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[October Daye] working my way through Red-Rose Chain
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I like Seanan's decision to have Walther be Around for several many books before circumstances align such that Toby learns he's trans
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plenty of time for readers to get used to him as Just A Guy Who Is There
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Ceres is gunning for a place in Most Emotionally Stable Fae listings
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just by going, basically, "I disowned my father ages ago and I'm glad he's dead and I don't have to worry about him anymore."
kikibug13
yup
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like she clearly...both has had more time to work through things than Luna, and has used her time better
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(Faerie is constructed entirely out of dysfunctional families, children struggling to please their parents struggling to please their Firstborn struggling to please their three parents)
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(and most of the fae don't even know how fucked-up and abusive their families are, because they've never seen a functional family unit)
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(mad props to Dianda and Patrick for figuring out how to parent with basically no guides)
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but yeah Walther isn't there because he's trans, he's there because he's him.
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yeah
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he's slowly gotten further into the story from Literally Just A Guy, and now we're finding about his backstory and trauma
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(trauma which is not related to him being trans)
kikibug13
basically.
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still canNOT believe Toby doesn't know she's bisexual
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I guess it doesn't super matter, since she's monogamous, but come ON
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1950's........
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and while she was born around when my mom was, she was in the Summerlands for the 70's "I'm bisexual! and you're bisexual! everyone is bisexual!" thing
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anyway
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I'm unsurprised by Walther working on a cure for elf-shot; I figured it'd get fixed someday, as too many interesting characters have been semipermanently sidelined by it
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like, I wanna. I wanna interact with Raysel more
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see what she's like when her blood isn't eating itself
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the weird fae autoimmune disorders that come with personality disorders
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(but also, in Raysel's case, I think perfectly natural Hella Trauma got...inaccurately bundled under "her blood just doesn't like itself nothing to be done")
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(because she did go through an incredibly traumatic experience that ate her entire adolescence and...no one seems to have helped her with that, at all)
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(she didn't even know what magic she had, or how to use it, because Luna was so wrapped up in hiding who she was)
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I love how it's impossible to tell if Tybalt is incredibly super sexy and attractive, or if he's just always been described to us that way because Toby's always been super attracted to him