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I think you’ll really love it!

(No one I have recommended this show to has ever NOT loved it, and I know you’d be impressed by the storytelling itself, so… xD)

I’m so excited for it! I’ll keep you posted on it XD

Language sense xD To be fair, Korean has some confusing rules too… but they’re definitely nowhere as annoying as many European languages are, I’m sure. Chinese grammar is beautifully simple, but they more than make up for that…

Right??? It’s ridiculous how native speakers just know stuff. I have like 70% language sense in any of my languages but not more than that XD Sometimes less! I think all languages are hard and complicated in their own ways XD

Yeah, I hate it when people single me out as a non-native speaker. I’m sorry, but I have been speaking Chinese as long as you. I just suck at it, that’s all xD

EXACTLY!!!! I especially hate when people correct me or tell me I should practice more when I forget a word. Like, my guy, my dude, my friend, you understood what I was saying, didn’t you? XD

(The one exception is when I either don’t know or forget a word and am left floundering and staring into the middle distance trying to remember or explain it. Anyone who guesses and supplies the word has my eternal gratitude XD)

Lol thank you! Sleeping Beauty was pretty easy to decide on, but I had a lot of trouble with many other fairytales (like Cinderella…). I wanted to give them abilities that were directly drawn from the original story, not contrived in any way at all. Needless to say, I’m still working on that Cinderella inheritance. *slumps*

Huh, I can imagine that’s an absolute pain! The first thing that popped into my mind was minor shapeshifting, like the way Cinderella was the only person who fit in the shoe. It’s a stretch though XD Man, that’s a hard one!

I’m so glad you like him! He’s a riot xD Giving him a disability really opened my eyes to how I could explore the dysfunctional elements of the Grimoirean family on the Charming Clan’s side. It also connects him to the action conflict of this story, which has very much to do with an organization of rebels who are tired of Snow White’s hand in all their government affairs.

Ohhhh, that keeps getting more interesting! I love that idea!

Larkspur is… almost like your typical pretty mean boy (because… with a name like Larkspur, how could he be anything else.), but he’s also a very valuable member of the boys’ volleyball team (*turns away* I’m sure you can tell where the inspiration for this came) who plays the same position Hans is out to ensure for himself. They start off on the wrong foot right away.

Larkspur sounds like a character I would love to hate XD Those “mean” characters are just hilarious XD

I haven’t heard of Hop-o’-my-thumb xD There are so many less-widely-known fairytales that I wanted to represent, but I chose to go only for the iconic ones in this story… which does mean neglecting some of my all-time favorites 🙁 Most famous fairytales are European in origin too, but many of the bigger ones (like Cinderella) have sooooo many variants that I just created different “branches” of the families for a bit of diversity. Which of course doesn’t explain why my only Cinderella character is from a European branch of the family but whatever.

It’s always just so sad that you can’t include everything you like 😭 Yeah, Hop-o’-my-thumb is pretty popular here in NL, but it’s still obscure.

Oh, that’s a clever idea, to include the different versions of the fairytales!

I’ve done slight research into Dutch folklore, which is always kinda creepy and very weird. It’s very Germanic, so it has little to do with most common myths and folk tales people have heard of.

For Hans, it’s mostly sending a pack of invisible wolves after him (his mom’s side), or having him chase another one of his sister’s escaping gingerbread cookies (his dad’s side). He doesn’t have an inheritance–the element of this story is, Hans has no powers except a wacky immunity to magic–so it’s pretty obvious why he doesn’t want to get involved with all this craziness. He just… has no idea how many death curses he’s raked up from a certain villain who’s very upset that the stubborn boy just won’t die.

Oh, that’s hilarious!!! Especially since it’s something most people wouldn’t notice right away!

THE CLIMAX Oh my goodness. Why is the climax always the hardest to write *weeps*

I KNOW *Also weeping* I either love or loathe the climax, no inbetween XD