Mel arrived in March/April 2025 and she is going to be partially-to-mostly resistant of changes and will be practicing only sporadically at first. (This is subject to change - as are all changes, depending on threads and use of Shift.)
April 2025
• Skin on her hands and fingers start to darken to pitch. • Gold exoskeleton begins to appear along her spine. • Black feathers start to grow on either side of exoskeleton line on spine and at base of neck. • Skin changes on her arms, mostly subtle.
May 2025
• Reference - cw: nudity (in an anatomy way, not sexual) • Cracks in the skin of her arms begin to form to make way for scales and, eventually, plumage. • Cracked skin will be bloody and there will be gold in the flesh when first breaking open. • Longer nails that will need frequent clipping. • Beginning changes to her feet - darkening skin, cracks in feet. • Teeth start to get sharper.
June 2025
• Bird tail + plumes. (end of May - early June) • Feet and legs take on scalier traits; skin darkened to pitch, then breaking out in scales up to knee area. • Scalier hands, like claws. • Teeth growing sharp and pointed. • Development of syrinx enabling vocal mimicry (once discovered), singing while breathing, more lyrical tone in natural voice. • Appetite changes: hungrier, preferring meat at times, more frequent meals. • Feathers much more obvious on her arms. Brief molting season (end of June) for stronger, more vibrant feathers in July. • Bird legs up to about the (human version of) knee area: gold/yellow scales and skin towards the feet, darker in color towards the knee. (Late June)
July 2025
• Ear changes (pointed ears + tufts). • Eyes have a gold ring around irises. • Dark feathers covering most of body (ref), namely on back, parts of chest, tops of thighs. • New feathers on arms come in, will be a blue-green hue in places (especially in the light). • Gold tattoos still visible and will glow when using magic; will be easy to spot around feathers. • Restlessness. • Change in sleeping habits, where/how she can sleep with arm-feathers and tail feathers. • Development of syrinx enabling vocal mimicry (once discovered), singing while breathing, more lyrical tone in natural voice.
August 2025
• Feather tufts in her hair; hair gets a bit softer, feathery in texture. • Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep sometimes; other times can sleep longer, but still not overly comfortably unless on her stomach or sitting upright. • Overuse of magic causes feather growth, which will likely then molt/shed due to stress. • First molting happens at end of month and into September.
September 2025
• Singing/humming with practice can evoke more emotions if targeted; learning to control when this happens and when it doesn't. • Scales and feathers beginning to appear on her face in dark colors. Will turn green-blue hues (like Starlings) by end of month. • Singing and humming increases. Initial discovery of being able to use singing/humming to bring calm to others.
October 2025
• First assisted kill, indulging aves soul. • First full set of kills - Terra/Golems in the underground. • SECOND SOUL OBTAINED - CARNIVORA
November 2025
• Molting part 2 as new soul comes in • Half and Full Shift difficulties: bouncing between more bird-like traits and more wolf-like traits. Lots of body horror. • Warring instincts between aloofness and pack-mentality. • Restless with frustration and wanderlust, continued warring instincts.
December 2025
• Back wings come in. • New feathers and fur. • Facial feathers return. • Ears start to become more wolf-pointed rather than elf-pointed. • Vocal mimicry discovered?
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timeline of corruption.
April 2025
• Skin on her hands and fingers start to darken to pitch.
• Gold exoskeleton begins to appear along her spine.
• Black feathers start to grow on either side of exoskeleton line on spine and at base of neck.
• Skin changes on her arms, mostly subtle.
May 2025
• Reference - cw: nudity (in an anatomy way, not sexual)
• Cracks in the skin of her arms begin to form to make way for scales and, eventually, plumage.
• Cracked skin will be bloody and there will be gold in the flesh when first breaking open.
• Longer nails that will need frequent clipping.
• Beginning changes to her feet - darkening skin, cracks in feet.
• Teeth start to get sharper.
June 2025
• Bird tail + plumes. (end of May - early June)
• Feet and legs take on scalier traits; skin darkened to pitch, then breaking out in scales up to knee area.
• Scalier hands, like claws.
• Teeth growing sharp and pointed.
• Development of syrinx enabling vocal mimicry (once discovered), singing while breathing, more lyrical tone in natural voice.
• Appetite changes: hungrier, preferring meat at times, more frequent meals.
• Feathers much more obvious on her arms. Brief molting season (end of June) for stronger, more vibrant feathers in July.
• Bird legs up to about the (human version of) knee area: gold/yellow scales and skin towards the feet, darker in color towards the knee. (Late June)
July 2025
• Ear changes (pointed ears + tufts).
• Eyes have a gold ring around irises.
• Dark feathers covering most of body (ref), namely on back, parts of chest, tops of thighs.
• New feathers on arms come in, will be a blue-green hue in places (especially in the light).
• Gold tattoos still visible and will glow when using magic; will be easy to spot around feathers.
• Restlessness.
• Change in sleeping habits, where/how she can sleep with arm-feathers and tail feathers.
• Development of syrinx enabling vocal mimicry (once discovered), singing while breathing, more lyrical tone in natural voice.
August 2025
• Feather tufts in her hair; hair gets a bit softer, feathery in texture.
• Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep sometimes; other times can sleep longer, but still not overly comfortably unless on her stomach or sitting upright.
• Overuse of magic causes feather growth, which will likely then molt/shed due to stress.
• First molting happens at end of month and into September.
September 2025
• Singing/humming with practice can evoke more emotions if targeted; learning to control when this happens and when it doesn't.
• Scales and feathers beginning to appear on her face in dark colors. Will turn green-blue hues (like Starlings) by end of month.
• Singing and humming increases. Initial discovery of being able to use singing/humming to bring calm to others.
October 2025
• First assisted kill, indulging aves soul.
• First full set of kills - Terra/Golems in the underground.
• SECOND SOUL OBTAINED - CARNIVORA
November 2025
• Molting part 2 as new soul comes in
• Half and Full Shift difficulties: bouncing between more bird-like traits and more wolf-like traits. Lots of body horror.
• Warring instincts between aloofness and pack-mentality.
• Restless with frustration and wanderlust, continued warring instincts.
December 2025
• Back wings come in.
• New feathers and fur.
• Facial feathers return.
• Ears start to become more wolf-pointed rather than elf-pointed.
• Vocal mimicry discovered?