Aveyontober 19 - Cassia Leaf
I tried really hard to wait until March for this but I’ve been excited about this concept since I wrote the dang prompt so just TAKE IT ALREADY!!!
This is my interpretation of Talia’s father. I like to think he was an herbalist, like Talia wanted to be. It connects him to the healing tradition in the Maurva family, and it gives me an excuse to draw him for this prompt (cassia leaf). He is also a bit of an artist, as you can see. I like to headcanon that he was the one who painted the portrait of Nino that’s hanging in Talia’s childhood home, which would help explain how Grandmama doesn’t know about the whole Fairy thing XD
Speaking of the fairy thing! It is time to share the “many headcanons” mentioned when I posted the Faiara prompt
I’m in love with the idea that Aian fairies are born from a flower that grows when a fairy falls in love. It goes with the “gaia’s precious children” thing if they are literally born from the earth and come into being from love and happiness. It also means that the human idea of intimacy doesn’t mean a whole lot to fairies. I like to believe Aian fairies are asexual and super romantic, because it is a concept I relate to and also it is * ~ sparkly ~ * and fairies are sparkly, soooo… there.
I think Talia’s father was that way too, and that’s why he spent enough time daydreaming alone in the woods to meet a fairy and fall in love with her and have a flower child with her without Grandmama ever really figuring out what happened. Everyone in Elden probs thought Talia was a changeling, come to think of it, but I have headcanoned enough on this particular subject for the time being.
The flower thing also goes with my sexuality headcanons for Dameon because I see him as demisexual (which let’s be honest here it’s barely a headcanon, it is all but explicitly spelled out in the game but I digress), and it would make sense for people with fairy blood to have less of that drive. And after I realized this I was thinking of how much Dameon takes after Talia’s father (the completely made-up version of him in my head but it counts) and how soft they both are and I decided the Maurva brown eyes come from him (because Nino’s eyes are like, brown-ish but also kinda gray) AND THEN I was thinking that I should probably come up with a name for him so I could stop just calling him Talia’s father and then I was thinking… It would make sense for Talia to name her son after him, and his name would be Dameon too.
And then I fell in love with the idea so meet Dameon Maurva<3 No I do not know how I plan to distinguish him from his grandson, shush











