When Blue arrives on the ship, he discovers that Riding Hood, not wanting to live without him, had given up her spot to a stranger and stayed behind.

[1] Boy Blue first appears during "Legends in Exile", working as Snow White's office gofer and clerk.

Blue lives a typical "nerdy" lifestyle, avidly reading comic books and playing board games.

Blue's life changes in "March of the Wooden Soldiers", when Red Riding Hood suddenly appears in Fabletown, claiming to have recently escaped the Adversary.

She is initially angry at Blue, claiming that he had abandoned her to the Adversary's forces, but she soon seeks him out and wants to resume their relationship.

Against Snow's objections, Blue has Dr. Swineheart patch him up and bind the Vorpal Sword to his hands so that he can fight in the "Battle of Fabletown".

He offers Geppetto, who still holds some affection for his first-carved son, Pinocchio's body to revive in exchange for two demands and one request: the full story behind the Empire's rise, an audience with the real Red Riding Hood, and a chance to speak to Pinocchio after his revival, respectively.

When Red Riding Hood arrives, Blue discovers that woman he had met during "The Last Castle" was, like Baba Yaga, an impostor and spy.

A heartbroken Blue calls the Witching Cloak to him, slays Geppetto's guards, and escapes back to Fabletown.

He brings Fabletown hundreds of volumes containing valuable maps and intelligence, but Charming is unwilling to make this knowledge public, so Blue has to stand trial.

Rose Red, the Farm's administrator, considers him a hero and takes a very loose interpretation of "hard labor".

During "War and Pieces", which tells of the war to reclaim the Homelands, Blue is given the job of transporting back and forth from numerous points to act as messenger and delivery boy to the Fables' strongpoints: Glory, Fort Bravo, Fabletown, Wolf Manor, the Farm, Haven, and the hotspot in the center of the Empire where Briar Rose is stationed.

These complications are later revealed to be caused by a minute thread of the Witching Cloak still lodged in Blue's arm, a problem possibly exacerbated by Mr.

Boy Blue's condition continues to worsen despite both Frau Totenkinder and Doctor Swineheart's best efforts.

After the collapse of Fabletown, he is moved with the other refugees to the Farm, where Flycatcher attempts, unsuccessfully, to magically cure Blue's condition.

Blue requests that he be buried on a hill overlooking the baseball field in Haven rather than with the other war dead, to reflect his lifelong preference for a quiet life over heroics.

Boy Blue meets Bigby Wolf shortly after the latter enters the afterlife and advises him of his options.

He tells Bigby that he, Blue, is leaving to be reincarnated in a different universe so that he can have a chance at a quiet life with no heroics and that he might try his hand at falling in love.

Rose, seeking advice from what she believes is a common sword bearer, realizes she is on a foolish quest after listening to a short tale from Blue.

The second-to-last compilation, Fables: Happily Ever After, shows Blue at an open mic night in another world, where he performs songs about his old friends.

Charming is informed that the Witching Cloak, although technically Fabletown property, had been assigned to Boy Blue.

He also uses simple voice commands to call the cloak to him from a short distance away and claims he can set it to self-destruct with all its contents.

Blue eventually dies as a result of a tiny thread of the Witching Cloak becoming lodged inside an arrow wound in his arm, preventing it from healing.

Jason Marc Harris, writing in a special issue of Humanities, cites both Blue's undiginified death and his words to Bigby in the afterlife as a counterpoint to the glorification of masculine-coded violence in the story arc involving the war against the Adversary, contrasting it with the series finale, which focused on forgiveness and community, and was led by female characters: "The martial prowess that Bigby, Prince Charming, and Boy Blue once represented becomes overshadowed by the enduring connections of the extended Fables family, a community where Rose and Snow reconcile".