#these are all from whiteboards with friends btw dhdgnhgbnnnn

[sweetsuke]

i've officially joined ithaeli nation!! i can't stop thinking about them dzvbbcbbbgdd

putting my thoughts about them under the cut because. it's A Lot

okay here's just a rundown of why i initially thought they'd be neat together:

-they both wear hoods that cover the majority of their hair and things that cover the majority of their face

-they both have a connection to nature (eli with animals, ithaqua with the forest/wind)

-each of them are self-assured in their abilities

-both will do anything for those they love

-they have similar color palettes

now a specific scenario that won't leave my mind:

i'm thinking about eli's owl being injured during a duo match, maybe it sprains one of its wings or its eye is injured. regardless, it doesn't make its way back to eli during the match, not even when he's chaired and sent back to the mansion. eli, immediately assuming the worst, refuses to use his foresight for fear of what he'll see - his owl bleeding out in a clearing, or crushed underneath a pallet, all alone and unable to return to him. after all, that's the only reason it wouldn't come back, right?

cut to ithaqua, who's just finished a duo match. right before heading back to the manor, he spots a lump of feathers poking out of a group of bushes nearby - when he approaches it, he discovers an injured owl, who begins snapping its beak in defense as he gets closer. ithaqua is a new hunter, so he doesn't immediately recognize it as the seer's owl. instead, he simply sees an injured animal. ithaqua coos gently at the owl until it trusts him enough to pick it up, and then he cradles it in his tattered cloak before bringing it back to the mansion. he's a recluse by nature, so he doesn't share his discovery with the hunter he'd played the match with; it was none of their business, anyhow. (what he doesn't know is that the other hunter had been the one to injure the owl, who all the rest of the hunters had come to realize could take hit for a survivor and recover fine).

after returning to his room on the hunter's side of the manor, itahqua bandages the owl's wounds and catches rats and mice for it to eat since it can't hunt for itself. the owl grows to like ithaqua, who treats it with respect and doesn't seem to have any ulterior motive behind his actions. after the owl is recovered enough, ithaqua releases it outside, where it disappears into the nearby forest. ithaqua is happy to see it fly, even if he's a little sad to watch it go because he'd grown fond of it.

cut back to eli, who's basically given up on his owl ever returning at this point. it's been weeks by now, and he's come to accept the fact that something terrible happened to his beloved owl. he still hasn't used his foresight to see what happened to it, hating what he knew he'd see. he's been useless in matches since then, unable to help his teammates as he used to without the support of his owl. 

and then, during a match one day - eli's owl reappears. he barely registers the familiar bird call before it barrels into him from the air, cooing excitedly and pecking him affectionately as it returns to its perch on his shoulder as if it had never left. eli is so happy he cries. and so, so confused. his owl looks no worse for wear, despite having been gone for so long. he can't imagine where it'd been, why it had left; but his overwhelming relief is what takes precedence. he wins that match with the newfounded hope that comes from reuniting with a missing friend.

sometime later, maybe only a couple of days, eli is taking part in another match. it's against a hunter he's never met before, one that his fellow survivors speak of with worried voices: a hunter on stilts, as fast as the wind and as vicious as winter. eli focuses on decoding the second the match starts, set on staying out of the fray and protecting his teammates from afar. he uses his foresight to observe the hunter, watches the way the hunter moves as it chases the unfortunate doctor. he watches as the hunter downs his teammate, calls for his owl to move before his vision comes true. and then the weirdest thing happens: he watches as his owl swoops in to receive the attack meant for the doctor, only for the hunter to stop short and pause. eli's owl, in a baffling turn of events, lets out a delighted coo and flies up to land on the hunter's shoulder, where it pecks the hunter's masked face affectionately. eli's foresight fizzles out from surprise. deciding to see if he'd somehow miseen, he locates the hunter and approaches it, where sure enough, his owl is excitedly swooping around. eli can't begin to make heads or tails of what's going on.

ithaqua, on the other hand, is ecstatic. the owl friend he'd nursed back to health had shown back up! who cares if the timing wasn't the best? he hadn't expected to see the tiny owl ever again, let alone so soon. he carefully scritches the owl's head, taking care not to injure it with his elongated nails. he doesn't even notice when the survivor he'd been hunting runs away. he does, however, notice when the owl flies off, only to land a short distance away on a different survivor's shoulder. the survivor is unfamiliar, dressed head-to-toe in robes and wearing a strange blindfold. the owl pecks the survivor and coos, and ithaqua realizes the owl belongs to this survivor. oh. he hadn't even considered that the owl belonged to someone. he'd just assumed the owl had gotten injured because it'd been in the area, not because it'd been taking part in the match all those weeks ago. the survivor waves at ithaqua uncertainly, and inthaqua doesn't know how to respond so he activates his wind walk and takes off in the opposite direction.

idk how exactly they'd react to eachother past this point, but i think they'd eventually grow to be friends somehow. and eli's owl would try to wingman them together :3

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