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== Johan and Nina's real names are... ==
Hansel & Gretel
** Ironically, in the original notes for ''Hansel and Gretel'' compiled by the brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel were only to be called "Little Brother" and "Little Sister". To quote [https://web.archive.org/web/20090116020812/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/notes.html#THREE SurLaLune], 'Hansel is essentially the same as "John Doe" representing an anonymous or "everyman" character.' Even if those are their names, in a deeper sense they still lack them.
*** Right, I'm aware of that. It would play into the series' love of irony to have their real names just as lacking in identity as their current ones. I doubt it's true, but it would have been a cool twist.
*** And given the themes of parental abandonment in the original stories—where there was no famine, just some parents who couldn't deal with supporting kids—versus the almost cute modern perception of the story...
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