Lord Fanny

For the English courtier and political writer Lord Hervey, nicknamed "Lord Fanny", seeJohn Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey.

Lord Fanny
The cover ofThe Invisiblesvolume 2, issue 14, illustrated byBrian Bolland
Publication information
Publisher	Vertigoimprint ofDC Comics
First appearance	The Invisibles#2(1994)
Created by	Grant Morrison(writer) Steve Yeowell(artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Hilde Morales
Team affiliations	The Invisibles
Abilities	Magical adept Psychic Shaman

Lord Fannyis a fictional character in thecomic bookseriesThe Invisibles,a series published byDC Comicsas a part of that company'sVertigoimprint.She is ashamanand atrans woman.

History

Fanny wasassigned male at birthand given the name Hilde Morales inBrazilin 1972. This angered her grandmother who was the most fearedwitchin the city and wanted her lineage continued. Since men could not become witches, Hilde's grandmother raised the child as a girl.

Hilde's mother was murdered in 1979, and shortly afterwards Hilde underwent magical initiation inTeotihuacanat which it was revealed her patron goddess wasTlazōlteōtl,deity of filth and lust.By 1990 Hilde had become a prostitute in Brazil, a career which ended when she was brutally raped at a party. She briefly contemplated suicide before joiningThe Invisibles,a group of freedom fighters who want to free mankind from oppression at the hands of extradimensional demons, at the request of one of the cell leaders,John-a-Dreams.

Similar to her meeting with the godMictlāntēcutli,during which she is granted a great deal of magical powers because she made the death-god laugh, Fanny andJack Frostdance for an entity called "Harlequinade", who gives them an artifact known as the "Hand of Glory"in exchange. During an invasion of the" Dulce facility ", she destroys Mr. Quimper, and she later banishes the demon Orlando.

In the story's future, in 2012, Fanny is shown to be obese and dissipated.

Powers and abilities

Lord Fanny has shamanic abilities that include an ability to summon "logoplasm", a "living word substance" that could accomplishmagicalfeats. These powers were not concretely defined, but rather reflect the meta-language pre-occupations of author Grant Morrison.