Bird wings are not just feathers, there’s bone and muscle under there too (they’re basically arms with the feathers attached all along). Also the whole point of them is to ‘catch’ the air and create lift, not to move with it. So they’re actually pretty stiff and don’t move around much.
As Donari said when the black wings (the first set to be released) first came out they were like that. But people didn’t like it, they expected them to move as you ran around. So they changed them to work the way they do now.
To my mind it’s actually more realistic, if you take the view that these are costume wings and not supposed to be part of our characters anatomy. They move like there’s a bar or wire along the top and all the feathers are hanging from it. (Although I’ve also owned costume wings which were a sheet of card with feathers glued to it which moved like the original version in-game but those were much cheaper and not very well constructed.)
There’s also the bat wings, which are a whole separate thing. Firstly bat wings are ‘hands’, not arms with the wing itself made of flaps of skin spread between the fingers. (Some people like to say this means bats fly through the power of jazz hands.) And in the backpack they’re relaxed, half folded, so the membrane is loose and it makes sense for it to move around.
Also it’s hard to tell because our characters move so much but I’m pretty sure the fingers ‘flex’ periodically – moving independently of your character. But they are a Halloween item so I suppose a bit of creepy movement is to be expected.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
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