#Zebesian scholars speculated that it might be related to social feeding behaviors such as a hatchling's instinct to nudge a parent's

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#comic #raven beak #samus aran #chozo #metroid dread #Raven Beak's big booby couch surfing adventure #don't worry about it this is all written out in page 1 of The Care And Keeping of Giant Murder Bird Dad Things #yes that couch is to scale he is two and a half Samuses tall #not that the blanket/towel over the head works but she would be elated if it did #he's too big for her to coerce into a cage. he's too intelligent to fall for the 'it's dark so it must be nighttime' trick #he has a Bird PhD and special ops training. there ain't no fooling him #but there ARE a few reflexes Samus can take advantage of to have herself a little fun #if he's going to be occupying the couch for who knows how long she might as well make the most of it #he sleeps on it because 1. she wants her bed to herself and 2. bed's too small for him to sleep in it by himself anyways #the couch is also too small but it's better than nothing and Samus is the breadwinner here #as for reflexes she can take advantage of: tickling him under the chin may get him to reflexively open his jaw. #it doesn't always work though #that's something she can do to mildly annoy him. like in a 'why did you do that' sort of way. #it's far easier to make a Chozo hatchling open their mouth that way. parents do it to get stubborn children to take unpleasant medicine #Zebesian scholars speculated that it might be related to social feeding behaviors such as a hatchling's instinct to nudge a parent's #throat to tell them 'hey i'm hungry give me some of that sweet mush in your crop' #now i need to tag this with headcanons because i went too deep into the Fun Thoughts Zone #headcanons #anyways. more reflexes samus can weaponize. this one isn't exactly weaponizable in any meaningful way #but sometimes she plays music while he's busy with his hands or reading just to see what gets him to absently bob his head #so far she's gotten him to do it with 'Plastic Love' and ABBA. half the time he doesn't *appear* to notice that he's doing it #very rarely it becomes quite obvious that he's not only noticed the head bobbing but has foregone whatever he's doing to fully embrace it. #you know he's gettin' funky with it when his plumes stand on end #his neck kind of straightens or stretches out. he gives a short #robust shake of his head. and then everything moves from the shoulders down. full body bird-brained wiggles. it's very amusing.