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[writtendestiny]

Who else here has fae in their world?

What are they like?

In mine, you would be unwise to trust them but even more unwise to try and ignore them or meddle with them. They steal babies and replace them with fae things called Changelings, and treat humans like lower life forms only there for their use or amusement. They speak in riddles and will use words to trick you. They don't think like humans or share their moral boundaries.

The ones here seem to be the same way, and I don't trust them any more than I would trust the ones back home. But angering them would be a stupid thing to do.

Recently I've been wondering if more people here have positive experiences with fae than not.

[Sure would explain a few things.]

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text; un: selcouth

[sulit]

We have fae where I'm from, but I've never met them. There's stories about them stealing children, but there's stories like that about a lot of things and most of them are untrue. There's also stories about them helping people.

The ones here are weird but fine. Definitely not much different from humans. Most humans don't hold the "moral boundaries" they claim to, they just get mad when those boundaries aren't held specifically for them. And it's not like they don't treat some non-humans worse than they do each other.

[writtendestiny]

If the fae you know are helpful to people at all then they're already better than the ones I know.

[sulit]

I don't know any personally, just the stories. Maybe there's some nice fae in your world, but you just haven't heard their stories.

Does your world have anything other than fae and humans? I met someone who only had humans and demons in their world, and they also claimed to have more bad stories than good ones.

[writtendestiny]

I'm more familiar with the stories of humans and fae than almost anyone else. Even the personal ones. There are good and bad fae, just like there are good and bad humans, but the actions of an individual don't change what the fae as an entirety have done.

I don't think much of humans either.

And there are different kinds of fae, if that's what you mean, but other than that no, there are only fae and humans.

[sulit]

If individuals are what make up that entirety that you dislike so much, then how do their actions not change anything? I don't know if I can blame them for not caring what humans think. I bet it's hard to care about changing anything if none of their actions are going to matter anyway.

I wasn't asking about different kinds of fae. I was just wondering if humans in your world would have less bad stories about fae if there were things other than just those two.

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[resistetmords]

I mean, they're pretty much the same back home as you described. Though I always thought they were more like... something tied to nature? I mean, fairies tended to be based on much older beliefs. Though I don't remember a whole lot about them....

Anyway, we have stories of them. But they're not really real back home unless you're talking to Mr. England or Norway. A lot of those stories basically just say to not be rude to them, or to be extra careful what you say and do around 'em.

[writtendestiny]

They're the basic things to know. Probably the smartest things.

And the ones here? What do you think of them?

[resistetmords]

Here? I wouldn't trust them. Not completely, but I also wouldn't say they're outright malicious. More like they're just acting how they think they need to like most of everyone else.

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[currysseur]

I don't think so, but we have stories about faeries. A lot of old stories use them as narrative devices. I guess it's a good way to explain the unexplainable in our world...?

[writtendestiny]

You're lucky if all you have are stories.

They're very real in my world.

[currysseur]

( she's definitely seeing that her world is pretty mundane compared to a lot of people here, and that said mundane existence can be a blessing. perhaps not in this specific situation, since Izumi often feels like she's playing catch up on a million things people already know, but in a more general sense. )

They seem very cruel.

( all the same... that's another question entirely. can a whole species of anything be equally cruel? maybe that's just one of the ways she's not prepared for a place like Avalon. )

Were there any exceptions?

[writtendestiny]

A lot of them are cruel. Not all, but enough.

Part of it is that they just don't have the same moral boundaries as humans. Similar to the ones here. There are exceptions... but I would still be wary to fully trust any of them.

[currysseur]

( hm. that definitely sounds a lot like the kinds of things put in fantasy stories back home. a wholly different system of morality can be a fascinating narrative device. like focusing on the ethereal nature of angels in Winter's play, emphasising the otherwordliness of a trickster... that's a challenge for an actor.

but maybe she should let the director head rest a moment and concentrate on reality. )

I see. And with their magic, they're very powerful beings too. That makes it difficult for humans to fight back against it...

( at least if you get scammed by a person there's the police there!

... hm. what about a fae lawyer play.... )

[writtendestiny]

I think we tried, once. The realm of men is littered with ruins and strange machines that we no longer know how to use.

It makes me wonder if there was a time before the fae, but there's no written history that goes back that far.

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[garyoutensei]

[ A small hum. ]

Fae, I don't really know much about, but everything I've read makes them seem similar to 'youkai', a concept I'm way more familiar with.

[writtendestiny]

[Voice is fine, too.]

Youkai? I don't know the word.

[As much as she never likes admitting to her own ignorance, it doesn't bother her as much as it used to.]

What are they?

[garyoutensei]

It's kind of a catch-all term for any number of spirits, monsters, demons, netherfolk. Beings that belong more to the "other world" than our own, if that makes any sense.

[writtendestiny]

Oh. Then that would be the same as how we use the term phaerie where I come from.

[So, not too difficult to understand after all.]

Are you able to go to the 'other world'?

[garyoutensei]

Willingly? Nah. But I've heard of people being spirited away to it.

[writtendestiny]

Mm... then it definitely sounds like the same kind of place. Though, you can reach the phaerie realm where I'm from. It's just... difficult.

[And dangerous.]

Not many people would try.

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[hor]

Why 👶↔👼❓ 👼🥵📈🧚‍♀️❔

[writtendestiny]

What?

[hor]

[ Horus huffs. Why can't people understand his pictograms? They seem obvious to him. But okay, he'll slowly type it out. ]

Why trade human baby for changeling baby? Are changeling babies hard to raise into adult fairies?

[writtendestiny]

I never used to understand it either.

They were trying to find something. Or create something. A special human that could take the place of somebody called the Hierophant.

[hor]

Who is this Hierophant?