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For Disney-Club's contest #33, "Round" is "Disneyfication" of short story Elf in the Rose from Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. Oh, before spoilers, you can read the story here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Elf…, and Remember -- Different generations have different morals to teach their children – fear, hope and need for wittiness, smarts and hearts.

Short: A lonely yakshi (nature spirit), Nalini is accidentally kidnapped from her botanical dwelling by a young lad picking flowers. She intertwines with the complex weaving and changing British-Raj India, including small extraordinary and ordinary magic.

Longer and Messy: Nalini, a very small yakshi born from a blooming bud, first woke in her botanical dwelling with all flower heads cut and grew up rather alone. She is kidnapped when a young lad, Nayan, takes home the flower she is sitting in back to the city. There’s a whole bunch of new and terrible and good things—steam-punk, colorful-thread, Untouchability and strange noses! Two siblings of a local thread-industry, Bala and Ekram argue when a prince publicly proposes to Bala (which Nayan interrupts), pressing big changes.

Small extraordinary and ordinary magic by both good and wicked happens as Nayan is beheaded unharmed for overhearing a secret because he's again in the wrong place at the wrong time, Bala accepts to help Nayan (as a head) and Nalini return the lad to full so he may take Nalini home, and for every main character to face their intertwining pasts. Let the protagonists feel rage and frustration and still act as a person should even when to do so is very difficult.

Story of the Story's Adaption:

Please pardon my (toned-down) language for my initial reaction to this story: DAM! ._.

When I started picking a story for disneyfication, I looked through Complete Han Christian Andersen Fairy Tale’s table of content, saw “Elf in the Rose” and thought it was a name of a lovely story. I was a terrible judge. But thus began the adventures of the trio – a small elf, a motor-scavenger girl named Lokepele and a robot head to find a single flower called a rose in a post-apocalyptic world – and that somehow became the trio above in a different time-zone.

During the adaption process, I had roughly three grims to counter: Beheading, Death by Grief, and Vengenance:

I "fixed" the beheading with friendly thanks to the magician trick's "Sawing a Woman in Half" which introduces mysterious string that can be taunted like a saw to cut people in half (and other numbers ._. ) without harm. This open new doors to character development and storyne character has to adapt as simply a head, and the wicked character has to figure out how to get that head back—can’t have the supposedly dead beheaded telling any tales.
I once saw two parrots in a cage, one was eaten by a cat and the other died shortly after from lack of companionship & grief – that is similar what occured in the original telling. In this adaption, the “two parrots” were more active participants of their fate so they instead faced the star-crossed struggle of not being able to be together by Untouchability customs -- for more varied character interactions and different grief from people's expectations. (Untouchablity is the ongoing ostracization of groups of people who from birth were believed to pollute and are treated terribly for it)

Vengenance ties in quite well so vegenance shall stay because this is where all conflicts lead up to.
“One, who can discover evil deeds, and punish them also” – Hans Christian Andersen in the “Elf in the Rose”. In Hindu belief, Karma plays one's actions will affect one's future fate and alternatively, what comes around, goes around– ergo the new title, Round.

Description

For Disney-Club's contest #33, "Round" is "Disneyfication" of short story Elf in the Rose from Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. Oh, before spoilers, you can read the story here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Elf…, and Remember -- Different generations have different morals to teach their children – fear, hope and need for wittiness, smarts and hearts.

Short: A lonely yakshi (nature spirit), Nalini is accidentally kidnapped from her botanical dwelling by a young lad picking flowers. She intertwines with the complex weaving and changing British-Raj India, including small extraordinary and ordinary magic.

Longer and Messy: Nalini, a very small yakshi born from a blooming bud, first woke in her botanical dwelling with all flower heads cut and grew up rather alone. She is kidnapped when a young lad, Nayan, takes home the flower she is sitting in back to the city. There’s a whole bunch of new and terrible and good things—steam-punk, colorful-thread, Untouchability and strange noses! Two siblings of a local thread-industry, Bala and Ekram argue when a prince publicly proposes to Bala (which Nayan interrupts), pressing big changes.

Small extraordinary and ordinary magic by both good and wicked happens as Nayan is beheaded unharmed for overhearing a secret because he's again in the wrong place at the wrong time, Bala accepts to help Nayan (as a head) and Nalini return the lad to full so he may take Nalini home, and for every main character to face their intertwining pasts. Let the protagonists feel rage and frustration and still act as a person should even when to do so is very difficult.

Story of the Story's Adaption:

Please pardon my (toned-down) language for my initial reaction to this story: DAM! ._.

When I started picking a story for disneyfication, I looked through Complete Han Christian Andersen Fairy Tale’s table of content, saw “Elf in the Rose” and thought it was a name of a lovely story. I was a terrible judge. But thus began the adventures of the trio – a small elf, a motor-scavenger girl named Lokepele and a robot head to find a single flower called a rose in a post-apocalyptic world – and that somehow became the trio above in a different time-zone.

During the adaption process, I had roughly three grims to counter: Beheading, Death by Grief, and Vengenance:

I "fixed" the beheading with friendly thanks to the magician trick's "Sawing a Woman in Half" which introduces mysterious string that can be taunted like a saw to cut people in half (and other numbers ._. ) without harm. This open new doors to character development and storyne character has to adapt as simply a head, and the wicked character has to figure out how to get that head back—can’t have the supposedly dead beheaded telling any tales.
I once saw two parrots in a cage, one was eaten by a cat and the other died shortly after from lack of companionship & grief – that is similar what occured in the original telling. In this adaption, the “two parrots” were more active participants of their fate so they instead faced the star-crossed struggle of not being able to be together by Untouchability customs -- for more varied character interactions and different grief from people's expectations. (Untouchablity is the ongoing ostracization of groups of people who from birth were believed to pollute and are treated terribly for it)

Vengenance ties in quite well so vegenance shall stay because this is where all conflicts lead up to.
“One, who can discover evil deeds, and punish them also” – Hans Christian Andersen in the “Elf in the Rose”. In Hindu belief, Karma plays one's actions will affect one's future fate and alternatively, what comes around, goes around– ergo the new title, Round.