Editing Mags Holt (section)

=== Poke ===
Appears in ch. 3 of [[Poke]], meeting with the main characters of the short in order to learn more about the Goblin Queen who destroyed her hometown. This reveals that Buttsack is still working for her, and that she has some knowledge of the heredity of some of the subhuman/incest-practitioner community.

Here, the Goblin Queen - well, Redcap Queen- is revealed as [[Gerhild]] (originally Gabrielle). <ref>“Gerhild.  Redcap Queen,” Deedee said.  “Hit your town, wiped it off the map.  Hit Port Hope, they had to rewrite memories and call it a contamination issue.  Hit three other places, a bit more backwater.  Small towns and shit.  Used to be a goblin queen, just like you, but she stopped being so human and started being more goblin a bit ago.  Enjoys being both practitioner and goblin at the same time.  Benefits of both, not so many weaknesses.  She isn’t bothered by the usual stuff that slows goblins down, and she lets goblins who follow her avoid some of that usual stuff too.  Power lines, plumbing.”<br><br>“That’s the one,” Mags said, quiet.  “That’s all information I already had.”<br><br>“Yeh.  So here’s what’s what.  Bitch’s original name is Gabrielle.  From the asshole of Detroit, so poor you’d have more chance finding cash stuck to the shit on a hobo’s bootheel than going through her family’s wallets, y’know?”<br><br>“Somehow it’s hard to feel sorry for her,” Mags said.<br><br>“She grew up ''hard'', not in the fun way, but in the other way that matters.  No friends, no help, no ''nothing'', pretty much.  Her ma’s struggling just like she is, but her ma can at least fuck some shitbag to not be totally alone… and the family’s poor and depressing enough the only shitbags who’ll stick around are the kind who give little Gabrielle the worst time, y’know?” Deedee said.  “Goblins can go after people if they’re sure they can clean up the evidence, or leave it messy enough people can’t make heads or tails of it.  They went after her.  Pair of the little ones, like our nameless twist here.  She out-scrapped ‘em, and she wasn’t even old enough to have tits yet.  Walked away a little more wide-eyed, aware there are things in this world that ain’t right.”<br><br>“Innocent but aware?” Mags asked.<br><br>“Sure, if you can call a girl with her history innocent.  So goblins in charge of the little shitters have to clean up the mess, or there’s gonna be some fuckin’ issues, yeah?  They go after her.”<br><br>“I’m guessing she wins,” Mags said.<br><br>“She doesn’t know a thing about Goblins, but the boss goblin that comes after her is tenacious, like a dog with a bone, except the bone’s her femur or something.  Metaphors!  But she’s a tenacious little shit too.  Scrap lasts a while, I hear, but it drags out long enough she manages to get the goblin boss in a compromising spot.  Surrounded by elemental metal by accident.  But she can’t go and it can’t escape, so she’s there, while it talks at her, tries to break her with words.  But she’s been called all sorts of things and told all sorts of things, and she toughs it out.  Loses a bit more innocence, until she’s running into the negative, you get me?  Into innocence’s shitter.”<br><br>“And?” Mags asked.<br><br>“And eventually she lets the boss goblin go, and the boss goblin goes to ''its'' boss, and she follows it.  And the goblin in charge of that part of Detroit… hooo.”<br><br>“Don’t tell me she somehow beat that goblin too.”<br><br>“Don’t know,” Deedee said.  “Just telling you what I pieced together for ya.  But ten years later she’s a goblin queen, with a small herd of redcaps, and she’s got three of the ''big'' ones with her.  And from there, she does her thing.  By the time she gets to your town, she’s a redcap queen, and she’s that half-and-half that’s more than the sum of its parts.  Thing is the big goblins tend to stay out of the attacks on the towns.  They guard the perimeters, and they’re the ones you gotta get past if you want to get at her.  I hear she gives them some prize for keeping trouble off her back while she and her swarm have fun.”<br><br>“Define ‘big’ for me,” Mags said.  “What tier of goblin?”<br><br>“I have no idea what the fuck a tier is supposed to mean here,” Deedee said. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas Excerpt] from [[Poke 3]]</ref>