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Skench and Spoorn were only owlets when their lives were turned on their heads. Skench, having witnessed her parents' demise at the talons of a once-trusted neighbor, suffers from immense paranoia. Everyone is out to get her. Nobody can be trusted.

Spoorn, belonging to such a small species of owl, feels helpless in a world where they could only stand back and watch as their parents were slaughtered by an attacking predator. A black mirror of Soren and Gylfie, the owls found one another in an orphanage. Skench learns to trust only Spoorn. Spoorn vows to never be weak again. Together, they grow into power within this orphanage, and that power slowly corrupts them...

TytoT2000/A_A_Ironwood's very interesting headcanon from my gahoole server !!!

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The GoG movie is so fucking bad at being a movie adaptation but it's SO visually pleasing.......frustrating beauty of a movie

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This post contains spoilers for the Guardians of Ga’hoole books.

So I watched the Legends of the Guardians movie last night and forgot just how many inconsistencies there are with the books. Don’t get me wrong, I love the movie but fuck. I just feel like I need to tell someone. 

Sorry for the long post, but there is just so much different.

Here we go:

1. Soren is not fully-fledged at the beginning of the books

2. Eglantine hasn’t even hatched yet

3. The legends all the chicks are told are not about Lyze of Kiel

4, Lyze of Kiel never fought Metal Beak 

5. Kludd is Metal Beak 

6. Mrs. Plithiver does not have eyes, she is blind

7. The Guardians never fought in the Battle of the Ice Claws

8. Literally, everything about Metal Beak is wrong

9. Eglantine and Marella don’t have the speckle under their eye

10. Kludd and Soren were not branching at the same time

11. Soren didn’t really roleplay as a guardian

12. Noctus would not have told Soren that when he started branching, the noise wasn’t important. Noisy branching leads to noisy flight.

13. Eglantine would not be eating fur on meat or meat on bones yet, her first pellet would not have bones or fur in it.

14. Soren did not try and branch/fly while his parents were gone

15. Kludd isn’t as much of a dick in the movie as he is in the book.

16. Kludd didn’t push Soren off a branch, he pushed Soren out of the hollow

17. Kludd pushed Soren to kill him, not because he wanted Soren to shut up.

19. Kludd did not fall out of the nest. 

20. Soren did not get attacked by an animal on the ground

21. There were no Tasmanian devils

22. The books were not explicitly set in Australia/New Zealand/that general area

23. Jatt and Jutt are doofuses in the movies, they are a lot more serious in the books

24. Kludd wasn’t snatched

25. The St. Aggies owls didn’t sing their song when bringing the owlets back

26. Soren was a lot more confused and frightened by the different owls because he had only seen Tytos before

27. The Pure Ones did not control St. Aggies

28. Nyra is not the Ablah General of St. Aggies

29. There is no Skench and Spoorn, the Leaders of St. Aggies in the books.

30. St. Aggies is not affiliated with the Pure Ones

31. Soren and Gylfie worked in the Pelletorium by choice

32. Not pits or pit guardians. In the books, Gylfie and Soren were kept in different pits and both of their pit guardians make a comeback later in the books.

33. St Aggies, in general, is just all messed up

34. Jatt and Jutt instructed the owlets in the sleep march seemed a lot cooler in the books

35. Soren and Gylfie weren’t given number designations

36. Gylfie doesn’t know how to navigate

37. They don’t start their first moonblinking session together

38. Soren would be the one bad at acting moonblinked, not Gylfie

39. Jatt and Jutt didn’t instruct the new owlets in the Pelletorium.

40. Again, no Pure Ones in St. Aggies

41. St. Aggies owls care a lot about number designations

42. Flecks were kept in the Library and no owl except for Skench or Spoorn could go in there.

43. Bats literally had nothing to do with the flecks

44. Flecks didn’t immobilize owls like that, they are just little bits of magnetic metal

45. Honestly, the Metal Beak in the movie doesn’t even look like a Tyto

46. Grimble didn’t confront the owlets about not being perfectly moonblinked. Gylfie confronted Grimble.

47. St. Aggies didn’t take Grimble’s family. They tried to snatch Bess, Grimble fought back, and St Aggies promised to leave his family alone if he came with them

48. There were a lot more flying lessons with Grimble

49. No Hortense :(

50. In the Pure Ones, Tyto Albas were much more highly ranked than other Tytos and would not have been trained together

51. Soren and Gylfie had to fly straight up out of the canyonlands, they didn’t get a ledge to fly off of

52. Grimble was killed in the library

53. Grimble didn’t say shit about finding the Guardians

54. Soren and Gylfie met Twilight first, not Digger, when they tried to land for the first time

55. Twilight and Digger were not buddies/living together, they didn’t even know each other.

56. Soren, Gylfie, and Twilight found Digger running in the desert

57. Digger is not eccentric and crazy

56. Twilight did not catch Mrs. Plithiver for dinner.

57. Soren found Mrs. Plithiver

58. Digger was the one that had a slip up about eating Mrs. P

59. Mrs. P didn’t know what happened to Soren’s parents

60. Twilight didn’t have a lute

61. Twilight was not a poet or musician. He. is. a. warrior. He just has his battle taunts

62. Mrs. P flew on Soren or Twilights back, not in a lute.

63. Soren and Digger went and looked for their parents, Gylfie wanted to but just assumed they were dead.

64. Twilight talked A LOT more about the Orphan School of Tough Learning

65. The band got mobbed by crows during one of their first flights together, Digger was hella injured

66. The crows did not try and steal Mrs. P

67. Um. Mirror Lakes? Hello?

68. There were no echidna’s in the books

69. Nice

70. Um. Ice Narrows? Dumpy the puffin? Hello?

71. Seriously who is this echidna?

72. Digger isn’t a tracker yet. Gylfie still isn’t a navigator yet. Twilight would not refer to himself as a poet warrior

73. Pretty sure Boron was the one to speak to the Band when they got close to the tree, not Barran. I could be wrong

74. Nearly forgot about this, what about the rogue smith in the beaks and the bobcat? What about the “You only wish”?

75. Ezylryb is not a crazy owl

76. I really hate how they portrayed Ezylryb

77. Who the fuck is Allomere? He sure as hell isn’t in the books.

78. The band does not know about the Pure Ones when they get to the Great Tree

79. Barran is the leader of the Search and Rescue Chaw

80. Ezylryb would not get in a fight with another owl

81. It’s tweener, not dinner

82. Otulissa may be snobby but she isn’t a total bitch

83. Nestmaid snakes are the tables in the dining hollow

84. The band did not have their classes together

85. Using an Owl City song was very cash money of them (not an inconsistency)

86. Ezylryb doesn’t lead colliering, just weather interpretation.

87. What happened to getting tapped for a chaw

88. Pretty sure a big part of Soren’s character is that he is a phenomenal collier. They made no indication that he is a collier in the movie.

89. Eglantine wasn’t moonblinked, she was stone stunned/damaged by flecks

90. I’m kind of sad there is no Poot

91. Ezylryb didn’t just tell owls to rely on their gizzard when flying in a storm

92. No Octavia :(

93. Guardians didn’t fight with metal swords

94. They also didn’t use helmets until the band and Otulissa figured out mu metal could protect them from flecks

95. Ezylryb didn’t tell soren he is Lyze of Kiel

96. Ezylryb had his old battle claws hung up in a secret hollow

97. Eglantine was found in the Great Downing

99. Hundred of owlets, not just two

100. The downing was this huge operation, took the whole tracking and search and rescue chaws

101. Also, no Primrose, Martin, or Ruby :(

102. The guardians didn’t go straight into a war.

103. Ezylryb would NEVER PUT ON BATTLE CLAWS

104. Ezylryb would NEVER FIGHT IN A BATTLE

105. We just going to ignore The Rescue, The Siege, The Shattering, and most of The Burning?

106. This battle is the most like the battle of the canyonlands but in reality this battle just never happened in the books

107. No trader Mags

108. Strix Struma is still alive in the movie

109. Really, everything after this point is different than the books

110. Bats didn’t fight for the Pure Ones or St. Aggies

111. Ezylryb would never.

112. Why the fuck are they having Twilight carry a lute into battle. Fuck that

113. Fire doesn’t stop the flecks by destroying the contraption that is exposing them.

114. Fire literally demagnetizes flecks

115. This really isn’t how flecks impair others. Like at all

116. They really don’t show Soren getting one coal in the movie :(

117. I’m serious, this battle and everything that happens in it did not happen in the books

118. Oh yea, Kludd and Nyra were mates

119. By Glaux I hate that they show Ezylryb fighting

120. Kludd would never beg for help, especially from Soren.

121. Soren didn’t kill Metal Beak. (See 5 and 121)

122. Metal Beak wasn’t killed by a burning branch, he was killed by an ice sword

123. Speaking of ice swords, where the heck are the Northern Kingdoms in the movie.

124. Soren’s parents are fucking dead. They literally did not come to the Great Tree because Kludd killed them. (Ngl I like the ending of the movie better because its a happy ending with Soren and his family all together.)

125. Kludd most definetly died after the Guardians had their big battle with the Pure Ones in the canyonlands

Okay, thats it. If there are any inconsistencies I missed, feel free to let me know.