Questions
I've got a few questions about the game so here it goes
- If all animals are supposed to go to the "Farm", why is Snow so peeved at Collin but doesn't give two shits about Bufkin?
- In episode 4, the butcher dude says that Bigby should go to the Lucky Pawn which is around the corner and like, 3 blocks away. Then why did Bigby take a cab there if he could just walk?
- In episode 3, when Bigby turns into a wolf, all we hear are animal like growls and stuff. But when animals like Collin talk, they speak normally. Shouldn't Bigby be able to speak as a wolf as well?
- In episode 4, the huntsman is carrying an axe in broad daylight on the street but why does no one give a shit?
- In episode 1, Collin says that Bigby owes him a house. Why does he still care about the house if it isn't relevant since he's living in the "Farm" and doesn't need anymore?
- If all the fables are driven out of their homeland from the adversary, and homeland is described as "the mythical lands from fairy tales, folklore, and nursery rhymes in the comic book series Fables", why is Bloody Mary part of the community if she isn't a character from a fairy tale, folklore or nursery rhyme.
- Why is Bigby able to alternate from wolf form and human if he is supposed to just a wolf in stories? Is he now a werewolf?
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1) - I assume it's because Bufkin doesn't go outside and is relegated to library work. And working in such a high position he must be able to get glamours more easily. Collin and Toad, on the other hand, can't afford glamours easily and are irresponsible with their presence.
2) which would you rather do? Walk or take a cab?
3) Bigby can speak as a wolf, but with him it's more of a signal to the player that Bigby is beastly and animalistic and very very dangerous, whereas Collin is more of a critter.
4) Good question. Wish I had an answer. Magic?
5) It was a way to mess with Bigby. It's a common thing between some friends. One rips on the other for some mistake they made in the past, but no hard feelings or grudges are had because one knows the other is total bro and would always stick by them no matter what. I have a friend with whom I constantly talk as if we were a couple of assholes. And we kind of are, to each other, sometimes. Then I have friends with whom I'm polite and courteous. Barely.
6) She's part of an urban legend, just like Jersey Devil and urban legends are nothing more than fables under a different name.
7) No, he's still a wolf, but I think I read somewhere that he always had shapeshifting powers, but never utilised them as he had no reason to do so, up until he started living in the mundy world. In any case, he's not a werewolf, he's a Wulfwere. A wolf that can turn into a human.
Bufkin is a special case. He doesn't leave the business office, for one thing. Bufkin is also the only person able to do his job. He's the only one able to keep track of all the books and documents in the business office. This also why he can get away with various shenanigans because he knows he's too valuable to fire.
Because it's easier?
He can speak normally.
The 13th floor witches have various spells in place to obfuscate Fabletown. It's not full proof, but mundies are less likely to notice or find reason to go to their little piece of New York. There might not actually be any mundies around at that time. An axe is easily explainable anyway. (I can't explain why mundy cops were involved when "Snow's" head was found. A mundy wouldn't enter the Woodland's gates, and a Fable wouldn't call 911.)
Colin's just giving Bigby shit.
She's an urban legend. Urban legends are folklore.
Bigby is a wolf. He had opportunity to learn shapeshifting, but chose not to (because he'd have to learn from his father who he despised), so that ability is lost to him. When he needed to look human to be join Fabletown, he was inflicted with lycanthropy on purpose. Since he's already a wolf, the curse just turns him human. There's actually a fan theory that Bigby's size is due to his natural shapeshifting abilities unconciously manifesting. He wanted to become the biggest and baddest wolf and thus made true.