3: Are you more the type to cut off your braid and wear an armour to save your princess or the type to give up your royal privileges to run away with your beloved maid?
without a doubt I’d disgrace my family by running off with the maid and my father would disown me as his heir and I wouldn’t even disguise who I was as my beloved and I travelled around the world and had a good-ass time... I’d be like that one king of England who abdicated to run off with the American divorcée he fell in love with and the next time everyone saw him he was in a picture looking like he was having the time of his fucking life with his hot wife... what’s his fuckin name... Edward VIII that’s the bitch. that would be me.
6: What stayed with you most from the fairytales you enjoyed as a child? Can be a quote, a detail, a character, a moral or a whole story ark.
the thing that stuck with me the most was how terrible the adults were lmao. my favourite fairy tale when I was a kid was Hansel and Gretel, and I just could not believe that the adults would be cool with dumping two small children off in the middle of the woods. (the fact that I, a small child, was permitted to play in the vast forests surrounding my village for up to 10 hours at a time was lost on me.) “don’t trust adults” was something that I liked in media when I was a child, though, so this is unsurprising -- my favourite series of books ended up being A Series of Unfortunate Events, so go figure.
another thing that stuck with me was the cheek of Goldilocks. I got unfathomably angry whenever I was told that story, even as a very small child. the idea that someone would come into my home and eat my food and sleep in my bed just sent me feral; I hated Goldilocks and I always wanted the bears to kill her.
7: They’re all awful, but - in which castle would you rather be imprisoned? A castle filled with your loved ones in deathly slumber and surrounded by rose hedges - a glass castle at the end of the world, threatened by the cruel coldness of sun and moon who hunger for human flesh - a castle with a beautiful garden where every path leads to the same secret chamber dripping in blood? Why?
the castle with a beautiful garden where every path leads to the same secret chamber dripping in blood. I’m not entirely sure why; the idea of being surrounded by loved ones who are present but out of my reach isn’t one I like the thought of, and I’d rather be alone than have something like that. the glass castle... don’t fancy fighting the sun and moon, if I’m honest. the secret chamber is cool as hell, and I think that logically there would be more clues here and less distractions. I might be able to find something else imprisoned in the chamber and strike a deal with it... if I don’t end up like everyone else who previously attempted, and whose blood is probably what’s coating the chamber!
18: Which would be worse for you - if a loved one got transformed into a fawn and was thus vulnerable and mute, or if a splinter of a devilish mirror fell into their eye and made them cold and unfeeling?
not to sound like my ex and choose a deer here, but the second option would be worse. I don’t like the idea of them looking how they always did and still being human and sentient, but being wholly changed; I don’t think I would be able to accept it, and I’d waste a lot of time trying to get through to them. at least if they were transformed into a fawn, I would be able to accept that they were no longer themselves, and I could focus on trying to undo the magic. if they were just a cold and unfeeling version of themselves, I might be less willing to take risks and accept I’d lost them anyway, and any attempt could only improve matters.
> fairy tale inspired asks 🏰🧹
