Editing Glamour (section)

==Sources==
Glamour is so fragile and personal that it cannot generally be taken by force without breaking it, although it might be taken fairly in a [[duel]].<ref>She frowned a little.  “Glamour isn’t the province of humans.  It must be freely given.  It is too fragile to handle otherwise.  Too personal to each Faerie.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“Who gave it to you?”<br><br>“It was fairly taken, after a duel.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/18 Excerpt] from [[Breach 3.2]]</ref> A faerie may freely give their personal glamour in the form of a powder which falls from them like dust, with an appearance and texture peculiar to the individual.<ref>Wary, she held out a hand, and she accepted the glamour.  It was like dust, but heavier, and it felt like cold metal that had just the edges heated by sun. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/15/leaving-a-mark-4-8/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.8]]</ref><ref>Glamour – Guilherme & Maricica (fine yellow & coarser dark green dust, respectively) - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/4-3-spoilers-packing-up/ excerpt] from 4.3 Bonus: Packing Up</ref> Fae also make use of this dust form of their glamour themselves when they need to apply it.<ref>There was almost no friction as the wings slid past them, but dust came away, forming clouds.  Verona’s Sight let her see Maricica’s hand move in the dust as she departed, a careful sweep of fingertips and taps at the air, like a piano player might play at his instrument.  The dust took shape, becoming something fractal as it expanded outward. [...] When she didn’t say no, she saw the wings sweep over and around her.  Dust rolled off her skin, fine enough to sift into and through her clothes.  She didn’t cough from it.<br><br>“What’s the drawback?”<br><br>“You tell me.  This is instructional, in part.  Then I’ll give you some glamour to take, along with some more practical instruction, so you can try it out on your own.  Give it a try for now.  Try to stay calm.”<br><br>“I’m not sure I’m okay with this practical a lesson right off the bat,” Lucy said.<br><br>The dust was cool against Verona’s skin, so fine a sensation that the sensation slipped to a different place from where she was sure her skin and clothes were.  Her headache and stomachache were gone. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> 

However it is obtained Glamour takes strengths and weaknesses from [[Court]] that fae originates from,<ref name=":2">“Was there a problem downtown?” Charles asked.<br><br>“No,” Maricica said.  “They smell like Glamour and sunlight.  Did you use ''my'' glamour for something related to sun?”<br><br>“Ahhh,” Verona said.<br><br>“I’m a Faerie of the court below.  Rain, darkness, cold water…”<br><br>“Got it, got it.  Also, ow.”<br><br>“It will pass.  Try not to pay attention to it,” Maricica said.  “Or the glamour that still dusts you will take that attention and use it to make the harm more lasting.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/04 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.7]]</ref><ref>She’d used Maricica’s glamour for this and she wondered if she’d be a slightly different sort of fox if she’d used Guilherme’s, or if one was exclusively better, like using Guilherme’s for transforming into sunlight and sunbeams. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/shaking-hands-9-4/ excerpt] from [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/shaking-hands-9-4/ Shaking Hands 9.4]</ref> and even the specific item or body part they infused it into. Using it for something that goes against this nature will be weaker, and even risks backfiring.<ref>“I don’t think it’s a suitable thing for fighting,” Ms. Lewis said.  “You won’t get as much effect out of it there.  It could even backfire.  Keep in mind that it was and is ''hair'', and it lends itself to similar purpose.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/damages-2-6/ excerpt] from [[Damages 2.6]]</ref><ref>“Last of my glamour.  I could use it for a transformation, but I could also use it for something like a… modified Nettlewisp trap.  High Summer Nettlewisp?”<br><br>“You do remember what happened when you used Dark Fall glamour to try to ride the sunlight?”<br><br>“Got burned.  It healed up fast, at least.”<br><br>“The same sort of backlash may happen if you use High Summer glamour to work a Dark Fall glamouring.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/playing-a-part-15-6/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref> [[Winter Court]] glamour is more intense than most, a permanent delusional madness, and it's effects tend to be permanent and irrevocable even if one would not wish it.<ref>“The glass was winter?”<br><br>“Yes.  And so is the wound.  Winter is a court of endings, of fate, of final verdicts.  It is less of an illusion, and more a descent into a delusional madness one has to live with for the rest of their lives.  If I’d known I wouldn’t have given you that glass.”<br><br>“What does that mean, though?  Fate?  Final verdict?”<br><br>“The wound may last, Verona Hayward.”<br><br>“Last like…?”<br><br>“For life.”<br><br>“Is there a cure or-?”<br><br>“No.  Not in the sense you mean it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/13 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.5]]</ref>

Items that have been made from, or infused with, glamour can also be a source of glamour, whether freely given or taken.<ref name=":5">“And… I said I’d take power.  I thought, taking the hair, well, if a Faerie uses glamour all over the place, where are they going to use it more than in their personal appearance?”<br>
[...]<br>
“Well, your instincts were good.  Some Faerie give tokens to their favored humans and practitioners.  Little objects, trinkets, scraps of cloth.  Objects infused with glamour.  These objects carry a kind of charge, an influence.  A coin infused with a glamour that it’s lucky.  An earring that’s infused with another sort of glamour, granting an ability.”<br>
“And the lock of hair?” I asked.<br>
“Is only a lock of hair, infused with a small glamour to keep it lustrous and pretty.  But it’s infused with glamour, nonetheless.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/damages-2-6/ excerpt] from [[Damages 2.6]]</ref> Faerie bodies themselves are deeply infused with glamour, and so their body parts can serve as a source of it.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":4" /> In order to then reuse the glamour in it's raw form, the item might be ground up and make into an ink,<ref name=":3" /> ground up and used as powder,<ref>“A sword sits by the wall.  There is still sunlight in it.  If you smash it, it will break like glass.  Take a piece, grind it up.  There will be enough summer glamour in there for a week or two of conservative use.  Three or four days of your usual use.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/playing-a-part-15-5/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.5]]</ref><ref>Verona’s stuff [...] ground up glamour from the flower Guilherme had given her in her right pants pocket with three folded up bits of paper with feathers sticking up out of them, ready to quickly deploy transformations - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/dash-to-pieces-11-1/ excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.1]]</ref> or consumed.<ref name=":4" />

Working with glamour may leave leftover glamour on the target or environs which can still be used.<ref>Jogging, looking down at the mask, she pressed fingers into painted wood and found it just a bit soft.  Still dusted in glamour from her nighttime expedition with Avery, Toadswallow and Gashwad. A rubbing movement of her thumb changed color for a second, before it returned to its older one. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/shaking-hands-9-4/ excerpt] from [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/shaking-hands-9-4/ Shaking Hands 9.4]</ref><ref>You throw around this glamour without realizing it’s still out there.  It might change forms but it doesn’t just ''disappear''. Like all this I’m hearing about glitter and microplastics?  It’s out there. Stuck in the ceiling of that place you were sleeping.  In your rooms, in the grass and in the woods.  And just like this Brownie trick that Bristow’s about to turn back on you all?  It’s way more effective if you take glamour that’s been taught how to work with three little witches and use it ''against'' those same witches. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/gone-ahead-7-6/ excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.6]]</ref>
===Goblin Gunk===
Pioneered by [[Sir Turdswallow]],<ref>Toadswallow put some regular old house dust there, and makeup stuff, dirt, paint flecks, and other things Lucy didn’t recognize.<br><br>“I prefer layers. A jumbled assortment. Ten very different, capable goblins over one exceptionally strong Fae. Ten tricks, each with a small chance of working, over one with a high but imperfect chance of success.”<br><br>Lucy nodded. “This is your extension of the idea that goblins are the eighth court?”<br><br>“It’s my best attempt so far. I had to cheat. I borrowed from Guilherme. I acquired glamour from markets that don’t ask questions. I’m not all the way there yet. There are still parts I don’t understand. Maybe you could teach me as much as I can teach you now. Winter glamour is strong in its way. I won’t deny that. But let me teach you my way, before you get out of reach. Watch Bubbleyum. Then we’ll try.”<br>[...]<br>“Better. There are some who would take issue, even if we can look to a great many goblin practices and see them doing the same.”<br><br>“So you’re not the first?”<br><br>“I might be the first to take this direction with this much enthusiasm and focus. In summoning other goblins, we dig deep into the earth, tree rot, or trash, enough we can get to the guts of it. Bluntmunch does it. I’ve done it. I’ve taught you to do it. Mixed earth, if you will, visceral particles. I know many goblin practices that use stolen glamour as a component to cheat their way along, made palatable to goblins by polluting it, mixing it with dirt, lead paint chips, bodily fluids, and other things.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/31 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.2]]</ref> <!-- 
“For the time being, don’t use any glamour of the seven courts,” Toadswallow said.
Of the seven courts.  He’d said that very carefully.

https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/06/14/crossed-with-silver-19-6/

“What did Toadswallow say it was?” Lucy asked, diplomatically.

“Goblin gunk.  He said lots of fancy stuff.”

“Clever stuff,” Biscuit said, nodding.  She offered up a smile that was more tugging the corners of her mouths sideways than anything else, like she didn’t know how humans smiled.

“Din’t understand it,” Cherrypop muttered.  “But it’s glamour!  Boo!”

''I can’t tell if Cherry’s actually clued into something and didn’t catch enough of Toadswallow’s patter to buy into it, or if she circled around so far in ‘being wrong’ that she actually landed on the right answer'', Lucy thought.
[...]

It ''was'' still glamour, even if it was goblin glamour.  Ramjam had let the sled do the work, but Tatty didn’t have that.  Besides, Ramjam was closer to his regular size, while Tatty was blown up to five times her original size.

https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/12/17/hard-pass-22-3/


goblin gunk

He poured some of his goblin gunk into a bottle of booze, corked it, and threw it to her.  She caught it out of the air, just in front of a startled Grandfather’s face.  Her extended arm caught some of the blurring effect that had touched Anthem as he’d walked over.  The grit quieted it.

https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/03/21/go-for-the-throat-23-d/

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