Tink: A Strange Fairytale 13

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Teri flew into her room landing on her bed at a run, if she was going to get to the the F3 meeting on time she had to hurry. Diving into her clothes box it took her a moment to realize that there were some changes to the room.

“Huh, who left the rose bush?” she asked the empty room, flying up to look at a tiny, well tended rose bush sitting on her windowsill.

Finally looking on Theresa's side of the room, she noticed that things had changed there as well, far more drastically than her own side. The clothes were darker, the bed had dark curtains around it, and there were none of the regular posters and books lying around.

“Something's wrong here,” she said flying over to her desk where there was a large box with some writing on it. “Break in case of 4th wall,” she read.

Shrugging, she broke open the top of the box and pulled out a large wooden mallet, spinning in the air she hit something and glass fell to the floor. Flying through the hole in reality she picked up a large manuscript, flipping through it quickly she muttered to herself as she read. “Oh, Mount Everest! The Sahara Desert? A beach party! ICE CREAM! Super villain fights! Aw, that's really sad. Wow, Carson can be REALLY scary. Oh yeah, he deserved the anvil to the face. Wow, that's really sweet. Do I really HAVE to do that, couldn't you settle for a simple maiming?”

Teri put the manuscript down, careful to make sure nothing was revealed to possible onlookers, gave a little cough to clear her throat and adjusted her dress. “Hello everyone. I've just found out that the author of my little story has some REALLY big things in store for me. I MEAN REALLY BIG THINGS!” She scowled at something off to the side, sarcasm dripped from her voice. “Really big, like giving me an actual plot and background. That will be new.”

She squeaked and jumped as if something had poked her in the side. “All right, all right. I'm not the one who just started writing without any clue where I was going. And it's not my fault everyone knew I was awesome so you had to keep writing about me, you should have realized that when we first met." She jumped again. "OK! OK! Ahem, anyways, I'm not sure when it will come out, but the second draft is already written along with lots of little bits that will see me through the first year at Whateley, and it's big, and funny, with just a tiny bit of drama to keep things interesting.”

Looking off to the side again, Teri raised an eyebrow in question. “You call that a tiny bit of drama? Sheesh, please keep me out of your high drama writing, I don't think I'd survive.

“Where was I? Oh yes. Don't worry you won't have too wait too long to see me again, I'll still be showing up as usual in his other stories as soon as the author gets off his emotional angsty butt and gets back to work. And I promise to be back here being my awesome fairy self in a few months, hopefully sooner, but we'll see.” She gave a big wave and blew a kiss at the unseen onlookers.

Turning away, Teri pulled the manuscript back out. “Honestly, you're taking a silly noodle incident and making it-”

The room faded to black, as Teri continued berating the author.

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Good stuff. I read the 4th

Domoviye's picture

Good stuff. I read the 4th wall part, now I'll have to read the rest when I have some free time, looks great.

Before you where a twinkle

There used to be a TV series called the Winderful World if Disney. I vaguely remember an episode where a cartoon character (I think it was Jimmy Cricket) met the artist (I think is was Walt himself) who drew the character.

IS

ARGH

This is actually kind of

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This is actually kind of funny.
And I remember that episode now. When I wrote it, I was thinking more of Bugs and Daffy Duck when they were dealing the artist that kept messing with them.

I forgot about that

You are right!
The cartoons showing Bugs and Daffy interacting with the artist were hilarious.

I one I mentioned was about Walt describing the process of animation. More informative than funny.

Oh, your latest Tink story (above) was a great "comming attractions"!

I was about to say

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"Tell Teri that she has lots of fans that she has never met or even seen", but then this tiny heart shaped thing came fizzing out of the screen, smacked into my forehead and ricocheted noisily around the room. The damage was minimal but I never did see where it stopped. Reckon she knows. And will be keeping that Author a-toe for a while.

"Reach for the sun."

She's keeping me busy with

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She's keeping me busy with things. And she' knows she's popular, it makes her a handful at times dealing with her swelled head.

Stinkerbelle

We could always sic Miasma on her.

No! Not with super gas

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No! Not with super gas grenades. Tink with her tiny lungs wouldn't survive.

What would Wondercute do?

I figure it would play out something like this;

"Miasma, you had the chili for lunch!" Tink gasped. She reached inside her bag of holding and pulled out her gas mask and took several deep breathes of filtered air.

"Tink, I'm really sorry..." he started only to be interrupted by a high decibel shriek.

"My new Wasp costume! It's ruined! I put hours of work in on it!" she screamed as the fabric visibly melted away.

"Tink, I'm sorry... Really..." he stuttered as the angry fairy pulled on a set of nasty looking brass knuckles.

"RUIN MY COSTUME!" she screamed as a mini sonic boom rattled the windows of the Crystal Hall.

A really cute way of Tink

A really cute way of Tink giving us all a little up date about her and her activities. She is an adorable and fun character and I do look forward to seeing a lot more about her in the near future.
I believe many cartoon artists used this interactive method between themselves and their characters over the years.
There was a black and white series called either "Inkwell" or "inkspots", back in the late Thirties, Forties and into the Fifties; along the aforementioned ones in your comment and other comments.
I remember the Forties and Fifties series from the Saturday matinee movies as a child, and then saw the Thirties episodes on a TV program played on Public Broadcasting System in the Sixties and Seventies "it was called "Saturday Matinee at the Movies" and was about that era that I and so many others grew up in.

Glad you liked it. I kept

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Glad you liked it. I kept starting to write the next part, wanting to keep it moving a little until the rewrite is done, but I kept thinking "No she wouldn't do that, and what about this character (who doesn't currently exist)". So I finally gave up and decided to make it as entertaining as possible.

And yeah lots of comics, web comics and cartoons, especially early cartoons did the same stunt. When t works, its awesome.

Completely sure ...

Yes, I am completely sure that this should be an evening comedy on TV. So much fun !!!

Gwen

I wish. Unfortunately no one

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I wish. Unfortunately no one is currently beating down my door, so that's probably a ways away.

Awesome.

It feels like looking into your mind and theres is a debate in there.... Tink[~/=/±/(vs)]Author
(Tink is 'alive')

Thank you for Tink. ;)

Well I do try to get as deep

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Well I do try to get as deep into my characters mind as possible, so I've subconsciously done this. This is just giving it life.

What energy

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I'd like to have half the energy Teri has. And the cheerfulness.

This is a neat story.

Others have feelings too.

Tink: A Strange Fairytale

Thank you Domoviye
Tink was the most enjoyably, funny story I've read, some of the chapters I had a hard time reading because of chuckling so much and wiping my eyes

Glad you enjoyed them.

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Glad you enjoyed them.

I'm posting a canon version of Tink, on the Whateley site and here. It's not as comedic but there are still plenty of funny scenes, and a saner overall plot.