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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JConstantine" data-source="post: 9788441" data-attributes="member: 7052620">I'm a big proponent of blue-orange morality for beings like fey.One method I use for that playing that up is by giving them a child-like understanding of things, eg. mostly surface level. So they have nobility with their courts and titles, etc., and demand the respect and gifts that come with that because they learnt about it from a mortal who stumbled through to the fey realm, but with none of the socio-economics or responsibility or other such nuance that goes with it. Similar to how, in Nightmare Before Christmas, the denizens of Halloween Town are trying to copy Christmas with only Jack's description to go off, and they can't help but filter it through what they know. It's an affectation like children playing make-believe. However, where children have boundless creativity, I have fey unable to create, only imitate.This leads to them taking things at face value, which I think ties well to your proposal of fey bargains being literal. This, in turn, allows savvy mortals to outsmart them like we see in folk tales. "We agreed I'd give you my first born child, not that you could keep them! I gave you them, now pass them back to me." That seems weaselly and it's precisely the sort of thing a child would consider unfair because they take things at face value, not considering semantics and the like, so fey likewise consider it unfair (which can lead to their enmity), but they can't argue with the logic (due to the aforementioned lack of creativity). However, now that they've experienced it, they can take that into account next time.And so, fey have a fascination with mortals, because they need them to learn from and mimic in order to grow, but they especially like children because they're similarly forthright. It's the ones who have had the most interaction with mortals that are wiliest of their kind, and that allows them to gain dominion over their fellows.</blockquote>

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