Once Upon A Time: the Dark Fairy Tales Challenge

[ShelbyDawn57]

Perhaps, but that isn't true outside Europe, and most of the world is outside Europe.

Persian fairy tales (1001 Arabian Nights, for instance) would make great starting points.

Yeah, I wrote that one a few years ago; When Wishes Come True. I don't think I can recycle for this event.

 

[tristianc]

darkly eroticizing fairy tales has been a dream of mine for years. Would love to read what others come up with.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

darkly eroticizing fairy tales has been a dream of mine for years. Would love to read what others come up with.

I did one a couple of months back. Mine isn't dark, though. It's more silly and fun.

Cynderella, Princess Katie, and Carl

 

[Rob_Royale]

I have something along these lines already in the works. I'll do my best to participate here.

 

[StillStunned]

Only seven months to go! I hope everyone has at least the germ of an idea: something dark, something sexy, something twisted. The Evil Queen watching through her mirror as Snow White chooses a dwarf for each day of the week. Jacquette climbing the Ogre's giant beanstalk. Three bears who find a golden-haired young man sleeping in their bed.

Or something less traditional. "How the Fisherman Learned to Use His Rod". "The Forester and the Dark Bush." "A Horseback Ride With My Evil Stepmother". "The Cockerel Who Cried Cuck". "The Dragon Who Saved the Princess from Prince Superficially Charming".

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm looking forward to it!

 

[Bamagan]

I wonder if Hansel and Gretel fall under the 'you can't age characters up' rule?

 

[lovecraft68]

I've referenced the origin of the Matriarch of the Lefay coven and mentioned her fleeing into haunted woods to avoid being arrested for witchcraft because of her odd appearance of albino skin and black eyes. In the forest she begins to sing to comfort herself and her voice catches the ear of the devil who rules the woods, he finds her, becomes enamored with her song and her 'dark beauty' and not only weds her, but bestows true supernatural power to her, abilities their children and every generation since also share along with her trademark look.

This event could be a good opportunity to tell it in detail in the form of an elder woman of the coven telling the children the story to see how it would come out. Its nothing I would put in the series because I like the idea of not everything being spelled out, but could be fun to play with it for this.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I wonder if Hansel and Gretel fall under the 'you can't age characters up' rule?

It would, but you could do something inspired by H&G.

 

[StillStunned]

I wonder if Hansel and Gretel fall under the 'you can't age characters up' rule?

You mean like this from Macfarlane's Twisted Fairy Tales?


Nice. But from the challenge rules:

5. Specifically for classic fairy tales: remember the 18+ rule! Essentially: if you're retelling a classic fairy tale, remember the characters' age. If they're considered mature in the commonly accepted version (the tale ends with the hero and heroine marrying, for instance), that's pretty much safe. If the tale hinges on the characters being children (being abandoned in the forest by their parents, etc.), don't age them up, just try and think of something else. Err on the side of "Let's not bother Laurel with this".

 

[StillStunned]

I've referenced the origin of the Matriarch of the Lefay coven and mentioned her fleeing into haunted woods to avoid being arrested for witchcraft because of her odd appearance of albino skin and black eyes. In the forest she begins to sing to comfort herself and her voice catches the ear of the devil who rules the woods, he finds her, becomes enamored with her song and her 'dark beauty' and not only weds her, but bestows true supernatural power to her, abilities their children and every generation since also share along with her trademark look.

This event could be a good opportunity to tell it in detail in the form of an elder woman of the coven telling the children the story to see how it would come out. Its nothing I would put in the series because I like the idea of not everything being spelled out, but could be fun to play with it for this.

Sounds great!

 

[Bamagan]

You mean like this from Macfarlane's Twisted Fairy Tales?
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Nice. But from the challenge rules:

To be clear, my inquiry was intended as tongue-in-cheek rather than serious. I probably should have added a wink-face.

 

[lovecraft68]

To be clear, my inquiry was intended as tongue-in-cheek rather than serious. I probably should have added a wink-face.

You should know by now the righteous posters of this forum will howl at any thought of underage.
Until someone asks how an underage story was published here and is then told its okay.

 

[StillStunned]

You should know by now the righteous posters of this forum will howl at any thought of underage.
Until someone asks how an underage story was published here and is then told its okay.

Not righteous, just sticking to the site's rules. If other people want to break them, and they get away with it, that's between them and the site. But if someone asks me about the rules for my challenge, I'll tell them.

"Fairy tales" is a subject that always has the potential for abuse, and I'd rather not have any of that. Note that I posted a pic above of a figurine of an aged-up Gretel: I'm not against it on principle, I'm just protecting my challenge.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I am going to try but this is really out of my norm. A huge stretch but thank you for arranging this

 

[FreyaGersemi]

I am going to try but this is really out of my norm.

I'm not sure it has to be strictly a retelling of an existing fairy tale. I think you can do whatever you want. So, Cinderella discovers an incestuous relationship between her wicked stepmother and the other daughters? Snow White has a gang bang with the dwarves? Little Red Riding Hood gets bitten by the wolf and becomes a werewolf? Just some options that may be more in someone's norm.

 

[LiterallyLiterate]

I think I just stumbled upon something suitably dark and fairytale-ish. A retelling of Goldilocks and the three bears, only set in a bar or coffee shop around closing time, and three bearishly big guys instead of actual bears, of course.
Goldilocks will have to pay for what she drank, somehow.
Should be suitably dark, though not sure if I want to put it as noncon or just erotic coupling. We’ll see as I run with the idea in my perverted mind for a while.

 

[StillStunned]

I am going to try but this is really out of my norm. A huge stretch but thank you for arranging this

I'm not sure it has to be strictly a retelling of an existing fairy tale. I think you can do whatever you want. So, Cinderella discovers an incestuous relationship between her wicked stepmother and the other daughters? Snow White has a gang bang with the dwarves? Little Red Riding Hood gets bitten by the wolf and becomes a werewolf? Just some options that may be more in someone's norm.

Not even Cinderella or Snow White or any other Disney character. There are thousand and thousands of fairy tales from all over the world. Even then, it doesn't need to be an existing fairy tale. Just tell it like a fairy tale. Give it that whimsical, semi-dreamlike quality. Lots of repetitions, lots of threes, or sevens, or nines.

So seven sons go for a ride in a silver carriage with seven mothers. The Big Bad Wolf has to choose between three Golden Princesses. In a cottage in the Dark Forest lives a charcoal burner who happens to have a nice view of the bend in the river where the farmers' daughters bathe...

 

[StillStunned]

I think I just stumbled upon something suitably dark and fairytale-ish. A retelling of Goldilocks and the three bears, only set in a bar or coffee shop around closing time, and three bearishly big guys instead of actual bears, of course.
Goldilocks will have to pay for what she drank, somehow.
Should be suitably dark, though not sure if I want to put it as noncon or just erotic coupling. We’ll see as I run with the idea in my perverted mind for a while.

That's the spirit!

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Not even Cinderella or Snow White or any other Disney character. There are thousand and thousands of fairy tales from all over the world. Even then, it doesn't need to be an existing fairy tale. Just tell it like a fairy tale. Give it that whimsical, semi-dreamlike quality. Lots of repetitions, lots of threes, or sevens, or nines.

So seven sons go for a ride in a silver carriage with seven mothers. The Big Bad Wolf has to choose between three Golden Princesses. In a cottage in the Dark Forest lives a charcoal burner who happens to have a nice view of the bend in the river where the farmers' daughters bathe...

Thank you for the support and ideas

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I'm not sure it has to be strictly a retelling of an existing fairy tale. I think you can do whatever you want. So, Cinderella discovers an incestuous relationship between her wicked stepmother and the other daughters? Snow White has a gang bang with the dwarves? Little Red Riding Hood gets bitten by the wolf and becomes a werewolf? Just some options that may be more in someone's norm.

Thank you for the support and ideas

 

[NuclearFairy]

I wonder if Hansel and Gretel fall under the 'you can't age characters up' rule?

I know this was said in jest, but... They actually are adults by the end of the story with Gretel marrying a prince and everything. It's just kinda hard to find the full story.

 

[Bamagan]

I know this was said in jest, but... They actually are adults by the end of the story with Gretel marrying a prince and everything. It's just kinda hard to find the full story.

It still probably wouldn't fly here. Harry Potter and his cohorts were technically adults at the end of those books, but epilogue scenes like that don't carry much weight set against the main part of the story.

 

[NuclearFairy]

It still probably wouldn't fly here. Harry Potter and his cohorts were technically adults at the end of those books, but epilogue scenes like that don't carry much weight set against the main part of the story.

Nah you're right. You'd probably have to do the end of the story as a stand alone and give them different names. And then knowing this site it'd go best if it was twincest, and then have the prince not fully get his curse broken and be stuck as some sort of anthro deer that lives happily ever after with the twins in the woods.