The Journey Back Into The Woods

Posted by Fritz Tentativa on November 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Everybody everywhere has at one point in their formative years been fed with the tainted idea that all step-sisters, most especially step-mothers, are sickeningly conniving and brutally wicked, thanks to fairy tales. That and princes would ultimately have to leave their kingdoms in search for their one true love because of either of the following:

The nobles are the only â€œfairâ€ people in the â€œlandâ€ mainly because everyone else do not have the right nor the luxury at vanity;

Princes can not just marry local princesses because that would be plain incestuous and immoral, albeit tempting, or that local princesses unrelated to them up to the third degree of consanguinity have long been swept off their feet by other princes from other kingdoms; or

Their kingdoms are completely worthless. They know so because they obey a crowned Queen who does not have an ounce of charisma, covers for the serious misdeeds of an obese King, making her more loathed than hated, and whose inkling at giving attention to decrees that are of distastefully mediocre importance make her citizens smirk in shame when word gets to other kingdoms. The prince thus takes it upon himself to leave his people, using only his charm and nobility to win maidens from distant territory whose kingdoms are less chaotic and where he can also get paid at 4x a princeâ€™s daily wage. Thus is the sweet reward of migration, the modern term for the more common old statement that went â€œin search for his one true love in a land far, far away.â€