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kittydesadeThis is entirely bethany_lauren and kikibug13's faults.
Day 1: The King
King Lathan, or King Sluagh as I called him before I gave him a name, is one of the Kings in the House of Oak and Ash, among several other titles I will surely give him at some point. Possibly involving a Lord of the Northern Marches or Reaches or some such ridiculousness. He's a Sluagh king in a largely Daoine Sidhe controlled territory, which makes them pissy and him pissier and nervous, especially since it's contested land with the Sluagh and the Fomori and has been for quite some time. Before he ruled, it went back and forth for several hundred years.
The House of Oak and Ash, and particularly the British Isles branch, have suffered from a lack of new blood for a considerable while going back at least two thousand years. When I say new blood I mean rather acceptable new blood, because with the various incursions and traders came new blood in the fae worlds as well, but several factions didn't welcome the new fae into their beds or at least into their families, and sadly these were the ruling factions. This led to a slow decline in fertility and population as emigration and conflict happened, decimating (in the classical sense, yes) the ruling fae and forcing them to pick and choose their mates carefully. A little over a thousand years ago, the Sluagh King, knowing that he was unpopular regardless for being a Sluagh among the fair folk, hatched a plan. He would impregnate several human women who were chosen for affinity to the fae and hope for the best, hope that an heir would come out of it sooner or later. One did, in fact two did but one was sickly and died within a century, and the second he didn't find until nearly a thousand years later.
Lathan has some profound control issues, as one might expect when you're a king of a race of conniving selfish jerkwads who have had plenty of time to practice being conniving, being selfish, and being jerkwads. Then again he also chose to be one of them many, many centuries ago, and he succeeded, and he's very good at it. It's how he's survived so long.
He doesn't appear to have any emotional connections, not any profound ones at least. He lacks the trust necessary for it, and he doesn't appear to feel the lack of it. Or at least he hasn't shown me yet. It's possible if I do some stories from his point of view that'll turn up, but I haven't the reasons or inclination to yet.
bethany_lauren and kikibug13's faults.Day 1: The King
King Lathan, or King Sluagh as I called him before I gave him a name, is one of the Kings in the House of Oak and Ash, among several other titles I will surely give him at some point. Possibly involving a Lord of the Northern Marches or Reaches or some such ridiculousness. He's a Sluagh king in a largely Daoine Sidhe controlled territory, which makes them pissy and him pissier and nervous, especially since it's contested land with the Sluagh and the Fomori and has been for quite some time. Before he ruled, it went back and forth for several hundred years.
The House of Oak and Ash, and particularly the British Isles branch, have suffered from a lack of new blood for a considerable while going back at least two thousand years. When I say new blood I mean rather acceptable new blood, because with the various incursions and traders came new blood in the fae worlds as well, but several factions didn't welcome the new fae into their beds or at least into their families, and sadly these were the ruling factions. This led to a slow decline in fertility and population as emigration and conflict happened, decimating (in the classical sense, yes) the ruling fae and forcing them to pick and choose their mates carefully. A little over a thousand years ago, the Sluagh King, knowing that he was unpopular regardless for being a Sluagh among the fair folk, hatched a plan. He would impregnate several human women who were chosen for affinity to the fae and hope for the best, hope that an heir would come out of it sooner or later. One did, in fact two did but one was sickly and died within a century, and the second he didn't find until nearly a thousand years later.
Lathan has some profound control issues, as one might expect when you're a king of a race of conniving selfish jerkwads who have had plenty of time to practice being conniving, being selfish, and being jerkwads. Then again he also chose to be one of them many, many centuries ago, and he succeeded, and he's very good at it. It's how he's survived so long.
He doesn't appear to have any emotional connections, not any profound ones at least. He lacks the trust necessary for it, and he doesn't appear to feel the lack of it. Or at least he hasn't shown me yet. It's possible if I do some stories from his point of view that'll turn up, but I haven't the reasons or inclination to yet.
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Date: 2015-10-02 06:05 am (UTC)Also, is that Nameless's father, or entirely different story?
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Date: 2015-10-02 10:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 11:02 am (UTC)Yesss I've got it!
And yup. Started at the very beginning, but Greg is where it became interesting, biiig thanks to you!
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Date: 2015-10-02 11:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 11:51 am (UTC)You don't need to replace him? Unless you can't not, I guess. But he's all yours, and Astrid's.
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Date: 2015-10-02 11:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 11:58 am (UTC)AUGH I did not think this through. I thought stopping with the story up before your story picks up would be enough. -takes down- I really, really am sorry.
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Date: 2015-10-02 12:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 12:05 pm (UTC)No, you have a point, a very good point, and I am really sorry if, in my enthusiasm, I upset you. I can also lock to private/edit out the publicly available info on the LJ for him?
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Date: 2015-10-02 12:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 12:08 pm (UTC)... still, that's way more difficult to find unless somebody is specifically digging.
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Date: 2015-10-02 01:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 01:18 pm (UTC)Ugh. That is the LEAST fun of all possible options, mean people.
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Date: 2015-10-02 12:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 01:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-02 08:27 pm (UTC)