Heather

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by PhantomRin

**Heather** is a human. She is the girlfriend of Vivienne.

## Physical Description

Heather is small, with faded pink hair and brown skin. She has pen-stained fingers due to the fact that she is an artist. Temporarily, she had been jinxed to have cat ears.

## Personality

Heather is a loving and caring person. She tries her best to be understanding of the things going on around her. She's an artist and attends community college. Upon meeting her, Jude thinks Heather seems nice, but has no idea what she's getting herself into.

## Biography

### Meeting Taryn and Jude

Heather had been dating Vivi long before being introduced to the faerie realm. She was first introduced to Vivi's half-sisters, Taryn and Jude Duarte, at a mall in the mortal realm shortly before moving into an apartment her parents had bought her and Vivi. Vivi tries to get Taryn and Jude to move in with them, but the girls refuse. At this point, all three of the other girls were still trying to hide faeries and faerieland from Heather.

Heather tells Taryn and Jude that her parents are "ready to buy a toothbrush for Vivi." She asks why Vivi doesn't want her to meet their parents and Jude lies to her by saying that Madoc was conservative-implying that he wouldn't approve of the relationship.

### Living with Vivi

Besides making comics, Heather works part time at a copy shop to help cover bills. She believes Vivi has a job, too, which may or may not be fiction. She was curious, while also in denial of the mysterious things surrounding Vivi. She suspected that Oak was actually Vivi's son, but stopped pressing Vivi about it after Vivi insisted that he was indeed her brother. The two worked together to raise Oak and give him as normal a life as they could.

### Being Introduced to Faerieland

Vivi waited until the last possible moment to tell her about faeries and how Vivi herself is half-fey. When Heather heard this, she was in denial even when they arrived in Elfhame for Taryn's wedding. Despite being warned and told to have rowan berries and salt, Heather was enchanted by a faerie musician and was cursed to grow temporary cat ears. Jude found her crying in a maze and quickly brought Heather to Vivi, who glamours Heather to forget about it.

Later, Heather started questioning Vivi about everything, who revealed that she glamoured Heather. Hearing this, Heather goes back to her parent's house to stay there for a bit.

### Returning to Vivi

After ignoring Vivi's texts for a while, Heather finally responds asking if Vivi could make her forget all about faeries. When Jude was returning to the apartment after fighting Grima Mog, Heather was sitting on the stoop and Jude stopped to speak with her. The two go into the house together where they find Taryn. It later seems like Heather is having a serious conversation with Vivi.

When Jude wakes up from being healed from her side wound, Oak mentions that Heather is with them. Heather is seen wearing a pale blue gown and giving Jude a sympathetic smile.

### Back in Faerieland

While she didn't come on the rescue mission to save Jude, Heather returned to Faerie with Vivi, Taryn, Grima Mog, and King Cardan. She stayed in the Palace of Elfhame with Heather and Oak, and bonded with Taryn and Jude.

When King Cardan is turned into a serpent, Heather tells Vivi, Taryn, and Jude a tale she found when searching for possible clues about serpents. The tale goes that a gardener's wife couldn't get pregnant and then happens upon a snake who offers to be her child. The snake, later on, decides he wants to marry the human princess of the place the gardeners work for and live. The gardener then goes to the king and makes the proposal, the king refuses, but makes the snake do three impossible tasks. The snake does each of the tasks, and the king gives the princess over to him. However, the snake takes off his skin to reveal that he is an attractive guy. The king bursts into the room and burns the old snake skin, thinking he's saving the princess. The snake guy then flees as a dove, leaving the princess is heartbroken. After weeping she decides to go find him. Along the way, she meets a chit-chatty fox who tells her about some birds that were saying mean things about a prince who was under a curse. The fox tells the princess that the curse could not be lifted without the blood of birds and the blood of a fox.

After Jude breaks the curse, Heather is found in Jude's old rooms. Heather tells Jude that she told Vivienne doesn't want to take her memories away and that was sorry she asked Vivi to make that promise. Heather then says that she is making Vivi go on a quest to meet her all over again. Tell her the truth from the start and make Heather fall in love with her.

### Restarting with Vivi

After Vivi wiped Heather's memory, the two get a fresh start where Vivi is supposed to tell Heather about faeries immediately and keep no secrets. Heather was at the apartment for Cardan and Jude's wedding party as well as when Cardan and Jude came to visit the mortal world on a mission.

## Relationships

### Romances

* Vivienne

Heather is Vivienne’s human girlfriend. She calls her Vee for short. Heather is either in denial that Vivi isn’t human or she’s just waiting for Vivi to come out and tell her. Jude says that there was no way you could look at Vivienne's ears and think they were made from anything but nature. Despite all that, they both deeply care for one another and she has already gotten to know Heather’s family. Vivi plans on moving to live in the mortal world with Heather soon.

### Friends and Allies

* Oak
* Jude Duarte
* Taryn Duarte

Heather and Vivienne are currently housing Oak in the mortal world, due to the fact that Jude wants him to grow up a little more before taking the crown. Heather asks Vivienne if Oak is her son, and Vivienne laughs and says, "I have a lot of secrets, but that definitely isn't one of them."

Jude is Vivi's younger sister and a friend of Heather. Jude tries to protect Heather from the dangers of faerie and Heather tries to comfort Jude when she gets stressed or scared.

Taryn is Vivi's younger sister and the twin of Jude. Heather gets along well with Taryn and Heather was even invited to Taryn's wedding to Locke.