#quan song

[purplesoup-lad-le]

Quan song be free! *throws him in the sky like a bird* for the 2025 Keeper sexyman tournament ofc @camelspit

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reblog once you voted

[theunmappedstar]

Quan: I missed the birth of both of my children for very legitimate reasons.

Quan: 'Cooking French bread pizza', and 'forgot'.

[frizzle-mcshizzle]

not only are the good parents well written abusive parents is also impressive for a middle grade series, normally the abusive parents in books are physically abusive or drunk or both.

but the Sencens and the Songs are verbally and emotionally abusive in cannon. which is not something that’s seen often, and they’re not all written with the same personality, they are all distinct characters, while a lot of the time abusive parents in media will feel like copy paste of the same character over and over, which is not how you make diverse characters 

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okay so here’s a no context poll

[the-way-astray]

because trying to convince your kids they have their age wrong is the perfect way to convince them they're not really twins! that makes so much sense!

[confessionsofkotlc]

this one is going to be controversial (I think) but I kind of feel bad for Mai song, not Quan he can fuck himself. But Mai recognizes that she was a shit mom and tries to be better. I’m not excusing what she did, but I feel bad bc I my mom and grandma have a similarly tough relationship so I know what it looks like. she really does love her kids, even if she’s not the best at letting them know it (also the books never said Mai was passing them off as siblings just Quan). Also ik she’s selfish, but I’m pretty sure she’s not a hydrokinetic bc she had no clue how to handle them. I think it was Quan who was the hydrokinetic and once again he can fuck himself.

I just think Mai is trying to repair her relationship with her kids, and I can tell she feels really bad. I always get sad when I read her. (also I’m not saying tam and linh should forgive her)

[keeper-character-awards-2024]

KEEPER CHARACTER AWARDS VOTING

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Quan: I am letting them banish Linh!

Tam: I’m going with her

Quan: This wasn’t meant to happen

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Brant Alger [REDACTED] could be a Song

It's not very likely that Shannon would do this, and I also love the idea that he is a Redek, but the dynamics of Brant Song would be really interesting. This includes spoilers up to Legacy and deals with topics like the child neglect of the Songs.

Quan and Mai seem to be on the older section of the parents in KOTLC, and while they of course could have chosen to have a child later, I feel like they have already endured hardships in their lives, and so when Linh and Tam are born, twins, and have to deal with threats to Linh being exiled (by literally doing nothing and letting it happen), that seems like something that was pretty much a quick decision. Yes, that could just be something they already were able to decide quickly, but there is no fun in that, so here is how Brant being their son would fit.

First off, appearances show that Brant, Mai, and Quan have jet black hair. That's not much to go off, but it does not disprove the theory. As for the abilities, the parents' abilities are unknown, but both Linh and Tam are known for their unruly abilities, and Linh is able to manipulate water very well, almost similar to fire in some ways after practicing with Marella. While that could just be their practice, that also implies that the two abilities have similar styles, which could be genetics passed down. Likely, there were only a few pyrokinetics that married because they did not want to face that scorn, and even less who had children. As such, the way a the ability spread was likely through other elemental abilities, mainly hydrokinetics. That would mean that Linh's ability is similar to Brant's. Yes, the names don't seem to fit those of the Songs, but it is not that hard to believe that they chose a name outside of their family for their first son, maybe something that came from a family branch that they have sense broken off with, perhaps the other side of the family, the one that does not share the last name of Song.

As for Brant's story, his parents likely did know about his ability, and they probably were the ones to tell him not to report himself as a pyrokinetic. Considering how they wanted their twins to lie and call Tam a year older, it is not that hard to believe that they would tell their firstborn son that he could not share with the elven world that he was actually a pyrokinetic. This could explain an ulterior motive for Quan and Mai choosing a house with a large body of water nearby. They had that so that their son could not burn the place down to the ground because they could at least grab buckets of water to throw wherever his fire went. They also likely made a separate house for him on their property, likely one of their sparkly brick towers—another precaution—that they would have repurposed after the traumatic event prompted them to kick Brant out of the residence.

Onto the actual event, Quan and Mai would have known that Brant was a pyrokinetic, and that he started the fire that permanently scared him and murdered a woman. They probably could care less about his love life since they would have already decided that they would have another child once he was finished with his schooling, and they could kick him out. Quan and Mai have a wall around their residence, which could very well be to keep Brant out. Telling the Council that he was a pyrokinetic would be condemning their family to live with a murderer on their reputation, but they also wanted protection, so they cut him out completely. The Ruewens helped Brant, having already known about how the Songs were cruel to their son. As such, whenever Sophie ended up befriending the Song twins, the Ruewens likely did not want to tell Sophie the truth about them being Brant's siblings.

After being scarred, Brant took the house that Edaline and Grady got for him, happy to escape his parents and their shiny walls and brick towers, but he also saw the stone as another way to trap him and keep him from his ability. These feelings turned towards hate that he felt for Edaline and Grady, who did not understand him. He pretended for one day each year, and the other times, he learned more about his ability and how to destroy the whole Elvin world that his parents had greatly desired.

Having Brant tarnish their reputation, Quan and Mai decided to have another child, the one who would be their proper heir and ideal child. This child would have a powerful ability, possibly one of theirs, but would be proper and find a good match, rising high in the world and making the rest of the world forget about the son they tried so hard to hide. Nevertheless, they ended up with twins, who would cause additional scorn unless stopped, so they tried making Tam seem a year older, which might have worked had all elves not been born with the ability to speak and comprehend events, so he knew that Linh was his twin and that he was not a year older than her. To make matters worse for the Songs' reputation, their children developed strong, dangerous abilities that they did not understand, causing them to dislike their children even more. They had already dealt with Brant, who had brought the talentless shame and bad match label to add to the Song name, and now they had twins with dangerous abilities. Mai Song was paranoid about Brant coming back somehow, so she refused to leave the house with its beachfront access, ignoring how her daughter struggled with the water. When Linh got exiled, Quan and Mai had the final stain on their reputation, and nothing could seemingly get worse for them. They wanted to get that problem over with and kick Linh out, molding Tam into the perfect single son that they had wanted with Brant. Instead, Tam followed Linh, and their parents were left with nothing but ruined reputations.

Mai continued to paint as a way to cope with what she had done to her children, and the parents decided to try and forget their children. They had already done that with Brant. Quan destroyed all of the artwork that Mai had created after Brant had become a murderer. Now that younger children were seemingly gone for good, they would try to start over and forget them, staying just as a couple and cutting out the remnants of their children, except for one family portrait that Mai had completed a few days before Linh flooded Atlantis. Quan had destroyed the others before Mai could realize that she regretted it.

Considering how Brant ended up dead with neither parent attending his planting, Mai wanted to make amends when Linh and Tam returned to the Lost Cities, not wanting to hear about another one of her children getting wrapped up in trouble and dying. Quan kept trying to convince her that the twins could not be helped, but when Tam was captured by the Neverseen, Mai saw that as a small opportunity to try and reconnect with one of the children whose face she had already forgotten.

Obviously, this theory would only make Mai and Quan Song worse people, but they are already pretty bad, so that would really just add more detail to why they do the horrible things they do and show how much of a pattern their actions have been.

Also, here is a piece of old art of Brant. (tw: scars)

[purplesoup-lad-le]

Here we have Quan Song, from the Keeper Sexyman bracket of 2024! I'm pretty sure he was meant to face the left when i was making him, but oh well.

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Pls reblog

[theunmappedstar]

quan and mai song scare me

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please rb if you vote!

[frizzle-mcshizzle]

i was reminded about the Songs and i genuinely think that Quan is a flasher or a charger because it was mentioned before he opened the door there was a bright flash of light