Been reading some stuff and remembered learning about real life ‘cursed/tainted’ families from ye olden times.
Like, no one actually wanted to be an executioner in Europe majority of the time, but it was a job called for by the king and someone needed to fill it. But it would reduce your descendants to the same or worse jobs because the act of taking a life as a job was looked down upon despite executions still being held.
There’s a similar concept in Japan where your family was low if they were butchers or handled blood and, again, executioners, to the point the caste system is still alive and well because of it. Often times they can’t get approvals from a family to marry their daughter/son and they must ‘join’ the lower group to get married, keeping everyone stuck.
Which makes me think in terms of Ever After High, the Huntsmen of the stories must be thought to be something similar. They’re henchmen, they do dirty work, the only time they draw the line is when asked to kill a beautiful girl that we know each Huntsman would’ve known beforehand.
All this to say I don’t think. Huntsman could ever feasibly marry someone who had a Destiny, in fear of them ‘ruining’ the destiny line or something.
Making Hunter and Ashlynn’s relationship probably even more of a risk to the status quo.
Huntsmen are meant to live a life of shame for their loyalty to the evil Queen and get one chance at redemption by saving red riding hood, no one would really forgive them for the dirty work but at least they’d have done their job.
It makes me wonder how many people previous Huntsmen have killed until they reached their story’s Snow White? Just how deep do the wounds run in the name of the Evil Queen and in the name of Destiny?
