The Gander is a powerful being with the ability to grant wishes, but they usually involve a dark twist. He granted Mother Timothy Goose his magical book, and killed Timothy's son, Jack, after Jack used his third wish.
Featured Episodes[]
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Neverafter
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Description[]
The Gander is a massive fifteen foot tall goose with dark black feathers, a craning, dinosaur-like head on a long neck, and sickly yellow eyes. He wears a blood red bonnet that he put on himself.
Background[]
At some point, Jack Hubbard-Goose acquired a goose egg, which he claimed to have found, and shortly after acquired a large amount of money, which his two dads assumed he had gotten from selling powders, tinctures, or elixirs.
Later, Timothy Goose came home one day clutching a small pile of bones, preclaiming "This is Jack." He told Henry that he had seen Jack die after Jack told the Gander "I need my third wish," whereupon the goose laughed and rapidly decomposed Jack into the pile of bones. The goose then asked Timothy "do you wish to know what just happened?." When Timothy agreed, he got stuck in the same cycle that Jack was in. For his second wish, he said "I wish for something to bring my son back," and was then gifted his book.
The Gander now follows Timothy around, waiting for his third wish, while Timothy is still trying to retrieve Jack with the book.
Relationships[]
Jack Hubbard-Goose[]
At some point, Jack acquired a goose egg, which he claimed to have found, and shortly after acquired a large amount of money, which the two husbands assumed he had gotten from selling powders, tinctures, or elixirs, but instead was presumably a wish he had made of the Gander.
One day, Timothy came home, clutching a small pile of bones and proclaiming "This is Jack." He told Henry that he had seen Jack die after Jack told the Gander "I need my third wish," whereupon the goose laughed and rapidly decomposed Jack into the pile of bones.
The Golden Goose[]
The Gander despises the Golden Goose, despite being her brother. They are not supposed to exist in the same realm, and the Gander wants to have as much influence on all of the realms as possible. When the Golden Goose had wished for Mother Timothy Goose's book in place of Timothy, the Golden Goose lost her life to the Gander.
The Gander arrives just a Timothy is releasing his spell in the Canonade to give the story characters their autonomy from the Authors. As he begins to angrily threaten Timothy, a quill pierces his heart; a quill thrown by the Golden Goose. She then asks him, "Brother, if you were able to choose what you wished to be, what would you choose?" At that point, for the first time, the Gander realizes that things don't have to be as dark and corrupting as they had been.
Mother Timothy Goose[]
Timothy came home one day clutching a small pile of bones, preclaiming "This is Jack." He told Henry that he had seen Jack die after Jack told a goose "I need my third wish," whereupon the goose laughed and rapidly decomposed Jack into the pile of bones. The goose then asked Timothy "do you wish to know what just happened?." When Timothy agreed, he got stuck in the same cycle that Jack was in. For his second wish, he said "I wish for something to bring my son back," and was then gifted his book, in which any words that are meaningless are absorbed, while others stay. He is currently doing his best to use this book to find and rescue Jack, but in the meantime, the Gander is still following him, waiting for him to make his final wish.
Trivia[]
- His (combined with Mother Timothy Goose) mini was sold as part of the Dimension 20 Neverafter Auction for $3504.69 ("Mother Timothy Goose x Gander").