#I mean to be fair it's not for nothing! elyss didn't learn about genasi until she was around twelve | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

blujayonthewing · 4 months

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thinking about Elyss's dad reading her the ugly duckling when she was a little girl and I'm torn between the story resonating with her, for obvious reasons, or the story distressing her intensely because if the ugly duckling was never a duck to begin with then it will never fit in with its duck family, it will never have a place among other ducks, it will always be an outsider in the only home it's ever known

#maybe both. maybe a little of both.#she already knows she's not fully human and understands a little of why by the time her parents meet and fall in love #so I can see 'just because you're different doesn't mean something is wrong with you' not landing AS hard as carrick probably hoped #what good is it to be a beautiful swan when everyone you've ever loved or known or even just seen in passing is a duck?#when no one else seems to have even heard of swans?#I mean to be fair it's not for nothing! elyss didn't learn about genasi until she was around twelve #so I think an ugly duckling type parable does touch on a hope that she's not a freak or a mistake #but that maybe there ARE others like her somewhere out in the world #a hope that wouldn't be validated for several more years #I dunno. rotating it in my mind.#my OCs #elyss

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