#forbidden cities

[merplz]

I like that Alvar felt more at home with the humans and not only found peace with them but in himself with the knowledge that none of them were ever going to get a special ability and they didn’t know or care.

[fizzy-daydreamer]

Any fanfic or headcanon after book 9.5 with Alvar in the Forbidden Cities ?

[typingcat567]

"I'm wearing this shirt forever guys." Keefe Sencen, KOTLC Just a flashback! Lol

[nlhs-foreva]

Quick theory here:

Keefe and all the other elves wayyyyyyy better looking than average humans. While Keefe was in the Forbidden Cities, he must’ve got swarmed with human girls asking him on dates and feral Nico di Angelo’s trying to claim him as their Will Solace.

[periwinkle-the-11th]

I wholeheartedly believe Sophie Foster read fanfiction when she was in the forbidden cities.

[literallywalkerscobell]

Sokeefe baking

"No, thats wrong!" Sophie shouted at the blonde haired devil that had decided that salt and sugar were the same thing.

Together they were creating chocolate chip cookies, one of Sophie's favourites back in the Forbidden Cities. She'd mentioned off-handily to Keefe about how much she enjoyed making them with her human parents when she was a kid, and he'd decided instantly that teleporting to the Forbidden Cities and gaining the ingredients just to make them was a completely sound plan.

Sandor had been super mad, lecturing them on how they couldn't just run to the human cities for ingredients to make some mediocre cookies without their bodyguards when the Neverseen was out there. She agree completely with his reasoning, unlike the stupid boy next to her.

"What do you mean?" Keefe asked, "this is sugar!"

"No, thats salt."

"What on Earth is salt?!"

She let out a sigh, forgetting elves didn't have the salty grains in their recipes. "Look, I don't know how to explain it, but I can tell you that it is NOT SUGAR!"

"Ok, ok, calm down, you're in charge of these human recipes, Fos-boss."

She glared at him, but inside she was the opposite of mad, her voice betraying her feelings when she grumbled at him, "don't call me Fos-boss."

He tilted her chin at him, meeting her strange brown eyes with his ice-blue ones. "You know, Foster, even if I wasn't able to read your emotions from metres away, I would still be able to guess that you're not actually mad at me."

"Perhaps your Empath abilities are failing, cause I will have you know that I'm completely mad at you—" He cut her off, crashing her lips down onto hers, kissing her softly and sweetly, hands wrapped around her waist as she reached up to place her hands in his blonde curly hair, tugging on strands as he kissed her harder and harder.

Her mood plummeted the second he pulled away, laughing as he felt the emotions waft through the air towards him. "I thought you were mad at me, Miss Foster," he said with a wink that she rolled her eyes at.

"You are so stupid," she muttered, before reaching forward to kiss him again. The cookies could wait, she decided.

[crymeariveronceagain]

Do you think there are elves choosing to live in the forbidden cities?

Yes.

I feel like it's a very small minority of elves, because to successfully live in the forbidden cities you'd have to practically abandon everything you have, everything you hold dear. It's a dangerous, terrifying decision.

But I think, definitely. Yes. There are elves in the forbidden cities. Especially the talentless. It's a risk to be talentless, a risk to pretend you're a human. People will go to pretty extreme lengths if they have nothing left to lose.

The council is pretty strongly against elves leaving for the forbidden cities. I'm sure you get locked deep underground for endangering others, and yourself. Maybe your mind gets broken. But no matter what, if you're caught, you're probably silenced. So it's dangerous.

You'd probably have to fake your own death, leave a registry pendant in the ashes of a house or at the bottom of the ocean, and know that people would be mourning you for centuries to come. And, on top of that, you'd have to be really careful in the human world. You're not going to die like humans do, you're not going to age. You'd have to find somewhere really secluded, and only occasionally enter a forbidden city, or constantly move and name change. A lot of black market social security numbers, a lot of black market fake identities. It would be a constant movement, and nothing would ever wholly be safe.

However, if your life already sucks, or you're already running from something... It's a pretty good option. It would take a lot of preparation and risk assessment. It would be like fleeing a country that wants to constantly keep track of you. It's dangerous, but it's not impossible.

If they wanted to leave, and they could, they 100% would. If they found hope in the idea, found hope in the hope that the forbidden cities could provide, I feel like they would leave.

I honestly have a headcanon that Jolie is living in the forbidden cities. The walls were burning down around her, and her hands were scorched. Thinking fast, I feel like she ripped off her registry pendant, and jumped out of a window into a tree. She left, never looking back, knowing that she never can.

I think she's out there, somewhere, in a sea of people, perfectly alone, living her life in the woods, farming and living her best, most quiet, most self-sufficient life.

I think, just like every other elf, scattered to the winds in the forbidden cities, thinking that they're most likely the only one, she hopes that no one will ever find her.

[astrababyy]

I’m surprised Sophie has any sort of semblance of a work ethic. Gifted kids who don’t have to study and work hard to get good grades usually struggle with that when they reach college and the work world. For Sophie, that would be Foxfire since the things taught there don’t come as naturally to her. I can understand Keefe since he doesn’t seem to have one at all, but it’s kind of interesting that Sophie doesn’t struggle with that considering an important part of her life in the Forbidden Cities was that school came easy for her, unnaturally so.