Eh, real life story time. I work in a university. Recently, I have bought a NES emulator for recreation room. During celebration I learned that my students (bachelor's studies, 4th year) never played Mario, and knew nothing about the game. Ever. I'm not sure if they heard about it either. I know for a fact that they didn't hear about Dune before the movie, for example.
So, a strict parent with some strange ideas, homeschooling and social isolation... I can buy it. On the other hand, narrative convenience, and us being children of a knight of the Cross tell me that is something to look into.
Maybe we should take some martial arts classes? For all we know, she's a dragonblooded whelp.
Yog, I'd believe it from you; you're in Russia.
When I spent time in Nigeria, there were kids and adults who hadnt heard of Mario either.
However, this is supposed to be someone who grew up in the West as the kid of an investment banker, and whose only extant parent is having them raised by au pairs and tutors.
They've grown up in the lap of privilege with very little supervision.
If their parent and caretakers dont really exercise enough supervision to prevent a sixteen year old teenage boy staying over for the night and picking where they want to sleep, they arent doing shit about their internet activity or game console time.
And in that scenario, there's no way they havent heard of Mario.
There was literally a SuperMario game released in 2004 for the Game Boy Advanced, and another in 2005 for the Nintendo DS.
It just sounds implausible.
Yeah, I was just about to mention that about the white court. Their whole style of hunting requires them to be able to fit in, keeping them ignorant of their supernatural nature and also isolating them from the mortals would involve going to a lot of trouble almost purely to make their own lives more difficult.
Fae is a pretty good guess, but I'd also think they'd be scared away from this tactic.
The most common variety that could do this are the Sidhe, and they have all the classic fey tells. They also tend to be aware enough to know the possible consequences of going after members of a knight's family.
If someone like winter was going to send a Jenny green teeth style hit on someone close to us they'd go for a target who doesn't have the white god's eye on them.
It feels a little far fetched to type, but if she's actually supernatural then the person Lydia is hanging out with makes me slightly more inclined to believe it isn't a shell game.
I mean it definitely could be a high stakes Denarian plot or something, but the risk is so high it feels easier to swallow the idea that she's a half Bigfoot looking into the other side of her heritage for the the first time or a similarly weird outlier.
At the very least a serious plotter would probably have a better story to tell.
A lot of fae have a persistent issue with overestimating themselves, or being used as a pawn in some other fae's scheme.
I will point out that some Fae first used Molly as a navigation beacon for dropping fetches on Splattercon despite who her dad was.
And in White Night, a bunch of fae attack the Carpenter home again.
Jenny Greenteeth certainly demonstrated that not all fae bother with a good cover story as opposed to relying on glamor.
Plus, of course, there are Denarians who can pull this shit.
Deirdre Archleone looks 15, IIRC, and has a lean face, long dark hair and dark eyes in her human form.
