3:54 they don’t credit the voice actors?

An anonymous wiki editor saying "uhhhh a big important guy said it" after the wiki head honcho made up the nickname feels like a kid saying "well my uncle works for nintendo" but while wearing a disguise

Snuggly lives in your backpack and only talks when she has to, like Kazooie

My favorite bit of voice actor trivia is that in DS3, the same person voices the cute lil' invisible crow AND THE FRIGGIN' EVANGELISTS. Quite the register.

7:41 ". . .renowned Demon Souls player", to me anyway, has the same energy as "who has two thumbs and named that crow", but instead of answering himself he decided to wait until someone answered for him.  In reality though, it's probably just someone trying to make their opinion sound more valid by making an empty appeal to authority ("experts agree" sort of tripe).  Either way, I don't remember where or how I first heard the names of Sparkly or Snuggly, but it fit and I liked it and that was good enough for me.  Cute names for cute birbs.

She's real to me 😭

Bespoke: you're talking to the tree

9:40 "musume" is normally "daughter" but like a lot of Japanese familial terms (e.g. obasan -> lit "aunt" but figuratively "[not young] woman"), it carries a more general reading of "girl". In fact, it's an alternate reading of the character for "girl".

So "hawk girl" is a reasonably exact translation of taka no musume. If she were a crow, it would be karasu no musume.

I've always thought she was inside the egg. This is why it asks (in a shivering voice) for something warm. She is cold and needs warmth to hatch.

I know I'm very late to this discussion but I wanted to add a little defense for Snuggly being a crow (though not Sparkly). Hawk nests and crow nests are quite different in appearance. It's clear that the nest object in demon's souls was made for a hawk npc, though the ones in the subsequent games were made for crows. You did mention that the object is just a shrunken version of the big crow's nest, which is true, but the nest in ds3 is different and still a crow's nest, not a hawk's. Additionally, the eggs in the nest are not hawk eggs. Hawk eggs are typically white or cream with brown spots. Crows, among other species, lay green eggs, like those in the nest. Obviously we can assume that the eggs in the nest are shrunken versions of those from the big crow's nest too, but from a diegetic perspective, I don't think it can be ignored. That's a crow's nest and those are crow eggs. It's weird to insist that she's a hawk when the visible evidence contradicts that, and the fact that demon's souls' bird was a hawk shouldn't rule out the idea that snuggly is a crow. Thanks! Loved the deep dive nonetheless.

This reminds me a lot of the Band of the Hawk/Falcon business with Berserk, where after ages of translating Griffith's chosen bird as hawk he does something that makes it absolutely clear it was falcons all along.

Of all the Berserk references in Souls games I don't think anyone expected or intended bird confusion to be one of them

3:31 The primary flight feathers on birds are called pinions. Crows have 9 pinions, while ravens have 10. So, the difference between a crow and a raven is simply a matter of a pinion.

This reminds me of the dog in 'Blasphemous' who is named "Nemo" in the game files but his name is never said in game so the community gave him the nickname "The Petable One" because the main character is named "The Penitent One"

15:19 "It's been 15 years since Demon's Souls came out, and almost 13 since Dark Souls 1"
DAMN

9:56 if I’m not mistaken, that possessive use of daughter basically just translates to girl from Japanese to English, it’s just technically not the literal word for word translation

NPC: Makes crow noises, and near the big crow nest
Miyazaki: ITS A HAWK

Snuggly so called long ago by an unknown player legend from a faraway country.

Every time I see Johnathan Frakes telling me something isn't true, I immediately start smiling

Its funny how berserk had a similar situation with "Band of the Hawk" vs "Band of the Falcon" because of the translations of a certain kanji iirc.

Another likely subconscious thing pushing the community to assume the birds are Crows instead of Hawks is probably the commonly understood idea of Crows feeding on Carrion leaving behind bones and them being over a dying tomb full of spooky skellingtons.  These are all dying worlds, it makes sense that they've attracted a Murder of Crows instead of a Kettle of Hawks.