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…my sparrow… as an offering

Anways, I like to think that Sparrow tries super hard to sign ever childs autograph book that they can. Even if its inconvenient, even if Theresa is calling them, or after they become ruler the and nobility is clamoring for their attention. If a child comes up to them and asks for an autograph by god are they getting an autograph

#fable #fable 2 #sparrow #hero of bower lake #I've been very fucked up abt them lately #but I love them sosososo much #to me they are ultimately kind and loving #They're just also manipulated and traumatized you know

I can see both the hero of oakvale and the hero of brightwall eventually retiring from heroing, but its a struggle to see the same for Sparrow.

I think its primarily because the other two... they had more control. Like yeah, they're dragged into these awful situations, and manipulated, but they have drastically different backgrounds to Sparrow.

HOOV had experienced a loving family. He has friends, and his goals are finite, its even hinted that he settled in the demon door in Oakfield. All he wanted was to find his family, and avenge his town, and he got both of those things, even if not permanently, but in a relatively satisfying way. His mothers dead, but he got time with her, Theresa has left but he knows shes alive and they can contact one another. His village is rejuvenated before he even returns, and Jack is dead.

The HOBW? They wanted to be a hero, they wanted to save Albion from Logans rule. They also experienced being loved and cared for throughout their childhood, all their friends are alive and relatively easy to reach. They KNOW just how manipulated they were by Theresa and are genuinely upset by it, and by the fact that tbey have to kill Walter. Heroing for them is a lot like it was for Hammer, this dream life that quickly lost its shine.

But Sparrow?? Sparrow is implied to not remember their parents, all they have of their childhood is being out in the streets of oldtown with their sister, liked enough not to be run out but not enough to be helped. Theresa has a handle on them from a young age, and while they're loved by the dwellers, ultimately she's their guardian, the one in their head, promising them vengeance before they even hit puberty. By the time they leave the safety of the bower lake camp they are already more violent than their predecessor and their descendant are shown to be at the same milestone. They are fuled by rage and a need to avenge Rose, and if the banshees are to be believed it has warped them in a way. They also get none of the same ending as the other two. They are alone. Everyone leaves them, their closest confidant tells them that its their fault for the violence that ensued upon their first meeting, and their guardian casts them aside until she needs to tell them how their children will follow their in their steps. All they know at this point is how to fight and kill and nearly be killed, their vengeance doesn't sate them because how could it? Built up as it was all these year, for literally decades, just for it to come down to them verses a weak feeble man on unsteady ground? How could they possibly leave all they've ever known, when there is nothing else for them on the other side?

#fable #fable 2 #fable 3 #sparrow #hero of bower lake #fable rose #fable theresa #hero of oakvale #hero of brightwall #sorry thinking heavy #it just feels like they're unable to leave it ya know #no one else wants them; they're unsuited for most things #but they can be a hero; they can do that for the rest of their days and I think they do #I'm firmly of the belief that they're killed by a troll #also i think we just do not realize how bad Theresas manipulation of them is tbh #like theyre 8; maybe 10 when rose dies?? and then they spend the next decade being fed this idea that they'll avenge her #ALSO i think the spire is so much worse than bargate #and I think that also has a big affect on them too #idkidk #i just feel like the other two have the tools to leave it being and Sparrow does not #and then i think of the hero of southcliff #and I wonder if they had any idea the fate their child had before them #and I wonder if he would have fought harder to survive if he did #and frankly; Scythe got me fucked up. come get your great grea greay granddaughter shes bullying the baby of the family

jckpot

theresa wip from months ago i dug from the depths of my csp files. might finish this later + dig up some other old fable art

youcantdateosmosisjones

I'm still very in love with the idea of a Sparrow who formed such a deep and loyal bond to Hammer, and upon loosing their relationship to their own vengeance they become a hollow and grieving individual.

One will go to any length to fill a cup that has been unjustly emptied. I do not believe it was ever their intention to loose one of the only true friendz they'd gained, but their life long mission took priority over staying in the same path as her. They fulfilled their goal, and now they must part.

And what can one do when their life is devoid of any prospects or intimacy beyond their own efforts? They cling to whatever comes their way. Whatever fleeting emotion passes through them. Wether it be pride, accomplishment, power, joy, or hatred.

I like to think that the void in their life was filled in two very specific relationships. One being their bond with Walter, and the other being a connection to Reaver.

I'm the one writing this, of course it all comes back to spreaver.

-But anyhow.

The progressive, loyal, hopeful part of Sparrow got channeled into Walter, and the trust they formed as Sparrow assumed the throne. He was the one entrusted with their home and family after their passing. He was representative of the progress that could be paid forward. He was everything they believed in, and trusted to ensure the world they fought for stayed prosperous. Of course, most of this side of them was passed onto their children, but Walter was family regardless.

The rest of their feelings, the self-driven, self-indulgent, even angry parts of them, got shoved onto Reaver. The only person from their old life that still regularly came into their orbit. Who else couldn't give a damn about their politics? Who else could they exist in the fringes with? He didn't care for them, they didn't care for him, yet they remained aligned in the area of compensating for emptiness. Fun indulgences harm no one in small doses, no? Letting off steam in the most reckless of ways feels productive when you can walk away from it.

Neither of those relationships resembles the full companionship they once knew, though. A loss that big, over a life so changed, cannot be undone, but it does leave one aching for anything resembling it. In fragments, in glimpses, and in the cracks of fractured emotions. True fulfillment can no longer come completely, so it must be rationed between the aspects of oneself.

Idk. Sparrow character thoughts

#YESSSS #sparrow and hammers relationship being a defining and shaping moment in sparrow life #and because hammer becones disillusioned with it and sparrow is still tunnel visioned on their goal #they fracture #and it kills sparrow it eats and eats and eats at them #They're bitter and hurt and want her back but she is *not* coming back #but then they meet walter who is just enough for them to focus their lighter; better feelings onto #and then there's reaver; who takes thwir anger and self focused and negative nature and meets it stride for stride #the spire changes Sparrow; makes their relationship with Hammer unsalavagavle as it reinforces their need to do what they do #loosing Hammer breaks them; their once sense of stability and true goodness #one of the only relationships where they are not viewed as a child or a tool; where they are truly wanted #ended as they have grown into such different people #it also leaves this feel; that after this the reason sparrow tells no one of their childrens fate #is in some desperate attempt to avoid what Theresa told them #they prepare them; knowing it can't be done; but they also sever their connection to Theresa a d bury it away #they want to avoid their children beibg changed as they were; but they cannot; its not something they've any control over

youcantdateosmosisjones

sparrow and reaver being logan and the hobw's parents tickles me, as a concept.

I can picture Sparrow trying to explain to their nosy ass kids who their father is, and trying very hard not to say "oh yeah, I've been seeing the infamous, dastardly, amoral pirate and rogue Reaver for a few decades". So they just.

"uuummmm.... Heeee waaassss... Reeally good at shooting things."

"Oh. What sort of things did he shoot?"

People. "Oh. You know... Things."

"Liiiike hunting?"

".......sure. Yeah. Hunting."

#sobbing #sparrow out here trying to explain how their situationship is without traumatizing the children #its especially funny if logan and hobw do somewhat know who Reaver is because he's in the castle #like thsts your dad!! isn't he awful?

Reaver coming back to get the seal for his next and getting stuck in a decades long secret relationship w children is deeply humorous to my currently deluded mind

#fable #fable 2 #sparrow #hero of bower lake #reaver fable #he rolls up to get his shit and finds out sparrow os deeply unwell due to abandonment #and he; also deeply unwell; ends up getting wrapped into it to an insane degree #i just knowww anytime he disappeared for more than a few weeks sparrow who never got over everyone leaving them the first time #is pissed as hell #sorry I'm unwell abt these two rn and also in general

If you believe that Reaver is logan and hobws dad, the line of him saying "You can tell your grandkids about that" abt the spire guards in the tunnel becomes much funnier

#fable #fable 2 #fable 3 #sparrow #hero of bower lake #fable 2 reaver #hero of brightwall #fable 3 logan #spreaver #“tell your grandkids-” your grandkids too I fear #and you will be telling them as sparrow fucking DIES #idkidk ignore me I'm tired and thinking a lot

Thinking about how the Abbott is the first person since Rose that Sparrow can't save.

They don't know him well, only that he cares deeply for his daughter Hannah, to the point that he's forgoring 100s of years of tradition to find her a protector from outside the temple for her excursion. While the other monks call Sparrow a heathen, he's more focused on their abilities, kind if not judgemental and wary of the stranger who offers to help him.

They know that while Hannah loves him shes stifled by him, yearns for freedom but won't do it as her father is all she has, the temple all she knows.

And Sparrow does not save him.

They freeze up, fail to move fast enough, be it the underlying fear "Luciens men" bring to them, or the exhaustion from fighting in the well. They make it just in time to see him killed, and to witness Hannah breaking her oath and murdering the man that took her father. To see her stripped of a bit of her humanity, just as they were when Rose was killed in front of them.

Really, they have no place at his funeral, but they show up anyway, with Hannah(who then gives up her name becomes Hammer, becomes a tool, a means to an end) who they don't know, and mourn a man they'd barely known. Whom they failed, the first failure of their fledgling career as a hero.

His blood staining their hands as much as it stains Luciens, burned into their brain just as their sisters is.

#fable #fable 2 #the abbot #sparrow #hero of bower lake #hammer fable #I'm a big believer that the first words Sparrow ever says to Hammer are an apology for failing to save him #i feel it must be a guilt that eats away at them; a memory they wish the spire would have taken from them #but it doesn't; and they live the rest of their lives wondering what could have made them freeze as they did in that moment #it they could have done something about it #alsothedifferencefromspendingalldaywritingsmuttowritingthistodayisverhfunnytomelmao

ariwa003

Walter would have hate ICE

jckpot

free him he did all of it but idc

elderparaiah

16 years later and I am still unwell about the sibling dynamic between Logan and the Hero of Brightwall

significant age gap

parentified older sibling

the two of them living as the scions of a great Hero, and only one of them being able to live up to the legacy

the parallel experiences with The Crawler

being manipulated by Theresa, same as their Heroic parent.

tommy-288

Fable is never far from my mind 🩷

drragonn

these were wips for several weeks and will remain that way lmao

2nd is a wip of a theory i came up with if 'in the event he would ever break his end of the deal with the court, he would get just a little more cursed with each time he didn't sacrifice someone.

another version would be any time he does a real pure good deed, his curse gets slightly more worse until he becomes... a dragon or some shit like that and he fucking DIES

kinggobrr

He's reading "Reaver on Reaver"

daphrona

you are now famous enough to use the kiss my ass expression