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  • Complete Monster: The Fairy Queen is the tyrannical ruler of fairykind who imposes draconian rules that govern how fairies eat, dress, have babies, and think, with her first command being they love only her and no one else. When Tiki and Wijic break her rules to help the human couple Jan and Charlie have a baby named Bindi, the Queen imprisons Tiki in a wasp nest and takes her magic away, leaving her to starve or be stung to death. Once Bindi is born, the Queen takes revenge on her eighth birthday by imprisoning Tiki and Wijic, draining their magic, and giving Bindi a magic necklace and twig that exaggerates her vices. Under the Queen's control, Bindi summons countless toys and is nearly crushed to death, and the Queen is barely stopped from killing Tiki, Wijic, and the humans with her wasps.
  • Moral Event Horizon: The Fairy Queen crosses this by leaving Tiki to die or be killed in a wasps' nest, and sending a swarm of wasps in an attempt to thwart her rescue. She keeps going downhill from there, abusing both Tiki and Wijic to the point of near-starvation, and attempting to have them "stung to dust".
  • Realism-Induced Horror: The fairy queen's treatment of her subjects is a disturbingly realistic depiction of brainwashing and abusive relationships. There's no magic involved. The fairies are just told to love her and to not be lonely or unsatisfied and to act as the queen wishes. If they don't, she locks them in unsafe places and sometimes forgets about them, leading to their deaths. Tiki and Wijic accept this as a completely normal and reasonable way of living. Near the end, it's revealed that the queen punished them by cutting off their supplies of magic and leaving them starved and in rags. Even then, they both seem completely unaware that something bad's happening, with Tiki apparently convinced it's winter. It's not until they see each other that they realize the queen's hurting them, at which point Jan nearly breaks down over their treatment.

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