Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-3991308-20150906100513/@comment-11163511-20151003083230

"We are and it's so much easier for folks like you, having fewer specifics in your tales make them more tolerant to drastic changes. And being public property, you know, people would make changes so you'd fit in with society's ever changing standards, I don't think things could go too bad? Then again, it's still very dangerous as it could go the other way, when people choose to acknowledge darker and twisted versions of stories, it's the characters, us, who take the toll as we'd have to fulfill these versions. So came the "collectors", those who protect stories from further change as when they collect stories and interpret them, the stories kinda become these authors' own intellectual property, like a copyright of sorts. If you're an Andersen, Grimm, Perault, so on and so on, you've somewhat been blessed with this protection. That's what prevented change within stories even myself, their integrity being further preserved though the names of authors or collectors. Though I had it from the begining and most of you only have it after many generations have gone through their changing destinies."

"Oh I see. Well, I guess it wasn't explicit stated, so...Either way works, children are often meant to be metaphors for absolute purity and being a teenager reflects some not so great traditions of the past, girls being as old as 13 were considered old enough for marriages. And they're quite desirable targets for crazy blokes represented by the image of the wolf, as they can't stay young forever now can they?"

"Stories are somewhat reflections of life, so many of society's prejudices would be interpreted into the tales. Given the fact we are kind of slow in changing, these prejudices linger on for longer. If I may ask you, what is more likely to be known, a story of a heroine or a hero? Even if this world is built upon women's tales, I think there's a reason why tales about men are more mainstream, since there's the old age concept of women should be seen and not be heard. Because of they don't really have a voice in old societies, they lose hope in themselves. Those who have a least a bit of hope would dream of what they could do, hence the stories of heroines. Those who don't dream of what others could do for them. Men most likely, as they were the ones who had the voices, whose decisions and actions actually are listened to by people of higher authority. There's also the change of the attitude of the successing characters. Don't you see how much princes and heroes are celebrated even in blind ways? They are the representatives of the utter goodness in women's dreams but because they were so praised, these so called "gallants" have hearts blackened by pride. The cause for saving people in general and damsels in particular has changed. The first heroes saved others because they wanted to help those who weren't able to help themselves. now it's almost all for the money, the ladies and other petty material goods. Pathetic."