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[meta] PLATONIC Jenny is used to friendships being kind of transactional and backstabby, something she engaged with as well back in the city. Among the (children of the) powerful and the rich, there was always an aspect of hoping to 'gain' something from connections. I think that desire has kind of dwindled since coming to town, but it's definitely still somewhat present. On a more real, sincere level, Jenny looks in friends for people who will support her (even when wrong) and share her sense of whimsy. She likes the artistically inclined, especially when it comes to poetry/literature, but can find other topics of conversation if that's not an issue. She likes people who have a sense of whimsy and spontaneity with them. It doesn't need to be silly all the time, but there needs to be room for silly. If it's only seriousness, she will wither and get annoyed. And feel stupid. So that doesn't tend to work well. Truth be told, Jenny wants to be liked by everyone, but that sometimes tends to mean she becomes defensive (if not offensive) if she feels someone does not. She's shown this uglier side before. But, combine that with her general outgoing nature and I do think Jenny can make surface level friends easy with a lot of different people... she just isn't always good at being a bad weather friend. ROMANTIC A bit similar to the above, especially if we think about the dating kind of romance. Jenny also does tend to go for looks at times, and can be shallow. In a romantic partner, she looks for someone who respects and sees her whole. Someone who can make her feel grounded but who also just has fun with her. Someone who doesn't feed her insecurities (of her being shallow, or stupid). Someone who challenges her. She has had a string of exes that have met and not met these criteria. I do think she tends to go for people who make her feel good on a shallow level and who don't get her. I think that's also part of the space she was in before, where so much was about that power and money struggle versus the more sincere relationships that can apparently exist here. She's a bit of a romantic mess. SEXUAL

A quick guide into Cleo's former aos sí.

Chor Gléow has existed for millennia, claiming to have gone back to the very first instances of human music and dance. That might be myth, but all the same is held as truth. They were there. Their influence runs deep.

Chor Gléow is old English for a musical dance. None of the current members speak old English though.

Historically, the aos sí has always lived close to humans and moved through their communities. That much is considered necessary to not only feed but also make something out of their feeding. They tend to move with cultural trends, living a nomadic life that sticks mostly to cities where musicians or other artists flock to. They are currently situated in Atlanta.

Tend to acquire their living spaces and the like through binds and have quite a lot of fun whenever they move. Scouting a new place, making sure they can move in somewhere where they are relatively safe. They tend to go for either a group of apartments (former tenants suddenly very motivated to move out) or a few larger houses in the suburbs together.

The muses in this commune are mostly musicians and dancers, and focus humans with those skills as well. They can form an orchestra as a community and often do, spending much of their time not around humans making music together. Cleo has fond memories of vocalizing with her siblings and cousins, or playing the violin in the orchestra. These days they also tend to group in small bands, jamming together and trying to find new sounds.

Art is considered something of a higher power, or at least the highest cause there is. Humans are an instrument to reach this, a means to an end. The muses like their humans, but they see them as lesser than. As vessels with potential that they can make bloom. And if one is to die at the end of that, then that is how it is. Art, however, was made. That is what matters most.

There are a few claims to fame in the aos sí, amongst classical musicians and even pop stars. How true these are is debatable, but the fae certainly believe their influence in the music world stretches far. In some cases, there is some truth to it.

There is certainly room for negative emotions, but they must serve art. Some of the best pieces of music and dance were made with a broken heart, or in the aftermath of tragedy, after all! When a muse in the community die, they grief heavily and loudly, but always with the intent to make something of it. To be bogged down by grief, to wallow in it, is frowned upon. Suffering has to lead to creation, otherwise it is a waste of time.

That is a big part of why Cleo left. There was no room for her grief. She could not make anything out of it. She could not be around these people who, for lack of better words, kept asking 'have you tried not being sad?'

The aos sí does tend to work in tandem with some other fae species. They tend to find fauns around (or vice versa), and like to have mutually beneficial relationships with pixies.

a quick guide into the Volkov family

HEAD'S UP, this write up contains mentions of child abuse of the hunter variety.

Both the Volkov and Chen families are proud hunter families, dwelling from the other side of the world. The Volkovs from a frosty part in Russia, the Chens from a similarly cold area in China — and so they’re most well-equipped for hunting in frosty places. Neither family is particularly tied to their places of origin, though, preferring an existence where they go where the hunt takes them. Still, you won’t find them in very hot places very often.