This post discusses non-human societies, one of which places value in things - including relationships - that are "opposite" of what we might consider safe or moral today. As always, this worldbuilding is fictional and none of these societies (even the Fairies) should be held up as positive role models for humans.
We hear tell that the fairies and other magical creatures are immortal, but is that really the case?
Key Thoughts
- Fairies can get sick ("The Fairy Flu," "Presto Change-O", "Open Wide and Say Aaagh")
- Foop has a confirmed death ("Man's Worst Friend")
- Fairies turn to dust when they die ("Fairy Idol"); Anti-Fairies may be associated with smoke ("Anti-Poof")
- Magic doesn't affect magic ("Abracatastrophe")
- Several times, Fairies are attacked by magic that should kill a human, such as Juandissimo turning to ash in both "Truth or Cosmoquences" and "The Fairly Oddlympics," or Foop in "Man's Worst Friend." Fairies (and Anti-Fairies) seem immune to death by magic beam.
-> They've also survived other peculiar things, such as Cosmo and Wanda losing their heads ("You-Doo", "The Fairly Oddlympics," "Open Wide and Say Aaagh")
- Non-magical items are a threat to Fae lives ("Smart Attack," "Poltergeeks," "Scary Godcouple")
- Crocker stocks his fairy-hunting supplies with sharp blades ("Scary Godcouple")
- A fairy of high rank may have died when the Pink Castle caught on fire ("Balance of Flour"); the war between Fairies and Anti-Fairies is implied to have ended with a truce immediately after (88,000 B.C.)
- The bake-off in "Balance of Flour" is the 90,000th anniversary of the truce; Anti-Cosmo is heavily implied to be an adult of high rank in Anti-Fairy society before the first bake-off (He and Jorgen play Tiddlywinks before the annual bake-off is established).
-> This would imply Anti-Cosmo and those older than him fought in the war
- Enough time must have passed between Anti-Cosmo's birth and the war to allow him to reach that high rank, as well as for Jorgen's hair to turn from purple to white ("Fairly Odd Baby")
- Cosmo and Wanda were godparents to Erg in 50,000 B.C. ("The Past and the Furious")
- Cosmo and Wanda's canon family tree ("77 Secrets of The Fairly OddParents (Revealed)" depicts their grandparents (Grandpa Gonzo for Cosmo, & Nana Cadabra for Wanda) as very advanced in years. Both use their wands as canes. Nana Cadabra's hair is frizzy while Gonzo has lost most of his along with his teeth. Both are covered in wrinkles
- Cosmo and Wanda have been married for nearly 10,000 years by the time they're with Timmy ("Apartnership" and future episodes)
- Poof is the first fairy baby born in thousands of years
Fairies are at risk of death at the very beginnings and ends of their lives. The earliest life stage is also called instar: the period a baby still has its exoskeleton. The final life stage is called the senescent stage and is accompanied by the final wing moult, a gradual loss in hair, a lightening of hair color, wrinkles, and sometimes tooth loss.
Generally, Fairy wings will heal if injured, though some severe injuries may require a wing moulting to recover from. Once a Fairy enters the senescent stage, any damage to their wings is permanent.
Anti-Fairy wings heal very quickly since they have veins and muscle that Fairy wings lack
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Aging
A cohort is “a group of students who work through a curriculum” together. In 'fics, this specifically means "any Fae born within the same rotation on the zodiac cycle (from Love year to Leaves).
#RD nature spirits covers zodiac details
Poof, Foop, Sammy, Goldie, Anti-Marigold, Finley, Whistle, and Soren are examples of Fae born in the same cohort; they attend the same classes even though they weren't all born the exact same year. There's so little variation between individual years that it makes much more sense to educate them in chunks.
That said, those born in the Love year may have 6 or 7 years on their classmates and may learn a bit faster.
- Poof was born in a Soil year, Foop in a breath year. They are 4 months apart (Poof born February 18th, Foop June 13th)
- Poof was the first member of the common fairy subspecies born in thousands of years. However, children of other subspecies were not banned. See Fairy Social Ladder for info on subspecies.
Birth
A baby is very young. They can fly and understand speech, but have little to no control over their magic. Fairy babies must drink milk to receive its nutrients and hormones, including several involved in the ability to use magic. Without the proper hormones in the milk, the baby won’t be able to use magic or fly. A Fairy that cannot use magic is called a “tomte.”
- Cosmo has a genetic mutation; he still requires nursing milk hormones as an adult, so he owns a bottle-shaped thermos
- The pixie Finley is the most notable tomte in my works
Fairy babies cannot digest anything besides milk. They will throw up anything else and will die without some sort of milk. Anti-Fairy babies will be healthier if they drink milk, but they won’t starve without it; they cannot die so long as their Fairy counterpart lives.
Changeling children require milk, but swapping babies has gone out of fashion lately. Sammy Sweetsparkle is a changeling (He's one of the huldufólk and they do not naturally produce milk; they are the only Fae species who still practice the changeling children tradition)
Fairy babies can only say “Poof poof” until they experience pooferty (“School of Crock”). However, Anti-Fairy babies are born in a more advanced state, perhaps because they need to be capable of caring for themselves due to the frequency of neglectful parents in Anti-Fairy World.
A Fairy or pixie baby is properly called a nymph. An Anti-Fairy baby is called a pup. A Refract baby is called a chick.
Age 1 and Under
Fairy babies wean between eight months of age and two years old. The vast majority wean around the time of their first birthday.
Near their weaning day, they shed their exoskeletons; Fairies stop being round, Anti-Fairies stop being cubes, and pixies stop being hexagonal. They get “real bodies” at this time, and look like little Fairies and Anti-Fairies.
Poof and Foop’s shedding was especially delayed due to the frozen timestream, as we learned in “Timmy’s Secret Wish”. Foop is synced up to him, so Foop stayed a box until the timestream was unfrozen and Poof began to properly age again. Poof and Foop shed towards the end of Season 10
"Evolution Hopeful"
Age 2
During their second year, a Fairy baby goes through the Terrible Twos, and an Anti-Fairy experiences the Terrific Twos (“The Terrible Twosome”).
In the Origin of the Pixies chapter “Spoonful of Sugar,” we learn baby pixies go through an emo phase
45 - 55
Because they mature rapidly, young Fairies and Anti-Fairies need constant stimulation. Between the ages of 45 and 55, they attend school with the rest of their cohort.
In modern times, Foop was the first Anti-Fairy to be allowed in Spellementary, in accordance with the Barrier being lowered after “When Nerds Collide” (Post-"Back In Action"). Gradually, other Anti-Fairies have slowly trickled in
Around age 50 (though some may be a few years younger), many Anti-Fairies engage in a rite of passage called a canetis, which is a hunting ritual involving the use of echolocation.
After their canetis, an Anti-Fairy is no longer referred to as a pup. They’re called a juvenile. Similarly, once they turn 50, a Fairy is called a juvenile instead of nymph.
- In Frayed Knots, we learn Anti-Fairy parents put heavy earrings on their pups' ears to prevent them from echolocating and wandering off. These rings are removed after their canetis
- Anti-Cosmo had his canetis in "Snake Eyes," but Foop didn't have one
Fairy children mature rapidly until they hit the mental age of 10. Poof is mentally about 5 through most of Season 6, and mentally 7 throughout Season 7. From “Love Triangle” on, he’s mentally 10 or 11.
Anti-Fairy babies mature sooner than Fairy ones. No surprise there. Foop was born mentally 6 years old, but also with advanced vocabulary automatically imprinted in his brain
There’s a joke to be made here about the Fae being so used to their kids being mentally 10 years old for what seems like forever that they didn’t even notice the time stream was frozen for 50 years and Timmy wasn’t aging
55 ~ 140,000+
Juvenile years revolve around school; teachers, residential advisors, and classmates are critical in a Fairy's life.
After the first year of school - the adjustment year - the cohort moves to a boarding school layout. It's inconvenient to reshuffle roommate assignments every few years (especially since these are very young children living away from home), so roommate assignments last for your entire public school life (unless people request to be changed). You get new roommates if you attend a special post-grad school like the Fairy Academy.
- Many people consider their roommates essentially family. At the very least, they're close friends
- Poof, Foop, Finley, and Sammy are roommates (Hence Sammy's presence in "Certifiable Super Sitter"). Due to the May Blossom War, Foop dropped out and was replaced with Whistle.
When Foop returned during his older years, he was assigned to room with Whistle's counterpart (Soren). Their relationship turned violent fast and Foop and Whistle were switched
Not much changes as a Fairy kid grows, as they still have a long way to go before their adulthood. Depending on the child’s individual maturity level, they may appear anywhere between 8 and 13; they will probably be closer to 8 in the beginning and gradually mature to 13 towards the end.
Technically, the Fae are age sliders and may shift up and down their maturity spectrum at any time; but this flexibility is not particularly noticeable this young.
Poof grew up always comparing himself to humans. He had a really rough time in his youth because he didn’t seem to be aging like his parents’ human godkids. Lots of self-esteem issues
Fairy pheromones grow stronger during this time, but not as strong as they'll be as an adult. Gyne freckles begin to darken.
Pregnancy is impossible during the juvenile years as Fae have not yet reached sexual maturity. The parallel of "teen pregnancy" would be pregnancy after coming into your adult wings, but being younger than age of majority (See below).
~140,000 - 180,000+
At some point between these years, Fairies and Anti-Fairies experience puberty; the exact time is different for everyone. Experiencing puberty is also known as “getting your adult wings”, due to the fact that Fairies literally moult their wings (Anti-Fairies don’t).
The proper term for a Fairy or Anti-Fairy at this age is “adult”, even though they may be mentally a teen. A Fairy or Anti-Fairy stops growing when they get their adult wings. This is also when they reach sexual maturity.
---Fairy culture is big on "you know yourself better than anyone," so a wide range of options opens to you once you get your adult wings. However, age of majority doesn't hit until 200,000 years of age.
- From this point on, you can divide the age of a fairy by 11,250 to get their age in human years. They will now continue aging 1 human year for every 11,250 years
- This number is a guideline. Anti-Fairies tend to be mentally older and more mature than Fairies (They're born advanced from the start)
Anti-Fairies are legally considered adults at the age 150,000 (13 for a human), regardless of whether or not they have their adult wings. Anything that involves legal adulthood, they can do starting at 150,000- including signing paperwork, drinking, driving, fighting in war, and getting tossed in adult jail.
- Some Anti-Fairies may have their adult wings at this age while others don't
- In Frayed Knots, Anti-Cosmo was groomed by his boyfriend; he was legal age and guided towards kissing and sexual activities even though he didn't have his adult wings.
He did consent, but Anti-Wanda absolutely clocked that something fishy happened there when she found out about it years later. Anti-Cosmo is still in denial
Poof and Foop got their adult wings at 140,000 and became sexually active [with their respective partners] around 150,000. I tag works from their teen years that reference sexuality as "Implied/Referenced Underage Sex."
Their societies treat them as young adults (and 10k years passed before they even became physical, allowing more opportunity for development and decisions than human adolescents), but you can decide your own comfort on that and they are tagged Underage for that reason. You may want to check tags while reading Lavender Train arc especially.
Lavender Train is about popular high school kids who are stressed out all the time. More mature adults would not be making the decisions they are making and this arc may not be for everyone
"Teen pregnancy" - or rather, young adult pregnancy - isn’t much a thing in Anti-Fairy society; Anti-Fairies physically can’t get pregnant unless their counterpart is, which has led to their culture being very loose (See the upcoming "Class Overview: Anti-Fairies" chapter for more info on their sociosexual culture).
Historically, Fairies mate late in life since before Cupid's family took charge of things, Fairy damsels would die after mating.
It’s VERY expected that Anti-Fairies will engage in sexual intimacy not long after getting their adult wings. In fact, it's considered bizarre for an Anti-Fairy to get their adult wings and remain a virgin for more than a few centuries unless they’re waiting for their special someone to come into maturity. If you’re in a relationship and you’re both mature virgins... Why??? It’s just the way their culture is. Very casual, not a lot of consequences.
- A sexually transmitted disease called the iris virus is very coveted in Anti-Fairy society; it has several effects, but one is changing eye color from default red to the same color as the Fairy counterpart.
- Foop was born with his iris virus. One of the reasons he doesn't engage in sex often is the social expectation that he won't pass it around.
- Foop lit Anti-Marigold's eyes shortly after they were 150,000 (Poof and Goldie found out in "Watch and Learn"). However, they're not particularly active; he did this mostly to see if his dad pays enough attention to his life to bring it up with him. So far... no dice. Foop is very "not on the edge of a breakdown about his daddy issues" at any given time.
~200,000+
Continued adulthood. You’ve finished puberty, you’ve got your adult wings, you've reached age of majority, and you are totally an adult. Age of majority allows purchase of candy and soda, fighting in war, marriage without parental permission, and child adoptions. Cosmo, Wanda, and the majority of Fairies and Anti-Fairies we see in the show are at this stage of development.
Age of majority for pixies is 250,000, because H.P. freaked out at the thought of his pixies wanting to leave him at the age of 200,000 and legally boosted age of majority during a court case called Whimsifinado v. Caudwell. However, he looks the other way where sugar is concerned. Honestly, you can have sugar under the age of 200,000 and he won’t care. He loves his soda.
Not much changes in this time period. A fairy experiences 12 more moults before the senescent stage of life.
Average of 800,000 Years
In late adulthood, a Fairy and Anti-Fairy will experience another stage of the life cycle. It’s called the senescent stage; this is the stage H.P. is in during Timmy's time period (He’s genetically identical to all the other pixies, but looks a little different because he’s in a later stage of development).
This is the “wearing down” stage, when a Fairy or Anti-Fairy is older and beyond their prime. They can’t heal as well as they used to; a Fairy or pixie who badly tears their senescent wings will never be able to fly again. A Fairy in their senescent stage is capable of dying from an illness, whereas in their juvenile or adult years, that’s extremely rare because Fairies have powerful immune systems and healing abilities.
The time a Fairy reaches this stage depends on many factors; Anti-Fairies only reach this stage if their Fairy counterpart does. Using magic speeds up aging. Being more conservative with your magic usage will let you age more slowly, though you can’t stop it completely. Other factors, such as physical health and how near or far you live from the Big Wand, play into this too.
By Anti-Fairy law, a reigning High Count / High Countess must step down if they reach the senescent stage of their life cycle.
These Anti-Fairies are still greatly respected in Anti-Fairy culture; but this is a reminder that hey, you’re getting old, and you should definitely let your heir take the reins if you haven’t yet (and be a guide to help them along)
Foop was born when Anti-Cosmo was about 381,444 years old, and Anti-Wanda was 394,777. If his parents were to hold onto their positions until they hit their senescent stages, Foop would take the High Count seat around the mental age of 30 [based off the assumption that Anti-Wanda would reach the senescent stage first (Maybe around the age 730,000, which would be 335,000 years from now), and Anti-Cosmo would simply step down at the same time.]
However, other key components are in play... such as the rule that if the current heir presumptive has offspring, their chance to rule passes over them to the offspring instead. Unless, of course... That very young heir disappeared.
[Poof pregnancy arc looming on the horizon...]
School Comparisons Across the Years
H.P.'s Generation
- No tile floors
- Tablets and chisels used for writing
- Spellementary classes were held only Saturday and Wednesday, and Academy classes 3 days per week
- Pre-separation of church and state; Daoist teachings a big focus in school
- Lots of caste system teachings
- Gynes are taught they will snap and kill each other as they grow older
- Strict "one gyne per class" limit
- Gynes are assigned distant rooms and specific schedules to prevent them from crossing paths
- Preening is discussed openly
- Three roommates shared a single room with a central fire pit, bathroom, and kitchen
- Kids attended Spellementary and went home every day
- At age 50,000, kids attended upper school and went home every day
- Kids only moved out if they were pursuing specialized Academy training
Anti-Cosmo's Generation
- Gradual technology changes; bark strips and styluses used for writing. Papyrus and scrolls come into play
- Still pre-separation of church and state
- Caste system referred to as "social ladder"
- Two gynes per class limit
- Population is growing; now four roommates share an apartment, with two per bedroom
- Kids attend Spellementary around age 50. They have a preschool year to learn the basics
- Upper school is retitled high school; students live in dorms now
- Classes are held Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Students have Saturday, Monday, and Thursday off
Poof's Generation
- Modern technology such as textbooks and notebooks. No laptops, but those are in use when Poof's younger brother (Dusty) is in school
- Separation of church and state
- Attempts are made to ease away from fantastic racism and embrace all cultures
- There's a belief that if you raise gynes together young instead of separating them, they won't snap- ergo, Poof and Finley assigned as roommates
- Four roommates per apartment, two per bedroom
- Spellementary offers a preschool year around age 50 to learn the basics; kids go home every day
- The next year, kids move out and live in dorms with roommates.
- They often go home for the holidays
- Upper school is still known as high school; students still live in dorms
- Classes are held Saturday through Wednesday. Thursday and Friday are off
Related Posts:
Fae Milestone Chart
Fairy School Schedule
7 Billion Years in 15,000 Words
Class Overview: Fairies
Class Overview: Anti-Fairies
Class Overview: Pixies
Class Overview: The Refracted
Click HERE for my worldbuilding sideblog masterpost
The way Fairies track calendar years vs. the way Anti-Fairies do: A small but interesting detail in my 'fic headers.
What is an Aurora?
An aurora is a 5,000-year unit of measurement in Fae culture. It's named after the Aurora Fairyalis from "When L.O.S.E.R.S. Attack." Wanda claims it prevents magic usage on Earth for 28 weeks. No frequency of this event was confirmed, so I opted for 5,000 years.
The Fae age slowly, with 11,250 years as the rough parallel for 1 human year (In regards to average lifespan and the rate at which the magical societies progress through generation aesthetics; for example, I designed teen Poof and his dorm to fit with Fairy World in its 70s era).
How Are Auroras Used?
Auroras help people define time periods. They mark age differences in ways less dramatic than a full generation.
Ex: In Anti-Fairy society, the year you were born determines which element on the Fae zodiac you fall under. In polite society, you should defer to those of the more dominant zodiac. This affects social situations, ceremonies, and even which role you can take in a sexual relationship with another individual.
- In the Frayed Knots chapter "House of Cards," Anti-Cosmo was embarrassed to explain to his long-time friend that he would rather play a submissive role than a dominant one (and Anti-Lance was shocked to hear him admit this).
Auroras separate age groups. It's because of the aurora measurement that an adult won't defer to a young child in social situations, even if the child was born in the dominant zodiac year. In this case, the child would defer to the adult because they're older.
The aurora division is less useful between adults and children (where age difference is clear), but commonly brought up when groups of adults wish to determine which of them is older. Age may determine who is first in line for a promotion, who in a large extended family receives the most inheritance, who organizes a meal, or so on.
Where Do Fairy and Anti-Fairy Society Differ?
Fairy World has existed for a long time. In fact, Fairy World is the proper name for the entire cloudland colony... that is, not only Fairy World itself, but also Anti-Fairy World and Pixie World.
- Anti-Fairy World split off from Fairy World during the War of the Sunset Divide. Before this point, there was no Anti-Fairy World and the aesthetics for both landscapes were consistent across the cloudlands. All races could come and go across the land as they wished. That is to say, the skies were uniformly violet and the clouds puffy and bright.
- Pixie World is a micronation surrounded by Fairy World on all sides.
- H.P. was two years old when Anti-Fairy World became a recognized society.
A wide-held belief among Fairies is that Fairy and Anti-Fairy counterparts were once united beings, but were forcibly split generations ago; they're now born separately, but are linked with a magical connection.
The Aos Sí are said to be the ancestors of Fairies, and it's believed their bodies split apart to become Fairies, Anti-Fairies, and Refracts (as recorded by one of the only surviving texts from this time period: a hotly debated book of poetry called Rhoswen's Journal that perhaps shouldn't be taken literally).
- "That Was Then" is a Rhoswen-centric one-shot featuring snippets from his journal.
The last of the Aos Sí was an individual named Kahnii the Thoughtful. Year 0 in the Fairy calendar is set approximately 40 million years pre-series and supposedly marks the year Kahnii split into separate counterparts, thus bringing an end to the Aos Sí race.
The Anti-Kahnii went on to marry Anti-Shylinda: a very important figure for Anti-Fairies and a major character in "That Was Then."
- Art post of Kahnii
- Anti-Wanda is a direct descent of Anti-Shylinda; she's listed on the Anti-Fairywinkle family tree
- Anti-Shylinda took the family name Anti-Coppertalon. You may recognize this surname as belonging to the High Count before Anti-Cosmo: Anti-Bryndin Anti-Coppertalon.
-> Anti-Wanda would have been heir to the High Countess seat if Anti-Bryndin's elder half-brother (the Anti-Big Daddy) hadn't been nudged out of inheritance due to being born without colored eyes (A blessing from the nature spirits).
Anti-Fairies, however, do not particularly care for Anti-Kahnii's supposed Splitting date. In fact, Anti-Fairies widely follow the Zodii belief system, which doesn't believe in Splitting at all; instead, it's thought that Anti-Fairies are creatures of smoke who magically link themselves to those they care about. After all, Anti-Fairies are born smoke clouds, and how can Fairies argue with that?
Anti-Fairies count auroras from the time the War of the Sunset ended (and Anti-Fairy World began). Aurora 0 in the Anti-Fairy calendar is Aurora 7868 in the Fairy calendar.
I use dates in the headers of my FOP fanfics, especially the 130 Prompts. Many works take place in the early 2000s, so an aurora date isn't specified; the year is given instead.
Some works do contain aurora dates, and whether that date is given in the Fairy or the Anti-Fairy calendar is dependent on the main character of that 'fic.
Examples
Fairy Calendar:
- "Hate That I Love You" - H.P.'s dad POV - Aurora 7868
- "Watch and Learn" - Goldie POV - Aurora 8047
- "All I Ever Wanted" - Poof POV - Aurora 8049
Accurately, "All I Ever Wanted" takes place 10,000 years after "Watch and Learn"... 2 auroras later.
Anti-Fairy Calendar:
- "Gentlemanly" - Anti-Wanda POV - Aurora 131
- "Temptation" - Anti-Marigold POV - Aurora 176 (Despite taking place the evening of "Watch and Learn")
- "Approval" - Foop POV - Aurora 177 (Takes place 5,000 years - or 1 aurora - after "Temptation" and before "All I Ever Wanted")
While it's a small and easy-to-miss detail, I do think it's a neat part of my worldbuilding that emphasizes the Anti-Fairies seeing themselves as separate from Fairies and opting for a calendar that aligns with their people's significant events.
As the War of the Sunset Divide wrapped up, Anti-Fairies were chased out of Fairy World and into several different regions that became the newly formed Anti-Fairy World. Some were cut off from their families in the process.
Ex: Anti-Cosmo's grandmother (Anti-Miranda) was separated from her Fairy partner, Lucas Rainwings. Other individuals lost track of their families during the chaos.
The conclusion of war not only marks the beginning of Anti-Fairy World, but major shifts in their government... including the creation of a government in the first place. Prior the war, the Blue Castle was a home of scholars (akin to an abbey or monastery). It became a government building after the war, with young Anti-Bryndin raised as a prince beneath his mother, Anti-Ember.
Really, it's no wonder the Anti-Fairies like using their own calendar to reference the start of their organized society.
Side Note: H.P.'s generation and older are very convinced that the worlds literally split apart during the war (i.e. that the skies changed color and their "ground" environments changed as well, giving the Anti-Fairies a realm better suited to hunting animals than farming and vice versa for Fairies).
Cosmo and Wanda come from a generation divided on the topic. Poof and Foop grew up in a generation that's very skeptical the skies split, and the generations after them tend to wave the notion of a splitting sky away as complete rumor.
423 Eclipse House - Carl Poofypants High, Fairy World
Reference for the teen roommate apartment I made on Sims 4. The layout of their Spellmentary dorm was similar, but much smaller and had more of a ‘60s vibe. I had a lot of fun with this build, trying to capture that “Fairy World in its ‘70s phase” feel. Look at those semicircle kitchen counters they’re just so wacky and I love them. The Head Pixie bought the entire housing building when Finley moved to high school. Yeah, he’s THAT kind of rich.
This room appears in Prompt 95, “All I Ever Wanted,” as well as some scenes of Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pixies. So far my favorite part of playing this house is Poof somehow embarrassing Foop by showing him pictures on his phone and Sammy casually mentioning handcuffs after Foop started shouting. Foop then hid in the closet to cry. Brutal.
Giving them Room 423 is a reference to something in FOP, but I’ll be surprised if anyone guesses what!
Happy Friday the 13th! To celebrate Anti-Fairy Day, I built my take on the Blue Castle in my Sims 4 game. Unfortunately I couldn’t figure out how to record actual play footage, but a narrated screenshot tour of such a big building is probably less jarring to follow anyway.
Crocker + Carmichael family tree (via GenoPro); click to enlarge
- The Crocker family are descended from the Bitterroots (specifically they are descended from one of Alden’s sisters). The Crockers carry witch blood; all the males in this family are infertile. Before they were Crockers, they were Glovers.
- Denzel and Denise are estranged half-siblings; they share the same mother but different fathers (“Chip Off the Old Crock”).
- Denise had Kevin with Elliot and later married Molly’s father, Marvin. Shortly after Season 10, Molly and Kevin become step-siblings.
- Uncle Albert survived the 50 years time was frozen, but he passed on in my ‘fic Come What May (mid-Season 10).
- Chloe's parents refer to themselves as “co-parents” (“Fancy Schmancy”), which was interpreted to mean they’re cohabiting and are not married.
- In “Whittle Me This,” Chloe stated she has an uncle who “dresses like a nurse and yells at buses.” This uncle is Robert.
- The Carmichaels are mostly estranged from Connie’s family, whom they consider politically incorrect (“Hare Raiser”).
- Chloe shared a picture of her nana (Pauline) in “Chip Off the Old Crock.”
Chloe is an only child with zero cousins; she’s a pretty lonely kid.
- Chloe and Kevin changed their surnames to Crockermichael when they married.
- Sick of his parents, Foop runs away from home and spends a human lifetime living with Chloe and Kevin as their foster / adopted son.
Click HERE to view the Turner-Vladislapov family tree
Click HERE to view the Fairywinkle-Cosma family tree
Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally young teen)
Alignment: Neutral Good
MBTI: ESFJ (Assertive)
Love Language: Quality time
Handedness: Left dominant
Hometown: Claystrif - Also known as Patio World; contains intricately carved works of art and the glass shrine to Mother Nature and Father Time
Core: Birdhouse
Core Color: Blue (Layer 1 Yellow; Layer 2 Blue)
Crown Lift: High
Wand Type: Threedspiral
Fagiggly Color: White
Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Canary
Bio: Whistle was the first baby in the common fairy subspecies born after Poof. His parents - Coleen and Richter Fernfire - are fabulously wealthy snobs who oversee several gem mines... They're constantly trying to one-up Cosmo and Wanda and make their precious son as big a celebrity as Poof is. No one cares.
Whistle himself is relaxed and overly friendly. He and Poof have been on the same Little League saucerbee team since they were in Spellementary. They both continue the sport through high school and work out together. They had a lot of playdates growing up and know each other pretty well... despite Cosmo and Wanda's exhaustion and irritation towards Richter and Coleen.
Despite his pushy parents, Whistle doesn’t expect to become a celebrity himself. Still, he’s constantly giddy that he gets to hang out with famous faces like Poof, Foop, Goldie, Anti-Coriander... He has a crush on all four and would date them all if he could. Super-fan or stalker? You decide!
He's "open" about his attraction to Anti-Fairies, but will stutter, flush, and giggle if you bring up the topic of romance. See also, "Happy Holidays."
Whistle is a hard worker who seems to perform well in everything, especially physical activities like sports. He's always happy to offer tutoring, run errands, and do any favor you ask for. What a great guy!
He moved into Poof, Sammy, and Finley's dorm after Foop dropped out when the May Blossom War began. However, he changed rooms when Foop returned for high school.
Whistle appears in "Approval," Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pixies, "Happy Holidays," "First Impressions," and more 'fics to come.
He often appears in saucerbee scenes or works about school, such as when Foop saw him and Soren on the playground in "Sentry."
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Family Tree || Common Fairy - Social Ladder || Fairy Class Overview || Poof, Foop, and Hiccup's Bios || Sammy and Finley's Bios || Eclipse House Heights || Apartment Layout
ANTI-WHISTLE SOREN ANTI-FERNFIRE
Occupation: Student; young aristocrat; future spa owner
Birthday: February 13th, 2009 (Breath)
Height: 3′5″ (Tall for an anti-fairy; average for a fae)
Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally teen)
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
MBTI: ESFJ (Turbulent)
Love Language: Words of affirmation
Handedness: Right dominant
Hometown: Luna’s Landing - Anti-Fairy World’s capital city, located in a crater and lit by glowing crystals
Core: Birdhouse
Core Color: Blue (Layer 1 Yellow; Layer 2 Blue)
Crown Lift: Average
Wand Type: Ebony
Fagiggly Color: Teal
Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Snow monkey Rhino
Bio: Anti-Whistle (Soren) is a regular little socialite who had the misfortune of being born to rich parents who couldn’t care less about their image. Sure, the Anti-Fernfire family has run the spa and castle-like hotel that Anti-Fairies have migrated to for hundreds of thousands of years, but his mom would rather do paperwork with Anti-Cosmo and his dad would rather fiddle around with his inventions. What's a little spa heir to do? ... Take control at a young age, that's what.
Foop and Anti-Whistle aren't stepbrothers, but they are crechemates: Anti-Whistle lives at the Blue Castle and is someone Foop grew up with.
Anti-Whistle and Foop are painfully similar in a way neither will admit: They both prefer taking charge and can't stand working in unorganized conditions. But while Foop struggles with analysis paralysis, the threat of losing his inheritance hanging over him in a way that keeps him in line, Anti-Whistle's at risk of losing his inheritance if he doesn't act. Despite his nerves and frequent panic attacks, he seizes control, comes out successful, and is widely admired by the same crowd that shuns Foop as being an out-of-hand fireball. Good thing that won't come back to haunt the political landscape...
Despite being arguably more successful at running things than Foop is, Anti-Whistle is a massive suck-up who is constantly trying to impress Foop with his political skills... Foop knows Anti-Whistle will be useful someday so he doesn’t want to cut ties with him, but he finds him incredibly annoying. It's a shame the guy would probably be a great partner to rule beside...
Foop’s dream is to be the first Anti-Fairy to graduate from the Fairy Academy, so he sees fellow student Soren as the rival who stands in his way. When Anti-Cosmo returned from his mysterious disappearance (à la “You’ll Never Know”), Foop finally went back to school and was assigned to be Anti-Whistle’s roommate. That didn't last long, and Foop was placed with Poof, Sammy, and Finley again instead.
As part of their counterpart link, Anti-Whistle has crushes on all the same people Whistle does (Foop included) and doesn’t really know how to deal with these feelings... Whistle is overly excited to talk to his crushes while Anti-Whistle is a panicky mess.
Anti-Whistle makes a few appearances throughout 130 Reasons Why I'm Fairy Trash and other projects.
He usually appears in Blue Castle scenes during Foop's youth or 'fics about school, such as "Sentry" (where Foop sees him on the playground and young Soren gets spooked), "Naptime" (where Foop throws a sleepover), and "Approval" (where Whistle brought him along to the high school dance).
Related:
Family Tree || Fairy Class Overview || Poof, Foop, and Hiccup's Bios
