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Geppetto
Legacy Name: Geppetto

The Nostalgic Paralix
Owner: Historiography

Age: 12 years, 7 months, 4 weeks

Born: August 24th, 2011

Adopted: 12 years, 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: December 5th, 2011

Pet Spotlight Winner
September 10th, 2014

Statistics

• Level: 1
   
• Strength: 10
   
• Defense: 10
   
• Speed: 10
   
• Health: 10
   
• HP: 10/10
   
• Intelligence: 0
   
• Books Read: 0
• Food Eaten: 0
• Job: Unemployed

Hans Geppetto, or Geppetto as he was usually called by those he knew him had been a lonely boy, a boy without a family. He had grown up in an orphanage, abandoned at the doorstep, with nary a note or scrap to his name. He never knew who his parents were, never quite cared enough to figure it out and in those days tracking down anyone who did not wish to be found was a near impossible task.

At 14 he was adopted to a toymaker, a jovial old man, who sold wooden toys and marionettes in his small shop. Geppetto used to sit beside him at night and watch the man carve, marveling at the dexterity in the aged arthritic fingers as they chipped away at the block of wood to make fantastical creations. In those wrinkled hands, the blocks of wood became dragons, gnomes, elves, fairies, anything he wished them to be, and it was at this old man’s tutelage that he learned the art of wood carving.

At first his young fingers were clumsy, and unsure, and most of the time the nicks were on himself rather than the wood. However, after many years of practice his skill at wood carving eventually rivaled that of the old man's and when, his father's fingers could no longer carve with as much dexterity as they once had, Geppeto began carving the toys for the shop full time.

Many years passed, and Geppetto, now an adult, took over the shop, his adoptive father having passed away in his sleep. He continued the tradition, carving toys and marionettes for the kids of the small village where he lived, but still, he never married, never had any children of his own and eventually he became lonely. He wished to have someone to accompany him in his old age and late one night, after a particularly fitful dream, he started carving away at his grandest creation yet. The creation was a young boy, a wooden marionette boy that could accompany him and yet never grow old, a forever child of his own.

However, wood cannot talk, cannot breathe, cannot laugh, cannot do any of the things a human child can. And while, Geppeto was more than satisfied with his creation he was sad that the child he had created to accompany him in his old life would never be able to return his affections. It was late one night, when he was feeling particularly lonely, and after a good amount of drink that he saw a shooting star, and having heard about the power of a shooting star wish, he made one small tiny, nigh impossible wish. He wished that the boy he created would come alive. He was astonished in the morning when he woke to discover that his wish had come true, and so as the saying goes, they lived happily ever after.

Overlay by MalevolentMask

workshop background artwork by artist Claude Coats

Lyrics: "I've got no strings to hold me down" from Disney Pinocchio song "I've Got No Strings to Hold Me Down" with lyrics by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington

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