When I started this project, I did not plan to do icons for all the many tiny factions in Forever Knight fandom. Indeed, even as things progressed and the number of icons grew, there still were factions that I intended to omit. They were too small, too little known, or too similar to other affiliations.

For example, the Caddy-Whackers are better known than the NickKnack CaddyWhacks; and the Woof Pack are more inclusive than the PerryHounds. I have, by now, though, done so many icons for so many factions that it seems wrong to leave them out. Indeed, the third icon here, is for a subfaction so minor that even its creator said not to bother!

Nevertheless, in the spirit of completism....



NickKnack CaddyWhacks:

It is very appropriate, when so much happy factioneering of prop-based factions is currently occupying people on list, that I should post an icon for the NickKnack CaddyWhacks. A sort of metamorphotic broadening of the old CaddyWhackers, they take all the props as their purview: even Nick's blinds and remotes are mentioned on the homepage of their website.

It is, though, primarily a CaddyWhack site—as, indeed, the name of the faction suggests. So one thing that had to be included was the Caddy. I used a different screen capture; and, so that the broad scope of the faction could be foregrounded, set it at a distance.

After that, I had to pick and choose. There are so many intriguing and distinctive things that one associates with Forever Knight, some particular to one or another of the characters, others peculiar to individual episodes. The selection was, however, made a little easier by my decision to challenge my fellow fans to make more prop factions, with the encouragement of a couple of icons, ready-made and waiting only for their logos.

To illustrate the "KnickKnack" side of the faction, therefore, I turned to props that, while instantly familiar, would (at least in my opinion) be less likely to inspire factioneering. From these, I picked two of my own favourites, the jade cup from "Dark Knight" and the papier-maché caterpillar from "Curiouser and Curiouser", and added a Raven coaster.

You know, strange though it may seem, the most time-consuming part of making this icon was, I think, selecting colours for the logo. Each prop was so different that there was no obvious palette from which to choose. In truth, the icon is really rather gaudy!




PerryHounds:

Since I'd already made a Woof Pack icon for fans of both dogs from "Blind Faith", I had not intended to do one for the more narrowly focused PerryHounds. However, it was not hard to do. I simply had to find another screen capture, tweak the food bowl a little, and make a logo. As there was a little more space to fill, I added a leash—again, slightly tweaked, particularly to get the colours to blend nicely.






Tracy Sue's Whiffle-Bat-of-Doom Legion from Heck:

Or, more correctly (at least as far as spelling is concerned), Tracy Sue's Wiffle-Bat-of-Doom Legion of Heck. No, I'd never heard of a "wiffle bat", either. However, it is apparently some variant of baseball. Tracy Sue herself seems mostly to have spelled the name with an extra "h", but not with complete consistency; so I've made the icon with both spellings.

I came upon this faction in the small print on the old Knights of the Cross website; but, at first, when I asked about it on list, no one could remember it. Noticing that there was someone named Tracy Sue around, though, I e-mailed her. She dimly remembered that, in days of yore when she was the Vaquera leader, she had a running joke—mostly on the Nunkies Anonymous group—where she led a sort of Vaq commando squad. The wiffle bat, however, was carried regularly for bashing purposes during War.

She did not think it worth an icon.

At first I agreed, with alacrity. However, as time wore on (and the collection of icons grew), I had a rethink. Should I not give even so tiny a faction its own icon? Granted, there are still those without; but they're ones that no one can remember well enough to identify at all.

So here it is, against a backdrop of Vachon's church (largely overwritten by the humongously long logo), and complete with wiffle-bat wielder.

This was taken off the web, being a suitably anonymous back-view. However, a query to Tracy Sue elicited the information that her hair is straight, shoulder length, and brown. So I scoured the screen caps for a suitable hairpiece. In vain: it's remarkable how few guest stars have shortish, brownish, straightish hair. And, of course, it is rare for people to be filmed from behind (and even rarer for NAT to bother screen-capping them that way). In the end, I used a strip of hair off a blonde. This was carefully darkened with Microsoft Picture Manager, and then clipped to fit over the head of the wiffle-bat wielder.

Fortuitously, the colour turned out to be fairly similar to Tracy Sue's!

You will be intrigued to learn that, with perverse appropriateness, the hair actually came originally from another Tracy: Tracy Vetter.