Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25783864-20150107211331/@comment-4598697-20150108024137

I'm a sucker for darker fairy tales. I think it's best to acknowledge the violence. You might have to get used to violence. Maybe don't go into too much detail, but at least acknowledge it. My OCs acknowledge violence in their description. Isidore L'Orange, my main OC, is for the fairy tale The Bee and the Orange Tree, which contains a lot of violence and cannibalism, and the prince and princess are first cousins. Remember, early fairy tales were written for adults, not children. This story is an example of that.

My OC Desiderio Cenere is for an old Cinderella variant called La gatta Cenerentola, and it is probably one of the most violent variants of Cinderella there is - it's far more violent than the Grimm version (Perrault based his version on this one, although ironically it's more like the Grimm version than the Perrault one). Desiderio is honest in describing the violence - he's a Rebel because the story makes him uncomfortable.