#cassius sencen's a+ parenting

[book-lover85]

Keefe is the type of kid to cry in the aisles of a grocery store because his parents left him there

[thepumkinmoth]

Look I know Cassius is a horrible dad but remember that scene in lode star where Sophie realizes that he slept with keefe’s stuffed animal after he ran away like that was actually sad

[kale-of-the-forbidden-cities]

Cassius prefers Fitz over Keefe. Alden prefers Keefe over Fitz. They end up using their parent issues against them, to manipulate them.

They tell the other's son something they never told their own:

"I'm proud of you."

And that hurts them. but they keep coming back for those crumbs of validation. They don't see it.

[telugu-girl-13]

If an Empath touched me while I was reading this page, they’d have a heart attack.

See what I…did there? Empath…heart…yeah, no, I don’t even want to joke about this.

[somewhereincairparavel]

okay so im reading everblaze, Gisela says that Keefe talks about sophie ALL the time. And Keefe does not strike me off as initiating convos with his parents and seems to avoid them as much as he could. So the thought of Keefe going out of his way to tell his parents how cool sophie is despite not wanting to talk to them makes me want to scream in a pillow EEEK

I can imagine him getting all giddy when Sophie is casually brought up by Cassius and goes into a rant abt how awesome she is.

Also, when biana only jokingly said that her powers as a vanisher is much better than sophie's and Keefe got all defensive.

I'M GOING TO DESCEND INTO THE SKY I LOVE THEM SM

[thebestsencen]

No, I'm going to be a good parent and move to my Atlantis apartment for a while, abandoning my disappointing son.

[ramblings-of-lola]

I am seething. I hate Cassius so much. The abusive slime ball has the freaking audacity in Nightfall to give Sophie the information she needs to save her human family on two conditions: He gets to be in the Black Swan and Keefe lives with him again.

No. Just no. He shouldn't make Keefe chose between being abused by him again and Sophie losing her family.

Not only that, but Cassius is part of the reason the Black Swan are an organization: to stop the myth that the Elven world is perfect. Why else would no one stand up for Keefe against his abusive parents, but Sophie, raised by humans, was able to instantly tell that Keefe was in an abusive home after seeing how they treated him in public? Because elves don't want to admit they can be capable of horrible things like humans too.

[the-prettiest-ice-cube]

Rebpong after voting

[castleofravens]

i like that shannon actually revealed kind of that cassius does care about keefe/love him and shows that he’s concerned about keefe’s safety bc i think it makes cassius more realistic? as a more three dimensional character but also as an abusive parent

[loveydovey-leviathan]

thinking about how keefe had to grow up being his father's "second chance"

[kay-oh-al-tea-sea]

cassius is republican coded. he owns a maga hat send post

[darkchocolatedimples]

could you do fearless (Taylor’s version) for kotlc characters 🫣

I absolutely am loving these since Kotlc and Taylor swift are like my two obsessions lol

ofc!! i'm so glad ur enjoying they're so much fun to sort

fearless!!

fearless - biana

fifteen - sophie

she. is just. a girl.

love story - keefe

hands down his favorite taylor swift song. this is keefe's song.

hey stephen - dex

maybe it's him to sophie but it's actually ME to him.

white horse - dex

HE BETTER GET HIS SOMEONE SOMEDAY WHO ACTUALLY TREATS HIM WELL

you belong with me - keefe

every unspoken thought

breathe - fitz

remember he didn't just lose sophie as a future romantic partner, at least for a little bit, he's lost her as a friend 😔

tell me why - linh

here's to you (song parents) and your temper!!!

you're not sorry - tam

dear song parents once more!

that's the way i loved you - sophie

bc fitz is sensible and keefe is SCREAMING AND FIGHTING AND KISSING IN THE RAIN AND ITS TWO AM AND IM CURSING YOUR NAME SO IN LOVE THAT I ACTED INSANE AND THATS THE WAY I LOVED YOU

forever & always - fitz

the way i'm constantly mourning keefitz

the best day - biana

three older brothers and keefe.

change - dex

jump then fall - biana

ITS SO DEX AND BIANA I COULD SCREAM

untouchable - keefe

this one gets me good "but your untouchable burning brighter than the sun...come on come on, say that well be together, come on come on, little taste of heaven"

come in with the rain - sophie

very stellarlune

superstar - sophie

"im no one special im just another wide eyed girl whose despertely in love with you" NO. YOU ARE SOPHIE FOSTER AND HALF THE MEN IN THE STORY HAVE FALLEN AT YOUR FEET. OWN IT.

the other side of the door - fitz

cause im so mad, i might tell you that it's over, but if you look a little closer I SAID LEAVE BUT ALL I REALLY WANT IS YOU

today was a fairytale - sophie

but not the whole day! bc she doesn't ever get that.

you all over me - tam

"so i lied, and i cried, and i watched a part of myself die, cause no amount of freedom gets you clean" screw the song parents part 29939

mr. perfectly fine - keefe

it was supposed to be sophie...but cassius SUCKS

we were happy - linh

that's when - sophie

pov shannon decided to let sophitz be

don't you - dex

atp i want to start campaigning for a dex centric spin off or companion book

bye bye baby - tam

[myfairkatiecat]

Something I love about how Shannon writes the Sencens is how explicit she is about the fact that their household is not physically violent.

Cassius doesn’t hit him. It doesn’t make it okay.

It doesn’t make it okay.

Keefe’s parents were verbally abusive and neglectful in ways that really screwed him up. Not physical ways, not while he was growing up. (Lady Gisela during canon is something of a different story, but I’m strictly talking about keefe’s normal home life before the plot.) Not getting physically abused didn’t keep him from getting seriously messed up by it.

And I love how clear Shannon is about it. She calls it abuse without dancing around the word. She makes a very important point: the sencens didn’t have to have physical violence in their household for it to damage their son.

Say what you want about Shannon but she slayed that.

[cavennmalore]

the dynamic between the sencens is so endlessly fascinating to me — especially with the idea that they do love each other. like they are three people who are forever tied together even though they cannot stand each other and underneath that they care about each other so much they despise it. lord cassius is the cruelest and most callous man in the lost cities and when you look into his subconscious it’s filled with love for gisela and keefe. keefe hates his parents and still grieved when he thought gisela died. gisela did nothing but use her son and husband relentlessly for her own gain and still was upset when they discovered her identity bc it meant losing the pretense of family. your family are the worst people you know but also the ones you can’t let go of.

[multi-fandom-lunatic]

its time. KAM HEADCANONS

Keefe and tam totally started dating but like. no one knew. they thought that they were best friends or already dating (linh is the only who falls into the latter)

Keefe tries to mess with tams hair. he's in awe about it. like, what does that mf put in it. and why's it so stiff-

They totally wear each other's iconic colours. keefe wears silver jewelley, belts, accessories even if it doesnt fully suit him, and tam just has ice blue stuff on him. im talking. pins and badges, stickers and a pair of earrings.

Keefe is such a swiftie. not up for debate. he just is.

Keefe is bi, and i mean the most useless bisexual ever. he finger guns at everyone. he makes bi jokes. he has frog EVERYTHING. everyone is his type and he is everyones type,

tam is gay and ace. he's totally cool with keefe's flirty/dirty jokes because tam knows and consents to them.

They are the most. physically affectionate people ever. especially keefe with tam. im thinking. the classic boyfriend hug (i like to call it the partner hug), squeezing tam way too tight hugs, lifting tam up hugs. as well as kisses everywhere. like you could map out where keefe has kissed tam and its a whole adventure.

keefe and tam totally have a matching sweater and pj set. its something totally obnoxious and they love it.

THEY. HAVE. HAIRCARE. NIGHTS. these two shits totally exchange hair products and keefe is like "what even is this" and tam is all "this would take like give hours" "beauty takes time." "and money i see"

as for surnames, i cant imagine them taking their parents. especially tam. if at all, they'd both have sencen. but i feel they'd come up with their own surnames. maybe "sensong" or even "samsung" without knowing about the brand (sophie makes fun of them)

sophie was the first to accept them. shes been around humans and understands how hard coming out is because of her highschool classmates (there was 100% gay kids in her class). the rest of them are confused and are like "whats gay" but they support their friend (and learn a bit about them too.........)

sophie 100% takes them both to the forbidden cities after they come out. to buy pride pins. keefe is absolutely enamoured by them and tam is more worried about the environment.

on this fateful trip, keefe learns about different human aesthetics. and it becomes his everything. one day a vsco girl. one day emo. one day barbiecore.

keefe uses the word coquette frequently without knowing what it means. like hed just point and say "thats coquette" and its a crushed soda can.

tam eventually tells him about coquette. does not stop keefe.

tam and keefe are not picky eaters. these two mfs will guzzle anything down

but sophie and fitz are, so when they visit, they just eat mallowmelt. just. mallowment.

kam, fedex, linhella and jenstina. sosingle and marusingle.

cassius didnt know about kam until their wedding day. and boy that was DRAMA

when kam wanted to get married, they went to the council, half of whom freaked out and half of whom applauded. it was a lot of battle, but eventually, a year later, the definition of marriage was changed in the law.

so obviously these two made headlines for being like. the first gay marriage in the lost cities. and lo and behold, cassius finds out.

hes so against it, but he doesnt show it to people in public. ofc, keefe got an angry imparter call from him that he laughed off.

quan however. oh dude was raging. he tried to call tam but BLOCKED.

then fedex and linhella got married and everyone was wth. did the human kid just bring the gay with her?? and not be gay herself??

anywho, on the topic of marriage. keefe totally proposed.

keefe was sick of waiting for tam to propose and caved and bought a ring. it was silver with a blue stone in it in the shape of a kite.

keefe brought tam to a cliff and proposed to him there (saying that if tam said no, its alright bcuz he could jump off)

tam was competely pink and told keefe to "shut the fuck up" and pulled out a ring. BECAUSE TAM WAS PLANNING TO PROPOSE (at a later date)

okay im sucked dry of HCs. lmk if yall have any

[siennamakeschaos]

kotlc adult headcanons :D (and theories i guess)

warning: kind of long

I also got off-track quite a few times

but enjoyy

grady and kesler were best friends all throughout their time at foxfire (their friendship was even stronger after kesler got booted out before elite levels)

kesler dated juline for a bit, then introduced grady to her sister (edaline)

grady was heads over heels for her but edaline was an oblivious sweetheart

cassius and edaline previously dated

they were cute together

they broke up bc of reasons (which may or may not include a mystery sencen sister~)

grady and cassius were also really close friends for years. and years. cassius became a lot more hostile after oralie got elected as a councillor (which is part of a theory of mine that i might talk about in another post) and the two of them drifted apart

and cassius kind of insulted edaline in front of grady, which resulted in him getting mesmerized to slap himself :D

grady and edaline moved in together on the day of their 10 year anniversary of being together

he surprised her with a new addition to the animal reserve (edaline was over at havenfield 90% of her time)

VERDI!! grady knew edaline loved t-rexes, and she instantly fell in love with verdi

verdi fell in love with her

grady was scared verdi was going to steal edaline from him

so he proposed to eda :D

their wedding was in the paddocks because edaline requested it

kesler was the best man, juline was the bridesmaid

ofc jolie was the flower girl

verdi crashed the afterparty

edaline's parents screamed while grady's parents laughed

after everybody left, grady, edaline, kesler and juline hung out together

kesler proposed to juline

the lost cities went SCREECH

their wedding was on a pretty beach

at midnight

because they wanted it to be special

jolie was flower girl. again.

grady was best man, edaline bridesmaid (yep grady and eda's wedding but swapped)

there wasn't a large collection of guests bc of the bad match scandal

kesler wore a bright yellow suit

juline wore a neon yellow dress with green glow-in-the-dark makeup

their wedding was eccentric and beautiful <3

time to move on from weddings

alden and grady were colleagues and they developed a friendship

edaline and della met when shopping one day and they developed a friendship

one day edaline and grady both accidentally invited della/alden over and that's how the two of them met

della got her match list a couple weeks later

number 1? alden vacker

she was astonished and tried not to dwell on it

but her and alden grew closer after that

then confession stuff and they dated for 5-ish years.

before proposals

they had a wedding in the everglen reception hall

jolie was excited this was her first wedding that she wasn't the flower girl at

best man + bridesmaid were close friends of alden + della's

the bridesmaid was a relative of alina's

gave her all the info (when the wedding was happening, where)

alina went and crashed it we all know what happened :)

okay back to the childhood of characters

ELWINN

a-hem. elwin's parents fought a lot and didn't pay much attention to him :(

he had a cousin named amarelle sencen

she was a couple years older than him and they were so close :D

elwin spent most of his time at amarelle's house

when he was 15 and amarelle was 18, amarelle's parents had another child

elwin was happy, he had another cousin :D

the child was named cassius (>:D)

amarelle moved out after she completed elite levels (she was an empath~)

elwin's parents literally forgot he existed most of the time so he moved in with amarelle

cassius was 2 at this point and ANOTHER child was born (elwin had another cousin!)

the name..? ahah no.

elwin saw his aunt and uncle a lot, and cassius looked up to him.

elwin babysitted cassius and the mystery child a heap, until he went to elite levels

it was around then he began to take an interest in physician and doctory stuff (look at me using scientific words /jj)

amarelle supported him every step of the way

she gave him a stegosaurus stuffed animal

he named it stinky >:D

elwin was so grateful for that he began to grow a stuffed animal collection

but stinky was always his most favourite

elwin went and got qualifications after elite levels and stuff

but he still lived with amarelle

she owned a place called splendour plains

amarelle was working as a jeweller, she often made jewellry for elwin to wear

(also when keefe was temporarily living in splendour plains, amarelle still owned it but elwin knew that the two of them had never met so he claimed it was his own house. amarelle was on a trip with a close friend while keefe was there.)

amarelle didn't have the best relationship with cassius

but she showed up to the opening ceremonies thing for Foxfire when he became a Level one :D

elwin came as well

he cheered cassius on the whole time

elwin gave cassius a special stuffed animal after that (it may or may not still be in cassius possession~)

elwin began to get really busy and he didn't have much time to hang out with cassius and the mystery child

he managed to make it to the mystery child's first opening ceremony tho

he gave HER a stuffed animal as well >:3

it was a unicorn

she named it sparkles

bc she thought the name 'queen pink of all things pink' sounded kinda weird

mystery child loved pink :)

uhh this elwin part's gotten kind of long now-

elwin became foxfire's physician

mystery child always got fake-injured (or exaggerated her injuries) to come to the healing centre to see elwin

cassius would sometimes drop by during breaks with grady

elwin had recently gotten a blue elephant stuffed animal in a hawaiian shirt and he wanted to find the perfect person to give it to

it took years to find that person-

also aro/ace elwin :)

he doesn't wanna get involved with any romantic-y stuff

not for himself anyways

he gives the best romantic advice to cassius tho

and his other patients

especially one who got a really bad injury one time named kenric

he was pining over the mystery child

mystery child and kenric became friends :)

cassius was sUsPiCiOuS (older brother instincts)

he didn't like kenric

until one day mystery child almost died in some sort of accident

kenric saved her

cassius liked kenric now :D

cassius and kenric weren't friends tho

cassius, grady and kesler had sleepovers with edaline and juline

chaos

pure chaos they were

cassius + edaline began dating the next day

grady was lonely bc kesler was dating juline

he was a single pringle

ages later (wayy after cassius + edaline broke up) grady asked edaline out

shit we're getting back to grady and edaline-

tiergan and prentice were besties

they would have been the perfect cognates

but tiergan didn't want to fall in love with sOmEoNe

so they stayed besties

then cyrah came along

prentice fell in love but it didn't feel right

he loved cyrah tho

tiergan was a single pringle

for a year

two years

three years

ten years

twenty years

thirty years

has been a single pringle his whole life :')

let's go to gisela now

she grew up with a few close friends, she did moderately well in school and she kept noticing the things that were wrong in the lost cities

after elite levels she met mr arson (a.k.a fintan) and he felt good vibes off her

a couple months later gisela is officially a neverseen member

she is really dedicated

fintan loves her (platonically)

they're bestiess

fintan puts on mini fire shows for her

gisela helps him with his noxflares

she was sad when he was taken off to exile

lol she took over the neverseen leadership position

but then fintan was back

and they were besties again

then fintan was arrested again

and she took over the neverseen leadership position again

and uhh this is kind of getting into canon things now-

okay I think this is enough for now

...i'm tempted to write more for elwin

ANYWAYS YEAH

....mystery child reveal may be in a post to come