Open Question

[jarandhel]

What are the vices of the Seelie Court? What are the virtues of the UnSeelie Court? And vice versa?

I'd prefer it if members of each court answered about their negative perspectives of their own courts and their positive perspectives of the ones they don't belong to, since I can see this quickly getting into a set of accusations or propaganda and away from reality if people start talking negatively about courts they don't belong to and positively about ones they do. But I won't be too strict about that as long as people are trying to be constructive in their answers.

What's negative about each of these courts? What's positive about each of them?

I have the weirdest hunch that the responses I get back are going to correspond quite well to two human groups I'm observing... which kinda freaks me out.

Comments

[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

You know, those are two terms I haven't seen or used in ages. They just don't quite feel right in the evolution of my awakening, if that makes any sense. I suppose it's because the Tuatha simply don't have the Seelie/Unseelie distinctions, or maybe once we did and don't anymore, hard to say, really.

When I was still using those terms, I thought of them as being more like political parties with the Unseelie being slightly more conservative and the Seelie being more liberal. In other words, the Unseelie would be the otherworldly equivalent of the Republicans and the Seelie would be like the Democrats -- please don't hit me when I say that, as it's just a very broad generalized kinda/sorta like this thing.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Heh... that's what I was originally thinking too, but the associations others are making with a stronger connection to the concept of Courts than myself are saying that it's reversed. (I was going at it from the perspective that the light elves of Alorya would be roughly Seelie and the dark elves would be roughly Unseelie, but maybe the concepts don't even map to the Aloryan side of things.)