#everglen

Let’s say you were Biana in the first book.

Before the events of KOTLC:

Your brother and your dad are always disappearing and leaving you out. You find yourself picking out flaws that your brother never had a problem with. “Am I always going to be the bronze to his gold?” Naturally, you start to turn to your friends for entertainment, including your best friend and your brothers’ cute friend who skipped a grade. You quickly become the most popular girl in school, everybody at your feet. “Do they like you because of you, or your status?” One day, you invite some friends home. They seem really giggly, for whatever reason. The second your brother walks in, they all flock to him. “Did he really make it about him today?” Your mother and your two best friends are the only ones who understand. Your mother tells you to be nice, because he doesn’t have many friends. It’s ok, at least your brother’s back.

When Biana is first introduced:

A dress suddenly disappears in your closet. When you ask your mom what happened, she says they’ve picked up some girl your age. It’s why they were doing all those errands, and they took your dress instead of buying a new one. “Another kid for my parents to love more.” You finally can’t take it, and you and your mom get into an argument. She uses her powers to disappear. “Classic. Always running away from conflict.” You hear your father’s voice. Oh. That girl is here. The epitome of everything your parents love more. Secrets, leaving you out, and your brother. Whatever.

The Elwin scene:

I finally finished Everglen. I did my best to follow the art from Unlocked. It is placed in the Cavalier Cove neighborhood from Brindleton Bay.

Exterior:

Entrance:

The main hallway (the one with the colored water):

Sitting room (where Sophie meets Biana):

Biana’s room (with Lady Sassyfur ofc):

Fitz’s room (featuring Mr. Snuggles and Fitz’s human collection):

Alden’s office:

Formal dining room (where Sophie meets Bronte, Kenric, and Oralie):

*pans to a shot of a traumatised fitz*

Architect moment

I was thinking about elvin modes of transport and architecture, like you do when you're hyperfixating in the book series that derailed your architecture thesis for 20 days straight, and also of the fact that Havenfield's party hall (forgot what its called oops) is what Sophie's room used to be, and it's on the third floor, and I was like ...why?

And it made me think of this excercise I had to do in 9th semester (aka hell) where in groups we had to outline a society 100 years in the future. Everything. From how the number of people would grow to methods of food production to garbage disposal to modes of transport. And all of that affected somehow the housing design

For example, if you pose that cars now fly, and all mode of transportation is made through the sky, why would you need a front door in the first floor? And why would you have bedrooms in the second+ floor (which we do for privacy, in houses that have more than one floor ofc) if you're coming in from the upper floor? What would make more sense in that case would be to flip the spaces and put the rooms in the first floor and any common spaces in the second one and up

So that would explain why the dancing hall in Havenfield was in the third floor, considering Leapmasters are chandeliers and from what we've seen they usually are in the upper floor, but THEN, they dont use Leapmasters to come back to the house, and I'm pretty sure the Leapmaster leaves you IN FRONT of the place you're going to, not under that place's Leapmaster, so once again, WHY IS THE DANCING HALL IN THE UPPER FLOOR? It explains the fact that elvin houses still have a front door (if it was only for utilitarian purposes like, I went for a walk and now I'm back, or I went to the pastures to feed the animals and now I need to get back into my house, it probably wouldn't need to be super grandiose, tho I get it checks out with how the elves try to make everything huge and wowing), but I guess it might be just a Havenfield thing, because Everglen does have its dancing hall on the first floor

idk, I guess it's probably that Shannon didn't think it was that deep (insert "you know what it never was? that serious" tiktok audio here) and its just my architecture degree holding onto a tiny detail, but it made me think

It's also interesting to me that Leapmasters sound kind of like teletransportation pods in scifi, but dont have like a specific spot where you land

anyway

-takes off architect hat- ramble over, hope it made any kind of sense

i can't decide whether i want to post them or not, since it's really messy

it's based off no canon at all, entirely fanon stuff

it also has many notes (related and non-related)

inspired by @crymeariveronceagain 's similar post

part 1/?