Whether collected by The Brothers Grimm, written by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson or by other prolific writers or collected by others, which one is your favorite, and why? And it doesn’t have to have been adapted by Disney.
I ask this because Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson have been by Special Interest for a while now. My favorite is “The Snow Queen”, because unlike most fairytales, it spins the damsel in distress scenario on its head, with the way the heroine saves her boy best friend from the titular snow queen, and along the way meets several different interesting characters. It could make for a great 9 episode miniseries on HBO or something.
So what is your favorite fairytale or fairytale character?
Either Raven or Odin. In both cases because they’re just always up to some incredible bullshit. Zhuge Liang for the same reason if he counts.
Considering how they embellished him, he do probably counts as fairy tale character lol
Hell, the ROTK version of Liu Bei probably counts at this point, too. [BENEVOLENCE INTENSIFIES]
Both him and Guan Yu counts because that book got like at least 4 revisions during the few hundred years it has been in circulation and it was always done by Shu fans who found previous version not going far enough.
Clearly I have to actually read Romance at some point; the most I know about it is bc Dynasty Warriors and I’m about 98% sure Liu Bei was still up to some fuckshit there from how often I remember fighting him
Zhuge Liang invented the repeater crossbow. And a self-powered military transport. And using lanterns for military communication. Oh and steamed buns.
Edit: meant to reply to comment below. Rip me