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“I take it this has been a busy week for you then, brother. Perhaps you should spend your time recuperating…elsewhere. Amid more pleasant company.”
"Yeah, I should. Especially since the lights here are terrible! Ow! Certainly give you headaches all the time- Aaah, I’ll have trouble resting... I stay really just to bother you."
Please join me in imagining Tivan buying Fandral new clothes. Not just buying them--we going Gucci. Tailor-made, one of a kind. Tivan present through the whole measurement process, etc., and Fandral becoming slowly more aware through the process that 1.) the clothes are being styled, to a somewhat less dramatic degree, after Tivan's own and 2.) this is an actually very significant, meaningful gesture Tivan is (as usual) passing off as a mere trifle.
HHHHHH, honestly, i die over this bc like
on the one hand, fandral loves to primp and preen and be fussed over, so he loves having a tailor attend to him, he loves the whole process of being measured and complimented on his figure and having different fabrics tried against his skin, especially bc...
you know, he won’t be quiet, but there’d be a definite enjoyment of a tailor holding up a fabric to fandral’s cheek and tivan nodding his head or shaking it, and the fact that fandral’s opinion just... isn’t relevant here
fandral is MORE THAN happy to be a living ken doll
and like??? i think once he realized exactly what the game was - what fabrics, what styling was being selected, he’d become a lot quieter and stop kinda throwing out all his flirtatious commentary about preferring him in no clothes at all, and keep looking at tivan’s face instead of the tailors or whatever
he’d be so... struck, and so honoured by it? it’d genuinely touch him?
and tivan passing it off as like, unimportant! god, he’d ignore that and just become so ridiculous about it the whole time
I was rereading the Faerie Ring--closed the tab, that's probably not the title, but you know the one--and man. I know the Faerie Courts, at least in YA novels, set up this weird false divide between "good" and "bad" and have, as such, become arbitrary and overused vehicles which no longer reflect their original purpose, but En Dwi in that fic is such a Summer Court mood. I'd love to see Tivan as his mirror for the Winter Court! Maybe not in fic. Still, could you share some HC's to that effect?
ah, sorry, I really don’t know anything about the Seelie or Unseelie courts, like... at all - most of the classification lore I know is based off the tylwth teg, the Welsh fae, or the sidhe, the Irish ones (idk the proper name is aos sí i think)
in the Welsh mythos we separate them into like, specific classifications based on what they are - like, the difference between little goblins and between water spirits, for example, and we have specific names for faeries in Welsh and Irish both, but there’s no idea of a uniting court separated into two sides
maybe it’s my anti-English sentiment, but the Seelie/Unseelie divide always struck me as a little arbitrary - even if it’s not strictly “good” and “bad”, the concept of “mischievous” v. “nasty” faeries isn’t a dichotomy i’d know much about how to portray, I guess
all faeries are equally bad and terrible BUT
idk, i think that the interesting thing in regard to any faerie characterisation is when you’re examining that genuine threat of the power they command, whether it’s specific to their environment or not, v. the rules they keep, and how much you’re actually aware of those rules and how to use them to your advantage
and i think that’d be a very scary thing with tivan specifically, because unlike en dwi, he isn’t out to party, he isn’t out for a good time - he’s here for one thing specifically, and you don’t know what it is, but it’s implied he’ll do anything to get it, and he seems Very Cold
How does Carina view her relationship with her father? How does this shift over time, and what does it potentially mean for future threads? How do YOU, personally, view her view--eg, do you agree, do you find it twisted, etc.?
Her relationship with her father is a lot of push and pulls. She loves him dearly and feels guilt for leaving him for so long as she did but honestly? She doesn’t regret her actions nor does she regret the freedom that came with it.
At first she wanted nothing to do with him, being a rebellious natured girl from the start who could only be tamed by her mother. In fact she was a lot of young teenagers even though by that age she was thousands of years older. And in a way she still hasn’t grown fully enough to be pulled from that phase entirely.
She likes being her own woman, independent, without the need to rely on other but at the same time she needs and depends on her father for the affection she desires so much from him now that she’s returned. It’s one of the reasons why she came back in the first place.
Carina missed him. She longed for her father and in fact the ache had grown so horribly tremendous that she vowed that if he asked for her to stay…she would. And she regrets making that promise. But she won’t break it now, knowing how messed up she left him. Her hearts still a fleeting one, she still wants to explore and fly away but because of the promise she made and because she knows she’d just end up missing him and wanting to come back, that she chooses to stick by his side. For his sake and because she knows he’s broken after his wife’s death.
Personally I kinda understand her view on the subject. It’s a lot of confusion emotions she has for her father. She loves him and adores him but doesn’t want to be like him. She can’t stand that he has such a long life and chooses to do nothing but sit in one place and collect things. She loathes it. All she wants really is for him to come along with her, to see the universe with her and maybe it would help the both of them and I feel her frustration sometimes at that.
It’s not so much twisted as it is damaged. Their relationship is rocky, damaged but still manageable. Still fixable. And thats a main factor on why she’s staying for now. She wants to be there for him and make up for lost time between them and maybe, just maybe one day. They can go and look upon the galaxy together. As father and daughter. But it all starts with picking up the pieces where they left off and being a family again.//
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I love that his first reaction in seeing his daughter is just to run over to her and scoop her up in a hug. Carina’s day is super made by that cause she only expected him to be angry.
Now that is how a real father would react to seeing their kid after a long time. Not Anger but genuine love and happiness that their child is back in their arms, safe and sound and home. Ugh my heart.
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“It looks worse than it appears. You do not need to stay here and nurse me, En Dwi; I have servants for that.”
"Really? Well I hope so! Because it looks... really..." Not finding the right adjective, En Dwi simply shakes his head. "I was not going to take care of your bandages you know. So, what was this creature? Details, brother!"
