How Some Children Never Wanted to Hear Fairy Tales Anymore

(align: "=><=")[ ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕟 ℕ𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕎𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝔽𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕪 𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝔸𝕟𝕪𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 (css: "font-size: 80%;")[𝔞 𝔤𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔗𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔊𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 𝔍𝔞𝔪] ⋆ ☙ [[Start->chapter1]] / [[About->about]] ❧ (css: "font-size: 75%;")[2018 Rafael Batista de Lima] ]

This game was made for (link:"Twine Games Jam")[(gotoURL:"https://itch.io/jam/twine-games-jam";)], which I started with less than three days remaining. I had one month to start it but didn't know how to do it most of the time, because I was not able to find any fairy tale that had a reasonable or interesting moral, conclusion. Then, upon reading (link:'"How Some Children Played at Slaughtering"')[(gotoURL:"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Some_Children_Played_at_Slaughtering";)], it related to me to the patterns in the stories the fairy tales present us. I delayed it until the end, thinking I would be able to let it go. I did not, so here we are. 6:37 AM 2/13/18

(css: "font-size: 200%;")[ T]he story you are about to hear is a story you already have heard, but, who knows, maybe you were not able to discern the fantasy from the reality, or, relate them. [[Begin the story->beginning]]

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(align: "=><=")[ (css: "font-size: 80%;")[ Please be advised that it may contain some disturbing content and while I only intent to use it to offer some commentary, it might only be distasteful. No graphical violence or of any kind, though. ] (live: 3s)[[[Begin the story->beginning]]] ]

(css: "font-size: 200%;")[ T]he king fell in love by the beauty of the princess at first sight, so he grabbed the unconscious princess and kissed her. Then he took her to his castle and they married and had several children, even though the princess never woke up. But the king did it all for his love. Only the king already had a queen and she was not in favour of a new queen, so she decided to do something to guarantee her position. She entrusted her plan to a close friend that sold her out to the king in exchange of a considerable reward. The king then had to punish the queen by throwing her at a cauldron and then feeding her remains to the sleeping princess so they would be together. The king did it all for his love. The boy then didn't want to be king anymore and got back home. [[Continue->ending]]

(css: "font-size: 200%;")[ F]rom the union of a couple, a healthy girl was born, resembling very much her mother. They gave her a good education, and she was grateful. When she was 4, they gave her a brother, and she was happy. As her brother grew up, she noticed they were educated differently, but she also knew her parents loved them the same. She thought: "Boys and girls should be different then. Well, whatever, the important part is that I'm loved". So she moved on. [[Continue->children]]

(css: "font-size: 200%;")[ T]he boy playing king then took a tree branch and raised it up. "I take my powerful sword and my strong horse and I run to the castle where the ogre kept you away. Then I sliced the ogre with my powerful sword, and the floor got painted with it guts!" The girl then got tired of playing and said she wanted to go home. "No, let's finish this story". But the girl was not having fun anymore and she got back to the house. So the boy pretend the princess was put in a eternal sleep by a curse from a ugly witch, resentful stepmother or jealous sister. [[Continue->king]]

(css: "font-size: 200%;")[ T]he children then decided they didn't want to be princesses and kings anymore and kept their hands covering her ears every night when they were told fairy tales. Some years later, while looking for a sheep that gone too far, the boy found a magical cat that told him it could give her two wishes. "Get away from me right now and never come back". And it did it instantly. A year later the girl was already a young lady, that fancied a young man she eventually saw passing close by her house. Then one day she found he was a noble, so every time he get close to the house, she screwed her hair and put her head in the pig feeder to scare the young man off. (align: "=><=")[(css: "font-size: 125%;")[𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕰𝖓𝖉 (text-rotate:45)[♕]]]

(css: "font-size: 200%;")[ T]he girl and her brother decided then to play princess and king, just as they learned from the stories they were told. The princess and the king were from different countries. The princess was the most beautiful one and the king was the bravest one. The children continued to play a few meters apart from each other, describing their roleplaying in loud voice to each other. [[Continue->ogre]]

(css: "font-size: 200%;")[ T]hen one day when the princess was collecting flowers on a hill close to the village, a terrible ogre came at her. "So I got back to the castle to take my sword". "No, you can't do that, princess don't fight with monsters". "I got a bow and arrows then?" "No! Princess wait while the heroes act!" [[Continue->saviour]]