rooster design tweak

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Same void. **NOTORIOUSROOSTER** steps in. A **tall orange beak** protrudes from under a deep cream-white cowl; the rest of the body is swallowed in cloak. One clawed foot taps. No face is visible.
Same void. **NOTORIOUSROOSTER** steps in. A **large, baggy dark-green cloak** so voluminous it obscures every detail of whatever body wears it—pooled hem on the floor, cavernous hood, oversized bell sleeves. From the hood, only a **short, sharp orange beak** (rooster-shape, downcurved tip) and a **sliver of red gizzard** at the throat. From each sleeve, the tip of a folded **wing** protrudes. Behind, a spray of **tail plumage** trails from a gap in the back of the cloak. No face. No body. No gender read. Just the bird-parts the fabric can't contain.
**NotoriousRooster**
*notorious_rooster*
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## Character design
- **Silhouette:** A **beak-in-a-hood**, direct homage to the **Stork disguise in Disney's *Robin Hood*** (1973)—Prince John's archery-tournament gag, where a long orange beak pokes out from under a pulled-up **cloak/hood** and almost nothing else of the wearer shows.
- **Read:** Tall orange **beak** as the only facial feature visible; the rest of the head/face is swallowed by a **deep hood** (cowl or cloaked cape), shoulders and body bundled under the same **loose robe** so the true wearer reads as **androgynous-to-unknown**.
- **Why this shape:** Per *Identity* below, the rooster identity is a **disguise**; the Robin Hood stork works because you can tell **something is being hidden** without ever seeing what. Use the costume as a **running visual joke** (beak tilts, hood slips but never fully falls) and as **plot armor for the secret**—the Chorus can squint at Rooster all day and not clock her.
- **Palette cue:** Lean warm—**cream / off-white hood**, **orange beak**, optional **red comb peek** at the crown if you want more "rooster" read; keep it close to the movie's storybook flat-color look rather than photoreal feathers.
- **Do not:** Give full rooster anatomy, visible human face, or a gendered body shape under the cloak. The **illusion is the character**.
- **Silhouette:** A **beak-in-a-hood**, framed after the **Stork disguise in Disney's *Robin Hood*** (1973)—Prince John's archery-tournament gag, where almost nothing of the wearer shows except the beak poking out from a pulled-up cloak. Borrow the *concealment*, not the stork's anatomy.
- **Beak:** **Rooster-shape**—**short, sharp, downcurved tip**, orange. Not the long thin stork beak. The only *facial* feature visible from inside the hood.
- **Cloak:** A **large, baggy dark-green cloak** with a **deep hood**, pulled forward enough to obscure the entire face except the beak. Pools on the floor. **Oversized bell sleeves.** The cloak is deliberately voluminous enough that **no body detail reads through it**—no shoulders, no waist, no hips, no gendered shape. The wearer is cloak-shaped.
- **Protrusions (the only things the cloak doesn't hide):** Exactly four, and only these four:
1. the **beak** (from the hood opening),
2. a **sliver of red gizzard** at the throat (just below the beak),
3. the **tips of folded wings** poking out of the bell sleeves,
4. a spray of **tail plumage** trailing from a gap in the back of the cloak.
Together these establish "**a bird is in there**" without ever revealing *which* bird, *which* body, or *which* gender.
- **Why this shape:** Per *Identity* below, the rooster identity is a **disguise**; the Robin Hood stork works because you can tell **something is being hidden** without ever seeing what. Use the costume as a **running visual joke** (beak tilts, hood slips but never fully falls, wings shift inside the sleeves) and as **plot armor for the secret**—the Chorus can squint at Rooster all day and not clock her.
- **Palette cue:** **Dark-green cloak and hood**, **orange beak**, **red gizzard sliver**; tail plumage and wing tips can carry a touch of warm accent so the protrusions pop against the cool cloak. Keep it close to the movie's storybook flat-color look rather than photoreal feathers. The cool green against the warm beak/gizzard is the whole color story.
- **Do not:** Show a visible face, a long stork-style beak, a gendered body shape under the cloak, or *any* rooster anatomy beyond the four protrusions above. The **illusion is the character**.
- Observed handle: `notorious_rooster`
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