#voidbeantm

Corbin realizes first - it’s hard not to, being around Logan, or going over to Thomas’s house full of copper cookware and nearly empty of salt and iron, because he knows the odds of Dot and Larry, two full grown adults, playing a long-game prank on him are very low

Tori, though- Tori’s in denial for months.

Even as the house grows full of unexplained little chaoses (because Tori strictly refuses to listen to her sister and brother-in-law’s pleas to charm it), even as Corbin begins to insist that his friend Logan is a changeling - a changeling of all things, really this is just ridiculous, the Sanders child is clearly just autistic - even as no one in the entire town “breaks character” for even a fraction of a moment, she tries so hard to cling to the idea that she’s being fooled, and then that the whole town is delusional

I;m honestly not sure yet what is Tori’s real wake up call, but its something utterly unexplainable by any mundane conclusion. She probably just straight up sees a whole ass live goblin in her backyard and shrieks loud enough to bring the whole block running

Of course, she immediately tries to move out of Wickhills. But after months and months of houses being sold out from under her and her phone dying or dropping calls every time she tries to call a real estate agent and her car breaking down every time she tries to go to a viewing, she probably goes to her sister

“Wendy, how do we get out of here?”

And Wendy can’t even look at her

Hey Tulip in Greenheart You mentioned red hair, silver ring, some other stuff that gave Harley some kind of sight? Can you explain what’s up with that was, pretty please? (from @amtgurly)

I combined these since they were so similar but i am HAPPY to talk about Harley’s Double Sight -

so essentially, theres TONS of things that in folklore can be used to give yourself Double Sight (also called True Sight, Second Sight, or just The Sight), and lots of things that kids can be born with that supposedly grants it

the Born-That-Way ones i listed were red hair, seventh children -

(although usually this is recorded as the seventh child of a seventh child, and its almost always gender-locked, so a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, or seventh son of a seventh son, but the youngest child of seven mixed-gender kids get nada - i think this is Sexist And Stupid and im full of SpiteTM so it’s not locked in laoft as far as im concerned

Also sometimes firstborn children are recorded as being Magically Special, but in contrast they’re usually cursed rather than blessed, so Logan didn’t mention it.)

- a child born after midnight but before 1 a.m (witching hour) and finally a child born with a caul. a caul is when a bit of amniotic sack is stuck to a kids head, and its said kids born with it (and the caul itself) have all kinds of magical abilities.

and THEN theres ways/charms to give yourself Double Sight - silver rings, four leaf clovers (though they only work once usually) and looking at reflections in silver-backed mirrors, to name a few

here’s the thing - the reason in laoft that everybody on the planet with a silver ring isn’t seeing All Kinda Shit, is because any one of these things usually isn’t enough to do it all by itself. it will give you definitely more awareness than average, but not Full On Sight

Harley has the ring, and Logan was right on two counts - the red hair obviously, and he was born between 12 and 1 AM. The third thing Harley has, which is not one of the things Logan rattled off, is that he has a x-shaped birthmark on his left hand.

(there’s a HELL of a lot of lore on birthmarks, enough to fill a book all by itself - shapes, placement, color, on and on. tbh theres SO much i could have used just about any birthmark to at least somewhat justify Harley’s Double Sight, but i did have a reason for this one)

So with the birthmark, the hair, and the birth hour, the ring was just enough to tip Harley over that last bit, (though it did take a minute for it to kick in mostly because Harley had no clue what he ought to be looking for) and he saw Logan as What He Is - a creature of the Light and Air

NOW another thing that helps - the ring only works on that hand. He can just switch to the other one if he’s not interested in getting spooked.

this comes in handy later, when Harley actually comes to Wickhills, because yes, Double Sight is very useful in a place like that, but there can be you know, Too Much Of A Good Thing

(Thomas loves Virgil, would even if Virgil wasn’t married to his brother - but he looked at Virgil through a hag stone exactly one time, and he will never deliberately do it again. his only response to Harley asking him to elaborate is a very firm You Do Not Want To Know)

Okay - just to start, everything after this is my own interpretation. almost none of it is based in traditional folklore

That being said, this is gonna get L O N G