Spoilers for A Killing Frost ahead.
Stacy’s family has been deeply weird since book 3 and it’s just been getting weirder. Weird Things TM include things such as
- Both Karen and Cassandra having prophetic gifts, when that is incredibly rare and shouldn’t be in their bloodline
- Cassandra being named after a famous prophet and turning out to actually be a prophet (If there’s a famous prophet named Karen, I don’t know about it and a casual google search didn’t show me any, but I wouldn’t be surprised). Coincedence? Maybe. Remus Lupin syndrome? Maybe but Seanan doesn’t strike me as a person who does that accidentally
- Toby stating that Oneiromancers usually see the future and the present and Karen on several occassions seeing the past/other people’s memories (Toby’s and Luna’s, though Luna’s could also be the dead Kitsune girl or prompted by the place rather than the person). Could just be bc Toby doesn’t actually know that much about Oneiromancers. Could be bc Karen is weird.
- The kids having thos fur tuffs on their ears, like lynx, when neither Stacy nor Mitch is describes as having lynx like ears.
- Stacy supposedly being thinblooded, but growing up with her pureblood grandparents who supposedly hated changelings. How does she have pureblood grandparents when Toby always said she was a quarterblood or somewhere thereabouts?
- Stacy not letting her kids date when she seems to otherwise be a very chill and normal mom.
- (i don’t remember where this was but I think) Toby at some point says she can’t entirely read exactly what race Cassandra is, which seems very strange with how otherwise good at this Toby is.
Now. Since we’re all (or I am at least) very into the theory that Marcia - another thinblooded changeling who is very weird - is in fact Maeve, it seems logical that Titania would also be hiding as a thinblooded changeling (especially with recent developements giving some more credibility to the “they’re hiding as mortals” thing). It’s certainly possible.
It would explain the kids’ weirdness - they’re firstborn, even though whatever magic is making Titania appear mortal, may hide some of their powers as well. That’s why their appearance, with the lynx ears is unique and why they manifest powers that are supposedly rare and not in their bloodline. It would also explain, Toby not recognizing Cassandra’s race - she’s something new, that Toby couldn’t possibly recognize.
However I’m not entirely happy with the theory. It seems almost too convenient and it doesn’t explain everything. Like, if Stacy isn’t aware who she is (and since Oberon didn’t seem to be super aware and Marcia - if she is Maeve - doesn’t seem to be super aware either), did she just subconsiously know Cassandra would be a prophet and named her accordingly? That would be possible, I suppose, if Oberon can remember enough to say “Lady let alone”. But why wouldn’t she want her kids’ dating? If she’s worried about starting new decendant races, shouldn’t she have just not had kids in the first place? Or does she just not want them dating other races? All of that would require a lot of awareness of who she is, which I’m not willing to believe she has, for the simple reason that
Stacy is too nice.
If Stacy is Titania and KNOWS this then she is WAY too nice, from everything we know about her, Titania was a Bitch.
There’s also the issue where Toby grew up with Stacy which opens a whole new can of worms, like how tf, does any of this work, do they just hang around as pretend mortal for 500 years? Do they die and get reborn as another pretend mortal? What??
So... maybe she’s Titania. Maybe her kids are just a new kind of merlin. Maybe Stacy and her family have figured out the secret to how merlins happen and are purposefully breeding them and that’s why she doesn’t want her kids dating random people (though Stacy seems too nice to do that kinda shit too).
Idk. But I know, that Something is most definitely up.
