okay first off thank you for that tag!!!! secondly, it makes me think less unseelie for Red and more primordial? idk if you know about the show the blacklist I can't remember, but with Red he's like the head of a crime syndicate. if you need something or need to make something go away? If Red can't do it himself, he knows someone who can. He's the concierge of crime so he can do whatever, he's got all the hookups. he does have a moral code?
Like okay so Sigyn is a prime example of a primordial being? or at least the second gen. of such beings? who hale from being once part of ymir himself tbh? she is a landvaettir, a particular kind of wight that is attached to the land and i take some liberties and personal upg in expanding that as her and her family being LITERALLY the land. this is why she says trees and shit are her siblings because her mother and father have spent an age as trees before taking on a different form to have her.
anyway i think if you did unseelie there is a lot about them that always seems to ride back to death. and not in a bad way either, just in a “this is far more frightening to humans” sort of way and “we come off malevolent because how else would you see us?” like i always split the two into seasons as well.. so typically the autumn and winter season fae would be unseelie because they are likely associated with that end cycle of the seasons. they associate with all the creatures that are like them. why wouldn’t they?
but that doesn’t mean a spring/summer fae of a seelie court is somehow kinder and less vicious or tricky. as a whole the fae can be incredibly chaotic because they ARE nature. they are the thing that frightens those of laws of order and control, of man who can not see the GOOD in some violent aspects of nature.
a summer fae might be delighted to see a forest fire. not because they are evil but because they know it is natural that these things DO happen and for good reason and they celebrate the chaos that is nature. in this way i can also see a LOT of instances of some fae being caught in cusps where a summer fae like that might have almost been an autumn fae instead.
can you imagine?
and the idea that these two halves fight each other makes me think of who nature fights it’s self, how it is destroyed by natural means and reborn by natural means and it’s a war that will never really stop.
anyway i think whatever you choose will be fine but consider the fact that if you even decided to make him seelie there is something cool about someone who can come off as put together, sweet, law abiding, but secretly be as vicious as a nest of wasps found in the spring.
