saxonballad

The meanings behind the colors.

you gotta digest it.

“oh man im so sorry i sucked some fairy dick once and now i have to keep coming back to do it again– its a long story”

Like, this analysis treats it as a substance problem, i.e. “edible matter from fairyland has properties that, if ingested, physically prevent you from being able to return to the real world.”

But OTOH, a recurring theme throughout fairy stories is that they’re all about…rules and exchanges and agreements with really steep interest rates:

“I’ll do you this favor, but if you don’t guess my name you’ll have to give me your first-born child.”

“You’re gonna be real good at everything but when you’re 16 you’re gonna prick your finger and die.”

“You loaned me $2 for the bus when I looked like a beggar, so now here’s a literal pile of gold and shit.”

Not to mention that in Childe Rowland, one of the central “if you eat food from fairyland you’re stuck there” stories, Rowland manages to retrieve his siblings despite them all presumably having chowed down on fairy food – all it took was beating the Fairy King in a swordfight and threatening to chop his head off.

The takeaway, I think, is that the food thing a matter of implicit exchange: if you get your grub on in fairyland, you’re accepting their hospitality and eating food that they own. This means you owe them, which the fairies can magically leverage to prevent you from leaving.

(You can probably get around this by explicitly agreeing to pay for your meal before you sit down to eat. From what I remember, fairies don’t seem capable of pulling a “Haha, we had an agreement but you’re fucked anyways!” maneuver, so if they agree to let you leave they might even be forced to help you leave.)

Which brings us to the matter at hand: if you blow a fairy you’re doing them a favor! They owe you.

And…they’re a fairy, so if you didn’t agree to terms beforehand they might not repay you in a way that’s ultimately helpful or safe, but it certainly doesn’t seem like they’d be able to, like, pat you on the head and be like “Thanks, you’re really good at this buuuuuuut also you’re stuck here forever now.”

“you wanna come over for the weekend?”

“oh man I’m so sorry i sucked some fairy dick once and now he always comes by over memorial day weekend and helps me out with minor home repairs.”

Staff: And what would you like the cake to say?

Nate having a rare melancholy moment…

Super quick sketch to warm up today :D

They don’t indulge in alcohol much (more so than food though), but they’re favourite drinks when they do are actually in Book One :D

Adam/Ava: Red wine.

Nate/Nat: Whisky.

Felix/Farah: Alcopop.

Mason/Morgan: Beer.

As for the others:

Verda doesn’t drink at all.

Tina‘s is cocktails—the more colourful the better, lol.

Rebecca doesn’t drink much, but she’d take an amaretto when she does.

Bobby is beer too, though is happy with spirits.

A quick doodle. Meet detective Emma Caldwell.

mc:

mc: mom

I’ll paste what I wrote:

A can dance, though doesn’t unless the moment really calls for it- their style is much more on the formal side of things- like waltz (so, you were spot on with that guess!).

N can also dance and enjoys it- formal is probably best suited, otherwise it might devolve into some interesting dad-dance type moves!

F is a smooth dancer- give them a tango, swing, or a modern beat, and they are up for anything. (I always imagine doing a tango with Felix would leave me melted into a girly puddle at the end!)

M… doesn’t dance. Ever. Though, that’s not to say they couldn’t if they didn’t try.

The vampires have been around for a long time, they’ve picked up a variety of skills needed to blend into the human world ;)

You can post it on your own Tumblr and then send me the link.

Or if you tag it with The Wayhaven Chronicles, I usually see those as I look through the tags very regularly :D

If you need anymore help, please let me know as I would LOVE to see what you’ve done!

That happened if you got enough flirt points with A or if you did the romance patrol scene with A and then flirted with N at the bar.

It was a small hint of the love triangle possibility ;)

A would totally win.

No question, lol.

Book One has 21 chapters.

Book Two is fluctuating between 19-21 at the moment, depending on how the writing flows as I go :D

I actually answered this a while back, so I’ll paste what I wrote:

Adam/Ava: None. Appreciates others when they can play an instrument well though.

Nate/Nat: Most string instruments, particularly guitar, sitar, violin (favourite), and harp. They can also play the piano.

Felix/Farah: The triangle? Lol :D None. They tried to learn the recorder once, N was teaching them, but M walked in, broke the recorder and left. A thanked M for it. N consoled F…and the F forgot about it and immediately moved onto the next thing to interest them, lol.

Mason/Morgan: Bass. Piano. Saxophone.