#maybe if the king saw him as a partner and not a plaything and pet

[lordkingsmith]

Waylan Spark! mostly done, but this is the guy a fae king is willing to chance getting shot in the face for. The photographer who disappeared in 1973, think of this picture as his missing person's photo/ the flashback scenes. This is him days before he vanished. Nora loves braiding his hair, so while he has the long permed flippy hair normally, when at home and when he disappeared he's got it braided. He has the right hook required to defend his long hair, and his sister.

I'll do the picsfor when he's in the forest, and when he's in boss mode. as a boss, Waylan's boss title is "The King's Right Hand"

Waylan's got some parental issues, and struggling with being frustrated with his parents and knowing from the moment his sister was born he was going to have to raise her for the majority of her life. He loves her, he was ready to do so, but he's mostly angry that he was put in that position to begin with. Knowing this is why he was single for so long. Funnily enough while he was aware of the king, and knew he'd take people, he had been lulled into a false sense of security. He'd wandered that forest for years. Nobody in the human world knew the area as well as he did. Turns out the king was only biding his time with Waylan.

Waylan's bosses represent his resentment to his parents and the fear he'll become like them (the woodcutter), his mother abandoning her kids, Nora especially, and not taking her with her (Old Mother Rabbit-who is Tansie Spark, Waylan and Nora's mother), a sense of freedom vs responsibility and being a good brother (the Prince/Graybelle), What he knows is going to happen if he ever lets the king have his way (Heretical Butler), and his sexuality, attraction, and cycle breaking (The Autumn King himself).

like his niece Sloane, Waylan doesn't talk much. At least not to people he doesn't deem worthy, such as Nora, Mauv, or the niblings. If he doesn't recognize someone, or doesn't trust someone, he generally won't speak. He lets his actions speak for him. The king enjoys drawing more than a few words at a time out of him, even if it's usually when Waylan is having a mental breakdown.

this poor man goes through so much shit lol. He's tired and he's trying so hard.