A ridiculous crackfic idea came to me last night: Julien Davinos is, in fact, a fae as people have theorized to explain the age discrepancies, etc., but not a changeling as I've seen speculated.
No, Julien Davinos is part kettle-hob/grig*.
His "nice" head has been stuffed in the back of a closet somewhere since the Falconer's Rebellion because 1) he insists he's never going to wear it again and 2) he can't go wandering around AramΓ‘n with his disembodied second head hanging off his belt if he's going to pass as human, now can he?
For security/secrecy purposes, it would probably make sense for his kettle-hob head to have been left in the Golden Orchard, but I feel like it should have been stashed in the Palazzo Davinos for a couple of reasons:
First, I'm assuming he switched heads as part of his decision to pursue Thjazi for "breaking his promises" and joining the rebellion, a mission that goes against Aranessa and Raimond's wishes, so he probably would have wanted to make the swap well outside of the Orchard/Royce-owned territory to minimize the chances of anyone noticing what he had done and trying to intervene (Julien doesn't have obvious thorns around his neck like the actual grigs in "To the Hounds!" but I'm assuming to people who know, there would be some recognizable signs of which head he was currently wearing).
Second, having the head stored in the Palazzo Davinos is so much juicier for current events, since 1) Julien and Aranessa on the road with the Seekers would have to be wondering whether the Tachonises have found Julien's other head and what they could potentially do with/to it (and when, if ever, they would need to let the rest of the Seekers in on this possibility) and 2) that means it could potentially be found by a scared gnomish illusionist tasked with distributing illusions around the Palazzo, who then went on the run with a "severed" head that is his only physical evidence (and witness, although only by distantly hearing the commotion) to the violence at the Palazzo Davinos. π (Hal's in for quite the shock when Demodus pulls that out, first since he knows he saw Julien with his head intact leave with the Seekers, and then because this head is not only alive, but is actually the Julien he knew better from back when Thjazi was on good terms with the Royces.)
Kettle-hob!Julien has very little (and very biased) information about the last 12 years due to only getting news from grig!Julien, a few Davinos servants, and maybe Julien's family and/or Aranessa when they're at the Palazzo without grig!Julien and sneak "sweet" Julien out for a secret chat.
*Don't ask me how you hybridize human with kettle-hob--either it's a purely magical process, or there is a much bigger variant of kettle-hob, or it's for the smut authors to figure out.
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