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Jan and Charlie are a HappilyMarried couple, except that [[LawOfInverseFertility they can't have children]]. When Jan is relaxing in her garden one day, a fairy, Tiki, lands on her. Tiki's different from other fairies--she wears jeans instead of a frilly dress, expresses wonderment about tears and sadness, and vows to help Jan and Charlie have a baby--all things, especially the latter, that are against the rules of the Fairy Queen.
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Jan and Charlie are a HappilyMarried couple, except that [[LawOfInverseFertility they can't have children]]. When Jan is relaxing in her garden one day, a fairy, Tiki, lands on her. Tiki's different from other fairies--she fairies -- she wears jeans instead of a frilly dress, expresses wonderment about tears and sadness, and vows to help Jan and Charlie have a baby--all baby -- all things, especially the latter, that are against the rules of the Fairy Queen.
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* ChekhovsGun: Bindi's blue hair. It seems to be the only sign that she's a magical child [[spoiler:and then it turns out that it has many very powerful properties, being used to heal Tiki and Wijic, halt the fairy queen's power, and - implied at the end - heal Jan's injured leg.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Bindi's blue hair. It seems to be the only sign that she's a magical child [[spoiler:and then it turns out that it has many very powerful properties, being used to heal Tiki and Wijic, halt the fairy queen's power, and - -- implied at the end - -- heal Jan's injured leg.]]
* InconsistentSpelling: Wijic, weirdly enough, writes his own name differently from ''the narration''. When he signs his name on the rose petal, it's spelled with a K.
* TheMagicGoesAway: Every year, Tiki sends a magical rose-themed gift for Bindi's birthday. At the end of each year, it ceases working, gets lost, wilts or falls apart, just in time for the next gift to arrive.
* RedeemingReplacement: [[spoiler:After the Fairy Queen's defeat, the grand master-elf -- who is a far kinder and more reasonable being, having illicitly helped Tiki with making sure Bindi came out as her parents wanted -- becomes Fairy King in her place.]]
* ReducedToDust: According to Tiki, when fairies and elves die, they become the dust that covers people's furniture.
* ReducedToDust: According to Tiki, when fairies and elves die, they become the dust that covers people's furniture.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Wijic, weirdly enough, writes his own name differently from ''the narration''. When he signs his name on the rose petal, it's spelled with a K.
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* WickedWasps: The Fairy Queen can control wasps, who act as her enforcers.
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* WickedWasps: The Fairy Queen can control wasps, who act as her enforcers. According to Tiki, they're particularly nasty because they can sting as many times as they want without dying, in contrast to bees.
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* BeeBeeGun: The Fairy Queen can control wasps, who act as her enforcers.
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* WickedWasps: The Fairy Queen can control wasps, who act as her enforcers.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Tiki and Wijic. They bicker and make fun of one another, but Wijic hurries to the rescue when Tiki's in danger and [[spoiler:what truly causes them to turn on the queen is realizing just how much she abused the other.]]
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Tiki and Wijic. They bicker and make fun of one another, but Wijic hurries to the rescue when Tiki's in danger and [[spoiler:what truly causes each of them to turn on the queen is realizing just how much she abused the other.]]
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** A variation holes for Bindi, who her parents very much want to be a normal child and worry that her fairy origins will cause her to have something unusual with her hair, skin, or demeanor.
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** A variation holes holds for Bindi, who whom her parents very much want to be a normal child and worry that her fairy origins will cause her to have something unusual with her hair, skin, or demeanor.
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* CulturalTranslation: The book's American edition changes some of the candy bars that Bindi steals under the Fairy Queen's influence from exclusive UK candies to brands familiar to children on both sides of the Atlantic: for example, replacing a Cadbury Crunchie with a Snickers.
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* AdultFear: So very, very much.
** After Tiki promises to help Jan have a baby, Jan and Charlie are very worried that Tiki will get mixed up and cause the baby to be born with very strange hair or skin colors or otherwise with strange powers.
** The entirety of Bindi finding the magic wand counts. Jan's feelings about leaving it lying around are explicitly compared to leaving a gun or bottle of poison out in the open, but she's so frightened by it that she can't bring herself to move it. Under the influence of the wand, Bindi lies to her mother and her friends, starts associating with a boy at school who is clearly not nice, and shoplifts candy bars. Her mother only learns about the dark power influencing her daughter when Bindi is trapped in her room, [[spoiler:being buried under a mountain of toys she summoned, screaming for her mother]]. Jan can't get the door to open and can't do anything besides call for Bindi and ask what's wrong. Making it even worse is the fact that Jan has an injured leg and can't run quickly when she hears Bindi screaming. The narration compares it to how it always seems to be impossible to run in a nightmare.
** 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* BeeBeeGun: The Fairy Queen can control wasps.
** After Tiki promises to help Jan have a baby, Jan and Charlie are very worried that Tiki will get mixed up and cause the baby to be born with very strange hair or skin colors or otherwise with strange powers.
** The entirety of Bindi finding the magic wand counts. Jan's feelings about leaving it lying around are explicitly compared to leaving a gun or bottle of poison out in the open, but she's so frightened by it that she can't bring herself to move it. Under the influence of the wand, Bindi lies to her mother and her friends, starts associating with a boy at school who is clearly not nice, and shoplifts candy bars. Her mother only learns about the dark power influencing her daughter when Bindi is trapped in her room, [[spoiler:being buried under a mountain of toys she summoned, screaming for her mother]]. Jan can't get the door to open and can't do anything besides call for Bindi and ask what's wrong. Making it even worse is the fact that Jan has an injured leg and can't run quickly when she hears Bindi screaming. The narration compares it to how it always seems to be impossible to run in a nightmare.
** 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* BeeBeeGun: The Fairy Queen can control wasps.
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** After Tiki promises to help Jan have a baby, Jan and Charlie are very worried that Tiki will get mixed up and cause the baby to be born with very strange hair or skin colors or otherwise with strange powers.
** The entirety of Bindi finding the magic wand counts. Jan's feelings about leaving it lying around are explicitly compared to leaving a gun or bottle of poison out in the open, but she's so frightened by it that she can't bring herself to move it. Under the influence of the wand, Bindi lies to her mother and her friends, starts associating with a boy at school who is clearly not nice, and shoplifts candy bars. Her mother only learns about the dark power influencing her daughter when Bindi is trapped in her room, [[spoiler:being buried under a mountain of toys she summoned, screaming for her mother]]. Jan can't get the door to open and can't do anything besides call for Bindi and ask what's wrong. Making it even worse is the fact that Jan has an injured leg and can't run quickly when she hears Bindi screaming. The narration compares it to how it always seems to be impossible to run in a nightmare.
** 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. [[spoiler: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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* HarmfulToMinors: The entirety of Bindi finding the magic wand. Jan's feelings about leaving it lying around are explicitly compared to leaving a gun or bottle of poison out in the open, but she's so frightened by it that she can't bring herself to move it. Under the influence of the wand, Bindi lies to her mother and her friends, starts associating with a boy at school who is clearly not nice, and shoplifts candy bars. Her mother only learns about the dark power influencing her daughter when Bindi is trapped in her room, [[spoiler:being buried under a mountain of toys she summoned, screaming for her mother]]. Jan can't get the door to open and can't do anything besides call for Bindi and ask what's wrong. Making it even worse is the fact that Jan has an injured leg and can't run quickly when she hears Bindi screaming. The narration compares it to how it always seems to be impossible to run in a nightmare.
