PERIL!!!!!! (GOLDEN GUARD OC!!!)

THE OWL HOUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TOH!!! the show is set in the demon realm, a magical dimension that exists alongside the human one. In the demon realm there are these creatures called palismen which are basically witch familiars and this is very important in regards to my daughter.

ALSO ITS RULED BY THE WORST GUY EVER (EMPEROR BELOS) who is actually secretly a centuries old, sustaining himself by Eating Palismen, human who wants to kill all witches (everyone there) (he's a witch hunter) ermmm so. He's also been creating clones of his dead brother (WHO HE MURDERED) and killing them one at a time, over and over and over again. for like a century. These clones (grimwalkers) usually act as the golden guard, which is like the emperor's right hand. AND THIS IS WHAT PERIL IS!!!! so as you can see. shes off to a Great Start. There's nothing fucked up in her life

OKAY SUMMARY OVER I PROMISE THAT WAS RELEVANT!!! peril is like way back from the canon timeline. so the only Big Character to know about is Belos. you might get a bit confused though

BACKSTORY!!!

tw abuse and dehumaisation (and just anything hunter goes through)

Peril is a grimwalker from well before canon, although the kingdom has been established. Because she's one of the earlier grimwalkers, she is a lot more creature-y (hence the wings and stuff) and also has the ability to turn into a palisman (a falcon!) Because of this, she acts as the golden guard half the time and also as belos' palisman (hes not openly hunting them yet so it helps him fit in better).

In her palismen form she does a lot of sitting looking intimidating (shes much larger than a normal palisman) and flying around the isles gathering infomation, delivering messages. Her witch form she also does a lot of standing looking scary, and guarding. she also does a lot of patrols, gets palismen, arrests people, interogates people.. kills people. and anything else belos tells her to. golden guard stuff.

She also knows shes a grimwalker from the start (she actually assists with helping grow the next ones) and sees herself as a sort of, better, more advanced palisman (or i mean thats basically what belos tells her), an extension of the emperor not a real person.

HOWEVER!!! this changes when she meets an owl palismen (whilst in her palisman form) who she becomes friends with. peril decides she likes being a bird more than a witch. At somepoint she ends up running into them as the Golden Guard and of course lets her escape, and the owl (rue) figures out who she is because of this. BUT IT'S OKAY BECAUSE THEY STILL STAY HER FRIEND!!!

But now because of this new friendship, everytime she gives a palisman to belos she begins to hate him just. just a little more. and she also begins to lie to him as well, first like, omiting things and tehn just full on lying. AND ITS. SUPER STRESSFUL!!! but after making a friend she struggles to look at belos with the same blind loyalty and faith like she used to. At this point she doesn't join any rebellions (that would involve interacting with witches) but she lets a few palismen go... if some goes missing from storage then who's going to tell belos. not her.

Eventually Belos catches on to her, having recaptured a palisman she tried to set free (said palisman is a little winged starfox called Ace who was Hope's, a previous golden guard oc belonging to my friend, palismea) He tries to force her to break them to prove her loyalty but she's unable to and she ends up running away (saving Ace in the process) and finding Rue!! she now has exactly two friends!!! everypony cheer for my daughter

From here, Ace takes Rue and Peril to the bat queen for saftey, who who kindly takes peril in - although under the impression that she was just the emperors runaway palisman. and not also the golden guard who has murdered hundreds of their kind!!! It's nice for a while! Peril is very on edge at the start, treating the Bat Queen with the same kind of caution she would with Belos. But she eventually warms up to her

AND THEN. BELOS FINDS WHERE SHE IS and kills rue (probably along with some other palismen), leaving her as a lovely!!! nice!!! warning to return back home. Through this, the Bat Queen figures out who she is and casts Peril out (believing that she betrayed them)

From here shes running again and its miserable and shes scared and everything is awful. going to be real. wanting to watch belos Die is the only thing thats keeping her going at this point. She ends up joining some rebellions. She doesn't get heavily involved... just kind of appears mysteriously and slips them castle insider infomation. helps out where she can without having to interact with anyone too much. (I mightt let her get more involved though still considering. maybe she can make a non-palisman friend)

UNSURE HOW THIS BIT GOES EXACTLY but eventually, the rebellion she's involved with has a raid planned... or something similar and she volunteers to be the distraction (she knows she'll probably die but she wants to go on a revenge quest and End Belos Forever) obviously this does not succeed!!! yeah he murders her. but the rebellion accomplishes the mission they were trying to do.

AND THATS MY DAUGHTER EVERYPONY!!! her backstory changes so often this gets updated like every week!!! if none of that made sense here are two helpful diamgrams that sum it up quicker!!!

A little bit on palismen in this au!!

Palismen sense emotion and intent (strongest from their witches but from others too!) which help them understand speech. They talk using a mix of scattered words and feelings which witches only pick up if theyre bonded to them.

Peril cannot pick up emotions and intentions as easily as a normal palisman, but she does subconsciously do it (even if she doesnt notice this ability herself) This is one of the reasons she’s so good at reading people and allowed her to more easily see through belos.

She is able to understand all palismen (and whatever feelings they choose to show her) and this is very fun when she has to watch belos eat them!!!! She's also obviosuly able to talk as a palismen but she's bad at the emotion side of it and doesn't really know how to project her feelings on purpose (because until rue she didnt really have anyone she could talk to as a falcon. even if belos wanted her to talk, he certainly can't understand her)

Palismen see peril as being very odd. shes one of them but something feels strange about both her (and not just the fact she reeks of shame, guilt and fear at all times). Likewise, no matter how much peril wants to fit in with them, she's not quite a palismen. and sometimes they struggle to understand her

And now a litte bit about Rue!!!

Rue is a very timid bird, but also a surprisingly stubborn one. She's easily scared by things, but not peril. which is very confusing to peril who sees herself as a monster and does not understand this. She's also very curious and clever although she does get tired pretty easily, not too energetic. i think ace is though so when that friendship trio happens they let ace do the yapping.

Rue gets pretty lonely on her own but doenst want another witch (she was abandoned by her carver) shes also too worreid about peril for that. When she's not with peril. which is most of the time, she does owl activities.. shes jsut a little bird honestly. she likes to collect things to show peril.

She also likes being covered by things because it makes her feel safe. like leaves. or perils wings. shes pretty quiet but also very expressive and rue and peril have a silly quick bird communication thing going on with their feathers. bird sign launguage.

im still thinking exactly. but i think how they met is rue saved falcon peril from something in the forest and maybe got injured for it... which gave peril a reason to go back and check if she was okay sometimes. maybe. and rue who was just kind of abandoned alone in the woods kind of latched onto her. bam friendship

Extra more rambly stuff!!

• I mention it more below but the scar across her face was from the time belos tried to carve her ears so they looked human haha, as he did with his own, but she panic tranformed part way for the first time ever. Because of her usefulness in being able to act as his palisman he wasn't too pressed in trying to make her look human anymore. the injury effects her vision and she can't see very well out of that eye again.
  
  
• erm and now a look into belos' mind!!! yay!! (me trying to figure out why this guy Does Things)
  
  belos' goal with the grimwalkers was to create a brother who wouldn't abandon him, a brother who he could guide and save from the corruption of witches and demons who (in his eyes) killed the original. He was lonely and wanted to rewrite the story so that this time caleb was on his side, and they'd complete the goal they had as kids and eradicate witchkind together. But the grimwalkers are not caleb no matter how hard he tries to pretend. And even worse, when they learn of Belos' plans they betray him again and again. The more grimwalkers he kills, the easier it gets. He's bitter and angry, punishing the grimwalkers for caleb's supposed past sins. He starts to have fun manipulating them, killing them. Like witches, they're just empty vessels, mere shadows of caleb. They don't have a soul for him to save. As years pass, he starts to care for them more for what they represent, they're a reminder of why he's doing this, why the witches have to burn. They're not people to him, they're tools, a position that must be filled in his grand plan of eliminating witch kind. Willingly or not, caleb will help him destroy this evil.
  
  AND THEN WE HAVE PERIL
  
  So the last several grimwalkers before her were failures, not fully formed and barely strong enough to get out of the ground. So when Peril emerged he was happy as although, yes, she had wings and talons, there were worse features she could have (wings can be bound, talons can be hidden. She looked more human than the last attempts anyway) So in a moment of, maybe this is the one who will listen to me... he attempted to carve her ears, as he did to his own.
  
  However, this went wrong as she panic tranformed part way (for the first time). And now belos has a bird for a brother instead. Part of him is tempted to write her off entirely, but he's in need of a right hand and her bird form could be very useful in helping him blend in.
  
  So peril becomes his new golden guard. At the start he's very strict on any bird traits she displayed. If she's a witch, then she's a witch. And if she's a bird, then she's silent and still, a palisman and not a wild animal. If his brother can control the wild side of him, then maybe there's hope. Over time, he realises that she isn't very caleb-like and decides her soul is too corrupted by magic for her to be the brother he wants to save but the next grimwalker isn't ready so she gets to stay.
  
  She's loyal, as all his guards are if they want to live, and her bird traits prove to be very useful. He trusts her, more than Hunter anyway, which means she gets more freedom (she uses this to sneak into the forest as a bird)
  
  Peril isn't a person to him, she's just another one of his failed creations that he knows he's going to have to put down eventually but has grown rather fond of. She's quiet, effecient and her anger (less concealed than she thinks) is amusing. (yay he'll miss her when he. kills her. how kind.) as much as her forces her to repress her bird traits he also likes to use her instincts against her. yay!! so despite the fact later on he knows she hates him, he believes she's too scared to actualy turn traitor.
  
  um so long story short at first he's not very impressed because she's all creature-y, but over time he's like. birds are useful. this one is nothing like caleb but im strangely fond of her. (meanwhile peril us grown unfond and wanst him to die!!)
  
  
• In the begginning, peril is taught to hate her bird traits. (OKAY i dont know if she Actually knows about caleb. but if she does I think belos would have probably told her that she has bird traits because of calebs sinful corrupted soul (something he himself actually believes). and that she inherited that so there must be something Sinful in her too. meaning she has to work extra hard to make up for it. or something. However, as she starts to hate belos, she starts to hate herself as a witch instead. She sees her two forms as seperate things. which isn't great! Not just because thats Bad for her mentally, but also because she has to shift between forms. Not shifting won't kill her (otherwise she'd be so dead after the long hours she spends standing or perched still guarding various places) but it feels awful, and causes her to have less control other her bird instincts. (haha not great when you spend most of your time with belos.) (its sort of like nimona)
  
  

PERIL LIVES AU!!!!!

SHE GETS TO LIVE! giggling okay so everything is the same in this au except instead of killing her, Belos traps her in her wooden palisman form for like 80 years!!! and then maybe forgets about her. AND THEN SHE GETS FOUND AFTER THE EVENTS OF SEASON 3 (they find her around 5 or 6 months? after watching and dreaming) and she gets to meet all the characters and finally heal. in this au this is probably where she figures out she's trans, or at least tells people and she learns to accept both parts of herself, which in the other timeline she never got to do... she really hated herself as a witch, especially towards the end.

IVE ACTUALLY BEEN WRITING THIS ONE AS AN ACTUAL FIC hopefully i'll write more. the first bit is all in Darius' pov WHICH IT WASNT'T MEANT TO BE? no idea how that happened. I don't think peril would even interact with him much so it makes not Much sense but IM REALLY PROUD OF IT SOOOO eveyrthing is fine THE STORY IS HERE!! if anypony wanted to read it... well the first part is anyway. writing peril pov right now!! one day I'll put her on a03

Anyway. so shes found and magiced back to normal but she's still extremely injured (meaning she can't just go fly off into the wilderness because thats 100% what she'd do) and is forced to interact with people. she hates this but she does start to bond with people and, by Hunter's presence, is convinced to not just Disappear. Although as soon as she's well enough to be a palisman, she stays in that form as frequently as possible, at the start.

She'd be very lost on what to do for a while (even if she had time Before where she was free from belos, a lot of her energy back then was going into survival, to not being found out by the Bat Queen or working with various rebellions). Peril is An Adult, she can live on her own (which she does do eventually!) but even after she recovers from her injuries, she has so much healing to do and so I don't think it would go very well. Her palismen friends are gone, she's in a different era, she can't go back to the Bat Queen and she also has No Idea how to look after herself as a witch after living as a bird for so long. And she needs to do that!! its very bad for her to stay in one for too long!! She does not know how to be a Person. she does try to disappear into the woods but. she can't just neglect half of herself. shes not actually just a bird she needs food and shelter. so they convince her to come back to the owl house. she'd stay there for a bit but I think it would be a little overwhelming for her for a long period of time. I mighttt let her stay with raine for a bit. She'd like that I think. whilst she figures out how to.. do. normal activities.

Eventually though, she'd end up a place of her own, not too far away, but not too close, in the woods. She's assist with the rebuilding efforts for a bit and then would help with the replanting of the palistrom trees. dell ends up with another grimwalker apprentice I guess. AND THEN... im not really sure. ill edit this later when i have more ideas just rambling here but maybe something with palismen... but as much as she Is One of them. and that tehyre easier to talk to than witches. that doesnt mean she's really socaible and good friends with them.. she's too guilty HMMMM

anyway TIME TO YAP ABOUT HER RELAIONSHIPS TO ALL THE CHARACTERS

She of course bonds with Hunter (long lost siblings!) and im considering also making it a harpy hunter au so they can go flying together... (or ive been reading a bunch of werewolf aus... and he could be a werewolf and they could go play in the woods together.) She follows him around a lot and likes to hang out whilst he's carving palismen. She still hates speaking (although its less of a problem than in stray birds au as, whilst when she's upset she does talk like belos, most of the time her thoughts and speech are more palisman like, so thats the learning curve she's fighting in this one.) But yeah she's still good at lying and manipulating and also has anger issues which she knows and hates and thinks is worse than it actually is. This leads her into staying as a palisman more (also she feels safer in that form and kind of hates hersef as a witch) and saying as little as possible. Hunter eventually pins her down about this, talks aboout how he feels the same after belos possessed him and sometimes gets scared that he's not in control. yay! Also peril, very angry girl. And so is Hunter, but I don't think he would have been able to face and kill Belos like how peril wanted to (not when in an awful way he sometimes still misses the man) And peril tells him that he shouldn't be ashamed or feel bad about it (she knew the truth from the start and yet despite hating him, even she didn't rebel until she had to. that's what He does, gets in peoples heads.)

RAINE WHISPERS!!! she's friends with raine (maybeee lives with them for a bit). They're the right level of energy for her. THEY ALSO TEACH HER AN INSTRUMENT!!! (still deciding which because her shakey scarred bird hands are Not Helpful) But this really helps her express herself, despite her lack of words. she can't hurt people with music like she thinks she will with words (WELL SHE COULD WITH BARD MAGIC but she can't do that. this is Just Music)

Peril thinks Eda is really cool but is super embarrassed about this fact and won't tell anyone ever. um continuing later

STRAY BIRDS AU!!!

SO IN ADDITION TO THE NORMAL TIMELINE!!!! there is also a modern au I made with some friends and their golden guard ocs. it's still very much being created but I will give a little summary...

THIS AU IS SET IN A UNIVERSE WHERE THERE'S NO DEMON REALM!!! however belos does still exist and surprise he's running a cult again. In addition to Peril, nicholas and hope (my friends' golden guard ocs) are also there!!! THEY GET TO BE ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! you should read their toyhouse pages i love them both so much

Okay so peril is still Belos' right hand in this and its horrible and terrible as in canon. SHE'S ALSO TASKED WITH TRAINING COLE who shadows her a lot of the time. at first she hates him... originally because why does she have to look after this small child, and then later because Cole is actually Really Good at things and she has worked her whole life to be where she is. She feels like shes training her own replacement

HOWEVER EVENTUALLY SHE WARMS UP TO THEM AND THEY END UP RUNNING AWAY TOGETHER! ALONG WITH HOPE!!!! Now you may be wondering. what are they doing in this cult? what does this cult do? how does hope tie into this? and so. yeah and something something witchcraft!!!! (we have no idea) (ERMM WE'LL GET THERE.) (im just treating it like the emperors coven but modern day. but she doesnt arrest people. because they're the ones getting arrested)

Things at first are very Bad. they're just trying to get as far away as possible. then at some point someone takes pity on them and they're able to get terrible jobs... and eventually a terrible apartment. MOST OF THIS AU is them just trying to learn how to Live. All three of them have so many issues that they need to deal with which none of them are really equipped to deal with. they're very codependant. its bad. BUT ITS OKAY BECASUE IT DOES GET BETTER FOR THEM!! They also manage to get Belos arrested. unsure how. They're very untrustful and also have been trained to avoid the authorities. BUT IT HAPPENS!!!

I was about to say long peril ramble incoming but. that's just this entire page. uhm analysis of peril's mental state time!!!

in all aus peril has a tricky relationship with words (I'm sure its mentioned above somewhere) but I think sb!peril has the biggest issues. This is partly because she doesn't have the escape of expressing herself as a bird (she wishes she is one though), and also because Cole and Hope are there. And shes so so so scared of messing up with them.

peril knows exactly how to get what she (...belos) wants out of people. she knows how to interrogate, how to be scary, and how to manipulate someone to tell say what she wants. She's very analytical in a um cold detatched people way, rather than like Cole who can break down and figure out a stitution without snapping some guy's fingers!! These are skills that Belos taught her specifically and she hates it because it makes her feel like him everytime she speaks. like her voice isn't really her own. She does use her learnt ability to lie incredibly well back at him though so. yay for her. This leads her into saying very little, even before they leave.

She also has big issues contolling her anger (always angry. at herself, at belos, at the titan, at herself for thinking that, at belos for making her angry at herself. at the titan for his silence. around and around in circles forever). As in the cult she was very quiet unless she had to be, her anger would just kind of build up inside of her. and so, whilst usually she prided herself on her efficency, she still knew how to be cruel and sometimes was. having power over people made her feel like she had control over her life!!! yay! Before she ran away with them, she wouldn't have been the kindest to cole and hope either (which she feels endlessly guilty for) Her anger is more Cold and Vicious than explosive (although it can be). she knows how to say things that will Hurt.

After they leave (homeless arc) she really struggles to adapt and is still more of the old peril sometimes. quiet. but a cold, icy kind of quiet that makes you feel like you fucked up. she can get angry but this time its because shes scared of loosing control, of her siblings getting hurt. cole's talking too loud and she snaps at him or smth... ERM LIKE THAT ONESHOT I WROTE!!! and whereas before that would have kept them safe. here it does not. That's not all the time though, and even in the cult she did her best to look out for them, to learn how to be gentle. that doesnt make it okay but she keeps them all alive.

even so its not until the time they get their terrible apartment, when they finally have some sembalance of safety, that she she starts to fall apart even more. Now that they're not actively fighting to survive on the streets, and belos isn't there to tell her what to do anymore, she really struggles to see the point in doing much of anything. She helped Cole and Hope get out but now what. (she doesnt think she deserves to be free) (sees herself as just as bad as belos) (shes so scared of fucking up. of scaring them even slightly, that she thinks they'll be better off if they just forget her) (ily my daughter)

and its not like she doesn't Try to get better either. part of her knows that she thinks that she's worse than she Actually is. but she just has no energy to do anything anymore. most days its a struggle to get up. she'll get halfway through a task and just. sit. on the floor. runs out of energy. (and distantly it scares her because this Never Used To Happen. but now she's trying to do things for herself and not belos it's sudenly impossible) she does try to hide that this happens from her siblings though because she thinks should be the one looking out for them, they have plenty of their own issues to work through without her being a problem. to be fair they're not really equipped to deal with her issues. and she's not equipped for theirs either (she knows how to break people not fix them) but guess what. all of them isolating themselves emotionally from eachother doesnt help!

Yeah but her siblings are what save her. Just them being there. If they weren't she would have taken even worse care of herself. she wouldn't have survived. or at least she wouldn't really be Living.

The bird sanctuary is the second thing that saves her. At some point, peril finds rue, injured and abandoned, and not really knowing what to do tries to take the fledgling home to heal her. This doesn't go well obviously and she instead takes her to the bird sanctuary where she visits the little owl so often that bat queen (who owns the places and is not. a ginat bat in this au crying) offers her a job there. Bat queen scares her at first because she's never really had to listen to someone other than belos. but it goes well and gives her a reason to leave the house. it doesn't pay that well but hope and cole convince her to continue with it because its so obvious to see the improvement in her. in a strange was she feels a kinship to the birds (bird therian peril real) and they like her in return. its more of a rescue, rehabilition place. helping injuried birds and if possible returning them to the wild. it does have a vistor side to it but she doesn't really ahve to deal with that. Maybe she meets eda through it too... owlbert is there and eda likes to visit him, maybe... editing this later

Music is the third thing. I don't know if she'd exactly be a part of a specific sub-culture but she's big into her edgy music, constantly listening to stuff. She doesn't really start playing anything until a bit later, (maybe eda introduces her to raine somehow... or maybe bq has an instrument laying around that she lets her mess around with) and its kind of hard to play stuff because her hands are a little bit shakey. But it gives her a new way to express herself, to be loud? in a way that she can be sure won't hurt anyone. im trying to decide if she'd sing anything. because at first i was like no. but now im not so sure. she definately wouldn't want to in front of an audience but hm. ill come back to this. SHE HAS BEEN TAUGHT BIRD CALLS by her bird friends. she can whistle different calls.

and even if later she does start to talk a bit more, be more open, she's still very quiet and she likes it that way. quiet but not invisbile. her presences is alwasy acknowleged even if she doesn't want to say a word. listening to cole yap about space or something. big on the stars that guy. ends up working as a space musuem tour guide

Fun details about this au which I can't fit chronologicallly!!!!

• Back with Belos, the only person she had to listen to was Him (and being terrible was encouraged and part of the job). So she'll follow Belos'every word without question, but everyone else. she just struggles to see the point in respecting their authority or even being particularly nice to them. LIKE SHE'S CIVIL but not particularly welcoming (bar like her siblings and a few other people she's close with)
  
  
• I don't imagine sb!peril is the Biggest Video Game Fan but i think she has a DS she carries around and plays pokemon on... I need to finish making her a full team but if she was Actually a Pokemon trainer she would have one or two partner pokemon who she's very close with... a flying or dragon type she could ride.
  
  
• HOBBIES!!! she would probably like a lot of physical things. eventually. she'd be big on rollerskating and iceskating, maybe bouldering. She'd Hate Swimming. this is back to music but she would particually like the drums because it helps get her anger out in a Less Destructive Way. she's not too creative (her hands get shaky sometimes and it fustrates her) but she likes customising her clothes and has perfected her realistic bird portraits in her free time at the bird sanctuary
  
  

GHOST??? AU???

Saw this super cute morningmark comic and IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT THE PREVIOUS GOLDEN GUARDS (as i often do) and then i got emotional because peril could have been there and this has made me think aboyt what she'd be like as a ghost and how she'd interact with hunter and her many siblings

OKAY WITH THE GOLDEN GUARDS theres various ways to do this. theres silly ghosts like the comic, but ive also read fics where the ghosts are more like echoes? that hunter glimpses throughout his life in the castle (IF I FIND THE FIC ILL PUT IT HERE!!) and i've also read a few where they're in his mindscape which was very fun. I DONT REALLY AHVE A PROPER IDEA ON HOW THE GHOST GUARDS WORK but it doenst matter too much I jsut want to write random thoughts about my dead daughter peril likes to try and fuck with belos. creep him out.

Watching the new guards go through the same shit she did would make her feel very small and insignificant but also I think she would start to realise that a lot of the stuff that happened to her wasn't her fault and over time some of that guilt would ebb away.

She's not the most friendly ever, and i doubt she'd be very welcoming, but at the same time she feels a kinship to all the grimwalkers that she'd been searching for among witches and palismen her whole life. Although now i consider this at the start, it would also be a bit strained as she does not like herself. terrible self worth. and after seeing them commit the same horrific acts as her in the name of the emperor, this hate echoes across them too. Another point to make is that unlike some of the others she Knew she was a grimwalker and had this grand idea of them in her head, which later in her life became a less grand one but she had a vison nonetheless.

If the other guards were there she'd make friends with Hope, or Hope would make friends with her. maybe they'd teach her sign language. She'd probably be quite taken aback by Hope at first because theyre so sweet to her but also can turn incredibly angry and vengeful if Belos is mentioned. Peril is angry too... especially at the start. her anger feels like all she really has left and if she lets go of it she doesn't know who she is anymore. But as decades pass it gets really tiring. She just gets numb, convinces herself not to care anymore. After all, it's not like she can change anything. I think this happens to quite a few of the guards. BUT THEN HUNTER HAPPENS!!! AND SHE STARTS TO HOPE AGAIN!!! AND HE FIGHTS AND HE SURVIVES and belos finally finally dies. she is so there watching his death. gleefully.

She also, of course, gets attached to Nicholas whenever he burns to death. sorry nicholas love you nicholas.

For a ghost au if she appeared to hunter. I think the guards would be more like the first option i said where theyre more like echoes... they wouldn't be able to talk and i also really like the idea that the ghost guards can't take off their masks because thats actually so fucked up!!! peril would Hate This. she would still get her wings and tail in her ghost form though as, although sometimes she bound her wings, they were mostly just hidden under her cloak. maybe she can switch forms too as a treat and maybe the guards can have the wounds that killed them as less of a treat. (this version is what the drawing to the side is based around!)

FUN FACTS!!!

• She was created to be about 16 or 17 (this is around the age sb!peril runs away) and dies in her mid 20s.
  
  
• sb!peril likes vocaloid (still trying to decide who would be her fav) BUT SHE LIKES GHOST AND PALS A LOT!!! her siblings got her into it
  
  
• HER WARRIOR CAT NAME IS GOLDENFLIGHT!!! it used to be Hawkflight. The first part changes instead of the last part because i liked it better but also something about giving up her identity. Giggling and hunter's name is Goldenheart and later when he runs away he changes it to wildheart....
  
  
• She has a resting angry face. Part of this is because it just fits, but also birds of prey always look upset because of the shape of their faces and i think its funny if peril also looks pisssed off too.
  
  
• HUNT/WEB AVATAR. suffocating in cobwebs my daughter :heart:
  
  
• IF SHE WAS A DRAGON (wings of fire) SHE'D BE AN ICEWING!!! she'd like being all spiky and the cold... and the like. super fucked up heirarchy thing the icewing nobility have going on is erm familiar... (crying all the icewings are so miserable) giggling fun fact in the fun facts section she was actually named after peril wof. THEY HAVE SIMILARITIES but i chose it before I made her backstory. I just think its an awesome name for a golden guard.
  
  
• WOLFWALKERS AU. caleb fell in love with eveyln who was a wolfwalker. she turns him into one so he can join her pack and philip Does Not Love This!!! this au isnt set in the boiling isles and philip isnt emperor, he's a witch, or wolfwalker, hunter - travelling around and killing magical creatures. still not sure how peril is related to him, she still might be a clone. but either way in this au belos uses her to hunt down and kill other wolfwalkers. yay!!! ILL PROBABLY WRITE MORE ABOUT THIS AU LATER because i want to fit the rest of stray birds into it maybe...
  
  

LITTLE TINY ANIMATIC WITH HER!!!! some of my designs and stuff have changed now. but. love her so much

SONGS THAT REMIND ME OF HER!!!!!!!!

IMPOSTER SYNDROME - Sidney Gish

THIS SONG. honestly anything by sidney gish gives Major Peril Vibes, even if the song itself doesn't relate to her. BUT THIS ONE and also parts of sin triangle (the animatic above) are both so toh!peril and sb!peril coded. the Audiotree recordings Especially so BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE PERIL COULD BE SINGING IT AND I JUST :HEADINHANDS: :HEADINHANDS:

The peril vibes mostly come from it relating to how she'd stuggle to live without belos, "unfortunately i am. My own dog, my own fur companion" and "every other day I'm wondering. what's a human being gotta be like?" In both versions, she stuggles a lot to function on her own and make her own descions... if it wasn't for Hope and Nicholas i think sb!peril would have maybe just Died. or at least she wouldn't have recovered, she'd just be in survival mode. forever!!!

She's always struggled with her personhood. firstly because she never saw herself one and also because toh!peril is Not Quite a witch and Not Quite a palismen and she struggles to find her place with either group "for human grossly underqualified, for canine grossly overqualified"

um go listen to No Dogs Allowed. banger albumn

ICICLES - The Scary Jokes

ANOTHER ARTIST THAT GIVES MAJOR PERIL VIBES NO MATTER THE SONG!!!! i'm actually working on an icicles animatic that may or may not ever get finished... But. Its Real.

This song is actually wild because I swear every line i could link to a moment in her life. i was searching for the albumn image to put here and immediately found angsty c!tommy fanart to it which tells you a lot about this song actaully

"Icicles don't soften when they die, so why should I?" ERMMM OKAY "I can only be forgiven if I'm giving myself up to you, on a silver serving tray." and then it's like well okay but what about

"I'll stay golden and retreat
into my sweetest fantasy.
The one where you are crying
And I don't do anything at all"

and I think the spirit of peril possessed that one. except instead of crying it would be dying or something. she thinks about murdering that guy frequently. um. shoutout to my bird daughter :heart:

PIDGEONMAN - Doglantic

I love doglantic so much. EVERYPONY GO LISTEN TO DOGLANTIC!!!!!!!!

the chorus to this one makes me think of sb!peril and i get emotional. ill probably add to this later but yeah

SO. SO. I LOVE HER SO DEARLY!!!! DONT KNOW IF YOU COULD TELL. I actually originally made her back in July 2024 around the time for artfight but for some reason Now is the time im super obsessed with her (its December 2024 as of writing this) GIGGLING if you go back to my rambling page of my website I know I have quite a bit on her old backstory there.

I HAVE ALSO written a bunch of really little oneshots with her. Putting this at the bottom because i'm so self conscious of my writing BUT IM ALSO REALLY PROUD OF THEM because i don't really write anything much ever. writing about her also brings me so much joy I should do it more i think. They're all on her toyhouse (along with her art) but here they are seperately. I gave them such dramatic titles it makes me giggle

• She's better - the yellow bird was a canary in this btw. because i was thinking about life series when i wrote it and also she should Leave!!! Now!!!! Immediately!!! i think this is the best one i wrote, proud of this one :D i love being insane about my one oneshot about my own oc.
  
  
• That was Not a Palisman - THIS ONE IS STILL IN PROGRESS but um au where she lives!!! I talked more about this au in an earlier section but. very proud of this one. I DON'T KNOW WHY ITS ALL IN DARIUS POV THOUGH it wasn't even meant to be. he's not going to that relevant later. I was going to have it change povs whcih would amke more sense so no idea what happened there. BUT IM PROUD OF IT SO!!!
  
  
• Your friend, if you'd like to be - THIS ONE ENDS HAPPILY FOR ONCE!!! peril made her first friend everyone cheer and clap for her, thank you. the second half of this was very cute. I do need to figure out how to write rue though. need to figure out palisman. ALSO MY FRIEND DREW ART OF IT AND LOOK AT HER LOOK AT THEM BOTH IM GOING TO CRY
  
  
• She's just as bad as him really - giggling this was stray birds. I SORT OF animated it (and then gave up) but in the second half Hope appeared to see if she was okay but Peril wasn't able to say anything. okay so yeah peril does have issues controlling her anger but it's not as bad as she thinks it is. She feels so much responsibility to look after her siblings, even though she knows they're plenty capable, but she does't know how to act anymore and she's so scared of fucking everything up. so scared that she'll start acting like Belos. which is obviously not going to happen but she's so overwhelmed with guilt and shame over it all the time that it paralyses her and she struggles to anything. She spent so much time around him that it feels like his voice is always in her head and she hates it so much. LOVE YOU MY DAUGHTER!!!!
  
  

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• @broockksss (tumblr)
• @Ghostjellyy_ (artfight)
• @bicarb-of-soda (tumblr)
• @pine0vercoat (tumblr)
• AND ME!!!!!!!

Giggling just want to put it out there that everypony is always like POOR PERIL SHES NEVER HAPPY YOU MAKE HER SO MISERABLE and i just want to say. I GAVE HER FRIENDS. SHE GOT TO RUN AWAY. SHE HAS MULTIPLE HAPPY ENDING AUS. HAVE YOU SEEN EVERYONE ELSES GUARD OCS??? because i have. ive read about so many AND THEYRE ALL WAY MORE MISERABLE, BEAT UP AND TORTURED1!!!! EVEN IN CANON HUNTER LITERALLY GETS POSSESSED AND THEN IS FORCED TO KILL (AND NEALRY EAT) HIS BEST FRIEND. AND THEN BRIEFLY DROWNS. PERIL IS FINE!!! smh they're all so overdramatic /silly