A man sheds his skin. He is a solitary, self-reliant, young writer-man. He sheds his skin and spreads wings.
What do the wings look like?
So far I've heard deep plum red, like wine, and soft gray, ancient but not old.
What I'm going with now is blue. It is blue that can be any blue, depending on the light, the angle, your eye. When the wings move, the sound is every sound, it is swansong, for when a swan sings it is every sound it has heard in its life.
Color is still uncertain. I've also been discussing substance. Feathers or leather or scales. A wistful idea is flower petals, those round soft petals like scales, that feel like satin when you touch them. But I'm afraid that feels too fanciful, too unnatural for warm flesh and blood wings.
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I like grey, I think it would work well, especially if the hero is white. Maybe for other races as well. Have you considered making the wings so big, and awkward when on foot, that the hero rarely sets foot on earth, yet is graceful in the air? Kind of like the original little mermaid story: when she gained her legs she felt like she was walking on glass for the rest of life. A trade-off.
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It ends upon shedding the skin, so I doubt I could work that in very well. I can try.
I mean the clumsiness. BTW, I also just think it's interesting how people answer. I'm beginning to notice a trend, in that it very well reflects personalities.
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Have you read 'Skellig', by David Almond? Skellig is an angel-man. His wings, in my imagination, were white-grey interspersed with darker grey and black.
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Blue. I like in some of my winged people stories some can turn their wings metallic, but that is sort of mine...
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