Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20130812030652/@comment-15721109-20130818083522

Hey guys!

First of all, I am a Dutch girl, so English is not my first language. That's why it might not be perfect... Don't be afraid to correct me, I don't bite.

I always loved fairy tales; I still have a large collection of story books and I love to visit my favorite attraction park, which is originally based on fairy tales. It is this park that gave me a lot of inspiration.

My favorite fairy tale is 'The Six Servants'. I came to know this story because the Themepark has a very large statue of one of the characters, the Servant with the Long Neck.I fell in love with the tale after the first time I watched the only animated version of it, and now, years later, I am still obsessed with it. I know that it's not a well-known story, and that's why I want to share the love to the world.

When I was younger, I started to make a lot of drawings and comics (which were not even funny) of The Six Servants. For some reason, I related myself to Bulleteye, AKA the Servant with the sharp/powerful eyes. So I decided to make this character look like myself and turned him into a young female. I based the other characters on my friends, but their looks changed by the years when I made new friends.

A few weeks ago, I found out that there was a series about a school for the sons and daughters of fairy tale characters, and I thought: "Hey, what if there was a character in it who is the child of one of the Six Servants?". I looked further for more information, so I came on the Ever After High Facebook page. This page had a poll: 'What characters would you like to see in the series'. When I saw that a lot of people wanted to see a son or daughter from a character who is not from a fairy tale, or just appears in the Disney version for example, I got a little frustrated. I just felt a need to make up my own character who IS related to an original fairy tale character, even though this tale is very little-known. When I looked around at DeviantArt, I saw that many people made their own EAH OC's. All I had to do, was designing a new outfit for my own version of Bulleteye and give her a new name... And that's how Ilona Sharp was born...