| “ | I just feel so stupid! I had it all figured out--the train, Idyll, everything I knew exactly where to find Burner. All planned and documented and cross-referenced. I got it all right, but I was completely wrong. | „ |
| ~ Hillary Page to Gary, Jack of Fables #19 — "On the Road: Part Three of Americana" |
Hillary Page is a human Literal who first appears in a brief flashback in Jack of Fables #2 — "Jack in the Box." She works as a Senior Librarian at the Golden Boughs Retirement Village, and is the daughter of Mister Revise and Prose Page, and the half-sister of Priscilla and Robin Page. It is later revealed that she and her sisters are also the half-sisters of Jack Horner.
History
Early life
Hillary is the only child of Mister Revise and his late wife, Prose Page, making her the granddaughter of Kevin Thorn, the niece of Bookburner, the grandniece of Writer's Block, and the great-granddaughter of Gary. For some reason, Revise never told her she was his daughter, nor did he tell her older sisters Robin and Priscilla that they were Bookburner's children. At some point, after finding his love letters, Hillary came to the belief that Bookburner was her father.
From day one, Hillary's always had her nose in a book since childhood. Since she was the youngest, she was sometimes used in her sisters' childish pranks. Hillary had a secret dream, a taboo among Literals, to be a Fable. With her nose in a book, she was a born librarian and took the job with pride.[14]
She'd stalk Fables tirelessly through books, magazines and newspapers, believing that if she couldn't be a Fable herself, at least she could surround herself with them. At one point, she begged Alice, a prisoner at the Golden Boughs, to recite one of her lines from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, "Curiouser and curiouser."[14]
Americana
Most likely to find her father, she blackmails Paul Bunyan into coming with her into Americana, under the condition he brings Babe.[2] Hillary spends some time traveling with Jack after his escape from Golden Boughs. She does meet the Bookburner hoping he's her father, but he coldly and cruelly points out that he's not her father. This makes her realize that her real father must be Mr. Revise.[15]
During their travels through Americana, Hillary gives in to her feeling for Jack and initiates a sexual encounter,[16] foolishly believing she could fall in love with a Fable.[14] However, she angrily discovers that he had slept with her sisters and tries to kill him. She tries leaving with Humpty Dumpty with a treasure they found, only to be captured and forced to help Bookburner.[16]
End of the Golden Boughs
Eventually she escapes Bookburner and is able to take a wounded Robin back to Golden Boughs, where she recovers. She also assists during the great battle with the Bookburner, eventually the Mr. Revise and the Fables flee when the volcano erupts and most likely kills the Bookburner.
Hillary Page finding herself at the center of the conflict to stop Kevin Thorn
As they head for Dino Diner, Hillary and her sisters would receive even more shocking news, that Prose had mothered Jack from an affair she had with Prince Charming, making him their older half-brother. They were horrified to realize that they'd committed incest. Hillary was disgusted and shocked beyond words. More importantly she was embarrassed once Jack, stupidly mentioned it to Snow and Bigby. But there was no time to mope or feel humiliation. Kevin Thorn was creating havoc, and he had to be stopped.
Hillary and her sisters were a big hand in the Great Fables Crossover as they provided weapons and defense as they headed to stop Kevin. After a long battle, they sent Kevin Thorn into his new universe. Hillary chose to stay behind with her sisters, rather than go with her father. There, she also got to meet her nephew, Jack Frost. Whether to prevent him from seeing Jack or hoping he won't end up like his father, Hillary and Priscilla appear to have motherly attitudes toward him to him, while Robin seemed to be following along out of reluctance.
Life in the mundy
Over the years, living as normal "mundys", Hillary would become an aunt again: Robin would have a son named Sammy Junior as a result of a one night-stand with Sam. The sisters eventually get tired of life as mere mortals doomed to grow old and die, and start searching for Revise's books of original, unrevised Fable stories, knowing that the original books will make them immortal once more.
Death
The search bring the sisters to a dragon, who is in fact a transformed Jack Horner; Jack had stolen the books when the Golden Boughs were destroyed.
Hillary's death
The sisters arrive at the same times as several former Golden Boughs prisoners, who were on a quest of their own, searching for Fabletown. The sisters go after the books while shooting at the dragon, which makes the dragon burn the books — he is tired of them anyway. The sisters, upset at the loss of the books, start shooting everyone around them. They are so enraged they apparently don't realize their own nephew, Jack Frost, has returned to fight and kill his own father unknowingly. Some of the Fables retaliate, and Hillary is shot to death by the Tin Woodman's raygun.[3]
Physical appearance
| “ | Note ye the mannish hair, the concupiscent attire, and the spectacles of a material unknown to men! | „ |
| ~ An accuser in the Colonies of Americana, where Hillary is charged with being a witch, in Jack of Fables #19 — "On the Road: Part Three of Americana" |
Hillary is a beautiful young woman with fair skin, blue eyes and short blond hair. She has a nose stud piercing in her left nostril, and dons a distinctive pair of glasses featuring a black and white checkered design on the frame, complemented by pink-tinted lenses;[6] these were a present from[14] her father,[9] Mister Revise.[14] She is described as the spitting image of her mother, Prose Page.[17]
Personality and traits
Hillary has inherited[14] her mother Prose's[4] love of books, and doesn't stray too far from[14] her mother's[4] ideals as she secretly dreams of being a Fable.[14] Mister Revise states that Hillary has got too much of her mother in her, and is the spitting image of her mother, in every way.[17]
References
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 In Jack of Fables #26 — "Turning Pages, Chapter Two: Priscilla," Eliza Wall, who is the sister of the Wall brothers, refers to Priscilla Page as her niece. However, Hillary Page is only Priscilla's half-sister, and may only be Eliza's cousin, as opposed to her niece — in Jack of Fables #25 — "Turning Pages, Chapter 1: Robin," Eliza refers to all three Page sisters as her "cousins."