#edaline reuwen

[sophies-earbuds]

do yall think alden's parents were at alvar's tribunal

or edaline and juline's parents at sophie and dex's planting, losing two more grandchildren

gisela's parents finding out what she's done, how she's hidden her ability since childhood all to be underestimated, and wondering where they went wrong

cassius's parents refusing to even speak to him once he's removed from his title of emissary. and when word gets out that keefe made it to exillium, his fathers only words to him in decades are, "he's still more of a Sencen than you."

brant's mother and father falling further into their guilt, wondering how they missed something so important. they missed everything, and people died for it. why didnt he just tell them? maybe they could have helped. maybe they could have saved him...

elwin's parents as he calls home and tells them of this talented, brave girl he just can't stop bringing back to life, and they worry about how much of a toll it takes on him to see so much violence, to lose these children over and over

grady's parents when the council put the ability restrictor on sophie, and they're suddenly taken back to a hundred years ago, watching their son manifest and being told, "he's too powerful."

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Elf social conventions around aging are crazy bc on the one hand Della and Alden got engaged when they had a couple centuries under their belt meanwhile Juline and Jolie each got engaged basically straight out of highschool. Like Edaline and Juline have probably known Kesler for longer than they've known Grady by decades or even centuries.

The Reuwens and Vackers each had kids that grew up and moved out, which happened decades apart from one another, and yet none of them are in their elf-forties yet.

If you don't apply your baby to elf law school before they turn eleven they will spend the next several millenia without any chance of a noble title.

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

LOVE this, and I may have a few answers for you! (or at least, I've had some of the same thoughts abt the books lol)

I'm sure there are ways for elves to be born neurodivergent, but i don't think *they* know that. differing abilities already shows a huge amount of neurodiversity (and honestly the fact that one particular presentation of this, that being talentlessness, is culturally seen as the exception, i would probably consider that as neurodigergent even though it doesn't originate from a particular medical disorder.) i agree with your point that elves kind of don't care about mental health and maybe even psychology as a whole. Love that you brought up instinctively knowing the language, because elves have different accents, and as far as we know they are born with their accent, which again shows some level of diversity in this trait. They are also born knowing how to read their language in two alphabets, whereas Sophie, though she also possesses this trait, can read cipher runes instead of the formal enlightened runic alphabet. However, it's implied that this may not have been the case at her birth and resulted from subliminal training, so it may not be genetic.

I honestly take issue with a few things about Shannon's writing about elf birth, I don't know why she wrote that in. I have also wondered about them menstruating, and while I wouldn't completely put it past her to say elves don't menstruate, I also don't think she's gonna bring it up. I kind of wish she would though, if only for elf/human reactions to eachother's period devices. Elves would HATE tampons and cups. also, if elves do menstruate, then elves in their multihundreds must still have to deal with them considering both Edaline and Della have had kids in the twentieth century. At least due to their medicine, I'm sure elf birth control and/or other temporary reprieve (maybe permanent??) from periods is probably super easily taken with minimal side effects.

honestly there's probably a bunch of reasons they look similar even without being the same species or genus, but i wouldn't be surprised if there were a common ancestor.

as far that I know, Marella hasn't registered for the Match yet, if she ever will. She may have since I think she wanted to go early, but Sophie's a bit older than anyone in her grade, meaning it's possible that Marella manifested as a pyrokinetic before registering. (at the very least, I think she'd want to know if she has any abilities before registering since she's have to disclose them of her questionnaire, and she wouldn't likely risk giving wrong info by saying talentless before knowing, and it would be difficult to say that even when he ability was secret. then again, that's kind of the reason for a minimum age to register!)This would make her the first ever known pyrokinetic to register for the Match since the ability was banned, and there may not even be protocol for this considering she is the first pyrokinetic in that time not to be quote unquote "talentless", by means of either retroactive categorization or never triggering the ability, so any protocol in place may be outdated because she is a pyrokinetic who is not legally talentless.

That being said, I believe there is a good case for Marella being unmatchable. The Match exists, first and foremost, to min/max elf genetics, which is super gross. It also means there's a strong likelihood of Match algorithms being designed to discourage "unfavorable" offspring. That's why the triplets are considered to be the consequence of Juline and Kesler deciding to go against the system. While I'm sure there are bunch of questionable data or even straight up pseudoscience involved in the Match process, it doesn't change the fact that elves are likely to share an ability with one of their parents. Using the Diznees(/Reuwens) as an example again, Bex is a froster just like Juline, and Jolie was a conjurer just like Edaline. With all this taken into account, the Matchmakers may consider any couple that includes Marella to have too high a ""risk"" of having an elf baby that eventually manifests as a pyrokinetic, thus making her genetically incompatible with everyone in the eyes of the Match. on the other hand, depending on how high that chance can be before being deemed unacceptable, maybe she would be matched with talentless elves, because the offspring of a talented/talentless pairing are believed to have a decreased chance of manifesting, according to Marella circa. book one when she said Stina has a reduced chance of manifesting.

yes of course there should be an animated series. Dragon Prince animation style plus saturated colors is my fave idea. the architecture and clothing and jewelry etc is just BEGGING to be cartoon animated in any style!!

I agree that it's cool how many super feminine people kick ass in this series, and how it kind of uses the beauty of ball gowns to exemplify the elves' power, both percieved and material. (also gowns do serve absolute cunt and can make peiple feel COOL!)

But I wish the guys in the series got to wear gowns and flowy outfits too. You're telling me that THE sparkle species whose society revolves around shimmery lights so much they invented a color-shift ballgown, would also socially restrict men from wearing the color shift glitter gown? I think it's a cool worldbuild-y thing that gowns are a class thing, especially as a remnant from human-elf combined society, considering long, multi-layer gowns require so much fabric consumption and therefore cost to the sewist, which is honestly probably the logic behind flowy capes. I'm just saying, is it too much to ask that we get some frilly action on menswear? not to mention, I'm just not personally a fan of clothing being considered gendered in the Lost Cities since they're supposed to be less sexist (although the clothing thing is from earlier books and things have changed, even just by looking at dialogue, but that's for another day) since alot of the evolution of gendered clothing in humans came way after they forgot about elves existing. for example, girls and boys in the lost cities wear pants while only girls wear dresses. women beginning to be allowed to wear pants (aka being allowed to do something men do), the whole movement that brought us a social convention where lots of folks don't bat an eye at a woman in pants but don't like it when men wear dreses, is pretty damn recent. ESPECIALLY compared to the lifespan of even a single elf, so why would the evolution of elf clothing reach the exact same result? It's just not logical to me, and the part of me that can't turn off logic brain just wishes elves had mostly unisex clothing, emphasizing sillouette and fabric use, which denotes the hierarchies that DO exist (at least intentionally on Shannon's part) in the Lost Cities, rather than what is more or less a mirror of modern humanity, period-drama style.

also I did not mean to make that last one so long lol, all of these are just off the top of my head so sorry if it's weird and/or derailing.suspicious.

and while I'm on gendered clothing, ogre women and goblin women from what I remember all cover their chests while their male counterparts dont. It's possible this is less of a human-author-bias thing for a couple reasons. Ro mostly uses her "corset" chestplate to stache microbes in, Bo should be the same place as her in the hierarchy and has a similar amount of coverage, and I'm like, 90% sure there's a shirtless mother ogre character briefly mentioned in Neverseen. As far as goblins, the best reason i can think of for the women to cover their chests would be if goblins have humanoid breasts, and the bodyguard goblins require support, and possibly circumference-reduction for the sake of arm mobility. But it's a little strange that this would be the case because at least ogres and elves resemble primates, but goblins supposedly look like armadillos! WHY WOULD THEY HAVE BOOBS. anyways I just made myself go on a kind of rant there, and it is largely irrelevant to your original point. moving on now.

reverse theory: Youth water actually uses weird chemicals to make them age slowly and live long. Upon learning is The Water, elves would say it's the humans whose water is weird (and it is, but not entirely due to their reasoning). I really don't think any of the elves' brains are built to get ancient tbh. it seems suspish.

I bet Alvar knows about the French Revolution. and daydreams about it in a self-congratulatory kind of way, but doesn't do shit. Also I would LOVE to see and elf get over their genetically-ingrained near-fatal violence allergy that quickly. Actually, do you think they teach the French Revolution in interspeciesial studies class at Foxfire?

Marella is basically being watched, and she's lucky she made a good first impression on the council and didn't end up at exillium or worse (although exillium curriculum had a SERIOUS overhaul around when she manifested) other than her, Brant's ability was secret, and any other pyrokinetics who reached the manifesting age-window post-ban likely didn't ever manifest since their abilities weren't triggered, and could have dormant abilities. Marella was already unique case, but due to the rarity of her ability it's hard to say what a normal case would look like during the ban for someone her age, because there aren't any who were contemporarily known to the government. Socially though, if there WERE people in-the-know, I think it'd vary by the group. you know how Fintan, the guy who fucked up so phenomenally his ability got banned, was so judgy about Linh and Tam being twins? Imagine Brant watching a campfire and, idk, brooding, when done other Neverseen member gets all rude about him being near fire. Marella even mentions the way everyone reacts to her power, and while her freedom is basically dependent on her being liked-slash-percieved-as-nonthreatening by the council ir would probably take more than that to get her in real trouble imo.

⚠️TAKING OFF FILTER PLEASE BE NICE IM LOWKEY SCARED TO POST THIS ⚠️

KOTLC thoughts/ideas/questions:

•Can they have congenital neurodivergence (as opposed to personality disorders [often a result of adverse childhood experiences] or TBI impacts [Mrs. Redek can confirm a bad hit to the head can cause mental health issues] or shattering)? Before you come after me, I am neurodivergent and as far as I know, the subject of things like ADHD/autism is only really mentioned as Sophie wondering if the Ability Restrictor functions like an ADHD simulator and we know elves and humans have significant differences. For example, elves have more emphasis on the brain but not as much emphasis on mental health. We also know they can deliberately regulate their body temperatures, suppress certain sensations such as hunger, and they pop out of the womb completely fluent in the Enlightened language.

•This may be a bit strange, but seeing as this is being posted on Tumblr… I just need to know if elves menstruate. They definitely have reproductive differences. Pregnancy is immediately obvious and childbirth is no more than a little uncomfortable. Multiple births are rare to the point of prejudice towards the babies. But we also know they’re not SUPER biologically different from humans or other organisms, really: they have toilets and defecation is mentioned. Also, Sophie’s biological (not necessarily neurological; developed several special abilities, one of which at the age of five) development was relatively normal. If elves don’t need toilets, there would have been major medical concerns. But I digress. Elf periods: do they exist and are they any worse than human periods?

•theory: elves and humans are actually the same species but they’ve been separated for so long that they just aren’t super genetically similar anymore. But we know they look like humans. So theoretically…

•Can a Pyrokinetic and a Talentless match?

•kotlc animated series. I’m reading the books but I am SO TEMPTED to write a script and stuff

•Gowns actually are empowering. They got that right

•theory: humans might be able to live as long as elves but we have toxic chemicals and no Youth so we age and stuff

•someone is going to learn about the French Revolution and kill the council. I can feel it.

•Would a young Pyrokinetic get in trouble for just looking at the fire? I feel like Kyrelle would just stare at her little fireball (top thought needs answer because it may be visual stimming)

[bluedoodles0]

[silveny-dreams]

b o t h

👀

Sophie and Keefe as human kiddos

They met on the neighborhood playground one afternoon

They both saw an older kid picking on a little kid and reacted at the same time

(Keefe yelled about picking on someone their own size; Sophie lunged for the older kid and knocked him over)

They’re both super smart and precocious for their age and like to one-up each other about random dinosaur facts whilst swinging as high as they can (they like to try and swing high enough that they swing over the top...it hasn’t happened yet, but they’re determined)

Sophie loves horses and convinces Keefe to play make-believe horses every now and then (“please, Keefe. You can stomple bad guys to death with your hooves”)

They’re the two kids who climb on top of the monkey bars just far enough that adults can’t get them down

They are Partners In Crime, Inc.

Sophie’s older sister Jolie is the one who brought Sophie to the playground while babysitting and asks Keefe who he came with

“Over there, Mister Brant brought me. He watches me while Mommy and Daddy work”

And of course Jolie and Brant get to talking (which starts as them swapping stories of how much of a handful Sophie and Keefe are on their own)

And they find out Jolie and Sophie only live a five minutes walk away from Keefe and they schedule some days for Sophie and Keefe to have playdates (with absolutely no other ulterior motive, no siree, they are professional teenage babysitters, thank you)

Sophie and Keefe’s offspring

Blonde babies

When they’re really young their hair is almost white-blonde and it darkens slowly as they age

Keefe has caught Sophie making stupid faces at her babies because “what are they gonna do, fight me? You should see the faces they make”

They have the best grandparents ever and by the best grandparents I mean the Ruewens

Grady has given them rides on the backs of dinosaurs and mammoths despite Keefe’s worry that they’ll get hurt

Keefe is the worrywart parent fight me

Edaline is always giving them homemade sweets, much to the chagrine of Sophie (“ah, you’ve hyped them up on sugar again, I see...thanks, Mom”)

Their visits with Cassius are far less exciting

“Grandpa, can’t we do something besides look at your trophies”

Don’t get me started on how w e i r d it is to think of Cassius being called “grandpa”...he hates it but “grandfather” is such a mouthful and it never catches on with the kiddos

The kiddos are uber uber smart and have overactive imaginations

They love when Sophie reads human adventure stories to them and when Keefe jumps in and plays pretend with them

It is a very happy and chaotic family and I love this concept a lot more now than I thought I would

[number-one-empath]

Kotlc Fanfic

Her blonde hair whipped around her face in the wind. Blonde wisps slashed at her face. 

But she didn’t feel it. Pain was something normal for Sophie. 

To read more follow this link right here!

https://www.wattpad.com/860346595-on-the-cliffs-of-havenfield 

This has my ideas of what Keefe’s abilities are gonna be! ^^

[snowsays]

(tags by @the-great-gullon-incident)

But, instances in which we see the Leapmaster being used:

Foxfire, even tho most (if not all??) kids have home crystals

The Reuwens and Sophie leaving Havenfield to the Wanderling Woods or other places (mostly is Sophie going to other places bc she doesnt have a Pathfinder)

Sophie and Keefe using Candleshade's Leapmaster to go I don't remember where

Most visits leave Havenfield using their own Pathfinders/Home crystals (The Council, Alden, Sophie's friends, I think even the Hekses), so party goers wouldn't even need to use the Leapmaster at least if they're going back to their homes (tho I dont remember if only Nobility has Pathfinders, it's most likely that the Reuwen's guests were mostly nobility, as they were too, with the exception of the Dixnee's, by being Edaline's family/in-laws, but one would assume that whoever doesn't have a Pathfinder would have a home crystal at least). They could literally just leave from the dance floor if they wished, as long as there's light to create a path

I think it makes sense that they gave it it's own floor to leave more space for pastures tho, but yeah, once again, why not the second lmao

ok before I forget this train of thought I had

Architect moment

I was thinking about elvin modes of transport and architecture, like you do when you're hyperfixating in the book series that derailed your architecture thesis for 20 days straight, and also of the fact that Havenfield's party hall (forgot what its called oops) is what Sophie's room used to be, and it's on the third floor, and I was like ...why?

And it made me think of this excercise I had to do in 9th semester (aka hell) where in groups we had to outline a society 100 years in the future. Everything. From how the number of people would grow to methods of food production to garbage disposal to modes of transport. And all of that affected somehow the housing design

For example, if you pose that cars now fly, and all mode of transportation is made through the sky, why would you need a front door in the first floor? And why would you have bedrooms in the second+ floor (which we do for privacy, in houses that have more than one floor ofc) if you're coming in from the upper floor? What would make more sense in that case would be to flip the spaces and put the rooms in the first floor and any common spaces in the second one and up

So that would explain why the dancing hall in Havenfield was in the third floor, considering Leapmasters are chandeliers and from what we've seen they usually are in the upper floor, but THEN, they dont use Leapmasters to come back to the house, and I'm pretty sure the Leapmaster leaves you IN FRONT of the place you're going to, not under that place's Leapmaster, so once again, WHY IS THE DANCING HALL IN THE UPPER FLOOR? It explains the fact that elvin houses still have a front door (if it was only for utilitarian purposes like, I went for a walk and now I'm back, or I went to the pastures to feed the animals and now I need to get back into my house, it probably wouldn't need to be super grandiose, tho I get it checks out with how the elves try to make everything huge and wowing), but I guess it might be just a Havenfield thing, because Everglen does have its dancing hall on the first floor

idk, I guess it's probably that Shannon didn't think it was that deep (insert "you know what it never was? that serious" tiktok audio here) and its just my architecture degree holding onto a tiny detail, but it made me think

It's also interesting to me that Leapmasters sound kind of like teletransportation pods in scifi, but dont have like a specific spot where you land

anyway

-takes off architect hat- ramble over, hope it made any kind of sense

feel free to add anything if you have a theory/opinion

[stellarune]

Grady : soooooo, we're adopting another child

Keefe : oh....cool !

Edaline : the child is you. Sign here

[im-keefe-now]

We’ve established that in Legacy we need more

Dex

Biana

Bangs Boy

Grady

Edaline being a mother

Gradaline

Sophie to have actual relations beyond the love triangle

Now may I add

✨Bad Dad Jokes by Grady✨

[literallywalkerscobell]

Grady: how was your day today, Sophie?

Sophie: full of doom and never ending depression. I hate living.

Edaline not listening: that's great sweetie

[sophies-earbuds]

i love the idea that elvin people with long hair just use anything they can find to tie their hair with

biana sometimes twists her hair into a knot and holds it together with a well placed pencil (sophie doesnt know how she manages that)

della just used all the product in the world to somehow make it stick in those updos. theres nothing holding it but sheer willpower and some elixirs

sophie uses her scrunchie, as you said, and is both enamoured and confused by the fact that nobody in the elvin world has thought to just make hair ties

this is why marella braids her hair. in fact she cant take the braids out. she knotted the ends of her braids when she was like eleven becaise her hair kept getting in her face while she was doing school work, and they only come out like once in a blue moon

linh has gotten used to using improvised methods of practically everything, so when she needs her hair out of her face she just. grabs some twigs or vines and uses them like it's her job. even biana is impressed

we all know keefe used a whole lot of product, so if ever he wants his hair out of his face he just has to brush it through with his fingers and bam it stays in whatever position he put it in

("that cant be good for the environment" - a quote from sophie)

edaline's hair is a fucking e n t i t y so she uses bandanas to keep it out of her face, especially when she's working

tam will sometimes use hair clips if he's alone and just wants it out of his face to read something, but if anyone found that out he'd probably die from embarrassment

(keefe finds out and ends up taking a page outta his book, doing the same thing)

(he then passes on this wisdom to fitz and dex)

(they rock it like theres no tomorrow)

stina's hair is ridiculous and she hates how thick it is because she can barely brush through it, so she usually tries to get some good french braids in there (though she enlists her mother's help)

i hope you aren't mad at me for adding this! i've been in a bullet hc mood lately and inspiration has found me in the oddest of places.

elves don't have hair lackies

I have seen no evidence that they even have rubber or elastic. those bitches make everything out of crystal and silk so any hairstyle they have would have to be held up by pins and ribbons

[sophies-earbuds]

grady: when my wife is mad, i tighten the lids on all of our jars so she has to ask me for help

*sound of glass shattering in the kitchen*

grady: it doesn't always work, though

[silveny-dreams]

Sophie: *introduces Keefe as her bf to her parents*

Edaline: How come you chose the goofiest, most emotional elf you could find??

Sophie:

Sophie: *looks at Edaline, then Grady, then back to Edaline*

Edaline:

Sophie: I dunno, Mom, why did you?

[stellarune]

@silveny-dreams @ultralazycreatorfan what you want I shall provide

This is not the best but meh

Edaline: *pulls open the shower curtain*

Edaline: Grady, will you - stop screaming. I’m your wife.

[hanmegumi]

for the ask game: linh song, sophie foster, dex dizznee, mr. forkle, biana vacker and edaline reuwen

Ahhh thanks for the ask!! <33

Push off a cliff: Sophie because she can save herself—otherwise I wouldn't, I'm too attached 😤

Kiss: Detzie boi. I mean from sophie's pov it doesn't sound so pleasant but oh well-

Marry: BIANA AMBERLY VACKER NO DOUBT SHE IS BEST GIRL BIANA MARRY ME CHALLENGE AKDHJSBAN

Set on fire: Linh? I mean, she could quench it with her powers

Wrap a blanket around: Mr. Forkle. He needs a hug :c

Be roomates with: Edaline!! She sounds fun!

[stellarune]

Grady : *covered in blood for sexy reasons*

Grady: also I just got stabbed.

Grady : *looks @ edaline* I don’t suppose there is anyone willing to tenderly clean my wounds while calling me an idiot in an exasperated tone of voice ?

Edaline : *punches him then proceeds to clean his wounds* idiot