VeeFriends Issue 02 Explained: How Fear, Intuition, and Intent Shape the Canon

Posted by Ian Lepkowsky on January 29, 2026

Before we can read or explain the story of VeeFriends Issue 02, we need to return to the webcomics. When the VeeFriends webcomics first launched, we weren’t yet in what I’d call the Canon Age of VeeFriends. We were in the Alpha Age, a period where everything functioned as speculation, hints, and open-ended possibilities.

Now that VeeFriends has entered its Canon Age, those same webcomics, later adapted into newspaper comics, are being used deliberately to weave additional canon material into the official standalone issues.

So if you haven't already done so before arriving at this article, first read How To Correctly Read VeeFriends Issue 02 In Chronological Order. Then we can start analyzing.

In VeeFriends Issue 02, we see an immediate shift from the approach of VeeFriends Issue 01. Whereas VeeFriends Issue 01 is centered around a human character in the human world, VeeFriends Issue 02 is centered around the VeeFriends characters in VeeWorld. Specifically, this story features Fearless Fairy and begins in the Honey Empire Castle which is a VeeFriends Series 2 NFT scene. It's an epic origin story for both characters and scenes.

In addition to first appearances for a wide array of known VeeFriends characters, we are also introduced to the Fairy Queen and King. For those who remember the D.J. Coffman VeeFriends webcomics, we saw early on that VeeFriends characters could have friends or family members within their character type.

However, the Fairy Queen and King are notable because they are the first "canon" representation of the VeeFriends characters having family members that are not part of the original NFT collections and art. We also find out where fairies originate in the VeeWorld. They are the fruit of the Fairy Flower which only blooms once every thousand years in the Royal Gratitude Garden.

A fearless brother and sister are born and they're off to their adventures. We see the continued use of VeeFriends Series 2 NFT Scenes with the appearances of Frowning Forest and Mystery Mountain.

If you took my advice and checked out How To Correctly Read VeeFriends Issue 02 In Chronological Order then you already know that in between pages 4 and 5, Fearless Fairy and her brother have a couple of their own adventures in the newspaper comics before the main story of VeeFriends Issue 02 continues on.

In the panel shown above, we also see the first character appearance of the Very, Very, Very, Very, Lucky Black Cat, which is the VeeFriends logo. I was surprised they didn't include the VVVVLBC in Issue 01 but it makes sense they didn't wait long.

(Transparently, I am still skeptical about this and I periodically re-read VeeFriends Issue 01, looking for hidden black cats. If you find any before I do, please let me know and I will credit you in an article!)

The way VVVVLBC appears in VeeFriends Issue 02 is also reminiscent of the early VeeFriends webcomics where VVVVLBC is frequently included as a cameo. And yes, I also noticed that It's Tough To Beat A Worm From The Dirt appears in this panel too. People who are new to VeeFriends may not catch these types of details but they are an appreciated nod to the Web3, O.G., and NFT community members.

After the newly born fairies wrap up their newspaper comic adventures, The Fairy King and Queen task them with using their intuition to find their wands. This is where we inarguably see that all fearless fairies are not created equally and I think it is a point that most readers miss. Fate, destiny, and genetics all play a role in this pivotal moment.

The Fairy Queen gives two pieces of advice. First she says that the siblings should use their intuition to find their wands. Second she says that it's a competition between them where the first fairy to return with their wand will win a treasure.

Fearless Fairy takes the first piece of advice to follow her intuition, is able to "feel" the way to their wands. However, she ignores the second piece of advice. She actually suggests cooperating to achieve their goal which would eliminate the competitive aspect.

In contrast, her green brother listens to the second piece of advice, focusing entirely on winning the competition, but doesn't comment at all on whether or not his intuition is part of his decision making process.

If you've finished reading the issue before arriving at this review (which I would wager everyone has) you already know why I am stopping here. This is a monumental moment that forever alters the course of the green brother's life and I can't help but to wonder, "Would it ever have happened this way if the Fairy Queen didn't activate the challenge that incentivized them to compete against one another instead of cooperate together? The green brother was just doing what he was told right? So is what happens next the Fairy Queen's fault? Is this a misfire of cause and effect leading to devastating and unintended consequences? Or is there more to it than that?

I say the evidence leads us to believe that the green brother's divergence is part of his own fated nature, and not a result of The Fairy Queen's directive nurture. Let's review:

Despite what the green fairy says about being motivated by competition and the idea of victory, we see immediately in the next panel that all of his proud words are baseless contradictions to his actual behaviors. We don't see the green fairy looking for the wand at all. Not even for a second. As soon as he found a snack to much on and a place to rest, he gave up, admitting that he sees searching for the wand as a waste of time.

Initially this was a strange contradiction to me and I wondered if it was a literary oversight challenged a stable and consistent depiction of this character and his inner motives. How could this character move so rapidly from being completely driven by the concepts of competition and victory to just as quickly and suddenly not caring whatsoever at all?

The answer is that the green fairy is indeed correctly characterized in this issue, but in order to understand that, we need to put the pieces together for ourself.

The difference between Fearless Fairy and her brother is not that her brother is more competitive. It is that her brother is more impulsive, short-sighted, and ego driven, despite the two being fearless siblings who were born from the same flower at the same time.

Speaking of fearless siblings, what if the green brother isn't actually fearless or isn't "as" fearless as Fearless Fairy?

We know for certain from Knowing Gnome that the green brother has an abnormal level of fearlessness given that he is not afraid of or repelled by the Fear Carrot in the way that Knowing Gnome explains he otherwise would be. But that doesn't put to rest the question of whether or not the green brother is "as" fearless as Fearless Fairy.

If we look back to the newspaper comics, we see a panel that blatantly depicts the difference in fear experience and management between Fearless Fairy and her green brother. For me, this is proof that the green brother is NOT "as" fearless as Fearless Fairy, despite him being more fearless than the average being.

Due to this difference, the green brother was irresistibly drawn to the Fear Carrot. We often say the challenge brings the change, but every challenge still needs a challenger. No meaningful story exists without conflict, and no transformation occurs without resistance. In that sense, this moment feels less like a tragic deviation and more like an inevitability. The green brother was always meant to walk a different path. Not because he was evil, but because opposition itself is part of the system. Which raises the deeper question the story quietly asks: do good and evil exist as fixed absolutes, or are they complementary forces, necessary for growth, tension, and the evolution of people and the worlds they build?

Meanwhile Far North...

Fearless Fairy is shown working alongside Curious Crane, but the comic never explains when or why this partnership formed. Curious Crane appears early in the issue, yet there is no narrative bridge connecting the two characters. I find this omission notable, especially given how much depth the newspaper comics devote to contextualizing the Icy Ice Cave, its connection to the fairies and their wands, and Prudent Polar Bear’s role in that environment. That background work exists elsewhere, so the absence here feels uneven in a way that makes me wonder whether it was an oversight or if it was intentional. Why elaborate so thoroughly on the setting while leaving the Curious Crane pairing unexplained? Either I missed something subtle, or this is a gap the story just does not fill.

After passing a vibe check from Prudent Polar Bear, Fearless Fairy retrieves both wands and heads back with Curious Crane to give the second wand to her brother. Consistent with her earlier lack of interest in competition and the spoils of victory, Fearless Fairy does not head back to the Fairy Queen to prove that she found her wand first to claim her prize. Her priority is helping and aligning with her brother. Being named Fearless Fairy doesn't stop her from being compassionate too.

After Curious Crane flies off, overwhelmed by fear, Fearless Fairy finds her brother seated on a grotesque, malevolent-looking throne made entirely of carrots. This is also where we learn more about the Fear Carrot from Knowing Gnome: “It’s disguised as a carrot, but it’s really an ancient relic that emanates fear.”

Ancient. That word stands out. What does ancient even mean in VeeWorld? Where does this moment sit on the VeeWorld timeline relative to whatever qualifies as ancient history there? My instinct is that this is a quiet reference back to the hieroglyphs we saw in VeeFriends Issue 01.

The carrots forming the throne having faces also immediately caught my attention. The Fear Carrot itself canonically has a face because it’s an ancient relic in disguise, but what about the surrounding carrots? Did the Fear Carrot imbue them with faces as well? That feels like the only logical explanation. And while it might seem like a minor visual detail, the implication is not. If the Fear Carrot can animate otherwise inanimate objects, then who knows what else it’s capable of?

Apparently, it can also induce fairy metamorphosis. As the green brother sits on the throne, his body begins to change. Most notably, he manifests a mouth.

That moment made me stop. Up until now, the fairy siblings have been speaking without any visual indication that they even have mouths. There’s no illustration suggesting one exists. So how are they communicating? Is it telepathic? Is sound magically emitted without physical anatomy? Are we not meant to question it? Or is this something the story plans to address later? I considered flagging this earlier in the article, but honestly, it feels most relevant here, at the exact moment a mouth suddenly appears.

While the transformation is underway, the green brother says, “I took over this entire farm in only a few panels.” It’s a funny line, but it’s also easy to overlook how loaded it actually is. This is a clear fourth wall break, a moment where a character acknowledges the structure of the comic itself and, by extension, the reader.

Characters like Deadpool are famous for this kind of awareness, but here it raises a much bigger question. What does it mean that the green brother knows he exists inside a comic book? When he says this, does Fearless Fairy understand what he’s implying? Is she also aware of the medium they exist within? Or does the line simply fail to register for the other characters in a way that prevents them from questioning it?

Either way, it’s not a throwaway joke. It’s another small moment that quietly expands what this universe might be capable of acknowledging.

As VeeFriends Issue 02 closes on a cliffhanger, we get the reveal: the green brother fully becomes the VeeFriends character known as Bad Intentions as his wings fall off and he becomes a bunny rabbit. For first-time readers with no prior exposure to VeeFriends, this won’t register as a twist at all. They’ll simply meet Bad Intentions for the first time and understand him as a fairy by origin.

For longtime fans, though, this moment lands very differently. Bad Intentions has existed as a VeeFriends Series 1 NFT long before this story, and his backstory has been a lingering question since day one. Seeing his origin revealed here is massive. That contrast creates an interesting split in reader experience. Right now, most readers encounter Issue 02 after knowing the character, making the reveal shocking and emotionally loaded. But over time, as new readers discover Issue 02 before encountering Bad Intentions elsewhere, this moment will quietly become an OG-gated experience.

Of course, some readers will still meet Bad Intentions first through a card, an NFT, or another activation, and for them, the reveal will land exactly as it did for early fans. Either way, Issue 02 permanently recontextualizes the character, and that alone makes this final reveal one of the most consequential moments in the series so far.

Fearless Fairy does everything she can to save her brother, thinking that if she can give him his wand it will help, but it is already too late. Marking his embarkment on a path of no return, Bad Intentions snaps the wand in half and rejects the notion that he is still a fairy.

Fearless Fairy attempts to take the Fear Carrot away from Bad Intentions, but once again she’s too late. Instead, Bad Intentions uses the Fear Carrot to tear open a hole in the ground, radiating with vibrant, unnatural green energy. It’s hard not to immediately think of the portal gun from Rick and Morty when seeing this. My read is that the Fear Carrot isn’t simply capable of making physical holes in the ground, but opening portals to other worlds, or other locations in space and time.

In the same way that Bad Intentions doesn’t seem bound by the fourth wall, it’s plausible that he also isn’t constrained by dimensionality or the conventional fabric of spacetime.

As he challenges Fearless Fairy with “Follow me, if you dare!!!,” the repeated “Ha Ha Ha Ha…” illustrations echo the chaotic taunting of The Joker from Batman. I'm skeptical that this would be a direct or intentional reference, but the overlap in tone, color energy, and theatrical menace is hard to ignore.

Whether intentional or not, the moment reinforces Bad Intentions as something more than just a corrupted fairy. He’s positioned as a destabilizing force, one that bends rules, breaks boundaries, and invites others to step beyond them at their own risk.

In the final panel, Fearless Fairy truly earns her namesake. She bravely dives headfirst into the unknown, unrelenting in her determination to save her brother, even as it becomes clear that the Fear Carrot has caused him such deep amnesia that he no longer remembers her, their bond, or the fairy he once was. In the background, we also see Curious Crane referencing the treasure Fearless Fairy won from the Fairy Queen for finding her wand first. Its reappearance here feels intentional. For me, it retroactively validates the importance of that earlier line. Even though Fearless Fairy clearly ignores the prize, with her brother’s fate far outweighing any notion of treasure, the line itself remains pivotal. Subtle as it is, it serves as the original catalyst, the small, well-meaning spark that ultimately set all of this chaos in motion.

Taken as a whole, VeeFriends Issue 02 is doing something more ambitious than simply telling an origin story. It is examining how intention, competition, fear, and compassion interact inside a system that treats traits as forces rather than labels. The tragedy of Bad Intentions is not that he falls, but that his fall emerges naturally from a structure that rewards winning over alignment and speed over intuition. Fearless Fairy’s choice to follow anyway, despite knowing the cost, reframes heroism not as victory, but as refusal to abandon connection. In that sense, Issue 02 doesn’t just expand the VeeFriends canon, it clarifies its philosophy. This is a universe where outcomes are shaped less by power than by priorities, and where the smallest incentives can echo forward into irreversible consequences. That makes this issue not only foundational, but quietly one of the most consequential chapters VeeFriends has told so far.

If what resonated here wasn’t just the review, but the way identity, intent, and character traits were treated as forces that shape reality, that same line of thinking didn’t stop with this article.

Inspired by how VeeFriends treats character traits as forces that shape reality, I created Alien Traits: a 1-of-1 NFT series interpreting each of the 251 core traits. No repeats. Each visual piece also includes a written definition of the trait it represents in OpenSea's "About" section.

It isn’t VeeFriends art. It’s a parallel conversation with the ideas underneath it.

Explore the full Alien Traits collection here: https://opensea.io/collection/alien-traits