Maybe with time, their wings weren't the only thing they lost. Fairies are magical beings after all and they might have looked more otherworldly than just shiny eyes and wings.
Ligth fairies with skin that glowed, under any ligth, a eternal glittering complexion that went with their powers. Their image naturally flickering whith the light, like a mirage.
Earth fairies with leaves growing in their hair, flowers on their cheeks and eternal earth under their nails. A flora of their own. How they seemed to mold themselves to the woods, becoming part of the ecosystem.
Fire fairies with their hair on fire, eternally burning in the ends. Some occasional smoke coming out of their noses, indicating that their powers weren't just external, they were burning inside too. Burned footprints behind them.
Water fairies with skin that not only seemed always wet, but also that the water seemed to be eternally running. A natural river over flesh. Did you noticed how they seemed to connect themselves with the water so well they almost became part of it?
Air fairies with static hair, lightning scars all over their body and seemingly endless electrical feeling in their touch. Always in favor of the wind, their words a ever going echo.
Mind fairies are tricky tho. Humans fear them the most because they look the most like them. But do not let appearances fool you, look for the signs. The colorful eyes that seem to stare into your soul and all of your past lives, the silky mouth saying what you want to hear, the memory loss after. The way all of them always seem to be on edge. Lost stares into nothing. Their silence ( mind fairies are light on their feet, quiet, noiseless). They might look the most like a human, but they act the least like one. They know too much, hear too much, see too much, feel too much.
And of course, all of them have wings. Butterfly, dragonfly, moth, anything. Fragile and breathtaking, lightning up when they use their powers in great scales.
( they have a wildness in them too, all of them. Too magical to be anything other than free)
i get so mad when people dont tag flash warnings because "they need to prepare for the real world"
like are you stupid. flash warnings and trigger warnings are two different things. i dont even agree with not tagging trigger warnings but thats a conversation for another day
having epilepsy is someones real world. theyve lived through it. the fucking "real world" you speak of literally has flash warnings!!! those little intro cards at the beginnings of movies?? flash warnings. netflix also gives flash warnings on the content warning cards that appear in the corner of the screens. youre just being ignorant
you could send someone into a life threatening seizure, or at the very least, a seizure at all. someone might die because you were too fucking dim to put the two letters "FW" on the beginning of a post.
seizures are not fun. you should not put someone through that because you're a lazy asshole who has no remorse or empathy.
So I fell down this rabbit hole on @/animarvelita on TikTok with all these AI images of Bucky!! Now I want to go back an reread all my fav fan fiction with these images in mind 😍