Help with story.

[daibhidc]

I'm working on a story, and I need help.

Does anyone out there know of a fictional mouse, rat or other small creature with invisibility? I'd prefer the animal (not necessarily the fiction) to date from the 19th century, but I can fudge that if I have to.

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[artela.livejournal.com]

Jerry in "The Invisible Mouse"? (1947)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

That's a possibility, but Jerry's done too much else; I'm really looking for a rodent who has invisibility as his main schtick.

(I should probably go into more detail about what I'm doing: I've come up with the completely insane idea of an animal version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and I need a Hawley Griffen character.)

[pedanther]

That implies, intriguingly, that you've already found analogues for the other characters.

To address your question: The only thing that's come to mind so far is the protagonist of Diane Redfield Massie's Chameleon Was A Spy, which isn't much good; it's 1970s, he's probably too large to be hanging out with mice (although he's quite small for a chameleon), and the cartoon chameleon ability isn't technically invisibility even if it is functionally equivalent in some circumstances.

[pedanther]

Or (he said, demonstrating once again that you always get a better idea the moment you hit Send) there's an invisible mouse in John Masefield's The Midnight Folk, consequent of somebody storing a vial of invisibility potion in a mousehole for safe-keeping without realising how tempting it smells to rodents. And it's one of those books where animals tend to behave in a surprisingly human way when humans aren't about.

Still not 19th-century, though: 1927.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've read that! Might be close enough; I can always say it was *written* in the 1920s, but was *set* in the 1900s.

[(Anonymous)]

I have, yes. The Jekyll-and-Hyde character is a bit of a fudge, though.

The Campion Bond character is, of course, Champion D'Angermouse.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

That was me. I'd forgotten my neice has a seperate Windows setup, so my ID wasn't stored.