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This article is about Peri in A New Wish. For information on him in the original series, see Poof.
| “ | Miserable? | ” |
| — Peri, introducing himself to Dev Dimmadome | ||
Periwinkle "Peri" Fairywinkle-Cosma (born Poof) is the tetartagonist of The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish alongside his parents Cosmo and Wanda as part of the main cast. Unlike his parents, Peri presents a smooth, charismatic personality. He is also, at times, neurotic and impatient with spoiled wishes. Peri is voiced by Eric Bauza in A New Wish.
Peri made his grand return in A New Wish, after being absent in most of the original series' last episodes, along with "Beast of Friends" and Fairly Odder, starting in the episode "Lost and Founder's Day". He is now an adult, going by the name "Peri", and served the role of Dev Dimmadome's godparent.
Character[]
Poof, in the original show, is the adorable baby son of Cosmo and Wanda, and the fairy godbrother of Timmy and Chloe. He was introduced in the episode "Fairly Odd Baby", being wished up by Timmy when Cosmo and Wanda were desperate for a child of their own.
In The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, he tells Dev Dimmadome that he now goes by the name "Peri." As an adult, Peri generally displays a cool, confident, charismatic kind of personality. As he gets to know Dev and is subject to his overbearing and spoiled demeanor, a more anxious, neurotic side of Peri starts to show. He is also shown to be somewhat embarrassed by his parents' overtly affectionate behavior towards him and, though he loves them back the same, he clearly wants to be independent from them.
Description[]
Baby Poof has one dark purple hair tress and purple eyes. He wears a light purple shirt with a black "X", and white slippers. He was the only fairy baby in existence at the time, and still remains as the youngest known fairy.
In The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, Peri has periwinkle hair matching his new name, and a hairstyle that combines those of his parents', being a shaggier version of Wanda’s signature hair swirl. He now wears suspenders and has a new wand that doubles as a cane. It has a round cover over its star-shaped head that makes it somewhat resemble his rattle "wand" from the original show.
Personality[]
He initially seems to have a rather smooth and charming personality, but as he becomes more familiar with Dev's spoiled and demanding personality, he develops more of a neurotic and slightly sarcastic behavior. He keeps trying to influence Dev into being a better kid, but his advice often falls on deaf ears. It's also shown that he wants to be independent from his parents and that he's sometimes annoyed by their clingy and oblivious behavior, but he nonetheless still loves them. Despite his flaws and issues with being a godparent (no doubt due to his inexperience, as Dev was the first godkid he ever godparented for on his own and, in Wanda's words, Dev was a doozy of a child for someone's first job), he genuinely wanted to do a good job at it, partly to make his parents proud and partly because, in spite of their rocky relationship, he genuinely loved and cared for Dev and wanted to do right by him. He also appears to be a bit more down-to-earth and logical than his parents, sometimes even Wanda.
As a baby (Poof), he was depicted as sweet, kind and childish, so he’s still very positive in what to expect out of people (although there are exceptions). Since he was only a baby and typically could only say his name, yet other characters were easily charmed by him, even Vicky's cold heart was momentarily melted by him in "Wishology." Only Foop seems to be aware that Poof is just repeating his name when they competed against each other for Class President at Spellementary School, and Poof's "speech" consisted of him doing just that, yet he was able to win over his classmates easily. This same incident also occurred in "Love Triangle" when Poof was able to out-act Foop for the role of Mr. Cookie in the school play, by once again simply repeating his name. This is also seen in "Timmy's Secret Wish" when he could get Timmy a retrial when Foop could not. In "School of Crock," Poof starts speaking fully for the first time after trying to throughout the episode. Before this, he could say one or two words at a time. Poof loves impersonating celebrities, some include Elvis, Trump, and the Terminator.
Powers[]
Like all fairies, Peri has access to reality-bending magic. He now wields a cane-like wand similar to the rattle-like wand he once had that now can grant normal wishes like his parents can.
Due to his youth, and presumably, lack of training, Peri's magic was initially uncontrollable, which is why he was sought to be captured by Anti-Cosmo and Head Pixie when he was first born. Also, Peri used to have more than magical abilities, such as when he cried bad things happen, when he laughed good things happen, hiccups lead to natural disasters, burping leads to lightning and breaking the wind resets reality, similar to exaggerated time control. While as Poof's anti-fairy opposite Foop's "abilities" haven't been fully shown with the exception of good phenomena happening when crying and hiccups lead to nothing.
Background[]
Early Life[]
Poof's birth.
Peri was first born in the special, "Fairly Odd Baby" when Timmy Turner wished that his godparents would have a child together (since they really want to have a baby because they were paying attention to babies more than Timmy when he was doing one of his wishes). After a few months, he was finally born. In the beginning, his most notable spoken word is "Poof", which Timmy decides upon as his name. Other magic races like the Pixies and Anti-Fairies sought to capture Peri to harness his uncontrolled magic for their own nefarious deeds. The first season that Peri appeared, he was mostly like a baby: dependent, relying on Cosmo, Wanda, and Timmy for everything; and crying all the time (because he was in Cosmo's baby bump). Later on, Poof's magical abilities have improved to the point where he can grant wishes, sometimes even if Timmy doesn't really want them granted. Poof got himself in a myriad of adventures this time, including catching the Chicken Poofs and turning everyone in Dimmsdale into chickens, taking a trip to Yugopotamia, and helping Timmy Turner and his team the Dimmsdale Victims win their way to the soccer championship.
- Main article: Spellementary School (location)
Near the end of Season 7, Poof began to attend Spellementary School, a pre-school for magical species where they learn how to control their magic powers. Poof's teacher is a friendly fairy woman named Mrs. Powers, and all of Poof's classmates adore him with the exception of Foop, who’s also attending and constantly competing with Poof for attention and popularity.
Hitting Puberty[]
- Main article: Growing Pains
As a teenager, Poof started to go through Pasta Puberty, an experience where older fairies start to feel change in their body, like Pesctopits, Anipasto Acne, and Mozzarella Mood Swings. In the episode "Growing Pains", he is seen watching the news and exclaims he did not miss going through Pasta Puberty.
Family[]
Peri's father and mother is Cosmo and Wanda, and his godbrother and godsister is Timmy Turner and Chloe Carmichael. Growing up, he had a close relationship with all of them and made temporary wishes for Timmy and Chloe when Cosmo and Wanda were not available. In A New Wish, his parents went on a 10,000 year vacation, leaving him to grow on his own. He changed his name to Peri and ran into his parents again once he got a godkid.
Similarities to His Parents[]
Similarities to Cosmo[]
Appearance[]
He shares more of his appearance with Cosmo than with Wanda as he grew older. He has Cosmo's eyebrows and has similar clothes only he wears dark purple suspenders. Cosmo's spike in his hair is shared with his son yet combined with Wanda's hairstyle. They are both male and Peri has half of the eye color of Cosmo. (Cosmo's is green, which is made of blue and yellow, and Peri has the blue part)
Personality[]
Peri has a similar personality and voice to Cosmo from the pilot.
Similarities to Wanda[]
Appearance[]
The only similarities appearance-wise is that he shares Wanda's hair swirl combined with Cosmo's spike in his hair. He has half of the eye color of Wanda. (Wanda's is pink, which is made of red and white , and Peri has the red part.
Personality[]
He shares most of Wanda's intelligence and will similarly stop others from making bad decisions.
Relationships[]
Peri and His Parents[]
Peri reunites with his parents.
In "Battle of the Dimmsonian", after about 10,000 years of being apart, Peri bumps into his parents at the Dimmsonian Museum, who are shocked that he has a godkid. Peri is shown multiple times to be somewhat embarrassed by his parents' overtly affectionate behavior towards him and wants to be independent from them, even though he still loves them. Cosmo and Wanda cared and stood by Peri's side when he got Magical Build-up.
Peri and Dev[]
Peri and his new fairy godkid.
When Peri first met Dev, he introduced himself and promised him he could take him from "Dev" to "Dev-vine", but their relationship takes a turn as Peri easily grew neurotic around Dev, who always wanted to be perfect. Peri finally has had it with Dev after he kept wishing to break Da Rules and decided to call it quits with him. Dev ends up finding a new godparent after Peri's anti-fairy, Foop, who had changed his name to Irep, confronts him. Secretly spying on them, Peri revealed he never gave "two-weeks notice" and that Dev was still his godkid. In "The Battle of Big Wand", after Dev abandons Peri for Irep, Peri has Magical Build-up, and almost dies. Dev, seeing this, told Peri he was always holding him back from what he wanted, and Peri told him he genuinely loved and cared for Dev and wanted to do right by him. After Hazel Wells powers the The Big Wand in Fairy World and restores all magic, Peri unfortunately loses Dev as his godkid and joins Hazel, her friends, and his parents.
Peri and Irep[]
Peri confronts Dev and Irep.
Poof changed his name to Peri, thus forcing Foop to change his name to "Irep", much to his disliking. In the episode "Best of Luck", after Peri calls it quits with Dev Dimmadome, Irep took his job as Dev's anti-fairy godparent. Peri, along with Jorgen Von Strangle, confront Irep and Dev. Peri reveals he quit, but never gave "two-weeks notice". Peri is seen enlightened when Irep is launched back to Anti-Fairy World.
Peri and Hazel[]
Although the only interacted briefly once in "Lost in Fairy World", the two have a good relationship. They first meet in "Battle of the Dimmsonian" after Dev releases Viozalia. In the following episodes, the two barely interact due to Hazel usually hanging out with Dev until they’re falling out in "Operation Birthday Takeback". However, Peri and Hazel still care for each other.
When Peri sees Hazel suffering Pasta Puberty in “Growing Pains”, Peri shows sympathy for her due to the terrible experience he had undergoing the same thing as a teenager. In "The Battle of Big Wand", Hazel shows extreme worry for Peri after Dev and Irep take over Fairy World. She ends up both horrified and disgusted upon seeing Peri suffer from Magical Build-up and is relieved to see him recovered once Fairy World is returned to normal.
Despite their limited interactions, the two are on very good terms.
Trivia[]
- Poof was born on February 18, 2008 (according to a picture of his birth certificate from a promo of the episode Fairly Odd Baby.)
- Poof is still a baby, but his real-life age would be 16. This could be due to the characters not aging at all, which keeps Poof at his current age.
- The co-creator of A New Wish and voice of Hazel Wells, Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, stated on a post through her X account that the reason Poof's name was changed to Peri is because the word "poof" is a derogatory slur for gay men in the UK and many countries and can’t be used. [1]
Poof's birth certificate from a promo of the episode Fairly Odd Baby on February 18, 2008.
- "Peri" is Indonesian for fairy
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See also[]
- Cosma/Fairywinkle family
- Fairly Odd Baby - Poof's birth
- Spellementary School - Poof's first day at school
- School of Crock - Poof's first words
- Lost and Founder's Day - Poof changes his name and gets his first very godchild
- Battle of the Dimmsonian - Peri reunites with his parents
- Best of Luck - Peri quits as a fairy godparent temporarily
- The Battle of Big Wand — Peri almost dies from Magical Back-up, and loses Dev as a godkid forever
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