What is your Favorite Fairy Tale/Folktale Character?
What is your Favorite Fairy Tale/Folktale Character?
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?
Mąʼii, the Coyote of the Diné Bahaneʼ (under folktale I guess)
a trickster type I guess that is always up to shit and consistently self-owns really hard. sometimes relatable, sometimes totally off the wall. invariably punished severely for misdeeds.
if I were to meet him on the road one day I would probably ask wtf he was doing and expect the answer to be extremely intriguing but like 95% bullshit. how can you lack affection for someone like that?
invariably punished severely for misdeeds.
Queen Dido of Carthage. Pretty badass depiction for a woman in antiquity. Just hate how her character was completely butchered by Virgil’s misogynist dead ass.
Baba Yaga almost solely based on her house.
I wanna say Tom Bombadil. He's just a silly wife guy who's too busy touching grass and wearing his little booties to care about some ring.
they were doing the freakiest sex while the hobbits slept. you cant convince me otherwise.
The giant from Jack and the beanstalk cause he could smell out and destroy the English
There are also Redcaps, faerie looking like short old men with iron boots and polearms, brutally murder Scots and Englishmen at the border.
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.
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
Guess my favourite and ill stomp so hard through the floor that ill fall to the centre of the earth
J. F "Clutch" Jenkins, the Widest man in Illinois 1986-1995, 1998
Not sure if Robin Hood counts...
Uphold Hood Thought
the lib didnt go hard enough tbh
Great thing about Robin hood is that you can make him into anything you want. There's no canon that's off-limits. He could easily be a communist and it fits with the themes. He eats the rich and gives to the poor and redistributes Sherwood Forest! That's perfectly thematic for him and his gang.
Or her? Robin and Marian have swapped gender riles in the past. It wouldn't even be the first time.
Robin Hood shouldn't have stopped at Nottingham
Joan Vinge did an interesting riff on the Snow Queen story with the adventurously titled novel The Snow Queen. Worth a read.
I really like Orpheus and Eurydice. I took a class on the myth in undergrad and it's interesting how a simple story developed into so many explorations of love, loss, and the complexity of knowing when to hang on and when to let go. The stage production of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown was stunning.
Skill issue, I would simply have the goddess of love come down at the end and fix everything.
Probably djinni from One Thousand and One Nights, this was my favourite book in childhood. And i also hate Andersen, it traumatised me for a good time.
The Little Red Hen?
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any magic pudding enjoyers in chat
If i find it im eating it
Bro i saw that when i was a kid too; i LOVED that cartoon!
there's an artbook that this was based off of and i would love to track a copy down
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