4th Experiment

[funkinmylab]

Hm. After doing some reading at the library, I'm a little perplexed. It's always the same formula for fairy tale stories. Knight meets princess, princess gets captured, knight goes to save the princess and defeats the horri~ble dragon and they all live happily ever after

Comments

[frogsicles]

I dunno. I like happy endings.

[funkinmylab]

As expected of you. Still, have you ever read a story where the princess saves herself?

[frogsicles]

What's that got to do with anything? A happy ending is a happy ending, and whoever saves the princess doesn't matter! As long as everyone is happy at the end of the story, I'm happy.

[funkinmylab]

Geh...! I just don't understand these concepts of emotion within storytelling! If you read the same happy ending a thousand times, then surely you'd get bored of it!

[frogsicles]

Yeah, maybe if I read the same story a thousand times, but I don't do that, so I don't get bored. Why would I read the same thing a thousand times? That's stupid.

[funkinmylab]

It's just a example that I'm giving you! The point is that reading the same story and seeing the same cliches gets boring!

[frogsicles]

But I don't read the same story every time! Sometimes the hero has a sword, and sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes the monster is a dragon and sometimes it isn't. You can SAY that the hero is gonna win, but you don't really know until the story is over. Every story is different, and none of 'em are boring! You're just being dumb.

[funkinmylab]

... Tch. Stories from the Netherworld are much more different from these. Understanding a human's way of thinking is far too difficult even for my standards.

[frogsicles]

Do you not like humans?

[funkinmylab]

... [there's a bit of silence as if he's going into deep thought]

... Hm. I suppose I lean more towards neutral. [and a light cackle] You'd think I'd hold more of a grudge towards the same race that killed my father.

[frogsicles]

...Oh. Sorry I asked.

[funkinmylab]

... No, it's fine. The subject about him would have popped up eventually.

[frogsicles]

You think so? I never thought of asking about 'im. Is that something people with parents do?

[funkinmylab]

Hmm? You've never had a parent?

[frogsicles]

Well, fairies are a force of nature! So we kind of just...appear one day. None of us have parents.

[funkinmylab]

How interesting! Muhaha! That explains your whimsical behavior!