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20th December 2015

Video reblogged from Omniversal Observations with 1 note

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The Librarians (November 2015)

Fictionals are a race of magical beings summoned from stories encountered in the second season of the Librarians.

According to Jenkins there are two main types of Fictionals; those that can be summoned by powerful magic and those that come into being of their own accord. The second type are iconic characters whose stories are both well written and well known.

Though rare in the modern day Jenkins’s believed there was most likely a small group of Fictionals living in the modern world; their magical existence sustained by the fame and acclaim of their stories. Also, and thankfully most of them don’t cause to much trouble; the Library has also struggled to keep track of them. Flynn commented he had always heard about them but had never actually met one

Generally Fictionals do not adapt well to the world outside their stories; Jenkins explained that their minds are only as complex has what their creator wrote meaning they may not be able to understand little if anything outside their stories. Fictionals from older or well written stories tend to have a better time adapting.

Fictionals are bound by their stories, but also empowered by them.

Though sentient beings Fictionals are bound to the narrative of their stories meaning they can be trapped and defeated in the ways their stories dictate. For example Moriarty did not die when Eve stabbed him, because that was not the way his story said he would be die. Despite this Prospero found a way to partialy break with the narrative of his story such has when he managed to retieve his spell book through magic. Fictionals can become extremely powerful if real life events matches their narrative. For example Prospero used the white king, pearl earrings, a storm,etc to break the magical seal on the box containing his spell book.

Outside of defeating them in the way their story dictates a Ficitonal can be destroyed if the specific book they appeared from is destroyed.

It appears that certain fictionals have their own opinions of their creators with Prospero loathing Shakespeare for the ending of his story and “abandoning” him when the Bard passed away.

History
Fictionals were apparently quite common when magic was still in the world but when the lay lines first sealed many of them faded away. Despite this some did still managed to come into existence; well written and famous stories such as those of William Shakespeare interacted with lingering magic managed to draw fictionals into the real world.

When the Lay lines were re oppened after the events of the first season the Fictional Prospero began to inact a long running plan.

List of Known Fictionals
* Prospero= Active

* Moriarty= Active in the employ of Prospero

* The Queen of Hearts= Defeated and returned to Wonderland

* Frakenstein’s Monster= Allowed to stay in the human world by the Librarians

Source: The Librarians Wiki

Fictionals. They stay to themselves.

Pulled from books into a world they do not understand.

They tend not to adjust well.

Well, Moriarty’s doing just fine.

He got himself a fake identity, set himself up to collect all the pieces.

Pieces to what? I don’t know.

Well, I would posit, sir, that Moriarty had help.

There are two types of Fictionals.

Someone summoned him from this book.

They called him into this world.

And the other kind?

Much older. Much more powerful.

Iconic characters whose stories are so well told, so famous, so well-written that they emerge into this reality under their own power. They walk among us.

Mostly hidden. Not very many of those.

So there was another Fictional at the party.

I just have to figure out who.

Sir, beware, Fictionals are bound, but also empowered by their stories.

You could trap them within the rules of their own tales.

But they can be extremely powerful if their narrative matches the real world.

Your mystery villain may be trying to gather parts of his story to gain strength.

To what end?

That would depend on what character you’re dealing with.

Source: Forever Dreaming