Whether collected by The Brothers Grimm, written by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson or by other prolific writers or collected by others, which one is your favorite, and why? And it doesn't have to have been adapted by Disney.
I ask this because Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson have been by Special Interest for a while now. My favorite is "The Snow Queen", because unlike most fairytales, it spins the damsel in distress scenario on its head, with the way the heroine saves her boy best friend from the titular snow queen, and along the way meets several different interesting characters. It could make for a great 9 episode miniseries on HBO or something.
So what is your favorite fairytale or fairytale character?
Joan Vinge did an interesting riff on the Snow Queen story with the adventurously titled novel The Snow Queen. Worth a read.
I really like Orpheus and Eurydice. I took a class on the myth in undergrad and it's interesting how a simple story developed into so many explorations of love, loss, and the complexity of knowing when to hang on and when to let go. The stage production of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown was stunning.
Skill issue, I would simply have the goddess of love come down at the end and fix everything.