Not Your Average Fairy Tail

by GhostWriterX7

Micky (as she calls herself) was a normal girl that is until something happens. She wakes up from a car accident seeing someone that she has only read about and to make things weirder she has these unusual ability's but can still be seen by everyone. Micky is one of five mortal chosen by the moon to become a Guardian, but one of them will betray the others. Will Micky be the one?

25. A tribute to Mary Katherine Joyce

A Tribute to Mary Katherine Joyce, the Girl Who Started it All.

"Of course you know the Guardians of Childhood. You've known them since before you can remember and you'll know them till your memories are like twilight."

These words begin two of William Joyce's books, The Man in the Moon and the Sandman but have you ever wondered how he got the idea for these stories? I didn't, until I got curios and this is what I found and how I found it.

I original found out about the books and about Mary Katherine thought this website. Thought authors that did not just write a simple story based on the movie but went above and beyond to add elements from the books that William Joyce wrote. One author that I was reading named Jacks sister Mary in honor of William's Joyce daughter Mary Katherine and another referenced the books so much that I did my own research and bought them from my local book store.

I all so heard, whether it was from someone on this site or not I cannot remember, that the movie was dedicated to William Joyce's daughter Mary Katherine and it is so. At the beginning of the Rise of the Guardian credits there is one screen that says "For Mary Katherine Joyce a Guardian Fierce and True."

Then just before Easter I decided to re-read the guardians of childhood books again but more specifically I was interested in the person who wrought them so after I read both of the story books and a chapter from one of the chapter books I read the About the Author section and found it very interesting that he lived with his wife and son. Wife and son that was all no reference to a daughter yet I knew that he had one, after all that is who Katherine from the books is based on. So I did some research of my own and what I found out shocked me.

William Joyce did have a daughter named Mary Katherine and it is because of her that the books and the movie got started in the first place. The story begins many years ago when Mary Katherine was just a little girl. William Joyce was working on something when he was interrupted by his daughter who had come into the room holding a bloody tooth. She had accidently knocked out her brothers tooth and was wondering if she was going to be put on Santa's naughty list because of it. So she asked,

"Daddy doses the Tooth Fairy know Santa Clause?"

And being a good father William Joyce replied,

"Yes."

And that little answer to that little girls question is what inspired William Joyce on his quest that resulted in the Guardians of Childhood. He spent year's working on the books that was latter going to be turned into the movie.

But two years before the movie came out something happened. Something that would change everything.

Mary Katherine Joyce, the girl who inspired Rise of the Guardians, passed away at the age of eighteen.

I am not exactly sure how that happened whether it was due to injury or illness but the thing was that it happened.

Mary Katherine never got to see what her father had created because of her.

These fan fictions that we read and wright would not have been written if it was not for her.

So next time you are reading one of the books, watching the movie, looking at photos online, reading or writing a fan fiction think about Mary Katherine Joyce, the girl who started it all.