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Gabe

Gabe is a mysterious enigma whose name appears occasionally in communication with author Tycho Brahe, usually in a negative context and frequently when he is intoxicated. His most noticeable appearance was on a hit list in The Temptations of the Bix the End Table, and other tales. It's impossible to know who this "Gabe" really is, particularly because information on the author himself is so hard to come by.

Interesting theories abound as to the identity of Gabe, but the author as good as refuses to discuss him while sober enough to make any sense. Popular theories include:

• He is (or represents) a rejected character not used in the series.

• He is actually an alternate identity of Brahe and is a self-representation of a dark side and thoughts of suicide.

• He is a personification of Brahe's doorknob, an inspiration for many of the series' heroic furniture characters.

• He is a small scrap of paper with completely meaningless gibberish scrawled on it, found in a bathroom in the cellar of a planning office with no stairs or lights in the basement, just behind a demolition notice for somebody's house. Proponents of this theory tend to have a lot of trouble explaining how Brahe might have found this paper, or, indeed that the paper even exists. It's not even a very popular theory anyways.

• Recent transcribing of The Story That Is Built One Sentence At a Time By Those That Read It, has given us more information on the character Gabe. In this, Gabe is a Tribbit and a Mucksucker in The Dank and favored by Duke Alfamarma, the ugliest, nastiest, fattest Dooblegnard Horatio had ever seen. It can only be assumed that there is some connection between this named character and the enigmatic Gabe of Tycho Brahe's real world life.

Disambiguation

Gabe is also the psuedonym of Yasumasa Masanobu, the artist who did the original character designs for ElamenSTAR.