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 rougheraccent 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 Lad-ette. 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. Contrast Drunk on Milk, when the drink of choice is non-alcoholic. Lord help her, though, if she ever becomes pregnant!
It has absolutely nothing to do with cute little fairies living in bottles, as seen in the anime series Bottle Fairy, the video games The Legend of Zelda, or Neopets.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
Astuko Urameshi of Yu Yu Hakusho. She often draws others in.
Masane Amaha from Witchblade 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 Witchblade 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.
Naturally, it's later shown to be the way she tries to cover up the stresses of her job and her extremely crappy family- and love life. Notably, Kaji's return prompts the first time Misato gets drunk and gets more miserable instead of getting into her usual 'happy drunk' persona.
Lampshaded in Neon Exodus Evangelion, in which SEELE suggested her as Captain specifically because of her Bottle Fairy tendencies, not really expecting anything of her. It comes back to bite them when she keeps succeeding.
Urd and Sayako from Ah! My Goddess. In Urd's case, it's somewhat justified as it's her Trademark Favorite Food, so she can restore her powers this way.
Tina from Ai Yori Aoshi, although she would probably be the second-strongest contender for Kaoru's affection. Taeko is also a pretty good fit — klutzy, clueless, and (at least in the Enishi season) a heavier drinker than Tina.
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.
Cana from Fairy Tail goes Up to Eleven: her profile states that she's responsible for 30% of the consumption of alcoholic drinks in the titular guild, and started drinking twice as much ever since her bottle buddy Macau got a new girlfriend.
Ichihara Yuuko in xxxHoLic loves her sake, 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. Her VA also played Misato.
In the OVA, she tricks Tessa into drinking one night. The result is poor Tessa wandering around the base drunk, half-asleep, and half-naked.
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.
Hey now it was most likely only Christina, Sumeragi may be The Alcoholic but she has standards, she refused to serve Allelujah something because she thought he was underage. Turned out it was his birthday Earth-time.
Mimi from Mnemosyne, who is the protagonist's secretary. She even has a fondness for giving her boss Vodka kisses. That's right, vodka.
Vodka is water in Russian.
Actually вода (Voda) is water водки (Vodka) is the grain alcohol (водки means little water)
Inverted in Bleach with the anime only captain Shūsuke Amagai, who became completely intoxicated just from smelling alcohol.
However played straight with Rangiku Matsumoto. at least until it's confirmed she's a Stepford Smiler and Broken Bird which subverts the carefree and worry-free part of this trope. She might be doing better later
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.
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.
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.
Hanuki from The Tatami Galaxy, who is cognizant of how she becomes flirtatious when drunk, and so tries to be careful about who she drinks with.
Milly Thompson from Trigun. Partner Meryl usually has to caution people about giving her too much, as her behavior tends to turn erratic (though her wilder moments are never shown to the audience). Later, when she passes out, she may start babbling.
Eriko from Dragon Crisis!. In one episode Ryuji even makes a comment about how many liquor bottles she has in her room.
Sumire from Kimi Wa Petto gets cheerfully drunk fairly regularly.
Tsugawa's wife in Japan Inc. Yes, their marriage is in trouble.
Kazehana from Sekirei. Her idea of a good afternoon is sitting on the roof and drinking sake out of the bottle. She still manages to be uncannily shrewd and perceptive while sloshed, and is one of the strongest Sekirei.
Shy Crazy Lolita Canary of The DCU's Super Young Team. She's an alcoholic, but since she's the size of a small bird she can get smashed on a thimble full of vanilla extract.
Film
Barb in Black Christmas. She nearly always has a beer in her hand and is a happy drunk.
Marian Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark, consistently winning drinking contests with rowdy Tibetans. Though the story implies (and the novelization confirmed) that she's primarily interested in the money she makes winning drinking contests.
Zooey Deschanel's character Kit in Failure to Launch seems a paradigmatic example of this trope. As well as being the sort of cuckoo-lander pixie which Deschanel plays so well she's clearly shown to be a bit of a lush, being introduced in a scene declaring that 'champagne Thursday' has extended to include Fridays.
Literature
Granny Nanny Ogg from Discworld entertains a pocket flask and has a fitting saying of the healthy benefits for every situation. In Witches Abroad the three do actuallypose as fairies.
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.
Irene Reilly, mother of Ignatius J. Reilly, has a fondness for muscatel that leads her son to accuse her of being a habitual drunk. While she does in fact drink kind of heavily, it's hardly fair to call he an alcoholic, so she probably falls in this trope.
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.
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.
Laurie from Cougartown. Of course, all the women drink on that show, but Laurie is the youngest and least responsible, so she's the one that fits the type best.
Alisha from Misfits. She's a Drunk Driver too, and even getting lumbered with a police curfew and an electronic ankle tag doesn't stop her from partying.
One famous myth involves Sekhmet (or Hathor Depending on the Writer), in a fit of bloodlust, wanting to kill and devour the entire human race. The sun god Re (her father) thwarts this rampage by tricking her into drinking a lot of "blood" (actually beer with food coloring), until she gets so drunk she forgets about killing mankind. Once again, beer saves the day!
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 water and 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 mythology fun?)
Video Games
Suika Ibuki and Yuugi Hoshiguma from the Touhou series. Suika is an especially stellar example, as ZUN ison 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.
Innes Lorenz from Shadow HeartsIt 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.
Rubi Malone of Wet, though like Revy above, she's more of a Heroic Sociopath than a Trickster.
Cécile Cosima Caminandes of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Has pretensions of French classiness, but in reality mostly spends her time getting incredibly drunk, failing to notice Kaz flirting with her, and sexually harassing Big Boss over the radio.
Charme from Recettear. When she's not off adventuring, she can sometimes be found getting plastered at the local pub.
Rose of Sharon Cassidy in Fallout: New Vegas, who as a companion even gives the player a perk that nullifies the negative effects of whiskey (or any alcohol, but whiskey has other benefits) so that they can drink to their heart's content. Don't have any? With the right ingredients, she'll make you some moonshine, making her the only renewable source of the stuff in the game.
Lilly in Wasted Youth. Getting drunk actually seems to make her smarter, to the point where the school pretty much allows her as much alcohol as she wants to keep her grades from slipping.
Visual Novels
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 and kill the poor girl slowly and painfully.
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.
Sister Denmark from Scandinavia and the World is rarely seen far from beer. Her brother is just the same. Explained for the fact they represent their respective country, which is a top contender for highest alcohol consumption levels in Europe, if not worldwide.
Rupph from Bar'd. There's a reason she's called the "demon of the bottle".
Roxy Lalonde from Homestuck, the Reset-button teenage version of Ms. Lalonde, is as much of a drinker as her adult counterpart, and is very shameless about it.
