Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20140205232944/@comment-26414442-20140304092346

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 Bug practically said all my thoughts. Go Bug.

As for my Dead Epics OCs, I have Airmid Valerian, who actually isn't related to the original physician at all. Her parents were poor tailors who gave her away to Death because they couldn't care for her anymore.

My other Dead Epics OC is Icarus Juniper, but the brother of the Juniper Tree is brought back to life at the end, so it's kinda simple, really? His father grew up, got married, became a widower, and eventually, once Icarus pledges his destiny, his father will take on another wife.

I haven't seen a child of the Little Shroud yet, but if someone does make it, I've always had the headcanon that the legacy follows the mother's destiny, not the child's. So the mother has two children, the one who dies, and then another, who follows the destiny of the mother. And so it continues.