#iron fey

I started reading the official Iron King comic adaptation and it made me so angry I spontaneously decided to make my own version. I’ve calmed down since, but here are some character designs.

Explanations:

• I know the changeling is supposed to look just like Ethan, but I still want him to have a nightmare face sometimes. Also, blank eyes as an easy visual shorthand to show who is who.
• Ash has a blue earring to give some color to his very black-and-white design and also tie him in with the Unseelie Court (see also: Mab’s lipstick).
• Machina’s black roots were a coloring mistake, but I like the effect so I’m keeping it.
• I know Machina’s eyes are described as slanted, but since I’ve already used that eye shape a lot for the other fae gentry, I changed it. In my opinion he has a certain droopy-eyed energy anyway.
• Titania’s hair should probably be longer but the curly updo just suits her so well. I like the period drama, princess-like look of it. Also, curly Titania vs. straight-haired Mab for the Contrast™️.

Meghan: It’s just a game!

Puck: Sorry, but my need to win easily beats my desire to ‘just have fun’. Prepare to be annihilated.

Meghan: Who died and made youking?

Ferrum: Lots of people.

Rowan: What’s in it for me?

Sage: I don’t leave you behind to die.

Rowan: …Okay, I’m in.

“Your problems are fascinating, but may I offer you a glass of who the hell cares?”

(Probably) Sage

Ash: I just have one question for you. Do you know what ‘a pain in the ass’ is?

Puck:Yes.

Ash: Are YOU a pain in the ass?

Puck: …In what context?

Oberon, as Puck walks in: What crimes have you been committing today?

Puck, offended: Since when is catharsis a crime?

Oberon: Since you started using “catharsis” as a synonym for “arson”.

Oberon: Oh please, Robin, you loathe-slash-love Prince Ash. And he loathe-slash-loves you back, which is essentially one step away from matrimony.

Glitch: I have a question.

Ash: Yes?

Glitch: [pointing at Puck] Is he this stupid all the time?

Ash: Unfortunately, no. I have no explanation for this.

Oberon: I don’t really mind Robin being homosexual, I just don’t like him dating men.

Titania: You really haven’t grasped the concept of this gay thing yet have you?

Oberon: Well there must be homosexuals that date women?

Titania: Of course. They’re called lesbians.

Puck: It’s not normal!

Ash: I’d sort of like to know what you consider ‘normal’ but I’m too afraid to ask.

Ash: You have a lot to answer for…

Rowan: Do you honestly think I’m going to be punished for any of this? They need me. They can lock me away but eventually I’ll walk free again.

Puck: We all have a head, a body, a neck, and a sound hole. So technically we are all ukuleles.

Glitch: How do you come up with these things, Goodfellow?

Puck: Why aren’t you wearing a mask?

Rowan: Because I’m not sick?

Puck: I know, but have you seen your face?

Rowan: Why? What’s wrong with it?

Puck: It’s ugly.

Glitch: So, how’re you adjusting?

Ash: It took me five and a half hours and a lot of tears, but I can now use a computer.

Rowan: I didn’t catch your name.

Ariella: I didn’t throw it.

Ash: How hot is it in here now?

Glitch: 107 degrees.

Puck: Every night I prayed for the gods to make me hotter.

Puck:

Puck: THIS ISN’T WHAT I MEANT!

Sage: Hello, Rowan. Made anyone cry today?

Rowan: Sadly, no. But it’s only 4:30.

Puck: Hey, how’s it going, Ice-boy?

Ash: Oh, you know. Still the resident family fuck up.

Puck: Well, I guess someone’s gotta do it.

Imagine Puck racing through the Summer Court, banging pots and pans and yanking open closet doors as he goes, all while hollering into them,

“Alright, everybody out who’s comin’ out! It’s time to be gayer than usual! Happy Pride!!”

A startled bogey in one of the closets timidly accepts a small rainbow flag and waves it a couple times in bewilderment as Puck races off to continue his rampage through the rest of the castle.

Puck: Alright, folks! I wanna hear your best verbal smack down! I want you to cut your enemy open with every syllable! Ice-boy, start us off!

Ash: You’re a disgrace to your name, a blight on the land where you were birthed and a blemish on the face of your forebears.

Puck: Dated but poignant! I like it! Next!

Glitch: Listen, bro, if I gave a fuck about your opinion I’d be all out of fucks to give and I’m saving my limited quantity of fucks for something worth my time, and it ain’t you.

Puck: Snappy! Beautiful emphasis on the emotional indifference! Next!

Rowan:[censored] [censored] and[censored], so [censored][redacted].

Puck:…

Ash:…

Glitch:…

Puck: See, this is why we can’t have nice things…

Puck: I used every skill in my repertoire.

Glitch: How many skills is that?

Puck:One.

Puck: May I have this dance?

Ash: You absolutely may not.

Puck: Your loss.

Oberon: Robin needs to learn some morals and values.

Titania: Look at him and tell me there’s a God!

Puck, dangling upside down from the rafters by one foot:hEmAdEmEiNhIsOwNiMaGe

Titania: How did you find me?!

Oberon: I was merely lucky enough to have heard you shouting about going to the seaside.

Rowan, having just punched Ash in the stomach: You ready to go out?

Ash: Sure. Do you mind if I go piss a little blood first?

Rowan: Please, by all means.

Puck: Humans are wild, man. They’ve got whales with horns and that weird half duck, half otter monstrosity but want to argue over whether we exist or not.

Ash: To be fair, sometimes I have a hard time believing you exist.

Puck: How?

Ash: I’ve just never encountered so much unbridled chaos contained in a single, sentient vessel without spontaneously combusting. It boggles the mind.

Puck:…Fair.

Meghan: Something about this place gives me the creeps.

Tiaothin: You sure that’s not just Prince Rowan?

Rowan: [slasher smile]

Meghan: …No

Imagine convincing Rowan to watch a ghost hunting show with you, just for kicks. He begrudgingly agrees, and you two settle in to watch a couple episodes.

You notice he seems especially amused by certain episodes and keeps snickering to himself every so often. Eventually you can’t take it anymore and turn to him.

“What’s so funny?”

“You didn’t tell me Goodfellow was in this,” he says.

“…Cause he’s not?” you say, bewildered.

“He absolutely is,” Rowan says, “I recognize that house from his exact description of it from last Elysium. And the one before that was a gig he had a couple years ago. Pretending to be a malevolent spirit is one of his favorite hobbies.”

The rest of the night is spent with Rowan pointing out other dwellings he’s fairly confident Puck has haunted, and even an insane asylum he remembers visiting “way back in his youth”.

Puck, telling Ash a weird fact: IT’S TRUE!!

Ash: No, it’s not. I refuse to believe you.

Puck: I SWEAR ON GOD.

Ash: Sure you do.

Puck: I SWEAR ON YOUR LIFE.

Ash: I still don’t believe you.

Puck: I SWEAR ON MY LIFE–

Puck: I don’t have one–

PUCK: BUT STILL!!!