fun!
The aspects of this lovely bird I'm taking are mostly the parasitic aspects, you've heard me right, parasitic! These birds are known as something called "brood parasites" and will lay their eggs in other species nests, having their chicks be raised by unsuspecting adopted parents. Now, Fresh's whole persona is that he verry much does Not want to be seen as a horrible little parasite thing, so he dyes his wings a whole plethora of rainbow colors. Can't have everyone linking him to that horrid brood parasite, now can he?
Another aspect I'm taking, though a more subtle nod to the avian inspiration, is in the way he holds his wings. A cuckoo, while singing or in the presence of a prospective mate, will hold their wings dropped down to their sides. Now I won't ever have Fresh interacting romantically with anyone [Ew!], I do have him consistently hold his wings farther down than any other bird; he holds his wings down to look less threatening.
Another aspect, not Cuckoo related but more just Fresh himself, is the way he lands and takes off. I'm rather enamored with him having heelies/roller-skates [I just think they are the Cutest!] and I almost always draw him wearing them. I have him like long stretches of flat ground to take off or land, rolling forward to get more momentum or landing on his wheels like a plane. He doesn't need to, I just think it would be verry silly goofy [it looks nontheatening, nothing less Scary Threat Pay Attention than big goofy water bird failing to take off for a second.]
[think large water bird [needing a large runway/streach of water to effectively get into the air] and [unrelated to the cuckoo aspects of his characterization [they are passerine birds and thus Extremely Good at fast take offs]]
Now, that's just Fresh when he has a host, Without one he's a bit more pathetic sad Thing. I haven't really gotten the clearest idea of what he'd look like at the moment aha. I don't think he'd have Real wings, as I'm having them be a representation of your soul/magic [Fresh, with little to no natural either of those, doesn't really have fully formed wings, ya' know? [and I also have it as, monsters may have wings, but Fresh isn't really a monster, so he might not naturally have them.]], though maybe he'd have a little fuzz. [the drawings I have presented are all, Iffy and just ideas. I don't really have a clear image of what he looks like bahaha]