Guild Wars 2

So excuse me if I’m extrapolating too much here (I couldn’t get to sleep and decided to play living world 2 again), but there’s something that caught my attention.

When investigating Scarlet’s house in prosperity (Prosperity’s Mystery), when reading Scarlet’s Diary: The first page states “Dear diary. Writing longhand is for the birds.”

This caught me slightly off-guard as I’d never really paid attention to the dialogue windows before, but now thinking about it the “birds” could very, very easily mean the Tengu. The reason I infer this the most is that the Tengu are a race very dedicated to tradition, with Kensho Arrowsoul (Guild Workshop Proprietor) referencing that “The study of pen and ink is as old as the Tengu. My people consider it a sacred and beloved art.”

Immediately I thought of two reasons for Scarlet writing this:
The most obvious is that she is stating (to herself) that she prefers to write shorthand, and just comparing that fact to the Tengu. Upon further thinking, I thought the only way she would bother to reference such a specific thing would be because she either had deep experience with the Tengu from The Dream, or she spent time among them after awakening.

This may, once again, be conjecture, as it is hard to tell how aware other individuals are of this as I don’t recall any other characters ever referencing this off the top of my head. Though if she did experience the Tengu in her dream, why? It seems like an oddly specific event to experience in relation to how closed off from the world they are, and to note down in a personal diary to compare one’s self to.
If she did physically interact with the Tengu at length: Why? What did she accomplish? Was it within the Dominion or just with the few that exist outside?

Now the main reason I’m making this post is because I couldn’t find anything on the wiki relating Scarlet to the Tengu. One of the other reasons is because I’d like to hear what other people think on the topic (sorry for being open ended): Is this just her writing in her diary and nothing beyond it? Or is there a chance she had relations to the Tengu we are yet to/that will we ever hear about?

Writing “for the birds” has nothing to do with the Tengu.

“For the birds” is a less common idiom/slang phrase which has been a part of the English language for a long time. It means “worthless” essentially.

Of course, kitten I was hoping it would lead to something as it seemed to be so specific );

Randulf.7614:

Writing “for the birds” has nothing to do with the Tengu.

“For the birds” is a less common idiom/slang phrase which has been a part of the English language for a long time. It means “worthless” essentially.

So that got me wondering. Why would saying something is ‘for the birds’ mean it’s worthless? So I googled it and found this.

For the birds: Something that is worthless.

Origin: Before the advent of cars, one could see and smell the emissions of horse-drawn wagons in New York. Since there was no way of controlling these emissions, they – or the undigested oats in them – served to nourish a large population of English sparrows. If you said that something was for the birds, you’re politely saying that it’s horse crap.

And now we know. ^^