has anyone read the original fairy tales? no, not the disney ones.
ruin the endings by telling the ones you read.
me first.
the little mermaid (my personal fave) by disney was soooo sugarcoated.
in the original, she gets her tongue cut out by the sea witch, and does not have the option of being a mermaid ever again. so yea, she accepts. she goes to the surface, and is saved by the prince. she is seen as a mute, but still the prince falls in love with her because in his subconcious, she rescued him, right?
anyhow... the prince loved to watch her dance. every time she would dance, it would feel like knives were stabbing her in the feet, but she would still do it. yeesh!
well... the end is near: the prince is set to marry someone else. the mermaid's sisters come to her the night of the wedding and tell her, that they cut thier hair off to make a deal with the seawitch. their hair for a special knife, that when the little mermaid stabbed the prince in the heart, and his blood touched her feet, they would turn back to fins, and she could go home.
she decides to do this, and goes to where the prince and his new wife slept. she debates whether or not to kill him, in the end, decides she cannot do it. she goes to die on the ship's deck... and right when her body hits the ocean, and turns to seafoam, the prince realizes the truth, but it is too late.
the end.
i love that storyi cried when i sawa 70's anime about it though... i was sobbing so hard!!!!



i cried when i sawa 70's anime about it though... i was sobbing so hard!!!!
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