Woodland Fairies
Forest Dwelling Fairies
Woodland Fairies have the power to make little plants grow (sometimes accidentally) with high emotions, can kill plants (also happens with high emotions) (this practice is heavily frowned upon by other fairies, acidental nonwithstanding), they have a strong connection to forests and animals, mostly woodland animals, animals are more likely to intuitively understand them and they the animals, but neither can actually directly speak to each other. Woodland fairies are the most common type of fairy, though not by a large margin.
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Feminie and masculine traits can be interchanged so two children can both be named Aspen one a boy and one a girl and no one will agree which one was named "wrong." But most people would agree Jennifer and Brittney were feminie. Once you got to Ash though the fighting would start again.
Masculine names
Feminie and masculine traits can be interchanged so two children can both be named Aspen one a boy and one a girl and no one will agree which one was named "wrong." But most people would agree that Marcus and Derik were masculine. Once you got to Chris/Cris though the fighting would start again.
Unisex names
Unfortantly conflict is too easily bred so unisex names aren't unisex they are battled over names.
Family names
Old names often have to do with woodlands and nature. Newer generations have tried to break away from this tradition but still end up sticking to simplier and world based names, if not more metaphorical. Examples of older family names include: The Oak Family, The Acacia Family, The Weide Family, and The Kapok Family. Newer family names are decided between spouses, some examples include: The Freed Family, The Blaze Family, The Breeze Family, The Bloom Family, and The Freiheit Family.
Other names
As gender identidy education becomes more prevelent more and more younger generation are deciding to choose their own name, ditching all previous conventions of old. There seems to be a subsection that enjoys naming themselves after unusal things just to upset older people (Stick, Sock, Book) but if it's a bit it is one they legally commit to. (It is not a bit nor is this just a fairy thing)
Culture
Shared customary codes and values
They all agree fairies are the best
Common Etiquette rules
elders first, then the babies and their caretakers, then the children, then the women, then the men in emergancies. You always take in a fairy in need. You eat whatever's on your plate. You don't call out the rascit elder (younger generation is considered extermaly rude because they refuse to follow this unsaid rule)
Common Dress code
modest
Art & Architecture
fashion with their handmade clothes, painting with berries of the forests, flower crowns
Funerary and Memorial customs
they perfer burial to creamtion and many often want something planted as a marker of their grave instead of a tombstone
Common Taboos
no getting with other species and it is frowned upon to get with a different race
Common Myths and Legends
Some say that their spirits are reborn into the plants planted over their graves. Others say if nothing is planted over your grave or you're creamated your spirit is lost or burned from existence.
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
Woodland fairies like tanner or darker skin more often, as they perfer to be out in the sunlight and find tanner or darker skin a sign of a hard worker. Muscles on both men and women are seen as ideal as again hard work is idealized. Men are often expected to be exceptionaly strong and commanding with animals (for older generation ideals). Females are expected to have perfected flower magic and be firm but gentle with animals (for older generations ideals). Woodland fairies often wear clothes made from the resourses provided by the forest (sewn together leaves) and such it is light weight, so they cover their bodies more than others, say like water fairies. To do otherwise would be seen as idmodest.
Gender Ideals
Females are to be graceful and ggood and kind with animals, portraying the life giving nature of woodland fairies (this ideal is highly resented by the younger generation and mocked by other fairy races). Male fairies are to be tough providers and protecters (this is also resented by the younger generation but not mocked by the other races).
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