The children of the Tuatha De.

[crossoverqueen]

You know how I'm writing a play about this and making abominably slow progress, given that I only have the opening scene and about eight billion characters? (I also have the look-and-feel of the play coming together in my head, but that's more of a design thing and not actual script-progress

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[cleitisionnach]

I wonder why the Fianna came to you as the Warblers. UPG differences can be so weird, haha. The Fianna I know are so different. Any guesses as to which members these two would be?

Also, are those flashes of the gods' lives something that they're telling you for the play or things that you think happened to them?

[crossoverqueen]

The Warblers are probably the Fianna because they're the only large group of young men I know of :p. Maybe also because the Warblers are a choir, and the Fianna were as well known for their intelligence as their combat prowess.

It feels like the Tuatha De want me to put their flashbacks in my play, because they're not very "godlike" and they're pretty obviously in a context that a modern audience can relate to.

I definitely couldn't have done the last part on my own as quickly as they've been showing it to me.

[cleitisionnach]

Interesting. I know Finn came to you as Finn (if my knowledge serves me well) so I thought, perhaps, they would come as themselves. Then again, I suppose it depends on who's coming. I know I usually see a lot of them because I honor them in my ancestors. (One of the family names comes from the word Fianna so I always give them a little something extra on Samhain and during the year.) Do you think there may be a reason as to why that happens? (I know, IIRC, that you said it has to do with 'closeness' and all that, but why Finn and not other members of the Fianna, I wonder.)

Re the flashbacks: makes sense to me. I almost always like it when people take what the remaining myths are and twist them in a modern context. Or add things in that seem plausible to have happened at the time. Sometimes it can make me double take (depending on the author) but hey, like I said, UPG is UPG. I've got weird bits here and there myself!

[crossoverqueen]

Finn was technically Jon Snow for two or three minutes, but then he grew about half a foot, his features got very rugged, and his hair turned white. I asked him if I should get Jon's actor for the play, but he went, "Nah, too short and pretty."

He probably feels closer to me than the Fianna because I was born on either the last day of winter or the first day of spring (March 20).