Who hasn’t seen that old Bugs Bunny cartoon, The Falling Hare? Remember? It’s the one where Bugs is up against a crafty little airplane Gremlin. You remember! In case you don’t, here’s the YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8mWGCeBu8
So ANYHOW, come to find out that the phenomenon isn’t limited to cartoons and the Twilight Zone, it used to be a problem as far back as the 20’s! (thank you Wikipedia!) It was a superstition towards a new technlogy, happens
SO, stories like The Spiderwick Chronicles, etc. are magical tales of Fairies, etc.really living in our world, but just out of reach. and Gremlins can be a kind of fairy (though there is a negative connotation…) And I went on thinking up yet another comic/book/other project…
Widget is a strange little gnome. Orphaned, he was barely accepted by a small village of Fairies in the forest outside Wrenfax, watching the RAF airfield going up. He had been chastised by the fairies for grubby clothes and his ability, common to all Gnomes, of not being able to fly at all! and as he has found no real welcome in his foster home, its time he made his own way. After watching the planes take off and land, and the mechanics working on them, he has found his home! Taking up residence in an unused locker, he has fashioned himself a pair of retractable steel wings, just to see what all the fuss was about!
Ethwyn is a fairy(faerie) princess, but only in name. Otherwise, she's a bit of a tomboy, and not at all satisfied sitting on velvet cushions, or waving to the commonfolk form high towers. She craves adventure! The kind of adventure only in stories these days. Men have waxed and spread and adventure can hardly be found anywhere anymore, swallowed by the advance of their cities. Well, she'll just have to go in and drag it back out, who knows, it could be... and adventure to try...
Turg is a goblin, and by his nature is dim, nasty, brutish, and short; but only by human standards. He's simply the Fey World's answer to the average thug. He enjoys dirty work and revels in dull cruelty and gratuitous violence. His weapon of choice is a large, converted double-sided can opener with which he is frightfully proficient.
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