Taffy
19 years ago - Taffy is born. She is adopted as a pet for Amy Winston.
17 years ago - 2-year-old Taffy follows Amy Winston into Gemworld. She meets Citrina, who grants her a luck charm and tasks her to track and protect Amy when she is taken by Wrynn. Taffy fights and defeats the alpha of a pack of Deathhounds, leading them to save Amy. She remains in Gemworld, the magic of her pack keeping her young.
If you hadn't read Amethyst and we were describing it to you, I think the one part of the story where you might start to think I'm trying to trick you is right here, when we get to the few moments when Amy's completely normal earth dog manages to somehow have the fate of the entire world on her adorably fluffy shoulders. (Do dogs have shoulders?)
Taffy's StorySo, to set the scene; Dark Opal's evil ward Carelian has kidnapped Amethyst, and forced Citrina to cast a spell that will prevent anyone in the castle from following. In that moment, Amy's dog Taffy, who was following her through the portal from earth but was temporarily trapped in the space between, arrives. Citrina grants her a luck charm and sends her to save Amy. What follows is perhaps one of my favorite dog-adventures in comics as Taffy literally quests across Gemworld, getting into legitimate life-threatening battles with the monsterous creatures there, before she is able to get to Amy and save her. It is very silly, but it's also wonderful. This actually isn't the only time this happened, with Taffy appearing to suddenly save our hero a few more times in the longer series.
There really is something adorable about the role Taffy plays in Amy's story, and we do think that a proper adaptation of her story does have to include her dog. Since our version of Amethyst is going to be much more Gemworld-focused and not be so consistently transitioning back and forth between worlds, that means Taffy is just going to have to come to Gemworld with her from the beginning. The magic she encounters can be responsible for giving her a much longer life, so she even gets to meet Amy's daughter Amaya. |