It's actually super cool that you made a tag for it lol
I'm just a little anxious to talk about it on my own blog until I have at least the first chapter of the book out Ig
Yeah, there's one specific thing that I forgot to add about the "birb lore" /lh
When two parents of different sub-species or different species altogether have a chick, they usually come out as the sub-species of one of their parents , 50/50 if you will
For example, if a Yellow-billed Magpie and a Black-chinned Yuhina (picked totally at random) copulate and have a nestling, there's 50% chance they will be a yellow-billed magpie, and 50% chance they will be a black-chinned yuhina.
Inter sub-species mating is actually how same sub-species marriages can thrive without having to worry about situations of incest
However, there are also chances that the nestling may come out as an hybrid. Chances of that happening are of only 30% , but even then that's still quite a number, so hybrids aren't as rare as they might seem.
What causes hybrid births is that genetics didn't go with the 50/50 mother-or-father chance poll, and instead ended up mixing the DNA of both parents, and because that can happen to literally any couple, hybrids don't have specific classifications, so they're instead classified individually as hybrids of both their parents sub-species.
So for the example couple, if they were to have an hybrid nestling, they would be classified as a Yellow-billed Magpie-Black-chinned Yuhina hybrid.
Certainly a lot more to write, but one of the big people is one so it's cool-
Anyway, main cast birb species! (I mostly tried to go with their canon appearances as a reference but I'll admit that in some I just picked the one I found more beautiful lmao)
Mark - Brown-headed Cowbird
Cesar - Crow
Sarah - Brown-headed Cowbird
Evelin - Eastern Phoebe
Jonah - Eurasian Blackcap
Thatcher - Reeves Pheasant
Ruth - Lady Amherst Pheasant
Dave - Northern flicker ("Thatcher is taller than Dave" supremacy)
Jude - Java Sparrow
Lynn - █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
Adam - "Java Sparrow"
Mark Heathcliff - Missing Kidnapped
Ruth Weaver - Missing Kidnapped
Cesar Torres - Gravely injured
( Sure would suck if you just happened to look like someone else's dead twin sibling so much that they kidnapped you for it huh )
oooooo hybrid lore is p cool!!!!! and im glad you like the tag :D
also oooooo!!! birbs!!!! :DDDDD i looked all of them up and they all fit so well!! (EVELIN IS ESP SO CUTE MANNN,,,,,, and ruth fits SO WELL!!!!! jonah's bird is just. that's just literally jonah man DFCVGBHN)
also lynn mystery lore???? eyes emoji?????
also THE BOTTOM?????? HEH???? (positive i love all of this)
also also, are the alts part of this au? if so, what are they like? do they have specific species assigned to them?
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