#st. aggie's

[dragoneyes618]

Random Guardians of Ga'Hoole Headcanons I Have That I May Or May Not Have Posted Here Already

Noctus and Marella suspected that Kludd was behind the disappearance of Soren and Eglantine, but they didn't do anything because 1. they were afraid of him and his friends (the Pure Ones) who stopped by whenever they were out hunting, and 2. he was still their son and they loved him and they didn't want to believe he was capable of killing his siblings.

Kludd didn't push Eglantine out of the nest like he did to Soren. A couple of Pure Ones just stopped by one day and took her straight out of the nest. Kludd told his parents and Mrs. Plithiver that she'd fallen and probably been eaten by something.

Kludd killed Noctus and Marella, or at the very least was involved in their deaths. (This might be implied canon, I don't remember.)

The rogue smith, who was also an informant for the Great Tree, who the Band found dying in The Journey, was killed by the Pure Ones because he refused to make weapons for them. (This might also be implied canon.) He was killed before he could get word to the Great Tree about the new evil rising in the owl kingdoms.

Otulissa's parents and aunt were picked off by St. Aggie's forces, who were attempting to kill as many adult owls in the region as they could, in the hopes that when they came for the owlets and eggs the nests would be nearly undefended. Fortunately Luckily for Otulissa, a Ga'Hoole patrol found her first.

Silver and Smutty are brothers.

Eglantine was haunted for the rest of her life by the events of The Shattering; the betrayal of an owl she believed to be her best friend, the lost hope that her parents were alive, her being essentially mind-controlled. She has nightmares.

Bell was haunted for the rest of her life by the events of Exile; her father's exile, the vanity cult, the book burnings, the owl burnings, the Striga - an owl who had once saved her life and who she saw as a trusted mentor - threatening to kill her, the loss of Otulissa's eye. She blames herself for all this, since she brought the Striga to the Great Tree. She also has nightmares.

Sometimes, Bell and Eglantine talk about this.

Between Exile and the War of the Ember, Coryn and Bell had a talk about owls you trust (in her case, a trusted mentor, in his case, his own mother) betraying you.

Eglantine always wanted a mate and owlets of her own (she especially wanted to name owlets after her parents) but she never found the right owl to become mates with. She compensated for this by being the best aunt ever to her nephew and nieces.

Pelli is 401-2.

Soren and Gylfie had nightmares about St. Aggie's for the rest of their lives. To their dying day, the sight of the full moon made them uneasy.

[heartorbit]

a fool and a sinner

[oncillaphoenix]

man. reading wolves of the beyond at a young age probably gave me a nonstandard view of what children are able to handle

[pernillecfcw]

Arriving yesterday for lionesses camp 💙🦁

[crepegosette]

how about guardians of ga'hoole?

OH YEAH, NOW WE'RE SPEAKING!!

[rainbowsylvie]

What if there was something comparable to clangen for guardians of ga’hoole

[agrebel18]

ok but St*ddie and H*ntric give me the same vibes. I wonder why. (negative) 

[wygolvillage]

thinking about eglantine (of guardians of ga'hoole fame) again

[seramilla]

According to the post on the last 'Cult of Vaggie' I'm pretty sure they decided the AU should be "The Order of Saint Vagatha" Or "Saint Vaggie"

Even though her name isn't Vagatha, it's funny, and her worshipers wouldn't know that! It makes the most sense to them. Also now I'm just thinking of St. Aggie's Academy for Orphaned Owls. Some of those cannibal kids must have read the Guardians of Ga'hoole when they were alive. 😂😂

The Order of Saint Vagatha founded St. Vaggie's Academy for Wayward Orphans on Earth. It works!!!

[its-me-vixen]

I designed a GoG OC a while back and realized I could probably actually draw her as more of a true cartoon! I don’t know when I gained this skill but hey lol

Berry is a Spotted Owl that arrived at the tree as an orphaned hatchling during the tail end of the St. Aggies raids, and went untapped for a while before she discovered a method of using the Great Trees berries to create pigments for painting, which is where she got her current name. Nothing had really settled before, but she likes to go by Berry. I imagine she tries to play it cool but probably fawns over any strong warriors, she’d love to find a mate and settle down now that she’s become the leader of the newly formed Painting Chaw and established herself at the tree. Just random musings, hopefully ill design her a mate sometime and do a full ref lol

[ruddyhotelau]

Sooooo, the next batch of redesigns will be Sir Pensious, Molly, Lilith and Charlie?

Nope, it gonna be Eve, Aggie, outfit for the Exorcist and St Peter. Saint Peter doesn't swap with anyone, we just want to redesign him =)))

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Dark Guardians of Ga'Hoole AU with X-Men (owl or owl avian), where the mutants are all types of Barn Owls, but without the "purity" cr*p. Let me lay out a few facts for this au and for its Reader:

• All Barn Owls (Barn, Masked, Grass, Sooty, Red, etc.) are equal, no weird purity cr*p, they're all seen as mutants in the owl kingdoms, hence the two groups, The Brotherhood (of Pure Ones) and The Guardians (of Tyto)...

• The Brotherhood are a mix of St. Aggies and the Pure Ones, being a group who believe all Barn Owls should rule the world and not be hinted or shunned or killed in the owl kingdoms

• The Guardians (the X-Men) are the Guardians, who fight to help all owls, Barn Owls or not, but will protect their own if they're attacked by other owl species

• The Tyto Forest is an old home where most of them once came from, but it is very old, very ancient, and has been attacked, its owlets stolen as well as its eggs, grown owls captured or killed, and all matter of awful things...

• The Brotherhood and Guardians potentially team up, or form one group, and Reader, once one of their own (kidnapped or freely with them), leaves, now a rogue who must try to stay far away from them, lest they be captured and taken back...

• This can be dark in several different ways, but I imagine Reader had been loyal, had been friends with the teens/owlets, and was a decent fighter, if a defensive one... but it all changed, and no one knows why...

@sugar-soda @thewickedweiner (Can y'all tell I love owls? I also thought "huh, I want to do something like a Dark AU, but how do I do that while fitting the owls in?" and came up with this. What do y'all think?) (And I kinda wanted lone hero/lone wolf Reader, who maaaaybe ends up saving owlet Laura... and then maybe having to figure out the next right thing)

[wanderingtheark]

i have gog ocs now. i love them (i've had arche for years actually but only just now drew her)

and yeah arche is purple but i literally color picked a photo reference of a melanistic barn owl LMAO

hawthorne was a guard at st. aegolius whose moon blinking was botched, and arche is a spy for the guardians stationed at st aggies. she helps hawthorne escape and they become mates once they get back to the great ga'hoole tree, since they're both known by the st. aggies guards and pretty much designated KOS arche was retired from the search and rescue chaw and hawthorne was given time to rest and recover from his time at st aggies

i am very normal about guardians of ga'hoole, please ask me about these goobers

their toyhouses: arche - hawthorne

[dimity-lawn]

In honor of Juneteenth, this post is dedicated to Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907), activist and seamstress, an extraordinary figure who worked towards abolition and should be more well known.

Elizabeth “Lizzy” Hobbs was born in 1818, an illegitimate daughter of Agnes “Aggy” Hobbs, who taught her dressmaking skills, and Colonel Armistead Burwell, the man who held them as his slaves.

At the age of 14, she was separated from her mother when the Burwells sent her to work for their son, Reverend Robert Burwell, and his wife, Margaret. They and a neighbor beat her without reason, and eventually sent her to work for store owner Alexander McKenzie Kirkland, who would repeatedly assault her over the course of the next few years. As a result of one of Kirkland’s assaults, in 1839 she gave birth to a son, who she named George, after her assumed father who had been taken away in her childhood.

After the death of Armistead Burwell, she and her son were inherited by Hugh A. Garland, the husband of her white half sister, Ann, and returned to the family that owned them. In 1847, the Garlands took Agnes, Elizabeth, and George Hobbs with them when they moved to St. Louis, where Hugh Garland continued to practice law (including serving as John Sanford’s defense attorney. John Sanford was the man who held Dred Scott as a slave). During this time, she became an accomplished seamstress, and she Garlands became increasingly dependent on her as a major source of income.

In 1850, she met and developed a relationship with James Keckley, a free African American man, who she refused to marry until she and her son were free as well. Hugh Garland initially refused to free her and her son, but eventually agreed to do so for the price of $1,200. With an end to her and her son’s slavery in sight, in 1852 she agreed to marry James Keckley.

Over the next three years, her attempts at saving the required sum were repeatedly foiled by the Garlands, and eventually she needed to seek help from another wealthy family in St. Louis who were more sympathetic to her plight, and gave her a loan, thus allowing her to finally purchase freedom for herself and her son in 1855. The $1,200 dollars she spent would be worth around $43,320 today.

By 1860 she was able to repay the family who had given her a loan, and she separated from her husband due to his alcohol abuse, which she claimed turned him into “a burden instead of helpmate”. She then moved to Washington D.C., and began to establish herself as a prominent dressmaker for the elite women in the area, especially the wives of politicians.

By 1861, her reputation was such that she was recommended to soon-to-be First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary received the first dress on the morning of her husband’s inauguration. Upon seeing Mary in the dress, Abraham Lincoln (who did not find his wife attractive) said "You look charming in that dress. Mrs. Keckly has met with great success”. Elizabeth would serve as Mary’s personal dressmaker for the next four years, and the two women grew closer after they both lost a son.

Along with her work as a seamstress, Elizabeth also helped others seeking freedom in Washington D.C.. In doing so, she founded the Contraband Relief Association, which helped the many groups of people who had escaped their enslavers, and met many famous abolitionists, including Fredrick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, including later arranging a 1864 meeting between Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln.

After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Elizabeth was an important source of comfort to Mary. However, in 1867, an unfortunate misunderstanding caused a rift in the friendship between the two women, and they fell out entirely in 1868, damaging Elizabeth’s and resulting in the loss of many clients. Despite this, she continued to work as a dressmaker until 1892, when she became the head of a department dedicated to the “Sewing and Domestic Science Arts” at a university in Ohio. Unfortunately, a year later she was forced to resign after suffering from a stroke, and spent the rest of her days at a foundation that helped destitute African American women and children which she had helped to found years earlier.

[minifrau]

Otulissa and mah oc Tuvalli in my St. Aggie’s AU!

[yoiasa]

the japanese translation of guardians of ga'hoole has some images in them and i am so grateful that it exists because i always keep forgetting that soren wasn't actually fully fledged until 2/3rd's of the first book.

because in my mind, during his life at st. aggies, i always envisioned him as this but smol

when in reality he still looks like this