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[quackery]

[When the video switches on, Ahiru is sitting on her bed flipping hurriedly through a book - Grimm's Fairy Tales. She'd had a few days of free time on her hands at the beginning of the week, and she's taken the opportunity to make a trip to the library. Once she had read the other books and started on this one, she had grown more and more dismayed

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[dresden4hire]

Most early fairy tales were to caution people against having anything to do with actual faeries.

And in my world, those stories are true. Or at least something like them very well could or did happen.

[quackery]

[She pauses. Was there another world like hers?]

Fairy tales came true for you?

[dresden4hire]

Not exactly. They didn't come true, they were true. An event happened, and then a fairy tale was written about it.

[quackery]

Oh! So people just got ideas from things that already happened?

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[paysdelamour]

[Francis comes on with a weak little smile.] Unfortunately, mademoiselle, the original "fairy tales" were extremely dark and gruesome because, at the time, that is what people wanted to hear... it's only just recently that fairy tales have become happy and bloodless.

I was told the more gruesome versions of things, when I was a child. [... because he LIVED back then.]

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[quackery]

Why would people want to hear something like that?

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[paysdelamour]

It's hard to say... for one, life was more violent back then... wars were being fought constantly in those times. Second, may fairy tales were told to children to convince them to not do bad things, and therefore they were made much, much scarier... and of course time has a way of changing things. Stories get told and people add their own artistic flourishes as they tell the story and... well. You get the picture.

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[quackery]

If life was more violent, wouldn't they want happy things to distract them? And couldn't they convince children not to do bad things without scaring them?

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[masterbaiting]

[Nonononono. Alois is not going to tolerate this. So, pleasantly, he

THROWS OPEN HER BEDROOM DOOR

and

MARCHES INTO HER BEDROOM UNANNOUNCED

and

STOPS IN FRONT OF HER LIKE HE IS THE GODDAMN KING OF ENGLAND

and presents a very large book.]

Ahiru. I'm disappointed.

[action idek] lmfao what are you alois

[quackery]

[WOW, she jumps like ten feet in the air and nearly falls off the bed when he comes in.]

W-What did I do?

[action] he's her sassy gay friend, we've been through this

[masterbaiting]

I just heard you! Asking about stories. Look, sit up properly. [It totally doesn't matter that she didn't really invite him in or anything; he sits on the edge of her bed. BOOK OF FAIRY TALES, BRO. Except his has a bunch of sticky notes in it, apparently.] It's all very important.

[action] insane sassy gay friend............

[quackery]

[She scrambles to sit up, scooting to take a seat next to hi as she peers at the book.]

You know a lot about this?

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[createsoblivion]

Not all fairy tales are happy. But not all of them are meant for children, either.

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[quackery]

Yeah, I heard that... It doesn't seem like many adults would like these kinds of stories, though, even if they were creepier.

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[createsoblivion]

Some people like the more grim side of things, I suppose.

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[quackery]

I don't really get why.

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[askedtobe]

Fairy tales didn't really used to be about making kids happy.

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[quackery]

They were for teaching lessons instead, right?

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[askedtobe]

That and scaring kids, I think.

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[quackery]

They could be happy and still teach a lesson! And wanting to scare kids is dumb.