#dianda lorden

[yinza]

Patrick, Dianda, and Simon in that draw your OT3 meme!

[Image Description: Digital artwork based on a series of screenshots from the show Elite, but featuring Patrick, Dianda, and Simon from the October Daye series. Patrick is depicted as light-skinned with short brown hair with teal highlights, and wears a a dark blue neck kerchief over a light blue sweatshirt. Dianda is brown-skinned with chin-length black hair and wears a turquoise scale dress. Simon is pale and freckled with chin-length wavy red hair and gold eyes, and wears a floral maroon vest over a white shirt.

In the first panel, Dianda is kissing Patrick, while Simon watches with a grin. In the second panel, Dianda has turned to kiss Simon while Patrick grins at the viewer. In the last panel, Patrick and Simon are kissing while Dianda flips off the viewer with a slight smirk. /end ID]

#patrick twycross #dianda lorden #simon torquill #october daye #seanan mcguire #yinza's artwork #artists on tumblr #fanart #meme #patreon reward

[linovadraws]

In a state of perpetual brain rot about the undersea trio from the Toby Daye series at all times! AT ALL TIMES!

Edit: Haha, I uploaded the wrong file initially, so now Simon has the right chin.

#october daye #patrick lorden #dianda lorden #simon torquill #anyway i am never happy with how i draw teeth but i gotta do it more #sorry patrick i may have messed up your face lol #me drawing dianda and patrick: congrats dean and peter your parents are REAL SMOKESHOWS #seanan mcguire #seananmcguire

[magiccarpetman]

This is my propaganda for Simon/Patrick/Dianda in the canon polycule showdown hosted by @powerpolyculeshowdown. You can nominate them in the google form in the linked post.

Beware! Below the cut are spoilers for the later books in the October Daye series.

Who are they?

A reformed villain, a violent mermaid, and the man who loves them both. Here is their wedding scene; it’s beautiful.

Simon Torquill starts the series off as a villain. In the first chapter of the first book, he turns the protagonist into a fish. She gets better, but not before losing fourteen years of her life. From there, he’s something of a personal boogeyman for her.

Then, in a later book, we learn a piece of information that recontextualizes everything: in an attempt to save his missing daughter, Simon had essentially sold his soul to a being so powerful he literally couldn’t say no to her. Turning the protagonist into a fish had been his way of following orders without killing her. We also learn that he is legally the protagonist’s father. It’s complicated.

Dianda and Patrick Lorden begin the series happily married, with two children. Dianda is essentially a mermaid, and she was raised in the warlike Undersea culture. As a result, she’s more inclined to throwing punches than diplomacy. Patrick balances her well, though he doesn’t shy away from violence if his family needs protecting. Theirs is basically an interspecies marriage, so they’ve faced a fair amount of social consequences, including estrangement from their families. But Patrick and Dianda are in love.

In a later book, we learn that it was thanks to Simon that Patrick and Dianda’s marriage was able to take place. He and Patrick were childhood friends, and when the being he would later come to serve attempted to prevent the marriage, Simon interceded at great personal risk.

At the culmination of Simon’s redemption arc, he publicly and dramatically divorces his wife, marrying Patrick and Dianda immediately afterward. Dianda admits that she does not yet have feelings for Simon, but she cares for him deeply and believes that love can grow between them. And Simon and Patrick have loved each other all along.

#october daye #Simon Torquill #Dianda Lorden #Patrick Lorden

[fabledshadow]

Dean: “My mother must be terrified”

Me: Dean, honey, your mother has twenty Los Angeles class submarines *and* their payloads pointed at Titania. There’s not a word for what your mother is.

#sleep no more #dianda lorden #just saying #damn i love that mermaid lady

[magicofthepen]

october daye tag directory

note: includes spoilers

heads up that the characters i am most fixated on in the toby series are the luidaeg, elizabeth ryan, and captain pete, with significant focus on aldridge and diva ryan too. many toby characters and relationship dynamics show up on this blog, but this is a disproportionately undersea-centric (and selkie/roane-centric) space! 😄

october daye (overall series tag)

october daye relationship tags (platonic): the luidaeg & toby | the luidaeg & captain pete | the luidaeg & quentin | liz & aldridge | the luidaeg & blind michael | quentin & toby | simon & toby | may & toby | sylvester & toby | dianda & toby | arden & toby | august & simon | august & peter

october daye relationship tags (romantic): liz/annie, dianda/patrick/simon, dianda/patrick, simon/patrick, dianda/simon, toby/tybalt, dean/quentin

october daye character tags: the luidaeg | elizabeth ryan | captain pete | aldridge | diva ryan | toby daye | quentin sollys | simon torquill | tybalt | dianda lorden | patrick lorden | may daye | august torquill | sylvester torquill | chelsea ames | raj | dean lorden | peter lorden | walther davies | cassandra brown | arden windermere | stacy brown | marcia | april o’leary | janet carter | amandine | titania | madden

the elspeth ryan universes (AU fic series written with @presidentromana in which Liz and the Luidaeg have a kid):

broken oaths and distant shores (tag for the verse where the Luidaeg steals Elspeth at birth and she’s raised by Pete)

elsie ryan tag

#tag directory

[therewerenoturtles]

“Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.” -Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

#mermay #mermay2021 #it’s still May I’m not too late! #october daye #one salt sea #seanan mcguire #toby daye #dianda lorden #mermaid #urban fantasy #fanart #book illustration #my work

[tanoraqui]

do you think any of Dianda’s staff have been brave enough, since A Killing Frost, to approach her and be like, “Your grace, with all due respect to yourself and the ducal consorts…one Daoine Sidhe may be true love, but two is starting to seem like a kink. No judgement!! But on behalf of myself and the rest of the palace staff, can you tell us if this is going to be a trend? How many more we should expect? Do we need to expand the quarters with breathable air?”

#dianda lorden #october daye #patrick lordan #simon torquill #gee I guess simon lordan now #good for you buddy

[simonlorden]

it said “draw something that makes you happy” so I drew my October Daye ot3

disclaimer #1: no, Simon doesn’t have vampire fangs or a weird moustache, i just messed up his neck

disclaimer #2: I had a time limit and limited color options

@seananmcguire

#october daye #october daye fanart #simon torquill #dianda lorden #patrick lorden

[yinza]

Dianda and Simon enjoying a nighttime beach stroll~

[Image Description: A digital illustration of Dianda Lorden and Simon Torquill, shown from the thighs up. They are walking on a beach at night, with a full moon and moonlit waves visible behind them. Dianda is brown-skinned with straight shoulder-length black hair, muscular arms, and large breasts. She wears a sleeveless turquoise sundress and is looking back over her shoulder at Simon with an open-mouthed smile as she walks. Simon is light-skinned and freckled with short red hair. He wears dark grey pants and a white dress shirt that is open to reveal scars criss-crossing his chest. His eyes are closed and he grins in laughter. Both of them wear flower crowns made from glowing blue flowers. /end ID]

#dianda lorden #simon torquill #october daye #seanan mcguire #yinza's artwork #fanart #patreon reward #scars #artist is canonblind

[elissastillstands]

HOUSE LORDEN - Toby Daye Fancasts [9/9]

If you feel a war is so warranted that it can’t be avoided, carry real arrows. Pay for your convictions. We do things differently below the waves. When the Undersea goes to war, the seas bleed. (Adapted from Once Broken Faith, Seanan McGuire)

Featuring Hannah John-Kamen as Duchess Dianda Lorden of Saltmist, Sterling Sulieman as Patrick Twycross-Lorden, Devon Terrell as Dean Lorden, and Jaeden Noel as Peter Lorden. With images from Killjoys, Still Star-Crossed, Cursed, Once Upon a Time, Black Sails, and Splash; all other photographs from Unsplash. 

#october daye #toby daye #litedit #seanan mcguire #dianda lorden #patrick lorden #dean lorden #peter lorden #hannah john-kamen #sterling sulieman #devon terrell #jaeden noel #faves! faves! #hjk was the first person i cast in this whole process! #if i end up making more moodboard-type stuff for toby daye i'll do a set with the new member from AKF #this is the last of the toby daye posts and it's back to the regularly scheduled programming once i have time #toby fancasts

[seawitchkaraoke]

Looking fetching

Ao3 link in the notes, spoilers for A Killing Frost.

Simon hadn't meant to lie to October, not really. It's just that it hadn't seemed important and by the time Acacia asked if he was Sylvester's fetch, he didn't want to interrupt their search for his daughter with long explanations, which would undoubtedly have been needed, had he answered "yes".

And it hadn’t truly been a lie. He had never once described Eira as "his" firstborn, merely the Daoine Sidhe firstborn and when he told Acacia he was Sylvester's brother, it was true. October would understand that, she called the Lady May her sister as well after all.

So yes, he had excuses and he hadn't technically lied and surely October would understand. It had been drilled into him never to tell anyone his true nature after all, he had long since learned to mirror the magic of the Daoine Sidhe as much as possible and if he was better with transformations than he had any right to be, well, he was simply talented.

And yet.

And yet when October said, again, that it wasn't his fault, he couldn't have resisted Eira, her being his firstborn after all, and Dianda and Patrick, his Patrick, who he had never told, were right there.... He knew it didn't matter. If he wanted a chance at redemption, he had to be honest.

So.

"She isn't my firstborn"

Silence. Dianda and Patrick stared at him. So did October and supposedly Tybalt, though the king of cats wasn't in his line of sight.

"what do you mean? You know she's the Daoine Sidhe firstborn, you said so yourself?" October sounded like she was contemplating dragging him back to the sea witch to fix him, since he had clearly lost his mind.

Well. Better explain then.

"Yes, she is the Daoine Sidhe firstborn. She is my brother's firstborn and my father's firstborn, but she isn't my firstborn"

Deep breath. This wouldn't make them hate him any more. Probably.

"I don't know who my firstborn is, but I know it is not her. I- I am not Daoine Sidhe”

He took another breath. Best to just say it, “I am a fetch. Sylvester's fetch, though you could have guessed that I suppose. I'm sorry I didn't tell you, it never seemed like the right time and my parents taught me never to tell anyone and I didn't-"

He was babbling, he knew. Somehow, he couldn't stop. He was still holding Patrick's hands, but he couldn't bring himself to look at him, why had he never told him in all the years they had known each other? October might forgive him; she had forgiven worse and they had not, in truth, known one another long but Patrick? Patrick be should have told ages ago

"I'm sorry I misled you, truly, I understand if this changes things, there's really no excuse, I should have told you centuries ago-"

"Simon"

That stopped him. Patrick didn't sound angry, but he didn't exactly sound happy either, and Patrick rarely sounded angry even when he was and-

"Simon, please, look at me"

He couldn't disobey that voice, so soft and insistent and unbearably calm. So, he lifted his head, slowly, and looked into Patrick's eyes, expecting anger or disappointment or betrayal.

All he found was love.

"I never loved you for your species you know?" Patrick smiled wryly "of course I would have preferred it if you had told me - and you really should have - but if I can forgive you turning my son into a tree-"

Simon winced, glancing towards Dean who was a little way away, talking quietly to Quentin "I really am sorry about that"

"as I said, if I can forgive that, I can forgive you not telling me about being a fetch - and sweet Oberon, if I didn't know you so well I'd think you were playing a joke, HOW can you possibly be a fetch?

"yes!" October had finally found her voice "HOW are you a fetch? Shouldn't I have seen that in your memories? Shouldn't Sylvester, you know, be dead?"

"I'd like to know that as well" Tybalt spoke, now, seemingly calm "I've known you an exceedingly long time, and you never showed any indication of being your brother’s death omen"

Simon was about to answer, when Dianda, suddenly snorted.

And then laughed.

And then kept laughing.

And then lost control of her legs and landed on the beach on her long shimmering tail.

“Um”, said Simon, intelligently “are you alright?”

Dianda tried to answer but couldn’t – she was still laughing too hard – so she held a hand up signalling them to give her a minute.

After several minutes, that they all spent staring at Dianda and that Dianda spent trying to calm herself down, only to look up at Simon and lose it all over again, she managed but kept her eyes resolutely away from him.

“of course, you are a fetch”, she said, “why not? I don’t even need an explanation, this is Faerie, this might as well happen”

“….well I’d still truly appreciate an explanation if it is of no inconvenience to you”, said Tybalt.

“okay okay, yes, so. Um.”, Simon stuttered, not really knowing where to begin, “so. You know where fetches come from, right?”

“Yes”, said Tybalt and Toby. “No”, said Patrick and Dianda. They stared at each other.

“Hey, it wasn’t my secret to share!”, Toby held her hands up, warding off Dianda’s stare and taking a step away from her tail – as if that would really save her.

“Alright”, Simon pinched the bridge of his nose, “as far as I know we come from nighthaunts who drink living blood… does that match what your Lady Fetch told you, October?”

“Err, yes but what do you mean ‘as far as you know’? Don’t you remember? Because May remembers, it’s really useful sometimes but also kinda creepy”

“No, I don’t remember…. I didn’t even know I was a fetch for a while. I appeared when Sylvester was still very young – I believe there was an assassination attempt, my father killed the assailant but some of my brother’s blood must have gotten mixed in his - and so his… my… our parents changed my memory and adopted me. Don’t ask how or why they did this; I could only speculate. Possibly they believed that if I could not remember being a death omen that Sylvester would survive”

Toby interrupted at that “but wouldn’t you have noticed? Didn’t your appearance change to match his or you could feel danger and all those…”, she waved her hand, “funky fetch powers?”

Simon sighed, “maybe if I had been older, yes, but I was very young at the time. The only memories I had were Sylvester’s, which I imagined to be my own, and he was just a few years old, only a toddler.”

Toby frowned “okay, never mind that imagining you two as toddlers is just weird, but wouldn’t you have realized as you grew up?”

“I would have yes. I did, in fact, but not in the way you appear to imagine. You know we grew up with your mother –“

Toby nodded, a frown on her face.

“- well. One day we were playing and Sylvester… he fell. He fell and he hit his head and he didn’t get up. My sister and I didn’t know what to do, she ran for our parents and I…”

“you faded.” Toby spoke up again, realization on her face, “you faded, and my mother told you to stop. But… but how did she save Sylvester? She saved me from elfshot by changing my blood, but she couldn’t have done that to him”

“She did not, no. But she- She was only a child but she grabbed the nearest rose and drove the thorns into her skin and when that did not make her bleed as much as she desired, she grabbed more roses and then she grabbed my knife that I used to make little wooden figures and she… she bled. She bled a lot. I don’t know what she did or how it could have been possible, but Sylvester woke and the nighthaunts didn’t come to call either of us home and when my parents arrived they found a lot of blood but no dead child.” He took a breath, “If I did not already love your mother, I think this may have been when I fell. She was so sure and so beautiful and so fearless, and she saved my brother, one of the most important people in my world”, he grew quiet, “at the time, at least”

They took a moment to digest that. Then Patrick, dear Patrick spoke up “that may have been the only selfless thing Amandine ever did. I’m glad she saved you, and him, for your sake, but Sylvester never deserved you”

Simon sighed, “he was a child, Patrick, dearest. We all were. There was no resentment yet in those days, no mistakes that couldn’t be taken back, just four children”, he glanced at Tybalt, “four children and a prince of cats who seemed to appear at random intervals”, he tried to pour amusement into his voice. The others simply stared at him, clearly not impressed by his attempts at joking.

“Be that as it may” Tybalt drawled, clearly unembarrassed by Simon’s mention of him, “pray, continue with your recounting. After this event, did your parents tell you what you were?”

Simon nodded, “they did. They didn’t have much of a choice. Perhaps they could have claimed that the fading of the one when the other died was normal for twins – they are exceedingly rare in Faerie after all – but I would have questioned why my magic was different or perhaps met some other pair of twins eventually. I suppose they deemed it wiser to tell me, so I could learn how to hide as a Daoine Sidhe as best as possible”

“but your magic!”, October burst out, “you can do blood magic and I’ve never seen May do that! I don’t understand”

“Have you ever seen her attempt blood magic, October?”, he asked, but before she could answer, he shook his head and continued, “but no, you are quite right. I am not very good at blood magic. I can do some – just as you are capable of illusions despite having neither flower nor water magic at your disposal – but I am not good. I am however decent at alchemy which can achieve many of the same results. True, I vastly prefer having some time to make a potion out of blood but once I have done so, no one ever questions whether or not what I am doing is truly the result of blood magic as such. I look and act Daoine Sidhe after all and who has ever heard of a fetch existing long enough to learn deception?”

“And you are, as we have seen, surprisingly adept at transformations”, Patrick mused. Simon winced again and glanced towards Dean – still walking along the beach with Quentin – but Patrick did not sound angry, “really I should have seen it ages ago. You never did show me all that much blood magic, but you transformed scraps into new suits on a far too regular basis, when the old one would truly still have served me fine”, he was smiling now and finally Simon allowed his shoulders to sag. Patrick really had forgiven him for the deception.

“you never did learn how to properly dress yourself”, he sighed but was smiling too now, comfortable in the centuries old banter.

“Well, that’s why I married a mermaid”, he grinned, “clothing is really rather optional down there. What’s the point, truly, if it will only get wet?”

Toby exclaimed in protest that when she had been in the undersea, everyone had been clothed, Dianda laughed and backed her husband up that no, it was true, they barely knew what clothes were in her realm, and Simon allowed himself to breathe.

He didn’t know what was to happen to him next. He assumed he would be sent to sleep for a hundred years and he truly could not say he did not deserve that and worse. But at least he could do so, knowing that no more deceptions stood between him and the people he loved so dearly.

#october daye #toby fic #dianda lorden #patrick lorden #toby daye #simon torquill #seanan mcguire #tybalt #simon is a fetch theory #a killing frost #a killing frost spoilers

[sockich]

“Land and sea are not often joined,” said the Luidaeg, addressing the three people in front of her. “Shipwrecks are more common than survivors. Why should Faerie honor your request to expand your bridal bed?” “Simon Torquill is the only person in this world I’ve loved longer than I’ve loved my wife. She has never had the whole of my heart, nor has she pursued it,” said Patrick. “We would have included him when we were first wed, had he not been married to a woman who didn’t share.” “I knew when I allowed Patrick to court me that he came as a package deal with the man he called ‘brother’ only because Amandine forbade him to use the word ‘lover,’” said Dianda. “I’ve survived a century in the Undersea with a Daoine Sidhe by my side. I can handle a few centuries more with two of them.” “I don’t have a good argument for you,” said Simon. “I can only tell you that I’ve loved Patrick Lorden longer than I’ve loved anyone else, except for Amy and August, and I can’t be with Amy anymore. I need a place to rest. I need peace. Dianda and I may not love each other yet, but I have faith that we will. Just give us the time we need.” [...] “The three of you have presented a compelling case for why this should be permitted, and love is rare enough in Faerie that I trust you to nurture and care for it. Dianda, if you’d lied and claimed to already love him, I would have denied you, but you want to tend a garden as yet fallow, and I respect your ambition. Patrick, you have been faithful to two people for over a hundred years. Simon, beloved failure…you deserve the chance to rest. By the power once granted to me by my father and never yet rescinded, I now declare you husbands and wife.”

A Killing Frost (October Daye #14) by Seanan McGuire

#THEY GOT MARRIED #<333 #patrick twycross lorden #dianda lorden #simon torquill #ot3! #the luidaeg #love them #october daye #a killing frost #seanan mcguire #books #quotes #my posts

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Idk if ur on twitter but seanan’s been making threads about Every Toby book and she just hit 1 salt sea and called it her most self indulgent book ever because Mermaids, and also admitted that Patrick had an editorial order of protection to keep the rest of the series from getting derailed into nothing but Dianda Lorden Punches Everything

GOD

I WOULD DIE FOR DIANDA LORDEN

WHENEVER SOMETHING GOES EVEN NOMINALLY WRONG IN THE TOBY DAYE BOOKS, MY BRAIN IS LIKE ‘JUST CALL DIANDA AND SHE’LL BEAT ASS UNTIL THIS PROBLEM IS SOLVED’

#toby daye #october daye #seanan mcguire #dianda lorden #i don't have a personal twitter #but i consider getting one idly every few weeks purely for the purpose of seeing how long it would take for 45 to block me #for sending him Facts About Which He Is Wrong #my partners think it's a bad idea #i think it would be an interesting social experiment #um...i'm off topic #following seanan is one of the only other reasons i've considered getting a twitter #that was the rest of the thought #queue deeper than the sea of stars #Anonymous #asked and answered

[tanoraqui]

another October Daye book has gone by and Dianda has yet to punch Amandine in the face...I’m waiting, Ms. McGuire. I’m waiting so patiently.

#october daye #dianda lorden #i ALSO still want toby may august and raysel to form a band and/or adventuring party #but i appreciate that that might take more working out