Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20140205232944/@comment-4598697-20140309221726

Jade Encrusted Bugs wrote: LillyKitten wrote:

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 In sliiiiiiightly more gruesome versions of Red Riding Hood the Wolf lives, but revlecting on a certain thread I'm preeeety sure people know this by now. ;) Maybe the directors took some creative liscense and hav the Big Bad live like in earlier versions while playing out Red Riding Hood in more sanitized variations of the tale? I'm not too knowleedgable on different tellings of the King Lear ledgend, but if there happens to be one different from Shakespeare's take, perhaps there's some plausibility? Canon's pretty shaky when it comes to how they deal with supposedly dead fairy tale parents.

I think it's pretty interesting to see how the fandom deals with them. Finding loopholes is pretty fun! I've seen a few Little Match Girl children about but their creators haven't really explained why they exist. I don't mind at all, ehe~ I have a theory on how it'd work though: I'm thinking that, with each generation of The Little Match Girl story, the parents have two children. One becomes said Match Girl and suffers a tragic fate, the other continues the legacy by marring into a poor family and becomes the parent to the Match Girl after that. Ba-da-bing, more interesting drama and another suddering OC/potential canon character~

With my own Dead Epics OCs, the last Tin Soldier in Stannum Steadfast's tale melted into the shape of a heart. However, it's not that hard to assume that the descendants of the family that made them created another batch of toy soldiers from another tin spoon. As with Bathilda Waits? I just had it so her mother bore a child out of wedlock before the story played out/being sentenced to death. Rather dark, but she's my own beast of an OC and it works for me. :P I always make sure that my OCs are born to characters who survive the end of the story - at any rate the mother must survive. That's why Cassius Dinde, my OC for Madame d'Aulnoy's The Yellow Dwarf, is the son of the Fairy of the Desert and not Princess Toutebelle/Bellissima, because the princess dies at the end of the story. (An OC for her could not possibly exist because she is her mother's last surviving child, unlike The Little Mermaid who has several sisters.) The Fairy of the Desert survives to the end, though. Cassius' father is supposed to be an unnamed man (most likely a prince or at least a nobleman).

Sapphira Cle and Rosina Fioravante, two of my OCs, were born after the deaths of their fathers. It's possible for a woman to give birth after the father of the baby has died.