GTS Profiles: The Fairy

Here’s a totally arbitrary question: what would happen if a little fairy suddenly became a giantess?

Let’s talk about it.

First off, let’s discuss what a “fairy” is. Because oddly enough, there are mixed meanings of what a fairy is in our culture. We can all agree that they are fantasy creatures. But what do they look like? Are they all women, or can some of them be men? Are they magical, or are they just as mundanely earthen as we are? How big are they? Do they have pointed ears, or round human ears? Do they even look human?

Well, for this analysis, I’ll give you the appearance of the most often seen depiction of the classic fairy from fantasy lore. The Fairy, so to speak, is a young girl who has wings (usually insect like) and is around 5 inches tall. They do possess magic, but not a lot. She has about enough to glow a certain color like yellow or green. This means She is fair game at the evening when young peasant children run out into the meadow to play “catch the glowing lady.” She can speak several languages, including Elven and Common (English) which means she can communicate with humans. Though because of her shrill voice, they normally don’t take her serious. Either that or they capture her and put her in a jar. There’s a myth that fairies grant wishes, which just isn’t true. But that’s not going to stop an angry peasant girl from shaking the jar and shouting “Give me a pony, fairy! I want a pony!”

There isn’t much for fairies in the forest realm. Sure, they have plenty of space to fly around and bounce on mushroom tops. Two of them are small enough to make love on the top of a flower. But there’s all kinds of things out in the forest that eat fairies, like trolls, wolves, and imps. Surprisingly enough, an imp is actually not a fairy. Imps are usually bigger and darker. Not that much bigger though: like a foot tall. But they have shrinkage magic, so a tiny fairy could become even tinier in their midsts.

So a smart fairy would seek refuge in the human world, but that’s also a bad idea. Because everybody loves fairies, but not in an “Everybody loves Raymond” kind of way. Because nowhere in that show do people capture Raymond and make him their pet. As far as I know. But if a fairy doesn’t become a scavenger on the streets, sleeping in the gutter and living out of food from a garbage can, they may have to get a human job. Such as being the familiar for a wizard. Or a dancer in a minstrel show. Or they may meet a strange boy in bright green who grabs the fairy and uses her dust to give him the gift of flight. After that, the fairy is forced to travel with him to a far off land with pirates and racist little boys while enduring song after song, all day long.

But I digress.

Fairies and humans don’t always get along in Fantasy worlds. As far as we know. Maybe if fairies existed in real life, they would have been regarded as Beings from Heaven and protected by the code of the Church. After all, they do glow bright yellow (or sometimes green and blue.) Medieval peasants really like shiny things. But in fantasy worlds, humans are often times great enemies of fairies. They hunt them for their dust, wings, and magical essence. Or just to stomp: some barbarians enjoy the act of a good old fashion fairy-stomping. Either they are kidnapped by adults or played with maliciously by children. To make matters worse, apparently humans destroy the environment. Which you really can’t blame them for: all the bad things live in the forest like trolls, wolves and imps. If you could get rid of them all and also have enough resources left over to build a home, why not do that? Unless you think that you might piss off the goddess of Earth, where as you’ll have to deal with a different kind of giantess then (see GTS Profiles: The Goddess.)

But our little Fairy here has a bone to pick with humanity. They destroy her habitat, capture her friends, and they also don’t smell that great (at least in medieval times they didn’t.) Now, this is mainly because the Fairy just happens to be encountering mostly bad people. There are tons of good people who LOVE fairies and seek to preserve them. But for the sake of this story, we’ll say that she doesn’t know anybody like that. She only know “humans equal bad.”

She can’t do much about it though: she’s weak, tiny, and not very magical. The most she can do is cast a spell that raises her agility for a few minutes. But that’s not really an “attack” skill. But luck is on her side, because deep in the forest dwells a Goddess of the Earth. Luckily, this forest is still standing so she’s had no reason to grow to gigantic size and destroy the nearby human settlement, so instead she spends most of her time sitting under the largest tree in the forest, drinking tea with other fairies and granting the occasional wish.

Our Fairy protagonist has one such wish.

The Fairy travels to the middle of the forest and begs the beautiful and majestic Goddess to grant her one wish. Normally for that to happen, the Fairy would have to...I don’t know, steal an ancient relic from an underground labyrinth or slay a mighty dragon named Garbachuta (which is dragonese for Paul, by the way) but this particular Goddess was feeling generous. That, and she thought the Fairy was pretty hot. Her thought process was that maybe if she appeased the Fairy, then later she’d agree to let the Goddess turn her human sized and the two of them could have a one night stand.

That’s before she hears her wish.

“I want to be huge! Big enough to destroy entire human towns and nations!” The Fairy declared with much vigor.

At first, the Goddess was a bit disappointed: she figured the fairy might wish for a new dress or something. But then she thought about it, and realized that it made sense. After all, Fairies are tiny all their life: many of them probably fantasize about being as big as the people that torment them. Plus, she figured that if the Goddess grew too, then they could make love that would crush mountains and cause earthquakes. Being a macrophile herself, that sounded hot the to the Goddess.

She made it so: one twirl of her hand, some mumbling of unintelligible ancient words, and the Fairy was teleported outside of the forest. Only now, she wasn’t just huge, she was GIGANTIC. So big, that the only way to describe her would be to use capital letters. At first, our Fairy is confused and frightened, but when she sees the human castle right by her foot, barely bigger than a toe, she’s filled with a warm sensation. Not love, but that of pure unbridled sadism.

So we have our Giga-Fairy looming over our tiny human castle. This brings us back to the question “What would happen if a Fairy became a giantess?” Well, luckily this is a fantasy story, and stories aren’t always told the same way. So how does it end for you? Does she give the settlement a nice look at her behind before sitting down on top of them, creating two adjacent valleys in the land? Does she bend down and lap them up in one lick?

What happens afterwards? Does she go on a continent-wide search for human settlements to destroy? Maybe she goes from city to city trying different GTS crushing methods, such as for one she’ll use her breasts and for another she’ll just step on them. But what then? Where does the carnage end? Does she trigger a scenario where every fairy in the world rises up against humans and establishes a new world order? Does she eventually disappear into the sea, only to become a Legend of folklore people read about in modern times? Does she ever hook up with that Goddess from the forest?

Any one of those possibilities is possible when you’re a storyteller. But there is one thing that is always true.

    They all live happily ever after.

    Well, not the humans. They dead.

    Real dead.

    I hope you enjoyed your bedtime story. Good night. (Reaches over at turns off bedside lamp.)


My pose reference: < kaizeru.deviantart.com/art/Fem… >