[ SECRET POST #2932 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2932 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: What are you reading FS?

[iceyred]

To be honest, if someone rescued me and mine from a monster, I'd think twice before turning down his marriage proposal. That's pretty impressive.

The Bros Grimm could get weird in places. I seem to remember a lot of cannibalism in their stories.

Re: What are you reading FS?

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, her brother in stag form defeated the monster, it just apparently took him a while. The tailor essentially got kidnapped by said stag-brother and shoved into the enchanted cave, whereupon the maiden instructed him to release her from the coffin and kind of ordered him to help her out with the rest. The marriage is also her idea, on the grounds that he's obviously chosen by Heaven to be her deliverer/husband:

"The tailor obeyed without delay, and she immediately raised up the glass lid, came out and hastened into the corner of the hall, where she covered herself with a large cloak. Then she seated herself on a stone, ordered the young man to come to her, and after she had imprinted a friendly kiss on his lips, she said, 'My long-desired deliverer, kind Heaven has guided thee to me and put an end to my sorrows. On the self-same day when they end, shall thy happiness begin. Thou art the husband chosen for me by Heaven.'"

It's mostly the fact that he basically bumbles in and lands himself a wife just for showing up and throwing back a bolt that gets me a little. Well, that and helping her lug the miniature castle and people-jars back upstairs to be un-miniaturised. If it'd been me, I'd have just thanked him from the bottom of my heart and maybe seen to it that he'd want for nothing financially. Marriage, given that she'd never shown any inclination before, has just escaped one attempted forced marriage, is reunited her brother now, and also doesn't know the guy from Adam, seems a bit shoe-horned on due to it being the standard 'hero in a fairytale' reward.

But it's still far from the worst 'woman as reward' in fairytales, and the story is pretty awesome, so I'm inclined to let it pass.