Is he another moody bird, or a cute, feathery roadblock that has to be overcome? He's totally both of those things.
This bird character is one of the many spatial/logic puzzles you have to figure out in the Message in a Bottle.

I've been meaning to mention this for a long time now: There aren't enough flying saucers in video games. There. Someone had to say it.
​The flying saucer in Message in a Bottle has retractable arms and is prone to starting conversations about out-of-the-way tourism spots. (She intends, some day, to be a sightseeing space ship, despite being too small for it.)

Alex is the main character in Message in a Bottle. She's a person with tons of anxieties, but tends to put forward a no-care attitude as a defense mechanism. With that in mind, my original sketch gave her running shoes, sporty shorts and a hairstyle to match. After the model was constructed in Blender 3D, I played around with colors until I found a combination that looked good.