Alphonse is a talking mule. He was given to Ricard by his father, the Miller, as inheritance.
Featured Episodes[]
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Neverafter
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Appearance[]
Despite repeatedly getting mis-specied, Alphonse is not a donkey, but a mule. He is a perpetual coward.
Background[]
Alphonse lived at the mill with the Miller, his three sons, and Puss in Boots until the Miller's death. The belongings were split among the three sons, and Alphonse was gifted to Ricard, the second son. At some point during the fall of Marienne, Ricard died and Alphonse fled the kingdom.
History[]
No Place For a Prince or Princess[]
Alphonse and Pib encounter each other again in Elegy, where Alphonse had been playing dead for several days hiding from the Fairy Godmother. PiB offers to help him escape, instructing him to wait while he distracts the Fairy Godmother. When PiB doesn't return, Alphonse makes a break for the Blackwood Forest, distracting the Fairy Godmother enough to give Gerard advantage on his attempt to remove the glass spear from her chest.
The Lines Between[]
After at some point after fleeing the fight, Alphonse finds himself in the Land of Birds and Beasts which is the realm of the storyteller Aesop and his fables. Aesop takes him, as well as a lion and a mouse, to the Lines Between to help the other storytellers, Mother Timothy Goose and Scheherazade. To his misfortune, he meets PiB again, and pretends not to know him. The two wandered away from the group and enter the Tower of Tales, where Alphonse shares his knowledge of the merging worlds and his adventures between episodes with PiB. Soon Alphonse noticed others approaching, and immediately runs away again, ditching the cat.
Daughters of the Crown[]
On their journey into the Land of Giants, PiB happens to spot a mule wearing a mustache into the fields below. This mule turns out to be Alphonse, him explaining to the cat he was trying to lay low, and just live a life with his head down.
In the Land of Giants[]
By the time the group meet Alphonse again, he has been captured by the tiny humans inhabiting the Land of Giants, and used as a battle mule, strapped with knives and spears. After attacking Destiny's Children on the tiny humans' orders, he attempts to roll his rider off. However, he fails twice, alerting the other tiny humans of his betrayal and causing them to attack him. As they crowd around him, Pinocchio orders Cricket to launch a firework at the group, including Alphonse. Everyone around Alphonse immediately dies, but Alphonse is saved my Pinocchio's magic. Seemingly due to the act of a cricket hitting him with a firework, Alphonse is transformed into a human prince, revealing he was cursed to live as a mule. After he flees from battle, as payment for reversing his curse Alphonse sends the Golden Goose to Destiny's Children with their loved ones, Henry Hubbard, Tomas, and his two brothers, who were all captured by the people of the Land of the Giants. Alphonse had lied earlier when he said he didn't know where they were being kept.
Trivia[]
- Alphonse is not Donkey from Shrek.
- His minis sold during the Dimension 20 Neverafter Auction for $826 ("Alphonse") and $1,552 ("Wartime Alphonse").