changeling

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That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023

Fittingly, the series is a kind of changeling itself: a pale echo of the 2017 novel by Victor LaValle on which it is based.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2023

A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2022

I just wish it were enough that Bloom might be the first changeling at her school in ages; why does she also have to be the savior figure?

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2021

It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady