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Willa Fraggle

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Willa is the first Fraggle I've devised a back story for. She wandered in from the Barrens one day with no memory of where she was from or who she was. When Wembly asked her name, she started to say, "Well, I... don't know," and he thought she had said it was "Willa."

Willa is the only Fraggle who can't sing and even with Gobo trying to teach her to play a guitar has trouble picking up the knack. On the next occasion that Cantus visited the Great Hall, the otherwise unflappable guru is driven to exasperation by Willa. "Everyone has a song! Except *you* dammit!" He has no idea why.

The only clue to her identify and why she cannot sing or play is revealed when Gobo and Wembly take Willa to see the Trash Heap. Madame T.H. is immediately fascinated, and makes an unprecidented request -- climb up on the trash so Madame can get a better look. Then, "Open wide. Wider. Okay, that's wide enough. Hmmm...." She peers down Willa's throat. "There's somebody in there, alright, but I can't quite see who." When asked to sing, Willa tries, but the noise is so flat and off key that Madame Trash Heap shudders and Willa falls over backward, down the slope of leaves and garbage, to land at the other Fraggle's feet, where she begins to weep. The Trash Heaps reaction is the ultimate rejection.

But Madame Trash Heap manages to get this much out of Willa: the last thing she remembers is a shiny surface, then light all around and there she was, alone in the Barrens. Everything from the cave around her to her biluvious is strange, and all she can do is wander until she is discovered. But the Trash Heap believes that Willa had walked through the a waterfall called the Door of Forgetfulness. If that's so, she will never remember who or what she was on the other side, or where she came from. As for singing... no doubt she wasn't able to sing on the other side either, but that's as much as Madame Trash Heap can say.
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