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Old 02-28-2016, 02:41 PM   #13
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Default Re: [Spoilers?] Blue and Orange Morality: Adapting the Faerie Courts

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Really? How did poor King Harold manage to annoy them THAT much?
Perhaps it wasn't him. Or perhaps the whole thing was a proxy - England moving from one faction's sphere of influence to another. Or maybe they just had a bet on the outcome.

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But then...Mother Summer shows up, and the subsequent sequence is weak. She acts too human. She reveals that Mother Winter talks a good game, but cares underneath. Etc. The alien coldness of Mother Winter and the wild caprice of Titania are undercut by this sequence. The Mother Winter of the encounter in the cottage is Winter Fae. The Mother Winter described by Mother Summer is more like a human in a costume, or so ISTM.
Maybe they're playing good-cop/bad-cop or alien fae monster/human fae? Or maybe Jim just misjudged getting his exposition in...

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But there shouldn't be any leftover humanity in them, not after the passage of thousands of years as Faerie Queens. The magic should have devoured that long since. (We don't know just how old Mab and Titania are, but IIRC Titania mentioned that they were alive in 1066.)
Thing about immortals is, they change really slowly. They have to otherwise they'd go mad. Or madder anyway.
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