#raj (october daye)

[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.

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Quentin bisexual dad of the year???

[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.

[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

[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.”

[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.

[goodplace-janet]

me, retweeting tabby cats on twitter: it's tybalt

[moonaft]

When Sorrows Come reactions

Spoilers: I did not get bingo.

25 squares, from left to right, top to bottom: 1. Malvic appears at the wedding 2. Sylvester attends the wedding 3. The High King or Queen gets elfshot 4. One of Tybalt's enemies from the short stories appears 5. Hope chests are relevant 6. Something is revealed about the False Queen 7. There's at least 3 Firstborn at the wedding 8. Someone calls Toby a kingbreaker 9. Dianda punches someone important 10. Toby drinks someone else's blood 11. August attends the wedding 12. Hirsent crashes the wedding 13. [Free space] Toby's dress gets blood on it 14. One of Tybalt's friends from the short stories appears 15. Eira is behind the trouble 16. Gillian attends the wedding 17. Lore about the Torquill family 18. Quentin's identity gets revealed 19. Sylvester doesn't attend the wedding 20. Someone mistakes Sylvester for Simon 21. Raysel's plotline moves forward 22. Toby learns about Tybalt's short story past 23. Someone gets elfshot for the second or third time 24. Toby insults nobility we haven't seen before 25. Lore about the Sollys family

Date: April 11, 2015, roughly 6 months after A Killing Frost. No mischief occurred around Christmas 2014.

Are nobles seriously inviting the kingbreaker in order to make contact with her mother who she pissed off during the divorce? Have they been paying attention at all?

Technically, Toby has never committed treason. She definitely didn’t commit treason against Rhys because she never swore loyalty to him. 

I think this is the first book that introduced Simon ahead of Sylvester and described Sylvester as Simon’s brother as opposed to the other way around. Sylvester is still on thin ice, by the way. There’s a reason I have both “Sylvester attends the wedding” and “Sylvester doesn’t attend the wedding” on the bingo card.

The Luidaeg denied Sylvester’s request to wake Raysel up - why? Did she want to get the wedding out of the way before Raysel’s trial and October’s next rolling emergency?

Yes, the Quentin problem when getting married at the High King’s knowe. Don’t change his appearance and everyone knows where the Crown Prince is fostered. Do change his appearance and everyone in Toby’s party now knows who the Crown Prince is.

“Dean Lorden is probably technically my brother now” woot.

Toby is voluntarily eating and drinking! After so many books of having food forced of her because she keeps forgetting to do so.

Confirmation that Toby officially owns her place and Luna can’t get Sylvester to reverse that decision.

Dean kissing a strange boy -> ah, they went with changing Quentin’s appearance and bloodline. And they went to the Luidaeg for it. Banshee, huh?

Poor Dean. Toby’s approval means something to him. And Toby continues to eat, good for her.

Yes, I too would love to know more about Sylvester’s Dark Years. Sylvester POV, when?

Dean has now officially heard that Oberon is back, and isn’t reacting. I have to assume the Lordens know the details behind how they broke August’s curse.

Oh Quentin, I love you.

Dean still thinks the Merrow descend from only Titania, but Pete confirmed in The Unkindest Tide that Oberon is her father.

Dean does not understand the value of landlines. Kids these days...

I had not considered that Toby and Tybalt’s wedding would be a historic event.

Surprise wedding date! It really couldn’t have been any other way.

Yes, who would have told Sylvester about the date?

Yep, calling Bridget and Etienne is the best option. And Etienne knows May didn’t tell Toby the date, interesting.

Dammit, Sylvester. I can’t cross that square off yet, he might redeem himself. And Etienne talking sense into Toby!

Did the fae make their kingdoms based on state borders? The West at least was based on SCA kingdoms and principalities. I wonder if Highmountain has a new Crown yet.

Good to know that Oberon can go where ever he wants in Faerie. He could probably bring Riordan back if he wanted to. Is Danny not coming? I can’t say I blame him.

Jazz knows about Oberon too.

I do hope August shows up at the wedding, it’s on my bingo card.

Huh, I knew that Ash and Oak aka New York was a place without fae these days, but I assumed some purebloods and changelings could still live there. Uncomfortably, perhaps, and maybe you couldn’t anchor a knowe there anymore, but I didn’t think it was actively hostile to every fae.

Hey, is that Lowri and Nolan? Nolan’s on guard duty, interesting.

Yes, the Ludiaeg could have married you at any time. Should have thought of that before everyone started offering you their knowe for the wedding.

Oh good they’re bringing Walther.

Makes sense Arden can’t come but she is sending Nolan. Nolan definitely is enjoying life these days.

Confirmation that Madden’s boyfriend is human and doesn’t know about the fae.

“I can go order her to arrest herself, if you’d like” Love it.

I have to assume the Tuatha Express is faster than air travel and not as tiring for the people who aren’t opening portals.

Nessa, the Gwragedd Annwn, a new species. As pretty as the Daoine Sidhe are to a nearly human Toby, wow.

And... she thinks the Luidaeg is Toby? I hope this isn’t a calculated insult. I know Quentin grew up with some bigoted people but this is deliberate.

And Oberon is apparently Tybalt?? What is going on her?

Kerry! We haven’t seen you since A Local Habitation. ‘There are no bad Dayes in this week” aww. I love you, Kerry.

Beacon’s Home is actually a Kingdom and not a Selkie-now-Roane holding? Cool.

It seems important that the Maples vs Ash and Oak decision was happening right before/during the American Revolution but I don’t know why yet.

“The ducal consorts are Daoine Sidhe”, yep both of them. 

“Sweet Titania, I love that woman [Dianda Lorden]” Still waiting for Toby’s bisexual awakening.

The Luidaeg confirms the Gwragedd Annwn are Black Annie’s descendant line.

Quentin confirms something’s wrong with Nessa, maybe she isn’t like this at all.

Whee, slightly more Stacy weirdness. I think Barrow Wights would be descended from Maeve, her illusions shouldn’t be better than Toby’s.

Tybalt is apparently descended from both Oberon and the Luidaeg, if his line comes from the Cait Sidhe Malvic sired with his Roane lover.

Confirmation that the Luidaeg can see the future, at least some of the time.

At least Aethlin and Maida seem happy to see Toby.

Maida doesn’t recognize Cass’s bloodline - interesting.

“Um, my boss is Queen Windermere, and my [human] graduate advisor is Professor Weinstein, and my parents are Mitch and Stacy Brown” Cass I love you.

Oh, Nessa isn’t Nessa.

Not!Nessa, holding Toby at knifepoint is not the detergent you think it is.

Toby has a new knife now, sweet. Not!Nessa is a Doppelganger, we haven’t seen one of those in several years. The one in Rosemary and Rue, who wasn’t Gillian?

“Archers,” “I was right about that?”

Perhaps Toby shouldn’t be the one giving orders to open portals, but Aethlin clearly isn’t doing it.

“I punched it in the face” Why do I have the feeling that’s going to solve a lot of problems in this book? And hey, this isn’t a Firstborn or Queen, so Toby got her wish of punching more punchable people.

“You don’t have the authority to order an arrest in my knowe.” Well, maybe you should give her that authority, High King of the Westlands who was almost assassinated.

“Purebloods forgot things, quickly, when they can’t see them anymore” Interesting.

“And even in a backwater Ducky run by a politically unambitious man” Shadowed Hills predates the Mists, Sylvester really just went as far as he could. Or maybe settled there once Amandine built her tower.

“Is he going to try to stab me? Is he better at stabbing than the last batch was at shooting arrows”? I love you Raj. I wonder if the local King of Cats will make an appearance.

Ah fuck, first dead body.

Toby having the most sense in this scene, I love it.

Did Aethlin basically make Toby a hero of the Westlands as well? “Our visiting hero”

Aethlin is not showing up well in dealing with security, nor are his guards.

“People who put deadly traps on doorknobs often forget the obvious, which is that it’s a good idea to lock doors.”

Three dead bodies? RIP Aethlin’s guards.

Only two dead bodies so far. Once Broken Faith had 4, I believe, but we’re only a third done. Good job on not dying, Caitir.

Gordon, hello. I thought the reference to ALH in the “books to re-read” was about the nighthaunts but didn’t expect to see her.

Looks like neither Nessa nor Honey are dead.

This poor Ellyllon doctor, welcome to Toby’s world.

Ah fuck, Tybalt’s elf-shot again.

Good thing Caitir’s a Candela. Thank you, Raj.

Jazz is apparently betting that Toby’s getting elfshot before/during the wedding, this is a girl after my own heart. As is May.

Walther has a fan, I love it.

The Bridge Trolls can search for clues if they want, I guess. We don’t need to worry about people messing with the crime scene anymore.

Toby’s sweet talking the knowe, that didn’t take long.

Toby, Quentin is never going to leave you behind even when he’s knighted and moves back home. He would sooner move the capital to SF.

Evening got her hooks into Aethlin back in 1906, huh?

“I am the breaker of the unbreakable” Yes you are, Toby.

Black Annis was originally named Ismere? I love the lore we’re getting in this book.

There are rumors that Quentin is Toby’s squire, probably started after OBF. The Beacon’s Home Selkies knew about him, after all.

All the Maeve descendant lines with dead Firstborn imprint on the Luidaeg, this is so cute.

So many reasons why Tybalt shouldn’t go looking for Toby as she walks up. Tybalt’s back!

Nolan is great, I love him. Aethlin’s reassuring Nessa, glad to see it.

How does Fiac know enough about Simon and Amandine’s marriage to have negative feelings about it? It sounds like he was around them to notice it.

The Doppelganger isn’t bringing the Revolution, what a pity.

Fuck, she can’t kill Aethlin now. Damn.

This is exactly the scene I wanted to see with a different Daoine Sidhe, but fine. The guards need more training.

Eira killed other seers than the Roane, did she? Did she want there to be no one who could guess her plans?

Toby thinks Maida is upset with her, while I think Maida thinks Toby is the only one she can trust.

Why do none of the Daoine Sidhe save Simon specialize in blood magic? They all suck at it.

“We need to interview your entire staff, and by ‘we’ I mean ‘you’, and by ‘you’ I mean ‘someone you trust’“ Toby’s got this under control.

“I’m sorry, was that disrespectful? I meant fuck you, Your Majesty.” Quentin is not holding back. Chelsea and Raj are literally eating popcorn while watching this. Despite what Toby thinks, she has a court of teenagers.

I wonder what the series would have been like if Penny was sent to Shadowed Hills with Quentin.

I’m glad Quentin got the chance to yell at his father, he needed it. Look, family drama that isn’t related to Toby!

Walther: “I carry the base ingredients [of elfshot] whenever I travel with Sir Daye.” I would too, Walther.

...Are the rest of Stacy’s kids also Seers?

Oberon exists to be more than background, apparently.

Confirmation that the Luidaeg is a century older than Eira! And the Luidaeg will know if she wakes up.

Yes, Toby gets her own court with all her squires and also brothers. Quentin, Raj, one day Chelsea, Peter if he can convince Toby to do it. She has two Seers, an alchemist and her favorite aunts and family in Saltmist.

So the Summerlands have suns as well as moons.

Oh hey, Julie, I thought you died off screen. We haven't heard from you in several books. They’re getting the band back toge- the High King got poisoned?!

“For example, it would be really unreasonable of him to die right now, thanks.”

“If this is where you want to suddenly remember the High King’s evil grand vizier who you just forgot to tell us about until now, that would be great.”

I thought Maida’s father was still alive?

Aethlin has survived his third assassination attempt in the past 24 hours, sweet.

Why did the Librarian call Fiac the Seneschal? He’s the Court Seer.

Oh, so Toby did settle her debts with Mag about her mom’s biography.

We’ve met Tybalt the Torquill family historian, now meet Yenay Ng, the Tybalt historian.

OK, I... didn’t see that coming.

I approve of Toby punching former King Shallcross in the nose. She should punch more nobles on screen.

Huh, I guess that’s where Eira was before she showed up in the Mists.

Is this guy Dawn’s father? The timelines sorta fit.

Aethlin has managed to not get poisoned or stabbed again, good for him.

Of course they enchanted the wedding dress to not get covered in blood. Good thing my ‘free’ space on the bingo card was “Toby’s dress gets blood on it” which was technically fulfilled with the first dress.

I assumed “wine-colored” meant white until it was described in more detail. I approve of dressing the wedding party in red - it will hide the blood.

Sylvester?!? Nope, Simon.

Aww, Simon gets to walk his daughter to the altar. He gets to see his daughter married!

“Then go. Get married. Be happy. You’ve earned it.”

And the wedding is finally on! The local Cait Sidhe are here! Surprise appearance by August!

“As did the man who looked heart-stoppingly like Simon Torquill, but absolutely wasn’t” Oh Sylvester, you made it after all.

I think this is the first time Sylvester’s been referred to in terms of Simon rather than the other way around.

Whoops, more assassins.

I see you, Simon, using your blood to fuel your transformation spells, just like your daughter. Followed immediately by Sylvester charging into battle. And Oberon continues to be background scenery.

Another guard’s death - 3 now? Maybe more?

“Now I have a longbow, motherfuckers, ho, ho, ho” Love you, May.

Badly attempted jailbreak is a bust. Toby’s dress remains pristine.

Surprise appearance by Gillian! I assume August tackled her to the ground when the arrows started flying.

Wedding is complete! Reception go!

I assume Etienne was instrumental in getting Sylvester to the wedding, not only physically but also by yelling at him about what an idiot he was.

Etienne is a little younger than Tybalt, good to know.

They’re going to Disney world without the kids, neat. Surprise August again! Good to know Helen’s seeing a therapist.

Galen has a crush on Poppy. I love this man that we will probably never see again.

Why is Simon a Count again? Shouldn’t he also be Duke Lorden? Does he get a lower title because he’s the second husband, like a courtesy title? Also, glad to see him and August being Lordens.

She hugged him!

Oh hey Sylvester. You could have started with “You make a beautiful bride” and avoided a shitton of trouble. You made it all about yourself. It’s better than if you didn’t attend at all, but man, Sylvester. You disappointed Toby and me.

“Once and future King of Cats”

She accepts the Lorden boys as her brothers!

What does Cliff think of Gilly spending so much time at Half Moon Bay? Does he think she’s in a cult?

Aw, May and Jazz are going to get married!

Oh hey Pete. Only two Firstborn at the wedding, can’t mark that one off. Nice blessing!

That cake sounds super delicious. Fuck, did Oberon give his knife to Toby and then not take it back? Toby has a replacement for her iron knife now?

Oh hi, Gilly. Your mother’s really excited to have you here. I love Quentin egging Toby into eating the cake. “Quentin pressed a fork into my hand, trying to urge me to get on with it.”

And the final blessing comes from Aethlin. He has got to do something to thank her for all her help in stopping the assassination attempts.

Afterthoughts: I am sad none of Tybalt’s friends and family from London/Europe attended. Morane was alive as of 1911, with no word on the others. Hermeline, if she’s still ruling in the Court of Fogbound Cats, has been ruling for nearly three hundred years.

On the other hand, we got a ton of Toby feels and secondary characters. Love the reactions of the Teen Squad.

What a good and heartwarming book.

Spots crossed off:

2. Sylvester attends the wedding 8. Someone calls Toby a kingbreaker 10. Toby drinks someone else's blood 11. August attends the wedding 13. [Free space] Toby's dress gets blood on it 16. Gillian attends the wedding 18. Quentin's identity gets revealed 22. Toby learns about Tybalt's short story past 23. Someone gets elfshot for the second or third time 24. Toby insults nobility we haven't seen before 25. Lore about the Sollys family

Spots not crossed off:

1. Malvic appears at the wedding 3. The High King or Queen gets elfshot 4. One of Tybalt's enemies from the short stories appears 5. Hope chests are relevant 6. Something is revealed about the False Queen 7. There's at least 3 Firstborn at the wedding 9. Dianda punches someone important 12. Hirsent crashes the wedding 14. One of Tybalt's friends from the short stories appears 15. Eira is behind the trouble 17. Lore about the Torquill family 19. Sylvester doesn't attend the wedding 20. Someone mistakes Sylvester for Simon 21. Raysel's plotline moves forward

I should note some of these are rather literal - Eira caused trouble in the back story but she wasn’t active in the main story like she was in both The Unkindest Tide (telling Torin to stop the restoration of the Roane) and A Killing Frost (taunting Toby).

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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.

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jhöjkhf lmao okay since you asked let me talk about uhhhh *spins wheel* October Daye and uhhhh Pokemon!

Let’s talk about what partner pokemons our gang would have!

Toby: I think a Pawniard is perfect, they’re literally made out of blades, what more could she want? Also according to some of the pokedex entries they ignore their injuries while fighting which..... is very Toby not gonna lie

May: I was thinking about a few options here, like Absol (bc death omen) or Mimikyu (for obvious reasons) but honestly, those are more general fetch things than they are May specifically. The pokemon with the most May vibes is Swirlix. I mean it’s literally cotton candy, I think May would vibe with that

Quentin: Aegislash. I was first considering this for Toby, but it’s a sword rather than knives which Quentin is a lot better with, plus his magic smells of steel. But also. Listen to this pokedex entry for it: “Apparently, it can detect the innate qualities of leadership. According to legend, whoever it recognizes is destined to become king”, which is just too good to pass up. I was gonna give him one of it’s preevolutions first, bc he’s still baby, but honestly he’s become really competent lately and he doesn’t do things by halves, his partner would definitely be fully evolved already.

Tybalt: Zoroark. Tybalt is such a theater nerd he’d definitely love an illusion pokemon. Obviously I considered giving him a cat, but if every Cait Sidhe only has cat pokemon it’s gonna get boring quick. Plus: “Bonds between these Pokémon are very strong. It protects the safety of its pack by tricking its opponents.” just screams Tybalt to me

Raj: Charmeleon. Bc I feel like Raj would really vibe with a dragon, and Charmeleon is “hot-headed” and “tough fights could exite this pokemon” which is a very Raj vibe not gonna lie. He doesn’t get a Charizard bc he’s still baby. It’ll probably evolve when he becomes king

The Luidaeg: Skrelp. Because let’s be real, she doesn’t need a super strong pokemon she’s the mf seawitch and she’d vibe with a cute looking kelp seahorse. Especially one that has this description: “It drifts in the ocean, blending in with floating seaweed. When other Pokémon come to feast on the seaweed, Skrelp feasts on them instead. “

Raysel: Banette. Because, look, all it’s pokedex entries say it’s an angry doll that got abandondend by the child who owned it. I feel like Raysel with her anger at everyone around her could really vibe with that.

Acacia: I don’t think she’d be that strongly into pokemon training tbh and I’m only really mentioning her bc uh. The pokedex entry for Phantump: “ According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest.” So basically her forest is probably filled with them and she absolutely loves and takes care of all of them.

Dianda: Crabrawler. Need I really explain why?