So this story takes place in my AU Series where Gotham is the same as it is BTAS but it inhabits an
Earth Five Thousand Years in the Future where Humans co-exist with Bio-Engineered Animals called Humanimals (None of them appear in the story, at this point in the story all Humanimals have been banished from Gotham for quite some time) and Fairies have reestablished relations with Humans
This story was the result of me taking three theme cards from the Mangaka Board Game the Three Themes I had to incorporate into the story were 'Cross-Dressing' Zombies' and 'Food and Cooking'
What happens when Animals become Zombies? Well unfortunately that's what happened to Gotham City one Halloween Night. Why did this happen? Well it all can be blamed on one person in particular, one Mr. Basil J. Crawford a newcomer to Gotham City who had a strange penchant for wearing women's frocks and cooking with exotic meats but he finally went too far when he decided to kill and cook a fairy beast, which anyone with a hint of common sense can sense killing a Beast of the Fairies is a bad idea.
So as Basil was cleaning the carcass of the Dead Fairy Beast, First the Dead Beast vanished into rainbow sparkles, then Basil dropped his knife for he no longer had hands or arms, he had been transformed into an earthworm! He was a Giant Earthworm in a frock! And that's when unearthly sounds came from the pet sematary, as dearly departed Poodles and Persians clawed their way out of their graves...This was very clearly the work of the Fae, but Basil believed he had the solution for this, for he believed he was a member of the Fae, because his Maternal Grandpa was an Elf.
(Actually Elves are Aliens from a Parasite Universe and Fairies are Nature Spirits who can't interbreed with Mortals. Elves and Fairies don't like each other so Basil was more screwed than he thought he was.)
Basil's Grandma claimed she had many things from her Elf Lover one of them was a hot sauce that could destroy the undead!
(Actually Basil's Grandma was just a lousy cook and the story was just a way of explaining why her hot sauce was so spicy no one could eat it.)
So despite having no arms Basil made do with his mouth and his tail, even though he burned his delicate, pink worm complexion multiples times, as he was mixing the sauce, Zombie Animals were rampaging all over Gotham! As Zombie Animals burst through the door and windows of his cabin, Basil feebly flung hot sauce in their faces.
The Animals were unperturbed and as a dozen claws and fangs reached for Basil Fyora the Queen of the Fairies stopped them as she materialized in the Cabin.
"Basil..." Said Fyora "...Why did you kill a Fairy Beast?"
Basil was speechless.
"And that particular Fairy Beast you killed was one of my favorites." Said Fyora
Again Basil was rendered mute
"Since transforming you into an earthworm and releasing the zombie beasts was not enough to cause you to repent..." Said the Fairy Queen "...You shall work off your debt to me by becoming one of the Fairy Beasts who pull my chariot!" She said and with that she placed a gold and jeweled collar on him and took him to the Fairy Dimension!
Through a special diet of tiny bits of fairy food mixed with mortal food she transformed Basil from an earthworm to a Fae Worm.
This story happened ten years before Bruce Wayne and most of the rogue's gallery were born.
So yeah Basil's name is combination of two Villain Names Basil Karlo the Original Clayface and Pegasus J. Crawford of Yu-Gi-Oh!
Basil will therefore make an appearance in my main series