Editing Todd (section)

==Art & Abilities==
Theirs is a symbiotic and easily be a parasitic relationship between Goblin and temporary Other.

Any potential Barney will be in such a position that getting a goblin "best friend" for an indeterminable amount of time would only be an improvement.<ref name="pa9.2">“Ahem, my wheelhouse, I suppose,” the stout goblin replied. “Some goblins partner with humans who’ve had enough drink to tip over into being Other, at least temporarily.”<br><br>“Otherness can be temporary? Super cool,” Verona replied.<br><br>Lucy tapped Verona’s side with her elbow.<br><br>“It requires a special case. A stint of drinking that tests and pushes human limits and severs connections to all things. A goblin can hop on board to be the imaginary friend, the pilot, the remover of roadblocks. It’s an art form, a partnership meant to be, where the goblin pilot, the ''Tod'', is nothing without its Barney, the Barney a fleeting mess without its Tod, but together they spin legends.”<br><br>“The goblin’s an enabler?” Avery asked.<br><br>“My dear, by the time someone’s prepared to leave humanity behind and become a Barney, the idea of enabling as you understand it is a bridge that’s been burned and long forgotten.”<br><br>“I’d like to think there’s always a way back to health.”<br><br>“Indeed, yes. Sometimes that way back starts from rock bottom, and sobering up at the end of a Barney-and-Tod binge is a special kind of rock bottom. In another country, retracing steps from blacked out days, weeks, or months, learning you had, ahem, dates with a string of washed-up celebrities, tipped the initial domino in felling an international drug cartel, and seeded a new religion, with one or all events commemorated with brand new tattoos. [...] Toadswallow added, “Once the Barney sobers up, they don’t go back to whatever they were imbibing. The Tod must find another. Biscuit here wants to learn to become a Tod, so we’re looking.”<br><br>Biscuit was a goblin not all that much bigger than Cherrypop, and weirdly on the not-offensive-looking side of goblindom, with makeup on and clothes possibly stolen from dolls. She looked pretty hyper at the prospect. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/13 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.2]]</ref>

They have to be skilled at managing their charges, it takes roughly three weeks to get a barney really going, and tend to have one use items that can get the Berney going again if they run down.

The Todd usually relies on the Barney to fight, a human combining [[Other]]ness and [[Innocence]] is a formidable opponent.