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"Gay as fuck, generally unpleasant and moody."
-Crew's model sheet, jan/2014^[1]

Crew Byrne^[2] is Anti Dev's fursona, created in january 2014 (after he felt like Tragia hadn't represented him for a very long time).^[1]

Crew is an anthro male pileated woodpecker. He has red feather hair with black and white feathers on his body, and red eyes. His beak is grey and bent at the tip.

His best (and only) friend is Whitaker.^[3] His age is flexible, by virtue of being the artist's fursona, "but in his story he's 25".^[4] He is six feet tall (same height as Anti Dev, thus his only character with a defined height).^[5] He is a metaphysics grad student.^[6]

Trivia:

• Crew's true passion is woodworking. He's especially good at whittling but never has time for it.^[7]
• He loves to carve wooden figures of imaginary insects.^[8]
• Crew learned archery from his mom. He learned whittling from his grandma. His dad taught him how to roll a joint.^[9]
• Leans closer to bi than a lot of Anti Dev's characters and "probably would fuck a girl if he liked her enough (and if she was fat)".^[10]
• His formal attire includes a kilt.^[11]
• Has pectus excavatum. "Not severe but I always try to draw it in. I may have forgotten a time or two".^[12]
• None of his coworkers can stand him.^[13]
• Has terrible insomnia from drinking so much coffee. Whitaker wants him to switch to tea.^[14]
• His freakishly long tongue "is the key to untold sexual pleasures", but he's too ashamed of it to use it on people he doesn't know well.^[15]
• Has a pet boa constrictor. Whitaker is terrified of it.^[16]
• Sleeps on the couch because his bed is completely covered in junk.^[17]
• Tries not to be turned on by Whitaker's lack of deodorant.^[18]
• Doesn't smoke. "He's a good healthy bird who subsists entirely on coffee and fast food."^[19]
• Is friends with Chet, and lost his virginity to him.^[20]
• Can smell magic and use some basic spells.^[21]
• Can make special arrows from his feathers, and depending on what mood he’s in when they’re plucked it’ll enchant the arrow somehow. He can also heal small injuries, but only injuries that would heal on their own over time.^[22]
• He can't heal himself, however. "There’s like a rule in their universe that once magic leaves the body it can never re-enter it, so nobody can heal or charm themselves."^[23]
• When he was a little baby bird, he had a plush bat named Bat-Bat.^[24]
• Anti Dev has said that he always imagined C. Martin Croker voicing Crew, "in a slightly less-scratchy Zorak voice".^[25]
• Was originally envisioned as exclusively a top, but that changed over time.^[26]
• Anti Dev commented about old man Crew: "canonically he's a complete grizzled mess with a peg leg and a sword grafted to his arm but he's like 80 and never sleeps."^[27]
• By the time of Crew's old age, his world has gone "full post-apocalypse": "There are these things called the ceramic archangels that have been trying to kill all mortal life forever because God regrets creating life, and they eventually manage to wipe out most of the planet after mortals lose their ability to defend themselves with magic."^[28]
• "Will forever be a grouch". Even if the artist isn't, because that's just how he like him.^[29]
• Possesses a bow called Love Conquers All, which was made for him by his mom. "After he loses his arms and gets prosthetics he doesn't have the dexterity to use it anymore, and he switches to a crossbow called Life is Beautiful that a friend made for him".^[30]
• Uses obsidian arrowheads for his arrows.^[31]
• Does wear deodorant, "just sometimes not enough".^[32]
• Anti Dev once said: "My rule for Crew bottoming is that he only bottoms for men who can tear him in half with their bare hands".^[33]
• Crew's mom is "a witch, like just a straight-up witch. That's just a fun fact".^[34]