yarrow meets another sprite?
I've been thinking about the possibility of Yarrow running into another sprite. They're very rare and, as I talked about a few posts back, the only time they would really run into each other is when one 'flies the nest' to find a new territory and, sometimes they'll find an already-occupied habitat and while they're there they will mate with the sprite who lives there just cuz like. It's genetically preferable to self-fertilisation.
So anyway. I'm like of course it makes sense for another sprite to run into Yarrow at least once in his lifetime, and it makes me wonder how the whole thing would go down. I think sprites are generally unromantic beings and are really just there to get the job done and then will probably never meet again. There could be an element of attraction but, there's not really any competition because as I say, they so rarely find each other... anyway I think even for a sprite's standards Yarrow is especially disinterested in sex and would sooner self-fertilise but he also doesn't want to have a child so lol.
I think there would be a sort of assumption from this other sprite that it's on the table just for the very fact that they met at all. To which Yarrow is like... sorry no thank you. I figure, the average sprite 1) doesn't like humans 2) is very pragmatic 3) is quite forward and matter-of-fact. Yarrow has an amount of all these qualities but he's a little bit of an oddball in sprite terms. I honestly feel like most of them don't have houses like Yarrow, but it would depend on where they live and what structures already exist. They might live in a cave, in a wooden hut type of thing, or something like this. I do think Yarrow probably just found this house in the woods and was like oh sick, free house. As for clothes I think they wear clothes but make them out of natural fibres that they spin somehow... I'm not a textiles expert but I'm imagining they can make. Stuff. I mean humans have been making fabric for thousands of years so I'm sure it's possible. And maybe animal furs, if the animal died of natural causes. They would probably mainly wear Less clothes than Yarrow though and less, Shaped, more draped. I think it's a uniquely Yarrow thing that he moved into a little human house near a little human town and decided to venture into little human technologies and fashions.
Which is cute because I'm thinking this sprite probably thinks Yarrow is a complete weirdo lol. They'd see him hanging out in the forest in his little goth outfit, short hair (I think it's unusual for sprites to cut their hair), shoes... This sprite would have like, long ass hair, simple undyed tunic, maybe a cloak, no shoes. And they're like. Hi? And just start asking a hundred questions...
Also Yarrow had Yew as a mother who was already a little atypical lol. long flowy skirts and dresses, maybe she got into making natural dyes too. I do feel she was somewhat eccentric, again, for sprite standards. I think on the whole sprites also present very androgynously whereas she was very feminine leaning and, Yarrow is like. Well still androgynous but slightly more masculine presenting.
I already have the inkling that they were gonna be a they/them lol. Would be named after a plant as convention goes for the sprites. Something like... Alder. Charlock. Haldi. Hellibore. Ragweed. Tansy. Juniper, Elm, Hawthorn... Blackthorn, Dogwood, Spindle. Bracken. Larkspur. Laurel? Lol. I'm just looking at lists of plants. It's just not names like you know, Lily, Rose, Hazel, human-sounding plant names. I think mainly focusing on UK trees and plants is a good plan.
I think one of these will just make sense when I get a better sense of their personality...
So I imagine like... I dunno... what's the scenario? He'd just be chilling, up to whatever he gets up to. Foraging. Observing. Stuff. Would Jesper be around? Imagine he is... He'd probably be like :O!!! Is sprite!!! Like Yarrow!!! Will consult Sam... it'd be funny to imagine though like. The sprite is confused enough looking at Yarrow and then sees he's hanging out with a domestic imp for Some Reason.
For now though I guess working with Yarrow. I think firstly I imagine this sprite doing a bit of the Stare... Maybe they can have different coloured eyes? Yellow maybe. Like amber. And Yarrow stares at them. And they're just staring. Yarrow probably stutters a bit.
I'm tired rip I'll maybe start a new post later where I write up a little scenario...