#the Unseelie King

[rhiannons-bird]

tsc is actually just about fighting evil old men (most of whom are also terrible fathers)

[helenofblackthorns]

happy father's day to them

[tscsmashorpass]

TSC Smash or Pass Tournament: Round 1

[illustratinghan]

it’s bound to be a fun time with the queen and the bomb 🃏

characters by @/hollyblack 🫶

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[owlyjules]

Since people seems to like him so much, I did a full pic of my Changeling King!

Bird feets are more comfy in the fae world but you can be sure he has some fancy shoes when he is walking this way.;)

I want to draw more of him soon.:3 (and if I had a Nickel for every blueish hair and skin with a crown OC I had I would have two Nickels...But its still weird it happened twice!)

[d4rkshad0w]

one thing i really want to see in TWP is Kieran teaching Kit stuff abt Faerie or Kieran being SUPER and i mean SUPER protective over Kit since he’s the heir but also because of what he means to Mark and the Blackthorns. like what if when Kit and Ty are in Faerie, they’re getting attacked or smth and then Kieran shows up and saves them and the people attacking are in SO much trouble with the king. idk i just really want to see Kieran with Kit

[nuvemzinhacorderosa]

the Bomb 💥

[rise-deepseamonster]

I need to know how that conversation between cardan and nicasia went.

Cardan: *throws an acorn into the ocean or whatever and nicasia appears*

Cardan: heyyyy nicasiaaaa what's uppppp

Nicasia, tired of fending off suitors and can't put up with his bs as well: what do you want

Cardan: I've been super good too, all engagements and about to be weddings, coups and getting stabbed... say, you wouldn't mind a small tiny favour for an old friend now would you?

Nicasia: *groans* again, bitch?

Cardan, already waist deep wading in: we should totally catch up on the way, bestie

[margareturtle]

Wdym TWP isn’t gonna be a princess diaries au where Kieran kidnaps Kit to teach him the etiquette and politics of faerie so that he is able to take on his role as first heir and unite the courts against the big bad so Kit has a full faerie makeover (eyeliner, puffy shirt, leather pants, and all) by the time he reunites with Ty. Ty was sent to find and protect the first heir by the scholomance and so when he reunited with Kit he has to figure out how he fits into the Life of the New Kit.

Meanwhile Ash has finally got the guts to runaway from home (his mom thinks he was kidnapped again) so Ash goes with Janus into New York one day and then splits from him around the institute where he bumps into Dru and Thais (who were leaving after visiting the institute after the Academy) and so they steal a car (Dru has just learned to drive) and go on the run roadtripping across America to LA. Ash gets to have all the great American road trip experiences. Until The Seelie Queen’s people finally catch up with them to bring Ash home to marry his betrothed.

And who is his betrothed? None other than our Kitstopher Herondale. Because the Seelie Queen know that to save faerie they need to unite the courts but she isn’t gonna give up any power without gaining some, so she only agrees to align the Seelie Court with High King Kit but only if her son Ash gets to become High Queen.

So Ash and Kit are going to get married, only two certain Blackthorns have objections to this. (Dru is in faerie now too bc when the Seelie Queens soldiers came for Ash, Ash said he would go peacefully as long as she left Dru and Thais alone) but ofc Dru&Thais are attached to Ash now so they followed him back to faerie soon after. Ash and Kit are allowed to invite their mortal family. It’s the second Herondale-Morgenstern wedding of the year after Jace & Clary’s.

Ash & Kit have their enemies to bromance arc during the betrothal period and they are willing to do this for the sake of faerie (even if their hearts belong to a Blackthorn). Kieran is a proud father.

Only the marriage gets interrupted before the vows because Janus has killed the Seelie Queen and then Jaime suddenly appears out of nowhere and kills Janus.

So suddenly Ash become Queen of Seelie and he’s will to work with Kit & Kieran to save faerie and the shadow world.

And they all live happily ever after

Kit abdicates as High King as soon as he can to follow Ty around the globe uncovering supernatural mysteries with him. He makes Ash his heir so Dru and Ash become High King and High Queen of Faerie and in Ash’s place Helen becomes Queen of Seelie.

And if twp isn’t exactly like this …

Then what’s the point??

[helenofblackthorns]

Helen nearly calling off her wedding because she felt like she was like her mother & dooming Aline by holding onto her 🤝 Mark being told by the Unseelie King that he made a fool out of Kieran just like his father made a fool out of his mother

[alesardesign]

Please draw Kieran with long hair 🙏

Long haired Kieran Kingson🧚👑🏹

[a-random-insomniac]

For my mental wellbeing, in TWP I need somebody to kill the Seelie Queen and immediately call Cristina.

[illustratinghan]

the one time baby cardan found a butterfly in the forest 🦋

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[not-poignant]

Do you have a favorite character evolution or relationship evolution that you’ve written? Personally, the way Augus becomes soft for Mosk in The Ice Plague really tickles me.

Oh hmmm, this is such an awesome question! But also really hard to answer.

I think I have more than one. But the one that weirdly comes to mind is Sharpwood in The Golden Age that Never Was. I've been kind of obsessed with his character ever since and I feel like I'm 'saving' him for an original novel somewhere along the way. Something about him going from like, a cold, distant servant, to what he became, until finally at the end you realise you really want to get to know him better and it's too late... I don't know. I think often about writing a side story of his trauma recovery, but I don't have like...spare time to do it in. Alas.

In terms of the main characters, like the point-of-view characters, Gwyn's and Augus' journey was compelling enough that I followed them for nearly a decade in a single universe. And I feel like that's the most obvious answer because it's like 'well, I spent tens of thousands of hours on them because they were my favourite evolution / relationship evolution.'

In terms of less obvious characters... I actually really loved writing Mosk becoming protective of Gwyn in The Ice Plague and then becoming kind of like a mentor figure almost to him, despite his age and lack of experience.

I loved, loved, loved writing the slow tentative growth of connection between the prickly Gwyn ap Nudd and equally prickle Raven Prince in The Ice Plague as well.

Right now, I'm a big fan of Efnisien and Faber, and Efnisien and Flitmouse too. :D

[brothersnackariahsbitch]

Kieran in SOBH is so fucking funny. Signing off his letters with things like “Hail Kraig”, and dropping lines like this:

“Let us remind our Court that we are the Moon, as the Seelie Court is the Sun; rather than that they are Beauty, and we Tackiness.”

[poetpony6890]

The seelie queen when she has to go to the unseelie courts or tower