Children
| Character | First appearance | Last appearance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molly O'Reilly | The Books of Magic #5: "The Hidden School" | Hunter: The Age of Magic #25 | A young girl with a troubled past who is nevertheless sensible, fun-loving and fearless, and is thought by some to be Tim's Other. She knows that she is in love with Tim, and sets out to make him her boyfriend. She succeeds, but the relationship hits problems very early on when she discovers that a possible future version of her Tim has spent many years abusing numerous versions of herself. Tim overhears her discussing the problem with Circe and Marya and subsequently runs away. Trying to get back to him, Molly ends up trapped in Faerie and cursed so that she can never eat human food again nor set foot on real ground: gaining Titania's sympathy, she is enchanted to float slightly above the ground and given a magic bag that will always give her Faerie food to eat. When she is reunited with Tim, he fails to notice her predicament and when Molly discovers that he has been keeping secrets from her, she breaks up with him and returns home. She makes a final attempt to talk to Tim but mistakenly meets his real Other instead, who manages to make her give up any hope of a reconciliation. She does, however, manage to release herself from her enchantment when she travels again to Faerie with Yarrow and is cured by a magic stone that makes her Faerie's guardian and protector. Following that, she attempts to regain some normality: she enrols in art college in Paris and gets a new boyfriend, meeting Tim again after her graduation and settling their differences. A The Books of Faerie story suggests that Molly was destined to become Queen of Faerie, although due to the nature of the story it is possible that this was an alternate version of the character. An alternate version of Molly also appears in the Books of Magick. |
| Daniel | Arcana: The Books of Magic Annual #1 | The Books of Magic #21: "Heavy Petting" | A Victorian era chimney sweep and urchin who escaped to Free Country, where he developed an infatuation with Marya. He is expelled from Free Country when he kills another child, and decides to track down Marya, thinking that Tim has stolen her from him. Instead, he meets his old acquaintance the Reverend Slagingham, who magically transforms him into a creature partly made of dust and soot. He attacks Tim, Molly and Marya, but is eventually convinced to stop when Marya rejects him entirely. He makes one final attempt to force her to love him, attacking Marya and Molly as they talk with Circe: the mysterious tattooist stops him easily, and transforms him into the animal his soul most resembles - a stupid, affectionate and loyal dog. |
| Marya | Arcana: The Books of Magic Annual #1 | The Books of Magic #21: "Heavy Petting" | Daughter of a servant to the Russian royal family who was chosen by "Empress Anna" (possibly Anastasia) to train as a dancer. Instead, she escaped to Free Country, where she remained until she returned to the real world to recruit Tim and didn't go back. She enrolls in a dance academy, where she becomes friends with fellow student Molly, and is overjoyed to discover that she knows Tim as well. When she meets the unicorn that has been following Tim since he freed it from the Manticore, she forms an immediate bond with it (implying that she is still a virgin) and it continues to appear with her throughout the series, protecting her from dangers such as Daniel. She repeatedly has to convince Daniel that she never had feelings for him, but once he is transformed into a dog she finds him cute and promises to take care of him. |
| Jimmy | Arcana: The Books of Magic Annual #1 | The Books of Magic #43: "King of This" | A childhood friend of Tim's who ends up living rough on the streets. He is transformed into a plastic toy by the Reverend Slagingham, and ends up on the counter of a junk shop. Tim finds him there and buys him, hoping that he can reverse the magic that has transformed him. After a later meeting with Death of the Endless at the sea-side, Tim realises that he has to let go and move on: there is no bringing Jimmy back, and he hands him over to her. Jimmy's body is later recovered from the sea. He is seen again as his mother uses the strawberry's on Mary Hunter's grave to experience her memories of Jimmy and Tim as little children. |
| Davis Duvall | The Books of Magic #53: "The New School" | The Books of Magic #73: "Chasing Barbatos" | Tim's first friend at Bardsley, who initially lets him join his persecuted gang "The Lords of Bardsley" because of a confusion over Tim admitting that he might be "half-Faerie" and then offers him protection because "anyone hate as much as has to be worth getting to know". He comes from a well-to-do family, and was shipped to Bardsley as something of an embarrassment, where he is ostracised because he is gay. |
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