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「 Dream SMP Daemon AU 」

༄ PHILZA + AELLAI (WANDERING ALBATROSS) ༄

Wandering albatrosses are a patient, confident, cooperative species of seabird found primarily in the southern hemisphere. Their wingspans are the largest of any bird, and the design of their wings, use of weather patterns, and style of flying means they can travel 1,000 km/d (620 mi/d) without flapping their wings once. This efficient long-distance traveling underlies the albatross's success as a long-distance, nomadic forager, covering great distances and expending little energy looking for patchily distributed food sources.

They are opportunistic and adaptable feeders, consuming primarily fish, but they are willing to scavenge on carcasses and feed on the scraps from commercial fishing operations and other predators. Like other seabirds, albatrosses drink seawater, harmlessly filtering out the saline that would otherwise kill them. The only time they ever return to land is during the breeding season; the rest of the time is usually spent alone out on the open sea, though they are capable of coexisting peacefully with small groups of other albatrosses when foraging and feeding. As the breeding season arrives, huge colonies of birds flock to their breeding grounds together, even though pairs are quite protective of their own nests and space.

Wandering albatrosses are dutiful and loyal birds, in it for the long haul once they have made a commitment, as once a wandering albatross has found a suitable mate, it continues to breed with that one bird for the rest of its life. They are expressive and open creatures, undertaking elaborate and painstaking mating displays to ensure that the appropriate partner has been chosen and to perfect partner recognition, as egg laying and chick rearing is a huge time and resource investment.

Once their chicks are born, they prove to be doting parents, with both adults equally taking great care in rearing their offspring. It sometimes takes up to a year for the chick to learn how to fly and become independent of its parents. However, because Albatrosses live much longer than other birds, they delay breeding for longer and invest more effort into fewer young.

Philza is efficient, laidback, and indulgent. Lai is tenacious, focused, and decisive.

NAME MEANING Aellai is a variant form of Greek Aellô, meaning "whirlwinds."

SOURCES https://daemonpage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25946

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_albatross

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross

https://www.britannica.com/animal/albatross

https://animals.net/wandering-albatross/

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Diomedea_exulans/

#Dream SMP #dream smp daemon au #dsmp philza #cphilza #dsmp moodboard #character analysis #xi arts #i headcanon Phil used to be an ordinary human until Kristin gifted him wings along with immortality #so he's not an avian he's a normal human with wings #so there was a time long ago that Lai flew for both of them #also dang writing this up was hard #c!Phil is a supporting character first and foremost he has no real character arc #so figuring out what his and his daemon's dichotomy would be was an Endeavor #i didn't even know albatrosses lived so much longer than other birds until AFTER I picked the albatross are you KIDDING me #like bro this was meant to be i love this typing for him sm it fits so well #at least imho idk #*goes back to playing in my sandbox with my borrowed toys*

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hellzyeahthewebwieldingavenger · 4 years

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Were I to have an insane and unrealistic amount of power over at Marvel I’d re-organize the Spider-Man relevant trades. I share the belief that the hurdle to new readers isn’t so much that there is a long history so much as a history spread all over the place. Wanting to read Spider-Man isn’t simple even if you do have the time and patience to read 50 years worth of comics. You need to know WHICH comics and WHAT ORDER to read them in. And the latter has a multiple choice answer!

This is part of why USM was so strong in it’s early days. 1 title, no satellites, no spin-offs. All you needed to do was pick up issue #1 or trade volume 1 and read sequentially from there. Not just easy to follow but easy to catch up and thus allow readership to grow.

Thus I propose that we simply organize the Spider-Man brand into a series of sequential trades. Functionally these will be like the Deadpool Classic trades, but with multiple trades following the various characters of the Spider-Verse. Want to read just about Peter Parker, you pick up his trades. But want to read just about Miles or Venom? The trades will have you covered going across their respective histories in the in-universe reading order.

In other words you need not worry about whether story arc A in ASM happens before story arc B in Spec and where Guest appearance C fits in. The trades would sort it all out for you. You’d just pick up any volume and read cover to cover, with tiny subplot pages and text inserted where relevant to clarify things. E.g. if there were 2 three part stories happening at the same time, you don’t want to interrupt that, so you’d just print one then have some text saying ‘the following three issues take place during the events of the ASM #X-Z’.

Additionally, in order to not make things unnecessarily confusing I’d omit retroactive stories like Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Symbiote Spider-Man, etc from these trades. My rationale is that not only would these spoil certain things but more significantly as time goes by people will inevitably write more retroactive stories meaning the trades would need to be constantly amended.

Instead I’d simply make a ‘Companion’ trade series reprinting such stories in publication order with a few notes explaining where they take place relative to the original issues. E.g. you’d pick up ‘Peter Parker: Spider-Man Classic Companion Volume 1’ and before you read Untold Tales of Spider-Man #1 a note would inform you it happens after ASM #3 or whatever.

So what would these trade series be exactly?

Something like this:

1. Peter Parker: Spider-Man Classic: Simply every Peter Parker appearance or relevant comic book. ASM, Spec, New Avengers, Secret Wars, guest appearances, everything!

2. Mary Jane Classic: Same thing for Mary Jane, albeit to save some time we could simply reprint the MJ relevant pages from various comics as there would be little need to reprint a whole Spidey adventure she just cameos in. The info text could simply give you context for each appearance before we got to meatier stories. I’d employ this method for all of the following whenever relevant.

3. Black Cat Classic: Obviously this would include her solo minis but also and team appearances like in Heroes for Hire.

4. Daily Bugle Classic: It occurred to me there were several stories focussing upon a lot of the supporting cast that didn’t feature Spider-Man himself. That aside people love the supporting cast so I figured some trades chronicling their exploits would make sense. For this trade series it’d focus upon J. Jonah Jameson first and foremost but also Betty Brant, Joe Robertson, Ben Urich, etc

5. The Many Loves of Spider-Man Classic: Same idea but with the Spidey girlfriends who don’t have that many appearances to their name. The main focus would be Gwen Stacy because for good or ill she’s a character who people are interested in. But you could also throw in appearances from Deb Whitman, Carlie, etc.

6. Spider-Man’s Tangled Web: TBH I couldn’t figure out a good name for this one, but essentially this would be about Peter’s friends who aren’t superheroes, Bugle employees or girlfriends of his. This would include Flash Thompson (pre-Venom), Liz Allan, Randy Robertson, possibly Glory Grant although she’d also fit in with the Bugle trades I guess. Throw in the Tangled web issues and your good to go!

7. Clone Classic: As you might expect this would chronicles Ben Reilly and Kaine’s exploits, but also for good measure ALL the clearly clone related stories. So we’re talking appearances involving Miles Warren and Gwen’s clone too. Although I guess the latter could fit in ‘the Many Loves of Spider-Man’ trades.

8. Spider-Man’s Amazing Friends Classic: All of the superhero friends Spider-Man has who are closely associated with him and have had off and on titles over the years. Prowler, Silver Sable, Rocket Racer, Sandman (when he reformed), Jackpot, Alpha, Will O’ Wisp, etc

9. Goblins Classic: I thought of doing a trade purely about the Osborns but this seemed more logical. It’d cover every appearance of the Goblin related characters. We’re talking Norman Osborn, Harry Osborn, Bart Hamilton, Roderick Kingsley, Ned Leeds, Jason Macendale, Phil Urich, Green Goblin V, Hobgoblin from Bendis’ Secret War, Gabriel+Sarah Stacy, Lily Hollister and whoever else will become a Goblin

10. Doctor Octopus Classic: Speaks for itself, and yeah it’d include his clones from Superior onwards too.

11. Symbiotes Classic: I thought of having this be about all the symbiotes OTHER than Venom and Carnage but having 3 sets of trades for symbiotes seemed ridiculous. This would cover every symbiote (Venom, Carnage, Hybrid, Scream, Toxin, Mania, Sleeper, etc) along with major hosts of theirs. Eddie Brock, Cletus Kasady, Mac Gargan, Flash Thompson, Andi Benton, etc

12. Sinister Six Classic. Maybe you couldn’t call these guys A-listers strictly speaking but these would be the real famous Spider-Man villains who haen’t already been mentioned. We’re talking the Vultures, Electros, Kravens, Mysterios, Chameleon, all the really classic costumed Spidey bad guys you could think of with the exception of some of the folks I’m gonna name below

13. The Many Foes of Spider-Man Classic: This would chiefly chronicle the stories about the characters from Deadly/Lethal/Superior Foes of Spider-Man, most importantly Boomerang, Beetle and Shocker

14. Spider Women Classic: All the 616 centric Spider Ladies. Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin, Cindy Moon, Anya Corazon, maybe even throw Madame Web in there for good measure. I think it makes sense to consolidate them together into a trade series as their publication histories meant they were usually passing the baton onto one another.

15. Miles Morales: Spider-Man Classic: Guess who this is about. Obviously this would include his appearances in Champions, Avengers, etc

16. Gwen Stacy: Ghost Spider Classic: Every Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider/Earh-65 Gwen appearanceD

17. Spider-Ham Classic: You get the picture. Although I’d also add in versions of Spider-Ham that are from different Earths as well

18. Spider-Man 2099 Classic: We’re actually already doing these in real life, but I’d want them to include every version of Miguel too and brief appearances across other titles

19. Ultimate Spider-Man Classic: Obviously the same deal for Ultimate Peter Parker, but I’d also include Ultimate Jessica Drew as well

20. Web of Spider-Verse: A trade series that reprints in publication order every other AU Spider-People out there. All the What Ifs, the Earth X stuff, House of M, X-Men: Forever, 1602, Noir, India, Peni Parker, Fairy Tales and of course Web Warriors

21. Spider-Girl Classic: We’re already doing this one too. Just wish it’d come out faster!

22. Spider-Man: Japan Classic: ALL the Japanese Spider-Man stories. Every appearance of Supaidaman from Spider-Verse and beyond. Every appearance of Spider-Man J, Mangaverse Spider-Man, Spidey Fake Red and most controversially Spider-Man: The Manga (deffo gonna have to put a mature readers disclaimer on those ones.

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