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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7570458" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I'm not familiar with Girl Genius, but I've encountered the concept in many other contexts.</p><p></p><p>I confess a lot of my internal ideas of how fey think is set by the portrayal of Tinkerbell in Barrie's 'Peter Pan' (and for that matter of Pan himself). For instance he has one comment about Tinkerbell to the effect of her mind is too small to contain more than one thought at a time which I find very evocative, and both Tinkerbell and Pan are noted for their ability to completely and utterly forget. So I think it's certainly in keeping with what I think of as a fey that they should not really recall anything from the past, and memory dump the whole thing. Indeed, I don't think they'd recall that they forgot anything from their past either. My imagination is that what is out of sight is (often) entirely out of mind, so that a fairy could forget that he ever knew something for 1000 years, and then when confronted with that thing, person, or place, continue as if he had never forgotten in the first place and no time has past between then and now. </p><p></p><p>Of course my other great influence is fairy tales, with their strange little men and fey creatures dispensing very unrestrained curses and blessings and operating according to their own strange logic and sense of justice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7570458, member: 4937"] I'm not familiar with Girl Genius, but I've encountered the concept in many other contexts. I confess a lot of my internal ideas of how fey think is set by the portrayal of Tinkerbell in Barrie's 'Peter Pan' (and for that matter of Pan himself). For instance he has one comment about Tinkerbell to the effect of her mind is too small to contain more than one thought at a time which I find very evocative, and both Tinkerbell and Pan are noted for their ability to completely and utterly forget. So I think it's certainly in keeping with what I think of as a fey that they should not really recall anything from the past, and memory dump the whole thing. Indeed, I don't think they'd recall that they forgot anything from their past either. My imagination is that what is out of sight is (often) entirely out of mind, so that a fairy could forget that he ever knew something for 1000 years, and then when confronted with that thing, person, or place, continue as if he had never forgotten in the first place and no time has past between then and now. Of course my other great influence is fairy tales, with their strange little men and fey creatures dispensing very unrestrained curses and blessings and operating according to their own strange logic and sense of justice. [/QUOTE]
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