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Measure By Auroras

The way Fairies track calendar years vs. the way Anti-Fairies do: A small but interesting detail in my 'fic headers.

What is an Aurora?

An aurora is a 5,000-year unit of measurement in Fae culture. It's named after the Aurora Fairyalis from "When L.O.S.E.R.S. Attack." Wanda claims it prevents magic usage on Earth for 28 weeks. No frequency of this event was confirmed, so I opted for 5,000 years.

The Fae age slowly, with 11,250 years as the rough parallel for 1 human year (In regards to average lifespan and the rate at which the magical societies progress through generation aesthetics; for example, I designed teen Poof and his dorm to fit with Fairy World in its 70s era).

How Are Auroras Used?

Auroras help people define time periods. They mark age differences in ways less dramatic than a full generation.

Ex: In Anti-Fairy society, the year you were born determines which element on the Fae zodiac you fall under. In polite society, you should defer to those of the more dominant zodiac. This affects social situations, ceremonies, and even which role you can take in a sexual relationship with another individual. - In the Frayed Knots chapter "House of Cards," Anti-Cosmo was embarrassed to explain to his long-time friend that he would rather play a submissive role than a dominant one (and Anti-Lance was shocked to hear him admit this).

Auroras separate age groups. It's because of the aurora measurement that an adult won't defer to a young child in social situations, even if the child was born in the dominant zodiac year. In this case, the child would defer to the adult because they're older.

The aurora division is less useful between adults and children (where age difference is clear), but commonly brought up when groups of adults wish to determine which of them is older. Age may determine who is first in line for a promotion, who in a large extended family receives the most inheritance, who organizes a meal, or so on.

Where Do Fairy and Anti-Fairy Society Differ?

Fairy World has existed for a long time. In fact, Fairy World is the proper name for the entire cloudland colony... that is, not only Fairy World itself, but also Anti-Fairy World and Pixie World.

- Anti-Fairy World split off from Fairy World during the War of the Sunset Divide. Before this point, there was no Anti-Fairy World and the aesthetics for both landscapes were consistent across the cloudlands. All races could come and go across the land as they wished. That is to say, the skies were uniformly violet and the clouds puffy and bright. - Pixie World is a micronation surrounded by Fairy World on all sides. - H.P. was two years old when Anti-Fairy World became a recognized society.

A wide-held belief among Fairies is that Fairy and Anti-Fairy counterparts were once united beings, but were forcibly split generations ago; they're now born separately, but are linked with a magical connection.

The Aos Sí are said to be the ancestors of Fairies, and it's believed their bodies split apart to become Fairies, Anti-Fairies, and Refracts (as recorded by one of the only surviving texts from this time period: a hotly debated book of poetry called Rhoswen's Journal that perhaps shouldn't be taken literally).

- "That Was Then" is a Rhoswen-centric one-shot featuring snippets from his journal.

The last of the Aos Sí was an individual named Kahnii the Thoughtful. Year 0 in the Fairy calendar is set approximately 40 million years pre-series and supposedly marks the year Kahnii split into separate counterparts, thus bringing an end to the Aos Sí race.

The Anti-Kahnii went on to marry Anti-Shylinda: a very important figure for Anti-Fairies and a major character in "That Was Then."

- Art post of Kahnii - Anti-Wanda is a direct descent of Anti-Shylinda; she's listed on the Anti-Fairywinkle family tree - Anti-Shylinda took the family name Anti-Coppertalon. You may recognize this surname as belonging to the High Count before Anti-Cosmo: Anti-Bryndin Anti-Coppertalon. -> Anti-Wanda would have been heir to the High Countess seat if Anti-Bryndin's elder half-brother (the Anti-Big Daddy) hadn't been nudged out of inheritance due to being born without colored eyes (A blessing from the nature spirits).

Anti-Fairies, however, do not particularly care for Anti-Kahnii's supposed Splitting date. In fact, Anti-Fairies widely follow the Zodii belief system, which doesn't believe in Splitting at all; instead, it's thought that Anti-Fairies are creatures of smoke who magically link themselves to those they care about. After all, Anti-Fairies are born smoke clouds, and how can Fairies argue with that?

Anti-Fairies count auroras from the time the War of the Sunset ended (and Anti-Fairy World began). Aurora 0 in the Anti-Fairy calendar is Aurora 7868 in the Fairy calendar.

I use dates in the headers of my FOP fanfics, especially the 130 Prompts. Many works take place in the early 2000s, so an aurora date isn't specified; the year is given instead.

Some works do contain aurora dates, and whether that date is given in the Fairy or the Anti-Fairy calendar is dependent on the main character of that 'fic.

Examples

Fairy Calendar:

- "Hate That I Love You" - H.P.'s dad POV - Aurora 7868 - "Watch and Learn" - Goldie POV - Aurora 8047 - "All I Ever Wanted" - Poof POV - Aurora 8049

Accurately, "All I Ever Wanted" takes place 10,000 years after "Watch and Learn"... 2 auroras later.

Anti-Fairy Calendar:

- "Gentlemanly" - Anti-Wanda POV - Aurora 131 - "Temptation" - Anti-Marigold POV - Aurora 176 (Despite taking place the evening of "Watch and Learn") - "Approval" - Foop POV - Aurora 177 (Takes place 5,000 years - or 1 aurora - after "Temptation" and before "All I Ever Wanted")

While it's a small and easy-to-miss detail, I do think it's a neat part of my worldbuilding that emphasizes the Anti-Fairies seeing themselves as separate from Fairies and opting for a calendar that aligns with their people's significant events.

As the War of the Sunset Divide wrapped up, Anti-Fairies were chased out of Fairy World and into several different regions that became the newly formed Anti-Fairy World. Some were cut off from their families in the process.

Ex: Anti-Cosmo's grandmother (Anti-Miranda) was separated from her Fairy partner, Lucas Rainwings. Other individuals lost track of their families during the chaos.

The conclusion of war not only marks the beginning of Anti-Fairy World, but major shifts in their government... including the creation of a government in the first place. Prior the war, the Blue Castle was a home of scholars (akin to an abbey or monastery). It became a government building after the war, with young Anti-Bryndin raised as a prince beneath his mother, Anti-Ember.

Really, it's no wonder the Anti-Fairies like using their own calendar to reference the start of their organized society.

Side Note: H.P.'s generation and older are very convinced that the worlds literally split apart during the war (i.e. that the skies changed color and their "ground" environments changed as well, giving the Anti-Fairies a realm better suited to hunting animals than farming and vice versa for Fairies). Cosmo and Wanda come from a generation divided on the topic. Poof and Foop grew up in a generation that's very skeptical the skies split, and the generations after them tend to wave the notion of a splitting sky away as complete rumor.

Related:

FOP Episode Timeline Post

130 Summaries

The Fae Wars

7 Billion Years in 15,000 Words

Fae Cosmology

Cloudland Belief Systems

Anti-Fairy Class Overview

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Can I ask on your headcannon on how the darkness formed?

Not without #ridspoilers!

Major spoilers for "This Is Halloween" (Only posted on FFN)

Warning for all caps 'fic excerpt below the cut, along with (/checks notes)... a baby getting unraveled into yarn that's ripped straight out of his body by a dragon god. It's fine.

Spirits Overview

At the end of the "Wishology" trilogy, Timmy turns the Darkness into the Kindness / Yellowness. I've always interpreted this to mean it was the Yellowness in the first place (Light, possibly), but became corrupted in some way over time.

In Cloudlands AU, many magical forces are also known as nature spirits. Fairies tend to see them in physical forms while Anti-Fairies tend to see them as living creatures. These spirits appear several times throughout my Anti-Cosmo backstory 'fic (Frayed Knots), as well as "First Things First" (When Tarrow's 7 sons are children); we see several during "This Is Halloween" as well.

Ex: To Anti-Fairies, the Hocus Poconos is just as alive as the Darkness is. The April Fool and Easter Bunny are both nature spirits too, representing springtime.

I count Yellow as the firstborn spirit... the embodiment of Reality. Anti-Fairies call him the cosmic jellyfish, believing his tentacles reach all across the universe. His natural opposite is Unreality (the Hocus Poconos), who is his ex. They had one kid together. Reality's third kid was born of his tears when the Hocus Poconos dumped him.

Anti-Fairies are creatures of balance and are always running around trying to keep the spirits happy. There's an upcoming arc in my works where Anti-Cosmo is trying to babysit the embodiment of Pixie World (who is a toddler in parallel to Pixie World being a brand new micronation at the time) because H.P. can't see him.

I had a whole arc in Frayed Knots where Anti-Cosmo got captured by the spirit of life (The hen goddess alluded to in "Chicken Poofs"), who wanted him to babysit her kids, but I don't think that'll make it into the final product.

Click HERE for additional nature spirit resources if this lore interests you. Link goes to the #RD nature spirits tag on my FOP sideblog.

Reality

Reality was born when space and time merged together; he grew from atoms and took on solid/ethereal form. He has many forms, such as the scarlet jellyfish or yellow dragon.

It's widely considered inappropriate to represent him with yellow in Fairy World because that color is reserved for the Fairy Elder. The red jellyfish is the much more common form, so much so that in modern times, it was forgotten the red jellyfish and yellow dragon represent the same deity.

Once Reality had his form, he created conscious forms for time and space, who became his parents (Mother Nature and Father Time). They formed new spirits over time.

In the A New Wish spin-off ("1500 Minutes of Fame"), when Father Time says he can't bend the rules for Hazel because he'd "get in trouble with his boss," he's referring to Reality.

The Darkness

I haven't given much thought to Reality's downward slide. For the most part, he keeps to himself. He's a notoriously absent father and is usually drifting aimlessly through space... hence his association with a brainless but sprawling jellyfish.

Reality's 7 kids embody the elements on the Fae zodiac. They're admired by Anti-Fairies, but tend to be selfish. Anti-Wanda is the mortal host to the Sky spirit and Anti-Cosmo to the Water spirit. Foop is due to become host to the Breath spirit when he's of age, but he desperately doesn't want to share his body with that guy... We'll see a whole arc about this towards the end of my 130 Prompts series.

Reality's job is to fix cracks in time and space, preserving the FOP universe the way it is. For example, Jimmy Neutron can jump into this universe, leaving Reality to patch cracks between worlds.

I like to think that Reality went by that name for much of his existence, but after the events of "Wishology," he starts reclaiming his identity as Yellow, as Timmy helped him push through feelings of abandonment, despair, and self-loathing.

Because he's a major spirit, you won't see him in the cloudlands unless it's incredibly important. He spends a lot of time guarding a magical fountain that provides the cloudlands with magic, relaxing in his golden dragon form. Still an absent dad, but #not as big a jerk as he could've been.

'Fic Excerpt

Here's an excerpt from a 'fic of mine (Identity Theft) where we see Yellow in his godly element (in Season 7, post-"Wishology"). This draft is on long-term hiatus, but I'd like to post it around 2027-28 when I'm hopefully done with my other FOP longfics. We'll see...

It delves into Foop's childhood trauma and DID. Chapter 1 here depicts Foop in the alt universe he was sent to at the end of S7's "Playdate of Doom."

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That blinding snap of magic plunged straight through the center of his forehead and down his spine. Foop doubled forward first, unable to form thoughts- let alone protests. 

Then Yellow ripped the soul straight out of him, flinging Foop’s head back with whiplash. In fact, he lost his head completely. It unraveled into stripes of yarn. Yarn which Yellow, quiet on his haunches, twirled through the air in glowing loops and spirals. It floated around his spread claws. He had fourteen great hands now, and that didn’t include his fourteen draconic legs. Had he always had so many hands? Or was it suddenly so few?

A DSTOORMLOEIOSTPTAIIRNCYG CHILD WITH A MIND THAT WISHES

MOST CURIOUS

EXPOSE ME TO YOUR CORDS OF LIFE AND LAY YOUR SOUL BARE.

The yarn continued to unravel, eating away at Foop’s flesh. Soon there was nothing left of him but his toes, and then those too were torn away. The young anti-fairy (or the matter which had once comprised a young anti-fairy) found itself left with nothing but smoke. Yellow held the yarn suspended, studying a small section of it between each pair of his hands. When he pinched with his talons, a screech burst in ancient agony from a place that didn’t exist.

WHAT MAKES A CHILD?

THIS CHILD IN PARTICULAR

YOU ARE YOU

YOU MAKE YOURSELF OUT OF CIRCUMSTANCE

YOU ARE ATTENTIVE TO DETAILS FORGOTTEN

YOU ARE NOT INTIMIDATED BY STRUGGLE

YOU ARE FLUID WITH EXPRESSIONS

YOU MAKE YOUR DESIRES CLEAR

YOU ALLOW YOUR PASSIONS TO EMBRACE YOU

AT TIMES YOU BECOME CARRIED AWAY

BUT

YOU ARE AFRAID TO FAIL

AFRAID TO STOP

YOU DO NOT BELIEVE YOURSELF DESERVING OF REST

TO YOU, WORK IS ENDLESS

TO YOU, REST IS AGONY

PUT ME DOWN! the mind that had belonged to Foop screamed from nowhere, but those words were warbled as though strung together on a thread. Yellow did no such thing. He frowned.

I HAVE SEEN THIS PATTERN SOMEWHERE BEFORE

IN FACT I HAVE SEEN IT MANY TIMES

REPETITION

REINCARNATION

KARMIC FLOW

OLD STORIES

OLD DEATHS

IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I ALLOWED YOU TO CHOOSE YOUR OWN BODY OFF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND OF FATE… 

~W~H~A~T~H~A~V~E~Y~O~U~D~O~N~E~T~O~M~E~?

~P~U~T~M~E~T~O~G~E~T~H~E~R~A~G~A~I~N~!

Bonus scene of Foop trying to get the nature spirits to guide him out of Fae heaven and back to the mortal world, because I wrote this circa 2018 and it still makes me laugh:

Foop stood there, paralyzed. The only coherent thought streaking through his mind was, Don’t make chicken jokes if you want to live, don’t make chicken jokes if you want to live.  Because from the waist up, the Prince of Leaves looked fairly normal, albeit with smooth skin as black as the midnight sky and mottled with glowing white and yellow stars. Not to mention four arms. But from the waist down, his lower half mimicked that of a resplendent rooster. Foop’s second coherent thought was, Why does a supposedly perfect demigod need to wear glasses?

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Life, Immortality, and Everything In Between

This post discusses non-human societies, one of which places value in things - including relationships - that are "opposite" of what we might consider safe or moral today. As always, this worldbuilding is fictional and none of these societies (even the Fairies) should be held up as positive role models for humans.

We hear tell that the fairies and other magical creatures are immortal, but is that really the case?

Key Thoughts

- Fairies can get sick ("The Fairy Flu," "Presto Change-O", "Open Wide and Say Aaagh") - Foop has a confirmed death ("Man's Worst Friend") - Fairies turn to dust when they die ("Fairy Idol"); Anti-Fairies may be associated with smoke ("Anti-Poof") - Magic doesn't affect magic ("Abracatastrophe") - Several times, Fairies are attacked by magic that should kill a human, such as Juandissimo turning to ash in both "Truth or Cosmoquences" and "The Fairly Oddlympics," or Foop in "Man's Worst Friend." Fairies (and Anti-Fairies) seem immune to death by magic beam. -> They've also survived other peculiar things, such as Cosmo and Wanda losing their heads ("You-Doo", "The Fairly Oddlympics," "Open Wide and Say Aaagh") - Non-magical items are a threat to Fae lives ("Smart Attack," "Poltergeeks," "Scary Godcouple") - Crocker stocks his fairy-hunting supplies with sharp blades ("Scary Godcouple") - A fairy of high rank may have died when the Pink Castle caught on fire ("Balance of Flour"); the war between Fairies and Anti-Fairies is implied to have ended with a truce immediately after (88,000 B.C.) - The bake-off in "Balance of Flour" is the 90,000th anniversary of the truce; Anti-Cosmo is heavily implied to be an adult of high rank in Anti-Fairy society before the first bake-off (He and Jorgen play Tiddlywinks before the annual bake-off is established). -> This would imply Anti-Cosmo and those older than him fought in the war - Enough time must have passed between Anti-Cosmo's birth and the war to allow him to reach that high rank, as well as for Jorgen's hair to turn from purple to white ("Fairly Odd Baby") - Cosmo and Wanda were godparents to Erg in 50,000 B.C. ("The Past and the Furious") - Cosmo and Wanda's canon family tree ("77 Secrets of The Fairly OddParents (Revealed)" depicts their grandparents (Grandpa Gonzo for Cosmo, & Nana Cadabra for Wanda) as very advanced in years. Both use their wands as canes. Nana Cadabra's hair is frizzy while Gonzo has lost most of his along with his teeth. Both are covered in wrinkles - Cosmo and Wanda have been married for nearly 10,000 years by the time they're with Timmy ("Apartnership" and future episodes) - Poof is the first fairy baby born in thousands of years

Fairies are at risk of death at the very beginnings and ends of their lives. The earliest life stage is also called instar: the period a baby still has its exoskeleton. The final life stage is called the senescent stage and is accompanied by the final wing moult, a gradual loss in hair, a lightening of hair color, wrinkles, and sometimes tooth loss.

Generally, Fairy wings will heal if injured, though some severe injuries may require a wing moulting to recover from. Once a Fairy enters the senescent stage, any damage to their wings is permanent.

Anti-Fairy wings heal very quickly since they have veins and muscle that Fairy wings lack

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Aging

A cohort is “a group of students who work through a curriculum” together. In 'fics, this specifically means "any Fae born within the same rotation on the zodiac cycle (from Love year to Leaves).

#RD nature spirits covers zodiac details

Poof, Foop, Sammy, Goldie, Anti-Marigold, Finley, Whistle, and Soren are examples of Fae born in the same cohort; they attend the same classes even though they weren't all born the exact same year. There's so little variation between individual years that it makes much more sense to educate them in chunks.

That said, those born in the Love year may have 6 or 7 years on their classmates and may learn a bit faster.

- Poof was born in a Soil year, Foop in a breath year. They are 4 months apart (Poof born February 18th, Foop June 13th) - Poof was the first member of the common fairy subspecies born in thousands of years. However, children of other subspecies were not banned. See Fairy Social Ladder for info on subspecies.

Birth

A baby is very young. They can fly and understand speech, but have little to no control over their magic. Fairy babies must drink milk to receive its nutrients and hormones, including several involved in the ability to use magic. Without the proper hormones in the milk, the baby won’t be able to use magic or fly. A Fairy that cannot use magic is called a “tomte.”

- Cosmo has a genetic mutation; he still requires nursing milk hormones as an adult, so he owns a bottle-shaped thermos - The pixie Finley is the most notable tomte in my works

Fairy babies cannot digest anything besides milk. They will throw up anything else and will die without some sort of milk. Anti-Fairy babies will be healthier if they drink milk, but they won’t starve without it; they cannot die so long as their Fairy counterpart lives.

Changeling children require milk, but swapping babies has gone out of fashion lately. Sammy Sweetsparkle is a changeling (He's one of the huldufólk and they do not naturally produce milk; they are the only Fae species who still practice the changeling children tradition)

Fairy babies can only say “Poof poof” until they experience pooferty (“School of Crock”). However, Anti-Fairy babies are born in a more advanced state, perhaps because they need to be capable of caring for themselves due to the frequency of neglectful parents in Anti-Fairy World.

A Fairy or pixie baby is properly called a nymph. An Anti-Fairy baby is called a pup. A Refract baby is called a chick.

Age 1 and Under

Fairy babies wean between eight months of age and two years old. The vast majority wean around the time of their first birthday.

Near their weaning day, they shed their exoskeletons; Fairies stop being round, Anti-Fairies stop being cubes, and pixies stop being hexagonal. They get “real bodies” at this time, and look like little Fairies and Anti-Fairies.

Poof and Foop’s shedding was especially delayed due to the frozen timestream, as we learned in “Timmy’s Secret Wish”. Foop is synced up to him, so Foop stayed a box until the timestream was unfrozen and Poof began to properly age again. Poof and Foop shed towards the end of Season 10

"Evolution Hopeful"

Age 2

During their second year, a Fairy baby goes through the Terrible Twos, and an Anti-Fairy experiences the Terrific Twos (“The Terrible Twosome”).

In the Origin of the Pixies chapter “Spoonful of Sugar,” we learn baby pixies go through an emo phase

45 - 55

Because they mature rapidly, young Fairies and Anti-Fairies need constant stimulation. Between the ages of 45 and 55, they attend school with the rest of their cohort.

In modern times, Foop was the first Anti-Fairy to be allowed in Spellementary, in accordance with the Barrier being lowered after “When Nerds Collide” (Post-"Back In Action"). Gradually, other Anti-Fairies have slowly trickled in

Around age 50 (though some may be a few years younger), many Anti-Fairies engage in a rite of passage called a canetis, which is a hunting ritual involving the use of echolocation.

After their canetis, an Anti-Fairy is no longer referred to as a pup. They’re called a juvenile. Similarly, once they turn 50, a Fairy is called a juvenile instead of nymph.

- In Frayed Knots, we learn Anti-Fairy parents put heavy earrings on their pups' ears to prevent them from echolocating and wandering off. These rings are removed after their canetis - Anti-Cosmo had his canetis in "Snake Eyes," but Foop didn't have one

Fairy children mature rapidly until they hit the mental age of 10. Poof is mentally about 5 through most of Season 6, and mentally 7 throughout Season 7. From “Love Triangle” on, he’s mentally 10 or 11.

Anti-Fairy babies mature sooner than Fairy ones. No surprise there. Foop was born mentally 6 years old, but also with advanced vocabulary automatically imprinted in his brain 

There’s a joke to be made here about the Fae being so used to their kids being mentally 10 years old for what seems like forever that they didn’t even notice the time stream was frozen for 50 years and Timmy wasn’t aging

55 ~ 140,000+

Juvenile years revolve around school; teachers, residential advisors, and classmates are critical in a Fairy's life.

After the first year of school - the adjustment year - the cohort moves to a boarding school layout. It's inconvenient to reshuffle roommate assignments every few years (especially since these are very young children living away from home), so roommate assignments last for your entire public school life (unless people request to be changed). You get new roommates if you attend a special post-grad school like the Fairy Academy.

- Many people consider their roommates essentially family. At the very least, they're close friends - Poof, Foop, Finley, and Sammy are roommates (Hence Sammy's presence in "Certifiable Super Sitter"). Due to the May Blossom War, Foop dropped out and was replaced with Whistle. When Foop returned during his older years, he was assigned to room with Whistle's counterpart (Soren). Their relationship turned violent fast and Foop and Whistle were switched

Not much changes as a Fairy kid grows, as they still have a long way to go before their adulthood. Depending on the child’s individual maturity level, they may appear anywhere between 8 and 13; they will probably be closer to 8 in the beginning and gradually mature to 13 towards the end.

Technically, the Fae are age sliders and may shift up and down their maturity spectrum at any time; but this flexibility is not particularly noticeable this young.

Poof grew up always comparing himself to humans. He had a really rough time in his youth because he didn’t seem to be aging like his parents’ human godkids. Lots of self-esteem issues

Fairy pheromones grow stronger during this time, but not as strong as they'll be as an adult. Gyne freckles begin to darken.

Pregnancy is impossible during the juvenile years as Fae have not yet reached sexual maturity. The parallel of "teen pregnancy" would be pregnancy after coming into your adult wings, but being younger than age of majority (See below).

~140,000 - 180,000+

At some point between these years, Fairies and Anti-Fairies experience puberty; the exact time is different for everyone. Experiencing puberty is also known as “getting your adult wings”, due to the fact that Fairies literally moult their wings (Anti-Fairies don’t).

The proper term for a Fairy or Anti-Fairy at this age is “adult”, even though they may be mentally a teen. A Fairy or Anti-Fairy stops growing when they get their adult wings. This is also when they reach sexual maturity.

---Fairy culture is big on "you know yourself better than anyone," so a wide range of options opens to you once you get your adult wings. However, age of majority doesn't hit until 200,000 years of age.

- From this point on, you can divide the age of a fairy by 11,250 to get their age in human years. They will now continue aging 1 human year for every 11,250 years - This number is a guideline. Anti-Fairies tend to be mentally older and more mature than Fairies (They're born advanced from the start)

Anti-Fairies are legally considered adults at the age 150,000 (13 for a human), regardless of whether or not they have their adult wings. Anything that involves legal adulthood, they can do starting at 150,000- including signing paperwork, drinking, driving, fighting in war, and getting tossed in adult jail.

- Some Anti-Fairies may have their adult wings at this age while others don't - In Frayed Knots, Anti-Cosmo was groomed by his boyfriend; he was legal age and guided towards kissing and sexual activities even though he didn't have his adult wings. He did consent, but Anti-Wanda absolutely clocked that something fishy happened there when she found out about it years later. Anti-Cosmo is still in denial

Poof and Foop got their adult wings at 140,000 and became sexually active [with their respective partners] around 150,000. I tag works from their teen years that reference sexuality as "Implied/Referenced Underage Sex."

Their societies treat them as young adults (and 10k years passed before they even became physical, allowing more opportunity for development and decisions than human adolescents), but you can decide your own comfort on that and they are tagged Underage for that reason. You may want to check tags while reading Lavender Train arc especially.

Lavender Train is about popular high school kids who are stressed out all the time. More mature adults would not be making the decisions they are making and this arc may not be for everyone

"Teen pregnancy" - or rather, young adult pregnancy - isn’t much a thing in Anti-Fairy society; Anti-Fairies physically can’t get pregnant unless their counterpart is, which has led to their culture being very loose (See the upcoming "Class Overview: Anti-Fairies" chapter for more info on their sociosexual culture).

Historically, Fairies mate late in life since before Cupid's family took charge of things, Fairy damsels would die after mating.

It’s VERY expected that Anti-Fairies will engage in sexual intimacy not long after getting their adult wings. In fact, it's considered bizarre for an Anti-Fairy to get their adult wings and remain a virgin for more than a few centuries unless they’re waiting for their special someone to come into maturity. If you’re in a relationship and you’re both mature virgins... Why??? It’s just the way their culture is. Very casual, not a lot of consequences.

- A sexually transmitted disease called the iris virus is very coveted in Anti-Fairy society; it has several effects, but one is changing eye color from default red to the same color as the Fairy counterpart. - Foop was born with his iris virus. One of the reasons he doesn't engage in sex often is the social expectation that he won't pass it around. - Foop lit Anti-Marigold's eyes shortly after they were 150,000 (Poof and Goldie found out in "Watch and Learn"). However, they're not particularly active; he did this mostly to see if his dad pays enough attention to his life to bring it up with him. So far... no dice. Foop is very "not on the edge of a breakdown about his daddy issues" at any given time.

~200,000+

Continued adulthood. You’ve finished puberty, you’ve got your adult wings, you've reached age of majority, and you are totally an adult. Age of majority allows purchase of candy and soda, fighting in war, marriage without parental permission, and child adoptions. Cosmo, Wanda, and the majority of Fairies and Anti-Fairies we see in the show are at this stage of development. 

Age of majority for pixies is 250,000, because H.P. freaked out at the thought of his pixies wanting to leave him at the age of 200,000 and legally boosted age of majority during a court case called Whimsifinado v. Caudwell. However, he looks the other way where sugar is concerned. Honestly, you can have sugar under the age of 200,000 and he won’t care. He loves his soda.

Not much changes in this time period. A fairy experiences 12 more moults before the senescent stage of life.

Average of 800,000 Years

In late adulthood, a Fairy and Anti-Fairy will experience another stage of the life cycle. It’s called the senescent stage; this is the stage H.P. is in during Timmy's time period (He’s genetically identical to all the other pixies, but looks a little different because he’s in a later stage of development).

This is the “wearing down” stage, when a Fairy or Anti-Fairy is older and beyond their prime. They can’t heal as well as they used to; a Fairy or pixie who badly tears their senescent wings will never be able to fly again. A Fairy in their senescent stage is capable of dying from an illness, whereas in their juvenile or adult years, that’s extremely rare because Fairies have powerful immune systems and healing abilities.

The time a Fairy reaches this stage depends on many factors; Anti-Fairies only reach this stage if their Fairy counterpart does. Using magic speeds up aging. Being more conservative with your magic usage will let you age more slowly, though you can’t stop it completely. Other factors, such as physical health and how near or far you live from the Big Wand, play into this too.

By Anti-Fairy law, a reigning High Count / High Countess must step down if they reach the senescent stage of their life cycle. These Anti-Fairies are still greatly respected in Anti-Fairy culture; but this is a reminder that hey, you’re getting old, and you should definitely let your heir take the reins if you haven’t yet (and be a guide to help them along)

Foop was born when Anti-Cosmo was about 381,444 years old, and Anti-Wanda was 394,777. If his parents were to hold onto their positions until they hit their senescent stages, Foop would take the High Count seat around the mental age of 30 [based off the assumption that Anti-Wanda would reach the senescent stage first (Maybe around the age 730,000, which would be 335,000 years from now), and Anti-Cosmo would simply step down at the same time.]

However, other key components are in play... such as the rule that if the current heir presumptive has offspring, their chance to rule passes over them to the offspring instead. Unless, of course... That very young heir disappeared.

[Poof pregnancy arc looming on the horizon...]

School Comparisons Across the Years

H.P.'s Generation

- No tile floors - Tablets and chisels used for writing - Spellementary classes were held only Saturday and Wednesday, and Academy classes 3 days per week - Pre-separation of church and state; Daoist teachings a big focus in school - Lots of caste system teachings - Gynes are taught they will snap and kill each other as they grow older - Strict "one gyne per class" limit - Gynes are assigned distant rooms and specific schedules to prevent them from crossing paths - Preening is discussed openly - Three roommates shared a single room with a central fire pit, bathroom, and kitchen - Kids attended Spellementary and went home every day - At age 50,000, kids attended upper school and went home every day - Kids only moved out if they were pursuing specialized Academy training

Anti-Cosmo's Generation

- Gradual technology changes; bark strips and styluses used for writing. Papyrus and scrolls come into play - Still pre-separation of church and state - Caste system referred to as "social ladder" - Two gynes per class limit - Population is growing; now four roommates share an apartment, with two per bedroom - Kids attend Spellementary around age 50. They have a preschool year to learn the basics - Upper school is retitled high school; students live in dorms now - Classes are held Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Students have Saturday, Monday, and Thursday off

Poof's Generation

- Modern technology such as textbooks and notebooks. No laptops, but those are in use when Poof's younger brother (Dusty) is in school - Separation of church and state - Attempts are made to ease away from fantastic racism and embrace all cultures - There's a belief that if you raise gynes together young instead of separating them, they won't snap- ergo, Poof and Finley assigned as roommates - Four roommates per apartment, two per bedroom - Spellementary offers a preschool year around age 50 to learn the basics; kids go home every day - The next year, kids move out and live in dorms with roommates. - They often go home for the holidays - Upper school is still known as high school; students still live in dorms - Classes are held Saturday through Wednesday. Thursday and Friday are off

Related Posts:

Fae Milestone Chart

Fairy School Schedule

7 Billion Years in 15,000 Words

Class Overview: Fairies

Class Overview: Anti-Fairies

Class Overview: Pixies

Class Overview: The Refracted

Click HERE for my worldbuilding sideblog masterpost

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So, You’re Visiting an Anti-Fairy Colony...

A guide to Anti-Fairy colony terminology and social rules.

This post discusses non-human Anti-Fairy society, which places value in things - including relationships - that are "opposite" of what we might consider safe or moral today. As always, this worldbuilding is fictional and should not be held up as a positive role model for humans.

Related:

Class Overview: Anti-Fairies

Modern Camarilla Court

Blue Castle Layout

Colony House Layout (Moon Wolf House)

BASICS

It should come as no surprise that Anti-Fairies, being bat people, live in colonies. Some travel, others stay still, and some are divided into categories such as unmarried or nursing individuals. We cover them all below!

Subcultures may vary, but traditionally, damsels can speak to other Anti-Fairies, but are forbidden to speak directly to all but the lowest-ranked Fairies.

Colonies share the creche father's family name.

Anti-Fairy society as a whole welcomes same-sex couples. They're all about living freely and partnering with whomever you like- They cannot become pregnant until their Fairy counterparts do, and it's expected someday, most people will experience the honey-lock instinct and mate with a potential stranger... possibly becoming pregnant in the process. Since the Fairies pull the puppet strings, why not live your own life wherever you can?

Honey-lock: The flood of hormones that hits an Anti-Fairy pair 3 months after their counterparts mate, driving them to find each other and mate in response).

Anti-Fairy society is very patriarchal- It always has been and likely will be far into the future. Colonies are headed by a drake - the creche father - whose duty is to look after the damsels and pups born into his colony.

Drake and damsel are gendered terms for fae

The creche father speaks for his colony. Where Fairy society is big on honesty, straightforward communication, and occasional fights to the death, Anti-Fairy society is a game of mind and politeness, not brute strength. They consider direct confrontation rude, so most avoid it when possible. Instead, low-rank Anti-Fairies will convey their feelings to more dominant members (such as a creche father or parent), who then convey that message to another individual- Likely the creche father or parent of the offender.

Anti-Fairy society draws inspiration not just from bats, but also bonobos- A social species known for turning to their mothers for education, matchmaking, and protection.

This plays into many Anti-Fairies growing up with their mothers rather than fathers. Some fathers raise the children they sire, but in a society where mating and pregnancy lie with the whims of your Fairy counterpart, families are complicated. Most children are raised by the mother and those she lives with, which may or may not include the biological sire.

In turn, children born into a drake's existing marriage - As in, those born to a damsel he's married to - are legally his to raise, whether or not he sired them.

Ex: Anti-Cosmo was born into the marriage of his mother and her legal partner, who was not his sire. Foop was born into the marriage of two honey-lock partners (Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda).

TYPES OF COLONIES

Live Colony - Any colony that regularly travels the land. Most colonies fall into this category.

The term "traveling colony" is also valid, but less common.

Standing Colony - Any colony that does not regularly travel the land. The Blue Castle colony is a prime example- They stay near the government building (which was once a place of study akin to an abbey or monestary before it was repurposed).

Colonies in the Eros Nest likewise do not travel.

Half Rotation - Any colony that restricts mating choice to a few dominant individuals ("Mating" refers to mating outside the honey-lock).

In other words, it is NOT socially acceptable for servants or damsels to initiate interest in mating; they're expected to be submissive to high-ranked individuals. Traditionally, the Blue Castle is a standing colony in half rotation.

In most half rotation colonies, unmarried individuals are expected to reciprocate if approached. Rejecting the creche father is a very tense gray area; do so at your own risk. Legal marriage to another individual provides a social safety blanket where rejecting another's advances is much more acceptable.

Full Rotation - Any colony that permits all individuals to mate with any colony member of their choosing (with consent). In other words, it IS socially acceptable for servants and damsels to initiate interest.

Joining rotation as a damsel is opt-in. It is always socially acceptable to refuse in a full rotation colony.

The above four labels are applied to the following three colony types. For instance, you would describe a colony as “a full rotation traditional colony” or “a standing nursing colony.”

Traditional Colony - A colony headed by a creche father, who has a follower drake and either a king or queen (Ruling partner). Beyond the follower drake and a possible king, additional drakes are uncommon.

The majority of the colony consists of damsels. Unmarried damsels "belong" to the creche father; damsels are either in half or full rotation. Traditionally, only the creche father mates with the damsels in his colony- The follower drake is encouraged to slip away and mate with damsels (or drakes) of other colonies. Much less tension with the people you live with that way.

Anti-Fairy births are biased in favor of damsels (with a roughly 75%-25% split).

As a stereotype, creche fathers with fruit bat heritage are more welcoming of low-rank drakes. Creche fathers without fruit bat heritage are more likely to drive rival males from the colony, forcing them to join or form bachelor colonies instead.

Traditional colonies range in size, but you can expect them to fall between 8 and 200 individuals. Some colonies may be even smaller, especially if led by a less experienced creche father.

Bachelor Colony - A colony consisting only of unpartnered drakes (or drakes in long-distance relationships who have not physically settled down) - usually young - who travel together.

It’s rare for an Anti-Fairy drake to go their whole life without joining a bachelor colony. In fact, many subcultures consider such travel to be a rite of passage and/or an important stage of life and growth. If you hope to impress a mate, having travel and personal caretaking experience looks better on you than staying with your birth colony long-term... especially if you still live with Mama.

Some drakes may never settle with a non-bachelor colony. Bachelor colonies are constantly in motion; they are always live and only settle in one spot if there are only two or three individuals.

Bachelor colonies usually have 8 to 20 individuals, but groups of about 5 aren't uncommon. A colony can have as few as 2 members and still be considered a colony.

Nursing Colony - A colony consisting only of damsels, usually ones with young pups and no mate to help them. Such colonies are rare since Anti-Fairy society frowns on damsels who travel without a creche father; society encourages them to join a drake-headed colony as soon as possible. After all, they're not equipped to look after themselves!

Young damsels may travel together even when not nursing pups. If so, they're still categorized as a nursing colony... implication being it's expected at least one of them will have a baby soon enough.

Nursing colonies aren't as common in modern times as they were a few generations back, but they do exist. They most likely have between 5 and 20 damsels in their ranks.

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COLONY RANKS

The Creche Father - Head of an Anti-Fairy colony; often addressed as "Father" by those within the colony, though this isn't required (and some prefer personal names). If you have a favor to ask - or are here to visit someone - you should speak to the creche father so he can assess you before you go about your business. Beelining for someone else first will cause immediate tension in the colony, even if they're a relative.

The High Count is always creche father of the Blue Castle colony. The Blue Castle is a government building, so the titles go hand in hand.

- High Count Anti-Bryndin - Pictured at top with H.P. - was succeeded by High Count Anti-Cosmo. Foop is studying to take over after his father (and will presumably adopt the name High Count Anti-Poof). - Prior Foop's birth, Anti-Cosmo's heir presumptive was Talon Anti-Lunifly, who would've gone on to be High Count Anti-Westley. - Foop's inheritance is not assured. He's kept in check by the threat of losing his inheritance... Most probably, to his younger brother Smoky (Anti-Dusty). He also has several second cousins who could take over as well.

It's the creche father's duty to watch over his colony: he settles disputes, organizes meals, chooses travel routes, and leads the colony to mingle with others during migration season.

Being a sociosexual species (like bonobos), Anti-Fairies often soothe each other with physical touch (Like hugs, nuzzling, or touching a leg under the table). It's widely inappropriate for most to use violence directly towards another person. However, the creche father has a little more leeway when it comes to keeping the colony in line. Cuffing someone behind the wings or head is common, with nipping someone's wing or ear (with fangs) slightly more dramatic. Full-on violence is still rare even for a creche father, but they're expected to defend themselves - and those in their care - in a magical fight if required to do so.

He's expected to raise any pups in the colony with the same care he would as if they're his own... or perhaps as a third parent rather than a second, depending on how many people are involved in the pup's direct care.

The creche father has the right to mate with all drakes and damsels in his colony, with individual colonies outlining their own rules for opt-in and opt-out. While full rotation colonies can reject advances with little concern, it is not socially acceptable to reject the creche father if he initiates in a half rotation colony- You're his. Is that how you react to someone who takes such good care of you?

It’s also not acceptable to initiate towards the creche father... He is, after all, the most dominant individual in the colony.

Traditions are more lax in very small colonies with only a handful of members. In large colonies, traditions are expectations.

The Colony King / Queen - The king or queen is the officially acknowledged mate or ruling partner of the creche father- Presumably a legally married one, though unmarried partners are acceptable.

The king or queen may have special privileges such as emotional intimacy as well as minor responsibilities such as assisting their partner. However, they do not speak for the colony and are not held to the same expectations of duty that a creche father is.

King and queen are not royal titles. They are not inherited by birth and they do not outrank the High Count or High Countess titles- They simply indicate partnership with the creche father.

- High Countess Anti-Wanda is queen of the Blue Castle colony. During Anti-Cosmo's mysterious disappearance in "You'll Never Know," she chose a new king to rule beside until his return. - Throughout Cloudlands AU works, Foop waffles between whether he should select a king or queen as his ruling partner, as he's more interested in finding someone skilled in politics or colony management than an intimate partner to rule beside... He has his mistress Anti-Marigold for that. - In the one-shot "No Absolutes," Anti-Wanda asked Anti-Cosmo if he'd put the pups under his care to bed. Anti-Cosmo protested that their mothers could do that; after all, he was busy. Towards the end of that 'fic, Anti-Cosmo complained that the pups and many other members of the Blue Castle colony like Anti-Wanda more than him. While she may not be held to the same parental expectations, she tends to play the role better than the easily distracted Anti-Cosmo.

The Follower Drake - The follower drake is a single high-ranking male just below the creche father in authority. His role is to assist and support the creche father, especially if the creche father has no king or queen. Drakes are often shooed out of colonies due to rivalry, but the follower drake is protected from that fate and permitted to stay.

While the creche father is expected to look after young pups, the follower drake is expected to teach young juveniles life skills (such as hunting, cooking, reading, bathing on their own, or spreading bad luck). This frees up the creche father so he can continue managing the colony, but he's likely bonded close enough with the pups that they respect him.

- In Anti-Cosmo's youth, High Count Anti-Bryndin chose Anti-Buster as his follower drake. - Anti-Cosmo later climbed the ranks and was named the follower himself (under the special title First General in the Blue Castle colony). - High Count Anti-Cosmo's follower drake is his cousin, Anti-Poof Anti-Everwish.

The follower drake does NOT have the right to mate with the drakes and damsels of the colony except their honey-lock partner. However, some colonies may be more lenient with this tradition than others. When colonies mingle, follower drakes will often flirt with members of another colony under the rival creche father’s nose.

A creche father and follower drake may be intimate or non-intimate partners; relationships vary between colonies. However, someone who is treated like a mate is likely to be ranked a king, not a follower.

The position of follower drake usually requires experience with a colony. Not necessarily - After all, some drakes become creche fathers by simply starting their own colony - but a follower drake is likely the most experienced drake in the flock (barring the creche father), which reduces infighting.

Ranking Drakes - Drakes that hold high rank and are not chased out of the colony by the creche father. This is much more common in standing colonies than live colonies.

Ranking drakes are often school students, scholars, aristocrats, or politicians. Anti-Fairy World highly values architects as well as demon summoners. Mediums to the nature spirits are also people you may not want to shoo off.

The honey-lock partner of a high-ranking Anti-Fairy within the colony might be considered a ranking drake as well. If Foop joined a bachelor colony, he'd likely not be chased out because he's considered an aristocrat.

Ranking drakes are likely older or more experienced than serving drakes.

Claimed Damsels - Legally married damsels who will follow their mates to other colonies. Marriage shifts responsibility for their care to their partner and thus, they can freely withhold the "benefits" of caretaking - i.e. the sex - from their creche father.

Many damsels look forward to marriage due to many legal protections and opportunities within Anti-Fairy society.

However, rejecting a very high-ranking creche father (like the High Count) is still a wobbly gray area. Such is Anti-Fairy life.

Damsels in Rotation - Damsels the creche father permits others to mate with. They may be offered to creche fathers (or follower drakes) of other colonies as a gesture of peace and goodwill.

Consent and rejection may be socially acceptable in some cases, but cause tension in others.

A damsel living with a creche father she's related to is most likely in rotation and avoiding the creche father's advances. What's mating on rare occasion with a foreign drake in return for living in a colony where you won't be pressured into sex on the regular?

Unclaimed Damsels - Unmarried damsels of any age who stay with their birth colony (or similar caretaking colony) if their family and/or mate leave. When they come of age, they become the creche father’s concubines by default. It is usually not acceptable for anyone besides the creche father to mate with them.

- Technically, a dame named Anti-Scarlett is classed as Anti-Cosmo's concubine for one simple reason: she's unmarried and lives at the Blue Castle (for her job in politics). On paper, she's under Anti-Cosmo's care and he helps with her kids. - All other damsels on the camarilla are married (See Modern Camarilla Court).

Serving Drakes - Drakes who aren't chased from a colony, but don't hold high rank. Instead, they provide services such as childcare and food preparation. Such drakes are more common in standing colonies, but not unheard of in live colonies.

Generally, serving drakes end up in this position because they came of age to leave with a bachelor colony, but never did.

Serving drakes are the lowest-ranked individuals. They aren't typecast for any specific reason- they just didn't leave and are given the chance to pull their weight if they want to stay. In return for the food, shelter, socialization, and care they receive from the creche father, serving drakes are forbidden from mating with the colony's damsels.

Anti-Cosmo's father was a serving drake in the Blue Castle colony.

Some drakes prefer the serving lifestyle as it's low-risk and doesn't require thinking much for yourself. Other drakes are eager to start their own colony. Some do start their own while others may opt to serve for a time so they can see how a colony works in practice before setting off on their own.

Colonies with experienced members are usually more stable than those comprised of inexperienced members.

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WHISTLE AND SOREN: IN SHORT

Brief bios about the second fairy and anti-fairy children born in thousands of years

WHISTLE SOREN FERNFIRE

Occupation: Full-time student; future gemstone mine owner

Birthday: May (Breath)

Height: 3′9″ (Tall for a fae)

Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally young teen)

Alignment: Neutral Good 

MBTI: ESFJ (Assertive)

Love Language: Quality time

Handedness: Left dominant

Hometown: Claystrif - Also known as Patio World; contains intricately carved works of art and the glass shrine to Mother Nature and Father Time

Core: Birdhouse

Core Color: Blue (Layer 1 Yellow; Layer 2 Blue)

Crown Lift: High

Wand Type: Threedspiral

Fagiggly Color: White

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Canary

Bio: Whistle was the first baby in the common fairy subspecies born after Poof. His parents - Coleen and Richter Fernfire - are fabulously wealthy snobs who oversee several gem mines... They're constantly trying to one-up Cosmo and Wanda and make their precious son as big a celebrity as Poof is. No one cares.

Whistle himself is relaxed and overly friendly. He and Poof have been on the same Little League saucerbee team since they were in Spellementary. They both continue the sport through high school and work out together. They had a lot of playdates growing up and know each other pretty well... despite Cosmo and Wanda's exhaustion and irritation towards Richter and Coleen.

Despite his pushy parents, Whistle doesn’t expect to become a celebrity himself. Still, he’s constantly giddy that he gets to hang out with famous faces like Poof, Foop, Goldie, Anti-Coriander... He has a crush on all four and would date them all if he could. Super-fan or stalker? You decide!

He's "open" about his attraction to Anti-Fairies, but will stutter, flush, and giggle if you bring up the topic of romance. See also, "Happy Holidays."

Whistle is a hard worker who seems to perform well in everything, especially physical activities like sports. He's always happy to offer tutoring, run errands, and do any favor you ask for. What a great guy!

He moved into Poof, Sammy, and Finley's dorm after Foop dropped out when the May Blossom War began. However, he changed rooms when Foop returned for high school.

Whistle appears in "Approval," Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pixies, "Happy Holidays," "First Impressions," and more 'fics to come. He often appears in saucerbee scenes or works about school, such as when Foop saw him and Soren on the playground in "Sentry."

Related:

Family Tree || Common Fairy - Social Ladder || Fairy Class Overview || Poof, Foop, and Hiccup's Bios || Sammy and Finley's Bios || Eclipse House Heights || Apartment Layout

ANTI-WHISTLE SOREN ANTI-FERNFIRE

Occupation: Student; young aristocrat; future spa owner

Birthday: February 13th, 2009 (Breath)

Height: 3′5″ (Tall for an anti-fairy; average for a fae)

Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally teen)

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

MBTI: ESFJ (Turbulent)

Love Language: Words of affirmation

Handedness: Right dominant

Hometown: Luna’s Landing - Anti-Fairy World’s capital city, located in a crater and lit by glowing crystals

Core: Birdhouse

Core Color: Blue (Layer 1 Yellow; Layer 2 Blue)

Crown Lift: Average

Wand Type: Ebony

Fagiggly Color: Teal

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Snow monkey Rhino

Bio: Anti-Whistle (Soren) is a regular little socialite who had the misfortune of being born to rich parents who couldn’t care less about their image. Sure, the Anti-Fernfire family has run the spa and castle-like hotel that Anti-Fairies have migrated to for hundreds of thousands of years, but his mom would rather do paperwork with Anti-Cosmo and his dad would rather fiddle around with his inventions. What's a little spa heir to do? ... Take control at a young age, that's what.

Foop and Anti-Whistle aren't stepbrothers, but they are crechemates: Anti-Whistle lives at the Blue Castle and is someone Foop grew up with.

Anti-Whistle and Foop are painfully similar in a way neither will admit: They both prefer taking charge and can't stand working in unorganized conditions. But while Foop struggles with analysis paralysis, the threat of losing his inheritance hanging over him in a way that keeps him in line, Anti-Whistle's at risk of losing his inheritance if he doesn't act. Despite his nerves and frequent panic attacks, he seizes control, comes out successful, and is widely admired by the same crowd that shuns Foop as being an out-of-hand fireball. Good thing that won't come back to haunt the political landscape...

Despite being arguably more successful at running things than Foop is, Anti-Whistle is a massive suck-up who is constantly trying to impress Foop with his political skills... Foop knows Anti-Whistle will be useful someday so he doesn’t want to cut ties with him, but he finds him incredibly annoying. It's a shame the guy would probably be a great partner to rule beside...

Foop’s dream is to be the first Anti-Fairy to graduate from the Fairy Academy, so he sees fellow student Soren as the rival who stands in his way. When Anti-Cosmo returned from his mysterious disappearance (à la “You’ll Never Know”), Foop finally went back to school and was assigned to be Anti-Whistle’s roommate. That didn't last long, and Foop was placed with Poof, Sammy, and Finley again instead.

As part of their counterpart link, Anti-Whistle has crushes on all the same people Whistle does (Foop included) and doesn’t really know how to deal with these feelings... Whistle is overly excited to talk to his crushes while Anti-Whistle is a panicky mess.

Anti-Whistle makes a few appearances throughout 130 Reasons Why I'm Fairy Trash and other projects. He usually appears in Blue Castle scenes during Foop's youth or 'fics about school, such as "Sentry" (where Foop sees him on the playground and young Soren gets spooked), "Naptime" (where Foop throws a sleepover), and "Approval" (where Whistle brought him along to the high school dance).

Related:

Family Tree || Fairy Class Overview || Poof, Foop, and Hiccup's Bios

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Fernfire Family Tree (via GenoPro); click to enlarge

- The most notable character in this tree is Whistle: the second baby in the common fairy subspecies born after the baby ban was lifted (Right on Poof's heels). Coleen makes minor appearances in Frayed Knots, usually selling jewelry. - Coleen and Richter wasted no time in having multiple kids and love rubbing their babies in Wanda's face... the Fernfires and Fairywinkles have been rivals for a long time. - The Fernfires are one of the cloudlands' old money families, and one of 3 families who've passed their surname down over 100 generations (alongside the Whimsifinados and Sparklefields). They belong to House Rhino and are known for infighting... probably due to having large families. - The Fernfires are jewelers who own most of the cloudland mines. Most gems have passed through their hands- Even the ceremonial ones used by Anti-Fairies. - Coleen is also rivals with her cousin, Tiger. Dottie and Dashell are younger than Whistle, but their parents are always pushing them to be the best... preferably in ways that show up Whistle and Coleen. - Arlo Fernfire was a gyne, but everyone else shown above is a kabouter. - The Fernfire and Anti-Fernfire families are unusual for the fact that both sides of the counterpart line are aristocrats.

Anti-Fernfire Family Tree

- The most notable character in this tree is Soren Anti-Whistle: the second baby in the common anti-fairy subspecies born after the baby ban was lifted (Right on Foop's heels). Anti-Coleen makes several appearances in Frayed Knots (and other stories). - Anti-Coleen holds the Seat of Breath on the camarilla court; she's based on a character who was in the dining room during "Fairly Odd Baby." She and Anti-Cosmo didn't grow up together, but have known each other since their young adulthood. -> When the nature spirit Saturn ditched Anti-Cosmo's mother as his medium, he quickly presented himself to Anti-Coleen's father, Anti-Tuck. Up until this point, Anti-Tuck was considered "a nobody" apart from being Anti-Candela's honey-lock partner. It was a whole thing when "this random guy" was brought into the camarilla court. - Anti-Coleen has "claimed damsel" status within the Blue Castle colony and is married to Anti-Richter, though she and Anti-Cosmo have flirted several times throughout the years. She herself is not technically "under Anti-Cosmo's care," but her kids are since he's their creche father. -> In Reedfilter Rules AU, Anti-Coleen is one of the damsels Anti-Cosmo's mother wants to set him up with. They go on a date in RR Chapter 4. -> Foop and Soren aren't stepbrothers, but they are crechemates: two individuals of about the same age growing up in the same colony. - The Anti-Fernfires run Maplefeather Point: the spring migration location of the Anti-Fairies. -> Maplefeather is a high-class hotel and spa built from a castle. It welcomes visitors of all races during the off-season. During migration, it's difficult - but not impossible - to get a reservation if you're not an Anti-Fairy, but you'd better have the family name to back it up.

Related:

Fae Aristocracy

Chimera Families

Modern Camarilla Court

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423 Eclipse House - Carl Poofypants High, Fairy World

Reference for the teen roommate apartment I made on Sims 4. The layout of their Spellmentary dorm was similar, but much smaller and had more of a ‘60s vibe. I had a lot of fun with this build, trying to capture that “Fairy World in its ‘70s phase” feel. Look at those semicircle kitchen counters they’re just so wacky and I love them. The Head Pixie bought the entire housing building when Finley moved to high school. Yeah, he’s THAT kind of rich.

This room appears in Prompt 95, “All I Ever Wanted,” as well as some scenes of Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pixies. So far my favorite part of playing this house is Poof somehow embarrassing Foop by showing him pictures on his phone and Sammy casually mentioning handcuffs after Foop started shouting. Foop then hid in the closet to cry. Brutal.

Giving them Room 423 is a reference to something in FOP, but I’ll be surprised if anyone guesses what!

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Lineup: Anti-Fairywinkle family

Click HERE for my Fairly OddParents masterpost

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Happy Friday the 13th! To celebrate Anti-Fairy Day, I built my take on the Blue Castle in my Sims 4 game. Unfortunately I couldn’t figure out how to record actual play footage, but a narrated screenshot tour of such a big building is probably less jarring to follow anyway.

You can watch the video tour HERE!

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Lineup: The Eclipse House Roommate Squad

Click HERE for my Fairly OddParents masterpost

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Lineup: Teenage Celebrity Kids

Click HERE for my Fairly OddParents masterpost

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Crocker + Carmichael family tree (via GenoPro); click to enlarge

- The Crocker family are descended from the Bitterroots (specifically they are descended from one of Alden’s sisters). The Crockers carry witch blood; all the males in this family are infertile. Before they were Crockers, they were Glovers.

- Denzel and Denise are estranged half-siblings; they share the same mother but different fathers (“Chip Off the Old Crock”).

- Denise had Kevin with Elliot and later married Molly’s father, Marvin. Shortly after Season 10, Molly and Kevin become step-siblings.

- Uncle Albert survived the 50 years time was frozen, but he passed on in my ‘fic Come What May (mid-Season 10).

- Chloe's parents refer to themselves as “co-parents” (“Fancy Schmancy”), which was interpreted to mean they’re cohabiting and are not married.

- In “Whittle Me This,” Chloe stated she has an uncle who “dresses like a nurse and yells at buses.” This uncle is Robert.

- The Carmichaels are mostly estranged from Connie’s family, whom they consider politically incorrect (“Hare Raiser”).

- Chloe shared a picture of her nana (Pauline) in “Chip Off the Old Crock.” Chloe is an only child with zero cousins; she’s a pretty lonely kid.

- Chloe and Kevin changed their surnames to Crockermichael when they married.

- Sick of his parents, Foop runs away from home and spends a human lifetime living with Chloe and Kevin as their foster / adopted son.

Click HERE to view the Turner-Vladislapov family tree

Click HERE to view the Fairywinkle-Cosma family tree

Click HERE to view the Buxaplenty family tree

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Chimera Families

(Via GenoPro); click to enlarge

(Note: This is definitely info useful for the author, less relevant for readers)

Fairies and Anti-Fairies both agree their ancestors interacted with an ancient race of beings known as the Chimera; most believe the Chimera lived alongside the fae until the fae population grew large and drove them out.

Most Anti-Fairies believe the Chimera were almost entirely wiped out and are skirting the edges of the universe as demons while Fairies claim thousands of them withdrew to another plane of existence and are thriving still.

Every Anti-Fairy traces their line back to one of twenty Chimera families in some way, whether they believe they’re blood descendants or simply received aid from the Chimera long ago. Each family was represented by an animal.

If an Anti-Fairy doesn’t know which Chimera they’re meant to honor, scholars will research with them extensively in the hopes of figuring it out. If nothing can be found, they’ll be assigned a Chimera ancestor and be adopted into that family.

Laelaps - Hound Cadmea - Fox

Raxá - Rhino Nimac - Bison

Twryth - Hog Koxol - Crockeroo

Brân - Crow Krasu - Vulture

Jacodi - Otter Cherian - Badger

Caqaq - Monkey Ikoki - Cricket

Perez - Rat Urudel - Salamander

Hruzha - Goat Priliyi - Cobra

Lizuu - Penguin Nyria - Swan

Vucuru - Moose Zaki - Armadillo

Each family has a “mirror family” they either clash with horribly or get along with amazingly depending on the generation. Since Anti-Fairies value balance, they usually encourage one another to marry someone from their mirror family (specifically someone born in a zodiac year that balances their own) so they can have a balanced life partner to return to in between promiscuous wanderings.

In Anti-Fairy culture, it’s inappropriate to shapeshift into any animal other than your family animal (though if you change your family name to match your other parent, you can officially switch your loyalty that way). These animals are listed as modern animals for the readers’ benefit even if they didn’t technically exist in their current form millions of years ago.

Anti-Cosmo was born an Anti-Lunifly and honored the fox with his mother’s family. He later changed his surname to Anti-Cosma to honor the rat. The Anti-Fairywinkle family honors the scent hound.

Foop’s legal family name is Anti-Cosma-Anti-Fairywinkle, allowing him to take either the scent hound or the rat as potential shapeshifting forms.

Joining surnames like this is normally frowned upon in Anti-Fairy society, but an exception was made due to his status as a prince. However, his younger brother was only given the name Anti-Fairywinkle, and it’s expected that only Anti-Fairywinkle will persist going forward.

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Information about aristocratic fae families can be found HERE

Click HERE for my Fairly OddParents worldbuilding masterpost

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POOF, FOOP, AND HICCUP: IN SHORT

Brief bios about a teen celebrity, a prince, and a prince’s alternate personality

Bonus trivia: Their Refracted counterpart is named Poppy

POOF NEBULA FAIRYWINKLE-COSMA

Occupation: Student; celebrity since birth; saucerbee team captain; on-campus repairman

Birthday: Third Monday of February, Winter of the Frozen Planet (Soil Subyear)

Height: 3′10″ (Tall for a fae)

Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally young teen)

Alignment: Lawful Good

MBTI: ESFJ

Love Language: Quality time

Handedness: Right dominant

Hometown: Dimmsdale - A major city in California, USA, Earth

Core: Searchlight

Core Color: Yellow (No additional layers)

Crown Lift: Very high

Wand Type: Kitnut

Fagiggly Color: Lavender

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Cougar

Bio: While he may have been born in a Fairy World hospital, there’s no denying Poof was raised on Earth among the humans. As he grew up, Poof frequently compared himself to his parents’ godkids- whether they were humans, Delkians, or what have you. His first 1,000 years were divided between Spellementary dorms and visiting his parents; it was only after Dusty was born that Cosmo and Wanda pulled out of godparenting for awhile to raise their two young sons.

Poof spent his formative years outside of Fairy World and has never identified as closely with Fairy culture as his peers- or even his brother Dusty. Furthermore, Wanda left the traditional Fairy beliefs she was raised with behind when she married Cosmo (who came from a family that never believed in them strongly). 

This combined with his celebrity status and the fact that he’s a gyne have made Poof feel like an oddball despite his celebrity status. And we haven’t even started on the legends of the Red Ninja...

Poof wasn’t there when Timmy parted ways with Cosmo and Wanda, and he’s never gotten over it. Following his separation with Timmy, he had a fight with his parents, flung himself full-force into his friend group, and has yet to pull back. He never attached to any of his other godsiblings, even the ones who lasted for years, and he doesn’t like using the term “godbrother” anymore.

While he doesn’t have separation anxiety and he trusts his parents, he does have abandonment issues when it comes to his friends. Foop suspects the reason Poof taunts him is purely to encourage a reaction; neither of them likes to surrender and they both retaliate to pranks. Foop isn’t going anywhere fast.

Being raised by godparents on the job, surrounded by playful godkids, having a goofy father, and being popular at school has turned Poof into a fairly relaxed kid. He isn’t easily upset, and is more likely to get agitated than angered.

That said, he gets along better with relaxed peers than those with highly energetic personalities (His dad’s level of excitement he can take, but Chloe pushes it).

Although he loves hanging with his friend group at school (which consists mostly of popular kids through association with him), Poof is a friendly soul who is always keeping an eye out for someone to cheer up in some small way. He has his oblivious moments, but there’s no denying he’s a nice guy who sees just about everyone as his friend... while fretting internally that he’s an accident-prone dummy and people only hang out with him because he’s popular.

Notably, Poof is the narrator of the 130 Prompts “Second Chance,” “Tools of the Trade,” “Opinion”, “Unwelcome,” “All I Ever Wanted,” and “Happy Holidays,” as well as the focus of “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pixies.”

He’s a major character in Hawthorn Haven and several other Prompts as well. He’s been pining after Goldie all his life despite the low opinion Fairy society has of will o’ the wisps, but as he’s entered his teen years, he’s reflected more on the customs of his kind- his subspecies are said to pair for life, after all, and teen Poof has found himself wondering if he really, truly is prepared to commit to her. This has placed strain on their relationship, especially as his social status - and Goldie’s - become increasingly important in their lives.

Related:

Full Character Profile || Family Tree || Dorm Layout || Fairy World Home Layout || Fairy Class Overview || Cosmo’s and Wanda’s Bios || Dusty’s Bio || Timmy’s and Chloe’s Bios || Goldie’s Bio || Finley’s and Sammy’s Bios || Westley’s Bio

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ANTI-POOF “FOOP” NEBULA ANTI-COSMA-ANTI-FAIRYWINKLE

Occupation: Heir to the High Count seat; TA at Carl Poofypants High; scientist

Birthday: June 13th, Spring of the Frozen Planet (Breath Subyear)

Height: 3′6″ (Tall for an anti-fairy; average for a fae)

Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally teen)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil -> Chaotic Neutral

MBTI: INTP

Love Language: Words of affirmation

Handedness: Left dominant

Hometown: Luna’s Landing - Anti-Fairy World’s capital city, located in a crater and lit by glowing crystals

Core: Searchlight

Core Color: Yellow (No additional layers)

Crown Lift: Very high

Wand Type: Obsidian

Fagiggly Color: Blue

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Hound

Bio: Foop was born bearing the color-eye virus his people believe to mean the nature spirits favor him, and promptly threw Anti-Cosmo’s heir presumptive (Talon) to the back of the inheritance line.

Although he himself could be displaced as High Count should he prove too unstable (especially since his younger brother Smoky would be an equally legitimate heir to the throne), Foop has coasted through life on a swollen ego with his plans laid out since birth. He knows what he wants, will go through enormous efforts to get it, and his mind isn’t easily changed once he gets set on something.

Foop had an extremely rocky childhood. He wreaked havoc across the cloudlands as a newborn and spent his early days in solitary confinement, visited only by Jorgen and his therapist from Wish Fixers. Shortly after escaping Abracatraz, he landed himself in an alternate universe (à la “Playdate of Doom”) and spent several years during the frozen timestream “raised” (tormented) by alternate versions of his parents and himself. He certainly wasn’t in a good place mentally when he got himself out of that situation and has been working with his therapist ever since.

At last rehabilitated enough to attend Spellementary School, he struggled socially, academically, and mentally. The only reason he can function at all is because his alternate personality, Hiccup, withholds his traumatic memories. Even with Hiccup’s help, Foop faced many difficulties in his youth, including trying to care for his injured mother and Anti-Fairy World when his father disappeared for 77,000 years during the May Blossom War.

Foop is the protagonist of Identity Theft and appears in many 130 Prompts and other pieces. After a few early attempts to seize control of Anti-Fairy World (and Fairy World while he was at it), he eventually accepted the fact that his parents were going to give him the position when he was older anyway and he may as well take advantage of their hospitality and pursue his own hobbies before worrying over politics too much.

He’s reluctantly settled into a routine of playing nice at fancy parties, interspersed with his studies of biology and horticulture. With the exception of the years he dropped out of school to support his mother, Foop grew up alongside his school roommates (Poof, Sammy Sweetsparkle, and the young pixie Finley). He's close friends with Goldie Goldenglow’s counterpart, Anti-Marigold.

Anti-Fairy society looks down on Anti-Marigold for being an anti-will o’ the wisp (and having moth characteristics instead of bat ones).

In their older years he courts her as his secret mistress while publicly courting Anti-Coriander, the girl his parents picked out for him. 

Never content to sit around drumming his claws, Foop is always keeping busy. He devours his textbooks the moment he gets his hands on them, takes attentive notes, and reviews them even after he’s memorized the material. Despite their similarities, he’s quite different from his father, who barely glanced at books in school since he figured he was smart enough to get by without working for it.

Foop may share Anti-Cosmo’s passions for success and drama, but their ways of executing plans are drastically different; where Anti-Cosmo doesn’t fritter over details and throws plans into action too early, Foop works and reworks and combs over every tiny segment of his ideas until opportunity passes him by. Anti-Cosmo sees jail time as a stepping stone towards his long-term goals while Foop considers arrest to mean absolute failure.

He also inherited several interests, his clumsiness, his appreciation for the little things in life, and part of his speech pattern from Anti-Wanda. No DNA test necessary!

Foop often uses he/him pronouns for himself, though uses we/us pronouns when referring to both himself and Hiccup. The older he gets, the more common his usage of we/us becomes.

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ANTI-POOF “HICCUP” ANTI-FAIRYWINKLE-ANTI-COSMA

Occupation: Alternate personality; eloquent politician

Alignment: Lawful Evil

MBTI: ENFJ

Love Language: Physical touch

Handedness: Right dominant

Wand Type: Copper

Fagiggly Color: Blue

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Hound

Bio: Sweet without ulterior motives, charming without a hint of irony, blunt to an extreme degree- that about covers it! Hiccup is Foop’s alternate personality and views himself as Foop’s older brother. He springs up when Foop’s emotions become unstable and handles situations as best he can.

In Foop’s early years of working with his therapist, his goal was to integrate Hiccup’s aspects back into himself, but as time passed and it became clear Hiccup wasn’t going away any time soon, they began working together to survive their crazy life.

Hiccup has full access to Foop’s traumatic memories and guards them closely no matter what mind-reading magic someone tries to use on them. 

Occasionally a bad memory slips through his careful defenses (and it’s certainly harder to resist such magic when Hiccup, not Foop, is the one it’s being used against), but Hiccup sees himself as Foop’s closest guardian and defends him like a mother bear.

Hiccup began to take form as early as Abracatraz, though it wasn’t until the alternate versions of Foop and his parents began tormenting the original Foop that Hiccup quickly asserted himself as his brother’s protector. He envisions himself with curly blue hair and a larger body type than Foop, and majorly struggles with body dysphoria.

He’s a brave soul who isn’t afraid to stand up for himself or for Foop, but years of having his identity invalidated have left him plagued with feelings of self-doubt. He knows most people see him as “the second personality” and don’t treat him as a real person, and he’s tried to accept that for a long time. He has his own friends, hobbies, and opinions separate from Foop’s and sees himself as an individual who just happens to share a body with his brother.

He cares deeply for Foop and doesn’t want to hurt him or steal away his inheritance- he just wants to be loved and allowed to live his own life to some degree.

Hiccup plays major roles in the 130 Prompts “Shadow,” “Live For the Moment,” “Not Like You,” and “Really, Really Can’t.” He appears in several other pieces and plays a major part in Identity Theft.

His biggest role comes in Hawthorn Haven when he leads many Fairy youth away from Fairy World and Anti-Fairy World to build their own united society.

Hiccup may be less inclined towards chaos, but he does have his own ambitions of creating a utopia where everyone will love him... I mean, love each other.

Though he has a truly kind personality, Hiccup does have a mercilessly savage streak running through his veins. His loyalties lie with Foop before anyone else, and to his family after that. You mess with the Anti-Fairywinkle family, you mess with Hiccup. After some of the tortures he put up with a child, he has few qualms about throwing you through them, too.

Foop has a lot of conflicting feelings about Hiccup. Often, he feels his alternate personality has seized control of his life and makes things unfairly harder for him than they are for any of his peers. He has a short temper and shoves blame on Hiccup constantly, often snapping at him when Hiccup makes an impulsive nice decision and ruins Foop’s plans or reputation.

Foop sees Hiccup as an individual person separate from himself; the two keep each other up to date on things, try not to borrow each other’s stuff without asking, and don’t read mail, diaries, or mess with one another’s friendships.

In their adult years (when they both identify as Anti-Poof and stop using their private names, as Anti-Fairy custom dictates), Foop becomes more and more uneasy with Hiccup using “his” body to flirt with, kiss, and sleep with people besides Anti-Marigold... and by that point, the lines are getting blurrier and blurrier to the point he starts wondering if he’s even the dominant personality at all.

Their immediate family have accepted Hiccup’s existence and make an effort to show him affection, even if they don’t perfectly treat him as equal to Foop. Hiccup appreciates their efforts anyway. His family have a nickname for him - Puck, or sometimes Pucky - that he embraces. Most of his extended family refuse to acknowledge his existence, which is just his burden to bear in life.

Related:

Full Character Profiles (Foop || Hiccup) || Family Tree || Blue Castle Layout || Dorm Layout || Anti-Fairy Class Overview || Anti-Cosmo’s and Anti-Wanda’s Bios || Smoky’s Bio || Anti-Marigold’s Bio || Anti-Coriander’s Bio || Finley’s and Sammy’s Bios || Talon’s Bio

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Modern Camarilla Court family trees (via GenoPro); click to enlarge

Information about the camarilla court can be found HERE

- Everyone here (except those marked as honey-lock partners only) is considered nobility in Anti-Fairy society. If they are removed from the camarilla, they will lose their nobility status.

- Dots indicate who is a current medium to a nature spirit; Anti-Poof is the First General and wears Tarrow’s sacred cloak.

- Anti-Coleen’s children grow up alongside Foop and Smoky; all the other children are much older.

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Anti-Lunifly + Anti-Fairywinkle family trees (via GenoPro); click to enlarge

- Anti-Bryndin is married to Anti-Elina, as well as Anti-Florensa. He is the son of Anti-Ember and Anti-Henrie, and half-brother to Anti-Wanda’s father (Anti-Dusty Jr.)

- Anti-Cosmo’s grandmother, Anti-Miranda, lived with a civil fairy partner (Lucas) before the two were separated in the War of the Sunset Divide.

- Anti-Kanin (not listed) is Anti-Dusty Jr.’s nephew. He is the son of Anti-Kylia’s sister, and is therefore Anti-Wanda’s first cousin.

- Foop’s cousins often suck up to him (or threaten him) in the hopes of gaining political status.

Click HERE to view Cosmo’s and Wanda’s family trees

Click HERE to view the Anti-Coppertalon family tree