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So I saw this reblog chain on Tumblr talking about birds in Hollow Knight's world. & other posts showed me that I'm not the only one who say the Faylorn beast as a bird of this universe.
Now, the bugs of HK/Silksong aren't 1-to-1 in appearace or behavior to their IRL counterparts. Matises for example in real life mostly solitary (+ iirc only ants shed their wings in adulthood, and ony if they're a queen). So it's likely if birds exist in the HK/Silksong universe, they'd be diffent too. Now how they look like is likely up to interpetation of the fan, since the closest thing we have to a bird is the Faylorn. But as the reblog chain also stated, many birds (at least large to the bugs + insect eating ones) would be interpated as the dragons of their world.
Now dragons in our world aren't one thing. The main diffrence you may know is the western vs eastern divide in dragons. Where (iirc) the western dragons are brutish beasts to slay with fire, & where eastern dragons are often wise beasts who are more assoiciated with water. Of course there's nuaces that I'm not getting here. But just like how dragons in our world aren't thing, and birds are a diverse clade; birds in the HK/Silksong universe would likely be seem in various ways by diffrent cultural groups & goverments.
Now, the bugs of HK/Silksong aren't 1-to-1 in appearace or behavior to their IRL counterparts. Matises for example in real life mostly solitary (+ iirc only ants shed their wings in adulthood, and ony if they're a queen). So it's likely if birds exist in the HK/Silksong universe, they'd be diffent too. Now how they look like is likely up to interpetation of the fan, since the closest thing we have to a bird is the Faylorn. But as the reblog chain also stated, many birds (at least large to the bugs + insect eating ones) would be interpated as the dragons of their world.
Now dragons in our world aren't one thing. The main diffrence you may know is the western vs eastern divide in dragons. Where (iirc) the western dragons are brutish beasts to slay with fire, & where eastern dragons are often wise beasts who are more assoiciated with water. Of course there's nuaces that I'm not getting here. But just like how dragons in our world aren't thing, and birds are a diverse clade; birds in the HK/Silksong universe would likely be seem in various ways by diffrent cultural groups & goverments.
