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kedreeva: wingedspirit: Okay, but considering Crowley
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kedreeva:
wingedspirit:
Okay, but considering Crowley canonically orders food that he doesn’t eat, and that Aziraphale then helps himself to… this is essentially already canon, yes?
kedreeva:
May I offer you tidbitting? The bowerbirds travel all over to build elaborate bowers, often in colors they like (blue like above is often seen) which is great but it’s very nest-building adjacent. however….
chickens tidbit
When a rooster (at least a rooster worth anything) finds a Very Good Food, instead of eating it himself, he picks it up and sets it down and makes noises to call the hen over so she can have it. When he is around the same girls long enough, he will even learn which things they like and which things they will ignore, and will eat the things they ignore and only offer them the best of the best.
Here’s a good video of the behavior:
wheeloffortune-design:
fanfics writing Crowley courting like a bird: wing preening, nesting
what Crowley would actually do if he courted like a bird:
I believe I must have been unclear: I was saying that he’s been acting like a bird already, he’s been courting Aziraphale like a rooster for a long time in canon.
Roosters also:
Have a terrible mating dance that’s basically a weird shuffle with one wing dropped, it’s one of the worst attempts at dancing birds have ever made
Do a lot of very dramatic yelling, particularly at things they cannot control or change, like the sun rising
Will circle around the hens while they are free ranging both to keep an eye out for predators and to be between the predator and their hens
If they can’t get their hens away to safety first and it comes down to a fight, they will 100% (again, if they are good roosters behaving as a rooster should) be the first bird down in a predator attack because they won’t be running; they’ll be fighting to give their hens a chance to get away
As a side note, this is actually a very Important and deeply treasured behavior by anyone that keeps chickens- as terrible as it is to lose a rooster to a predator, the ones that put up a good fight going down first usually make the predator think twice about taking anyone else. If a predator thinks they’re going to have to go through that again to take another bird, they will usually reconsider, which can mean the difference between losing a rooster and losing an entire flock… see also: body swap and both their behaviors trying to scare the other side off from the other
While they don’t (usually) sit on eggs like the moms, a good rooster may scout out good places to have a nest, and may even make the scrape for the hen if he thinks it’s an especially good place to nest (south downs anyone?)
kedreeva:
wingedspirit:
Okay, but considering Crowley canonically orders food that he doesn’t eat, and that Aziraphale then helps himself to… this is essentially already canon, yes?
kedreeva:
May I offer you tidbitting? The bowerbirds travel all over to build elaborate bowers, often in colors they like (blue like above is often seen) which is great but it’s very nest-building adjacent. however….
chickens tidbit
When a rooster (at least a rooster worth anything) finds a Very Good Food, instead of eating it himself, he picks it up and sets it down and makes noises to call the hen over so she can have it. When he is around the same girls long enough, he will even learn which things they like and which things they will ignore, and will eat the things they ignore and only offer them the best of the best.
Here’s a good video of the behavior:
wheeloffortune-design:
fanfics writing Crowley courting like a bird: wing preening, nesting
what Crowley would actually do if he courted like a bird:
I believe I must have been unclear: I was saying that he’s been acting like a bird already, he’s been courting Aziraphale like a rooster for a long time in canon.
Roosters also:
Have a terrible mating dance that’s basically a weird shuffle with one wing dropped, it’s one of the worst attempts at dancing birds have ever made
Do a lot of very dramatic yelling, particularly at things they cannot control or change, like the sun rising
Will circle around the hens while they are free ranging both to keep an eye out for predators and to be between the predator and their hens
If they can’t get their hens away to safety first and it comes down to a fight, they will 100% (again, if they are good roosters behaving as a rooster should) be the first bird down in a predator attack because they won’t be running; they’ll be fighting to give their hens a chance to get away
As a side note, this is actually a very Important and deeply treasured behavior by anyone that keeps chickens- as terrible as it is to lose a rooster to a predator, the ones that put up a good fight going down first usually make the predator think twice about taking anyone else. If a predator thinks they’re going to have to go through that again to take another bird, they will usually reconsider, which can mean the difference between losing a rooster and losing an entire flock… see also: body swap and both their behaviors trying to scare the other side off from the other
While they don’t (usually) sit on eggs like the moms, a good rooster may scout out good places to have a nest, and may even make the scrape for the hen if he thinks it’s an especially good place to nest (south downs anyone?)