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“Whats your favorite Fairy Tale?”
That’s a loaded question in RWBY, the CGI-anime that captured many hearts and deservedly so. It’s about a world where fairy tales may inspire, but also conceal and reveal other truths. There’s ancient powers and horrible things hiding in the shadows of the world of RWBY, and not everyone has a happy ending coming.
For us though, we’re pretty sure our fairy tales are just that – tales. There’s no hidden magic or secret orders to save us. There’s no grand plan.
This can make us lose hope. We want it to mean something. We want a pattern. We want to know we can fix it. We want the heroes and heroines to come save us.
There’s no well-crafted tale. We’re on our own here, in the dark, with the monsters closing in.
So what good are fairy tales? What good are stories? What good are our books and comics and legends when the light goes dim in the world?
There’s an answer, and that answer is really about questions because you have the answers.
Why did they appeal to you?
How did they inspire you?
What did they teach you?
If there’s no heroes and heroines then it’s time for us to look to their stories and make them real. If there’s no Happy Ending guaranteed, then we make the best ending we can.
So there, in the dark, let me reach out to you with one more question.
“Whats your favorite Fairy Tale?”
– Steve