Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Mythical May: Wingalings part 2

First of all, Blasphemy has been committed as the bleach anime no longer features Shinigami'zu Cup Golden and has replaced it with some little question and answer thing about hollows and arrancar.

Part 2 of Mythical May's Wingaling chapter (and I will get back to the Cyclops eventually), We look at why I really don't think bird wings work very well on people. Now for starters, there's the undeniable fact that birds have a hollow bonestructure that kind of significantly contrast to the standard mammal. Now you can take creative license to all the other reasons why a birds limb wouldn't cooperate with a human body, but the bone differences are a little too concrete for my taste.
Also consider the fact that the reason the bones need to be hollow is so the bird is light enough to fly. So really we have to remake the whole skeleton here, anyway. on this not though...

Have you ever scene a bird skeleton? Did you ever notice that big huge slab in the center of it? That's it's sternum, the bone between your ribs. Considering that birds have to lift their body weight using their wings, that means there Chest has to be as sturdy, or sturdier than their hips, they need an absurd amount of Pecs to lift that much, and as such their sternum must be 10 times larger for the muscle to attach to it.

This is my rendition of what that might look like applied to a human.

and that's not counting re-compensating for the second set of arms.
When designing a hominid with bird wings, Remember to consider these consequences.

This concludes another one of my Pet Peeves.

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