#raj (october daye)

[darkfrog24]

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GINEVRA: Remember, Tybalt, October got brainwhammied hard into thinking she's a sweetieniciepants meebly-meeb. When we see her, try to play it low key.

TYBALT: I have had four months to mentally rehearse this. I think I can manage not to completely alienate my own wife.

OCTOBER: *shows up*

TYBALT: I'M TYBALT AND YOU SHOULD BE YELLING MORE. HANG ON, I GOTTA PUNCH A WALL AND ALSO SOME PEOPLE.

OCTOBER: *nopes out*

TYBALT: ?

GINEVRA: Is it a diplomatic incident if I smack you?

TYBALT: We both know it isn't.

[johnconstantinesdick]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: October "Toby" Daye & Quentin Sollys, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Quentin Sollys, October "Toby" Daye, Chelsea Ames, Rayseline Torquill Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Role Reversal, Murder Mystery Summary:

Sir Quentin Sollys lives his life as a knight errant in service to the Duchy of Shadowed Hills. He gets up every morning, drinks his coffee, and drives into work. He does his job, and if that involves more household-management than swinging his sword around or solving mysteries, that's fine.

And then Countess Evening Winterrose dies, and the only witness is the Duchy's new foster; a near-feral changeling child who demands to be a part of the investigation. With clues leading straight to the fae underworld, a complicated relationship to the local King of Cats to contend with, and a strange child to look after, Quentin has his work cut out for him.

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What if I wrote a Toby ageswap. What would you do then.

[quietflorilegium]

“The future’s really big. It has a lot of stuff in it. Why don’t we worry about right now first, and see what that gets us?”

Raj, Seanan McGuire, "Hope Is Swift"

[tamlins-stories-and-poems]

Still a bit behind on my draw-tober, but here’s one of the best boys! Written by @seananmcguire !

[robindrake93]

Rut (2000 words) by robindrake93 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raj/Quentin Sollys Characters: Raj (October Daye), Quentin Sollys Additional Tags: One Shot, POV Third Person, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Mating Cycles/In Rut, Boys In Love, First Time, Animal Traits, Barbed Penis, Anal Sex, Rimming, Cat Ears Summary: Raj goes into rut and Quentin helps him through it.

[meadowziplines]

some raj & tybalt stuff in a ficlet for @simonlorden on grief & loss (plus a bit of teasing, and definitely a hug)

set immediately after Ashes of Honor

[jewishpangolin]

[ID: reply by @coredesignixandnekonee: Toby: I’m not ready for a new child, I can’t replace Gilly Quentin: hi Toby, already prepping the guest room for a permanent residence: go away kid, you’ll only get hurt if you stick around me Quentin, pulling his lunch out of the fridge: hey so can I rely on you for emotional support since I can’t see my parents until I’m thirty? Toby, feeding him cookies and hugging him and worrying over his well being: I guess but I’m not responsible for you Raj: ok auntie.]

toby is like bruce wayne in that she can’t stop adopting children, except she’s the coffee version of vodka aunt and they’re all nieces and nephews. homegirl isn’t gonna do parenthood again just yet but try stopping her from babysitting your kids on the weekend and occasionally teaching them valuable life skills like making coffee and checking the backseat of your car for stowaway assassins

[geraniums-red]

Seanan McGuire - The Unkindest Tide

Book 13 in the October Daye series

The Selkie doom has arrived. It's less bloody than I expected, in that no-one has to die, but it means that skins can no longer be passed down so parents either have to give up their skins immediately or watch their children grow old and die while they still live. There is also a coup at the Undersea kingdom, and a murder to investigate.

I enjoyed this book. I liked that there were several different sub-plots instead of just one over-arching goal, and I'm glad that the Luidaeg wasn't actually planning mass-murder. I was also pleased with Toby's instance on getting the best outcomes for the most people possible. I'm not too worried about her being killed by the Luidaeg at some point in the future - Toby has got better from being dead before, and I'm sure she'll manage it again.

The bonus novella Hope is Swift is from Raj's point of view, and it's well enough written, but he's not a character I particularly care about. I did like that there is at least one person in Fairie who is willing to go to therapy, and I hope this sets a new trend.

[masked-disciple]

For the "Give Me A Series" ask meme, October Daye since that's how we know each other. :D

Oooooo, Toby! I haven't checked the discord in a good hot minute, I've been so damn busy, but Toby's good.

❤ Favorite Male: Tybalt, honestly, followed by Jolgeir. I wish I was half as cool as either of these men. ❤ Favorite Female: The Luidaeg! It's hard not to, it really is. She's so good. ❤ Favorite Pairing: Tbh, I don't really do the transformative (heh) thing as a fan with Toby, so we're going with the OG Toby/Tybalt. Followed by probably Quentin/Dean? ❤ Least Favorite Character: Following off the last ask with "Even characters that suck I tend to enjoy, because they're fascinating, so let's go with most annoying", it's Connor. This is pretty popular in the fandom, because his relationship with Toby annoyed everyone, but I was honestly relieved at his death. He was such a jerk to Toby in Artificial Night like- she's going to save some kids and die in the process, and you can't do shit, and you're being mean to her about it? At least Luna had good reasoning. Connor was just an ass. ❤ Who’s most like me: Irritatingly, probably Raj, lmao. I am about that haughty and also that stupid, although I like to think a little less traumatized. ❤ Most attractive: Uhhhh, probably Joe? Toby's the only one I really have a good image of in my head, because she's on the covers. I always picture that one Black actor that played Mercutio once for Tybalt, tbh, but as far as I know that's pretty far off. ❤ Three more characters that I like: Simon, obviously - I genuinely liked him a lot as an antihero in Brightest Fell, because when he said "Sometimes home doesn't feel that way anymore, and that isn't your fault" and Toby asked if he was supposed to be the villain here and then felt super bad about it, and then he went "Be careful, October. This is the road that broke me," later on and I was like holy shit??? I'm not sure how I feel about how he's been in the past couple of books, because he keeps getting shunted to the side, and honestly with so much focus on his trauma it's really making him more... I dunno, for lack of a better term as a bit of a crybaby? Don't get me wrong, he deserves to have his trauma addressed and helped, and I know his trauma is depicted pretty realistically, but it's also the only thing we've seen from his side for a while. I think we need to look at his trauma, yes, because holy shit has he been through it, but like, Simon can get his shit together real fast if he's asked, and we haven't gotten to see much of that. We saw a mention during the wedding of him fighting, but we have not gotten him as part of the fight. Toby sent him away during Be the Serpent and I was so annoyed, because he works damn well as part of the action team, and he didn't get that.

But also, August and Quentin, honestly. We got ONE story from Quentin's POV, and that was ages ago. Chelsea mentioned that he doesn't want to be High King anymore, and I NEED to see things from his side and find out what's up with that. And August? We get to see so, so little of her. I know we'll get more of her in the next book, I know she's probably being set up to take May's usual role as Toby's action sister for a little bit so they can be friends, but I am desperately begging for it. We also almost never get to see Quentin actually fighting, and we know from Simon in AKF that Quentin learned his "win now bleed to death later" thing from Toby, but we never get to see him do it. I need to see both of these idiots do it. Pls. I'm begging Seanan personally.

[ask game here]

[magicofthepen]

october daye tag directory

note: includes spoilers

heads up that the characters i am most fixated on in the toby series are the luidaeg, elizabeth ryan, and captain pete, with significant focus on aldridge and diva ryan too. many toby characters and relationship dynamics show up on this blog, but this is a disproportionately undersea-centric (and selkie/roane-centric) space! 😄

october daye (overall series tag)

october daye relationship tags (platonic): the luidaeg & toby | the luidaeg & captain pete | the luidaeg & quentin | liz & aldridge | the luidaeg & blind michael | quentin & toby | simon & toby | may & toby | sylvester & toby | dianda & toby | arden & toby | august & simon | august & peter

october daye relationship tags (romantic): liz/annie, dianda/patrick/simon, dianda/patrick, simon/patrick, dianda/simon, toby/tybalt, dean/quentin

october daye character tags: the luidaeg | elizabeth ryan | captain pete | aldridge | diva ryan | toby daye | quentin sollys | simon torquill | tybalt | dianda lorden | patrick lorden | may daye | august torquill | sylvester torquill | chelsea ames | raj | dean lorden | peter lorden | walther davies | cassandra brown | arden windermere | stacy brown | marcia | april o’leary | janet carter | amandine | titania | madden

the elspeth ryan universes (AU fic series written with @presidentromana in which Liz and the Luidaeg have a kid):

broken oaths and distant shores (tag for the verse where the Luidaeg steals Elspeth at birth and she’s raised by Pete)

elsie ryan tag

[elissastillstands]

CHILDREN OF THE SUMMERLANDS - Toby Daye Fancasts [5/9]

It sometimes seems like Faerie reserves the hardest choices for the children. But then again, Faerie isn't fair. (Adapted from Ashes of Honor, Seanan McGuire)

Featuring Froy Gutierrez as Quentin Sollys, Karan Brar as Raj, Ariela Barer as Chelsea Ames, and Amybeth McNulty as Karen Brown. With images from The Return of the King, The Witcher, Anne with an E, Runaways, Garth Badger for Coup de Main, and Clark Atenacio for Grumpy Magazine; all other photographs from Unsplash. 

[blue-mood-blue]

Toby: You wouldn’t be happy if someone dragged our hypothetical children into a territorial dispute

Tybalt, eyes shining: ...our children?

Toby: Oh boy

[johnconstantinesdick]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: October "Toby" Daye & Quentin Sollys, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Quentin Sollys, October "Toby" Daye, Chelsea Ames, Rayseline Torquill, Raj (October Daye), Dare Lorimer Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Role Reversal, Murder Mystery Summary:

Sir Quentin Sollys lives his life as a knight errant in service to the Duchy of Shadowed Hills. He gets up every morning, drinks his coffee, and drives into work. He does his job, and if that involves more household-management than swinging his sword around or solving mysteries, that's fine.

And then Countess Evening Winterrose dies, and the only witness is the Duchy's new foster; a near-feral changeling child who demands to be a part of the investigation. With clues leading straight to the fae underworld, a complicated relationship to the local King of Cats to contend with, and a strange child to look after, Quentin has his work cut out for him.

~~

Quentin bisexual dad of the year???

[tanoraqui]

Raj, Quentin, and Chelsea—dungeons and dragons.

Quentin laid his character sheet on the table for public review. “I’m going to be a half-elf paladin, I’m not sure what Oath yet but I guess I don’t need to?”

He glanced at Chelsea for confirmation. Chelsea nodded.

“Cool. So, I dual-wield shortswords, and, uh...take no shit, basically.”

“I’m going to be a Tabaxi monk,” Raj said smugly, presenting his own sheet. “20 Dex to start - I swear, I just rolled it! - Way of the Shadows, because, honestly what is the point of being a cat if you can’t shadow-walk. I mean, aside for all the other obvious advantages.”

Dean erased a number on his sheet and wrote something different, lips moving as he checked the math. “Okay...yeah. Water genasi barbarian, just here to swill some booze and punch some bad guys and kiss some cute guys.” 

He almost, almost managed not to blush or look at Quentin. Quentin didn’t really try not to grin back.

“Okay!” said Chelsea. “And I’m rounding out the party with the - technically NPC - School of Abjuration wizard, who is all of your professor at the Academy of Adventuring Studies. Kind of lacking on healers, but that’s D&D for you.”

There was a range of satisfied nods to confused-but-okay shrugs around the table. Then a moment of silence.

“...Are we all really boring at coming up with characters?” Dean blurted.

Chelsea put her head down on her arms. “It’s actually undignified and despicable that the coolest characters any of us could come up with are actual authority figures in our lives. We’re a disgrace to teenagerdom. We should be taken out back and shot.”

“Hey, my half-elf paladin - oh, I see it.” Quentin backed down from a defensive post. “I see it now. Yes, we’re all disgraces.”

Raj was busy looking at Chelsea, with an expression that would have been accompanied by a twitching tail if he’d had one at the moment. “Clearly, we all subconsciously defaulted to the most badass parental figure we have,” he said slowly. “You picked your mom over Sir Etienne?”

Chelsea’s head snapped up. “Absolutely and inobjectively yes. Trust me.”

[elinaline]

ON THE SUBJECT OF OCTOBER DAYE

young fae making memes. opinions.

[robindrake93]

Quentin and Raj have to be endgame for the October Daye Series. Here’s the evidence thus far:

Shared trauma - which we know Raj is all about because of Helen.

Raj says that Helen is temporary.

October mentions that Dean is a good first boyfriend for Quentin and Quentin agrees that it’s temporary.

Quentin and Raj sleep together almost every night and spend a lot of their free time together.

Quentin’s anger and horror when Raj is missing again.

Quentin and Raj have talked about having a relationship but say that their Kingly duties are stopping it from happening.

Dean actually asks if Raj and Quentin are a thing.

Quentin is very interested in Rene’s story about stepping aside as leader so that he can marry his husband in another selkie clan.

Both boys have seen relationships where people from different courts come together and make it work (Tybalt/October, and Patrick/Dianda/Simon).

Quentin doesn’t actually have to be the High King; he has sibling(s) who can take his place. So he logistically could step aside and marry Raj.

Because they’re both pureblooded fae, they could wait until Raj finds and trains a Prince/Princess of cats so that he can gracefully step aside like Tybalt did and be free to marry Quentin. (maybe centuries later, maybe not but it’s still an option).

All of Seanan Mcguires plot points are glaringly, neon sign obvious and it’s out of character for her to put so many neon signs and then not follow through eventually.