#laoft jax

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I don’t think it would’ve been a secret for as long! Either May would’ve noticed or Jax would’ve (whajsjdiendhbs Dizzy tells Jax about it and whjdwjhdjw) and we get the “so how long has yer familiar been pregnant for” and May knows Roman doesn’t know she’s just teasing and I imagine much similar ensuing chaos like in Kittens

May would pretend to be annoyed with the Kittens a lot but would absolutely love them the trouble makers that they are (they remind her of Roman when he was little just a tad, and maybe someone else..but mostly Roman) and Jax absolutely adores them like a mother Hen (speaking of which shsjajskdv Kittens interact with the lovely ladies?)

(Also like I’m kinda bad at characterizion sometimes so this prolly isn’t accurate, but like eh, I wanted to say something on it and I did >:3 I jus care about these characters lots)

nonnie you've blessed me, thank you so much! how very sweet

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every september/october, may, jax, roman, and dizzy all go on a day-long road trip to every halloween shop they can get to. it's special witch bonding time -blood

this is a great concept but all i can think is may and roman going through a drive thru mcdonalds and they get to the first window, get their shit, and drive on and the employee just, freezes dead

and when their coworker is like ??? wut they turn and hiss out, half hysterical “There was a fucking TURKEY VULTURE in the back of that car!”

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Hey so we had to put down our dog today (it wasn’t unexpected she was old and had a heart condition it was just a bit fast) and I was wondering if I could get something about (I think it was trudies) dog familiar? -slap Dee anon

I’m very sorry to hear about your dog, and i would be happy to!

So - Ritter! Greta’s dog/coyote hybrid familiar

a good good big rowdy boy

can dog-bark AND coyote-scream, delights in freaking people out

felt guilty for a g e s about biting Toby in the second chapter of Gifts even though it was a panic response to Greta being in pain

followed Virgil around for ages after Virgil met Greta, neither he nor Greta felt the need to introduce him to Virgil for like... months

in fact Virgil didn’t properly meet Ritter until after for who would inhabit this bleak world alone?

At which point Greta introduced him and Virgil was like, “Oh, so that wasn’t an oversized coyote thats been stalking me since i met you it was this bastard”

Loves To Wrastle

ESPECIALLY loves to wrastle Virgil, who can pick him up like Ritter is still a ten pound lap dog and which Ritter thinks is fantastic fun

Ritter with Trudi’s rabbit familiar, Schatzi, was like,,, impossibly precious

Slightly less precious-looking is “teenage” Jax and Ritter, who was going silver around the muzzle - so please picture a huge, ominous looking wild black and silver dog with a goddamn turkey vulture perched on its back in the middle of the road at midnight and LOOK ME IN THE EYES and tell me you wouldn’t flip shit in terror

Will, In Fact, Lick You To Death

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So, when everyone was tiny... was Dizzy affected? Specifically, was she a tiny kitten running around behind Roman, or was she laughing at the fact that all Her Boys were kittens now?

tiny kitten dizzy was off galavanting through the woods for a grand total of 10 minutes before Jax “Sees Everything” Gage found her and herded her into his nest in the shed uppers so she didnt die

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Jax is a bird. Jax works for the bourgeoisie. Roman has been right all along. DOn't trust that motherfucker. WAIT. THE CHICKENS ARE BIRDS. THE CHICKENS WORK FOR THE BOURGEOISIE

my little sister has a shirt that says this and i know its a meme but i 100% do not understand it alksjdklaj

however i CAN tell you that Jax, heir to Ritter Baumgartener the first dog to ever be punk, would be incredibly offended at your accusation

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Every time I see that kofi link my heart nearly breaks since it's over. I loved Coda, it was so amazing and emotional. You write the bond between May and Jax really deeply, I love it. I realized that having a familiar is almost like having a QPP with the way they act towards each other. Also Zucchini is a name for a QPP and some cats are scared of cucumbers, soooo (not that Dizzy's scared of being a familiar). Anyways, you're such an amazing writer, it was painful and beautiful, I must scream.

im so glad you liked it!! there are a lot of elements of QPPS and platonic soulmates in the familiar-witch relationships, for sure!

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Does the kind of animal your familiar is a permanent thing? Like would Roman always would have a cat as a familiar even if his life was completely different? Even if he had never met Dizzy that day?

here and here there’s some meta explaining this but, short version - not necessarily

the animals are a reflection of the witch/the witches personality

(Greta and Roman both have predators, for example, Greta a coydog, a pack hunter, which has symbolism tied up in her relationships with both Virgil and Durant, and Roman has an ambush predator. Roman, as a fairy hunter, hunts alone but like a domestic cat is not actually meant to be a solitary creature, instead part of a colony)

if Dizzy or Jax died before Roman or May (which they can, i talked about that in the above asks too - theyll live as long as the witch on their own but can be killed just like any other animal) they would get a second familiar, but that familiar would be a reflection of who they were at that moment.

May would almost certainly get another bird, but would she get another buzzard? unclear. She’s a much different person than she was when she was ten and full of too much bitterness for such a little girl.

Roman has had far less time with Dizzy but a lot more happened in that not-quite-10 years than most 18-year-olds have to deal with, so im even less sure on him

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So in Polyrhythm Logan off-habdedly mentioned that animals don't like him. Is that all animals? Is it all fae? Is this a Logan-specific trait? Does Dizzy have a natural inclination to not like him? Has Logan had Bad bad interactions with animals in the course of finding this out? What's the worst thing that happened because of it? Sorry for the barrage, I love laoft and now have so many questions! Thank you for all of your fics, lovely flower writer!

It is an all animals/(almost) all fae thing, and if you’ve ever seen an herbivore/prey pet freak the fuck out when you put it in the same room as a carnivore/predator pet (for example a rabbit and a cat) you have a general idea of how animals react to Logan.

Basically the animals are instinctively reacting to the presence of an apex predator - it’s not even so much a magic thing as it is a “This Other Creature Can Fucking Kill Me Oh God Abort Abort” thing. Theyre just terrified of him.

I haven’t thought of any specific Worst Time This Happened, but he acquires a lot of scratches from stray cats over the course of his childhood.

As for Dizzy - if she was normal cat, she would actually be extra distasteful of Logan 

(and that is a magic thing - domestic cats as a species domesticated themselves, specifically for the purpose of agreeing to keep pests out of human settlements in return for scritches and abundant food. As far as cats are concerned, fae fall under that umbrella - they Do Not Get Along)

BUT Dizzy isn’t a normal cat, she’s a familiar. More importantly, she is Roman’s familiar, and as i mentioned here, her and Roman are inherently made of the same StuffTM 

Ergo, Dizzy adores Logan. Which very much startled him when he first became friends with Roman (which is seen from Dizzy’s semi-sentient POV in Cat) because he tried to avoid her, and she was like “No you need to pet me right now immediately”

And you didn’t ask about Jax, but he’s also very fond of Logan. Logan’s pretty spooked by Jax actually, because until the events of the main storyline, as far as Logan knew Jax was a normal (albeit oddly docile) wild turkey vulture with a fucking 6 foot wingspan and a beak that can crack solid bone. Logan’s not stupid.

but after he knows Jax is sentient he’s a lot less inclined to bolt from his immediately vicinity, and Jax takes to doing his affectionate little “preen the children” thing on his hair