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thanks to bloodrayne for showing me this thread, i've read the entire thing im glad i did, its helped me imensly...i've got a few ideas here are some of them....
little red riding hood:
little red is all grown up (well actually she's seventeen or so) and she's doing the "going into the forst" thing that her mother never told her to do, her mother's voice whispering in her head about the dangers of the forest. Her father, having been killed long ago, was once a woodcutter who use to come home, after a long day of cutting wood, to tell bedtime stories of all the "nasty" things that lived in the forest.
he once told little red about a cottage that was in the centre of the fores the housed a wicked witch in the guise of an old grandmother. being a bold little girl Little red always tried to venture into the forest to view this old cottage and the wicked witch, but was always thwarted. after her nine birthday Little Red forgot about the cottage putting it behind her. Her father died shortly after.
Now on the eve of her father's death Little red goes into the forst, wearing the blood red cloak, and wonders towards the cottage humming her favourite lullaby, the sun setting and the village woodcutters slowly walking home from a long days work.
upon reaching the little run down cottage Little Red knows upon the door repeating the words she always sings "Grandmother, Grandmother oh please let me in." (read this in an original version of Little Red) as always the witch lets her in, disguised as an old woman. once she is inside the cottage she see's the large massive wolf sitting in the corner of the little cottage, teeth bared snarling with saliva dripping from its black lips. Little Red screams, alerting one of the woodsman. He comes running, slaughters the wolf and saves Little Red. But...the witch is behind him and cuts him down, severing his head from his body.
Little Red smiles as she watches the body fall to the ground, an image of her father falling the same way many years before. his blood spilling upon her pretty white cloak that her mother had bought her for her birthday. the axe was quite heavy for her small little hands. as she watches the new woodsmand bleed to death her mothers voice rings in her ears, telling her not to go into the woods.
basically my Little Red story is that Little Red's father sexually abused her when she was younger, in the cottage in the woods, and her mother knew about it but could do nothing to stop it (females didnt have rights back then) except to warn Little Red never to go into the forest. so of course LIttle Red kills her father and then lures any woodscutters (lumping them in with her father and howe vile he was) to kill them. I dont know if i want to make the witch a figment of Little Reds imgination, to give her an excuse so that she doesn't realize she is the one killing the men or not.
i have a beauty and the beast story that im twisitng right now, but i havent gotten very far i've only thought up the idea that Beauty's family has been put under a curse (one that went wrong) and selected females in the family have gained two split personalities, one innocent and sweet the other twisted and evil. Her mother had the split personalities and Beauty is the only one out of her two sisters to gain the curse. She goes out every night and rampages through the village killing off whom ever she can find (in her evil personality state of course) the villages think its a beast and call for the Prince's aid. The Prince is the only living member of his family as long ago they were slaughtered by a beast (beauty's mother, but nobody but the father knows this) and now he is a cold senselss man. He refused the villages and leaves them to be slaughter. Beauty and her family live in the woods off the Princes Castle, keeping themselvs as far away from the village as possible....thats all i have so far....i have to figure out how im getting beauty into the castle...she's going confuse the hell out of the prince because one minute she's pure and innocent the next she's wicked and evil.
so what do you guys think?
xxfrostyxx
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