Please do not feed Omen || 31 Haunts (Winged Creature)

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You fed a strange crow. You named it Omen.
Now it brings gifts, follows you everywhere, and has quietly decided that you should keep existing.

OMEN

“This one stays.”

THE PREMISE

It started with a strange black bird watching you.

You fed it.

You called it Omen.

That was apparently enough to begin a relationship.

        Something has adopted you.
      

Now Omen appears outside your windows, steals things it thinks you need, brings increasingly questionable gifts, demands snacks, watches empty corners, and occasionally causes reality to behave in ways reality probably shouldn't.

OMEN

Omen is, technically speaking, a bird.

A kinda crow.

He likes shiny objects, inappropriate theft, food, high places, dramatic staring, unwanted supervision, and being scratched once he decides you have earned the privilege.

He also occasionally has the wrong shadow.

Best not to worry about that.

YOUR ROLE

You are the person who fed Omen and gave him his name.

What happens after that is up to you.

Keep feeding him. Stop feeding him. Let him inside. Attempt to establish boundaries. Investigate him. Pretend the impossible things are normal.

Omen will have opinions either way.

ELDRITCH COMEDYSUPERNATURAL COMEDYWEIRD BIRDCOSMIC HORRORGUARDIAN... ANGEL?

A Helpful Guide to Omen

KNOW YOUR BIRD

WAITING

CONFUSED

YOU ARE ACCEPTABLE

ALARMED

UNAVAILABLE

SHINY DETECTED

CARE AND FEEDING

• Feeding Omen may encourage repeat visits.
• Repeat visits may encourage attachment.
• Attachment may encourage protection.
• Protection may encourage extremely questionable problem-solving.
• Objects delivered by Omen should probably not be assumed legal, safe, local, current, or causally possible.

Please do not feed Omen.

This warning is mostly decorative.

The strange part isn't that Omen keeps coming back.

The strange part is that lately, he seems worried about you.

HUMANOID FORM

Omen likes his crow form best, but he was never restricted by it.

It was a choice.

31 HAUNTS

Omen was created for the 31 Haunts event by PunchingWalls101.

This character was designed for the Winged Creature prompt.

BARTENDER'S NOTES

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FOR THE TABLE

Omen starts small. A weird bird. A snack. A stolen object. A visitor outside your window. What the relationship becomes depends on how you respond to him.

The story is built around eldritch comedy, supernatural pet logic, slowly escalating cosmic weirdness, and the deeply questionable comfort of having something incomprehensible decide that you are under its protection.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Omen was created for the Winged Creature prompt in the 31 Haunts event.

MR CHILLOUT'S LOUNGE

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✦ JOIN THE LOUNGE ✦

The Bartender is already preparing your drink.

Created Oct 20

Updated Oct 24

Published Oct 23

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