#I just realized I technically have a kotlc oc!!

[bookwyrminspiration]

unrelated. can't believe melves themselves aren't even on the kotlc heritage blog we've got to find those too. also tater mentioned elf piss the forbidden gatorade electric boogaloo??? which i VAGUELY remember but wasn't involved in???

The original post was reblogged there as of a couple days ago! And I tagged the melves blog in that, so people can go through it if they're so inclined. But other individual posts have not been added

I don't think I was involved int he electric boogaloo either--would that have anything to do with the food wars? Because I feel like it got mentioned during that time, but I didn't really participate so I can't be sure

[crymeariveronceagain]

My theory is the opposite—that elves are mutations of humans.

The first elves were just humans that realized they could control fire or read minds. They established themselves as the elite ruling class of the human world and married amongst themselves only, further separating the two groups until they became separate species.

(Actually, I'm not sure calling them separate species is accurate. I believe that humans and elves are capable of having viable offspring with one another, which I believe technically makes them a single species.)

so, what you're saying is, if i married Keefe, i could someday have grandbabies

JK JK

I think this is a really cool take on the origin of elves as well. 

Mutations could make sense, and I think it matches a lot of how elite aristocracies and oligarchies work, with a lot of intermingling. However, for the most part, when left to their own devices, human genetics don’t seem to do well with a lack of genetic variability, and inbreeding does not ever go well. Sooo, for that to work logically and properly, I feel like we gotta have some magical infection of a certain number of humans that gave them god-like powers, which then was passed on via genetics.

If you wanted, you could compare it to the Silvers from Red Queen(IDK if you’ve read it, it’s a pretty cool book series, although I do not recommend it to anyone under the age of 15), which are a very elitist and interbred “magical” community. The Silvers consider themselves far above the Reds, and blah blah blah, social segregation, hierarchies, etc etc, the Silvers run the world, and their fancy families have all the money. It’s been a while since I read the series, and I’m pretty sure it’s evolution based, just like you suggested for KOTLC, but I could be completely wrong. 

I also like the idea of humans and elves not being completely separate species. I find this really interesting, and it’s something I haven’t heard before. I suppose it would make sense on the science part. I don’t know much, personally, about hybridization, but like, I know one of the main reasons hybrid ducks don’t reproduce is that nobody finds them attractive. Elves are insanely attractive to humans, or so I think was mentioned at some point in the series(and really, y’all, if Keefe Sencen isn’t the hottie Shannon’s been describing him for books as, what am I doing with my life?), and call me crazy, but like I think a half elf would still be pretty dang attractive. 

Moreover, with humans and other species IRL, we... don’t find them attractive, conventionally speaking. Like, no, I’m not going to marry a woodpecker. But, with elves, if they are as closely related to us as I’d like to believe, and are as sentient as us, a lot more of it would come down to choice and personal preference than anything else, for intermarrying. However, at the same time, is there any canon proof on the viable offspring thing? Like the offspring would definitely be able to live lives, but so can hybrid ducks... so can most hybrid things that are grouped under like... same??? *searches quickly for Linnean classification* idk. Some classification. Tigers and lions can interbreed, and such, but viability also involves a certain level of fertility, right? I’m not 100% on this, that’s just one thing I remember at some point reading. I’m not a science nerd, not really. So, idk. At the same time, if we aren’t completely separate species, that’s also perfectly fine, actually really cool, ngl. Let’s get some half elf oc’s, please. I want this because reasons.

Anyways, that took a turn very quickly, but I thought your point was super interesting.

The only question I have, based on this, would be how exactly you can fit the talentless into this idea. Talentless, logically, would have to be extremely humanoid, but talentless elves, as far as we are aware, are similar to elves in every way except talents. Soooo... I’m not sure how this fits in with your theory, but one way that could fit in would be by saying that talentless are yet another mutation of humans, but after mutating into elves slowly, they reverted back to more human-like traits, or vice versa, the talentless are a step in the evolutionary process. 

Overall, really great theory, and I think there’s a lot of merit to it!!!