Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for January 20, 2013
January 19, 2013
January 21, 2013
Transcript:
Phoebe: Pointyhead! My nemesis! YOU sent up the Claustrophobia signal? Marigold: Yes, Claustrophobia. I wanted to ask about your name. It suggests you suffer from a fear of enclosed spaces. Phoebe: Naw. I just picked it because it sounds kinda like my real name. Marigold: I see... So your fear of enclosed spaces is unrelated to your super powers? Phoebe: I'm not actually afraid of enclosed spaces. Hey, maybe not being scared of enclosed spaced could BE my super power! Marigold: That power is not very super. Phoebe: Says the villain whose power is having a thing growing out of her face.
Here’s a fresh 2024 thought: What if Marigold tried making the role play between her and Phoebe as Pointyhead and Claustrophoebea a little more interesting, but it fails terribly?
Marigold, as Pointyhead, tries magically cloning herself, as some villains do, to confuse Claustrophoebea in order to win the battle. In the heat of the moment, the unicorn cast the wrong cloning spell, which divides her into five different traits.
These traits are vanity, insecurity, mischief, guilt, and humility. The “main” Marigold would be guilt, who would still be wearing the Pointyhead jumpsuit, except there’d be a “G” for “Guilt” on the side of her hindleg where the “P” for “Pointyhead” would be.
Each clone would stop playing the game at their own wills, and would run their separate ways before leaving guilty Marigold alone with Phoebe. The two immediately set out to find the four other clones, with a little trouble with the main Marigold, who struggles to feel anything else besides guilt.
They’d first find insecurity, then mischief, next vanity, and finally humility, convincing each one to follow Marigold and Phoebe to remerge all the traits back into the original Marigold.