#fable headcanons

[riveriecetus]

Veah and Cari head canons :]

- when they're old enough to use elytra, Cari and Caspian fly around the Grove with the wind,

- Veah ends up being really protective of Cari after they're born, to the point where if Cari has a nightmare, or cries in the middle of the night, She's running to their crib before Rae or Caspian.

- Rae taught Veah how to hold Cari,

- When they were both babies, Rae would hold Veah and Cari in his arms and carefully dancing around the room singing to them.

- Rae taught Caspian the lullaby Isla used to sing to him, and one night Rae woke up to Caspian holding Cari against his chest and quietly singing to them. (And yes- Rae got up and sang along before the three of them fell back asleep)

- Veah taught Cari the Happy Hare dance- Who then taught Rae, Caspian, Aax and Fenris

- Cari sees Aax as another parent figure, usually using the term "Par" to refer to her. They picked this up from Oscar and Len

- Despite being the quiet one, Cari is a chatterbox with whoever they're most comfortable with. This has ended up with Rae and Cari having a full blown conversation about a random subject, then Ulysses or someone else walks into the room, and Cari stops talking, and ends up whispering in Rae's ear if they have a question. (What no I'm not projecting from when I was a kid nooooo)

- Ocie babysat Veah and Cari *once* (she taught them how to cuss, so when The Dads™ came home, Veah looked at Fenris and said "Aunty Kai taught us the word Shit!!"

- Cari watched Rae sew, embroidered and knit clothes, in a very similar way to how Rae watched Isla teach herself.

- When Veah first saw Cari asleep in their crib, she reached in and gently put her hand on their head

- Athena and Bruin taught Veah and Cari how to make flower crowns, Veah always wears Lilacs while Cari wears Dandelions.

Listen I keep having so many thoughts and feelings about these blorbos children- I luv them sm

[blossomingtree]

A few (16) fable headcanons because I posted them on TikTok but ppl didn't really react :

Theresa:

1) She lights up a candle everytime one of the heroes she mentored dies (this includes Logan and Rose). She has small memorials of them where she "lives" because despite what she pretends, she never fully lost her empathy. Therefore, she mourns them a lot and does feel guilty, especially some times where she feels particularly alone, or on anniversaries. This led her to being extremely depressed (which is also why she had no visible problems with asking HoO or Gabriel to kill her).

2) She fell inlove with the equivalent of a nun when she was in Samarkand. Their love was mutual, but because Theresa was immortal, she decided not to "toy" with her and left.

3)She has a one-sided beef with Reaver. She doesn't spend her life hating him, he is is insignificant, but when people mention him, she can't help but roll her eyes and be annoyed. She hates interacting with him and he doesn't notice. It's not necessarily because of his political views but rather his behaviour. Both are immortals and immortality is Theresa's curse. She accepted her fate long ago. Reaver, on the other hand, has a completely different relationship to immortality because he is not a seer, so he uses it for his own personal benefit whereas Theresa is forced to be the way she is.

4)She has heavy religious trauma due to her position of Seer.

Logan:

1) He is neurodivergent. I don't exactly know why, but he is on the neurodivergent spectrum.

2) He is atheist or agnostic which is very conflicting for 2 reasons: Firstly, Sparrow was kind of religious but not really (she did believe in a higher power because of heroes and the fact that some ppl were seers), so she upheld some traditions to celebrate the gods. Secondly, Logan comes from a bloodline that's extremely linked to the collective image of the gods: the Archon-Black bloodline. His mother is a hero, his sister is a hero, he might be one too... And some people believe that those gifts were given by the Gods of Albion, and as king, Logan feels like he has to uphold a certain religious image to not be seen as a hypocrite. But in private he frequently questions religion and the existence of the Gods, like Sparrow did, but he is more certain of his beliefs than she was.

3) He hates alcohol and drinking in general. So he never drinks (yes that might contradict the canon because you can see plenty of bottles on the table when you visit the castle after your overthrow him, but I have 2 arguments: First, they're full. Second, he upped the taxes on alcohol). In my fanfiction where I write Sparrow's story and the kids' story, his hatred for alcohol is related to Alex.

4) He is a rainbow baby. Sparrow had a daughter, then miscarried, then had Logan, then had Hobw.

5)He did want to be a father but then he inherited the throne and realized how hard it would be for him to deal with parenting and with the politics. +he wasn't sure how it'd be received if his child was not biologically his.

Hero of Brightwall

1) After the shipwreck in Aurora, she started having seizures. It turned out to be epilepsy. I'm saying this as someone with epilepsy myself. It would make sense for her to develop some sort of trauma-response, and when I re-watched the scene where she wakes up, I was like "oh it feels a lot like a seizure lol" so I just went with it.

2) She used the trans potion so she and her gf could have a child. And as I'm writing this, I just thought about Sparrow hypothetically doing the same.

3) She wanted to be a musician and travel Albion playing the luthe. All of this accompanied by Elliot (her friend, not her boyfriend). Like a bard.

4) Neurodivergent but idk what. Some people said she was autistic, I see it.

Sparrow:

1) She is openly queer, everyone knows it and no one has a problem with it because no one really is homophobic in Fable, but also because she SAVED THE WORLD so they can't really be mad at her for having had a couple gfs. Her first gfs was a girl she met at the camp after she was rescued by Theresa.

2) She loves Rose tea, and it isn't even because of her sister. She just loves the taste. Her daughter loved it too.

3) Neurodivergent, ADHD for sure, maybe autism too.

[heroine-of-albion]

Can I have 😭 What makes your oc cry? for Reaver please?

Reaver? Cry?

He’d tell you he was incapable of crying, and actually this is mostly true. Reaver has perfected the art of distracting himself from anything that might upset him…but that art often relies on having people around, either to “party” or go pirating with or to fight to the death in his Wheel of Misfortune game or something like that, so when there’s no-one around to entertain him, and he’s alone with his thoughts…

…Then he cries.

[the-sparrow-sings]

My Favorite Fable Headcanon

For my personal playthroughs

Reaver Fathered Logan and The Hero of Brightwall

• Sparrow knew having an heir was inevitable, so instead of having the puppet king’s child, she asked her consort...Reaver; for the purpose of passing on his heroic genes

• Reaver agrees because 1: He probably has about a million children out there anyway from centuries of sleazing around, and 2: He feels like perhaps being the Prince’s secret father could be advantageous some day

• Reaver is surprised to find himself ridiculously irritated by the puppet king assuming the baby is his

• Keeps his distance from young Logan, because 1: He doesn’t want to get attached, and 2: Ew children

• Distances himself from Sparrow because it’s too...strange to see her as a mother. He only remains at court for The Power(or so he tells himself)

• Only really becomes part of Logan’s life after the boy is kidnapped, using his underworld connections to find and rescue his son (and this act rekindles Sparrow and Reaver’s unspoken relationship)

• The Princess is conceived entirely accidentally

• She’s Reaver’s spitting image, though if anyone notices, they keep their mouths shut

• Reaver is much closer to the children at this point, being referred to as “Uncle Reaver”; taking the children to festivals, beaming with pride as his daughter becomes a crack-shot, and undermining The King at every turn... for the first time in centuries he’s allowed himself to be truly happy...

• ...Until Sparrow dies young. He gets a harsh reminder of what attachment really means for him. He distances himself from his family

• The Princess takes very poorly. She was a small child who lost her mother, and at the same time-she lost Reaver too, not to mention her brother was suddenly too busy preparing to become King that the poor girl felt very alone

• Logan discovers the truth about his parontage while sorting through Sparrow’s belongings, and he chooses to keep Reaver, his father, on as his advisor

• The Princess is too young at the time to be trusted with the secret, and grows to resent politics for taking away both her brother and her father figure

• She becomes very manipulative, saying whatever she knows will get her her own way; uncaring about the feelings of others beyond how they will effect her

• Not only does she resemble her father, but she grows to act like him too, for better or worse(usually worse). She wants to be loved, but she has no interest in loving. As a child, everything she loved seemed to be taken from her. She didn’t want to feel like that ever again.

• She sees no inherent value on human life-even her own. If her mother, The Hero Queen, could be taken so suddenly...why should anyone else matter?

• When The Resistance infiltrates Reaver’s manor, she can’t help but feel...odd; the man was once a father to her. She hadn’t caught more than a few glimpses of him since her mother died, so seeing him look so...weathered was difficult.

• Reaver would be proud of his daughter as she becomes Queen, seeing her again after so many years of avoiding the girl. She seems to thrive on manipulating the love of the populace

• She still has no idea Reaver is her father until breaking into his home during the “Reaver’s Unmentionables” quest, awkwardly enough

• After the initial EW moment wears off, she is overwhelmed, the puzzle pieces of her past falling together

• She discovers in his journals that Reaver loved her mother, and is haunted by his failure to admit it while she was alive

• She rethinks her life; her own father hurt himself immeasurably through his emotional constipation and fear of being hurt; she decides she cannot let that same fear rule her own life any longer

• She doesn’t confront Reaver about it during the events of the game; by this point The Crawler is all she has time to deal with. Reaver is, however, aware that she knows

• Walter’s death hits her hard, because she didn’t realize until now that he had always been there for her; she spent her whole life lamenting her lack of parents, not appreciating Walter until she held him dying in her arms(Edit: Now that I’m rereading this the parellels between this scene and how I write Reaver during Sparrow’s death make me BIG SAD)

• I like to think that once Reaver returns from making his sacrifice, he sits down with the HOBW to have a long conversation about the truth of things; who her mother really was as a person, why he abandoned her

• It helps her immeasurably to know that Sparrow was not the Perfect Infallible Hero history paints her as; a godlike figure she could never measure up to

That got rambly but I hope someone enjoys it!

[lordriddler]

I just think it'd be funny

If the hero of Brightwall had a fundamental misunderstanding of how normal people's bodies worked.

I'm talking about casually tossing their hammer to Ben, expecting them to look after it for a few minutes, but sending him tumbling with the weight.

Mentioning in a conversation about how they died that particular time to get that cool scar on their arm.

Oh yeah, sure they had that tattoo yesterday, but they got bored so now it's new.

And they glow.

[kinky-reaver]

How the fandom sees Reaver: doesn't do any sort of hard work, wakes up when he pleases wearing matching silk pyjamas with his name embroidered on the chest pocket, with a butler waiting to serve him expensive hot tea picked from only the finest leaves in India How I see Reaver: rolls out of bed at the ass crack of dawn, messy hair and wearing nothing but a dressing gown tied at the waist, makes himself coffee and drinks it out of the pot, spends the next two hours styling his hair, going through a vigorous facial cleansing routine, tweezing his eyebrows, and picking out an outfit for the day, all the while complaining about going to work, and being an all around drama queen

[heroine-of-albion]

I’m going to make a niche question! 😄 for Saker, please!

Ooooh, I love Saker!

As for what makes him smile…I think honestly he likes a good fight. Not necessarily to the death or anything, but like sparring or play fighting or training, stuff like that.

Saker respects strength, and he’s a physical person, so yeah, I think a good fight would make him smile.

[heroine-of-albion]

Reaver Is A Bastard For A Reason

So, I reblogged this post by @yourhealthislow about Reaver's personality being an act, but I'm still thinking about it, and didn't want to hijack their post by writing more than I've written for some essay questions, so I wrote this.

If you haven't seen their post, check it out here, it's basically the starting point for this whole thing Read more under the cut.

Right, so...

Reaver Is A Bastard For A Reason

Obviously Reaver is a bastard. He is a bastard some of us in Fable fandom love, but he is still a bastard. But I fully believe that that bastard-ness is a metaphorical sense of armour for a very damaged character. So, we're not sure what Reaver was like before we meet him in Fable II - all we have are the fragments the games have given us, like Reaver's Diaries and his autobiography Reaver on Reaver, and neither give us much. But there are some interesting bits: First, there's two lines in 'Reaver on Reaver' that interested me: "I had come seeking hot nights, exotic substances and uninhibited people..." / "Its pitiful cordials and feeble spirits did nothing to improve my mood". These are interesting to me because it implies Reaver actively seeks out hedonistic outlets. Well, nothing surprising about that; we know he's self-indulgent to the point of selfishness and even cruelty from his behaviour in the games. It's the second bit that's interesting, where he talks about improving his mood. To me, there sees to be a link between two: Reaver needs his hedonism (drinking, drugs, sex) to improve his mood. And that's (chronologically) after we read in Reaver's Diary the line: "I will sleep much better after this chalice of wine.". This is a much less ambiguous line telling us that Reaver uses his vices as a crutch. That he struggles to sleep without somehow distracting/numbing himself from his reality. Okay, so we've established that Reaver has issues with his vices, and that perhaps they're less about indulgence and more about distraction. But why is he such a bastard? I have few thoughts on this. My first is that it's because he's the opposite of what he used to be like. For all we know, Reaver was a good man before his deal with the Shadow Court, albeit one afraid of death. He was a farmer who got in over his head and made a deal with consequences he didn't understand - hence the lines: "I see him summon the Shadow Court into this world, oblivious to the consequences." / "...the realisation of just what price he has unwittingly paid hanging like a tragedy mask from his face." Reaver didn't understand what he was doing when he summoned the Shadow Court, and it basically cost him his life: his home, his friends and loved ones, everything familiar to him. So by the time Fable II comes around, he's completely changed his personality: so that the rug is never pulled out from under his feet ever again. My second thought is that Reaver acts like a bastard because he hates himself, and doesn't believe he is worthy of anything deeper than lust. He doesn't want anyone to love or even like him, because Reaver sees himself as "a weak, despicable man". He refuses to acknowledge as such, going on to say he is not that man, but that is a concious seperation, and I wonder if unconciously Reaver still sees himself as that man who was scared, was weak, was despicable. Such a man would not be worthy of anyone's genuine affection or admiration (platononic or romantic), so Reaver chases lust and fleeting emotions so he can use the latter to ignore the lack of the former. In any case, I don't think Reaver started out as a bad man. But by the as despicable, he's scared of letting people in, either because he unconciously fears that if he lets anyone get too close to him, they'll realise he's weak and they'll come to despise him, or because he's scared that even if they don't leave him, they'll be somehow taken from him, like the Shadow Court took his loved ones away from him. He's loved and lost, and does not believe it's better than to not have loved at all, so he keeps everyone at a distance. And he does that by acting like an utter cunt. There's also the thought, as mentioned in the post above, that - for whatever reason he was doing it - Reaver has been playing the part of heartless bastard for so long, that he's just...become a heartless bastard. By the time of Fable III, Reaver doesn't have any deeper reason to be an arsehole other than the fact he's been an arsehole for decades, if not centuries. It's just what he is.

Whatever reason he initially had is gone, his concious decisions to be a bastard have just slowly turned into his nature.

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That was a lot of thoughts, I apologise for the rant, and for any spelling/grammatical errors but I needed to get it out of my system. I hope someone at least found it interesting.