WEAVER

To make matters worse, during his first nap in his new home he is captured by an eccentric old man and imprisoned in a parrot cage, also separated from his only possession: his sword. He had to learn as much as he could from the available resources while in his cramped quarters and try to escape--he believed that whatever awaited him outside the cage and the house, it had to be an improvement. When he eventually did find his way to freedom, his storyline crosses with others' stories and he manages to forge a brother-like relationship with Dax based on their shared philosophies.

After living with Dax a while, Weaver (reluctantly) accepts Alix into the camp. They adjust their living situation to accommodate another new member, and then it grows again when Adele arrives. They all manage their difficult outdoor life very well, with Weaver functioning as an excellent forager, but then when Adele brings home a mysterious child that they name Ivy, Weaver discovers a delight he hadn't thought possible. Since the child can fly, he is no longer alone in the sky, and he GREATLY enjoys having someone to share it with. Ivy grows from a powerhouse preschooler to a rather mature young lady, partly under Weaver's parenting, and he enjoys a bond with her that's loving and mischievous.

Weaver becomes a guardian all over again when two new children, Tab and Thursday, arrive in our dimension after an interdimensional event, and he takes on a caretaking role for the smaller child, Thursday (who also has wings).

Weaver is about two feet tall and resembles a cross between a teddy bear and a bat, but his wings are not attached to his arms. His skin is light blue and his fur is a mixture of darker blue and black. (His face, hands, feet, ears, and wings don't have fur, except for his eyebrows and a little black goatee on his chin.) His eyes are blue. He has a high masculine voice with some grit to it. He has small yellowish vestigial horns, sharp teeth, and sharp black claws. His feet have thumbs, enabling him to climb and hang upside down. He can fly and climb very well, sleeps while hanging upside-down wrapped up in his wings, and always wears his shoulder harness for his tiny sword. His body is calibrated to a 12-hour schedule instead of a 24-hour schedule, and he sleeps a lot--he needs to sleep for 6 hours for every 6 hours awake.

Weaver is very intelligent, rivaling Adele (well, he would if she wasn't clairvoyant as well). He's a very here-and-now kind of person, very able to deal with situations impulsively, loves words, and learns very quickly. Much of his understanding of the world is based on the television programs he watched for a period of about eight months while he was imprisoned, and he has supplemented that knowledge with magazines, books, radio, and talking to his companions (Alix being a connection to human knowledge). He and Adele have a great deal of respect for each other, and his closest companions are Dax and Ivy. He tends not to get along with Alix. Weaver comes to find out he was once partnered and had a child in his home dimension, but his memories were entirely wiped away. He carries some residual sadness and longing about this even though he has no true memories of his kin. Weaver loves fruit and fish (and treats like pineapple juice), reading, listening to music, figuring out logic puzzles or word games, and of course, flying. He is very much tone deaf but loves to subject others to his terrible singing.