Fables, Vol. 1
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May 30, 2008 12:18PM
quick question for everyone: did anyone recognize the mysterious unnamed character who accompanies snow to ask the wolf to join them in the new world? he was described as wearing a suit of blue & gold, with lots of buttons & flash, constantly smoking a pipe. seemed too flamboyant & self-assured to be boy blue, not jolly enough by half to be king cole. i'm wracking my brain and still can't come up with a debonair chain-smoker that fits the bill...
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Feathertop I do believe. Or if anyone is too lazy to click links that take them to the same source....
From wikipediaFeathertop
Plot Summary
In seventeenth century New England, the witch Mother Rigby builds a scarecrow to protect her garden. She is so taken with her own handiwork that she whimsically decides to bring the scarecrow to life and send it into town to woo Polly Gookin, the daughter of Judge Gookin, toward whom Mother Rigby bears an unspecified grudge. Once the stuffed man does come alive, Mother Rigby gives him the appearance of a normal human being - and a pipe, on which the Scarecrow must puff to keep himself alive.
Judge Gookin meets the Scarecrow, whom Mother Rigby has named Feathertop. Feathertop is introduced to Polly, and the two begin to fall in love. But when Polly and Feathertop gaze into a bewitched mirror, they see Feathertop reflected as a scarecrow, not as a man. Polly faints, and the now-terrified and anguished Scarecrow rushes back to Mother Rigby, where, knowing himself utterly rejected by Polly, he deliberately breaks his pipe and collapses in a lifeless heap. Mother Rigby reflects, "There are thousands upon thousands of coxcombs and charlatans in the world, made up of just such a jumble of wornout, forgotten, and good-for-nothing trash as he was! Yet they live in fair repute, and never see themselves for what they are," and decides that her "son" is better off as merely a scarecrow.
I had never heard of Feathertop before now. I'm definitely checking into that more. I thought it was King Cole. My reasons were: 1)he's been the mayor from the beginning so he would be in on the process 2) he had a pipe 3)he was very richly dressed for the time period which he would have felt the need to do and 4)while not jolly...would anyone have been at that point?
However, there are definite arguments for why it couldn't be him, so it may just be Feathertop.
On to wikipedia.
"He claimed to have too many names and titles to bother the wolf with and invited him to use Feathertop, which is how he was known amongst most of the Fables."
Nitpicking, but Cole wasn't the mayor from the beginning. Ichabod Crane was the original mayor.
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