Someone to paint the fourth wall with?

[insourarmor.livejournal.com]

So one of the big things with my crack-addled canon is that the characters are, well, characters. The world as they know it is largely controlled by a dead man writing it as a story (don't... don't ask.) and Mytho is even ripped straight from a fairy tale. As such, the story and the characters have some preoccupation with fairy tale tropes, storytelling, and the nature of the fourth wall.

What I'm wondering and sparing the OOC comm from, is if there are any characters/muns floating around with similar preoccupations with stories/fairy tale type things/so on.

Yes, I know we just had a plotting meme last night, but I got there late (even if I used a placeholderp) and I really wanted to have some text in the post instead of just posting this image that makes a joke of Tony Stark's most well-known character trait.

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[robyn-boco.livejournal.com]

I write fairy tales. Usually they get turned into comics.

I will happily talk more about this when it's not lol thunderstorm.

[latrodectus]

I participated in the 4chan thread that image was created in. Fun fact...

I've written some fanfic that explictly dealt with fairy tale tropes. Both what it means to be a storyteller and forcing old legends onto modern canons. For example, I did a story where JRPG SuikoIII Percival's backstory was explained in terms of the 12th century Arthurian Perceval ++ the quest for the holy grail. I haven't w/any of the characters I play in this game, but I've thought about it and am maybe working on one.

There's one canon Black Widow story that is meant to be based off a Russian folktale "the Night Bird" but I can't for the life of me find the original story.

There was also a "Marvel Fairy Tales" series that ran a while ago.

[pinkdoombubble.livejournal.com]

um. I have contemplated apping Grimmtales!Red Riding Hood. Also Fables is pretty great, and the only real American comics series I read besides Sandman. And I have a card game wherein you make your own fairy tales.

So yes. I do rather enjoy fairy tales. Not my superfavoriteever type of fiction, but I really do like them.

[goryteller]

har har. har har. har.

Other than the obvious, there's a relatively common theory that Katurian is a character in one of his own stories, because he occasionally refers to himself in the third person and addresses the audience (even... when... dead...). The Pillowman pretty much crushes the fourth wall and throws bodies between the two sides.

[notadartboard]

Uhhhhhhhhhh I guess Sanji counts? It's canon that he reads (or read, as a kid) fairy tales and books of lore, everything from Norland the Liar to an encyclopedia of devil fruit. It's where he gets his ultra-chivalrous ideals.

Not to spoil too heavily in case anyone wants to read the manga (AHAHAHAHHAA) but Norland the Liar was a fairy tale that is supposedly well-known among kids from North and East Blue that turns out to have been based on a true story. And the Strawhats end up pretty much putting an end to that story by getting involved in a centuries-old war.

[sixgoodreasons.livejournal.com]

I love this meme.