Fairy

Fairies, as Humans call them, are a humanoid species native to Earth. Fairies are not alien life-forms, but have lived alongside Humanity since the dawn of time, though Jack Harkness insists that they are dangerous. Their exact nature is unclear, although Jack describes them as part myth, part spirit world and part reality jumbled together, mixed with "old moments and emotions", all moving backwards and forwards through time and seen only out of the corner of one's eye. They are approximately 2 metres tall, winged, with faces like a gremlin's.

Fairies and children are linked, and Jack says that fairies were once children, taken from various time periods stretching millennia into the past. They pick out children to be their Chosen One and will protect them at all costs.

Fairies are seen in two forms: one a small, glowing humanoid form with butterfly-like wings and the other a much larger, more monstrous form. They are also undetectable by technology, and can appear and disappear at will. They also have control of the elements, able to create sudden gales or rainstorms and direct them with pinpoint accuracy. It is also implied they could freeze the world over. A common method of killing their victims is to "steal their breath", asphyxiating them by clogging their throats with rose petals. Their ability to move back and forth in time is demonstrated by the appearance of Jasmine Pierce, a Chosen One taken in 2007, in fairy form in a 1917 photograph. (TW: Small Worlds)


 * The Fairies may be related to the Immortals, advanced Humans with a variety of 'mystical" powers. Jack speculates that fairies may be "part Mara", though it is unknown if he is referring to the Mara of Snakedance and Kinda or the creature from Scandinavian folklore.