Your post about Simon still defaulting to transformation spells ( amazing one btw) made me actually think something over: in Tobyverse, it's long since established that transformations are water magic thing. Yet Simon picked them up from Eira, his Daoine progenitor. Just like Eira, eldest daughter of the Summer Queen, is deeply associated with winter, Maeve s season. And Eira is also associated with roses, which we also learn are Maeve's thing... I don't know 1/2
what that could mean, but even October in ''A Killing Frost'' voices confusion over how wintery Eira is for daughter of Titania, especially her oldest and most beloved, and night-haunts, children of Maeve, were willing to help Eira fake her death, despite her deep hatred for unseelie fae, for unspecified bribe. Maybe there is going to be another revelation of strange dynamics between the Three, and Luidaeg s family mess?
Your implication that Eira might secretly be Maeve's daughter rather than Titania's is interesting, but...I don't buy it. That would leave us...not without any major Titania-aligned Firstborns, we have Amphitrite and Acacia, but they're not in the same class in terms of character importance, you know? We need symmetricality, with the Luidaeg and Amandine.
(Man I hope we get to meet the Tuatha de Danaan and Tylweth Tyg Firstborns someday. And at least one of the Cait Sidhe... I'm curious to see how Toby gets along with an Oberon-aligned First who isn't her own mother?)
I also, tbh, just hope this theory isn't true, because it'd be yet another instance of a "Character X has secretly been Character/Role Y the whole time!" plot twist that I'm getting kind of tired of. Eira, Quentin, Walther, Oberon...inevitably Stacy and Marcia... ma'am, pls, I need more variety....
Unless the explanation for Simon's skill with transformation magic is that he's secretly been Sylvester's Fetch this whole time; that theory, I'm willing to entertain, though I don't really buy it.
