Of particular note, the fairy who touches some mysterious plant, causing her hand to swell up and turn red and bumpy.

Body Horror: Nearly all of the fairies die in graphic and creative ways.

Black Comedy: Depending on your sense of humor much of the book can become this, particularly when you see a death coming a mile away and the oblivious victim doesn't.

Beware the Nice Ones: Aurora is the friendliest and kindest fairy in the story, but turns absolutely vicious when pissed off.

Naturally, Plim betrays her and tells Zelie about it.

Batman Gambit: Aurora lures Zelie and her followers to the stove, by telling Plim of a 'nice secret place' and making them promise of not telling Zelie about it.

Asshole Victim: Zelie is horribly burnt to death, but given that she knowingly buried Timothy alive and barely reacted to Hector's death, only crying at his makeshift funeral to look better in the eyes of the rest of the fairies, it's hard to argue she didn't deserve it.

Aside from the main character and the mysterious man everyone else is either dead or unaccounted for by the final page.

Anyone Can Die: And nearly everyone does.

The exceptions are Aurora, who is genuinely kind until the end, and Zelie, who is genuinely cruel.

Ambiguous Innocence: The Fairies are all fairly blase about each other's gruesome deaths, it's clear they have no way to conceptualize what's happening.

Ambiguous Gender: Plim's pronouns are not revealed.

They quickly descend into Lord of the Flies-esque anarchy and violence.

A group of tiny people makes a home out of the corpse of a little girl who died in the woods, but as the girl's corpse deteriorates, so does the fairy society. A French Fairytale/ Horror comic book co-authored by Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët, which contrasts beautiful, bright watercolors with horrific imagery and brutal death.

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