#the perceforest

[queer-ragnelle]

It’s here.

#Arthurian legend #Arthuriana #perceforest #Nigel Bryant #did I buy this in part bc Tor is in it #mayhaps but shut up

[cerseimikaelson]

Apparently I've been living under a pile of rocks, because even with internet access I just found out Maleficent 3 is confirmed. So, whilst I am busy having a heart attack, let all Maleval shippers come forth and give me their headcanons about our favorite Dark Fey/Raven pairing.

Here's mine: the first thing Diaval said to Maleficent after she turned him from dragon to human after the Battle of Perceforest is: "can they [her wings] take you to the stars?"

#maleval #maleficent #diaval #fey

[themousefromfantasyland]

Proposition: Chivalric romances and fairy tales are set in the same universe, but told by different perspectives.

Chivalric romances, especially the Arthurian ones, focus sorely on knightly princes fighting epic battles, going into quests and rescuing damsels in peril.

Fairy Tales in general focus more on the exploits of those damsels in peril, along with some working class representation in the figure of lucky tricksters and helpless children.

In other words, Chivalric romances are mainly about Prince Charmings, while fairy tales are about everyone else.

The reason I started thinking about this was because of how much these types of stories share similar settings:

Humans, fae-like beings, dwarfs, cannibal giants (Ogres), and dragons being the main races.

Enchantress like Morgan Le Fay and the Lady of the Lake being suspiciously similar to the Fairies from the french fairy tales.

Christian entities being super present and somehow living relatively peacefully with other magical brings.

Heck, the oldest recorded version of the Sleeping Beauty type of story was in Perceforest, a Chivalric romance mea t to be a prequel to the King Arthur mythos.

Remember Perrault's version of the story, where after waking the Sleeping Beauty the prince has to go to war, leaving her and their children with his ogre mother?

Totally would be the type of story that chivalric romances would explore in bloody details

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @adarkrainbow

#fairy tales #chivalric romance #medieval times #medieval literature

[artist-issues]

Maleficent is a retelling of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. It is not just a reimagining.

It is a capitalization on Disney’s eye-catching design for their animated Maleficent. If it were just this beautiful original spin on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault or even the version in Perceforest, it would look incredibly different.

In Perrault’s version, the evil fairy that curses the princess has one defining character trait: she is old. She is ancient, and has lived in a tower isolated for so long that everyone thought she was dead, and that’s why she wasn’t invited to the princess’ christening. She disappears after placing the curse and is not heard from, defeated, or worried about for the rest of the story.

What the animated Disney Sleeping Beauty did was take that character and make her:

Beautiful

Horned

Powerful

An antagonist that returns to the plot.

Named “Maleficent.”

Two huge things that they changed which turned the evil fairy into an iconic villainess that endured to this day were the name of the character and the way she looks. Those things are unique to the Disney animated classic version. They are inseparable.

So your wonderful “reimagined” Maleficent came along in the year 2014 and said, “Yeah, we’re going to do something new and different!” And did this:

Actually, the movie never said that. The trailer included lines from the animated film, again, iconic and unique to the Animated film, and even capitalized on the original “Once Upon a Dream” song.

But it’s funny that everyone acts like it’s not a retelling of the animated film, and they want to use the word “reimagining.”

All you’re really saying is that we should excuse this film for marketing itself as a movie that would satisfy or interest fans of the original Sleeping Beauty, but wound up totally dumping on the original Sleeping Beauty through the changes it made.

The movie is not a beautiful new twist on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. It is a money-grabbing shock jock Wicked rip-off that would not exist if it weren’t trying to climb onto the shoulders of the SPECIFIC ANIMATED SLEEPING BEAUTY.

Going to say it one more time. If Maleficent (2014) wanted to be this amazing exercise in originality, it should not have been so tightly tied to the Disney Animated Classic. Because when it is connected so tightly to that specific animated version of the tale, we expect it to celebrate that version, and instead, it spat on it.

All it really did was celebrate the striking character design of the evil fairy and capitalize on the name. Like a bait-and-switch.

And side-note, a movie that takes the main character and makes her everything to everyone in the plot is so obnoxious. I was more intensely bored by this movie than any other live action remake because I couldn’t care about a main character who kept switching tones every five minutes. First she’s a naive free spirited waif, then she’s a scorned lover, then she’s a dramatic villainess, then she’s a bumbling caretaker, then she’s a beloved mother, etc. Her motives and feelings about the situations she’s in change and conflict so many times during the movie that I stop caring.

And while I stop caring about this movie, I entertain myself by thinking about how consistent the motives and character choices for the original were, and how superior it was, and how cheap and awful a movie that over-glorifies it’s main character is.

#Keep coming for Cinderella 2015 and watch me be obnoxious #all three of you know who you are #Maleficent #live action Disney critique #Cinderella 2015 #sleeping beauty #mistress of all evil #Disney

[mask131]

I finally found a post that allows me to express something I meant to say for a long time... About myths and legends and fairytales in general, and the whole business around the word... "original" (cue to Hammer horror dramatic thunder)

The massive wave across the Internet recently is to denounce the use of the word "original" as meaning absolutely nothing when it comes to myths and folklore. For example, people love, when talking about fairy tales to say "Actually, in the ORIGINAL fairytale this happened like this". And a lot of people criticize it, for good reasons. Take Sleeping Beauty. Many people will speak of the "original" Sleeping Beauty, by referring to the Brothers Grimm version of the tale, "Briar Rose", as opposed to a more recent version such as Disney's. But in truth there was a version older than that and more famous - the French version by Charles Perrault. So this is the original, right? No because many people will point out: there was a version older than this one, Basile's "Thalia, the Sun and the Moon". And this one a lot of people like to describe as the "original" Sleeping Beauty. And yet, there is still another, older version - French again, the medieval romance known as "Perceforest". And this one yet again takes inspiration from older myths and legends - including Germanic ones apparently...

So the use of the word "original" here means, indeed, nothing or is useless because fairy tales, and world-famous/ancient folktales rarely have an "original" version. They have been retold, rewritten and re-transcribed and adapted for centuries and centuries across various cultures and continents, and even the most ancient versions are just reflections of deeper oral versions.

This is what everybody has been defending, this is what everybody has been pointing out: there is a need to fight against the term "original" which can be too easily mis-used or over-used, since the actual "start" of a folktale or legend is lost, given its roots are in oral culture. The same thing is true with myths, especially things such as Greek myths. A lot of things people think they know about Greek myths start with Ovid, a Roman. Then you have to differentiate late records of Greek men, closer to the CE than BCE, and the oldest versions and records we had, Homer and Hesiod. And even then Homer reflected in his writings an even older tradition of a previous civilization lost to us since no written record exists. Take Medusa, and the post I made about her. Everybody uses today the story of her being a priestess of Athena being raped by Poseidon. This is a modern extrapolation of Ovid's tale about Medusa being a woman raped by Poseidon within Athena's temple (no priesthood involved). This in turn was Ovid's rewriting of a widespread tradition from Classical Greece about Medusa being a woman cursed by Athena for being so vain she deemed herself more beautiful than Athena (no rape involved). And this in turn was an evolution of the older Hesiodic/Homeric versions of Medusa, the Gorgon, being born a monster from monster-gods parents, and being part of the monstrous primordial forces of the sea/the underworld.

Now... here we reach my actual point. When I made my post about Medusa some people said "Its a good post but you shouldn't use the word "original" because we do not have the actual origins of Medusa". I agree that technically it is true. By all I said above - all myths and legends take roots within a lost oral culture, there is always a previous version before the one we have, etc... Yet, while I fully know this, I will keep using the word "original". To refer to the oldest record we have of Medusa as a character and myth: Homer and Hesiod (the two actually have a different take on Medusa, but they remain the oldest written records about her).

Why? Because while I agree that in itself the term "original" has been over-used and mis-used and that in the world of myths and legends and folktales it ultimately means nothing... I also strongly believe that refuse to see an origin, that refusing to see a beginning, that refusing to see a given starting point somewhere, opens the gate for all sorts of other misinformation or bad things.

The post in question was about a specific Greek myth (hence my switch to Greek mythology as an example). I won't say which but let's just say in this myth something bad happens. And it isn't an Ovid case where the thing originally was neutral or good and then was made bad later: we are talking about this bad thing happening by the oldest records we have of the story. Right. And this post reacted about an adaptation that changed this bad things to happen in a different angle and be less bad. And this person thanked deeply this adaptation because, by changing the story, it helped them "reconcile" with the myth. Because in their own words: "There were oral versions of it before it was recorded. The myth existed long before it was written. So who is to say this isn't how it happened? Who can say the version of the adaptation isn't more truthful to what the myth was originally about? It perfectly could have happened that way in the oldest versions of the myth, and I chose to believe it did!"

And that's where we fall into the pit. Yes, it is bad to over-use "original" as a word because the true origins of all myths are lost to time... But it is just as bad to not have any beginning point or refuse the idea that a myth was "created" at some point because we have this above. "What ifs", and "It could have happened" and "Why shouldn't it be like that" and "I chose to believe this because we might never know". People will start using the whole "no origins", "oral culture before written culture", "there must have been a previous version" as an excuse to invent versions of a folktale that never existed, or share versions of a myth that never was told, or defend versions of legends that are nowhere to be found.

Because that's the old logic fallacy: "If you can't prove it did not exist, then it means it could have existed". And this opens the gate for all sorts of inventions. Yes, you can invent a version of Medusa's story where she is the child of Zeus and Athena, and then claim it is a possible and likely story because "We don't know what was being told in pre-Homer times, maybe it was part of oral culture". Yes, maybe. But you will also agree with me, dear audience, that such a version is very unlikely to have existed, and that if one starts spreading this version around as a real myth they should be "booed" just as much as someone claiming Ovid's version of Medusa is the "original".

If you ask me, the oldest version of a tale, the oldest record of a myth, should be considered the starting point of the legend, the... I will dare say "original" version of story. With the caveat that, indeed, there might have been older versions, non-recorded, oral, lost to time - but given we do not know what came before this oldest record, given we will likely never know what stood before this most ancient transcription, do we really need to keep beating us over the head and conjecturing about what came beforehand, especially since we are talking about just friggin' Tumblr posts and Youtube videos and the like? For a very advanced and thorough academical research, it is understood... But when it comes to just talking simply and plainly about things, maybe we should have some common sense and have a starting point of the chronology, and focus more on "That's the oldest version we have, and here is how it evolved and moved through from there" instead of "Let's go back into a past so obscure and so distant we actually won't see anything and won't have anything to say".

I will defend the use of the word "original" when it comes to myths and folktales, as long as it is an "original" that is actually the oldest version of a legend we have, and as long as the person that use it knows very well and agrees that there might have been previous versions and evolutions before it, but that were lost to time and thus that we will never know.

... And please, stop using the "there's no original" excuse to make up myths. Because listen: if you have a problem with a legend or myth, and then love a fictional adaptation's change to it, and you claim this new version "reconciled you" with the original... No. No you don't like what the myth or legend is actually about, no you don't like the folktale. You just like and enjoy a fictional retelling, a modern rewrite of the folktale. Not the actual story or the original myth.

#rant of the day #mythology #myths #greek mythology #fairy tales #fairytales #folktales #original #legends

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

When someone joins the Ten Sages, they leave behind their name and take on a numbered title. For the vast majority of these characters, we never learn their original names.

In BlazBlue, we're given the names of One, Relius Clover, and Nine, Konoe Ayatsuki Mercury.

In XBlaze, we know the full name of Zwei, Marceline F. Mercury, and we can safely assume we know the family name of Sechs, Stroheim, but we don't know his given name.

The chances of us learning the names of any of the others are incredibly slim. But... it's kind of fun to think about, isn't it?

I've been thinking about names for the other Ten Sage characters we've gotten to know. Acht in particular is a character I find it easy to come up with ideas for.

Under the cut, I'll share some of the thought process to why these names in particular stand out to me.

We know from Phase Shift that Ishana is a nation outside of the geopolitical world we know, untied to any modern country. The named Ishanans we know seem to be from different nationalities; Shuichiro is Japanese, the Stroheims seem to be of German ancestry, Elise's full name also suggests German heritage, Trinity and Celica's names are Western in General but could arguably be traced back to Latin origins, Marceline and the Mercury family name in general have a similar relationship with the general West and Roman origins, etc.

This makes me imagine Ishana as having a predominantly European culture, but one that has perhaps attracted people with magical potential from all the world's nations for generations.

With that in mind, I often find myself drawn to names from medieval European courtly romances, for that same kind of Western feel with a magicy twist. For Acht in particular, I really like the idea of giving her a name with ties to the fairy tales she seems so fixated on, in the way she talks about herself, Hinata, Touya, etc.

I'm also interested in giving her the name of some kind of tragic ballet heroine. Her role in the narrative can feel like that of a tragic heroine destined for despair, and the naming theme of her moveset in her only playable appearance (BBDW) centers around ballet and ballet terminology.

The same reasoning (the BBDW naming theme) draws me to French names, as all of her moves are in French.

#xblaze #xblaze code embryo #blazblue #ten sages acht #relius clover #konoe a mercury #marceline f mercury #bb trivia #bb headcanons #bb theory #bb meta #ao no imakagami #ten sages #xblaze ten sages #personally I was originally leaning toward zeladine for those sweet sweet sleeping beauty connections #but after discovering and learning about the ballet Giselle #I'm leaning towards giving Acht the full name of Giselle La Fontaine #seriously the heroine learns she can't be with her love #and proceeds to dance until she dies #if that's not a great parallel to acht's union situation AND relationship to sechs AND her last stand #then I don't know what is

[theredandwhiteknight-if]

U mean if nothing else the SB genetics along with literature saying their like super hot n shit confirms that Lancelot gives Gwinevere's 'fairest' title a run for its money

Like holy fuck I was expecting a new knight to join the round table not the sexiest fish alive

Lmao, really. Lancelot is the most beautiful fish man around. Everyone at Camelot digs the fish guy. And honestly with the way all the knights and ladies are described in the lit, I have to assume Camelot is just a magnet for the hottest people alive.

Also, if y’all want another fun fact about Perceforest. It actually includes Sybil as well. In this one she’s actually an ancestor of King Arthur with, get this, Alexander the Great. Absolutely wild

#anon #red and white knight if

[shinobi-illuminator]

You know, it's kinda funny as to how Disney pairs Hades with Maleficent instead of his Actual Wife (Persephone) when the Original versions of Sleeping Beauty, the first being "Perceforest" where actually feature in some of the Greek/Roman Goddesses using some of the Roman and Greek Names (Venus, Lucina, and Themis) and that Themis was the one who cursed the Princess and not a Dark Fairy which would be popular in later versions.

I've also see that you've added in Oberon and Titania in your own Family Tree of Sleeping Beauty/Hercules, when in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Theseus (who was Poseidon's Demigod Son) and Hippolyta are actual Mythological Figures.

I'd sorta like to ask on what Disney is trying to do with their own lore but does Sleeping Beauty have any connection to Greco-Roman Mythology? Cause I've heard of the first version which one of the Three Goddesses from the Greco-Roman Pantheon did appear in that Fairy Tale.

I wish I knew.

[queer-ragnelle]

Okay, NOW I can finish my Tor post.

#it’s literally not the same Tor but I choose to believe mkay #Perceforest

[princesssarisa]

A remark about "Sleeping Beauty"

I think we all know that in the pre-Perrault versions of the Sleeping Beauty story, the counterpart of the Prince (sometimes a knight, sometimes a king – I don't think he actually becomes a prince until Perrault's version) impregnates Sleeping Beauty in her sleep.

But a surprising number of people seem to claim that in these "original" versions of the tale, she's awakened by her labor pains when she gives birth.

Is there a version where this is true? Because I don't know it.

In both of the two "impregnated while sleeping" versions I know, Perceforest and Sun, Moon, and Talia, she still has a splinter from the spindle (either of wood from the spindle itself or of the flax she was spinning) stuck in her finger while she sleeps, and this is why she can't be woken. After she gives birth in her sleep, her baby (an only son in Perceforest, one of twins in Sun, Moon, and Talia) sucks on her finger and sucks out the splinter. This is what wakes her.

Maybe there's yet another version where she's awakened by labor pains, but I don't know it. Does it exist, or is this just a misconception that turned into what TV Tropes calls "Common Knowledge"?

#sleeping beauty #fairy tales #variations #tw: rape #tw: childbirth

[viriborne]

Making Malleus a prince whilst being based on an adaptation of Perceforest was certainly a decision

#it’s like ik the original was Meant to be a love story but uhh ask any sane person today and they’ll disagree lol #also goddamn if I see another fic of Malleus taking on that……role…….I’ll die #also Malleus being both the prince AND the one who creates the curse is so narratively interesting #or at least that’s what I hope is happening idk I’m not reading book 7 spoilers

[tsukikoayanosuke]

I am an English server player, and honestly? I knew right away what Diasomnia's dorm uniform was based off. Yana just took inspiration, and if I recall correctly, Sleeping beauty is originally a German tale, no?

Anyway, just dumb drama... like always.

The earliest version of Sleeping Beauty is technically the story of Princess Zellandine from the Perceforest, which is technically French. The next iteration is the Sun, Moon, and Talia by Giambattista Basile who is Italian. And then you have the Charles Perrault version which is part of Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités, which is also Italian. And then, you get Brother Grimm's version with Little Briar Rose, which is German.

So, if we want to historically, Sleeping Beauty technically came from France.

But, in the end, this is just your drama.

#twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #twst #the captain is answering!

[tayasmultimuses]

Muse Masterlist

NOTE THAT THIS LIST WILL BE UPDATED FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THE UPDATES CLEARLY MARKED, DATED AND NOTED.  

**FACECLAIM NOTE: ANIMATED CHARACTERS WILL HAVE BACKUP ACTOR/ACTRESS FACE CLAIMS FOR USE WITH THOSE WHO PREFER TO RP WITH REAL-LIFE IMAGES OF THE CHARACTERS BUT WILL ALSO HAVE THEIR ANIMATED APPEARANCES FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO PREFERENCE (*ANIMATED ANIMAL CHARACTERS WILL HAVE THEIR CGI COUNTERPARTS WHERE POSSIBLE AND APPROPRIATE IRL ANIMAL IMAGES WHERE NOT). COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS WILL, WHERE POSSIBLE, USE THEIR CANON LIVE ACTION FACE CLAIMS AS A BACKUP OPTION FROM WHATEVER LIVE ACTION SOURCE WE HAVE FOR THEM UNLESS STATED OTHEWISE BY THEIR INDIVIDUAL LISTINGS.** 

ADDITIONALLY, THERE MAY BE LINKS TO FURTHER INFORMATION FOR CERTAIN MUSES FOR YOUR READING ENJOYMENT AT YOUR OWN PACE. THESE MAY INCLUDE BIOS, HEADCANONS, AND INFORMATION ON THE VERSES FOR THAT SPECIFIC MUSE.

Disney:

  -The Lion King/Guard*: Sarabi, Sarafina, Nala, Kiara, Vitani, Jasiri.

-Disney Princesses: Belle, Merida, Pocahontas. 

  -Pirates of the Caribbean: Elizabeth Swann-Turner, Carina Smythe.

Various Disney minor characters: Cassim aka the King of Thieves, Nakoma of the Powhatan, Audrey Ramirez (Atlantis: the Lost Empire), Gwen Locksley/Gwen Hood (Princess of Thieves).

- Descendants: Jay, Son of Jafar,  Amonute Johanna Rolfe (OC, Daughter of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, goes by Johanna at Auradon Prep), Beatrice [Enchantress (surname subject to change)] (OC, Daughter of the Enchantress from Beauty and the Beast),  Princess Kenina of DunBroch (OC, Daughter of Merida, goes by Kenna at Auradon Prep).

***(Added 06/19/22)Maleficent duology:*** Diaval of the Moors, raven manservant to Maleficent, Lady Protector of the Moors. Aurora, Queen Regnant of Perceforest and the Moors, and Crown Princess Consort of Ulstead.

Marvel: 

  -Comics: Dani Moonstar [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Rachel Grey Summers [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Lorna Dane [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Rahne Sinclair [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Ruby Summers [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Pietro Maximoff (disregarding the 2015 retcon that made him not a mutant and no longer Magneto’s son) [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info],Wanda Maximoff (Same as with Pietro, but replace “son” with “daughter”) [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Laura Kinney  [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info],  Hepzibah of the Starjammers [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info]. 

  - X-Men Cinematic universe: Jean Grey [both original (Famke Janssen) and alternate (Sophie Turner) timeline Jean Greys are available. Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Dani Moonstar [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Raven Darkholme [as with Jean i have both original (Rebbeca Romijn) and alternate (JLaw) timeline Mystiques available. Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Rogue [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Storm [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info].     

            - The Gifted (FOX series):  Lorna Dane (Polaris) [Bio: link to come as soon as I get on my laptop( technical difficulties are happening with the doc and my phone *sigh*), headcanons tag and  verses info], Blink (Clarice Ferguson|Clarice Fong) [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info],  Sonya Simonson (Dreamer) [Note: canon divergent (she doesn't die as per canon, instead she's comatose until right around when Dawn is born). Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info]. NPC: Dawn Dane-Diaz(/Diaz-Dane?) due to age in canon [Daughter of Polaris and Eclipse (both Dawn and Eclipse are show-only characters)].  **THE GIFTED IS A SPLINTER UNIVERSE OF THE X-MEN CINEMATIC UNIVERSE.** 

-MCU:  Pepper Potts-Stark [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Darcy Lewis [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Maria Hill [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Melina Vostokova (Vostokoff) [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info], Nebula Titan [Bio: link to come, headcanons tag and  verses info].



DC:

-Comics: Diana Prince | Wonder Woman, Cassandra Cain, Rachel Roth | Raven.

  - DC Extended Universe: Diana Prince |Wonder Woman | Princess Diana of Themyscira, Y'Mera Xebella Challa, Princess of Xebel (NOTE: I use Jessica Chastain as an alternate face claim to Amber Heard, but I can work with Amber if my partners prefer canon faceclaims), Arthur Curry | Aquaman | King of Atlantis.   

         -DCAU: Diana Prince | Wonder Woman, Mera, Raven, Terra, Starfire

-Arrowverse: Kara Zor-El | Kara Danvers |Supergirl, Lena Luthor, Malcolm Merlyn.



Merlin: Lady Morgana (Pendragon), Merlin Emrys, Gwen.

Narnia, Chronicles of: Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Polly Plummer, Jill Pole, Keana (OC, Great Cat).

#Rp muses #masterlist #muse masterlist #rp muse masterlist #taya speaks #ooc records #chronicles of narnia rp #disney rp #descendants rp #marvel comics rp #x-men rp #the gifted rp #dc comics rp #dceu rp #dcau rp #arrowverse rp #maleficent rp #((🌟mun speaking; how may i help you today?

[blxckworn]

I gave in and did this, here are my muses lol

Brianna - shameless self insert oc

Keir - Maleval child

Mallory - Phillip and Aurora child

Felix - Brother of Aurora, Stefan and Leila kid, king of Perceforest

#tag drop here #// i'm not all there myself \\ brianna #// family means no one is left behind \\ keir #// fuck a princess i'm a king \\ mallory #// i never wanted to be a king \\ felix #// main verse \\ - main universe #// staring straight back at me; inspiration; keir \\ #// you'll be in my heart \\ keir & diaval

[kyuremking]

Age of fairy tales, a wild age.

In the "fairy tales age", the world was complete and full of light, which was believed to come from Kingdom Hearts , which was protected by its counterpart, the sword χ . Over time, people came to desire the power of Kingdom Hearts, introducing darkness into the world.

This is the general definition without going into depth that we have of the fairy tales age in Kingdom Hearts.

However for me when the fairy tales age was first mentioned I always thought it meant that this is when the original fairy tales happened and that after the darkness consumed the world is when the worlds were recreated, separated and became the Disney version.

To explain my point I will take the Sleeping Beauty Story as an example.

The Disney version of Sleeping Beauty (the first one) was born with the film Sleeping Beauty in 1959.

Originally, however, Sleeping Beauty was a story that was passed on orally.

Its first mention in written text was apparently in the Perceforest, an anonymous French literary text composed around 1340 in prose, but its mention of the tale of Sleeping Beauty is very brief.

So let's focus on this other mention in text that showed her whole tale. The Pentameron a collection of different fairy tales, whose original title is Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille (The tale of tales, or the entertainment of the little ones).

This collection of 5 books was written by Giambattista Basile and published postumously between 1634 and 1636.

In the Pentameron the tale of the sleeping beauty was called Sun, Moon and Talia (Talia was the name of the sleeping beauty and Sun and Moon the names of her children born from a rape committed by a king who is married to another woman). This story is the basis for the following versions known as the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty (Perrault's version in 1697 and the Brothers Grimm in 1812).

Of course Kingdom Hearts would never show something like this(but I like to imagine that the age of fairy times was like this.) And since Khux is over and it doesn't look like they are going to delve into what was going on in the world outside of Daybreak Town and the keyblade war I like to think that maybe Daybreak Town is a paradise compared to the danger that is out there.

Maybe all the characters in Daybreak Town are fairy tale characters who ran away or something. Maybe those who rule over Greece in the time of the fairy tales age are the Titans and not the Olympian gods.

Or maybe Daybreak Town is home to the protagonists of the Snow Queen fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1844. They went from being children to adults very quickly after his story.

Something I would like to mention is that in the novelisation of the Maleficent film it is mentioned that she is the daughter of Lysander and Hermia who are characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream a comedy by William Shakespeare, written around 1595. That gives a lot of inspiration for future fanfics.

What I want to go for is that the fairy tales age would be a world inhabited not only by humans but also full of fairies or mythological beings (Titania and Overon, the titan Kronos or Jotunns).

I know this post is a bit crazy but I mean it when I say that I thought the Age of Fairy Tales consisted of something like this and I plan to use this when I start writing my littleVentus fanfic!

#kh #khux #kingdom hearts #age of fairy tales #littleVentus! au #the sleeping beauty #maleficent #a midsummer night's dream #the snow queen #MoM #khux unions #the pentameron #the perceforest #meme #long post #foretellers #kh3

[false-guinevere]

I was reading the Troylus and Zellandine part in Perceforest and it’s funny how Lancelot’s ancestor is literally just Sleeping Beauty. Like, that’s not even the only enchanted sleep someone is cursed with in Arthuriana (which is also kind of funny. Was this just the go to spell for people?) but it’s still funny to think about

Not really much to add, just thought it was funny (and still messed up. Like the story is a Medieval sleeping beauty so that goes how you’d imagine it would so trigger warning for r*pe if you wanted to read it)

#just some random thoughts #arthuriana #lancelot #sleeping beauty? #perceforest #tw r*pe #fairy tales