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secretsofblackthornhall · 2 years

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Julian To Kieran

PRIVATE COMMUNIQUE: DO NOT SHARE ON PAIN OF DEATH

From: Julian Blackthorn of Blackthorn Hall

To: Kieran, King of Unseelie

Well, we’re back from the Seelie Court. Good news: we got the fish slice. Bad news: we didn’t learn very much and we raised a lot of suspicion. But I’m happy to share with you how things went in the hope that you will find it informative. I hope also that you will consider it sufficient exchange for the favor you now owe a phouka. (I am pretty sure that favor will involve asking you to buy a hat.)

We were pretty nervous about going, even with Adaon’s invite—the last time we were in Faerie, things were not great. It was all gray smoke and snow and moths and blasted areas of dead land. All of that seems to be over and done with; Faerie looks healthy again. It was autumn there, and the ground was covered in fallen leaves, all red and gold.

Anyway, we followed Adaon’s instructions and entered Faerie through an old barrow at Primrose Hill. We ended up in a forest clearing with two big wooden doors rising up out of the ground. And Adaon was there to meet us, which was nice of him.

But he did not look happy. He hurried over and explained that he had had to tell the Queen we were coming. “There isn’t much that occurs under her roof,” he said, “of which she is unaware. It is how she has maintained her power all this time, in part.”

He looked so miserable that Emma told him it was all fine and we weren’t doing anything that the Queen would disapprove of, or even care about. He just kind of shook his head. “One never knows just what her Majesty will care about. Or disapprove of. She has bid me take you both to the throne room upon your arrival, and so that is what I must do.”

Now I began to feel a bit more nervous. I reminded Adaon that he had guaranteed our safety. He said, “By the laws of hospitality, not to mention the Accords, she may not harm you or detain you, if your purpose be virtuous.” But he was shaking his head again.

“Let me guess,” I said. “The Queen has the exclusive power to decide if our purpose is virtuous or not.”

Adaon smiled thinly. “Quite.” But he brought us to the throne room.

The throne room was just as autumn-themed as the clearing. More so, really. But it wasn’t about the end of the growing season or being sad that summer was over. It was more like a harvest celebration. There were cornucopias, is what I’m saying, spilling over with gourds, apples, pears, corncobs. There were hay bales, which is kind of funny since nobody in that throne room has, I promise you, ever baled hay. There were pixies with fiery butterfly wings, circling the ceiling.

The Queen was, not surprisingly, on her throne. She wore a dress that I swear, was entirely made of glittering green scarab beetles sewed together. Her hair was like an explosion of red-gold flames around her face. She doesn’t look sickly or emaciated anymore, like she did when we last saw her, and she seemed to exude a power she’d been missing before.

There were the usual groups of faeries scattered around the room—courtiers, I guess—gossiping, tittering, sometimes just sitting around being louche. So everything seemed normal there. They barely paid attention to us, just kind of craned their necks over, realized we weren’t interesting, and got back to lounging.

I expected the Queen to immediately start insulting us, but she was actually quite cordial. Not warm. But not unfriendly, either. Of course, she did want to be complimented on the décor first. She waved her hand around at the throne room and opened with, “You choose a fair season to visit us.”

“It’s cheerier than last time,” Emma said.

“And yet you have chosen to return,” the Queen said, as though she was pleased about it, “despite the…lack of cheer at our last meeting.”

“It has been a long time since we saw our friend Adaon,” I said. “We sought the pleasure of his company.”

“Sayest thou such?” said the Queen, which I suspect is Faerie-speak for So, that’s obviously bullshit. “As you must know, it is not outside the realm of my knowledge that your brother is the consort of the Unseelie King.”

“Only one of his consorts,” Emma pointed out.

The Queen ignored her. “Surely you’ve anticipated that I would suspect you of espionage.”

“We are not here for the Unseelie King,” I said, “but rather regarding our interests in the Seelie Court. Indeed, our family is connected to the Seelie Court in several ways. As you know.”

The Queen ignored me as well. “Your best defense, it seems to me, is that you are such obvious choices for espionage, that surely Kieran Kingson [I think this was meant to be an insult to you, me or both of us] would be cleverer than to choose you as his spies.”

“That too,” Emma said.

“Well, then,” the Queen said. “Spin me a tale. What is your purpose here?”

I felt like we had nothing to lose with the truth—we really weren’t doing anything the Queen should care about. So I gave her the whole story: we inherited a house in London; the house is cursed; we want to undo the curse. I emphasized that neither the house nor the curse were fey-related at all. (I did not bring up Round Tom, as I thought it would be distracting to the main point.)

Breaking the curse requires that (among other things) we get our hands on this fish slice; we’ve learned the fish slice is or was in the possession of Socks MacPherson the phouka; we’ve come to bargain with him for it, and we arranged an invitation through Adaon because we had no way to contact MacPherson directly.

“All we need to do,” Emma said, “is barter with MacPherson for the fish slice. We can do it right here in the throne room, if he could be sent for.”

The Queen looked very interested all of a sudden. “You are willing to do the business here, and never enter the Court proper at all?”

I explained to the Queen that we strongly shared her desire for us not to have to enter the Court.

She seemed surprised, but she called over one of the courtiers and murmured to him. “The phouka will be sent for,” she said. “Prince Adaon, when the Nephilim have concluded their negotiation with him, you will escort them back outside and see them off.” Adaon bowed his assent. “And now,” she said, and her eyes flicked over to one side, “I must beg your pardon, as I see that I am needed.”

We stepped aside to let her descend the throne. I saw that a man had come in who I didn’t recognize—but he was clearly someone of importance given how differently he was dressed than anybody else there. Rather than garb appropriate to court, he was in a gray-green hooded cloak, and his face was obscured by a mask like a falcon head. His clothes were more appropriate to hunting in the woods than anything else, but they were perfectly clean. I didn’t know what to make of him—but I thought I had better pass along his description to you. You said to look for anything new or out of place, and I couldn’t help feeling like he was.

We waited around and chatted with Adaon for a couple of minutes and then Socks MacPherson showed up. We’ve met a couple phoukas before—one of them is the gatekeeper at the LA Shadow Market, as you might remember—and I had thought maybe MacPherson would turn out to be one of those, but no, totally different guy. He was wearing a huge round fur hat that his ears stuck through. It was a lot of hat.

He seemed surprised that the Queen had left us alone, and said he was sorry if we had been harassed overmuch on his account. I said she had probably meant to loom over us but had been called away unexpectedly. MacPherson shrugged and said, “She thinks everything is a move in some game of five-dimensional chess she is playing. But sometimes, someone only wants to trade me something for a kitchen tool. Speaking of which, I have the fish slice.”

He took it out of a kind of carpet bag he had brought with him, and immediately the Ghost Sensor went off like crazy and he kind of jumped away and hid behind one of the groups of courtiers. Although we could still see his hat. (And his ears twitching above the hat.) So we had to go over and explain that it was just a device that detected the cursed objects we were looking for and that the noise was good because it confirmed that the fish slice was the one we wanted. The courtiers shooed us away; they had some important luxuriating to get to that we were delaying.

Socks grumbled that of course “that miserable Spoon” gave him a cursed fish slice. “I don’t know why I took the deal,” he said. “I don’t have any use for this thing. I’m a vegetarian.”

Finally he asked what we were offering, we told him a favor from you and explained how it was we were qualified to offer such a thing. He said the offer was acceptable and we took home the fish slice.

To sum up: Socks MacPherson is protected by the Seelie Court but didn’t blink at accepting a favor from the Unseelie Court. The Queen remains suspicious, both in the sense that she suspected us and in the sense that her behavior was itself weird. The Seelie Court is definitely hiding something, given how relieved the Queen was the minute she realized we weren’t going to actually leave the throne room and enter the court to look around. I have a feeling, based on nothing really — that it’s not a something but a someone that they’re concealing—if it was an object surely they could just hide it somewhere we wouldn’t see it? But, it’s just a feeling.

So that’s it. My deepest gratitude to you, as always, for all your help. I’m sure you were anticipating more information than the above, but hopefully it will be of some use to you.

Our love to Mark and Cristina, and to you of course. And above all, glory to Kraig.

Julian

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a-random-insomniac · 3 months

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

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mayaheronthorn · 1 year

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I know Kit would call Seelie Queen "grandma" just out of spite 💀

#cassandra clare #the shadowhunter chronicles #the wicked powers #the dark artifices #kit herondale #tsc #kit x ty #seelie queen

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parcai · 1 year

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“we all tell the truth as we see it" - seelie queen, city of glass | character by @cassandraclare

#artists on tumblr #kit art #art #fanart #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #shadowhunters #tmi #the mortal instruments #seelie #the seelie court #seelie queen #draft dump #q #k #tda #the dark artifices

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alastairstom · 1 month

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I feel like no one's talking up the Sebastian/Seelie Queen story and we really all should be pumped about this one because it's going to eat. It's going to be so unique and individualistic and fascinating. A toxic and doomed-by-the-narrative ship will be... such a thing to see.

#better in black #sebastian morgenstern #seelie queen

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thing-with-wings · 1 month

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I know the Sebastian/Seelie queen story is probably just a vehicle for more info on Ash but I’m still gonna gag the entire time.

#better in black #TSC #twp #sebastian morgenstern #ash morgenstern #Seelie queen #seasons of shadowhunters

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clockworkbee · 3 days

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Why are you so excited for the Seelie Queen? She’s so sleezy to read about that I think I dislike her more than Seb since so much demon blood is his excuse but she doesn’t have an excuse she just.. chose to be bad. And she was shitty to Clary all of Tmi but had sex with her brother behind everyone’s backs while hoping they’d all die in Edom... But I know we got some villain lovers over here so not shaming here! Just curious about the intrigue. I even hate Ash being around her..Yet we’ll probably read about them having sex or planning to have ash as a “weapon” to build up the Ash TWP lore I guess?

Hello, (sorry about my late response, you've probably even forgotten you asked). Thanks for clarifying what you're actually asking, tho! I'll start this by showing the answer in your ask itself (this could be long, idk):

The Seelie Queen is so sleezy to read about. She doesn't have an excuse she just.. chose to be bad. Had sex with our protagonist's brother behind everyone's backs while hoping they'd all die in Edom.

She is by no means among any list of my favorite characters, but her character does interest me immensely. She's one patient, word-twisting, magic bitch, and also the first cool faerie villain character I'd ever read about. Her trickster nature and word games really fascinated me, and I have always been curious about her story. I've wanted to see her perspective (which we could be getting or not), and I've wanted to see her as the main villain (not a side one) ever since TMI.

Now, about why I'm so excited about a story that's supposed to be about her and Sebastian, and I admit, I didn't think about what this story could be (I just didn't have time to wonder 😭) so I never got as far as "reading about them... planning to have Ash as a weapon to build up the Ash TWP lore..." That could be it, tho; a story of them making horrible plans for their wonderful, powerful future in their most desired, terrible world with a baby to make sure of everything and strengthen their united rule! Awesome!

But coming back to your question, I've been curious about how Sebastian even formed that alliance with the Seelie Queen (and no matter the flattery, I never believed either was in love with the other) and what really was it that she saw herself benefiting off of that she supported him. Was it that she could see the potential in his plans of bringing down a part-human race that shouldn't have any power to control her people yet does? Or was it just about an heir symbolizing a strong and scary rule while also getting back at the Unseelie King? Did she plan on betraying Sebastian after she got what she wanted? Or was it all that and more that I'm unable to think of?

These are just some things I've thought of since reading TDA and barely seeing the Seelie Queen make an appearance in other books or stories (TID, TLH, TFTSA, GOTSM, TBC) so the moment I read her name with Sebastian among the ten stories, I was like "finally! Some tea! Something to look forward to that might hold some of the answers I've been waiting for" (or leave me with more questions, lol). So yeah 😅

Thanks for this ask, btw 💗

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overheardinidris · 1 year

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Magnus: okay, don’t worry about it. i’ll go talk to the Seelie Queen, i can reason with her.

Luke: say that last sentence again.

Magnus: i can reason with her.

Luke:

Magnus: i’ll distract her with something shiny.

#magnus bane #luke garroway #seelie queen #incorrect quotes #incorrect shadowhunters quotes #shadowhunters #shadowhunters fandom #incorrect tsc quotes #shadowhunters tv

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tys-kitty · 5 months

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What if the title „The Last King of Faerie“ is actually referring to Kieran instead of Kit? Maybe Kieran gives up his crown and the Seelie queen therefore rules over the Seelie as well as the Unseelie Court and unites them as one.

#i‘m going crazy #but who knows #cassandra clare #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #kieran kingson #seelie queen #dru blackthorn #ash morgenstern #twp #the wicked powers #the last king of faerie

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kaitcreates · 1 month

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Anush

Seelie Queen

#shadowhunter character showdown 2024 #shadowhunters #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #the dark artifices #tda #the mortal instruments #tmi #the wicked powers #twp #anush joshi #seelie queen

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rinadragomir · 2 years

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𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑆𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦. 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛, ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛��𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝐷𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐽𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝐴𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛, 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛, 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒.

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