| “ | Sometimes in the books the children are more than their parents. It's like a theme in all the stories. What if that's true? What if we're bigger and better and stronger than you? Look! I can be something big enough to gobble you right up! You know what? I think I can become big enough to swallow the whole wide world. And sometimes I feel like something dark and growly is tugging at me and wants to try. If you don't stop trying to hurt us, then I'll become something that can kill you dead! So stop scaring us, daddy! Right now! | „ |
| ― Connor Wolf to a feral Bigby Wolf in Fables #150 — "Farewell" |
Connor Wolf is a hybrid Fable (part wolf, part wind and part human) who is one of the seven cubs born to Snow White and Bigby Wolf. He debuts in Fables #30 — "The Cruel, Hot Summer." As their fifth child, he grows up to be a bold hero as prophesied.
History
Early life
Connor and his six siblings are conceived when Snow White and Bigby Wolf have a one-night stand whilst under the control of a potion provided by Bluebeard. Bigby's heightened senses informs him of this brief affair but to ensure survival and minimize Snow's panic, he decides not to tell her. Unfortunately, Snow has been impregnated.
Several months later, during springtime,[nb 2] she gives birth to her children after the battle against the wooden soldiers. It is apparent from the start that her children have inherited the wolf traits from their father, which means they cannot live in Fabletown but have to move to the Farm, separating the cubs from Bigby.
Because of their heritage, the children's natural default for travel is flight. Since Bigby is gone, Iand had never had that problem, their grandfather the North Wind is given that responsibility of teaching them. Under the tutelage of their grandfather, the children gain the ability to control their flight as well as change their forms from human, werewolf or fully lupine.
After their birth, there are a string of sudden deaths. The North Wind, who is staying at the Farm to be with his grandchildren, is able to explain to their mother the existence of zephyrs. They are able to discover the cause. One of the seven, later named Ghost by Bigby, is born with a birth defect; he is a zephyr, a rogue wind whose invisible nature means his parents are initially unaware of his existence. This entity feeds off the air of living beings, accidentally killing them before he learns control. Snow White, after a rash of deaths, discovers that they were inadvertently caused by her last child and sends Ghost to find his self-exiled father. The family has since been reunited. On their fifth birthday, the other six cubs are introduced to Ghost, but were sworn to secrecy as to his existence. Even from telling Rose Red, as she is not a "wolf."
During the war to reclaim the Homelands, Wolf Manor becomes the nerve center of Fabletown's war operations. Because of this, Snow becomes the unofficial commander-in-chief while her husband, Bigby, runs operations at Fort Bravo, Prince Charming is on the Glory of Baghdad, and Beast commands the defense procedures at Fabletown. Rose watches after the cubs to ensure that they don't bother the soldiers, who obviously wouldn't appreciate someone suddenly shouting at them "Bang, you're dead!"
The cubs would later travel with their parents to their grandfather's castle. During the trip, the cubs are attacked by their six uncles. Though young, they are able to keep out of their grasp and fend them off until their father was able to save them. Afterward, their uncles are turned into goldfish and left to the cubs mercy.
The prophecy
At some point, Ozma reveals a prophecy to Ambrose about him and the other cubs:
- The first child will be a king,
- The second child a pauper.
- The third will do an evil thing.
- The fourth will die to stop her.
- The fifth will be a hero bold.
- The sixth will judge the rest.
- The seventh lives to ages old, and is by heaven blessed.
The first of the seven prophecies is fulfilled when Winter officially becomes King of the North (the position previously held by her grandfather).[7]
The third and fourth child prophecies occurs when Therese is revealed as the third child, doing "an evil thing" by murdering Lord Mountbatten for his flesh and ordering the wooden toys of her kingdom burned to eat it.[8] Darien is revealed as the fourth child, as he sacrifices himself to a magic cauldron so that Therese can have food, and thus, end her insanity.
The battle of Fabletown
When a feral Bigby is under the control of Rose Red, Connor and his siblings are nearly killed by their corrupted father. However, Connor manages to snap Bigby back into his true self and he is happily reunited with his wife and children.[9]
The Black Forest
After Rose Red calls off the war between Snow White and her forces, Connor and his family relocate to the Hesse, Bigby's homeland, specifically the Black Forest. While busy rebuilding Wolf Manor, Bigby sends his four remaining children, including Connor, into the Black Forest to have an adventure, and forbinds them from coming back home until they could return with a story to tell. Connor's adventure involves stumbling across a skeletonized corpse with a strange sword stuck between its ribs. Convinced that the sword must be magic, Connor pulls it out from the skeleton's rib.
The Everaftering
| “ | Player Three to all points… I fucking love this job! | „ |
| ― Connor in Everafter: From the Pages of Fables #12 — "The Bones of What You Believe: The Conclusion of The Unsentimental Education" |
Connor at the Wolf family reunion
Later on in his young adulthood, Bigby and Snow take Connor to join the Shadow Players, an "intelligence gathering" organization, due to his "youthful exuberance" in being violent and lustful, hoping that he can be doing it for a good cause.[3]
Epilogue
In adulthood, Connor is now an adventurer of renown, having faced down countless evils across hundreds of different worlds.[10]
At the latest Wolf family reunion, about a millennia after the fall of Fabletown, Connor explains to some partygoers about how one of his more memorable adventures resulted in his slaying of the monster that burned the world of Karse to a cinder and how he himself wasn't responsible for that world's destruction.[11]
Personality
Connor is quieter than his siblings and tends to stay in the sidelines. Although he loves his siblings and his father, at one point he expresses his jealousy of his brother Darien who he claimed was his father's favorite. He also expressed jealousy over the fact that Darien is the chosen pack leader.
By his teenage years, he has developed a lustful and violent nature his parents attribute to youthful exuberance.[3]
Physical appearance
Connor has dark hair and blue eyes. In his teenage years, Connor's body is well defined and muscular.
Powers and abilities
Powers
- Flight: Like his siblings, Connor can fly.
- Shapeshifting: Connor can transform between his human form and wolf form at will. According to his grandfather, Connor and his siblings can assume a variety of other forms with proper training. Connor claimed to have practiced his shapeshifting powers more than his siblings, and he has assumed several forms (e.g. a gigantic monster or a lovely woman). He can also accurately mimic the appearance of others.
- Power distribution: Connor can extend his shapeshifting power to others.[12]
- Accelerated healing: Connor can rapidly recover from damage done to his body.[13]
- Supernatural longevity: Connor's unique heritage evidently affords him some sort of supernatural longevity. Even after a millennia, Connor is shown to retain the vitality and appearance of a young man.[9]
Abilities
- Bilingualism: Connor can speak English, and appears to speak, or at least understand, Spanish.[14]
- Firearms: Connor also seems able to make good use of firearms in combat as well.[10]
- Skilled swordfighter: Connor has become proficient with a sword as an adult.[10]
Appearances
Etymology
The name "Connor"[15] is of Irish origin and means "lover of wolves" or "lover of hounds."[16] The family name "Wolf"[10] is an obvious reference to his lupine nature, particularly given that his father is named Bigby Wolf.
Trivia
- When Fables author Bill Willingham and penciller Mark Buckingham created the cubs, Connor was intentionally crafted to resemble Prince Charming, as the two comic creators allocated characteristics of their adult cast to each character.[17] Similar to Prince Charming,[18] Connor also has a potent sexual prowess[3] and bedded many people.[19]
- Connor is confirmed to be pansexual during the events of Everafter: From the Pages of Fables, having been with men, women "and a few other things besides."[19] The most famous Fables among his love affairs are the ghost of La Llorona, and Tom Swift.[14]
Gallery
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References
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Notes
- ↑ Fables #150 — "The Summer Prophecy": "The Fifth Will Be a Hero Bold." ― Note that the character's name was originally spelled "Conner," but from Fables #109 — "Cardinal Virtues: Chapter Two of Inherit the Wind" onwards and in the Everafter miniseries, he is called "Connor."
- ↑ As explicitly stated in Fables #33 — "Until the Spring," the cubs' first birthday takes place in spring.