thoughtful10 Things About October Daye.
10. Toby developed her caffeine addiction as a result of trying to hide her fae nature from Clifford Marks, her human ex-boyfriend. Humans are diurnal, fae are not, and so she needed a lot of coffee to stay awake during what were, for her, sleepy naptimes. You can often recognize fae who've played fairy bride by their raging Starbucks addictions.
9. It wasn't until she moved Home that Toby began refusing to be called "October," since her name is really nothing even remotely weird by fae standards. After six months of being teased by the other changelings, she started demanding people call her "Toby," and was happy to support her requests with hitting.
8. Toby has a secret weakness for name-brand cereal.
7. Cagney and Lacey are the first cats Toby has actually adopted on her own. She actually hadn't spent that much time around cats before the two of them; Amandine didn't allow them in her tower, Shadowed Hills is really more a "rose goblin" kind of place, and Devin hated them.
6. Toby loves James Bond movies and old musicals. Really old ones, the ones where nothing needs to make sense as long as it can get you to the next musical number. She can't carry a tune in a bucket, but she still sings along if she's alone.
5. Toby's illusions aren't good enough to let her visibly age her mortal glamour, and has looked roughly the same age for as long as anyone in the human world has known her. She avoids her neighbors as much as possible because she wants to stay put as long as she can, and when they figure out she isn't aging, she'll have to move.
4. Despite the fact that she hates courtly settings, Toby has been thoroughly schooled in courtly behavior, and can dance multiple forms of waltz, foxtrot, and other formal forms. She can also behave herself at dinner parties. She just generally doesn't bother.
3. Toby sets her wards every morning before she goes to bed, even knowing that the sun will destroy half of them before she wakes up. It's the only way she can get to sleep.
2. If she could go anywhere in the world for dinner, and know that she wouldn't be interrupted, Toby would probably go to the Outback Steakhouse. And eat an entire cow.
1. Toby likes people. She just wishes she remembered how to trust them.
February 20 2010, 21:18:36 UTC 7 years ago
I totally want to write a James Bond musical now.
February 21 2010, 19:55:08 UTC 7 years ago