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Fairy is a species of mystical creature in the Inkworld.
Overview[]
Physical attributes[]
| “ | Sometimes, when I went to the spring to wash early in the morning, there'd be tiny fairies flitting around above the water, not much bigger than the butteflies you have here, and blue as violet petals. | ” |
— Dustfinger about the fairies in the Inkworld[citation needed]
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Fairies are violet-blue butterfly-sized creatures. For some unknown reason, they glowed in the dark.
When Orpheus arrived in the Inkworld, he reads into existence fairies that are coloured like soap-bubbles, believing only blue fairies to be terribly dull.
Personality[]
| “ | Sometimes they spat in my face. They weren't very friendly, but they shone like glowworms by night. | ” |
— Dustfinger[citation needed]
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They aren't particularly vain, as Dustfinger states that they would paint their faces with mud so that he could guess the fairy underneath the layer. They are fond of stealing hair to use in their nests, causing many women in the Inkworld to keep the tops of their heads covered.
Behind the scenes[]
- Although the two worlds are supposedly one of the same, in Cornelia Funke's Mirrorworld series (known in German as the Reckless series), the Fairies are exclusively female immortal beings who dwell in their valley and have magical powers. Their physical attributes are lovely beyond compare and arouse lust to the point of suicide in mortal men. They have six fingers on each hand, each for a curse.