"That's the whole point though, that's what got me the role. I look harmless," Fin replied.
"It's based on a German fairy tale, The Robber Bridegroom," he explained. "It's the story of a miller's daughter, who's to be married off to a man who appears very respectable. Rich, charming, you know the sort. However, when she comes to visit the man she finds his home is empty- Nothing more than the appearance of wealth on the outside. He does, however, have a bird, and that bird keeps telling her she needs to leave."
Fin grinned then, his enthusiasm for the part leaking into the way he told the story- His smile, usually soft and sweet, took on a slightly vicious twist, and his voice grew slightly deeper, his speech slower, colder as he slipped into character. "That's when it all gets terribly gruesome. Before she can leave, she hears the man returning with his friends, and so she tucks herself away out of sight. She watches them though, watches as they drag another young woman into the room, crying and begging as they force her to drink three strange wines. Wines that cause the crying girl's heart to be 'torn apart from the inside'. They kill her, strip her bare, and then begin to salt and dismember her body- With the intention of cooking and eating her. Except as they take her apart, one finger rolls away to where the miller's daughter is hiding. On that finger is a golden ring, and the daughter hides it in her pocket while she watches the men feast.
The next day, at her wedding, she accuses the young man of murder, describing to the crowd that's gathered what he's done. The man denies it, of course. Tells her it's a dream- But the girl has proof. The finger," he grinned, holding up a single digit in show.
"The young man and his friends are sentenced to hang. ...The girl lives, of course. But she lives as the girl who nearly married a mad man. Not exactly a happily ever after sort of affair."
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Date: 2015-11-13 01:28 pm (UTC)"It's based on a German fairy tale, The Robber Bridegroom," he explained. "It's the story of a miller's daughter, who's to be married off to a man who appears very respectable. Rich, charming, you know the sort. However, when she comes to visit the man she finds his home is empty- Nothing more than the appearance of wealth on the outside. He does, however, have a bird, and that bird keeps telling her she needs to leave."
Fin grinned then, his enthusiasm for the part leaking into the way he told the story- His smile, usually soft and sweet, took on a slightly vicious twist, and his voice grew slightly deeper, his speech slower, colder as he slipped into character. "That's when it all gets terribly gruesome. Before she can leave, she hears the man returning with his friends, and so she tucks herself away out of sight. She watches them though, watches as they drag another young woman into the room, crying and begging as they force her to drink three strange wines. Wines that cause the crying girl's heart to be 'torn apart from the inside'. They kill her, strip her bare, and then begin to salt and dismember her body- With the intention of cooking and eating her. Except as they take her apart, one finger rolls away to where the miller's daughter is hiding. On that finger is a golden ring, and the daughter hides it in her pocket while she watches the men feast.
The next day, at her wedding, she accuses the young man of murder, describing to the crowd that's gathered what he's done. The man denies it, of course. Tells her it's a dream- But the girl has proof. The finger," he grinned, holding up a single digit in show.
"The young man and his friends are sentenced to hang. ...The girl lives, of course. But she lives as the girl who nearly married a mad man. Not exactly a happily ever after sort of affair."