#having trouble getting pregnant with your fae partner? Go find a human

[arcxnumvitae]

Because of the difficulty fae have with conceiving, they tend to be very, I guess, matter-of-factly possessive of any offspring they sire with other species. Fae blood already runs true with children had between fae and other species (otherwise they would have long died out or mixed into something different entirely with how often they have to reproduce with other beings for a higher chance of conception) and fae think nothing of spiriting away a child from its other (usually human) parent into Seelie to live and grow, oftentimes without that parent even knowing the truth behind who they slept with or what color blood runs through their child’s veins. Unfortunately, the non-fae parent often really does just wake the next morning to find the newborn gone without a trace or word. Or, to basically never know that their partner conceived from their time together.

There’s different reasons for this. In the past especially while a bit of a natural glamour existed up to a certain point in their adolescence, an inspiration for the myths surrounding changelings, if the newborn’s looks seemed inhuman enough, then there was a risk of superstition and fear to cause the baby to be killed. And to the fae, babies are in pretty short order to go around allowing them to be “wasted” like that. 

But mostly, this possessive view and sense of ownership of fae children comes from the Seelie’s sense of superiority against other species. Of course the babe would want to live among its own people, there’s simply no way it would ever be content with crawling in the mud among humans. It’s not a half-human, half-fae baby, it is always considered a fae child.