Elaine and Fred

Elaine and Fred (or “Five of Red”) from Namesake [link] A girl who can change the universe with her writing and a boy who was a card soldier in a deck from Wonderland. Both meet because of Namesakes, aka people who can travel to other worlds.

I love Elaine and Fred. Easily my favorite characters. I could honestly do a whole comic series with just these two and their crazy adventures.

Fred came to exist due to my obsession with the Wonderland card soldiers. While other Wonderland fans tended to focus on characters like that Hatter, I was just fascinated with the soldiers. Like, hold the phone, awesome soldiers made of paper? Why doesn’t anyone do anything about that?

Cards soldiers have either appeared as silent killing machines or comic reliefs in the media. Seemed cool to have one with a personality.