#fable hc

[fable-finder]

Reply with your favorite Fable head canons, AU/OC ideas, or predictions for the new game!!!

I really want to hear them

[for-the-love-of-avo]

Weird random HC that popped into my head as I'm replaying fable 2. I just beat the shit outta Rex (the kid in the beginning who wants to beat the dog) and he made me think of Thag (the bandit who kicks your dog)

Same person????

[fable-finder]

Hippty hoppity, idk if you are taking hottakes/headcanon still but fucky you (/joking) this askbox is now my property! Also this will be long.

Going with all three games: -It is literally in the heroes' blood that their appearances change based on their own morality, morals, etc. A completely neutral hero or their kids will always have some variety of brown hair and eyes. Once corruption, evil or good deeds and purity set in, the appearance changes. No one can explain it, and while sometimes its praised or worshipped, mainly by the common folk, for the actual family or those close to them, its something to be horrified of.

-The heroes and their bloodline may or may not also just live longer than everyone else lol. They don't know why either.

Fable 2 & 3 Headcanons (warning these are mainly good/pure Sparrow stuff). Also angsty! : -Headcanon more tied to my Sparrow who is a good/pure sparrow (yes yes i know sounds boring but i hope this headcanon spices it up uwu). DIVINE RAGE BEBY! A Sparrow who is pure and good is probably hold back a LOT of stress trying to be the perfect hero for Albino so everyone gets a nice, healthy dosage of divine stress induce rage. Extra worse with a Sparrow with Will marks!

-I feel like because of this, Garth would be the most understanding towards Sparrow. Having seem them as a young child and maybe even hearing the death of Rose and Sparrow being shot and thrown out the window.

-Speaking of good/pure Sparrow, do not touch them if you have any form of corruption! Because their skin will fucking burn you! Their tears will feel like acid hitting your flesh, their grip will feel like hot molten steel straight from the forage, and even their blood hitting your skin will feel like actual fire scorching your flesh. Touching their will marks are, if they have any, is not safe either. They will shock or burn you. You are trying to touch someone divine, what the hell did you think was gonna happen?

-I fully believe Reaver would be scared of a good/pure Sparrow because of how otherworldly they are. Hammer would be a bit offput by it but figure it has something to do with the Light due to how she was raise, Garth would be worried and mournful of Sparrow, but Reaver would FEAR a good/pure Sparrow. This is a literal angel, halo and glowing holy light in human flesh, flesh he can't even breath on without feeling like something ethereal is trying to choke him out. He works with Sparrow because he has to, not because he wants to. He rather stay a thousand feet away from them.

-Good/Pure Sparrow doesn't die, they ascend :). No body to be found, no blood. Just. Gone. It's like they took off and vanished from this realm.

-That all said though. I imagine being so divine also hurts Sparrow. Like their body is actively fighting against them. It starts small, them dying their hair back to brown, them covering the weird new tattoo of wings on their back, etc. Only for them to be walking up in the middle of the night, screaming in pain as wings try to ripe through their back. They have to train their dog to help ground them, force them back into this world/realm because they are so scared of vanishing. They didn't want to become a god, they just wanted to do good. Just like Rose wanted.

-The first selfish thing the hero does, is not just shoot Lucien, it's fucking tackle and stab Lucien to death, screaming and crying about how Lucien ruined their lives and how much they hate the man. After his death and blood is on their hands, they choose love. They want their family back, they want their dog back, they want their sister back. The entire world can burn for all they can now.

-I feel like Sparrow is bitter towards Theresa. They were robbed of a childhood and become a human weapon, feeling like they merely were carrying on someone's else legacy. They feel used.

-if Sparrow has any children before Logan and Fable 3 protag, after Lucien kills them and Sparrow brings them back, Sparrow sends them away for their safety. They have to. They failed their kids once, they can't fail again. So they send them to Rose, Hammer or Garth, praying silently either of them can do a better job than they did.

-If Sparrow was good/pure, Logan witness Sparrow ascend, he is very messed up about that :). If not a pure/good Sparrow, Logan was there when Sparrow finally died/on their deathbed. Less traumatizing then seeing your parent get snatched by the heavens hfsjkd. Still traumatized tho!

-Logan started to fucking panic when he saw his mousey brown hair slowly become black

-If the Hero of Brightwall is also going down the good/pure route, Logan actually freezes in horror when he sees the telltale signs of the divinity sitting in his baby sibling.

-After Logan is dethrone and if he is spared, there is a massive drift between Logan and the Brightwall hero. They were super close as kids. The Hero of Brightwall would actively hang on or mess with Logan while Logan was more of a passive bystander to his sibling's antics. Sometimes Logan would lay on the library floor with his younger sibling, reading to them, or just staring at the ceiling with them. They would ramble about everything and nothing at the same time. What I am saying is, they were very close as kids because they were the only ones close to each other's ages since I imagine there was not a lot of kids in the castle. So the drift hurts both of them.

-If the Hero of Brightwall is good/pure, Logan lowkey scared of touching them because of what I already stated above. But when the hero has a massive panic attack and starts hyperventilating and panicking over the stress and having a full blown meltdown because WOW! MAKING A BARELY 20 YEAR OLD SHELTERED ROYAL A HERO IS NOT GOOD THERESA! Logan throws caution to the wind and buries his sibling's head in his chest, because fuck pain, his little brother or sister is crying and he has to be a good older brother!

-Sparrow is rolling in their grave or screaming from the heavens since Theresa just ruined another set of kids' lives btw. Because the woman legit turned more kids into child soldiers/tools for a prophecy. And it was SPARROW's kids too, so you know the Fable 2 hero is PISSED.

-As a funny joke, I feel like Reaver would be scared of Logan and the Hero of Brightwall too. Just full on expected the kids to be very human and normal, is promptly reminded that "oh yeah they are Sparrow's kids of course they aren't gonna be normal and also very human normal children"

-If good Hero of Brightwall can have goddamn angel wings, then Logan has fallen angel wings! Not demon wings, motherfucking black feathered wings! (aka, to show how Logan was good in his ideas, but corrupt in how he did them :D).

-Fable 3 protag and Logan one day meet their other siblings, if they have any. It is either awkward, a bittersweet reunion or just on random. Or all three since these are Sparrow's kids, they probably broke into the throne room to meet their younger siblings.

OH. MY. GOD

I FUCKING LOVE YOU FOR YOUR HC’s

Like this is so fucking good I genuinely think every one should take the time to sit and read these bc it’s so yummy is delicious I eat it up for breakfast

I never thought about the end game when it came to killing Lucien but I love the idea of seeing sparrow break down and curb stomping his ass it just feels so raw and real I feel like it’s what I need. It would Fr make such a good fic. I like the idea of sparrow remaining mostly silent throughout the whole game and just at the end getting the chance to snap and let it all out. I had a HC for a while that Sparrow is nonverbal due to stress over the years and years after game they slowly start to talk a bit after finding a purpose outside of what was forced upon them by Threasa and I feel like this would be such a cool idea to bring that into

I love to think of the effects that Theresa has on the people she used, mostly when it comes to Sparrow and Hammer. Hammer was always compared to Sparrow by her in game and we can see this had a effect on Hammer. I want to do a deep dive into Hammer bc she is dead ass my fav fable character ever and I love her. The song “Brutus” dose such a good job of explaining how I think she feels it’s crazy

Like no one wanted this for themselves and after game both Hammer and Sparrow probably feel like they lost a major part of there identity’s due to there whole goal being revenge for years and once they get it they truly have nothing left. Hammer has no one to go home to and Sparrow just spent the better half of 30-40 years being ran around by some women who used them to get a tower

I also think that Sparrow has a lot of paranoia due to Theresa being up in the spire and virtually unstoppable because she can see the outcomes to almost anything Sparrow could try and do to her

Grief is something that Theresa uses time and time again to her advantage. She uses it on Lucian, Sparrow, and Hammer in very very similar ways. Lucian is supposed to show what you can become, yes Sparrow is acting on revenge and the end goal is different but it’s the same hurt that drives them and after everything we end up bringing back our family just like Lucien wanted to do for him self in the beginning

I could rant about this all day dead ass should start posting character breakdowns on YT one day

Sorry for grammar in advance I have dyslexia and it’s 3 am

[tangledbeast]

I just realized that I have no clue who my Sparrow boinked to make Logan and the Princess. I feel like Logan and Princess may not know either.  My Sparrow is not so good at the romance so most likely not from an ongoing relationship. My Sparrow is the kind of person that would be like "I should have a kid." find some random guy, say "Yeah, he'll do okay." bang him, and then never see him again. It's very likely that Logan and Princess have different fathers.

[tangledbeast]

One of my headcanons is that when Sparrow entered the Crucible they were like, "Okay, what do people call you again? For the commentary."

"Sparrow"

"Um yeah. That's not gonna work. I mean, it's not very intimidating."

"..."

"Look, we'll think something new up... um...Lionheart"

And Sparrow's like "Whatever just let me in so I can start fighting" 

But after she wins, everyone starts calling her that and it spreads like wildfire. She thinks it's the stupidest thing ever, but she can't get people to stop.  I imagine her complaining to Hammer at the pub, "I've never even *hic* seen a lion."

[tangledbeast]

I'm thinking about all of the weird trophies you collect in Fable 2 and I'm just imagining

Sparrow: Oh hey, Logan, come here! I found a bunch of stuff from my old adventuring days. See, here's Captain Dread's sword, this is the seal of the Temple of Light... oh hey check this out! This is the shock collar I had to wear for 10 years when I was in the Spire.

Logan: Why...why would you keep that?

Sparrow: What? You don't think it's cool?

Logan: Well, I guess..

Sparrow: Oh! Here's the head of the first bandit leader I killed

Logan: Mom what the fuck

[tangledbeast]

When Sparrow had Logan she insisted that she was the only one allowed to discipline him Her reasoning was " This is my kid, and I shouldn't make other people raise him for me. If he screws up I need to be the one to take responsibility for it."

Unfortunately Logan took it more like ," No one can tell me what to do except for Mom."   Which soon turned into"Mom's not here so now no one can tell me what to do"  He's a little bit of a brat, even if his intentions are good.

[tangledbeast]

Walter gets to hold the baby Princess for the first time and she immediately grabs for his mustache and Sparrow’s all “Aw,look she loves you. Well, she loves your mustache anyways.” And Walter’s like, “Just wait until she meets Major Swift.”