#laoft reference

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I'm rereading the laoft extras (for like the millionth time) and wanted to ask, what's the difference between gentry and wild fae?

oh i was just talking in the server about this lemme do some copy/paste-fu

okay so (this is all for laoft, not rl folklore) subspecies of fae are divided into categories like russian nesting dolls. so, just a random example: fae - > little folk -> goblins -> redcaps, redcaps being the most specific, fae being the least

white is fae -> pooka -> white thing, Logan is fae -> lesser humanoid -> nymph -> green man

the broadest categories are these:

Little Folk - goblins and dwarves and all their sub-types

Man-eaters - hags, ogres, trolls, bogeymen, and all their subtypes (night hags, black annies, bloodybones, rawheads, etc)

Pookas - most common type of wild fae; deer folk, white things, kelpies, etc; basically anything with a humanoid and an animal form

Sprites - unseelie sprites are also called "gremlins." pixies, nixies, brownies, willowisps, imps, etc

Lesser Humanoids - mostly nymphs, but banshee also fall into this category.

Ghouls - doppelgangers (true shapeshifters), dullahans, blackeyes, hidebehinds, etc

And all of the above categories are referred to as "Wild Fae"

Then there's Gentry, who are (usually) the strongest and most powerful type of fae. theyre a subspecies (like deer folk, white things, etc) but they are also their own category (like pookas)

so Gentry are a specific very powerful subtype of fae, and a wild fae are any (sentient) fae who isn't gentry

i say sentient because this isn't even getting into all the fae animals there are, including but not limited to - crybabies, wisht hounds, unicorns, beasts of bears, and more. all those are really more like regular animals who happen to be magic

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Hey! Sorry if you've already said this somewhere, but what does Io look like? I really want to draw la.

about the same height as Remus, long (about hip length) dark green and slightly wavy hair, pink skin and purple eyes. fat, very round all over, especially in the face. usually wearing a very gauzy purple dress with a petal skirt and sleeves, and barefoot as most nymphs usually are

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hi hyacinth! would you happen to have references describing durant, eirwen, or white? thank you!

i do not, so here we go!

Durant: very similar to Virgil in look and build, some slight differences - a little shorter, but still fuck off tall compared to a human, so probably like 6'4? pale skin, dark brown hair, one green eye and one yellow. Scales around both eyes and down his arms/the back of his hands in green and gold.

Eirwen - tall, but not so tall its unrealistic for a human woman, probably 6'1 or 6'2. shiny, pitch black hair down to her ankles, which floats just a little. sickly pale, almost blue not like Virgil or Durant with the faint glow, more like a corpse. black eyes. face contorts when she wails.

White- Gigantic. About the same height as Virgil, so 6'6 ish. Pure white all over, skin, hair, nails, everything. no iris or pupils, just solid white (think albinism turned up to eleven). Hair floats around her and looks very cloud-like, especially at the ends, almost like its fog rather than hair. Wears clothing made of a similar material to her hair (read: she weaves it from her own hair/fur) so from a distance she almost looks like a moving cloud

White in her fourlegged form is the size of a very large dog, with a canine face, fox-esque forelegs, and beaver-like hind legs, with a long, fluffy tail. All her fur is that same fog/cloudlike texture

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

Can you help out a non-native english speaker? How do you pronounce mamaw?

sure! first syllable "ma'am" as in "yes ma'am," second syllable "aw" as in "awning"

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might i request a reference for harley's appearance, honorable violet? thank you!! i hope your day is going well ^^ and gosh i adored heartsong! positively wonderful ^^

Sure! Harley is black, but with light enough skin that a blush still shows up reasonably well, im not sure of a good color comparison but here's an article with pics of a bunch of black redheads to give you an idea of the coloring

he has red hair which he keeps relatively short, curl type is about 3c. very VERY freckly

he's about average height, 5'7 or so, and a little gangly. he's had top surgery before Thomas meets him in Heartbeat, so he doesn't need a binder

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Hi Tulip! For, uh, hypothetical art purposes, do you have any further descriptions for Patton's wedding dress in Bliss? You said outright that it's a light blue with wide bell sleeves, and knee-length, but do you have any other bits you were imagining? Hope you're having a nice day!

okay so fair warning, i had to look up terms because i know nothing about clothes, but i was picturing it with a boat neckline and the skirt as a circle skirt (suitable for twirling)

and also silver lace at the neckline and hem, courtesy of Virgil

also nonnie if it was you who tagged me in those three posts about making Patton's weddings dress and Virgils maid of honor dress i am SO eyes emoji

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Does remus grow plants around certain people or do anything similar?

He does produce pants sometimes, though only with negative emotions and not nearly as specific this-emotion-gets-this-plant as Logan (the overgrowth of baneberry and posion ivy when he’s upset in Reflections for example)

However Remus’s main emotional thing is actually relating more to his own body

Remus is poisonous, to most animals and a lot of fae but especially to humans. Normally this isn’t a huge problem, because no ones going around biting or licking him for shits and giggles, but it does come up sometimes

Sometimes, certain emotions cause Remus to become poisonous in different ways, and some of them are more hazardous to other people than others.

When he’s sad, for example, his skin produces citrus oil (not especially dangerous, but can cause depression and photosensitivity in humans if they accidentally ingest any of it or get it on their skin) and in extreme sadness cyanide (found in cherry pits and bitter almonds).

this is what would have become a problem for Roman after the physical contact in Reflections, but he didn’t get any of it in his mouth so he didn’t have to worry about the cyanide, and he’s immune to sunburns so he doesnt have to worry about the photosensitivity

When Remus is annoyed or mildly angry, his skin produces urushiol, the skin irritating compound in poison ivy and related plants

If he’s really angry he’ll start producing Manchineel tree sap, which is HIGHLY toxic and wildly dangerous, leaving blisters on human skin after even only a couple seconds of contact.

When he’s happy he starts smelling like nutmeg, also not a huge deal - its psychoactive but only in very large quantities

When he’s REALLY happy you start getting into mandrake territory, which is hallucinogenic, but again, only if ingested so not super dangerous for human family

Logan is immune to all of these, and so are most plant fae - Virgil and Linda are susceptible but not nearly as much as a human would be (except in some specific cases for Linda where the plant is especially poisonous to cats) so it’s mainly Roman and Patton and the other mortals they have to worry about. After the first incident of contact with Very Angry Remus Patton definitely figured out to give him a wide berth when he’s angry

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LAOFT Physical Description Masterpost

LAMP + May and Greta (Virgil’s Clothes, Greta’s Clothes, more Virgil, LAMP height chart, LAMP in Fair Folk and Fortresses, LAMP as adults)

Remile (and another)

Andy and Teagan

CT Characters/Kai

Trudi and Abby

Belladonna

Nate and Polly

Brian

Durant, Eirwen, and White

Harley