Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20130812030652/@comment-26897541-20151018004209

Yeah, this is an old post, I know. But I want to explain my origins in this fandom anyway!

I don't remember how I found out about EAH. Either I found the first book and bought it (because I've ALWAYS been into Fairy Tale retellings and Twisted Fairy Tales), or I was browsing Netflix and found it. Either way, I saw/read it and was instantly hooked. And at the time there was no mention of a child of Beauty and the Beast (which I thought was strange since even with the older versions that story generally has a happy ending--depending upon your idea of "happy" I guess). SO I decided, then and there, that I would create myself a child of Beauty and the Beast. I did research, both on the design style and the story, and out came my very first EAH OC, Rose de Beaute. At this point I had already been on DeviantART for a year or two, so I went ahead and posted her there. I then decided that I wanted to make more OC's, so I looked into other EAH OC's, both on dA and just in a general Google search. And I discovered some things. 1. That Little Mermaid OC's are TERRIBLY overdone, as are Snow Queen OC's (to be clear, this doesn't mean there aren't good ones; it just means that there are a LOT of them), and 2. I wanted nothing to do with either story. (Ironies. There are so many.) So instead, I searched for a list of obscure fairy tales, undercover hipster that I am, so that there was minimal chance that my characters would have the same destinies as anyone else's characters. (To this day I haven't seen any other Canary Prince OC's, and only one Imp Prince OC.) I picked out stories I liked and could use, and created OC's for them. (Err, the main characters anyway.)

Then I discovered the Wiki as I was browsing through different EAH characters on dA. I had noticed that some of them were registered on this Wiki, and I was interested in this community of EAH characters since there isn't as much of a community on dA. That started the ball rolling of me joining and making pages. And as I looked through, I of course saw the many, MANY OC's of the Little Mermaid, most of which were (still are) pretty bad. And I decided that I would show them (because I have a weird non-competitive competitive streak that's only activated at certain times, mostly when I want to show specific people up) how to make a REAL (or what I thought of as "real") Little Mermaid OC. So I created Arion and went out of my way to show how very unhappy he was about his destiny (to combat the people who only know the Disney version and think he gets a happily ever after), and also to show that there can be guys meant to take the place of princesses. (A vast majority of Little Mermaid OC's are female, and even fewer of the males are done properly. I have in fact seen one that legitimately looks like a genderbent Ariel, no lie.) And to round out the story and further combat the tropes, I created the next prince and temple girl from the story. (Something that I haven't seen..... ever? Surprisingly?) So yeah. That's the motivation behind my characters.