BotP Question

I'm reading Ennien's Prisoner of War, and I notice that Princess is referred to as 'Dove', and Jason as 'Hawk.'

I haven't found those designations in the Hofius book (yet), and other fanfics have used 'Swan' and 'Condor.'

Anyone know which is canon, and which is fanon?

When I was watching it originally, I believe I figured Jason was costumed as a hawk or other raptor, but I don't remember what I thought Princess might be.

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Well, it was pretty obvious that Mark was supposed to be an eagle. Tiny's bird affiliation is plain, as is Keyop (if you can get a look at his cape). Leaving Jason and Princess. Of course, if you get a look at her shadow, you know she's a swan.

Leaving Jason as not very obvious. I doubt a condor would have occurred to anyone who didn't know the Gatch original.

Thank you.

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If I recall, I was aware that Tiny was meant to be an owl, and that the shape of Mark's and Jason's visors resembled some kind of birds of prey, but I don't think I ever got further than that.

I kinda got Mark was an Eagle, but I thought that Jason was a Falcon or a Hawk.

We don't have Swallows here (not that I'm aware of) so I could never work out what Keyop was supposed to be...

For some reason the best I could come up with was Hummingbird....

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And now: where did the idea that Jason/Joe carries poisoned shuriken come from?

I don't remember any references in Gatch to poison on the darts.

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And I believe that traditionally Shuriken were poisoned as well.

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"When I'm old, I don't want them to say of me, "She's so charming." I want them to say, "Be careful, I think she's armed." -G. Stoddart

I agree -I don't think any mention of poison is ever made in the series and that it's likely all fanon, based on the fact that Galactor goons hit with even one of Joe's shuriken seem to drop too quickly for it to be solely due to a piercing injury. Then again, a mere swipe from Ken's boomerang seems to kill them pretty quickly too!

The "poison" assumption has always seemed logical to me though. If I used shuriken, I'd put poison in them!

I think a lot of us just took the designations from Gatch and applied them to BotP.

There are fics that have Jason as the Hawk and Princess as the Dove. I just think its personal preference.

In many of my BotP fics, I use both the call signs of G-1 through G-5 and the bird designations. I always hated the team using their first names over their bracelets.

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BTW: since watching Gatch I had/have converted G2's bird designation to Condor in my stories. But I had always thought of him as an Osprey - a large "dark" winged bird with a larger wingspan than most Hawks I knew. Or a vulture with its wingspan even larger than the eagle which I which I always imagined Jason's to be since he was taller than Mark.

I knew Mark was an Eagle, Princess was a Swan, Tiny was an owl and Keyop was the swallow. Although Keyop's bird designation changed to Merlin after his disappearance (public death announcement) and then return.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, guys...but Ennien is another fanfic writer...
and Jason Holfius wrote a book about "Battle of the Planets"...I have a copy...let's see if I can find a link...

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