🦌 The Fernsong Lineage 🌲
A tale of legacy, longing, and wild devotion
In the heart of the Verdant Reach, where the trees grew tall enough to brush the stars and the rivers sang in three-part harmony, lived the Fernsong family—a lineage of deer bound not by blood, but by choice.
The matriarch was Briar, a doe with antlers like twisted vines and a gaze that could silence thunder. She had once been a solitary wanderer, feared and revered, until she met Thistle—a soft-spoken buck with moss in his fur and a laugh like wind chimes. They chose each other, not for survival, but for softness. For the way their shadows fit together.
Together, they adopted three fawns.
Elion, the eldest, was quiet and strange. He spoke to mushrooms, danced with shadows, and wore his queerness like a crown of fog.
Mira, the middle child, was fierce and fast, always chasing lightning and challenging the wind to races.
Juniper, the youngest, was a dreamer—half-asleep even while awake, always asking questions like “Do stars remember us?” and “What if trees have crushes?”
The Fernsong family didn’t live in a den or a cave. They lived in motion—migrating with the seasons, leaving trails of crushed lavender and stories etched into bark. They weren’t like other deer. They didn’t follow rutting rituals or herd hierarchies. They made their own rules.
But the forest didn’t always approve.
One winter, a council of elder stags confronted Briar. “Your family is unnatural,” they said. “A doe with antlers. A buck who sings. Fawns who don’t chase does or fight for dominance.”
Briar stepped forward, her antlers blooming with frost. “We are not unnatural,” she said. “We are myth. And myth is older than your rules.”
The wind howled in agreement.
From that day on, the Fernsong family became legend. Not for power. Not for conquest. But for love. For choosing each other. For rewriting what it meant to be wild.
And if you ever walk through the Verdant Reach and find a trail of lavender, follow it. You might hear laughter. You might hear singing. You might find a family of deer who chose love over law—and made the forest bloom.
