Episode 3

**Episode 3** of Forever After is the third episode in the series.

## Summary

Robin arrives in Snow White's story and meets the Fairy Assistant, Tank.

## Plot

Robin is not pleased at the idea of running around being the Hero in the fairy tales, and declines the offer. The Fates eventually send her off to her first story by literally dropping her into it.

Robin lands in a snow covered woods called Sleepy Hollow. Robin thinks she in a 1999 horror/mystery movie with Johnny Depp and Christiana Ricci until her Book detaches from its pouch on her belt and floats in front of her face, the pages open to the story she is in.

*"Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed, she looked up at the now and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell on the snow..."*

As Robin read the story aloud, three drops of blood fell from the sky onto the snow covered ground. Robin comments on the creepy feeling coming from a princess story, but decides to roll with it. Looking up, she sees a cottage, and gets hit in the face with an apple.

Someone warns Robin about approaching the cottage again, and she apologizes, holding her book up in front of her face for protection. A tiny fairy darts forward and asks if that is The Book, and realizes that Robin must be a Prince Charming. Robin grabs the fairy and demands to know why he chucked an apple at her.

The fairy frees himself from Robin's grip as he introduces himself as Tank, and explains that he threw the poison apple because he thought that Robin was another one of the Wicked Witch's graverobbers. Tank also explains that the apple grove around them was grown from the apple that almost killed Snow White.

Robin enters the cottage with Tank, finding out that the fairy had been waiting for her for a while, and that there had been other Prince Charmings that had either died or forgotten their role. She also learns that The Fates invite a new Prince Charming when the last one fails, and eventually all of them forget who they are and/or are killed by the Wicked Witch, who wins if there is no Prince Charming to finish the stories.

Robin points out that they'd better get going because she has a lot of stories to get through, and doesn't notice the mirror on the wall of the cottage, or the figure watching Robin from the mirror as she tells Tank to stop calling her "Prince", as her name is "Robin". The figure comments on the Fates finding a new Prince Charming, believing her to be even more pitiful then the last one.

Meanwhile, Robin cringes at the sight of Snow White, asking if she was dead. Tank, in response, demands that Robin kiss the sleeping princess. Robin refuses, stating the princess has not given her consent and that true love's kiss was something that Disney had made up. In the original story, kissing Snow White would get you poisoned and killed. Robin then explains what happened in the real story as she draws her sword. Snow White's casket was accidentally dropped, which had her spitting out the poison apple chunk, and she woke up.

Tank asks how Robin knew that, and Robin explains that she really loves fairy tales as she swings her sword, breaking the wooden legs of the table Snow White was on, and the jolt of the falling table has the poison apple being spat out and Snow White waking up. Robin sheaths her sword and pulls up Snow White, who immediately tries to go back to sleep.

Robin begins to realize how much princesses suck, voicing her opinion to Tank, who tells her to just give the princess her happily ever after and be done with it when a knock at the door gets their attention. Robin goes to answer the door, despite Tank's protests, and it is revealed to be The Wicked Witch, who charismatically offers his greetings to the new Prince Charming.

## Important Events

* Robin begins the story of *Little Snow White*
* Robin meets Tank
* The Wicked Witch introduces himself to Robin

## Characters

Robin

The Fates

Tank

Wicked Witch

Snow White

## Credits

*Written by Quinn Sosna-Spear*

*Art by Hannah Patten*

*Storyboarding by Rachel Koo*

*Lettering by Kylie Hunsinger*

*Copy editing by Kat Vendetti*