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gg faerie au lineup:

• Agatha is Dochas Sidhe, the strongest blood workers in Faerie, like every Heterodyne before her. She can shift the balance of people’s blood to eliminate human or mixed heritage, heal at a rate that renders her nearly indestructible, and near-instinctively recognize someone’s species from the scent of their magic. Unlike most Heterodynes, her mother’s race wasn’t burned out of her after her birth, as Bill wanted to give her a chance to chose. Most of faerie thinks the Heterodynes are Daoine Sidhe, and that their ability to shift bloodlines is a secret type of blood charm. Since the truth might cause people to kidnap them and cut them up for potion parts, Bill and Barry never bothered correcting them.
• Magic scent: bronze and floatingheart before burning out her Daoine Sidhe blood, blood and floatingheart afterwards. 
• Tarvek is Daoine Sidhe, also a race of blood workers, though they claim descent from Titania rather than solely from Oberon. As a rule, Daoine Sidhe tend to grab for power, which is why so many of them are found among the nobility. They’re skilled in spells and illusions, and can “ride the blood” to read memories. They’re “colorful and fair-skinned”, with hair colors ranging from silver to fox-red to black with pink streaks. 
• Magic Scent: silver and netted irises.
• Gil is a mixed blood, taking after his Tylwyth Teg father. This means that he can’t breathe underwater, but accomodations were made during his childhood, and he’ll likely inherit his father’s barony on land (since Maeve knows Klaus doesn’t want it). As a Tylwyth Teg, Gil has a natural affinity for alchemy, and is able to enchant yarrow twigs to levitate objects and even make himself fly. Which he does. Frequently. Sometimes he flies into trees. 
• Magic scent: Yarrow and brine.
• Zeetha takes after their mother, a Merrow, one of the various mermaid species in Faerie. She can split her tail into bipedal form for periods of time, and lasts a little longer than most pureblooded Merrow thanks her to her mixed heritage. Her gills let her breathe underwater.
• Magic Scent: myrrh and southernwood.
• Violetta is a knight in the service of Tarvek’s family, with a Daoine Sidhe mother and a Candela father. She inherited Daoine coloring and Candela Merry Dancers, moving balls of light that change colors based on their owner’s mood and disposition. She can teleport, though she has a shorter range than a pureblooded Candela. Though her father’s species is noted for its… laconic disposition, Violetta inherited her mother’s ability to yell with the best of them, to Tarvek’s great regret. 
• Magic Scent: monkshood and red clay.