The sidhe are the drama-queens of the fae world. Larger than life, everything they do is exaggerated and epic. They are the pretty people, the handsome people, the movie people, an unreachable ideal parading across the silver screen and making everyone jealous.
The movie comparison is important: like the film stars of yore, sidhe are regal and perfect, but melodramatic as all hell. Everything they do is so blown out of proportion that buying some toilet paper can become a quest upon which the fate of kingdoms resides. It's that innate sense of *epic* drama, I think, that separates the sidhe from the other kith; if boggans are Death of a Salesman, then sidhe are Richard II (Shakespeare's, of course).
You make being a Sidhe sound so ...pejorative. I'm positive there's more tothem than attention-seeking behaviour and The Importance of Being Heather.They might as well be Toreador otherwise! (flamebait #212. Also comes in red.). Their arrogance aside, the most irritating thing about the Sidhe formost of the other kithain I think is that they could well be as good as they think they are.
I agree with you the Sidhe take their lives seriously and seize the day awhole lot, but they wouldn't be such good leaders if they didn't have somesense of proportion to go with it. Saving Kingdoms? It's something I like to do once or twice before breakfast. Buying toilet paper? Oh, I leave that to the Boggans.
(chastened) I'm afraid I was a bit negative in my description. I meant to say that the sidhe treat their existence as larger-than-life because it IS. Like the Tick, things happen to them, so that a late-night journey to buy Pez just somehow turns into an attempt to stop a criminal mastermind from writing his name on the moon with a laser (said adventure also including man-eating cows and a secret agent who's developed an immunity to bullets from frequent exposure; check out TheTick #7, 'tis a great issue). These occurrences need not be physical, of course; romantic entanglements work just as well, if not better. I like to think that Hollywood's "romantic comedies" are populated with sidhe,pretty people just falling into the most bizarre situations imaginable.
--} Kent of Thornwood {--
This makes a certain kind of sense: and a Sidhe knows they're getting too much Banality in their diet when the LTL stuff stops happening.
Although this applies to the commoner kithain as well. Going to school can always be interrupted by a side-quest to rescue a beautiful monster from a ravening princess, be you Sidhe or Pooka. Perhaps the Sidhe get the pretty romantic lead roles in the romantic comedies, but Pookas, Boggans and especially Satyrs get into these too.
Andrew of the Green Court
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