Sparkle Valley Philosophy: Abigail

Abigail is the center of Sparkle Valley. She animates the story. She’s Emily’s spark that refuses to go out.

She’s not flawless. She doubts, she falters, she gets angry. But every time she falls, she gets back up. That’s her defiance. And where does she get this courage and energy from? Love.  She’s Emily’s love and courage given form.

Abigail on the Wrongly River into Sparkle Valley

But she’s actually more than that. She’s Emily’s her spark, her muse, her blue flower—that indescribable force that makes her human.

Philosophically, there’s a trace of Kant, and his idea that right action matters even when no one’s watching. But Abigail’s strength isn’t logic—it’s conviction. Kant mostly reasons. Abigail mostly feels. But both share a sense of moral sense of duty. Abigail acts not because it’s easy, but because she knows she must. And when that sense of duty begins to fracture, she becomes something closer to Kierkegaard and leaps —not into faith in God, but faith in feeling itself.

Across the trilogy, she carries the emotional architecture of the world. In Sparkle Valley (Book 1), she’s fighting to hold the dream (world) together as Emily begins to drift away. In Rise of the Troll (Book 2), she’s returns to lead the resistance when the world (Emily) feels mechanical and lost.

And in Abigail’s Quest, she is faced with the ultimate choice, and she becomes something more — not just a protector, a sacrifice.  It’s clear that by that point she’s no longer just Emily’s moral voice; she’s her living counterpart — the soul fighting to keep the world (and therefore Emily) from collapsing into numbness. Her sacrifice isn’t abstract morality, it’s love. She’s driven by something deeper than Kant’s logic and duty or even Kierkegaard’s anguish.

In Book 3, when she refuses the Powder of Life, it’s not about duty in the ethical sense — it’s about understanding that her existence only matters if Emily’s wonder survives. She chooses meaning over being, which is a pretty radical inversion of Kant, actually. Emotion as the guiding principle, not the other way around.

Abigail is Emily’s “cosmic match,” the force that bridges worlds — imagination and reality. Her love for Emily is the gravity that keeps Sparkle Valley from flying apart. And by the end, she doesn’t just save Sparkle Valley, she keeps Emily fully human.