*While pursuing his demon half into the Qliphoth, V became lost in the maze of roots and passed beyond the veil. He ended up in the magic Hedge that surrounds the world of faeries, and was subsequently kidnapped and placed into servitude to the Castle. At the time that this happened, the Castle was fully populated with fairy members from all four courts, but something disastrous happened that killed almost all the fairy Gentry. The human servants would wake up in an empty and haunted castle, now ruled and protected by only one surviving member of each court. The Gentry squabble and struggle while trying to keep the Hedge from completely overrunning the Castle. The confused servants, who have no memory of the prior state of the Castle, struggle to unravel the mystery and perhaps save themselves from being consumed by the Hedge.
* V is the assistant scribe to the Autumn court Gentry: the Whisper on the Winds. The Whisper is a sentient flock of birds who loves to record everything and to stir up trouble. V deeply enjoys this work and is happy with his relationship with the Gentry. This is not the usual stance of the servants, many of whom resent the Gentry for their cruel and capricious natures and their servitude in a strange world. V finds that the way the faeries treat them is pretty ok, especially in comparison to how the demons of his own realm had treated his former self when he was in Hell.
* Exposure to the Hedge and to the Gentry is changing the once-human servants. The Hedge's untamed magic is incrementally changing them all in to lesser fairy. Also, in exchange for parts of themselves (namely memories), they are able to gain access to more and more fairy magic. Even those who resent the Gentry are slowly 'dampened' into an acceptance of their situation, which leads them to barter away little parts of themselves to their court and to no longer try to escape.
* V's body has changed significantly with his time in the Autumn court. There is an outline of this here. The most notable being that his true form is that of an arachnitaur, but he is able to shapeshift into a more normal looking bipedal form.
* He has also begun to develop a specific brand of fairy magic that is unique to him. When he was brought to the Castle through the Hedge, he lost access to his familiars and was thus all but forced to find a new way to engage with magic. Magic is a deep love of his, and through the compulsions of the Autumn court's nature, he masters a language based magic that allows him to convey vast intention and even bring those intentions into reality through magic runes written in his own ink blood.
* V is developing a distinct sense of self in this environment, and becoming more and more comfortable with the idea that he deserves to exist just as much as his former self does. The Whisper encourages this notion, deepening V's relationship and loyalty to the Autumn court, which he feels is his first true home as a distinct person.
* V would very much like to save the Castle, not just for his own survival, but to help rebuild it. He imagines a place where Gentry and the servants work together to make the Castle something new. Where he can study magic on the great Library for the rest of his days, meet new people who wander in from all across the realms, and become someone of his own making.
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AU: ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT