Considering the older versions had the stepsisters cutting off their toes and heels to fit into the glass slipper, I don't think you'd have to work to hard to make Cinderella a dark story.
Yesssssss, they were, weren't they? I think the worst one I read was where the Prince had the stepsisters put inside barrels, then had nails driven into the barrel all around, and then had the barrel rolled down through the town and into the river. That one just gave me the willies.
I mean, like, how the fuck? What the fuck? I suspect that the main thing with a retelling of Cinderella through Anakin would be to keep the tone light enough so that the reader did, indeed think that this was going to be a happy ending. Cinderalla-kins is going to get married to Prince Kenobi, happily ever after, etc.
And instead, to just whammy the reader hard with a succint statementthat there can't even be a happy ending in a Cinderella if Anakin is involved.
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artist!obi-wan would be the cutest thing. he really would be.
Date: 2005-10-28 05:41 pm (UTC)Yesssssss, they were, weren't they? I think the worst one I read was where the Prince had the stepsisters put inside barrels, then had nails driven into the barrel all around, and then had the barrel rolled down through the town and into the river. That one just gave me the willies.
I mean, like, how the fuck? What the fuck? I suspect that the main thing with a retelling of Cinderella through Anakin would be to keep the tone light enough so that the reader did, indeed think that this was going to be a happy ending. Cinderalla-kins is going to get married to Prince Kenobi, happily ever after, etc.
And instead, to just whammy the reader hard with a succint statementthat there can't even be a happy ending in a Cinderella if Anakin is involved.