TLCsDestiny
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Hm... Cinderella's an easier story to remove the magic from, though, because its core themes really revolve around a poor/abused girl sneaking into a ball and the prince being able to recognise her in her poor form afterwards. The magic is sort of an extra.
The Little Mermaid's core elements are its mermaid protagonist and the magic contract she makes to go onto land. If you remove the magic, it becomes difficult to recognise it as The Little Mermaid at all.
Not that it can't be done, but I'm just curious how this is going to compensate for that, as a potential reader?
The biggest factor in my fairy tale books, that I have changed, is that it is reversed...
The Little Mermaid was a girl that wanted to go onto land and experience it there and love her prince...
So...
I will have a man that can't handle the land anymore (His reasoning's can be seen as early as the first book in my fairy tale books) and so he goes to sea (The opposite). The reasoning's why I use pirates, besides that they pretty much live at sea anyway, is because they are 'free'. I even have a way that the MC will lose feeling in his legs and regains feeling to only lose his voice for a short time (A tonic to get rid of poison when he got bitten by a snake or something).
I am not going into this half hearted. I am still using basic elements, like the 'want' to move from their normal lives. Actually, everyone seems to have it locked in that you can't have fairy tales without magic but now that I've done two books and now a third already in mind, it's a lot easier to go passed that 'tradition'...
Perhaps people are forgetting also that it's just a book...Why are they already so critical of it? Why not give it a try instead?