#squeezjoos

Yeah, I got back into the Wizards of Once series. How’d ya tell?

More under the cut, probably. They have eyes, I just didn’t draw them, and please don’t save to your device/camera roll. ⚠️ (Also spoilers for book 3.)⚠️

Tumblr butchered the quality. Squeezjoos has a pretty inconsistent number of legs throughout the series, so I gave him eight here and fluffiness. I wish we got more stuff about The Baby.

I’m giving Bumbleboozle the curlier tail and six legs. She’s basically the more insect-like hairy fairy anyway, so yeah. Also less soft.

And Cressida herself said that the Nuckalavee is part of the crocodilian family, and he didn’t really look like the ideal ‘fearsome lair shadow quest’ monster. So, yeah, crocodilian snouts.

Because look, the story directly said the narrator was a character in the first book. I thought Wish and Xar and Bodkin were too obvious. I assumed Cressida Cowell liked a good twist so I barely considered them. Caliburn is also too obvious. Other than that you have the sprites, snowcats, Crusher, etc. None of them had enough presence in the story, or personality, to emotionally impact me as the read if they were the narrator.

Except Squeezjoos.

Squeezjoos wasn't there for everything that happened but I could imagine him learning about things after the fact and writing down the story we read. He was also young, and we don't know the age limit of sprites, so it's possible that he would live long enough to be able to say the phrase "A British Isles so old it did not know it was the British Isles yet"

Also, with the narrative asking questions about the moral of the story, it makes sense for Squeezjoos to ask that question. He goes through so much, so much pain in these books, and so it makes sense that he didn't ask why at the time, and he's thinking about it now, as he writes.

So, Amazon has a preview of “Knock Three Times” and...