The Girl Without Hands

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**The Girl Without Hands** is the fifth episode of the first season of American McGee's Grimm and is based on the fairy tale of the same name.

## Characters

**NOTE** This list only includes the characters that played an active role in the story and does not include side characters or Grimm.

* The Handless Maiden
* Satan
* The King
* The Miller
* Guardian Angel
* The Handless Maiden's Child

## Plot

### Light Version

A miller is confronted by The Devil who demands a favour from The Miller. The Devil returns some time later and asks for the miller to hand over his daughter, however, the Miller cuts his daughter's hands off, causing her to sob endlessly, getting her stubs wet which Satan finds disgusting. As a result of this grievous bodily harm caused to her, the daughter runs away. Feeling hungry, the Handless Maiden attempts to pick a fruit from the royal garden, but is caught by the king. Despite this being a crime punishable by death, the woman's beauty wins the king over, who gifts her metal hands, and they quickly get married and soon have a child. After their child is born, a war starts and the king goes off to battle, while at the warzone he sends letters to his wife, but the letters get intercepted by Satan who changes the letters into orders to have the queen executed. Once the Handless Maiden finds out, she run away with her child. Out in the wilderness, they are protected by Guardian Angel who keeps them safe. The Handless Maiden goes back home and decides to forgive her father for what he did to her, while coincidentally, her husband returns from war and reveals he never intended to have her executed and that she was tricked. Everyone then lives happy ever after.

### Dark Version

A miller is visited by The Devil, the Devil demands the miller's life, but he promises his daughter's instead. When Satan comes to visit some time later and finds the cowardly miller had cut off his daughter's hands, ruining her for Satan. She runs away from home and attempts to eat a large pear from the royal garden, but is caught by the king who threatens to kill her. However, he sees she is "armless" and extremely beautiful, as such he make her sharp claws as well as quickly marrying her and having a child. Soon after the child is born, The King goes on a crusade to squash multiple rebellions and to take over land, whilst doing so, he sends letters to his wife, but the letters are intercepted by Satan who changes the letters into orders to have the queen executed. Once the Handless Maiden finds out, she run away with her child. Out in the wilderness, they are protected by Guardian Angel who keeps them safe but fills her mind full of revenge against the man who put her into that state in the first place. At some point she reunites with her husband and the two head to her old home where they slaughter all the residence with the Handless Maiden murdering her father, exacting revenge. She, her child and her husband then lived happy ever after.

## Levels

### Scene 1

The scene is a short one with Grimm converting The Miller and The Devil's conversation with each other.

### Scene 2

At The Miller's home now, with several windmills and the Handless Maiden, another short scene which Grimm darkens.

### Scene 3

Now at on the Castle grounds, Grimm first transforms the garden before moving to the King and the Handless Maiden's first meeting.

### Scene 4

The King is preparing for war as Grimm realises the coincidence that The King immediately goes to war after the Handless Maiden gives birth, essentially leaving her alone to look after the heir. He transforms the preparations into something more sinister.

### Scene 5

Grimm arrives at the warzone and letter manipulation, but finds it all too innocent compared to what a medieval warzone should look like. He turns the warzone into a bloodbath full of bodies and gore, with even the rain being blood.

### Scene 6

The wilderness is too full of life, as such Grimm converts it into a desert, he then tracks the Handless Maiden talking to the Guardian Angel, transforming the scene into something more sinister and less holy.

### Scene 7

The scene Grimm wanted to change the most, the moment the Handless Maiden reunites with her husband and forgives her father. He starts off on a small island before moving to the mainland, where he gives the Handless Maiden the chance to have revenge, allowing her to throw her father into a wind turbine, while her husband and his army kills the entire village population.

## Trivia

* This story is a fan favourite for most.
* This is the first story to contain more than six scenes.