The Fairy's Employment

Well then finished todays story nice and early again so I'm going to have plenty of time to keep working on my book again, wonderful! Here's a funny tidbit, because I write so much Mom actually tells me to take a break and play some of my video games. Besides the seizure at lunch I'm feeling on the better side as of the time of the post(which is earlier in the day) so I should do better through the rest of the day yay! I do quite like this story. I really have liked these past couple of days stories. Anyway, onto today's flash fiction! Enjoy!

The Fairy's Employment

         Wilson the Badger was just your average cute, silly fun cartoon character. He was pretty popular with the kids. He got into his fair share of shenanigans. He could squabble with the hunter or get lost in a haunted house or have a musical special with some other cartoon characters. He had a lot of opportunities to get some emotions out of the kids, and that's how he got his living.
        Of course he could always leave the toon business if Wilson the Badger didn't work out. Wilson wasn't actually Wilson on the inside, his name was actually Gregory. Gregory was actually a fairy. And the kind of fairy Gregory was could inhabit stories of any kind, cartoons included of course. Other examples included movies, tv shows, books, comics, video games anything with a story he could work in. The reason they worked in them is that the magic the fairies used was powered by human emotion so they gathered it and it became their money and often their livelihood. How the relationship existed is that they inhabited the character and built a magic connection with all the humans observing the character at any given time. The fairies enhanced the experience like magic HD TV in exchange for the emotional energy. So the “real” Wilson the Badger would exist in the human world without Gregory but it wouldn't be the same without him.

         One day Gregory got a call from a friend that worked at another network.

         “Gregory, your gonna have to look for a new job.” his friend said.

          “What, why?” Gregory was shocked.

          “The humans at my network just made a new cartoon. Remember those two popular cartoons, the ones with the transforming robots then the other one with the square cube under the sea? They combined them into one super-cartoon and its going to air at the same time at our network as your cartoon on your human's network. The test audiences love it. Your going to be out of a job pretty quick man, I'm giving you heads up so you can find something ahead of time. I'm sorry.” his friends voice was sympathetic. It was true, if nobody was watching Gregory's show, there would be no emotional energy to gather so Gregory would be out of a job.

           “It's okay, we're faeries, we can't do anything about what the humans do, all we can do is inhabit the characters, enhance the experience the best we can. I'll try to find a new gig soon.” Gregory sighed.

Gregory thought and thought. There were no other non-extra openings for cartoon animals he knew that from being in the business, he had also grown quite tired of it anyway. He could try going into the vampire book business. That was popular. Though several fairy economist were speculating that a collapse in that popularity could happen in the future.

          His cousin made a killing by becoming some sorcerer character named Barry, no that name wasn't right. Well, whatever the name didn't matter, maybe he should shoot for being some wizard gig. Then there was something else popular, the Delicious Games was it? No that wasn't it. Ah, if he wasn't so bad with names he'd probably be better of thinking a good job go get. He could try going into Romance novels. He was single and by doing so he would become a “stud” on the dating scene. Of course that's what made them so hard to get into despite how many were being published, guy faeries tried to get into Romance novels to become more attractive to the ladies. On the inverse girls would try to get into action movies and other stereotypical “guy movies” even if they hated it just to get men's attention.

              Now that he thought about it the reason he was single was probably because he had been working inside an animal cartoon character. It was a pity that faeries judged each other based on the character they worked in, but that's the way things rolled. Though the one gig he knew he had to avoid was taking part as a fairy character. A fairy playing a fairy was always mocked and just showed you were desperate for a job.

           He tried many positions. He soon learned that the fact he played an animal cartoon character affected more than just his ability to date. The skills he developed there didn't exactly play into other roles. He couldn't be much of a hero in an action movie. Not much a villain either. He couldn't do much in many roles. He could pull of comic reliefs but that was similar to his old cartoon role. He had grown so tired of cartoons. Having to quit his previous job made him realize how much he hated being that character for so long, though he noticed he couldn't play anything else.

            Though one day by luck he managed to land a slot as the main character of a horror movie. Not as the victim, but as the monster. He was shocked but he managed to get the role despite how many faeries were vying for it. He couldn't figure out why the Association of Fairy Allocation, the organization that decided what faeries got what roles, would let him get that kind of role. (Truth was, it was a filing mistake, he wasn't supposed to get it)

            At first while the movie was being developed he had no idea how to inject energy into the character, but then he figured it out. All he had to do was do everything the exact opposite he did when being the cute cartoon character Wilson the Badger. So now he used his years of experience of creating fun shenanigans to inspire sheer terror in audiences worldwide. He had become one of the most successful faeries at gathering emotional energy in history. He even became popular with the fairy ladies because of his success.