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* The storyarc title "The Good Prince" is pretty much universally understood to refer to Flycatcher's rise from janitor to king, and all the sacrifices, ordeals and wondrous feats he had to endure and achieve to get there are the main focus of the narrative. But one must also consider Prince Charming's journey during this arc as well. As Mayor he successfully thwarts Imperial envoy Hansel, sets up a spy network of zephyrs that prove crucial to Fabletown's clandestine information gathering, unifies Fabletown's biggest, most important figures at the most crucial, yet dividing time in the history of their society, and lays the groundwork for their greatest, most important undertaking: the invasion of the Homelands. He truly starts to come into his own as a leader and a Prince, and has begun to shed the more irresponsible, short-sighted and selfish aspects of his character, becoming the truly heroic and inspiring Prince he always should have been. Charming is indeed the other "Good Prince".
* The storyarc title "The Good Prince" is pretty much universally understood to refer to Flycatcher's rise from janitor to king, and all the sacrifices, ordeals and wondrous feats he had to endure and achieve to get there are the main focus of the narrative. But one must also consider Prince Charming's journey during this arc as well. As Mayor he successfully thwarts Imperial envoy Hansel, sets up a spy network of zephyrs that prove crucial to Fabletown's clandestine information gathering, unifies Fabletown's biggest, most important figures at the most crucial, yet dividing time in the history of their society, and lays the groundwork for their greatest, most important undertaking: the invasion of the Homelands. He truly starts to come into his own as a leader and a Prince, and has begun to shed the more irresponsible, short-sighted and selfish aspects of his character, becoming the truly heroic and inspiring Prince he always should have been. Charming is indeed the other "Good Prince".
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--> Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
--> The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
--> Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
--> He's under a haystack, fast asleep.
--> Will you wake him? Oh no, not I,
--> For if I do, he'll surely cry.
In the Fableverse, Boy Blue was loved and revered as a hero after his feats during his one-man invasion of the Homelands, and his crucial supplies and personnel transportation missions during the war, not to mention his slaying of the Emperor. After his death, Boy Blue became a mythic figure among the animals of the Farm, who even build a religion around him. They believe that in their time of greatest crisis, (like the coming of Mister Dark), Boy Blue will "rise again" to slay their enemies and resolve all the animals troubles. But this will never come to pass, as Blue is under the ultimate sleep, death.
* Prince Charming is ''hardly'' a paragon of virtue: he's a money-grubbing, lecherous cad who uses women like [=ATMs=] you can bang, and those are his ''GOOD'' points. But he's a saint compared to Bluebeard, an [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]] schemer, who's basically a serial killer in his off hours. He bleeds his fellow Fables dry, makes the Fabletown government kow tow and kiss ass for the funding of basic community services, all the while plotting the murder of people in his way, or those who simply offend him. How fitting is it that Prince Charming, who built his legend saving damsels in distress from fiends and monsters ends up slaying one of the most notorious killers of women of all?
--> The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
--> Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
--> He's under a haystack, fast asleep.
--> Will you wake him? Oh no, not I,
--> For if I do, he'll surely cry.
In the Fableverse, Boy Blue was loved and revered as a hero after his feats during his one-man invasion of the Homelands, and his crucial supplies and personnel transportation missions during the war, not to mention his slaying of the Emperor. After his death, Boy Blue became a mythic figure among the animals of the Farm, who even build a religion around him. They believe that in their time of greatest crisis, (like the coming of Mister Dark), Boy Blue will "rise again" to slay their enemies and resolve all the animals troubles. But this will never come to pass, as Blue is under the ultimate sleep, death.
* Prince Charming is ''hardly'' a paragon of virtue: he's a money-grubbing, lecherous cad who uses women like [=ATMs=] you can bang, and those are his ''GOOD'' points. But he's a saint compared to Bluebeard, an [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]] schemer, who's basically a serial killer in his off hours. He bleeds his fellow Fables dry, makes the Fabletown government kow tow and kiss ass for the funding of basic community services, all the while plotting the murder of people in his way, or those who simply offend him. How fitting is it that Prince Charming, who built his legend saving damsels in distress from fiends and monsters ends up slaying one of the most notorious killers of women of all?
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* In the Fableverse, Boy Blue was loved and revered as a hero after his feats during his one-man invasion of the Homelands, and his crucial supplies and personnel transportation missions during the war, not to mention his slaying of the Emperor. After his death, Boy Blue became a mythic figure among the animals of the Farm, who even build a religion around him. They believe that in their time of greatest crisis, (like the coming of Mister Dark), Boy Blue will "rise again" to slay their enemies and resolve all the
* Prince Charming is ''hardly'' a paragon of virtue: he's a money-grubbing, lecherous cad who uses women like [=ATMs=] you can bang, and those are his ''GOOD'' points. But he's a saint compared to Bluebeard, an [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]] schemer, who's basically a serial killer in his off hours. He bleeds his fellow Fables dry, makes the Fabletown government
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* Prince Charming is ''hardly'' a paragon of virtue: he's a money-grubbing, lecherous cad who uses women like ATMs you can bang, and those are his ''GOOD'' points. But he's a saint compared to Bluebeard, an EvilAristocrat schemer, who's basically a serial killer in his off hours. He bleeds his fellow Fables dry, makes the Fabletown government kow tow and kiss ass for the funding of basic community services, all the while plotting the murder of people in his way, or those who simply offend him. How fitting is it that Prince Charming, who built his legend saving damsels in distress from fiends and monsters ends up slaying one of the most notorious killers of women of all?
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* Prince Charming is ''hardly'' a paragon of virtue: he's a money-grubbing, lecherous cad who uses women like ATMs [=ATMs=] you can bang, and those are his ''GOOD'' points. But he's a saint compared to Bluebeard, an EvilAristocrat [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]] schemer, who's basically a serial killer in his off hours. He bleeds his fellow Fables dry, makes the Fabletown government kow tow and kiss ass for the funding of basic community services, all the while plotting the murder of people in his way, or those who simply offend him. How fitting is it that Prince Charming, who built his legend saving damsels in distress from fiends and monsters ends up slaying one of the most notorious killers of women of all?
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* It might initially seem strange that characters from ''Literature/LandOfOz'' are counted as Fables, but L. Frank Baum intended for the series to be a "modern fairy tale", so it only makes sense that they'd count.
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* It might initially seem strange that characters from ''Literature/LandOfOz'' are counted as Fables, but L. Frank Baum intended for the series to be a "modern fairy tale", so it only makes sense that they'd count.
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In the Fableverse, Boy Blue was loved and revered as a hero after his feats during his one-man invasion of the Homelands, and his crucial supplies and personnel transportation missions during the war, not to mention his slaying of the Emperor. After his death, Boy Blue became a mythic figure among the animals of the Farm, who even build a religion around him. They believe that in their time of greatest crisis, (like the coming of Mister Dark), Boy Blue will "rise again" to slay their enemies and resolve all the animals troubles. But this will never come to pass, as Blue is under the ultimate sleep, death.
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In the Fableverse, Boy Blue was loved and revered as a hero after his feats during his one-man invasion of the Homelands, and his crucial supplies and personnel transportation missions during the war, not to mention his slaying of the Emperor. After his death, Boy Blue became a mythic figure among the animals of the Farm, who even build a religion around him. They believe that in their time of greatest crisis, (like the coming of Mister Dark), Boy Blue will "rise again" to slay their enemies and resolve all the animals troubles. But this will never come to pass, as Blue is under the ultimate sleep, death.death.
* Prince Charming is ''hardly'' a paragon of virtue: he's a money-grubbing, lecherous cad who uses women like ATMs you can bang, and those are his ''GOOD'' points. But he's a saint compared to Bluebeard, an EvilAristocrat schemer, who's basically a serial killer in his off hours. He bleeds his fellow Fables dry, makes the Fabletown government kow tow and kiss ass for the funding of basic community services, all the while plotting the murder of people in his way, or those who simply offend him. How fitting is it that Prince Charming, who built his legend saving damsels in distress from fiends and monsters ends up slaying one of the most notorious killers of women of all?
* Prince Charming is ''hardly'' a paragon of virtue: he's a money-grubbing, lecherous cad who uses women like ATMs you can bang, and those are his ''GOOD'' points. But he's a saint compared to Bluebeard, an EvilAristocrat schemer, who's basically a serial killer in his off hours. He bleeds his fellow Fables dry, makes the Fabletown government kow tow and kiss ass for the funding of basic community services, all the while plotting the murder of people in his way, or those who simply offend him. How fitting is it that Prince Charming, who built his legend saving damsels in distress from fiends and monsters ends up slaying one of the most notorious killers of women of all?
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----> ''And you won't read that book again, because the ending's just too hard to take...''
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----> ''And you won't read that book again, because the ending's just too hard to take...''''
* Poor Boy Blue. His original nursery rhyme becomes pretty poignant when you consider his eventual fate. Remember it?
--> Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
--> The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
--> Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
--> He's under a haystack, fast asleep.
--> Will you wake him? Oh no, not I,
--> For if I do, he'll surely cry.
In the Fableverse, Boy Blue was loved and revered as a hero after his feats during his one-man invasion of the Homelands, and his crucial supplies and personnel transportation missions during the war, not to mention his slaying of the Emperor. After his death, Boy Blue became a mythic figure among the animals of the Farm, who even build a religion around him. They believe that in their time of greatest crisis, (like the coming of Mister Dark), Boy Blue will "rise again" to slay their enemies and resolve all the animals troubles. But this will never come to pass, as Blue is under the ultimate sleep, death.
* Poor Boy Blue. His original nursery rhyme becomes pretty poignant when you consider his eventual fate. Remember it?
--> Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
--> The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
--> Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
--> He's under a haystack, fast asleep.
--> Will you wake him? Oh no, not I,
--> For if I do, he'll surely cry.
In the Fableverse, Boy Blue was loved and revered as a hero after his feats during his one-man invasion of the Homelands, and his crucial supplies and personnel transportation missions during the war, not to mention his slaying of the Emperor. After his death, Boy Blue became a mythic figure among the animals of the Farm, who even build a religion around him. They believe that in their time of greatest crisis, (like the coming of Mister Dark), Boy Blue will "rise again" to slay their enemies and resolve all the animals troubles. But this will never come to pass, as Blue is under the ultimate sleep, death.
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** The short "In a Castle Dark", from the "Farewell" collection isn't just referring to Castle Dark. The title is another goodbye from the author; it's part of the lyrics to the Gordon Lightfoot song, "If You Could Read My Mind". [[https://play.google.com/music/preview/Todxcmks566wrgh6ipkragqwtnq?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics Full lyrics here.]]
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* Towards the end of the war against the Empire, an Imperial general leading the assault on Fabletown's Fort Bravo orders the retrieval of a magic arrow from his quarters. It has been overlaid with powerful spells that will enable it to pierce any magical defense, en route to its selected target, "the enemy's foremost leader and battle champion", and slay said target. The arrow is fired, but Boy Blue, wearing the heretofore invincible Witching Cloak, sees the arrow coming and attempts to shield Bigby, its supposed target, from its impact. But the arrow merely passes right through Blue's cloaked arm to continue on its deadly path to Bigby's shoulder, knocking both fighters out. What's key here is that if what was related to us about the power of the arrow is to be taken as true, Bigby, the intended target, should have died from the piercing, even though it was in a non vital part of his body. But it is tragically '''Boy Blue''' who later perishes, albeit slowly. From this it can be conjectured that the arrow's enchantment, despite the Imperial general's assessment and intention, designated '''Blue''' as the most vital and potentially dangerous member of the enemy camp, as he possessed not only the Witching Cloak (enabling him to transport virtually unlimited amounts of personnel, ammunition, weapons, rations and other supplies) instantaneously, but also the Vorpal Sword, a blade capable of cutting through nearly any magical defense and killing anything.
* The short "In a Castle Dark", from the "Farewell" collection isn't just referring to Castle Dark. The title is another goodbye from the author; it's part of the lyrics to the Gordon Lightfoot song, "If You Could Read My Mind". [[https://play.google.com/music/preview/Todxcmks566wrgh6ipkragqwtnq?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics Full lyrics here.]]
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** The short "In a Castle Dark", from the "Farewell" collection isn't just referring to Castle Dark. The title is another goodbye from the author; it's part of the lyrics to the Gordon Lightfoot song, "If You Could Read My Mind". [[https://play.google.com/music/preview/Todxcmks566wrgh6ipkragqwtnq?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics Full lyrics here.]]
----> ''And you won't read that book again, because the ending's just to hard to take...''
** The short "In a Castle Dark", from the "Farewell" collection isn't just referring to Castle Dark. The title is another goodbye from the author; it's part of the lyrics to the Gordon Lightfoot song, "If You Could Read My Mind". [[https://play.google.com/music/preview/Todxcmks566wrgh6ipkragqwtnq?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics Full lyrics here.]]
----> ''And you won't read that book again, because the ending's just to hard to take...''
