Fairy Tale Rejects is a fantasy webcomic created by Alex Greys.
A centaur warrior named Elska lives high on her mountaintop village, but one day she finds the village desolate with everyone else missing or dead. In the hand of her father's corpse, she finds the flag of Evangeline Kingdom. She decides to go down the mountain to find this kingdom and take revenge. On the way, a satyr named Itchy and a little satyr boy Tomato join her on their own quest to find Tomato's mother Ginger, who has ended up in a cave with a mysterious cecaelia, who she names Mr. Ocean.
The comic has a spinoff Freelance Good Guys, focusing on the three Evangelite soldiers who helped free Kelvingyard working as mercenaries in an alternate continuity.
Both comics have since been Cut Short, but Greys now uses the same world in her online literature series Looming Gaia, which has quite different story and lore from either comic and is considered an alternate continuity.
Fairy Tale Rejects can be read here
. Freelance Good Guys can be read here.
Provides examples of:
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: A heroic example: When Elska is captured by Kelvingyard slavers, she threatens to kill her captors' families and their pets too.
- Arboreal Abode: The houses in Drifter's Hollow are made of hollowed-out trees.
- Art Evolution: The first few comics are drawn in a lineless style, but changed into a style with lines due to it being faster and easier to draw.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Itchy gets jealous of Mr. Ocean getting Ginger's attention and keeps insulting him when they're forced to live together.
- Forced Transformation: Itchy catches the "Jackass Disease" from a sexual encounter and gets turned into a goat.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Mr. Ocean has been alone in his cave for hundreds of years, and when Ginger comes along he's desperate to keep her there.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: One scene shows Itchy with two shoulder devils telling him to abandon Elska with no angel.
- Great Escape: One story arc is about the citizens of Drifter's Hollow, Elska, and Philly escaping from Kelvingyard with the help of Evan, Lukas, and Glenvar.
- Half-Human Hybrid:
- The human Balthazaar and his elven wife Feredil have a hybrid son named Balthazaar II.
- Morbus the elf is described as having so much human blood in her that she'll never be as powerful as her son Elwyn.
- Hates Being Touched: Elska has to tell other characters not to touch her multiple times.
- I Lied: Sleater promises that she won't hurt Ginger if she brings Mr. Ocean to her and Kinney, but attacks her anyway and says "I changed my mind!"
- Instantly Proven Wrong: This exhange:Gwyneth: Ginger, cecaelia are vicious, bloodthirsty, sea-beasts!Mr. Ocean: Welcome home, Ginger. Your gown is nearly finished. Oh, and I've got sugar cookies in the oven. Would our guest like some? They have sprinkles.
- Losing Your Head: Mr. Ocean gets his head torn off by harpies, but it turns out cecaelia survive that, and he eventually grows his body back.
- Running Gag: Tomato asking what "crotch lice" is.
- Solid Gold Poop: Mr. Ocean excretes cecaelia oil, which is extremely valuable and rare due to it only coming from "royal" cecaelia. He's clearly disgusted by Ginger selling his extrement.
- Tempting Fate: When the citizens of Drifter's Hollow get sent to Kelvingyard, Gwyneth says:Gwyneth: At least it can't get any worse from here!Che: Gwyneth… What the guards doing to that goblin…Gwyneth: I stand corrected.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The first part of the story features the tall centauress Elska adventuring with the short satyr Itchy.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Itchy, one of the main characters, is a jerk and a pervert quick to abandon his peers to save his own skin.
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: At one point Linde wonders what desperate loser would want to get freaky with a hag like Morbus, at which point Itchy quickly excuses himself, as he had actually done it.
- You Killed My Father: Elska's whole quest is trying to get revenge on the Evangeline Kingdom, who killed her father and the rest of her village.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Evan is big, Lukas is thin, and Glenvar is short.
- Blob Monster: In the first comics, Isaac finds a green slime monster, and later helps Jeimos out of an acidic red slime by covering his hand with it. In a later remake of the story, he does the same with a stick.
- False Crucible: The Freelance Good Guys take Isaac on a mission in a tomb, and give him a "stick of banishing" and pretend they're undead for him to banish.
- I Call It "Vera": Evan named his sword "Joan".
- Looks Like Orlok: In issue 1, the Freelance Good Guys encounter a bald and pointy-eared vampire.
- Playing with Fire: Jeimos the red elf specializes in fire spells.
