I recently finished reading Ash by Malinda Lo. It was an okay book, I guess, but it did pique my interest in fairy tales. Now, when I say "fairy tales" I don't mean "Once upon a time" or those cheesy Disney Movies (even though I love cheesy Disney fairy tales). I mean the original fairy tales. The tales that were depressing, involved sacrifice, and sometimes death. A wish for a life.
The stories Lo used to help tell her story were like that. There were stories where young girls wanted to see a fairy so badly that they simply lost themselves and never work up. There were stories about people who were forced to dance around bonfires for the fairies for the rest of eternity simply because they had a bite of fairy food.
The stories were dark, and everyone needs a little douse of depression in their lives every now and then.
I mean, look at the characters I've created. Although a lot of them were originally supposed to be happy, they all ended up with something depressing. Take Izzy, for example. He was simply supposed to be adopted. His parents weren't supposed to be dead, and his boss was still supposed to be alive. However, all of a sudden, I changed all of that. His mom died during labor, his dad commited suicide shortly after, and his boss (who is no longer his boss, but his dad's best friend) ran away and eventually died while Izzy was in the room. Depressing, right? All of my characters end up with a tragic back story or a tragic future, but hey, I guess that's what makes them interesting.
We can't all have happy endings, can we Stephanie Meyer?
xD
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