Bedtime Story

This is it

Okay, so there's a rat named Boy. He lives in a witch's tower. The witch hates rats. She finds out he lives there and tries to cut off his tail but he's too good at dodging things (this is important later). So she resorts to turning him human and making him super strong but cursing all of his descendants so that he'll feel the emotional pain of watching loved ones suffer. And also he can never go back to the witch's tower.

So Boy sets off and does what boys do. He finds the nearest kingdom and it has a lot of stained glass things and a small village with shit (poop. it's poop) in the streets because that's what Europe did in this time period. So he doesn't go there because that's gross and instead sees a pretty tower on the end of the castle grounds. Maybe he still has some magic rat-climbing abilities still left in him because he just scales that fucker like it's a ladder.

At the top he sees a girl named Fauna. She is a beautiful young woman. She has curly brown hair that falls beneath her shoulders and bangs because they totally had those back then. She also is wearing a silver circlet with metal leaves branching off of it and small embedded emeralds on those leaves. This isn't important but you need to picture what she looks like. Forget what boy looks like he was a rat once like what the fuck.

Anyway, she's like "intruder!!! Ahhhhh" and shoots him. With a bow, Fauna doesn't have a rifle but that'd be sick. Anyway since Boy is so good at dodging (see I told you it'd be important later) he dodges all of her arrows and she's like, "What the fuck how are you doing this?" and he's like "I'm good at dodging. Anyway, who are you and why are you in this architecturally sound tower?"

So they meet and hit it off and Fauna tells Boy her father's fate. Her father, the king, was told by a witch that he'd have commie grandchildren who'd overthrow him and recite the communist manifesto and save the villagers from living in their own shit and her father didn't like that one bit no sir so he decided to lock his only daughter in an easy-to-access tower for plot reasons.

Of course Boy thinks this is shitty so they high tail it the fuck out of there and escape to the woods. 

Except the faeries are nasty little fuckers and decide that they hate Boy and Fauna and make it so that they have to go in circles forever. Anytime they think they've reached the end of the woods, it's back at the castle where they started.

So Boy and Fauna camp out in the woods for like a year and Fauna is good at killing shit with her bow and Boy knows how to cook things and can stomach bugs (he was a rat, remember?) and also knows how to find non-poisonous berries.

Somehow. Idk it's a surviving in the forest trope and we need a character to be good with plants. Work with me here!

OK so the king finds out that his daughter is gone and goes to a fortune teller because every tiny European village has one of those and he  (because the fortune tellers are never men--what's up with that?) tells the king that Boy and Fauna ran off and when they'd be back.

So Boy is in the forest and they get attacked by wolves or something. Fauna's circlet falls off and she blanches. Boy fends off the wolves and holds Fauna, worried about her bc he's started to fall in love and doesn't want to lose her. He gives her her circlet because if she died, he wanted her to have the thing she most valued but once the circlet touched her head she started feeling better so that's how they found out that if she took it off she'd die. The only way for this not to happen is for Fauna to become queen and get a queen's crown because that makes sense.

So they burst into the castle but the king was expecting them bc of the fortune teller guy. So Boy fights off the knights because of his witchy super strength and challenges the king to a duel so that the king would die and Fauna would inherit the throne.

The king knew he'd lose bc he's a little bitch so he poisons his sword, Hamlet style. So then, the night of the duel, they fight. Boy dodges and dodges because he's really good at that, as previously mentioned. But he gets tired.

AND THATS WHEN THE KING STRIKES.

So the king stabs him and Boy gets poisoned.