Owl

**Owl Stephen Bird** is one of the main characters in *Megg, Mogg & Owl*.

Currently, after leaving Megg, Mogg and WW for good, Owl is off on his own, trying to find his way.

## Appearance

Owl is an anthropomorphic owl with white feathers. He is the only humanoid character that wears no clothes and no one seems to be bothered by this.

## Personality

Owl often plays the "Straight Man" providing a contrast to his friends' wilder behavior. He is often the voice of reason when the others bring up their consistently terrible ideas.

None of Owl's friends like him very much. They see him as an annoying wet blanket and are openly malicious towards him. It's shown that they only let him into their group during high school, out of pity for him. Most comics have them, but especially Mogg and Werewolf Jones, abusing him in some fashion.

He is really forgiving to the others in spite of their often malicious attempts to sabotage his life, but it's mostly because he's too weak-willed to put his foot down and stand up for himself. His unrequited crush on Megg also increases his tolerance to their abuse.

Unlike his friends, he is able to hold down a job in spite of his huge consumption of weed and booze. Because he is marginally more productive than his friends, this leads him to think that he's more sophisticated and smart than he really is. He enjoys the TV show *Fraiser* and is the most concerned with personal hygiene of the four.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Flight:** The first time he's seen officially flying is on Crisis Zone, which is not canon. He also does it in the end of Megahex, however that is merely a visual representation of the freedom he feels upon removing himself from the abusive friendship he has allowed himself to be in for most of his adult life. Simon has planned to reveal Owl's flight ability in the main canon's future but has decided to just do it in Crisis Zone instead. It's implied that he can also do it in the main timeline.

### Abilities

* **Musician**: Owl is able to play the guitar and also sing.

## Biography

In high school, Owl was the *target* and *nerd* stereotype, socially awkward, very introverted, regularly excluded and humiliated by everyone. In 1996, he met Werewolf Jones, who stole his bike and beat him up, for short. Booger and Mike, who were with WW, invited Owl to have lunch with them, that's when he also met Megg and Mogg. Owl fell in love at first sight with Megg even though she was she was dating Jones at the time. When he was around 16, Owl used to hang out with the gang before his workshift in the afternoon. He worked at a games workshop called *GameSpace* that is said to smell really bad.

Owl has a drinking problem and feels deeply ashamed of it. Fearful of his behavior when drunk, he goes to AA meetings in order to stay sober.[**citation needed**] He works in a call center. It is revealed that Owl pays the majority of the rent for their shared house, much to his chagrin.[**citation needed**]

Once at his birthday he was taken to WW's house and was beaten and raped by him, Megg and Mogg. They later try to make it up to him by buying him an ounce of weed and the video game Sword of Battle III.

Throughout the series, it is alluded to that Owl has had a large number of sexual partners and he frequently makes trips to the clinic to treat his STDs. While his personality frequently causes him to come into conflict with Werewolf Jones, he has already had sex with him while high and gave him pubic lice (crabs).

Once, Owl went for a walk in the woods while high and kicks a family dog to death in panic.

Owl stills likes Megg and tries to make advances from time to time in spite of her clear lack of interest. In New Years eve 2014, he gets well and truly fed up with the shitty way his friends treat him. Owl declares to Megg that he's over her and he leaves Megg, Mogg and WW's lives. It is revealed that the others are completely incapable of dealing with everyday life without him, failing at holding down jobs, paying bills, and even keeping the house clean, after Werewolf Jones moves in to take his place.

Later on, Owl moves back in and Jones goes back to his house with Diesel and Jaxon, who were staying with Susan. However, this doesn't stop neither he nor Megg and Mogg from treating him badly.

### Notable Partners

#### Sally

Sally is a trainee policewoman that Owl invites to the house. He asks Megg and Mogg to not smoke weed and just stay in the living room, which they do not agree to do, so he closes the door and asks them not to leave, which they also don't do. They go to Owl's room and write "Birdcunt" at the back of his pillow and "Dumb Bitch" at the back of the other one, refering to Sally. When she arrives, Megg opens the door and is a bit rude to her, who is only introducing herself. Megg lets her in and Owl arrives, taking Sally with him while keeping an angry face at Megg. The next morning, Sally wakes up after sleeping over, turns her pillow to the other side and sees "Dumb Bitch" at her pillow, she wakes Owl up indignant. Owl goes to the living room wrathful at his roommates and heads to their room to draw a naked man with a boner on the sheets they're using, which also belong to him. Sally arrives asking why the trashbag is "full of cheap marijuana" and right away arrests Owl and apologises to Megg for the inconvenience.

#### Peyote

*Main article: Peyote.*

Owl met Peyote in a park and she called him, Megg and Mogg to a party at her house. Arriving there, they notice the party has some features of a children's birthday party, especially a inflatable bouncy castle. Peyote takes Owl to her room where they make out, but only a few moments later she says they should stop and head back to the party. When they get to the backyard, a man angrily asks her where she has been, grabs her by the arm and takes her to the center of the yard. He grabs a microphone and announces that her daughter, Peyote, is turning thirteen, while doing a melodic speech. Owl screams and runs away with Megg and Mogg, who say that they already knew she was thirteen and were a bit creeped out by that.

#### Valerie

Valerie is a bank teller at the City Bank, who met Owl when him and WW were trying to double a $100 bill. Owl got her number and invited her to hang at his house. When arriving, Valerie was pretty straightforward and asked if they should go to his bedroom. Owl got a little confused with how fast this happened and asked several times if she was sure about that, which she stated that she was. Valerie thought she should leave but she was too horny. Owl was still confused and clearly nervous and she angrily said he doesn't have to "make it weird".[**citation needed**]

#### Heather

*Main article: Heather.*

Owl and Heather had been dating, however Owl's alcoholism had begun to cause rifts in their relationship. At a party at her house he vomited in her laundry, urinated in her backyard, and broke her glasses by sitting on them. He takes her on a date at a Korean restaurant where she attempts to break up with him. In desperation, Owl tries to change the subject by playing a prank on some teens he sees out the window, however the teens catch him and beat him up. He is able to elicit pity sex out of Heather because of this and she finds herself stuck in their relationship.

### Criminal Record

* **Assault**
* **Child Molestation:** Owl made out with Peyote, without knowing she was only thirteen.
* **Drug abuse:** Owl was arrested for weed possession.
* **Drug-impaired driving**
* **Indecent exposure:** While Owl is passed out, Megg and Mogg take his pants off, put him in a shopping cart, and roll it through a drive-through. The cashier sees his penis and stares in complete shock as the cart passes.

## Relationships

* Unnamed grandmother

Allies* Megg - Friend, Former Love Interest and Temporary Enemy
* Mogg - Friend and Temporary Enemy
* Werewolf Jones † - Friend and Temporary Enemy
* Booger - Friend
* Mike - Friend
* Dan
* Robot
* Jack
* Ian
* Dracula Junior

## Trivia

* Owl is meant to be a parody of the character of same name, from Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski's "Meg and Mog" picture book series.
* Owl has intestinal worms and multiple STDs.
* Owl states he has never had a headache before.
* Owl constantly feels the need to be in a romantic or sexual relationship with somebody. He states that he has had over 100 partners in total.

## Links and References

2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 XMP-165
3. ↑ Legal
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Owl's Date
5. ↑ Scene Politics
6. ↑ Simon Hanselmann on Instagram: *"When I finally get around to drawing Megg's Coven we’ll find out what happened to Owl after he left, he’s off on his own, trying to find his way..."* (source)
7. ↑ Boston Clanger
8. ↑ Crisis Zone director commentary
9. ↑ Owl's Gig
10. ↑ Throwing Rocks at Powerlines
11. ↑ Owl's Birthday
12. ↑ Owl's Birthday epilogue
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Cocktails
14. ↑ Acid
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 St. Owl's Bay
16. ↑ 28 Days Later
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Mall
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Peyote
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Drive Through
20. ↑ Ian McQuaid: meet simon hanselmann, australia's only cross-dressing comic book writer (26 April 2016). i-D. Archived from the original on April 27, 2022.
21. ↑ Worms
22. ↑ Ram Raids
23. ↑ Headache