Little Snow White

Little Snow White, more commonly known as **Snow White**, is the first story explored in the series. The iteration this series uses is the Grimm Fairy Tales version, and it is different from its Disney counterpart.

## Original Story

A Queen pricks her finger on a snowy day and blood trickles onto the snow gathering on the ebony-wooden window frame. The Queen sees the beauty of the three colors together, and wishes to have a child with skin white as snow, hair black as ebony, and lips red as blood. Soon after, she gives birth to a daughter with all the desired traits and names her Snow White, but dies soon after. The King remarries another woman who is cruel and incredibly vain.

Snow White's stepmother, the Evil Queen, owns a magic mirror. Everyday, she asks the mirror who the fairest in the land is, and the mirror always tells her that it is herself. One day years later, the mirror instead replies that Snow White is now the fairest in the land. Consumed by jealousy, the Evil Queen demands her huntsman to take Snow White into the woods and kill her. Snow White begs for her life, and the huntsman spares her under the promise that she run into the woods and never return. Snow White obeys, and comes across a cottage that is home to seven dwarves. The dwarves agree to let Snow White stay with them in exchange for doing their chores.

Eventually, the mirror tells the Evil Queen that Snow White is alive and still the fairest. The Evil Queen disguises herself as a peddler woman and goes to the dwarves' cottage, offering Snow White a new corset. She laces to tightly enough to cut off her air supply, then runs off. The dwarves come home and find Snow White, and loosen her corset enough to let her breathe again. When the mirror says Snow White is still alive, the Queen repeats the same trick as before with a poisoned comb. She puts it in Snow White's hair and runs off. Again, the dwarves arrive home and take the comb out, once more reviving Snow White.

The Evil Queen, still told that Snow White lives, goes back to the cottage disguised as an old woman and offers Snow White an apple. Snow White refuses at first, but the Queen tricks her by eating half, as only half the apple is poisoned. Snow White eats the half given to her and collapses. This time, when the dwarves return, they have no way of reviving her, but cannot bury her, so they instead make a coffin of gold and jewels and put her in a golden coffin decorated with jewels.

Soon after, a prince comes upon Snow White in her coffin and falls in love with her. He begs the dwarves to let him take her back to his castle, to which they reluctantly agree. The prince's servants lift the casket, but one stumbles, disturbing Snow White and shaking the piece of poisoned apple out of her throat, which revives her. She meets the prince and falls in love with him, too. They are married, and the Queen arrives at the wedding after being told the bride is now the fairest. She is horrified to see Snow White still alive, and as punishment for her crimes, she is forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and dance at the reception until she dies.

## Altered Story

Robin enters the story while Snow White is in the magic coma. Tank the fairy urges Robin to wake Snow White up with a kiss, but Robin dismisses the idea because a) that would be sketchy due to Snow White being unconscious and b) doing mouth-to-mouth to someone who ingested deadly poison would only poison the kisser as well. Tank reflects on the past Prince Charmings who tried to kiss Snow White awake, and how they all fell into a coma, too, directly afterwards, and realizes the connection. Robin explains that the "true love's kiss" was done by Disney, and in the original story, Snow White awoke after the dwarves drop her coffin and disturb her, knocking the poison apple out. She uses her sword to cut off the legs of the table Snow White is lying on, and the princess falls to the floor and coughs the apple out. She then sleepily asks for ten more minutes, and complains when Robin insists on finishing the story.

The Wicked Witch then appears and confronts Robin, encouraging her to abandon her quest. Robin scoffs at him and says he cannot hurt her because fairy tale villains have limitations. She assumes that he can't even enter the cottage, but he quickly proves her wrong when he does enter, and warns her that it's not him she needs to worry about. The trees from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz and try to enter the cottage to attack Robin and Tank. Robin takes the storybook to read from it and finds Snow White has fallen asleep again.

As the evil trees grow closer, Robin wakes Snow White up by declaring that the Evil Queen is coming to her wedding. Snow White awakens, shouting, "Over my hot coals, she will!" She reacts casually to the trees, and she and Tank tell Robin that she is the fourth Prince Charming to try to complete her story, explaining that the huntsman got the first two Prince Charmings. Robin takes Snow White and reads from the book, about the king's son promising eternal love to Snow White and asking her to marry him, Snow White returning with him, and being married in a splendid ceremony. Robin then declares, "and they lived happily ever after", finishing the story.

## Characters

### Original Characters

Snow White

Prince Charming (Robin)

Evil Queen (only mentioned)

### Altered In Characters

Tank

Wicked Witch

Demon Trees