IC - Questions and Answers

[sythyry]

Perhaps I have spent too long on some Herethroy farmers who aren't even traff. So, I shall answer questions to-day. Perhaps I shall answer them wisely and well, perhaps flippantly and falsely, and, if you are very lucky, you or I will be able to tell which I did.

But beware! If you ask me a question, I may ask one back, which you are morally obliged to answer as well as I answered yours, if not better or worse!

Comments

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I have this fairy tale that I am trying to decipher. It's old and it was part of an oral tradition, and it feels like it was changed halfway through to remove traces of magic use and references to fairies due to a religious war back in the past.

Being long term friends with a monster of great power, what kind of motivations would there be to keep a person cursed due to some other person's wish? Assume for the moment that both parties are truely innocent of wanting any harm to befall either. and that neither really wishes the wish to remain, even though they have no way of communicating this.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit confused about the people involved. Let us say, Sh wishes to keep G cursed out of deference to A's wish? And neither Sh nor A wishes the curse to remain?

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Yes. that would be sort of the gist of it.

It's one of those "I am so sorry, I never meant to, never imagined that the wish would be real" kind of situations for A, and Sh is one of those "I'd love to undo the wish, but A never comes and visits, so I never know it's not what she really wanted types" people.

Of course, it makes it harder that Sh never meet A... but that's fairly the jist of it. Which is kinda actually common in a lot of our Fairy Tales.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

This seems to rely on Sh and A never having a chat, or even exchanging letters. While such situations do happen fairly often in real life, I cannot think of a case where they happen in literature without seeming contrived. I cannot think of a case where they happen in real life without me wanting to hire a few devious Khtsoyis to throw raw eggs at the characters involved until they show at least a twelfth-of-a-dram of sense, either, so I suppose it's about the same thing.