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They mostly pick out of dumpsters, staking out & waiting till right after the store/resturaunt tosses unsold food at the end of the day. Or they might visit a food bank (places that feed the homeless). Or if they manage to scavenge enough fallen money, I imagine they'd buy food from a Dollar Tree. The majority of their money probably was leftover from Jeb during the 4-year stakeout plus what Dr Martinez gave Max in the same book.
The line about the fridge being empty and ‘maybe the food fairies had come’ always bothered me coz like, how DID they get food??? It’s not like they could go get a job or something. Do they just steal everything? I mean, we know that they can forage/scavenge for some stuff, coz they go strawberry picking. But they can’t find everything in the woods, they must have to get some things from shops. Like Iggy cooks eggs, and they obviously don’t have a bunch of chickens out back, so where does their food, and their money come from??
Like the flock in cannon they named them selves
grian called himself pesky because that’s what the scientists called him do to him being the most difficult to control
Pearl was fade or shadow or something if anyone has a suggestion for it please share anyway it didn’t last long before she decided to change it to pearl but the reason for her original name was because when ever the scientists would talk about her power they would mention how she would blend into the background
Jimmy was canary because they didn’t have anything to really say about his personality and power because he was like 5 or something he didn’t have fleshed out a personality yet and even though he was the youngest which did cause him to be difficult he wasn’t as difficult as grian and he also didn’t have powers yet so the others called him by the bird the scientist said when they talked about his wings
martyn was similar there wasn’t anything that stood out other then what bird he was so his family called him wood because he has the wings of a wood pecker
after they escaped they chose new names that would allow them to blend in for and help keep the scientists from finding them
pearls the only one that kept her name it was passable as a name a normal girl would have at birth the reason she’s named pearl was because one of her only happy memories that didn’t involve her siblings in the lab was when she asked this janitor lady about some jewelry she was wearing and the lady told her about where she got it she probably got it as a gift and it wasn’t even a real pearl but that janitor gave her proof that there was a world outside the lab filled with gift giving people like the janitor
the only positive memory pearl has from when she was young that didn’t involve her family was of a janitor that gave her information about the outside world because of the janitor she knew that there was a world beyond the cruel lab one with good people
The janitor gave pearl hope of a better future unfortunately because of what the lady did the scientist had her killed
even if the memory is a bitter sweet one looking back she knew it was important that she held onto that information so to make sure she didn’t forget she named herself after the piece of jewelry the janitor had on which had a pearl on it
she is still to this day grateful for what the janitor did and because of her she decided if they ever got to a point where it was an option for them to get jobs she would want to have a job as a cleaning lady
In the maximum ride au The bird that grians wings are from is a parrot so his power is to mimic others words but only exact words and tones and speech habits
he could also mimic sounds which he uses more frequently because it is more useful and because the noise from a siren or bell doesn’t have emotions or different sounds that people can second guess
Martyns deal is that he’s a listener so it’s tempting to give him super hearing but in this au the listening aspect of his power are not him listening but instead others listening
he can enhance sounds that are not his own
so clapping or shouting won’t work he needs an object to make the sound for him and he has to be touching it
his power is that he can control the loudness of the sound that results from him taking an object and hitting it against another object
he has wood pecker wings get it wood
he has an ability that is useful but not in combat
In maximum ride au pearl has the ability to blend into an the environment not disappear but to be glanced over if the person in the room that shes hiding from isn’t looking for intruders or there if they are in a room with a lot of other people she also has to be standing perfectly still for like a minute before it kicks in and has to remain still to not have the power stop working
as a minor power her eyes are able to reflect more light than a normal person so they work like the moon when at night when the light from the sun reflects of the moon causing it to shine
her eyes don’t allow her to see in the dark but others can see the glow so they can tell where she is which is a blessing and a curse
Hate the Maximum Ride series I hate it. It had so much potential but James Patterson wouldn’t know consistency if it hit him in the face. Like the part where the gang went to Antartica? It felt like I had missed a book with how much had happened. And Izzy’s mom going from dead to actually being married and thinking he was dead? Whack. Within a couple of chapters too like. I could be remembering wrong but what kind of inconsistency was that?
I've never read this series, but because my brain is utterly broken, I have watched multiple hours long videos about it. And even then, with all that knowledge, having it all condensed down to it's most straightforward and coherent, I could in no way give you a cohesive plot summary. Like, I think they stop the apocalypse, stop the climate crisis, and then it doesn't matter because the apocalypse happens anyway? Maybe? I don't know.
I don't think even James Patterson knows.
I'm starting to think he's not even a real person. Just every now and then, a book appears in the world with that name on it. It never goes to an editor, no publishing house actually handles it, it's never even been to a printer. It just appears in bookstores and we as a society just don't question it
Children of Dionysus have sharp teeth. Either Alastor or Charlie type teeth. Dez and her twin brother have these and black wings. Their mother, Roxanne, is a child of Thanatos. Since he's a minor god, monsters are less attracted to her, so she never knew, but the black wings were in her genes. Roxanne did not have them, though.
They also have horns, pointy ears, and grapevines that randomly grown in their hair and around their body when they feel an extreme emotion they can't handle very well. Yeah, they're good actors, but it's chaos when they get extremely happy or mad. Or express any emotion that deeply affects them. And maybe strawberry vines. They pull a Charlie Morningstar when they're mad; horns grow, eyes light up in anger, wings grow in size. They hide most of their traits if possible. They can hide their wings, but it takes up too much energy to do that. The only times they need to is when they're leaving camp, the likely chance they'll need their powers. Hiding their wings doesn't take up too much energy, but if they use their powers while hiding wings, it drains twice as fast. They don't hide em' at camp. They don't leave camp much, so they don't worry about it too bad. Until they have to leave. They choose not to hide them, and cover em' up with a jacket or something and hope no mortal notices. They are definitely obsessed with Maximum Ride and hawks.
Their cabin marvel person is Wolverine. They claim Deadpool, but Apollo cabin and the rest of the cabins agreed that Deadpool is off limits but, much like their father, they're not a stickler for rules and off-limits things. Like certain nymphs... and Deadpool.