Does anyone remember what started the whole thing about pigeons? I think it might have been a throw-away comment about why Aiden's 3rd task was taking longer than expected, that just developed a life of its own.
Like most interesting conversations on this thread, it came from listlessness as we collectively began to realize that this update was not coming any time soon.
It was an offshoot of the over the top set up for when Aiden met Sophia outside the park on his motorcycle. We had the leather outfit, the boots-n-bags scandal, the god rays streaming through the trees, and exactly seven pigeons in the park. Not six or eight, but seven.
Sure, it started as a joke. But then it triggered something. Seven is a lucky number, a divine number, the number of deadly sins (though who exactly the glutton is remains to be seen). Throw on top of that, pigeons and doves are interchangeable words - both terms refer to the same family of bird (I'm too lazy to look it up right now) so there's potentially a whole lot of peace, love, fertility, and even death symbolism on top of it.
So yeah, fuckin' pigeons. It's a thing.
