birdie taylor

Hi, I’m Cat, and this is a lil’ introduction to my dear Birdie. 

Birdie was a changeling; she was switched at birth with a human baby, though she didn’t know it. This is partly due to a magical glamor hiding her wings and other fairy-elements, parts of which are still in place today. She accidentally manifested light magic when she was eight, and her non-biological parents, the Taylors, thought she was a demon and tried to have her exorcized.

Spoiler alert: it didn’t do a darn thing, and she was still as much a fairy as ever, though she didn’t know it. But the experience essentially brainwashed her into believing that she was a normal human and that anything strange she might notice or be able to do was wrong and evil-- so if any magical episodes did happen, she kept them to herself, for fear that her parents would be disappointed and/or try to lock her away.

She continued through primary school and high school like any other human, keeping all odd occurrences under wraps, worrying about them all the while. Her school was a private religious one, and between that and her strict parents, she very much kept to the rules and kept to herself. She never had many close friends for fear that they would sense something was off about her. 

It’s only when she went off to college at 18 that she met someone on campus who was a fellow fairy and could tell what Birdie truly was. They took her to Avalon for the first time and explained that she’s not insane, and she’s not demonic-- she’s simply a fairy. 

It was somewhat of a relief but also incredibly confusing. As a result, she had a tiny existential crisis and dropped out of college. A couple fairies she’d met suggested she try to find a position working somewhere where she can get used to the idea of being supernatural, which is how she ended up at Arcanas. She’s still too terrified to contact her parents about what she discovered, because she know she’s no good at lying, so to them, she just dropped off the face of the planet.

Birdie is quite skittish and shy, and she has a slight stutter when she gets nervous. However, she’s genuinely sweet at heart and really wants to find out more about the supernatural world so she can feel more comfortable in her skin for once in her life, despite the fact that the whole idea of magic still scares her a bit. 

A couple of possible connections are listed below:

Others who live in the staff dorms and can take Birdie under their wing

Someone her age who needs a good, empathetic listener

Fairies who can teach her about being a fairy 

Students who take advantage of her staff status to get into places they shouldn’t, since she’s pretty wide-eyed and easily manipulated

Students who befriend her despite the fact that she’s not a student

Someone she can have a crush on (of any gender-- she’s bisexual though very in the closet)

Anyone who influences her to be more bold or daring or social

Anyone who stops by the library a lot, either for books or for chats

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