After A Lot Of Research And Apple Juice, I Can (almost) Sanely Conclude:

After a lot of research and apple juice, I can (almost) sanely conclude:

My work is finished here.

I wanted to do some studying on spiders, and more specifically: jumping spiders, because Angel Dust is a jumping spider. For my fic writing, I wanted to learn more about the species.

It should have been obvious to me that he was a jumping spider based on his jumping skills we saw in Season 1, Episode 8, but I had to look it up to find out.

My point is, while I was investigating the wonders of these tiny crotch-spawns, I found out that some of them actually chirp.

Chirping for a spider is the equivalent of a cat purring. Spiders usually do it when they’re mating but they also do it when they’ve gotten comfortable around the environment they are currently in.

One problem during my studying however, is that the only spiders that really do chirp are wolf spiders…until I continued my journey.

There are MANY different kinds of jumping spiders that I do not care to name honestly, but I found out that some of them do in fact chirp!

I don’t know what kind of jumping spider Angel is, when I looked it up it wasn’t specific but just IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS INFORMATION!

Also, more information I found on my journey is that because they have such great jumping abilities they are also called “leaping tigers”! How funny is that! 😄

How far I had to fucking dig to get this information. I guess people don’t really care that much about jumping spiders 😭

Another thing jumping spiders tend to do is singing. Again, only when finding a mate, more likely to happen than a chirp.

I like to imagine Angel’s voice is like a siren. It attracts folks but the only difference is that they’re entranced by the beauty of it and not just some sort of forced spell for fresh meat.

One last thing: Jumping spiders experience REM sleep. REM sleep is characterized by relaxed muscles, quick eye movement, irregular breathing, elevated heart rate, and increased brain activity. It causes them to dream a lot! This also means that Angel would probably be wiggling, shimmying, curling, and uncurling his limbs in his sleep. He'd probably be a nightmare to sleep with lmao. It basically just means Angel's a vivid dreamer.

I just thought these were nice facts about Angel's kind. Especially considering all spiders are different, I wonder if we'll ever get to meet different kinds of spiders, or if Angel's siblings, Molly and Arackniss are the same kind of spider as Angel.

Learning all about the behavior of cats and jumping spiders has been my favorite thing to do ever since I started hyper-fixating on HuskerDust. It makes their relationship all the more interesting :)