#keeperofthelostcities

[buttterbean]

oralie art 🕺

i’ve got my tumblr working again so here’s some oralie art 🤲

idk why the quality went out the window 😔

[keefeweek2025]

so happy to announce keefe week 2025!

august 1st - august 7th

hosted by @queefsencen & @krisalyce

prompts!

day 1: legacy

day 2: memories

day 3: ship

day 4: favorite scene

day 5: prank

day 6: neverseen

day 7: free day!

please tag us in your submissions & use the hashtag #keefe week 2025 !

[lezabeththetheodoraimposter]

the closet isn’t made of glass it’s actually made of smoke and mirrors the closet is an illusion it never really existed

[living-intrusive-thought]

Let's talk about Biana's taste in guys:

Insecure traumatized teens

Who are also tiny lovable softies

Who show it in an awkward cute manner

Hidden under snark, jokes and humor.

[sunflowers-and-scales]

guess who i saw at prrriiiiideee

bonus: guess who i saw at DARK EVIL pride

[lovedby-ella111]

keefe week day ???

i've been so unmotivated to draw and idk i just drew the first scene we got of lord hunkyhair

@keefeweek2025 @queefsencen @krisalyce

[amelie-the-telepath]

Y’all maybe we shit too hard on Fitz for his anger issues bc he was GOING THROUGH IT… like from his perspective his best friend betrayed him TWICE and took the girl he loved, he nearly died multiple times, his brother betrayed him, he was literally the prodigy telepath until Sophie turned up, Sophie never took their cognate connection as seriously as he did, his family was disgraced bc of the hive, he had to search for Sophie in the forbidden cities from like the age of FIVE all on HIS OWN… not an excuse by any means but Jesus these kids are traumatised leave them be Shannon

[iabggsyk]

Hear me out guys... Gethen being Sophie's bio dad has some pretty solid evidence once you think about it.

In Legacy Cassius makes a comment on how Sophie uses her telepathy (and just how she acts in general, tending to think using her heart/emotions first in situations) and says that she acts a lot like an empath. He also mentioned how during the matchmaking process, telepaths are more often than not paired with empaths than any other Talent because of how well they go together (pretty sure this was Shannon telling us something) saying that he wouldn't be surprised if the black swan had one of her parents be an empath, and the other a telepath.

Later on in legacy we figure out who Sophie's bio mom is (no spoilers for those who haven't read that far yet), and she ends up being an empath, no surprise there, so that just leaves the dad.

If we go by Cassius' logic (one of the few times I will ever utter this phrase) then her father must be a telepath. Let's go through the list of known Telepaths (excluding those who were still minors at the time of Sophie's conception (because elves go by conception date instead of birth date)). *Spoiler warning below*

Kenric and Alden are both immediately out, Kenric for obvious reasons, and Alden because, as was stated in Neverseen, if Alden was the father, it would have made Fitz and Sophie half siblings, and the black swan would've shut that situation down before it even had the time to properly grow.

Mr. Forkle also said he wasn't the father, and I'm assuming he meant both of the Forkle twins. We can also rule out Tiergan because, looking at the official art, he looks nothing like Sophie. Prentice, Emery and Quinlin are also out for the same reason as Tiergan (Also Emery is Oralie's coworker so that couldn't work), with all three of them being described with dark skin.

This leaves Gethen. He looks the most like her in appearance: He is described as having straight blonde hair. Blonde hair is a recessive gene so it makes sense for Sophie to have blonde hair if both her bio parents have blonde hair. Secondly, he has straight hair. This is important because Oralie has ringlet curls, and curls are a dominant trait so if Sophie's bio dad had curly hair then she would, at the very least have more curly hair than the current wavy look in the official art and book description, implying that one of her parents has to have straight hair.

Lastly, it would add to the similarities that Sophie and Keefe have. If This were true then: 1 they'd both have an evil parent apart of the Neverseen (Gethen and Gisela), 2 they both have parents in a high position of power in Elvin society and instead of using that to try to change the bad things they personally don't like about the society they instead conform to it (Oralie and Cassius), 3 both of their parents are shitty, 4 they both have a complicated relationship with their perspective "less shitty, but still relatively shitty parents" (again, Oralie and Cassius), 5. Both of their less terrible parents are empaths, and 6. Both of their respective parents (minus Cassius, that one's complicated but I'm too tired to go into full detail tonight) experimented/genetically modified/let someone else experiment on/genetically modify their kid for a "greater cause".

So in conclusion... I'm 90% sure that Gethen is the bio dad. It's either that or some character we've never met until book 10. Or Shannon'll never reveal it. Either way, thanks for coming to my Ted talk about who the bio father of a fictional character is.