Goldilocks

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Goldilocks: Once Upon A Time...

Gwendoline Fletcher was the daughter of a beautiful mother and a drunken miller. Like her mother, Gwen was disarmingly beautiful with gorgeous straw-colored hair. After her mother's death, Gwen gave her father nothing but stress as she was constantly getting into trouble. Gwen had a bad habit of stealing, sneaking into places she should not, and had a bold mouth not well-suited to the life of a peasant girl.

When he was most upset with, Gwen's father would drunkenly threaten her with "Mark my words, your head of straw will bring me gold one day." Gwen never really knew what that meant until she was older and realized her father planned to sell her to a brothel.

When she realized what her father planned for her, Gwen ran away. She took shelter in a luxurious mountain retreat for the winter. As a humble miller's daughter, Gwen did not know this was the summer residence of Golden Realm's royal family (which she would have known if she knew the coat of arms with three bears signified House Descry), but if she had it probably would not have made a difference to her.

When winter's storm passed, Gwen was captured by servants of the crown who had her taken before the king for punishment. The girl's father was found passed out drunk and also brought to speak with the king. Prince Brandish took a liking to the girl and when the angry father began to beat his daughter for what she had done, Brandish took a sword from one of his father's men and killed the drunken miller.

As he died, the miller looked in Gwen's eyes and belted out "I always said your head of straw will bring me gold one day," as he laughed himself to death, clutching the golden steel blade of Brandish's sword.

After this whole messy situation, Gwen was made a "guest" of the castle and put in a tower. She was provided an assortment of luxuries, fine foods, but not allowed to leave. Every so often, Brandish would visit her and after a while, Gwen realized she was the prince's concubine.

Gwen did have feelings for Brandish, through a warped gratitude for him having killed her cruel father, but she missed her freedom. Brandish and Gwen fell in love, but Brandish's father refused to allow his son to marry a miller's daughter — no matter how beautiful she was.

When Brandish's constant complaining annoyed the king, Gwen was removed from her tower and locked in the dungeons where the jailers were told to never allow entry to the prince. In the cold, dark dungeon, Gwen befriended a dwarf sorcerer who shared her cell. The dwarf claimed there was faerie magic in the beautiful girl in the cell next to his.

Using some of her hair and blood, the dwarf was able to break the magic chains which sapped his own magic and enact a escape for the two. After their escape from the dungeons, Gwen learned that while she was getting the horses from the stable, the dwarf had cursed the prince.

Gwen left the dwarf to explore the Magical Forest where it was said the prince had last been seen, in the form of a bear. She was distracted in her endeavor when she realized she was pregnant with the prince's offspring. After giving her progeny to others, she returned to the Magical Forest to seek out her prince. She became so disconnected from civilization, she did not hear of a royal marriage until Brandish was already married. **[see 'Happily Ever After']**

### Supplemental Reports:

* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) While imprisoned in the dungeon with Breglik Thastor (or Rumpelstiltskin as he was known), Gwen learned that the dwarf had once fashioned a charm to allow a noble fae to avoid detection. The charm lasted ten years before the fae was found. Before being taken back to the Fair Lands, the fae had a beautiful green-eyed daughter she named Gwendoline.
* (*Submitted by Herald*) **Happily Ever After:** While searching Brandish, Gwen had become an occultist known by her nickname Goldilocks (to disguise her true name). When Brandish had been urged to marry Rose Red as she was a legitimate heir to the Silver Throne, Goldilocks was able to win Brandish's heart away from his wife, having found him alone on a hunting trip and quickly seducing him. However, the king would not approve. So their trysts were left to the summer estate where Brandish had Goldilocks establish herself in secret. While Brandish was at war with the Sheeda, the king died (under mysterious circumstances) and Brandish was crowned the new King of the Golden Realm. Goldilocks was appointed as a royal advisor. But as cunning as Goldilocks was, she was outsmarted by Tsaritsa who orchestrated a peasant revolt that forced Brandish to broker a peace with the Sheeda. Eventually, Goldilocks and Brandish chose to abandon their kingdom and set sail for Americana with a bevy of occult relics stolen from the Sheeda — where the two ran afoul of the witchhunters, leading to the pair unleashing unholy terror upon poor Ichabod Crane to allow them a chance to escape the witchhunter's axe. Eventually the two ended up as residents of Fabletown.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* Fable Physiology
	+ *Immortality & Resurrection*
* Sidhean Physiology
	+ *Mesmerism*
	+ *Metamorphosis (Fox)*
	+ *Sidhean Sensitivity*
	+ *Supernatural Sight*
* Occultist Training
	+ *Master Occult Ritualist*
	+ *Expert Glamourist*
* Master Burglar & Infiltrator
* Master Hunter & Tracker
* Master Markswoman & Archer

### Weaknesses

* Curious to a Fault
* Vice — Pride (Vain and Overly Confident)
* Vulnerability: Unforged Iron (Mild)

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 60
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* After Brandish's heart was replaced with a Bleed Engine the prince devised a plan to retrieve it. Queen Gloriana could only control Brandish when she held his heart so Brandish had many lucid moments where he could be himself. Using a lookalike to pose as the king for a routine courtroom duties, Brandish disappeared in the night and rode for the Sheeda stronghold where Gloriana kept Brandish's heart. Though the ruse was discovered and the lookalike was killed, that was all part of the plan. Sheeda patrols reported seeing the riding for the hold where his heart was held. When word reached the stronghold that the king was attempting a one-man assault, Gloriana went to hold to take the heart in hand and tell Brandish to surrender himself. However, as the Sheeda Queen entered her vault, a small blonde slipped out of hiding, charged into the vault and stuck the queen with an unforged iron blade. As the queen clutched her wound, the blonde grabbed the heart and a number of other relics she could throw into a magical bag and ran off.
* Among the Sheeda artifacts was a scroll to summon the Headless Horseman.
* For some time, she lived in Sleepy Hollow with Brandish as Katrina Van Tassel and Abraham Van Brunt.
* Ichabod Crane fell in love with her. When he discovered her with Abraham, he shot him. Abraham and Katrina in return summoned the Headless Horseman.
* When Ichabod Crane reached Fabletown, the pair were forced to dismiss the dullahan.
* She used to be the lover of Bluebeard for a time before the Manhattaning, but left him for a past lover.
* For some time she and Brandish were members of the Brotherhood of Dada.

### Notes

* Goldilocks is a character from *Fables*.
* She is composited with the daughter of the miller from the *Rumpelstiltskin* fairy tale, Katrina Von Tassel from the *Legend of the Sleepy Hollow* story and supervillain Goldilocks from DC comics.
* Her alias Scrapefoot and ability to turn into a fox are nods to the tale of Scrapefoot and the Three Bears. The story later morphed into Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
* In the comics, her lover was the Boo Bear.
* Goldilocks' relationship with Bluebeard might be a nod to *The Robber Bridegroom* fairy tale.
* Goldilocks being part of the Brotherhood of Evil is a nod to the Teen Titans villain of the same name in *Teen Titans* Vol 3.

## Network Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Goldilocks

1. ↑ Network Files: Goldilocks
2. ↑ Network Files: Brandish Descry
3. ↑ Network Files: Ichabod Crane
4. ↑ Network Files: Bluebeard
5. ↑ Network Files: Eri Morden / Mr Nobody