4th Experiment

[funkinmylab]

Hm. After doing some reading at the library, I'm a little perplexed. It's always the same formula for fairy tale stories. Knight meets princess, princess gets captured, knight goes to save the princess and defeats the horri~ble dragon and they all live happily ever after

Comments

[protects_them]

But it's a knight's duty to protect his princess! What fun is a story about a person failing to protect what he values most?

[funkinmylab]

There's nothing wrong with a little surprise twist of an ending!

Or how about this? The knight turned out to be the villain all along!

[protects_them]

No way! A knight would never be a villain. If he was a villain, then he can't really be a knight!

[funkinmylab]

Muhaha! Then how about the princess becomes the hero instead and defeats the evil knight~?

[cleavage_rifle]

W-Wouldn't a story be more satisfying if the knight wins despite the odds? That's what I think...

[funkinmylab]

Hm... The knight must always win because he's the hero, correct?

[cleavage_rifle]

Y-Yes! The knight must win because he is fighting for something good.

[funkinmylab]

... Something good, huh? I've seen such acts of bravery before.

[heartstar_blues]

Plenty of people get killed by dragons... The only good stories are about the winners though.

I beat a dragon once.

[Well helped beat a dragon once... still no one else from his group was here.]

[funkinmylab]

Really now? Then let's hear your amazing story.

[heartstar_blues]

It was eating people, it tried to put my friend in it's pant's, so I flew up and ripped it's finger off.

Then Aaron kinda went inside it and ripped its heart out...

But it knocked me through a building and I didn't even take a scratch.

[Crap... okay so he didn't kill it, he just fought it...]

[funkinmylab]

Oho! A well played move by this Aaron! It sounds like you were only extra baggage for a majority of the fight.

[frogsicles]

I dunno. I like happy endings.

[funkinmylab]

As expected of you. Still, have you ever read a story where the princess saves herself?

[frogsicles]

What's that got to do with anything? A happy ending is a happy ending, and whoever saves the princess doesn't matter! As long as everyone is happy at the end of the story, I'm happy.

[funkinmylab]

Geh...! I just don't understand these concepts of emotion within storytelling! If you read the same happy ending a thousand times, then surely you'd get bored of it!

[cowardly_prince]

[chuckle]

A fan of realism, aren't you?

[funkinmylab]

Realism? I suppose you could say that. I just expected differently from humans and their storytelling compared to the ones that I've heard from the Netherworld.

[cowardly_prince]

Stories are mostly told to entertain and instill morals. It's easier to do both of those things if the hero triumphs. It's childish, that's all.

[funkinmylab]

Hmph! Where I'm from, such stories are told to install fear and amazement!