the-dot asked: hi!! i absolutely adore your Blue Sword headcanons (why doesn't it have a bigger fandom. why.) and i cried a little when i read the last ones. if i may ask, do you have any headcanons about the children?
(i sent that before i meant to weeps, sorry, feel free to ignore this one if you want) also, luthe is probably their weird uncle who loves them all and tells wild stories that no one quite believes. (i hope you’re having a good day!)
Ummm, let’s see, headcanons about the kidlets. I’m not going to do the headcanon meme because I’m mostly making these up, but I hope these are good!
Tor Mathin
- Tor is a lot of things–first sola, horseman, a good tactician, a promising young king–but a swordsman is not among them. He’s passable, technically very good, but he lacks joy. Tor is the first person in his family in the gods only know how long to prefer spears, and dredges up an old design for a Damarian saddle that allows him to strap the poles to his horse’s side for easy access.
- Tor takes after his namesakes–both of them, actually, although naturally Tor’s dry humor and stoic sufferance of small children didn’t make history nearly as much as his Just-ness. But what I’m saying here is that, basically, Tor has a very droll sense of humor and is an incredibly excellent big brother who claims dibsies on his youngest sister on the spot and routinely allows himself to be dragged into trouble with her. Mathin is delighted.
Aerin Amelia
- Obviously, Aerin Amelia is the next carrier of Gonturan. One of them, at least. She is a talented stateswoman and the beloved first sol of her people, and her mother teaches her swordplay, and Aerin associates it with laughing and joy and the beat of sunlight on her cheeks. She beats the crap out of her brother frequently and Tor puts up with it because he’s a good sport.
- She likes to dress up like her godmother–Amelia dotes on her, and for Aerin’s sixteenth birthday the girl shows up in crimson and blue, a dress Amelia sewed for her over the winter, somewhere between a Hill robe and a layered Homeland dress, with pearls woven into her bright red hair.
- Aerin and Senay’s baby sister Rilly fall in love and get married and Senay and Harry are both pleased beyond belief. Aerin, much like her namesake, is Tall, and Rilly is kind of Tiny all her life, they’re adorable.
Jack
- Jack is a fucking kelar powerhouse. All his siblings are, they take after the old kings, but Jack in particular is juiced. His talents run toward rock and stone, and when his kelar wakes he almost shakes down a wing of the citadel. He and Harry ride out into the Hills and she sets up a camp in a little valley where she once learned how to fight, and they just sort of wait out the worst of it. She kisses his hair and rubs his back and it’s a terrible few weeks, as he tries to get control, but it’s an oddly warm memory, later.
- To that effect, Luthe likes Jack very much, he reminds Luthe of the Aerin easily as much as his sister, and although Jack is far from being a full mage, Luthe teaches him a few tricks. One that Jack particularly loves, because of the way it makes his sisters yell at him in mock aggravation, includes turning little posy rings of pimchie flowers into golden birds that sing before flying away into nothingness. Luthe observes Jack’s talent for this particular parlor trick and very scrupulously does not burst out laughing.
Hari
- The youngest child of Harry and Corlath is two things above all else: an incredibly skilled rider and the fucking family prankster. Tor adores her from the minute she’s born, a wrathful little thing with jet black hair and tiny clenched fists, and he makes a fantastic babysitter, and she gets on her first horse at two years old because she talked Tor into letting her ride his stallion. It was a terrifying experience for Tor as well as all the sofor who witnessed their teeny baby sol shrieking with delight as she clung to the horse’s mane like a burr. It was also the moment that Tor realized his baby sister could probably ask him to hand over the kingship and he might actually do it.
- Hari and Aerin trade custody of Gonturan, sometimes, more just for variety than anything else. Aerin usually carries it because Aerin actually likes swords, whereas Hari likes to fight with a pair of knives. This is considered something of a sneak-thief’s weapon, in Damar, but Hari is very stubborn and Harry isn’t exactly a strong candidate for telling any of her children “No, you can’t, Because Tradition” and Corlath is too thrilled with his life to take a hard line on something so unimportant. So it’s mostly Hari’s tutors kind of moaning through their teeth as she learns to throw knives and Hari young woman is that your brother’s best tunic you’re using for target practice.
- Yes, it absolutely is Jack’s best tunic, because Hari, in the fashion of younger siblings everywhere, is, after all, something of a sneak-thief, and she stole it to see how long it would take him to notice.
- It has been three weeks and while Aerin and Tor have both noticed, Jack shows no sign of picking up on it.
