My Wolf Mother and Hedge Rider pins are here and they came out so beautiful and detailed ahh! :D I'm in love!!
You can find them here:
Wolf: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1698503389/wolf-mother-hard-enamel-pin-goddess
Bird: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1698505521/hedge-rider-hard-enamel-pin-goddess-bird
what really fascinates me is the circumstances behind crow’s death. one of the big rules of defiance is don’t kill other members, and of course thrasher learned that the hard way. but why crow? yes, they wanted revenge, but deepdark had survived and his attempted killer was dead, what death did they have to avenge? who was there to punish for it? for the sins of their “father” (if you can even call him a father)? his kits did nothing and deepdark said he didn’t care, why go against what he said? and why would deep allow them to break one of his own rules just to prove a point? is it just bc one of his own did it? is hyssop really just that petty?
Trying to earnestly kill Deepdark is a biiiiiig no-no. Of course you can't kill other members as a rule, but just because a rule exists doesn't mean it never gets broken. Plenty of people make exceptions for actions they deem to be outside of the law, and assassinations are one of those in Defiance. Defiance animals will jump at the chance to gleefully execute a "traitor", and Thrasher's whole family was associated with him as a result of his actions. It's likely they weren't going to be trusted going forward, and when Crow turned up dead, Egret realized there was no reason to assume they'd be safe. (Because Hyssop killed her in secret)
Hyssop's not petty, but he is a big suck-up who wants Deepdark to respect him. It doesn't work, but it is useful, so Deepdark lets him keep groveling.
Crow is a girl, but I'm gonna miss her too. I really like drawing all of Corm's siblings, honestly, I shouldn't have spent such good designs on background characters.
I feel risky posting this... I've never posted nudity on Tumblr before T^T
Anyways hehe I really like the idea of them being physically comfortable with the other despite yk... their habit of killing each other. I wanna draw them being domestic
Interesting update on this crow. This crow and their partner live south of the park from Breadsticks. I haven't gotten a good picture of them on their left side but I wonder if this is Pasta. Pasta was the only crow I know that lived in this area that would make this noise. I last saw them around July 2023.