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A thought on the Winter Lady

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kbrizzle:
Since Mab is a very calculating person, I wondered why she felt the need to have twin daughters of her own (Maeve & Sarissa), given that she’s not really the maternal type. We have WoJ that Mab & Titania ascended their thrones around 1066, & have been in power since. I’m not sure how old Aurora was, but we have a different WoJ that Maeve (& Sarissa) were born in the 1700s (apparently their father was a random Austrian musician). This means that there must’ve been a few Winter Ladies between 1066 & the 1700s, & we know there have been 2 in the series so far.

My WAG here is that the Outsider plots were effective at targeting the Winter Ladies, including a couple who were likely disastrous - as a result, Mab decides the best way to deal with this is to birth a Lady (& a spare) herself to control the quality & succession of the mantle. This of course ultimately backfires with Maeve since Mab had birthed her for a purpose & was not capable of treating her as a daughter - she seems to be trying to rectify that mistake with Sarissa before Maeve nips that plan off (I do think this will lead to Mab & Titania finally talking again).

Mira:


   I don't think we know how old Maeve was though when the mantle passed to her.  Even though supposedly she and Sarissa were identical twins, they were very different girls and apparently Mab favored one over the other.  Now it could be a small matter of Maeve being born a few minutes before Sarissa thus she was in training from the get go to be Lady, where as Sarissa was treated like a daughter and she and Mab apparently had a lot of interests like opera in common.  I can see Maeve resenting this as they grew up and finally rebelling as far as doing her duty once she became Lady.   So I don't think giving birth to Maeve was the problem so much as poor parenting on Mab's part.  Perhaps if she had paid Maeve as much motherly love and attention as she did Sarissa it might not have turned out so badly...  Before you jump me for calling it motherly love on Mab's part, since most think her incapable of it, I think Maeve would argue the point, because that is where she put the blame.

g33k:

--- Quote from: kbrizzle on March 04, 2020, 12:17:05 PM --- ... WoJ that Maeve (& Sarissa) were born in the 1700s (apparently their father was a random Austrian musician) ...
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Not "random," I suspect:  this fits their daddy being Mozart.

Mira:

--- Quote from: g33k on March 04, 2020, 04:38:25 PM ---Not "random," I suspect:  this fits their daddy being Mozart.

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Not to mention Sarissa and Mab's mutual love of opera.

Avernite:

--- Quote from: g33k on March 04, 2020, 04:38:25 PM ---Not "random," I suspect:  this fits their daddy being Mozart.

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I thought there was the alternative that it was Schubert instead, but that wouldn't fit with the 1700's. So do we know 1700's, or more 'about 300 years ago'?

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