As for the Fourth Wall I'm gonna reveal some juicy details. I am very deliberate that the Narrator Never EVER breaks the fourth wall. Because he is out of the story he never even touches it. But there IS a character in the story that brushes up against the Fourth Wall deliberately and in a huge way.
The Piranha is the only being in the story itself that seems to intuit that he and his friends exist in a comic book.
He doesn't understand that's EXACTLY what is going on, and he doesn't know he's fictional, but he SEES the comic book panels and word balloons out of the corner of his eye which is why he can be found playing on them.
Why did I suggest this about him?
As far as the characters go, the Piranha is both cute and innocent. But I also want to say he possesses a certain amount of wisdom the other characters do not. In Gilda And Meek he is still a child by the standards of his species, but he's chronologically 50 years old, and older than the other adult characters besides Dr. Raggleworth and Gabrielle.
In "Destiny's Prisoner" when Bernadette snarkily tells the Piranha to put down the "Where's Waldo?" book and play "Where's the Black person on Friends?" (for a REAL challenge) the Piranha's wisdom can be seen in its entirety via his curt reply: "I'm not looking to spend hours on this."
What does all this mean for the Piranha? What I THINK it means (and if I live for another decade and a half I might get around to exploring) is that the most supernaturally gifted and magical being among Julius' crew is not Gabrielle. It's not even Gilda. It's probably the Piranha, and has been the entire time.
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As for the Fourth Wall I'm gonna reveal some juicy details. I am very deliberate that the Narrator Never EVER breaks the fourth wall. Because he is out of the story he never even touches it. But there IS a character in the story that brushes up against the Fourth Wall deliberately and in a huge way.
The Piranha is the only being in the story itself that seems to intuit that he and his friends exist in a comic book.
He doesn't understand that's EXACTLY what is going on, and he doesn't know he's fictional, but he SEES the comic book panels and word balloons out of the corner of his eye which is why he can be found playing on them.
Why did I suggest this about him?
As far as the characters go, the Piranha is both cute and innocent. But I also want to say he possesses a certain amount of wisdom the other characters do not. In Gilda And Meek he is still a child by the standards of his species, but he's chronologically 50 years old, and older than the other adult characters besides Dr. Raggleworth and Gabrielle.
In "Destiny's Prisoner" when Bernadette snarkily tells the Piranha to put down the "Where's Waldo?" book and play "Where's the Black person on Friends?" (for a REAL challenge) the Piranha's wisdom can be seen in its entirety via his curt reply: "I'm not looking to spend hours on this."
What does all this mean for the Piranha? What I THINK it means (and if I live for another decade and a half I might get around to exploring) is that the most supernaturally gifted and magical being among Julius' crew is not Gabrielle. It's not even Gilda. It's probably the Piranha, and has been the entire time.