Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
[adrotate group="5"]
He could be a human, like Jiminy. He could’ve been turned into a cat in FTL and in SB is a human again. 😉
You don’t kno the story of Puss in Boots? It’s originally a French fairy tale, but there’s also a Grimm version of it.
It’s about this man (third brother and youngest), who inherits a cat from his father (his brothers inherit the house and a cow). The man doesn’t know what to do with the cat, but the cat is no ordinary cat and asks for some boots and a sack. After the man gives it to the cat, latter goes on to hunt. He then goes to bring the king what he hunted, saying it is a compliment from his master the Marquis de Carabas (the man obviously is not a marquis). He does that several times. …ok, just found that there’s actually a summary in wiki. 😉
The tale opens with the third and youngest son of a miller receiving his inheritance — a cat. At first, the youngest son laments, as the eldest brother gains the mill, and the middle brother attains the mules. The feline is no ordinary cat, however, but one who requests and receives a pair of boots. Determined to make his master’s fortune, the cat bags a rabbit in the forest and presents it to the king as a gift from his master, the fictional Marquis of Carabas. The cat continues making gifts of game to the king for several months.
One day, knowing the king and his daughter are traveling by coach along the riverside, the cat persuades his master to remove his clothes and enter the river. The cat disposes of his master’s clothing beneath a rock. As the royal coach nears, the cat begins calling for help in great distress, and, when the king stops to investigate, the cat tells him that his master, the Marquis, has been bathing in the river and robbed of his clothing. The king has the young man brought from the river, dressed in a splendid suit of clothes, and seated in the coach with his daughter, who falls in love with him at once.
The cat hurries ahead of the coach, ordering the country folk along the road to tell the king that the land belongs to the “Marquis of Carabas”, saying that if they do not he will cut them into mincemeat. The cat then happens upon a castle inhabited by an ogre who is capable of transforming himself into a number of creatures. The ogre displays his ability by changing into a lion, frightening the cat, who then tricks the ogre into changing into a mouse. The cat then pounces upon the mouse and devours it, revealing his more animalistic instinctual tendencies. The king arrives at the castle that formerly belonged to the ogre, and, impressed with the bogus Marquis and his estate, gives the lad the princess in marriage. Thereafter, the cat enjoys life as a great lord who runs after mice only for his own amusement.
Puss in Boots would be interesting to see. I could see how maybe the cat would have been turned human and be the actual true love of the princess and the master finds out and banishes him.
Wow, and here I was, thinking that I was the only one who thought of Lancelot, lol. So great how people think alike.
@KalliopeKisees wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if Anastaisa is Guinevere and Dr. Whale is tied in somehow. I have been theorizing that Dr. Whale is part of the King Arthur Tale. I am most convinced he is tied in with the new princess.
Now that I think about it, maybe Dr. Whale is Lancelot? That would explain why he’d be so depressed and on to every woman he could get his fingers on. Or King Arthur. He was more faithful and as people in SB are the “opposite” of their self’s in FTL … Yet another idea for the mystery that Dr. Whale presents. 😆
