Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20140205232944/@comment-14800267-20140303070929

The problem with "versions" of the Little Mermaid is like using differnt "versions" of Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland. None of them are ambigious tales that started as spoken tradition, they were written and copies of their original text are freely available. I dragged out my version of the Little Mermaid. It's a reliatively early translation of the original compedium of Hans Anderson works. The book its self has no date plate, but the bookseller pencilled "1888" on the flyleaf, and they generally know (I worked for one for awhile). Anyway, she turns into sea foam, but is rescued by "daughters of the air" who also have no souls, however, if they do kind deeds for three hundred years, they will be granted a soul and entry to heaven- but would any cild of Air Spirit!Little Mermaid Daughter be legitimate as she HAS no tale to fufill?

I admit, I object mightily to the "but they died before they could have children" debate. *Holds up Jane Hook* Exhibit A- and I ask the members of the Dead Epics Society to step forward as exhibit B. Then we look at canon issues, like the big one- Clara Lear, who father HAD three daughters who all died without issue, before dying himself. Then there's Cerise's father, Big Bad, who was gutted by Hunters father but still seems quite alive and well enough to have a daughter

Welcome to fandoms my friend. They've been like that since the internet started and they'll be like that forvermore, I remember The Lion King used to be HUGE for OCs. Pink and green spotted lions with angel wings and no rational reason for it. Lionesses that were rock stars, lions who fought with swords and had piercings. People's mutilation of canon is a never eding thing, because it's often the youngest and least original who do it. They inevitably fall out of hte fandom quickly either becasue no one is faving and lavishing love on THIER OC while others get it (and that's like, so not fair!) or their three second attention span wanes and somethng shiny comes along.

I have a special place of loathing for Ariel. I am no friend of Disney's but Ariel is one of my deepest hates. She's selfish, pig headed, lying and utterly insensitive to everyone around her, and yet supposedly a model to young girls.