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Some are [[Fractured Fairy Tale|Fractured Fairy Tales]], but that does not prevent them from being as grim as the originals.
The main plot features the insomniac Princess November from "[[The Princess and
Other included fairy tales are "[[Puss in Boots (
'''Characters''':
* November, the princess from "[[The Princess and
* Perrault the cat from "[[Puss in Boots (
* Red from "[[Little Red Riding Hood]]". [[Ax Crazy|Has an ax. Uses it freely.]]
* Jack-or-maybe-Hans, The Boy from "The Boy Who Set Out To Learn What Fear Was."
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Claire strongly implies that the village parents are like this.
* [[All Trolls Are Different]]: This one lives under a bridge.
* [[An Arm and
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Red.
* [[Angel Unaware]]: The innkeeper asks Perrault
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Perrault.
** Red gets snarky comments in every chance she gets. They pretty much make up half her dialogue.
* [[Deal
* [[Death
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Limited Palette; Red's cloak is red, as are the roses at the Beast's castle.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Claire may not actually have fallen over it, but she came very close; she was saved by external forces and
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* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: A Jack the Boy remembered.
* [[The Empath]]: November is extraordinarily sensitive. Against her, this means that she gets hurt by things such as ''having leaves fall on her face''. More impressively, she can sense death, tell when people have noble blood, and is usually able to surmise the intentions of the people she brings into the group(she senses Perrault's boredom, as well as Clare's innocence). This is a [[Call Back]] to her source story, The Princess and the Pea, where it is the Princess's sensitivity that is used to determine her royal lineage.
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Fair-Weather Friend]]: Red calls Perrault this.
* [[Fallen Princess]]: November.
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* [[Funny Animal]]
* [[Ghost Story]]: When November was little, her sister September told her about how a queen once wished her daughter into a raven.
* [[Girl
* [[Genre Savvy]]: "Aha, I can see where this is going. Mysterious old beggar women need to be handled very, ''very'' carefully."
** Invoked intentionally by Perrault when tricking an inn keeper to let them stay the night for free. He convinced the man that they were fairies, figuring he probably knew his fairytales well enough that he wouldn't question strange forms of payment (like a dead bird) if they came from the Fair folk.
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* [[The Hedge of Thorns]]: Prince Ricardo tackles the one around Sleeping Beauty's castle, and is apparently the only prince to have successfully done so.
* [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]: The group.
* [[Home, Sweet Home]]: November wants it.
* [[Honorary Uncle]]
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: September's problem.
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* [[The Insomniac]]: November
* [[It's Not You, It's Me]]: November to the Boy.
* [[I Was Beaten
* [[The Jeeves]]: Perrault, albeit somewhat frustrated with it.
* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Ricardo accuses the Boy of this.
* [[Kill It
{{quote| '''Perrault''': ''[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-63.html There is a reason why fire is the traditional method of dealing with your kind.]''}}
* [[The Leader]]: November
* [[A Light in
* [[Lightning Reveal]]: In the storm, the one bright panel is with lightning.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Taken to nightmarish levels with the Witch.
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: November can tell there was death in that bed.
* [[Nice to
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: in Red's backstory
* [[The Nose Knows]]: Red
* [[Not Good
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: A mother to her daughter about Red.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]
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* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Perrault is standing by November when the wind blows a leaf into her face and bruises her. Red reacts badly.
* [[Odd-Shaped Panel]]: [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-50.html feather-shaped].
* [[Off
* [[One for Sorrow, Two For Joy]]: November's sisters teased her for using the rhyme for ravens.
* [[Only in It For
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: November's orders The Boy to bring her back or not return.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Clare says she suffered it, and now knows she's no better. (She used to have a baby with her. It's gone now, and she refuses to explain.)
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* [[Speechbubbles Interruption]]: The boy to Ricardo.
* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: The Boy got November, the youngest of three sisters, and half a kingdom.
* [[Stay
* [[Stick'Em Up]]: Claire tried this.
* [[Stranger in
* [[The Strategist]]: why November sought out Perrault
* [[Talking Animal]]
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* [[Think Nothing of It]]: The innkeeper tries this.
* [[Thoroughly Mistaken Identity]]
* [[Town
* [[The Tragic Rose]]: Red is drawn to them.
* [[The Undead]]: The forest witch. She can [[Our Zombies Are Different|still control bits that get hacked off her main body, and re-attach them to the whole.]]
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* [[Upperclass Twit]]: The Marquis.
* [[Visible Silence]]: Often invoke.
* [[Weakened
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: When November, Red, and Perrault reach the Beast's estate's gate, Perrault, having gotten on the other side by himself, lays out a detailed plan of tricking the then-unknown-owners of the mansion into vacating the place and letting the other two in. Red just smashes the gate in.
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Attributed to both Red and Clare. It's not true for either.
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