Bottle Fairy - Television Tropes & Idioms

Would you believe she's also a mom?

Why do stars
suddenly appear
every time
I drink beer?

—Karen Ellis, Planet Karen

She's a hard drinkin' woman, but I love her just the same

—Blue Room, Hard Drinkin' Woman

The cheerful, playful, often inebriated party girl. She's usually a Pretty Freeloader without a care in the world and avoids some of the more inane plot lines of a story. This is only because she's somewhat capable but embraces the chaos that comes. Alternately, she actually causes those plot lines, as the Bottle Fairy is frequently a Trickster as well.

If she's anywhere near legal age, she'll also drink heavily.

She's almost never really a strong contender in a Love Dodecahedron, if she's interested in the lead at all. Characters might make mention of her dating casually, but since that might inflate the cast with unneeded extra male characters this will be implied rather than shown. She'll channel her perverted behavior into playful teasing of the lead guy, or even the other female characters. However, the Bottle Fairy may sometimes act as a Trickster Mentor of sorts to the lead (or both members of the Official Couple).

This character often speaks in a rougher accent than the others. Is often prone to a Best Beer Ever.

In some seinen, this is occasionally the main character who the audience lusts over.

Compare the Cool Big Sis. Loves to go on pub crawls with The Ladette. Most of these characters tends to be the Ms Fanservice of the show, but there are exceptions. May grow up to become Lady Drunk. Might have been a Bokukko or a Big Eater when young.

Note: The anime series Bottle Fairy has absolutely nothing to do with this trope (it's actually just about cute little fairies living in bottles). Nor do the fairies that bring you back to life in The Legend Of Zelda.

Examples

Anime and Manga

Masane Amada from Witch Blade is a semi-example of this trope. She does drink like a fish at times, but does seem have this drop off to nil when the show drops off into utterly serious territory, but during the early half when it was true, she almost blew her own cover as the Witch Blade bearer during one of these episodes. Thankfully, the artifact didn't activate and Intrepid Reporter Yuusuke Tozawa was willing to cover for her. Oh, and she passed out.
Mihoshi Kuramitsu in Tenchi Muyo!, perhaps the best example.
- What about Ryoko?
Misato Katsuragi in Neon Genesis Evangelion, when she's not being a scarily hyper-competent military officer.
- This troper actually remembers this being lampshaded in a fanfic, that SEELE suggested her specifically because of her Bottle Fairy tendancies, not really expecting anything of her, and it comes back to bite them on the keister when she keeps succeeding.
  - Not sure which one you read, but I know they did it in Neon Exodus Evangelion.
- It's worth noting that Misato's infamous slam-the-bottle-on-the-bar-while-exhaling-loudly gesture is now an official Bottle Fairy salute and staple of some anime.
Akemi in Maison Ikkoku.
Mitsune "Kitsune" Konno in Love Hina.
Weda in Haré+Guu, pictured above.
Momono Megumi in Mahoraba.
Urd from Ah My Goddess.
- Also, Sayako.
Strangely enough, Shanks from One Piece.
Tina from Ai Yori Aoshi, although she would probably be the second-strongest contender for his affection. Taeko is also a pretty good fit — klutzy, clueless, and (at least in the Enishi season) a heavier drinker than Tina.
Revy from Black Lagoon. Except, instead of being a Trickster, she's a Heroic Sociopath...
- Eda from the same series qualifies as well. She's more of a Trickster than Revy, though she's also got a Heroic Sociopath streak.
Ryuuji's disturbingly young mother (33 years old with a 17 year old son) Yasuko from Toradora. Justified Trope to a degree: she actually works in a hostess bars, and that requires her to drink regularly.
Forte from Galaxy Angel arguably fits, although she's a very capable strategist and weapons expert, and in the games she's an available haremette.
Haruko from AIR, although she turns out to be not so careless after all, and is drinking her problems away and being irresponsible because being a good parent might activate Misuzu's curse.
Ichihara Yuuko in xxxHoLic, unless she's on the job. Then she's freakishly cryptic and mysterious.
Melissa Mao of Full Metal Panic, but only off the job. Applies the drinking heavily part of this trope with gusto, as she could probably pay for her Humongous Mecha on the simple recycling profits of all the beer cans piled up in her off-duty hours.
Akano/Haruie from Mirage Of Blaze.
Margery Daw from Shakugan No Shana.
Sumeragi Lee Noriega in Gundam 00, when she's not being a scarily hyper-competent military officer. Only a bit of a Misato rip-off. She even hands her two female Bridge Bunnies, Christina and Feldt, bottles of alcohol while they're working on ship systems checks in one episode.
Yukiji Katsura from Hayate The Combat Butler.
Mimi from Mnemosyne, who is the protagonist's secretary. Not only is she rather underage, but she has a fondness for giving her boss Vodka kisses. That's right, vodka.
Vodka is water in Russian.
- Except she's technically not underage. Technically.
Noa Izumi from Patlabor is revealed to be one of those in the episode where everyone (well, everyone but Goto) goes out and gets drunk. The discovery brings the other Bottle Fairy in the group, Kanuka Clancy, to tears.
- Noa comes to it naturally, her family owns a liquor store back on Hokaido. Noa herself mentions that before the drinking battle with Kanuka.
Matsumoto Rangiku and Koutetsu Kiyone in Bleach.
Yukari Tanizaki from Azumanga Daioh loves to party, but it's actually Nyamo who freaks the girls out with a drunken talk about This And That during one of the summer episodes.
- And the only reason SHE drank it was to keep Yukari from drinking it and doing the exact same thing.
  - And the reason she wanted to drink it is because she got the idea from Tomo.
Tsukihime: Dead Apostle #21 - Sumire - is known to be among the most powerful out of all 27 Dead Apostle Vampires (the 27 most powerful non-human beings who have even remotely vampiric qualities), except for the fact that she spends the majority of her time underwater, drunk off her ass, virtually harmless except for the rare occasion when she sobers up enough to return to land.
- Among the main characters...Akiha. Yes, Akiha.
Tamaki of Kure-nai. Makes you wonder what kind of an effect she has had on Murasaki's little mind.
Ruko from Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu. For those of you keeping score at home, that's the third character on this list voiced by Hitomi Nabatame.
Hannah Essenheimer from The Prince Of Tennis.
To some degree, Midori Sugiura from Mai-HiME.
Atsuko Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho.
Shayla-Shayla of El Hazard
Mizuki Tachibana of Gravion
Yuma Tonami of To Heart 2, though she's a weak drinker (she got drunk on half-sweet sake in the Another Days OVA). Also voiced by Hitomi Nabatame.
Rin Sawamura of Midori Days.
Akane Asahina of Kanokon is a Bottle Fairy in training. When she drinks an alcoholic beverage that has Love Potion side-effects, she falls in love with the bottle.
Haruka Nishida from Kanamemo, who's prone to both drinking and spontaneous groping when drunk.
In Suzuka, this trope is both played straight (in the form of Yuuka Saotome) and subverted (in the form of Megumi Matsumoto). Yuuka is a pretty standard partyin' gal who tries to squeeze large amounts of money from the protagonist Yamato, while Megumi is an angry drunk who flashes her boobs at him because she's jealous about not getting enough attention from guys in general.
Only seen once or twice in Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, but nine year old, but really over a hundred years old, Rika Furude, apparently loves her wine. The TIPS in the games confirm that she drinks just to get drunk.
April in Darker Than Black. She once drank the entire staff of a bar under the table. It helps that it's the remuneration for her powers, but she doesn't exactly mind.
Minayo of My Balls turns from timid shrinking violet to unstoppable nymphomaniac after drinking. Kouta refers to this as "Nympho mode" and at one point describes Nympho mode Minayo as being "sex incarnate". Hilarity Ensues.
In episode 27 of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Pinako of all people appears to have been this.
Horo, from Spice And Wolf. (Or Holo, depending on what forums you frequent.)
One of the stories from the Hentai manga The Cherry Boys is about a kid losing his virginity to a pretty, drunk girl. The sex ends abruptly when she vomits on his penis.

Comic Books

Ninjette from Empowered, and she's also a Drunken Master... Scary combination.
Tara Chase from QueenandCountry, and she has been known to go a little AxeCrazy on her enemies. *Shudder*

Film

Marian Ravenwood from Raiders Of The Lost Ark, though the story implies (and the novelization confirmed) that she's primarily interested in the money she makes winning drinking contests.

Literature

Nanny Ogg from Discworld.
- More like a bottle covey.
Liriel Baenre, early on in her Forgotten Realms trilogy.
Bernice Summerfield from the Doctor Who Expanded Universe, the only companion ever to get her own heading on Tardis Wiki's "Alcohol' page.
Sergeant Hellian in Malazan Book Of The Fallen is more or less continuously drunk but manages to be a bizarrely competent soldier and squad leader.

Live Action TV

In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Faith started out as a Bottle Fairy, before her stint as a Dark Action Girl. (While she was hardly ever shown actually drinking, that probably has more to do with the show's Moral Guardians than with Faith herself; a sixteen-year-old getting hammered wouldn't have gone over well, but her behavior in the seventh season strongly suggests that she's used to hard drinking.) She eventually matured into a full-blown Ladette.
Fran from Black Books, whose natural state is with a bottle of wine in one hand and a fag in the other, cackling at Bernard and Manny.
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in Battlestar Galactica. She's introduced in the pilot miniseries playing cards, smoking a cigar, and brawling with the XO. Only Baltar has had more sexual partners.
Serena van der Woodsen is a carefree party girl who often - and mostly without intending to to so - causes chaos and drama wherever she roams. She's also pretty much a textbook example of a Good Bad Girl.

Mythology

An Older Than Dirt example can be found in Hathor, goddess of music, love and drunkeness in Egyptian Mythology.
As well as Inanna/ Ishtar/ Ashtoreth. Her many divine attributes include brewery, sex and warfare. How did she get so lucky? By getting her uncle - Enki, the god of wisdom - drunk enough to give her dominion over pretty much everything worthwhile! (Yes, the "god of wisdom" was seduced into a bender by his neice. Isn't classical mythology fun?)

Tabletop Games

Since she's a halfling and has more than once been depicted with a very red nose, this troper is quite convinced that Lidda, the iconic halfling rogue from the third edition of Dungeons And Dragons, is something of a Bottle Fairy crossed with Action Girl.

Video Games

Suika Ibuki and Yuugi Hoshiguma from the Touhou series.
- Suika is an especially stellar example, as ZUN is on record stating that she is never sober, due to a magical gourd (treasured by all oni) that can produce an infinite amount of sake, and actually becomes stronger the drunker she gets. She is also one of the most powerful beings in Gensokyo (right up there with Yukari and Flandre), able to among other things tear apart mountains with her bare hands. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Excellen Browning from Super Robot Wars Compact 2 and the OG series, who also loves to play the Cool Big Sis to just about anybody younger than her, and will flirt with just about anything male (or female), even though she's totally devoted to the man she really loves.
- Excellen practically embodies this trope. While she's portrayed as a mega-ditz who can't seem to take anything seriously, it's only until you realize that on top of the Playboy Bunny suit-wearing Manic Pixie Dream Girl antics, she's also one of the best snipers and is part of one of the most feared real robot two-person teams in SRW history.
  - Only because there's little-to-no competition for the title.
Karen from various Harvest Moon games. She's of the Pretty Freeloader / Cool Big Sis type.
- In 64 she was a Broken Bird.
Arche from Tales Of Phantasia, arguably.
- Innes Lorenz from Hearts is probably a better example. Actually, it turns out most of her more eccentric early behavior was Obfuscating Stupidity. However, she does confess to having a real drinking problem at the church of the Great Winged Whale and presumably cleans up by the end so she can be a foster mother.
Iria from the first Star Ocean.
Opera from Star Ocean: The Second Story.
Yukino-sensei from Brass Restoration is always shown carrying around a bottle of sake, which she sometimes uses as a weapon.

Web Comics

Faye from Questionable Content, although she is getting help for her alcoholism Also, she's neither cheerful nor particularly playful.
- Raven might be something of a better match for this trope, on reflection.
- Faye seems like a deconstruction, really.
Jodie - and her mother from Loserz, at least occasionally. See this strip.
Liriel from Drowtales.
- Whose name is very possibly a Forgotten Realms shout-out.
Penny from Out At Home. A bit of a Drunken Master, as well, as it seems to enhance her Fourth Wall-breaking abilities.
Jane Doe from Nobody Scores.
Aubrey and Peejee from Something Positive.
Bree, the author and star of the Journal Comic Sex, Drugs and June Cleaver portrays herself as one.