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They’re a tiny little bit lower than shoulder blades. Actually, the topmost part of attachment to the body starts somewhere along the length of the shoulder blades (probably around the lower third/not quite middle), but they do go lower than the shoulder blades. The whole point of people being able to see them over reader’s head is that they’re long and kinda skinny (best pointed out when she talked to Jeremy about them). A good visual example of a real-life thing that inspired reader’s particular wings are birdwing butterflies (exmple here, the one on the bottom is closer to the image in my head). So, for instance, while some faeries’ wings might not reach over their head because the forewings are shorter, the forewing is a lot rounder and “fatter” in those cases. A good real-life example would be white common butterflies from animal crossing or eastern tailed blues (example here).

This does not mean that reader’s wings are oversized. They’re just right for her/your body and stature, no matter how you imagine her/your body and stature (I know that I give hints and descriptors now and again, but I tried to make most of them easily ignorable so you can better read it like its...well, you). Instead of the forewings and hindwings looking sort of like circles or eggs, they’re more elongated to look like ovals or really funny-looking cylinders (again, look to birdwings for basic shape!).

Now, if we’re comparing faery wings to butterflies, it should be noted that faery wings are naturally in the “museum position” and the forewings don’t sort of “fall back” over the hindwings like butterfly wings do naturally...but that’s a whole different discussion. 

As for the Trevor’s arm thing in the panic attack chapter, the arm placement comment is a little bit two-fold. 

First, when you look at a birdwing butterfly’s basal (the part of the wing that attaches to the thorax/body), it looks like the fore and hind wings overlap a bunch, making the basal area seem smaller in comparison to like a monarch or something (probably a bad example but that’s the one off the top of my head). Now, it isn’t necessarily smaller at all, in a butterfly’s case, but I wanted to make it so that wings aren’t “attached” to a fae’s entire back (that would be too cumbersome for fiction and writing and shit, plus shirts would be a logistical nightmare), so I took that and ran with it, meaning that I’m trying to imagine/describe the wings as having a rather small basal area (the fact that the wings are long and skinny helps this fact). 

Second, from my own experience (because that’s where Panic Attack Scene came from, when I have a panic attack and my boyfriend drags me onto his lap in much the same way I described Trevor doing it. The key to understanding his arm placement - and I apologize if I wasn’t clear, I was too busy trying to write realistically than giving every detail - is that his elbow is bent in a “v” shape. Reader’s left shoulder is like, pressed right against his chest sort of tucked into the shoulder joint, and then his arm comes down and back up so that his fingertips just barely touch the top of the other shoulder, where the Mark is. Since Trevor is tall and has long arms, I guesstimated that his arm would get extremely close to the basal but not touch. 

Again, I hope this answered your question and solved your problem. I’m very sorry that I confused you, and I will try my best to be better next time.