>>98248259>Once the powerlevel connection got noticed they'd definitely not want to be discovered lest mundies ever weaponize it.>I probably should have said so in the previous post but yet another way Bigby's metaphor was bad was because the Fables can also be looked at more like Palestine than Israel. Small country that's relentlessly attacked by a bigger one formed via making them flee their homes? How do you fuck up a metaphor about Israel so bad that the Israel you're talking about is a palestine?I made the same point (holy shit) nine years ago on LiveJournal back when that was a relevant site:
http://dave-littler.livejournal.com/88960.htmlThe protagonists find their homes gradually taken from them, one by one, as they are driven ever back by the vast might of these foreign armies arrayed against them. They represent the Palestinian people, being driven into the West Bank and the Gaza strip. Eventually, they're pushed into the real world of Earth, a land far from their homes where they're forced, like the Palestinians, to live in what amounts to a crowded ghetto where their traditional and ancestral ways are denied them by the grim realities of their existence.
Eventually, these fables make contact with the fables of Baghdad (Aladdin, Ali-Baba, etc), with whom they find they have common cause against this "Zionist entity", and they conspire together to overthrow them. The leader of these Iraqi fables – Sinbad - who is quite distastefully used as a stand-in for Saddam Hussein, is enlisted in providing material aid in a bombing campaign against Geppetto's empire. This part of the story ultimately culminates in Prince Charming winning the jihad against Geppetto in one final "heroic" act of suicide bombing with the aid and support of the leader of the Iraqi fables, who praises him posthumously as a hero and a martyr to the cause.
