Forever hysterical that Crocker and Chloe were completely buddy-buddy until the instant Kevin Crocker hit the field and at that point it was on sight.
I feel like we don't talk enough about how Chloe was openly bribing Crocker by taping money into her essays, but this still wasn't enough for him to even feign interest in her as a student once he had a new toy to play with skldjfsldjf
Like, he didn't just lose interest in her- He started being mean to her on purpose and Chloe was COMPLETELY unprepared for an adult to not like her. it's funny every time.
I love you "Timmy's Secret Wish," I love you babies with law degrees, I love you Foop both doing and not doing his due diligence in the discovery phase, I love you canonization of Foop having a goal to work towards after being thrown in maximum security the day he was born, I love you world's best friend Mark, I love you Flipsie, I love you Crimson Chin, I love you little spider bowtie, I love you Anti-Fairy acid tears, I love you Hocus Poconos, I love you absolutely unapologetic meta canonization of weird timeline and funky worldbuilding, I love you Newton's cradle instinct, I love you self-destructive behavior, I love you shrieking children begging for their lives with a $1 bill and still asking for the change, I love you Fairy World reminding us they are in fact fey and do not have to play by human rules or even have a human's best interest at heart, I love you Crocker's photo album, I love you Cosmo and Wanda having an actual house while Juandissimo has corporate housing for no reason, I love you Father Time not killing mortals on the spot and instead blessing them with old age, I love you ambiguous caretaking relationship between Timmy and his elderly parents, I love you Crockers Look the Same Regardless of Age joke, I love you Jorgen having a mental breakdown over keeping the Fairy Council's secrets against his will because mind wipe would have been a mercy, I love you portal to Fairy World accidentally set to the surface of the sun, I love you beloved pet bird named Pile of Goo, I love you lightning walrus hell, I love you tender brotherly love and self-sacrifice, I love you silly movie-length episode dedicated to such a heavy plot point, mwah mwah mwah!!!
"'Cuz once we start it, baby, ain't no, ain't no stoppin' then... 'Cuz I just wanna live my life and party!" (x)
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As per annual tradition, shouting out a Fairly OddParents 'fic today! This time fancy!
Prerequisites: "Evolution Hopeful"
🚂 130 Reasons Why I'm Fairy Trash
Prompt #124 - “This Is a Box”
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"Yep. That's why we've gotta do this while Cosmo and Wanda are asleep." Timmy placed his hands on the floor and leaned in. "Our mission? We're going to Pixies Inc. to score the hottest deals on all the coolest stuff. For Jorgen, obviously. Not because there's a certain limited edition, all-thought-to-have-been-destroyed Red Ninja video game I really want to buy or anything."
Chloe shook her head. "Timmy, did you really wait until the last possible day to pick up a present?"
"I have a short attention span and I put things off to play video games!"
Time for Timmy to find a gift for the Fairy Reunion gift exchange is running out, and Gray Tuesday may be his last hope- even if today is for Pixies what Friday the 13th is for Anti-Fairies.
OR, Finley lets his waggle dance mind control powers get the best of him, Timmy finds a clock, and Chloe kicks the Head Pixie in the face.
Tuesday November 30th, 2004
Originally posted 2018
(First 1,200 words under the cut)
124. This Is a Box (Just after the "Evolution Hopeful" Prompt)
Monday November 29th - Tuesday November 30th, 2004
Year of Water, Autumn of the Aligned Raindrops
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The Carmichaels did not associate with the Turners around Thanksgiving. Buddy, the Carmichaels barely associated with the Turners, period. And November or not, here in the suburbs, autumn-colored fleece sweaters didn't make the greatest form of camouflage. Not even in the dark. Chloe had figured that out in the worst way possible. Crossing the street? Tried it. No-go. Connie and Clark weren't risking any chance that their daughter might sneak over for a bite of turkey, even when Chloe insisted she faced no such temptation. And they were still acting like this when Thanksgiving had been four days ago, too. Because leftovers. Gotta love 'em. Figured that the one time her parents insisted on sticking around to keep tabs on her would coincide with the most calorie-heavy meal of the year…
In all honesty, it was Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda who held her interest more than the food. And Poof, who had texted them all last week that he planned to pay a visit. Chloe didn't know all the details, but he'd said it involved "a surprise", and Wanda and Cosmo had expressed all sorts of feelings ranging between streamers and party blowers, and endless sobbing. Needless to say, they had enjoyed a party over there just after dinner today. And she, Chloe Carmichael, practically an honorary member of the Turner family, had not.
Chloe leaned her back against one closed window in her bedroom, taking her hot chocolate in small sips and mouthfuls of marshmallows. Outside was dark and leaf-littered. A crisp chill wafted in through the second window, but it was still warmer than the winters she'd been used to back home. Living in California was a new experience. It hadn't snowed yet this year. Timmy said it rarely did here, especially not recently with Global Warming and all. Usually godkids had to wish for it. She wasn't sure how many children that entailed, but apparently snowy November wishes were largely a thing of the past. They might've gotten bored of it. Maybe she'd get lucky later in the season, but for now, Dimmsdale would just have to make do with pretty leaves and baggy sweaters a little while longer.
Chloe paused mid-chuckle, the lip of the hot chocolate mug resting at her mouth when she noticed movement across the street. Completing her sip, she leaned forward. "What is…"
A bright shape rocketed through the air and smacked against her window. Chloe almost dropped her hot chocolate. As it was, she spat half her swallow back into the cup. Her instant urge was to karate chop the intruder, but the glass between them stopped her hand. She took the chance to breathe instead. The figure was large, at least a foot and a half tall, spread-eagle like an attacking bear. He wore a lightweight, long-sleeved hooded shirt decked out in horizontal stripes. A gap-toothed smile grinned down at her. Pale brown freckles dotted his cheeks and nose. Messy purple curls framed his ears. His right hand clutched a rattle like a wand. A golden crown floated a handspan above his head.
"Wait." Chloe narrowed her eyes. "Poof?"
Poof buzzed his wings and peeled himself away from the window. He tipped his crown, then made a beckoning motion with his hand. Chloe blinked. Setting her mug over on her desk, she took the lower portion of the window and lifted it.
"Wow, Poof. You got a whole lot bigger since I saw you over spring break. You look like you're an actual kid now! No offense."
Poof cleared his throat, dropping his voice into a regal, almost seductive boyish baritone, as though he were welcoming her to a lavish palace banquet. "Ha ha ha! Perish the thought, my dear Lady Chloe of Carmichael. Although I must admit, I could say the same to you, now that I see you doing something besides obsess over rules and funtivities."
"Uh-huh. What are you doing at my house? It's dark, but not that dark. Someone might see you."
Poof shook his head, still hovering outside the window. He magically slicked back his hair to reflect the look of a seemingly British secret agent. Then he saluted, rattle held vertically near his cheek. "I'm afraid I am a man on a mission, Lady C.C. Come over. And do take care not to let my parents know, hm? There's a good lass now."
Chloe glanced over her shoulder at the empty birdcage on the far side of her bed. Cosmo and Wanda hated to be split up. Technically, not even Jorgen could force them to be. They held joint godparenting licenses that allowed them to work together, after all. After several months, she and Timmy had finally worked out a system of sharing fairies that they both agreed on. Cosmo and Wanda usually stayed with her on even days, and they stayed with Timmy on odds. Since they pretty much all hung out together every day that Timmy hadn't promised to spend exploring the town outskirts with Sparky or that Chloe's parents hadn't over-scheduled her for, things were working out okay.
At first, Chloe had expected Timmy to either throw a fit about being separated from Cosmo and Wanda for any length of time, or get himself mauled by some woodland animal. But to her surprise, he'd gravitated naturally into hanging out more with his friends Chester and A.J. Rekindling his back-up friendships with Sanjay and Elmer hadn't been far behind. Lately they'd been hanging out together most nights to play board games, watch movies, or tinker around with A.J.'s dad's old robots.
Timmy's friends and back-up friends were nice and all, but Chloe didn't want to intrude on their guys' nights. So, she kept a respectful difference even when Sanjay once mentioned to her in passing that no one would object if she did. It was probably good for Timmy to do things on his own without Cosmo and Wanda hovering over his shoulder for awhile. Plus, this way she had the fairies all to herself. She liked that. Not because she felt possessive of them or anything, but just because this way, Timmy wasn't around to mock her for her wishes, or shoot down her ideas, or wave them off as something he'd already done before.
Pink and green feathers still littered the bottom of the empty birdcage. In a few more hours, it would be the 30th. Even. Cosmo and Wanda should be here to check in for a sleepover in her room. This, however, was a special occasion. Poof had come home today, after all, so both she and Timmy had allowed Cosmo and Wanda to spend the day out and about with their son wherever they wanted. Last Chloe had overheard from the news on TV, a toddler with wavy purple curls had been spotted charging down a pier in pursuit of a seagull who had stolen a beakful of his fries, with his mother and father not far behind. Witnesses swore that his leaps between the posts had been so fast and fluid, he almost looked as though he were flying.
If Cosmo and Wanda weren't here and Poof was alone, they must have returned to Timmy's goldfish bowl even earlier than usual in anticipation of tomorrow's switch. It would have been nice if they'd wished her goodnight. Oh well. "Okay," she murmured. "But what in the name of hoopla is going on?"
"You'll see," Poof said, switching back to his regular, high-pitched baby voice. He beckoned with his hand again.
A series of one-shots related to my FOP headcanons, featuring multiple storylines that occasionally cross as I explore worldbuilding and sew plot holes tentatively shut.
- Based on a list of 130 prompts I wrote in 2012 and have always wanted to see to the end
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⭐ It's 2024, and I have once again redrawn the cover image for my 130 fanfic prompts challenge! Check out the 2016, 2017, and 2019 covers below:
Yes, Gary's credit card was always there, guys-
I like the 2024 cover enough that it will probably stay forever, seeing as it covers every arc and I think it'll hold up well <3
Part 2 of reacting to this episode (spoiler-free)!
Cosmo talking about the Big Wand going down: Better check with I.T.
Hazel: Just I.T.? No fancy fairy name?
why is this so funny to me
Y'know... I've have a post in my drafts for ages that mocks Anti-Cosmo's castle entrance for not being wheelchair-friendly (because the road is covered in spikes). If he took over and then put spikes on this new road, I'm gonna lose it.
OH, I NAILED my "After thinking about it, this is my final answer" prediction. Dev is in the house! oh, good gravy.
This is the second time he's tried to be a king, and I think it's funny he hasn't tried to be a company president or anything. Not fantasy enough for him.
It's stupid funny to me that Dev just turned 10 and he's got impressive muscles when he flexes. what is this child doing- bench pressing solid gold??
We've been robbed of Dev wishing himself into one of the puzzle games he likes and getting buried under, like... Tetris blocks and having to claw his way out.
That might make a good 'fic; I feel like "wishing to be inside an app" is very correct for him.
??? whaaat does he have? He's got portable wishes of some kind? Is it a shooting star? oh, goodness. Let me think, let me think...
!! Crocker has these in the finale of Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 1. He throws them at the ground near fairy guards to poof them into animals. They're grenades. lmao, Dev got into the Fairy Armory.
Canonically, the Fairy Armory is the only place in Fairy World that still has power during outages, so... epic magic fight with weapons?? Ooooh, I hope so!
Irep is back, I knew it!! Part of me suspected he wouldn't be here because he's not really known for being a team player, but I'm glad he is :) Let's go Anti-Fairies!!
I'm delighted Anti-Cosmo isn't taking lead. Also, for some reason it's hilarious to me that Irep is focused on Hazel and not interested in addressing Cosmo or Wanda. He used to greet them as Auntie and Uncle, and now he's like "I don't need their approval or love."
Uh-oh... Has he sorted out his needy issues? If he's too old for naps and we can't bribe him with hugs, how will we defeat him??
I wanted to see if he uses their honoraries in "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales" (since he does it when he's being polite and I knew he was offering food). He doesn't, but I like how Wanda straight-up fed her nephew an apple that puts him to sleep until his true love kisses him, then looks dead at the viewer and says "And then we all lived happily ever after." Is the implication that no one will ever love him, so he's unconscious forever?? omg.
Wanda's very black and white view of things is so incredibly funny to me, especially since she grew up in a mob family.
I'm excited to see Dev and the Anti-Fairies. Who would win: the species that invented papercuts, or a little boy who longs for lemonade?
Are you telling me Cosmo and Anti-Cosmo are BOTH intimidated by Irep now? Either this is about to be super funny, or they've switched.
Did Anti-Cosmo finally step up his parenting? Not out of the question; in Season 10, Foop was in time-out for putting spiders in his spaghetti.
I rewound and Cosmo jumps when the magic hits, before he sees Irep, so he's not necessarily afraid of him. Also, keeping my fingers crossed for anti-family interactions. I'm really looking forward to a face-off between Irep and Peri; their banter is my favorite and we didn't get much in "Best of Luck."
I'm so glad that despite changing his name, Irep presents himself with the same flair he always did. He is the same person...
omg, his little cufflinks. He's adorable.
For some reason, I've called him "posh British boy" in two previous posts, but... idk why, because he's literally never been posh and I know that. I'm glad he looks like his aesthetic is "bad boy with the tiniest detail of fancy."
I hope he's still friends with Sammy Sweetsparkle :) Maybe they're in a gang. I know there's 0 chance of Sammy being in this episode, but can you just imagine if Foop took out his wallet and there's a picture of Sammy in it.
Actually... if he's got a little metal circle there, I think that implies his jacket is closer to denim than leather. Lemme check......
OH, interesting... Yeah, he and Sammy don't match.
I don't say it enough, but it's really freakin' funny to me that Foop spends a distressing amount of "Certifiable Super Sitter" following Sammy or spying on Sammy and/or reacting to everything Sammy says. He's just Like That...
Like, I enjoy the implication that of all the places Foop could go when his parents canonically left him unsupervised for the week, he likely chose to hit up the Turner place in spite of his hatred for Poof because Sammy is there. Silly.
Anyway...
Dev: Yeah, yeah, yeah... and Irep. Joint conquerors of Fairy World.
OMFG, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Was I RIGHT that Anti-Cosmo isn't even at the takeover!? Local introvert hates leaving his house and never wanted Fairy World anyway; more at 11. I'll be there!!
Plot twist, Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda don't actually show up in this episode because they're busy flirting while Irep's away.
I clocked the design aesthetic of the taken-over Fairy World as "This is Irep and Dev as partners; Anti-Cosmo wouldn't do this" so hard. crying. how did I do that. it's not getting better than this.
"Let's get DEV-ious!!"
dlkfgm, once again losing it at Dev using his first name rather than the "Dimm" part of his surname when he makes puns. He's a Dimmadome, but... he's kind of his own twig on the tree.
It is unreasonably funny to me that Irep's wand is so heavy considering he had massive muscles as a child after his Abracatraz imprisonment ("Spellementary School" & "Timmy's Secret Wish").
Also, I am FASCINATED by the decision to give Irep one little zipper tab that hangs off his jacket. Impeccable.
I love this team already. These are two people who are both known for:
- Coming from upper class families
- Having parent-related abandonment issues
- Not showing a lot of restraint
- Only showing restraint when they've REALLY gone too far
Hmm... Oh boy, let me think. We know Dev's [previous] line was that he didn't like his dad shocking people's brains for money, with Dev having strained feelings even when he was trying to convince himself the shocks could be good ("You can help kids!") And he did feel bad about fighting with Hazel, though he's definitely Going Through the Wringer right now.
And Irep's line in the OG series is that he was totally down for:
- Tormenting his parents
- Annihilating Crocker for not inviting him to his house party (whom he hilariously calls Denzel when he's mad at him)
- Pointing his school's playground slide into the void
- Sending Cosmo and Wanda on a dinner date to a black hole
- Poof dying (despite the fact their lives were tied together)
- but he wouldn't allow anyone to harm Chloe, who finally introduced him to hugs.
He made it very clear he wasn't willing to face Vicky to save his own life, even on the verge of death, but he'd do it for her or for chicken cordon bleu. And she's not here, and we're all out of chicken cordon bleu. Uh-oh…
- Would Irep rate Hazel hugs 10/10? Inquiring minds need to know.
- Is Dev bribing Irep with hugs? Or is Irep just here for the chaos and assurances that Dev's having more fun with him than Peri?
- Is Irep bribing Dev with hugs? Are they pumping each other up with positive affirmations?? Go king; continue the healing cycle!
If Irep's parents show up, I hope he's on good terms with his mom, who used to pack chicken nuggets and anti-venom in his lunch box :)
Dev's faith in his ability to not fall off his O-pairs makes me nervous every time he's ever been onscreen.
His dad might let him down, but the O-pairs never have.
[ cnt'd - #Long post ]
All I've been thinking about for ages is an AU where Dev and Mikey Munroe (Bunsen Is a Beast) switch drones for a day, so Mikey's parents freak out that they can't monitor their son 24/7 and meanwhile, Dev just... can't get his dad's attention despite the two-way microphone and camera screen. Also, Mikey spends most of his time making noises into the O-pairs' fans.
It's always been my headcanon that Mikey's parents installed the Buxaplenty's and Leadly's security systems (hence the buttons releasing different dogs & the lethal lightning bolts) since I think "ooh, rich people want us" helps justify why his parents are gone for months or years at a time when we know their job is designing home security, so basically... all the cool rich people use them. I actually have a WIP of Mikey and Remy playing near the Buxaplenty train tracks when they were little, but I never found a plot point strong enough to carry it to the end. Anyway, I've been waiting to see what the Dimmadomes have in terms of security, but it's... nothing yet.
Plot twist, Dale has trust issues even with the people installing security?? ... I think he'd be friends with Mikey's parents. Maybe. Actually, I might need a 'fic about Dale having a meltdown when he goes home for the first time in 7 years and doesn't trust that Vicky won't sneak in to get him. He needs the world's best security team. It's two terrible parents afraid of literally everything. Yes, they ditched their kid for this. Don't worry about it.
y'know... It's really messed up that Mikey's parents are terrified of everything, but they leave their 12-year-old home alone with the pets for months or years at a time, "but it's fine because they're spying on him 24/7 and sometimes give him gifts (like medicated wipes)." His dad is implied to have a fear of germs and I've always wondered if that plays into them not being anywhere near Mikey...
Plot twist- We pull a "My Gym Partner's a Monkey" (where the reason we don't see Adam Lyon's parents is because they're severely allergic to animal hair and Adam has to thoroughly wash when he's home and they can't go to school events), but it's Mikey's parents fleeing Muckledunk because they're either allergic or afraid of Beasts. They left their son... Okay, I just checked my notes and I have a line here that says "Mikey's obsession with soft things like animals, beards, and blankets is probably because his parents never touch him." help??
Anyway, I think an AU where Dale hovers over Dev 24/7 and is still a terrible dad would be funny. Instead of neglect, it's obsession... Especially at this age since Dev's as old as Dale was when his trauma started.
... Is Dale putting distance between himself and Dev on purpose because Dev looks exactly like him and is now the age when Dale's life came crashing down? idk if Dale had access to mirrors back then, but that's gotta be weird.
crying at Irep waiting for his cue to pull Dev's flashbacks down from the top of the screen. They rehearsed this. Painfully in-character (In "Secret Wish," Foop claims he waited 10 minutes outside so he could burst in at a dramatic moment).
The way Irep twists his legs gives me Anti-Cosmo vibes.
Rare "Winn without cap" spotted in the wild.
Dev has the room oriented the wrong direction and in doing so, he forgot to include the door. Emotionally, he's stuck in this room. lmao.
Maybe it's a class that's not Guzman's since we know from "Multiverse of Jenkins" that these kids do attend other classes. But... Dev, what's goin' on, buddy?
INCREDIBLY funny to me that Bev sits directly in front of Dev? I gotta go back and fact-check that sometime. Has he been harboring his crush on her because she's right there? That's great!
??? If she DOESN'T sit there then I have to assume Dev is just so Bev-centric that he WANTS her to be there, and that's very funny. Go chase your sporty crush, rich boy. I support you.
Okay, I went back, and it seems his canon seat is between Bev and Kev (with Kev behind Hazel), but Kev vaporizes when we need to center Hazel and Dev onscreen at the same time (such as Dev faking sick and Hazel glaring at him). Oh my glob, he's another witch... Dev, embrace your ancestral witch-hunting for me, plz and ty. It would be funny...
/checks my witch notes as a joke and screeches to a halt. Oh my goodness, I could finally get a Soil Tribe child in my roster... I have their magic down as "causes host to fade unnoticed into the background," and it would be very funny to do something magical with the child model.
??? On my first watch of "28 Puddings Later," I don't think I saw that scene of Dev falling over and losing his shades when the pudding throne collapses. Must've missed it while taking notes. That's cute.
I like how Dev's memories are 2D like the photos we've seen throughout the series. Also, Hazel's so dang cute.
I'm glad Dale's pants look the same in both the New Wish and old 2D style despite no FOP character ever wearing anything with that many dots.
I like that Dev's hair is much shinier than his dad's, implying Dale still has the dullness that comes with being soft instead of slick.
- I'm assuming this means either Dev's hair is gelled or he gets that from the maternal side of his family?
- idk man, this is very in line with my "Dev's mom is a Leadly" headcanon... At this point, I can't NOT torment him with two very rich and extremely messed-up sides of his family... They both have extreme branding and weird fixations and funky buildings and run big businesses that have brought in incredible amounts of money and they like tech and call people the wrong names... do you see what I see...
I'm DELIGHTED Dale's hair curls up in the back. I've been so sad that he lost his tuft when he grew up. This is clever.
!!! oh yeah, Dale has his dad's stripe! Technically he and Dev both have the stripe, but I love the subtle differences in their hair. While collecting screenshots for an earlier post, I noticed the hair above their ears is combed in different directions, like this:
- with Dale showing the stripe much more clearly than Dev does. I like the implication that Dev's stripe is gold. That's really cute.
I checked, and the gold streak does seem to be in the place he has the Dimmadome family stripes in his 2D form (Eyebrow level). Neat!!
Aw, Irep's a big boy! And his hair grew out blue!! Parents' genes came out kickin'. I did wonder. I think it's funny his mustache and goatee are still black.
Despite losing the black hair, he's not yet immune from "Irep, are you sure one of your parents wasn't actually pixie?" allegations.
This is stupid funny to me... In my Cloudlands AU, the Anti-Fairies are always dunking on him for having black hair like Anti-Cosmo's ex-wife, but no one can say anything because unlike Anti-Cosmo's first heir (Talon), Foop was born with the iris virus (colored eyes), so he's "been accepted by the nature spirits" and is heir apparent.
... Seeing this many colored eyes is giving me incredible amounts of anxiety, but it would not be appropriate to clarify why out of context. I like the guy with hair over his eyes and a big hat.
Is Irep leading the charge these days? Do the Anti-Fairies take orders from him?
Did Anti-Cosmo step down!? Because considering how much he hates conflict, I wouldn't be slightly surprised, omg...
I think it's funny that if Dev uncovers any official documents or watches memory clips that flashback to Irep's past crimes, he'd probably be like "Why is there no paper trail for this Irep guy? who tf is Foop?"
WAS that his experience of browsing the anti-web? I have to assume it was- I can't imagine Anti-Fairy World would cross his path without Foop's name coming up.
?? Considering that in my previous post, I said I couldn't think of any reason for Anti-Cosmo to desire taking over Fairy World unless he managed to score the earth and/or godkids out of it...
I'm so glad Dev just dropped "They have to take over Fairy World so they can rule Earth." slkdfj?? okay...
Irep: Now we can rule BOTH!
Anti-Cosmo: That just sounds like scoring godkids with extra work.
THEM!! I am once again so intrigued by the lore that A.J. went into parascience and is following in Crocker's footsteps?? You've no idea how much I need to know what the A.J.-Crocker relationship is.
crying at Irep making a peace sign when he gets in front of the camera with Dev. Doesn't he do that in his profile pic on Dark Laser's phone? He's literally the same person he's always been. I missed him so much.
PLEASE do not tell me Dev's full name is Development "Devin" Dimmadome. The quote marks Dale puts around "Devin" are making me lose it.
Dale's partner: Honey, can you stop thinking about business for 5 minutes so we can pick a name for our son?
Dale, who comes from a family that usually just slaps their name on things: I got this.
?? I'd LOVE to know what's going on with Dev's mom. Did she die in childbirth and had no say in naming her son, and Dale took over from there? Is she alive, but divorced from and/or passive around him?
Like... I have to assume she had the most exquisite prenatal care through a rich family like this, especially if we assume she also came from a wealthy family cough- Leadlys.
Holy flipping plot twist, does Dev not have a mom at all?
He looks exactly like his extraordinarily wealthy dad. Was he just cloned so Dale could pass the business on someday? Did Dale just kinda buy him and wait for the surrogate to hand him over, and he never formed any attachment to him as a baby because he had the O-Pairs / au pairs raise him? lmao!!!
Traumatized beyond belief for 7 years by a girl his age so he trusts absolutely no one and never learned what a healthy relationship was like even with a partner, let alone his son. smh.
Actually, it's very funny to think of him and Vicky splitting up. Like, it was extremely toxic and not romantic in the slightest, but she straight-up identified him when she saw his face in "Operation: Birthday Takeback" even though logically, that would have been 70 years since she was last close to him. She probably knew him pretty well, especially since his hair has changed.
Timmy can't have frozen the timestream any earlier than Channel Chasers in Season 4 when he learns he'll lose Cosmo, Wanda, and his memories when he grows up, which is the reason he cites for freezing time in "Timmy's Secret Wish," and that was 50+ years. It's been 20 more on top of that for Dale to grow up and his son to turn 10.
We know Vicky and Doug Dimmadome very, very occasionally crossed paths in later seasons (Vicky tries to sell him the Stryker Z in Season 3's "Engine Blocked").
If anyone cares, this (Season 3) is presumably where Dale grew up unless Doug took him to Dimmadelphia.
Like?? Something about the fact that Vicky and Dale are the same age is funny as heck to me. New Wish canon heavily implies Vicky's been taking advantage of Dale since they were 9, and they might've been friends once upon a time (despite the fact that in both New Wish and the OG series, she can never remember who the Dimmadomes are, lol).
There's no way Doug did a good job of looking for him, or Vicky would've turned him in for reward money. I wonder if Dale had a history of sneaking off to play with Vicky and just never came home one day.
Do you think that after her bossing him around for 7 years, Dale was really messed up and didn't know how to make choices for himself?
Oh, that's awful!! Who would write a 'fic about him running away to look for Vicky and beg her to take him back because he doesn't know how to be a person anymore and needs schedules and instruction? Who would do that?? I'm fascinated by their dark, twisted, and incredibly under-explained vibe. Haha, I'm in danger...
oh no, and Dev even told us his father relies on algorithms over his own thoughts, and we KNOW Dale was upset his publicity team said he should talk to people face to face instead of sending the O-Pairs or hiding behind holograms... A snarky Dev told us he thinks "talking to people isn't [Dale's] thing..." I'm connecting the dots...
hey wtf. does Dale have issues with scraping by in the dirt and dark with limited food and water and nothing to his name for 7 years and that's why he freaks out when he loses money? He can't handle the thought of not having a house??
Holy flip, I wish he'd communicate his trauma to his son, but I'm yelling that we keep seeing hints that he's withholding things from Dev. Like ?? Dale explains his thoughts all the time (in monologue fashion), but he's clearly keeping some things under wraps since Dev didn't have any concept for who Vicky was or why she knew his dad.
I genuinely think Dale doesn't want Dev to know the details. Dev didn't even seem to have a good grasp of why he isn't allowed lemonade, or at least that was my read considering how grumpy he was about it.
omg, this is horrible. who would write a 'fic about Dale taking his son camping and then slipping off to have a total meltdown where Dev won't see. who would do that.
Like, I think at this point they're so rich, you'd have to assume they're not at risk of losing everything if Dale took time off work, but we KNOW he's stuck on that schedule Vicky raised him with (working on Saturdays, which we see him do multiple times), and we KNOW he's always trying to claw his way up despite having the money to buy literally anything he could ever want.
And we KNOW Dale's big thing is that he loses his entire flippin' mind when the money slows down ("You still making sales?" / "Yes, but they're dropping, Dev!") and he's willing to stalk and hurt people to keep it coming in.
Y'know, this is continuing my theory that Doug Dimmadome is probably dead. I legit think Dale lost his support system (possibly around Dev's birthday considering how clingy he is about boots and says they came into his life on that day, plus the golden boots with the "In honor" plaque he has in his house). Daddy's not bailing him out of this one...
Lovely that Dale's first words to Dev after finding out he's taken over Fairy World are "My son." Oh, NOW he wants to talk...
I also find out my son is working with the fey and immediately drop his full legal name.
Why is Dale both the worst person alive and the only dad ever? I need to flatten him with a cruise liner (carnally).
Happy boy... (Dev, don't trust him.)
omfg, Irep's not buying this for a second.
?? I feel like it makes things WORSE that Dale seems at least a little aware of how upset Dev is about the boots? "I'm so proud of my son; it almost makes me want to throw away my boots." - There's no way he doesn't know he's been screwing with Dev's head for the last 5 months. omg.
- Hey, does Dale treat Dev this way because Doug made Dale feel like he was playing second fiddle to his giant hats?? I can't help but notice this whole city has a hat theme, yet Dale doesn't seem to care for hats at all... which is interesting, because we know Dimmadelphia existed way before Doug got here.
Doug in my theory: /died 10 years ago
Dale: If I touch Dad's hats or add boot statues around the city, he'll totally kill me.
- ?? I guess the alt theory is that Dale put all the hat stuff up as memorials to his dad, which doesn't sound far-fetched since again... he keeps THIS in his house:
... Huh. I guess it could be a trophy for Dale instead of a memorial. That's another relevant time to use "In honor." What does it say about me that "omg his dad is dead and he bronzed his boots as a keepsake" was my first thought when I saw this in "Operation: Birthday Takeback" and not "Dale is successful of his own merit"?
Obsessed with the implication that Dev's brand image is his sunglasses... Three Dimmadomes go down in history: The Hat, The Boots, and The Shades.
I still think Dale should have a gun. Not to be helpful; just to keep things spicy...
Please go to the Fairy Armory: the one place in Fairy World that canonically keeps power during blackouts. I am begging. I feel like his Southern daddy would want this for him. Doug had a flamethrower.
Is Dev still holding those magic grenades, and what would happen if someone tackled him in a hug?
SDLJKFSDKLFJSDF I'm on the floor. Did I call it? No way... But is Anti-Cosmo only going to show up now that Dev's giving godkids to Anti-Fairies??
Irep: Yo, I'm going to take over Fairy World; anyone want anything?
Anti-Cosmo: The same thing I always want: a new child.
Irep: wtf
Oh, all that time I spent speculating instead of actually watching the episode the night I started was so worth it. I was really nervous people would grump at me for how I see Anti-Cosmo, but now I feel like I was set up for a slam dunk.
Also, I like how Dev's taken over Jorgen's office. I didn't notice at first, but that's clever.
Dale is so proud despite the fact Dev taped his mouth shut and tossed him aside. That's so funny...
omg, this pit looks dark.
Will Dev torment his dad with lemonade? Is Dale going into the dark torture pit that swings open from the top like a trapdoor, which parallels his underground trauma to a T, or is that going too far??
Is Dev going to dump on his dad about Vicky? Will Dale freak out when he realizes he accidentally hired his abuser of 7 years to babysit his son? Will Dale be joining Club Redheads Who Didn't Get Mindwiped? (I hope not, because Vicky's in it).
Will Dev bully his father while he has all this power and then wipe his mind?? So many questions. Find out next time...
Just realized it's December, which means that sometime within the last couple weeks, I've crossed the mark to 9 years of loving Fairly OddParents! Wowza!
Here's some art I did during my very first watch (Late 2015)... From my "get it out of my system so I stop thinking about this show" dump. Yeah... We know how that turned out.
So I was rereading your lore on witches in your riddledeep au and um.
Would this technically make Dev a witch??? lol. He also freebies a pizza across a digital title card that episode too.
😂 Y'know, it's funny you say that because for the past month, I've been wondering if anyone was going to ask me if Dale or Dev are witches. I don't know why I was wondering that, but it's been clinging to me. I couldn't think of a way to bring up "btw, they're not witches in my work" without it feeling weird.
My witch lore for context
Dale and Dev can specifically not be witches under my lore even if I wanted them to be, even if I were following a headcanon where the Dimmadomes get around the XYZ chromosome sterility through clones, because of something extremely specific that also exists in my lore that I cannot go back on.
Magic Colors
So, I have a whole magic system set up around the colors of magic. There are 6 possible colors in the OG series- 5 of which are represented on the Rainbow Bridge, 4 of which are represented on the Fairy Council, and 2 of which are extremely rare.
I gave the Fairy Elder (namedropped in "Timmy's Secret Wish") yellow robes, thus tying the Fairy Council together.
Each magic color has a meaning associated with the mood or thought pattern behind magic use. I drew my original inspiration from the colors Timmy's brain turns when Poof's controlling his body in "He Poofs, He Scores."
For those interested, my Colors of Magic post (From May 2016, but has screenshots) & my worldbuilding sideblog's post on magic colors (Cleaned-up lore with no pictures). Short version below:
Red is an extremely uncommon magic color, though we see it when Foop is fighting Cosmo and Wanda in "Playdate of Doom" and when Wanda jumpstarts Timmy's heart in "Yoo-Doo." It's the color I associate with life and death magic. So, y'know... Foop is very okay.
There's also indigo (used by Juandissimo in "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary"), which I consider a subset of blue.
Green is also extremely rare. Notably, it's the color Foop's magic slowly starts to turn throughout "Scary Godcouple"- He started off with blue, but sours to green in one of the only appearances we see of green in the entire series.
But you know what commonplace color we don't see?
Orange.
In my lore, orange-haired magic users (both Fae and genies) are the equivalent of shiny Pokémon. Even two orange magic-users don't normally have orange offspring- They produce yellows and reds.
And the thing is... I've already set up Happy Peppy Gary to be the only orange witch in my lore. In fact, I have a WIP multi-chapter 'fic about Gary getting discovered by H.P. and Anti-Cosmo, who lose their minds when they realize what he is (Pink and Gray).
Shout-out to one of my favorite dialogue exchanges I've ever written, from H.P. trying to sus Gary out as genie-descended:
H.P. brought his hand up to fiddle with his glasses. "Okay. Completely random get-to-know-you question. By any chance, are you afraid of small spaces?"
"Deathly. Why?"
And Dale is Gary's age - in the same city where the Pixies dropped Gary and Betty after taking them in - which means if he WAS an orange witch, he would've been clocked so hard, so fast. Also, since I'm going the route of H.P. being Dale's godfather, there's no way he wouldn't have noticed even though Dale was MIA for years.
Fun Fact! Gary and Juandissimo are "related!" Juandissimo was finger-snapped into existence by Gary's ancestor, Crimsona. He's arguably a great-great-great-great uncle (5 generations up from Gary).
In Cloudlands AU, Gary's middle name is actually Juandissimo! That's because Juandissimo's been assigned to godparent to this family several times (We met Gary's dad and grandmother, Quincy and Eunice, in Baby, You're a Rich Man; Sanderson matches Eunice's name to Juandissimo's in Chapter 10 while looking through godkid files).
Anyway, I COULD have witch genes passed down through Dev's mom's side of the family (Leadlys in my headcanon), but that comes with its own issues: if Leadly had XYZ chromosomes, he can't have Hadley, and I'm not going back on that. I could make his wife a witch, but that STILL has issues.
In my 'fics I play Ed Leadly as a guy who's looking for magical creatures (hence him being willing to drop 17 million dollars on someone else's dog in "Dog Gone"). I have literally shown him onscreen holding a witch-detecting compass that points to Gary (in "Opportunity"). There is no way he would not have clocked his ex as a witch, sldkfj...
Closing Comments
Dale and Dev are some of the only characters in my universe who are absolutely confirmed to not be witches, despite how much I have actually wondered if it would be fun to portray them as such.
I don't have a lore reason for the visual gags in that episode- I sadly have to clock it up to random cartoon silliness akin to Jenkins exploding into pieces when Jasmine sings in "Fly" (or Hazel also falling apart or exploding when people expressed crushes on her in "Multiverse of Jenkins").
In my lore, I actually do have Gary set up to be able to pass his witch powers to people he kisses (Because I thought it would be funny if that's why Betty is taller in some scenes than others; yes, I am that pedantic and it makes Betty's "But I don't like you like that" line exponentially funnier), but I've established that only genie-descended witches can pass powers... That doesn't make sense for Dev in this episode either.
Technically all the fluids can pass magic, so a blood transfusion would make Dev "a permanent false witch" if I wanted to do that, but I'm not gonna bother when again, we have people exploding in this show as a gag. Cursed gags I cannot touch with lore 😔
If anyone else makes the Dimmadomes witches, I'd be totally down to read that. I think it would be extremely funny if Dale Dimm was also a witch despite sentencing Alden Bitterroot to 350+ years of clawing his way out of Dimmsdale's well for witch crimes, but my AUs have pretty firmly locked Dale and Dev out of that option.
Riddleverse Design Facts
Here's another fun fact for any new followers who don't know I do this: I draw witches with spirals in their hair! Pics under the cut due to length:
Crocker has his in the back and Kevin has his on top!
You could TOTALLY make an argument that Leadly's spiral is in his mustache
Also, it's a very good thing I do this- I joked in the past that Gary and Dev look eerily similar (even sharing lots of body language), so it's nice to have things like freckles and a hair spiral I can fall back on.
I'm VERY happy with my adult Dev design, but I definitely kept freckles and hair spirals away from him, haha. Sneak peek of him next to his mom:
Note- Spiral headcanon excludes H.P., who has a unique family cowlick I gave him before doing this for witches. Poof doesn't count either since he's under Fae Get Alphabet Hair rules:
Whistle and Anti-Whistle [Soren] (at the bottom) are some of my favorite designs... I can't get over his upside-down W hair sldkfj.
But Wanda and Anti-Wanda having completely different Ws is another favorite thing. I'm especially proud of Dusty's little D tuft.
I'm not sure why Smoky ended up with what looks like an F (unless it's a T since he was Talon before Talon was Talon), but I remember doing a lot of designs for him. Sometimes I don't commit to alphabet hair if letters are hard (Soren's top zigzag is meant to be an S, which is a very hard letter to incorporate, and I think I didn't want Smoky and Soren to have the same one). I've been wanting to redesign Smoky a bit, so I'll probably fix it then.
Goldie's is subtle and you can see it better in some drawings than others, but she has M hair because her full name is Marigold :)
I should probably re-add her middle tuft to her official sideblog art, whoops.
Also, if this is how someone is finding out Poof and Foop literally were designed with alphabet hair, I have wonderful news for you. Fun fact, the "Anti-Poof" storyboard portrays Foop with a square spiral instead! It was the final detail of his design.
I forgot how much I love Kevin Crocker... They made him the most self-deprecating character in the series (who is actively being manipulated by his uncle to use that self-deprecation to weasel things out of Chloe) and they also made him the guy who answers his phone with "This is the Crockmeister! Crock to me! :)"
Crocker dunked on him in front of everyone and Kevin just flung his arms in the air and yelled "That's two zingers in a row!! :D" and he's also the kid who taped his mouth shut to express his rage at being used as a puppet.
He's so hungry at home that he steals food from the class rabbit. He's so tired that he crawls on top of his desk and passes out for the rest of the episode. He collapses into a sobbing mess when no one picks him to be in their group for the project. But his big moment is also screaming "From now on, it's GORK!" and wiggling his arms like noodles.
When Chloe invited him over, Kevin put on the biggest smile and told her "Nah, I'm busy being a bitter loner." He is also the kid who loves dentistry and crashes into walls and ceilings because he can't control his completely unnecessary rocket boots.
"It's no biggie. I just kind of wish I was never born." - The kid who just kicked down a door and yelled "Yo, yo, yo, Crockmeister in the hizzy!" and then got immediately told he was pathetic and always would be because of his family tree.
5 seconds after this, he's bursting at the seams with giddy joy. Then he tells you no one's been this happy to see him since his going away party where everyone was excited to see him go away.
Chloe cannot emotionally destroy him in a way that matters. He just jumps out her window and leaves...
He's presumed dead in two of his three remaining episodes this season, and in the other one, he was pretending to be a lifeless doll. Timmy was convinced he'd been beheaded for a short time. Also, he can't walk as fast as his uncle so when they walk onscreen together, Kevin falls increasingly farther behind.
Timmy: Kevin has overcome the Crocker stigma of evil! :)
Kevin: /immediate mental breakdown over the idea that anyone could actually like him, ending with the conclusion that only his uncle's approval matters and he will absolutely kidnap two people if he gets that
He's so funny and every time he shows up, it's a wild emotional ride... I love him...
