Okokok, that reminds me of the OTHER question. Do he Gouons carry these villages and cities on their being, or do they just hang around a city planted on the ground? If i need to reword, just ask <:-)
And once again the answer is both!
Technically, every gouon and her city start off as “carriers,” since most gouons start their lives wandering around aimlessly until they either gain an apprenticeship by an older, dying gouon (who teaches her how to run the city of fairies after the older gouon dies), or they just keep wandering until they get some fairies of their own. Most fairies out on their own are vulnerable to other monsters, so the common solution is to build a wall, and later houses, and eventually, a village.
The only gouon who carries a city around with her is Debwerna, who is special because while her body was being created (from the zombie creatures smashing into each other), a society of painfully ignorant fairies decided to try to build a life for themselves in this astonishingly fertile soil (what with being surrounded by beneficial fungi) and, because they were horribly arrogant, without the help of a gouon.
Over time the fungus soil started to shift and change around them, but it took a few generations of fairies before Debwerna was stable enough to start walking around and be considered “alive” by gouon standards. By then, once she started to walk around on her own, the whole city had gotten used to their strange shifting lands and now they live happily atop Debwerna’s back, swaying around haphazardly and with strange architecture to accommodate their houses sometimes turning sideways.
Not a single fairy living on Debwernna realizes they are on the back of a gouon. They have a very dishonest education system. They’re not terribly stupid as a whole though, since their architectural engineering has to be superb in order to design a living room that turns over a lot.
To other gouons it never occurs to them to build a wall around their fairies, because then they’d just be a target. This creates societies of nomadic fairies, who follow the animals in the savannas and coastlines, usually either riding atop their gouon and hanging onto her, or by making technology to ride alongside her (like wagons attached to her skirts, or kites hanging from a mantle she wears). Most of the time when the fairies want fruit or vegetables to eat they have to trade with other, more stable fairy societies.
Lumomda in particular has a “traveling circus” society of fairies, who perform feats of gymnastics or display oddities for any village they come across in exchange for fruits and vegetables. Since Lumomda is the gouon with two heads and mouths to speak with others, she’s sort of a “ring leader” and yells a lot to quiet down rowdy crowds.
That umbrella thing behind Lumomda? Yeah, that’s a giant kite-tent full of fairies. They flitter around like butterflies in there.
As for the rest (which are the majority), gouons who have fairies are sedentary. Zebwelder grew along the side of a cliff, initially looking a lot like those mermaid decals on the front of old European boats. She eventually crawled her way up to the top of that cliff and stayed there looking at the ocean, figuring out how to build a boat. Eventually, she built a really big one that was completely useless to her, and broke as soon as it hit the water.
After that failure, Zebwelder rummaged through the wreckage and brought back as much as she could, but by that point there were no more trees for her to cut down to make the lumber for her boat. That’s around when the fairies started to show up along the coast and found all this pre-made lumber for their houses.
So now most of the fairies Zebwelder looks over live on a cliff with this ENORMOUS staircase that goes down to the water and they run around on boats fishing and Zebwelder helps fertilize the land for the fairies to grow their own food.
It’s a pretty symbiotic case-by-case situation and I sometimes surprise myself with how detailed I get with these things.
