Over on another thread, someone mentioned:
The man/boy is devastated by loss of the love of his life or family but is brought back from the depths by the magical pixie girl.
I'd like some of that please.
Please hit me with some stories with magical pixie girls 🧚🏽♀️ 🧚 🧚🏻♂️ and an HEA. Literal pixie not essential, though definite bonus points if she is, but magical and girl are a must. Despite the inciting quote, both MF and FF pairings (or multis) gleefully accepted.
TIA
Literal pixie not essential, though definite bonus points if she is, but magical and girl are a must.
oyster50's Details Matter. Chapter 1, first sentence:
Sybil sicced a succubus on me.
HM.
Happily ever after.
"Magical pixie girl" really should be "manic pixie dream girl."
ETA: There are many articles using "magical pixie girl" instead of, or together with "manic pixie dream girl" for the same character trope.
Although in this context it makes more sense without the "dream".
MPDG was originally coined to refer to a character archetype which is just unusual enough to seem weird to mainstream audiences, but isn't actually unattractive in any way. Sort of the way "gamer girl" was being used as a geek wet-dream, not a reference to actual women who played video games.
Since OP wants stories about literal Magical Girls, the dream part of the term would confuse the issue.
Coined in reference to Kirsten Dunst's character in Elizabethtown. A "one-dimensional, existing only to provide emotional support to the protagonist, or to teach him important life lessons, while receiving nothing in return." Cite.
I'm not disputing Rabin's claim, but I recall the term, or something very similar, being used earlier in reference to Natalie Portman's character in Garden State (2004).
This is probably one of those situations in which there were several slightly different versions of the term in use in the same period and for whatever reason Rabin's is the one that stuck.
Interesting! Thanks. I ran across it in a course I took on Romance in Movies, and the Wikipedia article backed up what the professor said, but... wouldn't be the first time either of them were wrong!
Edited: According to Wikipedia's entry on Garden State, this may have been a case where the term was retroactively applied to the character in this movie after it was coined based on Elizabethtown. Still, all very interesting.
Some of these may fulfill your request in slightly different ways, but the magic results in the HEA. Only a few have pixies per se, though.
Les Lumens has some — see his Magic of the Wood and The Fey Fold series.
Ahaz's I Need to Remember
Marsh Alien's You Think Making Love is Easy?
Daysdreamz tagged My Stupid Clit as Magic
Spherical Spoon's Birthday Magic
RH Music's But Who Am I Really?
D A Porter's A Most Unusual Haunting
Kathy in Don Lockwood's The Ghosts of Christmas Past claims that it's Christmas magic, and she certainly saves him.
The couple of those I've read have been pretty good—I look forward to trying the others. Thanks!
Wen Spencer's Eight Million Gods (Dead tree + eBook, Baen).
In Chapter 9, the kami residing in a katana tells Nikki:
"You are an oracle. What you are writing is the truth."
"No, no, no." Nikki shook her head. "I write crazy, impossible things—like demons eating children."
He looked slightly confused. "But demons do eat children."
I had bought and read the eBook years ago and thought it might fit, but my memory of it was fuzzy. So I started reading it again and and had to read to chapter 9 where a kami – a Japanese god – finally told her she isn't a mental case, but magical.
HM.
I gave up on that book after the first few chapters because the MC was insane. I'll try again. Thanks.
