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[WordPress] Breedz Lore: BirdWorms!

Original Post Date: 2025-03-28

Two BirdWorms, bird-like creatures made of three segments, with large eyes and small beaks. The one on the left is grey with white eyes and a yellow beak, and the one on the right is pink with blue eyes and a purple beak.

Sorry for not posting the past couple days! Being at the beginning of exam season means that my motivation to do anything besides lie in bed and suffer is through the floor, and unfortunately, posts count as that.

But yay! I’m back again, for a little bit anyway. And here’s our very first lore post, for the BirdWorms!

So, what is a BirdWorm?

As mentioned in the original BirdWorm post, the BirdWorm is based on the TK from Crash: Mind Over Mutant. I was very fond of TKs as a child, and made some out of pompoms.

A TK from Crash: Mind Over Mutant created out of pompoms. It is a grey, fetus-like bird with no limbs, white eyes, and an orange beak.

I came up with all of these interesting little details about my doubly-fictionalized version of these little guys. They were part of a species known as Telekan flubus (referencing another strange creature I adored, the Flube from the reboot of The Electric Company, for whatever reason) at one point, which I’m going to rename (more properly at that) Avivermis mentemovens. I went through all the bits of lore I still had, and here’s some tidbits that I thought were still interesting enough:

They were originally from very cold habitats.
They are commonly kept as pets, but are also farmed for meat like numerous other birds.
They are very affectionate and tactile, and also very soft.
A group of BirdWorms used to be called a “needle”, like pine needles. A needle of BirdWorms usually has a social structure akin to (real) wolves, being family units.
BirdWorms are omnivores with a primarily meat-eating diet (makes sense for their frigid homes!).
Certain, more basal forms of BirdWorm had a mask-like facial disc of feathers, like in owls! (Maybe someday I’ll make a BirdWorm file where this mask is a variant.)
BirdWorms lay small clutches of eggs, 1-4 at a time, usually. (Perfect number for Petz!)

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