Tooth Fairy
I actually started this for the contest last year, but missed the deadline...by a couple months. It was interesting that there were a number of Tooth Fairy submissions last year as well. When I started, I thought I'd be the only one. Anyway, here's my Tooth Fairy. She's made out of Chavant NSP medium. She is about 18" tall.
The idea for The Tooth Fairy arose from a desire to take something innocuous and well established and transform it into something creepy and vile. I wanted her to be aged and leathery, with folds of skin and cellulite, with exaggerated claws, and finally, toothless. So I created a back story, the short version being:
She was a beautiful fairy who had fallen in love with a human. There was a jealous rage, she murdered another fairy, and was subsequently punished by the elders. They destroyed her beauty, along with her teeth, with a spell and banished her. Over time she demented, and sought to reclaim her beauty. She can cover herself in a mirage, appearing as her old self, and she can take the teeth of someone else to replace her own. She goes out into the night, finding young children asleep in their beds, and takes their teeth. Is this a some kind of magical extraction? No. She violently rips them from the mouths of screaming children, prying them out with her razor sharp nails, often slashing open their throats to still their writhing bodies. And yet it is all for naught as the teeth yellow and rot within minutes, a by product of the spell the elders cast upon her. But our fairy is demented beyond all reason, believing the next time will be different. Nightly she goes out in search of a young child to extract their teeth, hoping one day they will stay and her beauty will be restored.
The idea for The Tooth Fairy arose from a desire to take something innocuous and well established and transform it into something creepy and vile. I wanted her to be aged and leathery, with folds of skin and cellulite, with exaggerated claws, and finally, toothless. So I created a back story, the short version being:
She was a beautiful fairy who had fallen in love with a human. There was a jealous rage, she murdered another fairy, and was subsequently punished by the elders. They destroyed her beauty, along with her teeth, with a spell and banished her. Over time she demented, and sought to reclaim her beauty. She can cover herself in a mirage, appearing as her old self, and she can take the teeth of someone else to replace her own. She goes out into the night, finding young children asleep in their beds, and takes their teeth. Is this a some kind of magical extraction? No. She violently rips them from the mouths of screaming children, prying them out with her razor sharp nails, often slashing open their throats to still their writhing bodies. And yet it is all for naught as the teeth yellow and rot within minutes, a by product of the spell the elders cast upon her. But our fairy is demented beyond all reason, believing the next time will be different. Nightly she goes out in search of a young child to extract their teeth, hoping one day they will stay and her beauty will be restored.
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