🔆Flightless🔆
I struggled with the exact backstory - i just had this very clear image in my head of Fox with torn out wings, clinging to Cody. And the magical soulmate tattoos glowing on his skin, underneath the bloody remnants of his wings. These are the Notes i made whilst thinking of the backstory for this prompt:
• Tattoo idea... something something Wing AU. Cody/Fox = mated pair.
• Palpatine tears off one (or both??) of Fox's Wings in a fit of rage (for what reason?? ➡️ Does the exact reason matter??)
• Maybe Fox failed to complete a secret/chip-activated mission for Palpatine/Sidious?? = punishment.
• Perhaps Fox tried to rebel and this is to teach him a lesson?
• Or maybe they're both captured by some as-yet unknown bad guys, and Fox was tortured??? 👀👀😈
• But! Because Fox is half of a mated pair (and *something something about mated-pairs and magic‐wings?*), a "tattoo" of sorts/soulmate-tattoo for mates/image of the wings transfers to his body when the physical wings are ripped out, to symbolise/maintain the mated link???
• draw wings on Fox's back/shoulders. Red/glowing "ink"
• Is the "tattoo" something that only the mated/other half sees? Or all brothers?
Alternate versions because auughhhh the glowing tattoos!!!
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