excitedI will make ten blog posts detailing aspects of Toby's universe. Ask me anything! I will not answer every question, but will select the questions that I think are the most interesting/fun/relevant, and will detail them to my heart's content. There's a lot to learn and know, and asking loses you nothing. Remember that nothing I answer here is full canon until it appears in a book: I will always reserve the right to change things if the series shifts between now and then.
Leave your questions on this post. I'm declaring comment-reply amnesty for any that I choose not to answer this time, since otherwise, my wee head may explode.
Game on!
August 22 2015, 02:26:55 UTC 1 year ago
In One Salt Sea, when Toby and Conner did the dirty, the Selkie skin was tied around his waist. That was the only thing that connected him to Fairie. Without his skin in Late Eclipses he had no problem holding iron and needed fae ointment to see Fairie.
Seeing that the skin 1) can be taken on and off, 2) is not some type of venire or coating on the wearer at all times, and 3)during " In Sea Salt Tears we spend a lot of time with Selkies and never see a non skin wearing clan member have magic, I believe all Selkie desendants are human. Since the magic is in the skin, and the wearers are human, a parent cannot genetically pass on magic that they do not posses.
Ok so when "Cousin Annie" brought the two Selkie skins to the clan at the end of One Salt Sea, we meet the child of a Roane and a Selkie. Mom was "never one to follow rules," and Dad was just glad to have a kid. It was stated that they were waiting to see which parent she'd "take after." I believe that this meant they were waiting to see if she developed any magic of her own from her father's line (Roane) or if she would join the multitude of human Selkie decendants waiting for a skin (Mom has no inherent magic to pass down). If her possessing magic meant that she took after her dad and was therfore a Roane, I imagine that means that otherwise she would be a human.
So I believe that if Conner and Raysel had a kid, they'd have the same "wait and see" issue.
It is also stated that "There are no changelings among the Selkies." We were told this to explain why Toby and Conner were originally not allowed to date, but maybe it's one of those things said in passing that we should have taken more litteraly.
The Luidaeg implied in Chimes at Midnight that donning a Selkie skin changes the wearer. I.e. Had Toby taken a skin, she would not have been Dochas Sidhe ever again. I believe this is the process by which the Selkie skins give their bearer magic. This makes me think that only a human is capable of keeping the skins alive.
Maybe the skins literally change whomever dons them into a human. (Idk Maybe this is what the Luidaeg used her hope chest for?)
As for if two transformed Selkies conceived in their animal forms would have a kid or a pup, I'm going to have to differ to the "they can't pass on genes they don't have" theory.
Sorry for the length, getting off topic, and putting so many of my own theories in.
I hope this answers more questions for you than it creates. :)
August 24 2015, 12:35:47 UTC 1 year ago