Disclaimer: I do not own Holly Black's characters or world, and I don't own those of Stephenie Meyer, either.
Claimer: I own my version of Isabella Swan, her human family, and Mikayla Rye.
This may be boring; I am giving an outline of Holly Black's Tithe and Ironside, and the characters, plus what happens to lead up to Mikayla.
I have been in this shape for years, although I do get those breaks ever summer when I can get the glamour off and spread my wings. My name is Mikayla Rye and I am heir to the Unseelie throne – on my summer vacations. Now, however, I am Isabella Swan, Bella for short.
When I was younger, my mother Kaye, now Queen of the Unseelie court, was a changeling pixie growing up, until she turned sixteen. The free faeries found a way to revert my mother to her pixie form from the human one of Kaye Fierch, the human girl she grew up as. (I know this is a little confusing. It helps to read the books mentioned above!)
After discovering who she was, Kaye fell in love with my father, at that time a traded knight of the Seelie court, known as Roiben. It is wrong for faeries to give their full names, as they can be controlled that way. A few months/years (I'm not sure of the timeline, and I don't have the books on me…) later, my father became Lord of both courts, Unseelie and Seelie, and my mother his consort. Years passed and my father gave ruler ship of the Seelie court to his sister, Ethine, who was the original heir to the throne.
More years passed and I was born, Mikayla Rye. My parents decided to keep me safe from the intrigues of court by sending me to a human family when I was year old.
I took the place of Isabella Swan, who was, oddly enough, born the same day as me. Glamour from both my parents was placed over my faerie form and I was given a guardian, a faerie my mother grew up with, by the name of Lutie-Loo.
The human woman, Renee Dwyer, had left the father of Isabella eight months before we were switched, and she had moved from place to place since. Renee, or Mom, never knew the difference between Isabella and me, since she couldn't yet fluently talk at one year old.
When switched, Renee and Isabella had lived in New Jersey close by to Renee's mother, Marie. A few months after the switch, with the human Isabella happy in Faerie in my aunt's court, and me with the human, we moved to Arizona, where both of us stayed until I was seventeen. Renee and I visited Marie each summer break from my school. There, I would spend the days and some nights in Faerie with my parents, learning the duties as heir to the Unseelie court.
My human glamour was pulled off and I could fly with my rainbow pixie wings. I looked like a mix of my parents, with Roiben's skin, height, and build, except the muscles, because otherwise I would look like a boy. From my mother, I got the traditional green pixie hair, pitch black eyes with no whites, extra jointed fingers, and wings. As a faerie, I had glamour of my own, stronger than my mothers because I was part sidhe (pronounced SHE), from my father.
Okay, this was a boring chapter and I promise it will get better. Please review if you think it is a good idea, or if I missed key points in the chapters!
Moony