Relationship To The Witching Cloak
In "The Last Castle," Blue's commanding officer hands him the Witching Cloak so that he can fulfill a messenger mission. At that time, the characters know only a little about the cloak's powers. In a later chapter, Blue remarks that if he had known then what he later learned about the cloak's capabilities, he could have won the entire battle single-handedly.
In the last pages of "March of the Wooden Soldiers," the readers are informed that Blue has been practicing and experimenting with the Witching Cloak for several centuries: Prince Charming requests that the cloak be brought to him and he discovers that Blue has taken it and run off. In this scene, the readers are informed that many of the powerful magical items brought to Fabletown by the fleeing refugees had been assigned to Fabletown citizens who had been deemed capable of experimenting with them and figuring out how they work in case they are ever needed for the town's defense. Charming is informed that the Witching Cloak, although technically Fabletown property, had been assigned to Boy Blue.
During "Homelands," Blue is shown as adept at using the cloak for disguise, storage, concealment and protection. At one point, he uses the fireproof cloak to tie a dragon's mouth shut so that it will explode and die. He also uses simple voice commands to either call the cloak to him from a short distance away or set it to self-destruct with all its contents.
Blue eventually dies as a result of a tiny thread of the Witching Cloak becoming lodged inside an arrow wound in his arm, preventing it from healing.
The Witching Cloak is drawn pink in "The Last Castle," but at all other times it is drawn in some shade of blue. As of "The Great Fables Crossover," no in-universe explanation has been given for this as either a genuine change in the cloak's appearance or a continuity oversight. "Boxing Days" reveals that the cloak was made from Mr. Dark's bag of nightmares, which is shown in shades of gray and brown.
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