my favorite part is that the lindworm actually agrees to taking off his own skin nine times instead of just... tearing off her dresses himself and then eating her. He may be a bloodthirsty dragon, but he's still a gentleman.
You should hear the version with the onions instead of roses. The queen forgot to peel the first onion before eating it. Fits in with the layers theme.
Witch: So you'll wear 10 dresses, whip him, dump the milk on him and then give him a hug. Peasant Girl: A hug? Witch: I said all that and you question the hug? Its not necessary but the lad probably needs it.
@Frostgiant According to a youtube video i watched showing how terrible of a dom is Christian from fifty shades, after care is necessary especially for the sub who might feel shitty about the whole s and m thing.
Parties with a dragon are the best parties. Also, that dragon is their future ruler. You would not want to upset you future ruler (who is also happens to be a *dragon* ) by any rudeness, would you?
The King: "Now, listen, my son is a bit sensitive about his appearance. So I want you all to treat him as if he is normal. And if you don't, well, let's just say you'll find out what happens to his first bride."
i mean tecnicly it was four times, that boy still has white glowy hair, so i bet my but he has this whole arc about learing to controll his dragon powers
Head Canon: The ghosts of the two other princesses now haunt the castle. They’re pretty nice to everyone, but they won’t stop giving the prince shit for eating them
Continuation Head Canon: On the other hand, the Ghost Princess are super nice to the Lindworm's giving them remarks like: *Oh you're so beautifull and charming, we wish we wre your mommies, but at last not all of us can be lucky enought to find a magical witch to save us and be married. Isn't that right, peasent girl?* *At least I'm alive and not a childless ghost hag* *At least we still look young!* *At least I didnt die virgin!* *Why are mommies figthing, dad?* *...I will tell you latter*
This is weird, because there’s *another* Norwegian fairy tale about a childless queen who eats two flowers and gets a beautiful child and an ugly child, only in that story the two kids really love each other and the ugly child winds up rescuing the beautiful child from trolls. I guess eating flowers is just A Thing in Norwegian fairy tales
Hellboy adapted that story and I always found that version to be oddly sad and beautiful. I won't say why exactly for the sake of spoilers, but it definitely doesn't include much of a happy ending.
Big difference between a Witch and a Hag, lot of people don't get that. If Tia Dalma is a witch, (albiet with a swamp voodoo schtick) then if they are more evil and less attractive, that is generally the tell tale sign of a hag
For those folks saying she could have warned people about the downsides. It could be a little tricksy not disclosing major effects. but a kind and wise old woman might have had the grimoir or teacher she learned the information about the stuff prior didn't disclose the information about the Lindworm but did have information about dealing with lindworms.
Honestly not surprised that this is Norway's response to marrying a dragon. "Remember child, when you marry your dragon husband, you have to whip the fear of Thor into him to turn him into a real man." "Sounds...strange, but okay strange lady in the woods." How much you want to bet that the old lady in the woods was Odin? Also, never apologize for that song choice, it gave me the best of amusement.
@@festethephule7553 yeah, in the way that you would think eating both flowers would result in a son and a daughter, even if the daughter starts out a lindworm
Gotta give props to the witch. She gives clear instructions, and then when she learns those instructions haven't been followed, she helps out the person most in danger from it. No evil laughter or karmic punishment, just honest help and advice.
@@jenneacubero1036 I mean, yes, but also, if a witch gives you super explicit instructions about what NOT to do as part of whatever thing you kind of have to assume that Terrible Consequences are implied.
Yeah, that....may be Red's version. She tends to sanitize myths to keep her ratings safe. IRL, a queen being childless would be grounds for her to be divorced.
This was interesting to hear. The version of the story I've known was that the queen was told to eat two onions to conceive twins, but she had to ba sure to peel them first. The queen was so eager to have a child, that she forgot to peel the first onion, but took the time to peel the second. This in turn correlated to when the maiden requested the lindworm to strip layers of his skin, cause it was like peeling off those onion layers the queen neglected to take off herself
Yeah I was under the impression it was supposed to be two onions as well. Not sure where the roses came from. The story kind of loses its "poetic symmetry" or whatever without the onions. Still a very entertaining video nonetheless.
"Happily ever after except those two previous princesses who are now dead." Oh, you forgot the newlyweds once they have to deal with two kingdoms who want the princes head. No biggy.
I mean depending on how close the other kingdoms are you could just say they died on the road or something, maybe even say you already caught and executed the bandits responsible for brownie points.
The lyndworm prince may very well still retain his powers, apart from flight and breathing fire, if he's leading the army, all they have to do is just follow through the gap that is the carnage the prince leaves behind.
@@kaischreurs2488 there's a book where that happens sort of, Princess of the Midnight Ball, retelling 12 Dancing Princesses, where a LOT of kingdoms are like "our sons went to your kingdom to answer the shoe question and died, time for war."
A prince, trying to explain why he hires a peasant women to whip him and douse him with milk to his concerned servents: "Have you ever heard of the Lindworm?"
@@danjudex2475 There’s a large group of fairy tales like _Peau d’âne_ (Doneyskin), The She-Bear, _Allerleirauh_ etc (Aarne-Thompson folktale classification type 510B) which would be rather more fitting.
@Soft Squishy Ducky little red riding hood was a warning for young girls not to stray and be vary often strange men. The wolf eating her was an allegory for sexual assault. The “stay on the path” is both literal about the woods and following the right path in life. So it could have the shadow of furry on it, but a very dark one
Hopefully he gets his own fairytale somewhere else? After all, now that the dragon-prince is married, his brother can leave and find his own bride, right? That's what I'm going to tell myself anyway!
I love how this king looked at the dragon after he ate his first bride and was like "well surely if we do the exact same thing something different will happen".
I love the little word bubble of the now freed prince saying it was "true Love's kiss" because admitting as to how it went down really might raise some questions
@@garvinanders2355 on the contrary, I'm loving the hell out of it 😆 Besides, how can I hate it when he clearly looks like he got the hugz and affection he never knew he badly needed? As far as I've know about it, she's a true responsible dom.
As weird as this story is, I can't help but feel how iconic it is. "A bride for me before a bride for you" being spoken by an evil monster to a prince encapsulates that fairy tale feel. I guess this really proves what red was saying about those roles in fairy tales.
It’s kinda his fault though, it’s not like the queen exiled him or anything. He was born and promptly ran off while his mom was still processing “I birthed a dragon and then a normal kid, wat”
@@thesquishedelf1301 I suppose there might have been more to that. Obviously she wasn't giving birth alone (being the queen and all) and we don't know what the midwife thought about a serpent. Or the queen herself, for that matter. I could imagine at least someone's first reaction to be "OMG a lindworm, getitoffgetitoff!!!" and then the lindworm just flees all the hazzle (and possible beating)
I like how the story mentions that: "Yay they have a beautiful son! Who goes out and finds a wife until some dragon 'says me first'" and then the second son is never mentioned again. Whether irrelevant or boring,I think the singular thing that started all this becoming overshadowed is hilarious.
Technically, Red implies the second prince is the bait. King: I have a son that needs marrying. Princess: (sees handsome human prince) I'll take him! (shows up, sees Lindworm) King: Ah, I see you've met my son. Princess: wait, where's Prince Handsome? King: Oh, I didn't say he was the one you were going to marry.
The version of this story that I read was slightly different: instead of two flowers, there would be two onions. The onions were exactly the same and did not decide the gender of the child, but the witch warned the queen to peel the onions before eating them. The first child was born a lindworm because the queen only remembered the advice after she'd already eaten one of the onions unpeeled. Another difference was that all of the brides were random peasant girls. The last one was actually volunteered for the marriage by her evil stepmom, who hoped she'd get eaten. A third little difference was that he wasn't whipped after shedding skins, but scrubbed with lye & brushes. It's fun to compare how fairytales evolved and how versions can vary!
Ironically, the true love's kiss is mostly a Disney thing, it is surprisingly uncommon in the traditional fairy tales (although love having something to do with breaking a curse is a common trope, but it is hardly ever a kiss that will do the trick). In the Grimm's Fairy Tales version of the frog king, the frog is not changed back into a human by a true love's kiss, but actually by her picking him up and throwing him against a wall when the princess finally can't take it anymore after reluctantly putting up with the deal having him as a companion in return for him getting her golden ball back from the bottom of the well. In Snowwhite and the seven dwarfs, the prince doesn't kiss the poisoned Snowwhite, but begs the dwarfs to let him take the glass coffin with Snowwhite with him so that he can at least look at her. When he transports her to his home castle, the coffin slips and falls of the horse, which knocks the bite of cursed poison apple out of her mouth and brings her back to life. Really the only traditional fairy tale that actually has the kiss trope is Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty), and I'm not sure whether we can call this one a true loves kiss, since the curse has been lasting for 100 years and the prince who kisses her has just seen her for the first time.
That's exactly what happens in a comic drawn by an artist! Unfortunately I don't remember the artist's name, so I'll have to search it up later. Edit: I found it! The comic is called Bride of the Rose Beast by mishacakes on Tumblr.
We just not gonna mention how the second prince just suddenly fade out of the story? Poor dude got to be main protagonist for like 30 seconds before the Lindworm slide in to the focus. Also, damn that was one kinky way to break the curse; strip tease + milk play + whipping.
That is the version I read too. Also instead of whipping the lindworm after the shedding of the skins the shepherdess had to tackle the lump of flesh that was left of the lindworm and scrub it harshly with water and a bar of soap until the lump of flesh was completely gone and the prince's human body was revealed. This apparently took all night, and by morning the girl had scrubbed away all the lindworm flesh. The two brides before the shepherdess were not princesses but peasant girls from the kingdom.
I love how all of us are like "BUT WHITE ROSE??" like fairy tales actually makes sense. None of us are questioning how shedding, whipping, milk, and human affection turned the lindworm human.
3:40 i misheard "lye and milk" for "lion milk" and i spent an agonizing 5 minutes trying to figure out how the hell are they gonna milk a lion, let alone survive trying to.
@@seemo5789 there's a hypothesis in neuroscience called the "Cognitive Zombie Hypothesis" or something similar, that states that most people or a large percentage of humanity aren't actually sentient, and have just learned behaviour that makes them seem like people and who actively live out their lives not making a direct decision once, as mental zombies holding society aloft with effectively slave labor without knowing it. Do you know someone helplessly stuck in a stressful job with no hobbies except for t.v. watching and barely any personality? They might be one, and because they and their ancestors were able to live out their lives without evolving true sentience, only learning behaviour from others, they never needed to evolve sentience, and never did.
Two dead princesses aside, this actually went better than I thought. I was expecting the siblings to be conjoined or have multiple personalities or be conjoined with multiple personalities.
So she literally whips the Lindworm into shape, then hugs him, and then turns into a super cute boy who (and I'm blaming your art for this) looks like he's never been hugged before (and probably hasn't) and is currently trying to come to terms with the feelings of loneliness he didn't know he had repressed all his life. Huh. I never knew "emotionally vulnerable dragon boy" was something I needed in my life. Thank you, Red!
I wonder if it's a metaphor for the civilising effect of the woman in the marriage, the lindworm is defeated through her asserting her dominance and disciplining him. Was this secretly marriage advice?
@@georgethompson1460 Possibly. Though now that I think about it, "beat your husband and then show him affection afterwards to control him" might not be the best advice.
@Ivan Vozjakov the issue is that Disney makes those stories very difficult for anyone else to adapt into something new, even though they're public domain. Copyright law is a bitch.
@Ivan Vozjakov I'm not saying what they make is necessarily bad, I mean for example, I like their movie Hercules despite the laundry list of historical and cultural inaccuracies in the movie including the freaking title. I'm just saying that if Disney sees a way to profit off a story, they will take action.
Can we just appreciate how much fun Red seems to have had singing in the end there? I LOVED the story and yet, the amount of amusement vibes I got from the song was the best part of the video for me!
In my opinion her hugging the Lindworm is more a kindness thing then anything. Like seeing a creature that malevolent being that low and, even though the Lindworm is dangerous, she still has the kindness to show him empathy. And thus red putting “true love’s kiss” as his dialogue in the video, at least to me makes a lot of sense.
Just saying but I think she put in the "true loves kiss" part because it would sound like she either tortured Him or there was some bdsm involved so he made up an excuse
I think both are true. She literally whipped him into ship but she's not heartless and is all, "I did this cuz I love you. I just want you to know that "
I mean, a pair of brothers who are knight and dragon mount, fighting evil? The high fantasy novel practically writes itself. (Heck, knights being bonded to dragons from a young age as battle brothers is basically a Thing in a certain region of my DnD setting.)
@@camblycreeper7999 They could have pulled an Oedipus and had the Lindworm try to kidnap and marry the prince without either of them realizing they are siblings. It's actually a bit strange that the dragon knows about his royal lineage anyway considering he was just a baby when he ran away and the queen didn't tell anyone.
Not asking questions you don't actually want answered is a very important life lesson (and that goes tripple for asking google for image search results)
So the way to defeat a Lindworm involves: a long drawn out strip tease, use of a bedroom whip, some milk play, and finally some wholesome cuddling at the end of all that! XD
I don't appreciate the combination of whipping with soap and flaying, I may share the colors of Slaanesh, but I ain't that type of kinky. The milk is questionable...
@@nullpoint3346 Oh it’s way worse than that. Lye isn’t soap. It’s USED in soap, but until it’s combined with fats it’s a SUPER caustic chemical. Like burn skin off and leave massive scars kind of caustic. The milk is actually super important, because it would neutralize the acid of the lye to a certain extent.
There's a lindworm in Hilda who lives on an island and attacks people who disturb her because she has social anxiety and just wants to be left alone to garden in peace and honestly that's just goals
4:42 Plot hole? Or maybe they were all like "Well obviously we thought a dragon demanding a bride would be a dude, but they're married now, so lets just call her a prince and be done with it."
@@holyrod2001 I don't think it does. It would imply that trans men are women, since I assume the roses, being magic, give you a daughter/son, _not_ a child who is assigned female/male at birth. The lindworm, if he were a trans man, would be a son, not a daughter. I think the lindworm is a trans woman. This would explain her being amab, and we can assume that she transitions after the story is over. I do partially want this to be the case because the way that the lindworm is made human reminds me of Contrapoints, but I digress.
It's a shame dragon brothers are never chill until they loose 7 layers of skin and get a bunch of milk splashed on their face. The things men will do to avoid therapy.
Unless your the third of anything your probably screwed, also considering how popular rags to riches stories are tales where peasents become royalty are actually pretty common.
I'm really interested in who counts as expendable in folk tales. There are a lot of stories where a royal baby is going to be kidnapped by a supernatural creature so they swap it with a peasant baby who gets taken instead and the story doesn't remark on the "expendable" baby's fate. My favorite is the rare aversion (an Estonian tale called The Grateful Prince) where the prince grows up, finds out his parents swapped him with a peasant girl, and is like "you did WHAT? I'm getting her back from the weird forest imp guy, her family probably misses her!" and then goes to rescue the supposedly expendable person. He rescues her, she rescues him, they get married, it's super sweet.
probably felt like that for the peasants. heralds and criers coming through all the time announcing that such and such royal had died, but NOTHING actually changed for the them.
The fact that the male rose was eaten second caused both babies to be male, makes me wonder if the red rose was eaten first and then the white one if the human child and lindworm would have been daughters, so "A groom for me before a groom for you"
Red: “Under no circumstances is she to eat both roses.” Me: “she ate both roses didn’t she.” Red: “both roses were so delicious she ate both.” Me: “sounds about right.”
@@thehistoryandbooknerd8979 Roses actually grow a type of fruit called a rose hip. Rose hips are used in all kinds of desserts and can be made into jam or marmalade. There is also such a thing as rose hip soup, which I am really curious about what that tastes like.
There is another version of the story where she has to eat magic onions, but she's so excited about having children that she eats the first one without even bothering to peel it! It tastes awful, so she carefully peels the second onion. Prince Lindorm has to shed his skin in the same way that you have to peel an onion before you eat it.
I love the conversations the characters are having in the background :3 "I understand the whip, but why the milk and lye?" "Why do you ask something you don't want to know?" "F*ck me, I guess" "I think it's sweet
i thought the lindworm was going to be a girl because of the whole “white rose= daughter, red rose=son” but ok. queen wanted a daughter and ended up with two sons.
Yeah, I was reading the original Brothers Grimm, and there's a LOT of "person does a lot of murders but then other stuff happens and the murderer lives happily ever after."
I was listening to this while walking my dog and it took everything I had not to burst into scream-laughter the second she started singing. Holy shit she sent me
I love how the king is smiling in all four weddings while everyone else's expressions change at least once depending on how many princesses the lindworm has eaten.
"just as keikaku'd" hhAH- and also Staff: "What? Who's this? The lindworm? How are they human?" Shepardess: *thinking of an epic battle* "We stripped, I whipped, the lindworm got covered in milk, and then we embraced." Staff: *thinking of something else entirely* "O-oh. We'll… write that down as true love's kiss, then."
What does “keikaku’d” actually mean?? Is it some obscure anime reference cause google translate (I know that amazing linguistic resource) doesn’t pick it up as Norwegian or a real word at all
@@mattdixon1946 There's an apostrophe and a d at the end to signal that it's past tense. "Keikaku" means something along the lines of "plan" in Japanese, though I haven't consumed Japanese media in a while.
@@mattdixon1946 It's Japanese for 'plan'. Basically she's saying 'Just as planned'. It's an old meme from a screenshot of a fan sub for Death Note, where they literally had the subtitles as 'All according to keikaku (Translator's note: Keikaku means plan)'
"Don't eat both roses." What's the worst that could happen? *Queen gives birth to twins* That went different than I thought it would. *One of them is a dragon* Yeah, I forgot this was a fairy tale.
@@dylantennant6594 there's a lot of flowers you can eat. Rose petals and violets are often used as edible decoration, but you can also eat dandelions (the whole plant even, IIRC) and many others. You can even get rose water and I've seen syrup for lemonade for it in an international market store once. Do your homework beforehand though, because some flowers are poisonous. Most won't kill you but you'll have a bad time.
Interesting, I will have to try it some time. That sounds quit pleasant in an natural way. And trust me I know. I live in a part of the world where fox glove grows naturally. I have scene people accidentally ingest some and it’s not a good sight.
I think it's kinda sweet that the last thing the maid has to do to break the curse is to give the lindworm a hug, because he probably never had one growing up.
Okay, I looked up this fairy tale after watching this, and according to Wikipedia at least, Prince Lindworm eats the first two princess _because they don't like being married to him._ So yeah, whipping aside, I guess this is a True Love sort of thing where he just needs someone to accept him, then he turns from Beast to Prince.
I like how the queen gets frightened by the witch and backs away, but the peasant girl just pulls out a kung fu stance ready to roundhouse kick the witch back to the coven she came from.
I like this story. The lindworm (aside from being a dragon; I love dragons!) is relatable having been abandoned and ultimately screwed over from birth. I like the relationship between the peasant girl, ultimately ending happily. Warms my heart.
It happens in an African (Shangani, to be specific) story called The Serpent's Bride. A giant water serpent courts Timba (a chief's daughter) and finally proposes to her, and she's totally hyped about it. He doesn't turn into a human until after the wedding. And the story keeps going after that, with a magic tag team battle against a baby-murdering wizard and other fun stuff. It's a good romp, look it up.
It would have been a real twist if all he needed was just a hug, and the wipping was just the Old Lady's kink and thought it would be funny to tell the girl.
The lye was to dry out and crack the skin. Whip was to rip the skin. The milk was to exfoliate the final layer gently so that the removal prosses didn't kill him.
@@MogofWar i more laugh when the lindworm is asked to remove its skin as she removes the layers and he just says yes. Like not even questioning how to remove its skin or anythin
@@ilopominecrafter Well, some folk misconceptions were that Snakes could shed and redon skin layers like clothing... And even thought it was actually known that molting was actually a one-way process, shedding skins like suits was a well established mythological motif by that point.
I personally like to imagine that the Prince can turn back into a Lindwyrm, and turns back when the peasant girl hugs him, but make sure that if that doesn't work, she carries the whip, just in case
I assume the first rose prepped the queen's oven for boy shaped buns. The second rose just failed and turned into a vague magical mass. I also assume that when a witch tells you not to do something, it because of highly complicated magical reasons that are similar to the install instructions on a skyrim mod. THIS IS HOW YOU GET FACES WITHOUT SKIN TEXTURES PEOPLE.
"Magic is like Skyrim modding" is a pretty apt metaphor for how these stories usually go, actually. Do it right, and it vastly improves everything. Do it wrong, and _freaky shit_ happens.
First rose set the "child" flag to 'daughter'. Second rose caused a value duplication error where the new variable got set to "son" but the existing "daughter" one got incremented past its allocated memory and wound up pointing to "lindwurm".
Putting it in that context, the hug makes so much more sense. First a strip tease to tantalize and presumably tucker out the partner, followed by some whipping and mild humiliation (I'm not sure how else to explain dumping milk on someone's face), followed by some gentle hugs. One Heck of a wedding night.
Plus, something awoke in her, but at least she's still an emotional healthy dom to a sub who never knew he badly needed all the hugz until he got them.
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my favorite part is that the lindworm actually agrees to taking off his own skin nine times instead of just... tearing off her dresses himself and then eating her. He may be a bloodthirsty dragon, but he's still a gentleman.
If your man wont even do that for you he aint a keeper
Turns out he was just a sub the whole time and didn’t know it
Except for the part where he literally ate two women alive...
Other than that, yeah.
Considering the kind of monster she herself turned out to be (she went from shepherdess to royal dom), that was a wise move on his part.
@@reyonXIII how is she a monster?
Red singing "wake me up" aggressively while also somehow whispering is best Red
All Reds are Best Red
It is absolutely amazing and hilarious.
I couldn't stop laughing throughout. xD
Agreed
I know right the singing is alway great.
You should hear the version with the onions instead of roses. The queen forgot to peel the first onion before eating it.
Fits in with the layers theme.
And that's how ogres are born...
thanks, i hate it alkzjsdkx
You could say that version had LAYERS
lIkE oRgErS!!!!!
Oh my gosh wait I’ve heard that version!! I thought it was ridiculous because an unpeeled raw onion is even grosser than a normal raw onion
lol i just posted about this, i must've missed your comment :B
I love how the queen flinches when the old witch appears while shepherd girl gets into a fighting stance.
Queen grew up in comfort and safety. Shepherdess had seen some shit.
@@MogofWar tru dat
i mean, magical worlds like these you could literally walk outside and get eaten by a goddamn dragon so like.......
I also like how the old woman straight up just appeared out of space, and time to provide advice
like she teleported out of nowhere
Darkplace Kung Fu hands at the ready.
Witch: So you'll wear 10 dresses, whip him, dump the milk on him and then give him a hug.
Peasant Girl: A hug?
Witch: I said all that and you question the hug? Its not necessary but the lad probably needs it.
Aftercare is a very important aspect of bedroom funtime ;D
@Frostgiant According to a youtube video i watched showing how terrible of a dom is Christian from fifty shades, after care is necessary especially for the sub who might feel shitty about the whole s and m thing.
I strongly suspect that’s a euphemism. A “very special hug.” Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more say no more.
@@octopassi2528 ...link?
@@octopassi2528 Watching a video about a BDSM book from a guy named Dom
Shoutout to everyone involved in the weddings for being perfectly fine with partying with a dragon three times in a row
Who wouldn’t want to party wiþ a fucking dragon þey also have great music taste
Parties with a dragon are the best parties. Also, that dragon is their future ruler. You would not want to upset you future ruler (who is also happens to be a *dragon* ) by any rudeness, would you?
The King: "Now, listen, my son is a bit sensitive about his appearance. So I want you all to treat him as if he is normal. And if you don't, well, let's just say you'll find out what happens to his first bride."
i mean tecnicly it was four times, that boy still has white glowy hair, so i bet my but he has this whole arc about learing to controll his dragon powers
from what I've heard, Norwegians are always down to party
I love how when the queen is spooked she just flinches away, but the leasing girl immediately goes into a fighting stance.
Of course. The girl's a Shepherd. You don't know rage until you've made the unspeakably horrid mistake of angering a Shepherd.
@@keeganpenix9483 Or the Son of a Shepard!
Probably seen some shit while alone on the hills with the sheeps
@@alisaurus4224 Most likely. She'd have probably needed to deal with all kinds of predators deciding that the flock looks tasty.
Can confirm, shepherds are flinchy
Source: 6 months of shepherding
Head Canon: The ghosts of the two other princesses now haunt the castle. They’re pretty nice to everyone, but they won’t stop giving the prince shit for eating them
Continuation Head Canon: On the other hand, the Ghost Princess are super nice to the Lindworm's giving them remarks like:
*Oh you're so beautifull and charming, we wish we wre your mommies, but at last not all of us can be lucky enought to find a magical witch to save us and be married. Isn't that right, peasent girl?*
*At least I'm alive and not a childless ghost hag*
*At least we still look young!*
*At least I didnt die virgin!*
*Why are mommies figthing, dad?*
*...I will tell you latter*
code E221, we've got two ghosts haunting their alive husband and his new wife
"You ate me."
"I was a dragon."
"Hmm. Dear, what do you feel like having for dinner?"
_"Princess, maybe-"_
"PORK, PORK SOUNDS LOVELY, DON'T YOU AGREE."
"I *said* I was *sorry!*"
This is weird, because there’s *another* Norwegian fairy tale about a childless queen who eats two flowers and gets a beautiful child and an ugly child, only in that story the two kids really love each other and the ugly child winds up rescuing the beautiful child from trolls.
I guess eating flowers is just A Thing in Norwegian fairy tales
Don't eat flowers in Norway. Got it.
"sweet home norway"
Wouldn't surprise me if the two fairy tales from the same region with the same plot point about flower-eating had some kind of shared history.
There's a Hellboy comic that talks about that one.
Hellboy adapted that story and I always found that version to be oddly sad and beautiful. I won't say why exactly for the sake of spoilers, but it definitely doesn't include much of a happy ending.
I like that the witch is genuinely helpful and doesn't pull any weird/mischievous/evil shenanigans with anyone she meets.
She is the nicest.
I mean she coulda warned the queen about the flavor or the princess about the new kinks.
I mean, maybe she's genre savvy as well as being a witch, and just wants to see how weird they can make it even if she tells them exactly what to do.
Big difference between a Witch and a Hag, lot of people don't get that.
If Tia Dalma is a witch, (albiet with a swamp voodoo schtick) then if they are more evil and less attractive, that is generally the tell tale sign of a hag
For those folks saying she could have warned people about the downsides.
It could be a little tricksy not disclosing major effects. but a kind and wise old woman might have had the grimoir or teacher she learned the information about the stuff prior didn't disclose the information about the Lindworm but did have information about dealing with lindworms.
Honestly not surprised that this is Norway's response to marrying a dragon.
"Remember child, when you marry your dragon husband, you have to whip the fear of Thor into him to turn him into a real man."
"Sounds...strange, but okay strange lady in the woods."
How much you want to bet that the old lady in the woods was Odin?
Also, never apologize for that song choice, it gave me the best of amusement.
Odin probably would enjoy a joke with an 18-year payoff so long as it included some wedding night BDSM
@@williamchamberlain2263 facts, Munin recorded the whole thing!
Well all roads do lead to Odin, after all.
Taking an arrow to the knee just seems so tame in comparison.
@@juke9674 this is going straight into Odin's epic prank compilation
"Well, f*CK me, then."
"I think it's sweet."
Love the characters, Red.
@alida flus That would not have been a fairy tale in "hide your gays" medieval Europe.
@alida flus
See that version makes more sense to me.
@@andyknightwarden9746 Yeah, but it’s still fun.
@@festethephule7553 yeah, in the way that you would think eating both flowers would result in a son and a daughter, even if the daughter starts out a lindworm
@@andyknightwarden9746 There’s a tale of lesbians in some Irish(?) tale. I forgot the name though.
Gotta give props to the witch. She gives clear instructions, and then when she learns those instructions haven't been followed, she helps out the person most in danger from it. No evil laughter or karmic punishment, just honest help and advice.
Colin Whitfill To be fair, a "Don't eat two or else you'll get a dragon for a kid" would've helped a bit.
@@jenneacubero1036 I mean, yes, but also, if a witch gives you super explicit instructions about what NOT to do as part of whatever thing you kind of have to assume that Terrible Consequences are implied.
@@wppb50 True. At least in Greek Mythos, oracles are too vague to know what or what not to avoid. Fairy tale characters don't have much of an excuse.
Yeah, can't have been easy to hold back snide remarks about goddamn royals who think they know better than her, a literal fairy tale witch.
That's the "....yup, figures. Alright-" approach
I was low key expecting the lindworm to go like "Prince, I am your sister!" And they go a journey to turn her back into a human.
same
My next novel
Roseborn Alchemist: Siblings Forever!
I was expecting the worm to pose as the daughter of some other king and eat the son
And then they would get married.
I love how the queen just ate the other flower because *'iT wAs TaStY'* not because she wanted another kid...
Sometimes you just have a bad case of the munchies.
So much for birth control...
Supposedly pregnancy cravings can be a real bitch.
Yeah, that....may be Red's version. She tends to sanitize myths to keep her ratings safe.
IRL, a queen being childless would be grounds for her to be divorced.
EXACTLY like sex
This was interesting to hear. The version of the story I've known was that the queen was told to eat two onions to conceive twins, but she had to ba sure to peel them first. The queen was so eager to have a child, that she forgot to peel the first onion, but took the time to peel the second. This in turn correlated to when the maiden requested the lindworm to strip layers of his skin, cause it was like peeling off those onion layers the queen neglected to take off herself
Yeah I was under the impression it was supposed to be two onions as well. Not sure where the roses came from. The story kind of loses its "poetic symmetry" or whatever without the onions. Still a very entertaining video nonetheless.
Oohh. That definitely gives it some kind of logic
The cadence of “I cAn’T wAkE uP!” kills me every time
I cAn’T wAkE uP!?!
Omg that ending was the best thing ever
The second voices were an amazing experience tho, therapeutical as fuck
i love how marrying a lindworm doesn't
seem to have actually distressed them, until the being eaten part
Maybe they were just relieved they weren't being married off to one of their cousins.
“I must warn you, though: I am a massive maneating dragon.”
“...eh, no one’s perfect.”
Hey, some ladies like a bad dragon . . .
How progressive
@@jasonblalock4429 No. Bad. (proceeds to spray you with a water pistol)
I absolutely cackled at "Son, this is becoming a problem"
As though he were a sitcom father telling off his son for throwing wild parties
"But Daaaad, human flesh tastes delicious!"
@@team10leader1
Son?
*stock canned laughter*
Dad?
*stock canned laughter*
Where's your bride?
*stock canned laughter*
What bride?
*stock canned laughter*
"Happily ever after except those two previous princesses who are now dead." Oh, you forgot the newlyweds once they have to deal with two kingdoms who want the princes head. No biggy.
I imagine having a were-dragon as the kingdom's prince is going to turn off the other kingdoms from invasion, since, you know... Dragon.
Really, they're gonna want the CURRENT king and queen's heads, since this is all their fault, ESPECIALLY the queen's.
I mean depending on how close the other kingdoms are you could just say they died on the road or something, maybe even say you already caught and executed the bandits responsible for brownie points.
The lyndworm prince may very well still retain his powers, apart from flight and breathing fire, if he's leading the army, all they have to do is just follow through the gap that is the carnage the prince leaves behind.
@@kaischreurs2488 there's a book where that happens sort of, Princess of the Midnight Ball, retelling 12 Dancing Princesses, where a LOT of kingdoms are like "our sons went to your kingdom to answer the shoe question and died, time for war."
I find it hilarious that rather than the Queen eating both roses because she really wants two children, she just eats it because it tastes good
In one youtube video I saw. The queen just couldn't decide and just ate both disregarding what the old lady told her
@@MeMe-nn8lm And she got two sons in the end anyways.
@@shadenox8164 I really dont understand why the Lindwurm is a Male too
I mean roses are p tastey
@@lucasking4739 I agree with you there rose are pretty good
A prince, trying to explain why he hires a peasant women to whip him and douse him with milk to his concerned servents: "Have you ever heard of the Lindworm?"
wonder how many fairytales were born from servants trying to explain their masters' fetish gear
So your saying red riding hood is a furry?
@@danjudex2475 There’s a large group of fairy tales like _Peau d’âne_ (Doneyskin), The She-Bear, _Allerleirauh_ etc (Aarne-Thompson folktale classification type 510B) which would be rather more fitting.
@Soft Squishy Ducky little red riding hood was a warning for young girls not to stray and be vary often strange men. The wolf eating her was an allegory for sexual assault. The “stay on the path” is both literal about the woods and following the right path in life. So it could have the shadow of furry on it, but a very dark one
The best part is when the prince I definitely thought would be the main character immediately became completely irrevelant
Hopefully he gets his own fairytale somewhere else? After all, now that the dragon-prince is married, his brother can leave and find his own bride, right? That's what I'm going to tell myself anyway!
So that's where the non-descript wandering prince comes from
Yeah, I love when that happens.
What a twist
Since he can't get married until Big Bro Lindworm does, I want the version where he's trying to be his wingman.
So a lady helps a man discover his true self through the power of strip-teasing, BDSM and love?
_Nice._
Aftercare is an important step for a healthy dominitrax relationship
Is milk play a thing already?
@@TheMewtata to paraphrase the castle staff 'don't ask questions you don't want the answers too'
@@TheMewtata If you can think of it, there's probably someone somewhere who's into it.
Don't think to hard about it.
I love how this king looked at the dragon after he ate his first bride and was like "well surely if we do the exact same thing something different will happen".
More of: "Oh you didn't like that one? Don't worry son we can get another"
Any scientist can tell you: "One experiment is no experiment."
"I thought he would be full after the first one."
1 is a coinkidink, 2 is a pattern
I mean it worked the third time.
I cannot describe how funny I find red boldly announcing “I can’t wake up!” and all the other parts of the song. The tone is just hilarious.
I died laughing.
I revived laughing.
I stayed the way I already was laughing.
I laughed laughing
1/10. Blue wasn't in the background yelling "save me!"
I feel like that witch just runs a consulting business in the forest.
"Specific instructions to solve your problems. Disobey at own risk."
Wood Carver!!
@@kittycatkyla2344 Choose your fate!
I love the little word bubble of the now freed prince saying it was "true Love's kiss" because admitting as to how it went down really might raise some questions
Yeah saying you got dominatrixed into a human is hard to explain
I kind of love the fact that she fully whipped the evil out of him like that’s the most violent beauty and the beast story
Turns out the whole ordeal awakened in her a monster scarier than even him.
Like, holy hell
@@reyonXIII Hey now, let's not kink shame.
@@garvinanders2355 what if that’s one of their kinks?
@@garvinanders2355 on the contrary, I'm loving the hell out of it 😆
Besides, how can I hate it when he clearly looks like he got the hugz and affection he never knew he badly needed?
As far as I've know about it, she's a true responsible dom.
@@reyonXIII the ideal dom
As weird as this story is, I can't help but feel how iconic it is. "A bride for me before a bride for you" being spoken by an evil monster to a prince encapsulates that fairy tale feel.
I guess this really proves what red was saying about those roles in fairy tales.
Words have power, and that in and of itself is what makes Fantasy tales or stories so strong (or just unique).
"A bride for me before a bride for you" does feel like a really epic quote. I wonder if it inspired the whole story in the first place?
I'm stealing that line for my DnD campaign I'm running
@@JoshtheOverlander Go for it!
I’m just glad that the prince even listened without automatically going into the it’s a monster so it has to die phase
The lindworm was mad that his brother had a good childhood while he was out in the woods surviving hunting bears for food
It’s kinda his fault though, it’s not like the queen exiled him or anything. He was born and promptly ran off while his mom was still processing “I birthed a dragon and then a normal kid, wat”
@@thesquishedelf1301 I suppose there might have been more to that. Obviously she wasn't giving birth alone (being the queen and all) and we don't know what the midwife thought about a serpent. Or the queen herself, for that matter. I could imagine at least someone's first reaction to be "OMG a lindworm, getitoffgetitoff!!!" and then the lindworm just flees all the hazzle (and possible beating)
- hunting bears for food
Still beats being bored out of your mind within those castle walls.
@Medium Grey Girl That explains the manners, but its still the queen not going after the lindworm
I like how the story mentions that: "Yay they have a beautiful son! Who goes out and finds a wife until some dragon 'says me first'" and then the second son is never mentioned again. Whether irrelevant or boring,I think the singular thing that started all this becoming overshadowed is hilarious.
He is probably defending the kingdom from the other 2
Technically, Red implies the second prince is the bait.
King: I have a son that needs marrying.
Princess: (sees handsome human prince) I'll take him!
(shows up, sees Lindworm)
King: Ah, I see you've met my son.
Princess: wait, where's Prince Handsome?
King: Oh, I didn't say he was the one you were going to marry.
@@PartigradeCannon That's Awesome oh my god
second child syndrome
That's because in the original story there was only the Lindworm son. Lang who's book became most popular took a fair amount of liberties.
The version of this story that I read was slightly different: instead of two flowers, there would be two onions. The onions were exactly the same and did not decide the gender of the child, but the witch warned the queen to peel the onions before eating them. The first child was born a lindworm because the queen only remembered the advice after she'd already eaten one of the onions unpeeled.
Another difference was that all of the brides were random peasant girls. The last one was actually volunteered for the marriage by her evil stepmom, who hoped she'd get eaten.
A third little difference was that he wasn't whipped after shedding skins, but scrubbed with lye & brushes.
It's fun to compare how fairytales evolved and how versions can vary!
I actually like this version more...
That would explain the lindworm having to peel off it's skin several times to become human.
This one is probably closest to the original form of the tale. Roses became more popular in much later fairy tales ...so ...many ...roses.
I was actually about to say that I don't remember this story until you pointed out the differences. Lmao
This one makes more sense in so many ways lol.
Red’s rendition of “Wake Me Up Inside” gave me life 😆
I guess you can say it, breaths you to life.
Her cover of that song is such a mood
The SOUND I made when I heard it XD can we just. Get a whole album of Red's covers? Please?
It was awesome.
It woke me up
Why is no one talking about Red screaming I CANT WAKE UP in the rawest voice I have ever heard on a soft chill ukulele cover
it’s the most jarring shit and it’s so funny dhfhkdb she’s rlly good tho :)
I love it so much, my guy, you don't understand!!!
She sounds so surprised: I CAN'T WAKE UP?!
2003 called, it wants its meme back!
I was not expecting this
The true name of this fairy tail is: "Four Weddings and a Few Funerals".
Four weddings, two funerals, and a crazy night in bed.
I love that the Lindworm prince is says “true love’s kiss” frantically.
Ironically, the true love's kiss is mostly a Disney thing, it is surprisingly uncommon in the traditional fairy tales (although love having something to do with breaking a curse is a common trope, but it is hardly ever a kiss that will do the trick). In the Grimm's Fairy Tales version of the frog king, the frog is not changed back into a human by a true love's kiss, but actually by her picking him up and throwing him against a wall when the princess finally can't take it anymore after reluctantly putting up with the deal having him as a companion in return for him getting her golden ball back from the bottom of the well. In Snowwhite and the seven dwarfs, the prince doesn't kiss the poisoned Snowwhite, but begs the dwarfs to let him take the glass coffin with Snowwhite with him so that he can at least look at her. When he transports her to his home castle, the coffin slips and falls of the horse, which knocks the bite of cursed poison apple out of her mouth and brings her back to life. Really the only traditional fairy tale that actually has the kiss trope is Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty), and I'm not sure whether we can call this one a true loves kiss, since the curse has been lasting for 100 years and the prince who kisses her has just seen her for the first time.
@@chrisrudolf9839 and also, uh, there's... there's more than kissing happening there. There's... a lot more, actually.
@@MagnusThiHan Depends on which version you're reading.
I was honestly expecting the lindworm to become a princess since the white rose would've been eaten for a daughter. Oh well
I wish that we all got a gay dragon girl
@@robynblind3031 *lesbian lindworms*
@@robynblind3031 Me too.
Plot twist: the Lindworm prince is transgender and eventually decides they’re actually a girl.
That's exactly what happens in a comic drawn by an artist! Unfortunately I don't remember the artist's name, so I'll have to search it up later.
Edit: I found it! The comic is called Bride of the Rose Beast by mishacakes on Tumblr.
We just not gonna mention how the second prince just suddenly fade out of the story?
Poor dude got to be main protagonist for like 30 seconds before the Lindworm slide in to the focus.
Also, damn that was one kinky way to break the curse; strip tease + milk play + whipping.
I was saved by the power of cuddles
And some weirdly specific BDSM kinks.
I don’t want to know what milk play is although I can piece it together.
@@fist-of-doom487 Ditto, man. Not even I'm into that shit
"Literally whipped into shape"
The mental imagine of someone sculpting a person by whipping the material made me laugh way more than it should 😂
Red overenthusiastically singing "Wake Me Up" is my favorite thing for today.
I want... no I NEED a whole version of the song sung by red.
Red, please release an full cover.
^This.
Red, PLEASE PLEASE release a full cover! The world needs it!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
4:37 is best. “I can’t wake up!?!”
A variant to this story involves the queen eating 2 onions instead of roses, which makes the shedding skin scene make way more sense.
Does depetaling a rose count as metaphor?
@@junjunjamore7735 I read that version too, I thought depetalling was going to be a stipulation.
Like ogres, lindworms have layers lmao
That is the version I read too. Also instead of whipping the lindworm after the shedding of the skins the shepherdess had to tackle the lump of flesh that was left of the lindworm and scrub it harshly with water and a bar of soap until the lump of flesh was completely gone and the prince's human body was revealed. This apparently took all night, and by morning the girl had scrubbed away all the lindworm flesh. The two brides before the shepherdess were not princesses but peasant girls from the kingdom.
But does it _really,_ though?
I love how all of us are like "BUT WHITE ROSE??" like fairy tales actually makes sense. None of us are questioning how shedding, whipping, milk, and human affection turned the lindworm human.
The white rose also kinda makes sense since fairy magic and prophecy tend to work on the logic of "last one overwrites prior".
We only have any standards for fairy tales to make sense when they try to explain any form of logic to their shenanigans.
To be fair, the witch TOLD US how the roses are supposed to work. The whole whip thing is just magic nonsense.
the difference is that we know how the roses work, one is for a boy, the other for a girl, and so, we expect the rules to follow, but they dont.
Human affection can turn anything human
That first “I can’t wake up” and “save me”. Gold.
3:40 i misheard "lye and milk" for "lion milk" and i spent an agonizing 5 minutes trying to figure out how the hell are they gonna milk a lion, let alone survive trying to.
Ironically, there is an Italian Fairy Tale about getting milk from a lioness.
I like how there's a fairy tale for everything
How to milk a lioness
...
carefully
just find a very lonely lion and promise a good time
Me too!
"F*ck me I guess"
"I think it's sweet"
These static 2D characters have more personality than most movie protagonists
Forget movie protagonists, they've got more personality than most *people.*
@@seemo5789 I really want to say you're wrong. I really do. I just can't tho
@@seemo5789
I won't say more but the second one definitely seems like a very lovely and forgiving person. Those people are so nice to be around.
O O F
@@seemo5789 there's a hypothesis in neuroscience called the "Cognitive Zombie Hypothesis" or something similar, that states that most people or a large percentage of humanity aren't actually sentient, and have just learned behaviour that makes them seem like people and who actively live out their lives not making a direct decision once, as mental zombies holding society aloft with effectively slave labor without knowing it. Do you know someone helplessly stuck in a stressful job with no hobbies except for t.v. watching and barely any personality? They might be one, and because they and their ancestors were able to live out their lives without evolving true sentience, only learning behaviour from others, they never needed to evolve sentience, and never did.
Two dead princesses aside, this actually went better than I thought. I was expecting the siblings to be conjoined or have multiple personalities or be conjoined with multiple personalities.
I was expecting a transgender kid
Why wouldn't conjoined twins have their own personalities? Unless there's only 1 brain.
“Totally kosher bedroom funtimes.” Is now officially my favorite Red quote.
Aside from the “Banging 10k princesses” bit. THAT was hilarious.
Wait, what video was the "Banging 10k princesses" from?
@@mixis1931 Krishna, I think.
So she literally whips the Lindworm into shape, then hugs him, and then turns into a super cute boy who (and I'm blaming your art for this) looks like he's never been hugged before (and probably hasn't) and is currently trying to come to terms with the feelings of loneliness he didn't know he had repressed all his life.
Huh. I never knew "emotionally vulnerable dragon boy" was something I needed in my life. Thank you, Red!
I wonder if it's a metaphor for the civilising effect of the woman in the marriage, the lindworm is defeated through her asserting her dominance and disciplining him.
Was this secretly marriage advice?
@@georgethompson1460 ah yes, the great advice of 'eat your bride until you find one to beat you'.
@@georgethompson1460 Possibly. Though now that I think about it, "beat your husband and then show him affection afterwards to control him" might not be the best advice.
Have you watched On Drakon?
@@jmassagetherapist6773 I think it was more marriage advice _for the wife._ 😉
"Sorry ladies, but someone has to pay the price for the rule of three."
Wow. So savage and so true.
"Did you get rounder?"
"It was a big cake."
Honestly mood.
"Look dude, If I'm gonna get eaten, I better be PACKING those cakes up as a final meal"
I love how it’s kind of reversal of a common trope in that the young peasant girl saves the young prince from a curse
I feel like this myth came to be because a kid found a whip in their parents' bedroom and had questions.
You are unto something
I mean BDSM would probably not hurt some royal marriages
@@krspaceT1 The strength used is the key
@@whafflete6721 and what shows more strength then some healthy BDSM?
"Dad, why is there a whip in a box under your bed?"
"UUHHHH I UHHH I USED TO BE A DRAGON"
Can we get some merch that says “A WILD MYSTERIOUS OLD WOMAN HAS APPEARED!” And just an image of the witch who says, “What’s wrong dear?”
I would buy the crap outta that!
Edit: spelling mistake...
N e e d
It most definitely needs to be in Pokémon text font.
a wild witch appears!
@@edarddragon Command?
"...and anything Disney monetized"
A list that keeps on growing.
with double entries, no less.
Disney: Casually washing away the context of those stories then turnin up a profit
@Ivan Vozjakov the issue is that Disney makes those stories very difficult for anyone else to adapt into something new, even though they're public domain. Copyright law is a bitch.
@Ivan Vozjakov I'm not saying what they make is necessarily bad, I mean for example, I like their movie Hercules despite the laundry list of historical and cultural inaccuracies in the movie including the freaking title. I'm just saying that if Disney sees a way to profit off a story, they will take action.
@Ivan Vozjakov Well Disney has been making remakes of their golden years sooooo
Can we just appreciate how much fun Red seems to have had singing in the end there? I LOVED the story and yet, the amount of amusement vibes I got from the song was the best part of the video for me!
In my opinion her hugging the Lindworm is more a kindness thing then anything. Like seeing a creature that malevolent being that low and, even though the Lindworm is dangerous, she still has the kindness to show him empathy. And thus red putting “true love’s kiss” as his dialogue in the video, at least to me makes a lot of sense.
Just saying but I think she put in the "true loves kiss" part because it would sound like she either tortured Him or there was some bdsm involved so he made up an excuse
I think both are true. She literally whipped him into ship but she's not heartless and is all, "I did this cuz I love you. I just want you to know that "
more cursed suggestion, everyone needs aftercare after some wacky wild adult fun times
Actually, in the fairy tale, that's one of the witch's instructions.
@@carrioncrow13 wait seriously? Cool
Would’ve been cool if the Lindworm and the prince became fiercely loyal to each other, going on badass adventures and just being great brothers.
I mean, a pair of brothers who are knight and dragon mount, fighting evil? The high fantasy novel practically writes itself.
(Heck, knights being bonded to dragons from a young age as battle brothers is basically a Thing in a certain region of my DnD setting.)
Also would have been cool if the Lindworm became a girl and the ending was a lesbian story but, of course that's probablly too gay for the Christians
@@camblycreeper7999 They could have pulled an Oedipus and had the Lindworm try to kidnap and marry the prince without either of them realizing they are siblings. It's actually a bit strange that the dragon knows about his royal lineage anyway considering he was just a baby when he ran away and the queen didn't tell anyone.
@@kylepessell1350 Dragons, man, some say they can speak their own native tongue the moment they hatch
@@camblycreeper7999 Then they would have become "best friends" by historian standards
“As the royal physician, it is my learned opinion that her womb is filled with sea serpents” Dr.Nick Riveria
Warm regards !! Dr. Nick Riveria.
Staff: What happened?!
Shepherdess: Uh...well-
Prince: TRUE LOVE'S KISS
Im guessing this is innuendo for they had fucked?
“I’m just saying I understand the whip but What’s the milk and lye for?”
“Why do you ask questions you know you don’t actually want answered”
Not asking questions you don't actually want answered is a very important life lesson (and that goes tripple for asking google for image search results)
Me, who read Dragonology: I already have an idea how this is gonna go.
Yooo dragonology was the goat
Dude I had almost all of them!!!
God that makes me feel old
I still have some of these books
@@autumnelemental97 Same :D
So the morals of the story are.
1. Always follow the direction of (good) magic people.
2. Beauty can tame the Beast with proper BDSM?
Which of course includes aftercare
And she asked him to remove the skin, which he agreed to! Consent Is Key!!
Yeah I like BDSM
B: Bible
D: Discussion
S: Study
M: Meeting
@@countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926 or in this case,
Betrothed
Dragon
Snuggles (at)
Midnight
"So is there a moral to any of this?"
"Nah. I just like telling people about my kink."
"Which one? BDSM? Transformation? Vore? Monsters?"
"Yes."
"I occupy a very specific location on quite a complicated Venn diagram."
"...Venn diagrams are my fetish."
Moral of the story: Aftercare is important in a BDSM relationship. Oh, and probably listen to ominous warnings
this got me lol
So the way to defeat a Lindworm involves: a long drawn out strip tease, use of a bedroom whip, some milk play, and finally some wholesome cuddling at the end of all that! XD
Well, a bedroom whip with lye, which I suspect isn't exactly standard.
*That's what V2 is for*
@@Attaxalotl It's time.
I don't appreciate the combination of whipping with soap and flaying, I may share the colors of Slaanesh, but I ain't that type of kinky.
The milk is questionable...
@@nullpoint3346 Oh it’s way worse than that. Lye isn’t soap. It’s USED in soap, but until it’s combined with fats it’s a SUPER caustic chemical. Like burn skin off and leave massive scars kind of caustic.
The milk is actually super important, because it would neutralize the acid of the lye to a certain extent.
There's a lindworm in Hilda who lives on an island and attacks people who disturb her because she has social anxiety and just wants to be left alone to garden in peace and honestly that's just goals
Oh mood
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Hilda is..the best show. Kinda weird it took so long to get a second season but still.
"Girls don't want boys, girls want social anxiety dragons."
God I want to be that Lindworm
4:42 Plot hole? Or maybe they were all like "Well obviously we thought a dragon demanding a bride would be a dude, but they're married now, so lets just call her a prince and be done with it."
This is actually a brilliant explanation.
@Confetti Pumpkins that fits well
that stable girl is the only one to ever see the Lindworm's human form naked, and she's not selling out her royal draconic sub
Well, my guess is that it's a side-effect of eating both of the roses.
@@holyrod2001 I don't think it does. It would imply that trans men are women, since I assume the roses, being magic, give you a daughter/son, _not_ a child who is assigned female/male at birth. The lindworm, if he were a trans man, would be a son, not a daughter.
I think the lindworm is a trans woman. This would explain her being amab, and we can assume that she transitions after the story is over. I do partially want this to be the case because the way that the lindworm is made human reminds me of Contrapoints, but I digress.
You've killed me with "the new prince who was literally whipped into shape."
Bride: How do I deal with my dragon groom?!
Witch: You know what a dominatrix is?
Oh my god
I fucking lolled
nooooo
That line is hilarious!
LMAO
It's a shame dragon brothers are never chill until they loose 7 layers of skin and get a bunch of milk splashed on their face.
The things men will do to avoid therapy.
Didn't this guy need 10?
Don't forget the whip. We got in this situation because the queen didn't fallow the old lady's directions
A man will eat 2 wives before going to therapy.
SAY IT FOR THE BOYS IN THE B A Q Q
Why would I consider therapy when I can just forget about my feelings and be an edge lord?
I love how expendable royalty is in fairy tales, they're like high class cookies or treats for monsters.
Class D personnel
Unless your the third of anything your probably screwed, also considering how popular rags to riches stories are tales where peasents become royalty are actually pretty common.
Princes that aren’t the eldest son are pretty expendable too
I'm really interested in who counts as expendable in folk tales. There are a lot of stories where a royal baby is going to be kidnapped by a supernatural creature so they swap it with a peasant baby who gets taken instead and the story doesn't remark on the "expendable" baby's fate. My favorite is the rare aversion (an Estonian tale called The Grateful Prince) where the prince grows up, finds out his parents swapped him with a peasant girl, and is like "you did WHAT? I'm getting her back from the weird forest imp guy, her family probably misses her!" and then goes to rescue the supposedly expendable person. He rescues her, she rescues him, they get married, it's super sweet.
probably felt like that for the peasants. heralds and criers coming through all the time announcing that such and such royal had died, but NOTHING actually changed for the them.
4:00
Nobody:
The Peasant: Just as keikaku’d
Milk and Lye’s the combo of two different healin motif’s; cleansing and human kindness, which is pretty rad
kill em with kindness
@@loonflam8910 heyoooo
Oooh, clever! I missed that. Thanks!
lye, the substance that is used by the mafia to melt bodies, is a symbol of kindness?
The fact that the male rose was eaten second caused both babies to be male, makes me wonder if the red rose was eaten first and then the white one if the human child and lindworm would have been daughters, so "A groom for me before a groom for you"
Oooh I like that version!
That's because the story isn't actually about roses, its about onions. The prince had "layers" because the second onion was eaten unpeeled.
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@@eyjay1508 Like many tales without a single originating author, there are multiple variations.
@@stormelemental13 Right, but one is from 400 years ago, and the other is from 10.
Red: “Under no circumstances is she to eat both roses.”
Me: “she ate both roses didn’t she.”
Red: “both roses were so delicious she ate both.”
Me: “sounds about right.”
No joke? Some species of roses are actually edible if prepared the correct way
@@iceluvndiva21 really? That’s cool!
@@thehistoryandbooknerd8979 Yeah, rose jam exists, as well as other desserts that add roses.
@@thehistoryandbooknerd8979 Roses actually grow a type of fruit called a rose hip. Rose hips are used in all kinds of desserts and can be made into jam or marmalade. There is also such a thing as rose hip soup, which I am really curious about what that tastes like.
There is another version of the story where she has to eat magic onions, but she's so excited about having children that she eats the first one without even bothering to peel it! It tastes awful, so she carefully peels the second onion. Prince Lindorm has to shed his skin in the same way that you have to peel an onion before you eat it.
I rewatch this video every once in a while just to hear the “WAKE ME UP” at the end 😆
I love the conversations the characters are having in the background :3
"I understand the whip, but why the milk and lye?" "Why do you ask something you don't want to know?"
"F*ck me, I guess" "I think it's sweet
i thought the lindworm was going to be a girl because of the whole “white rose= daughter, red rose=son” but ok. queen wanted a daughter and ended up with two sons.
I mean the flowers don't decide gender
I mean, imagine if the Shepherdess ended up discovering a beautiful naked princess and then married that princess.
@@johnvinals7423 that would have been amazing
@@johnvinals7423 there is a comic about that in tumblr and imgur
Title is The Bride of the Rose Beast
@@MAX-xd4uz Dang, I was gonna mention that.
"Maiden, shed a shift."
"Lindworm, shed a skin."
One of my favourite stories!
Yeah, I was reading the original Brothers Grimm, and there's a LOT of "person does a lot of murders but then other stuff happens and the murderer lives happily ever after."
Red being like, “f*** it”, and screwing around with the ending song was the best.
It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard
@@dopplereffect9246 yes it’s beautiful
We need an OSP soundtrack album
I was listening to this while walking my dog and it took everything I had not to burst into scream-laughter the second she started singing. Holy shit she sent me
So metal!
I love how the king is smiling in all four weddings while everyone else's expressions change at least once depending on how many princesses the lindworm has eaten.
And the lindworm is there, wearing a little tie, begrudgingly waiting through the ceremony with his tiny arms crossed.
And the peasant maiden flailing into a karate pose upon being jump-scared by the old woman...
@@reedkellner6447 I do that all the time. People sometimes think I've been abused. No, I just took Karate and I have a sibling.
"just as keikaku'd" hhAH-
and also
Staff: "What? Who's this? The lindworm? How are they human?"
Shepardess: *thinking of an epic battle* "We stripped, I whipped, the lindworm got covered in milk, and then we embraced."
Staff: *thinking of something else entirely* "O-oh. We'll… write that down as true love's kiss, then."
She turned him into a man
What does “keikaku’d” actually mean?? Is it some obscure anime reference cause google translate (I know that amazing linguistic resource) doesn’t pick it up as Norwegian or a real word at all
@@mattdixon1946 it means plan. The reference is from a fan dub of Deathnote where Light says “just as keikaku”
@@mattdixon1946 There's an apostrophe and a d at the end to signal that it's past tense. "Keikaku" means something along the lines of "plan" in Japanese, though I haven't consumed Japanese media in a while.
@@mattdixon1946 It's Japanese for 'plan'. Basically she's saying 'Just as planned'.
It's an old meme from a screenshot of a fan sub for Death Note, where they literally had the subtitles as 'All according to keikaku (Translator's note: Keikaku means plan)'
4:21
I think they did more than hug ;)
Those are some fantastic bedroom hairdoos ;)
"Don't eat both roses."
What's the worst that could happen?
*Queen gives birth to twins*
That went different than I thought it would.
*One of them is a dragon*
Yeah, I forgot this was a fairy tale.
I just relize can you eat roses? If so I am curious how, and what they taste like?
Who knew that eating a flower would lead to giving birth to a fire-breathing lizard?
@@dylantennant6594 there's a lot of flowers you can eat. Rose petals and violets are often used as edible decoration, but you can also eat dandelions (the whole plant even, IIRC) and many others. You can even get rose water and I've seen syrup for lemonade for it in an international market store once.
Do your homework beforehand though, because some flowers are poisonous. Most won't kill you but you'll have a bad time.
Yeah, the twin scenario is a different Norwegian fairytale. It’s called Tatterhood and it’s great. I highly recommend you look it up.
Interesting, I will have to try it some time. That sounds quit pleasant in an natural way.
And trust me I know. I live in a part of the world where fox glove grows naturally. I have scene people accidentally ingest some and it’s not a good sight.
I think it's kinda sweet that the last thing the maid has to do to break the curse is to give the lindworm a hug, because he probably never had one growing up.
@Anna Midkiff Very common with faeries who'll turn into anything until either you or the person you're fighting over turns back into normal.
Aftercare is one of the most important parts of BDSM.
@@Hey-Its-Dingo HAHAHAHA I SCREAM LAUGHED
edit: but you're right
Okay, I looked up this fairy tale after watching this, and according to Wikipedia at least, Prince Lindworm eats the first two princess _because they don't like being married to him._ So yeah, whipping aside, I guess this is a True Love sort of thing where he just needs someone to accept him, then he turns from Beast to Prince.
@@joemerl1145 ya know, aside from The marriage not being their decision, that's fair. They still get to be royalty.
I like how the queen gets frightened by the witch and backs away, but the peasant girl just pulls out a kung fu stance ready to roundhouse kick the witch back to the coven she came from.
I like this story. The lindworm (aside from being a dragon; I love dragons!) is relatable having been abandoned and ultimately screwed over from birth. I like the relationship between the peasant girl, ultimately ending happily. Warms my heart.
you think he just kept eating his brides so his brother could never marry?
Red being her own background singer had me dying of laughter
Just once, I want to one of these stories to end with “I’m married to a dragon...? SWEET!! This is the best thing ever!!”
It happens in an African (Shangani, to be specific) story called The Serpent's Bride. A giant water serpent courts Timba (a chief's daughter) and finally proposes to her, and she's totally hyped about it. He doesn't turn into a human until after the wedding. And the story keeps going after that, with a magic tag team battle against a baby-murdering wizard and other fun stuff. It's a good romp, look it up.
The "being a dragon" part was never really an issue so much as the "eating his bride" part, unfortunately
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Well, yeah, obviously. That’s what the prenup is for.
What about Shrek
well, i remember a greek story ending with "i'm married to a dragon...? can i BE a dragon!?"
Red singing Evanescence is the 8th wonder of our world.
Are we just going to ignore Kiss From a Rose? 4:14
👍😍
@@MementoMori-kn4dh Red uses this instrumental for every generic romantic scene in her vids.
There is no way Red recorded that end song without enthusiastic gesticulation and exaggerated facial expressions.
It would have been a real twist if all he needed was just a hug, and the wipping was just the Old Lady's kink and thought it would be funny to tell the girl.
Hehehe 1k
"This isn't actually part of the ceremony, I just had a spare bucket of lye."
The lye was to dry out and crack the skin. Whip was to rip the skin. The milk was to exfoliate the final layer gently so that the removal prosses didn't kill him.
@@MogofWar i more laugh when the lindworm is asked to remove its skin as she removes the layers and he just says yes. Like not even questioning how to remove its skin or anythin
@@ilopominecrafter Well, some folk misconceptions were that Snakes could shed and redon skin layers like clothing... And even thought it was actually known that molting was actually a one-way process, shedding skins like suits was a well established mythological motif by that point.
Wait, are you telling me that the Matrix would’ve had a cool dragon in it had Neo taken both the red and blue pills?
I personally like to imagine that the Prince can turn back into a Lindwyrm, and turns back when the peasant girl hugs him, but make sure that if that doesn't work, she carries the whip, just in case
I assume the first rose prepped the queen's oven for boy shaped buns. The second rose just failed and turned into a vague magical mass. I also assume that when a witch tells you not to do something, it because of highly complicated magical reasons that are similar to the install instructions on a skyrim mod.
THIS IS HOW YOU GET FACES WITHOUT SKIN TEXTURES PEOPLE.
"Magic is like Skyrim modding" is a pretty apt metaphor for how these stories usually go, actually. Do it right, and it vastly improves everything. Do it wrong, and _freaky shit_ happens.
She actually had the male flower second and that's why the twins were boys I'm guessing the magic just messed up and made one a dragon/snake
First rose set the "child" flag to 'daughter'.
Second rose caused a value duplication error where the new variable got set to "son" but the existing "daughter" one got incremented past its allocated memory and wound up pointing to "lindwurm".
@@yetanother9127 Try to game the system, unless your following a guide, your hubris will be your downfall
except she ate the female rose first
I love how aftercare was part of what made the dragon into a human.
Putting it in that context, the hug makes so much more sense.
First a strip tease to tantalize and presumably tucker out the partner, followed by some whipping and mild humiliation (I'm not sure how else to explain dumping milk on someone's face), followed by some gentle hugs.
One Heck of a wedding night.
@@josephperez2004 does this imply that the way to make monsters human is teasing, femdom and aftercare???
@@jinkiesjunko I mean, maybe? Disney's Beauty and the Beast might be a really sanitized version of what really happened in the castle...
@@josephperez2004...
@@jinkiesjunko ...
Someone make me a parody NSFW comic of that story of beauty and the beast >:)
"Just as keikaku'd" is the exact sort of humor that appeals to my idiot brain. Thank you for that.
I just love that this present girl was still down to marry the Dragon turned Prince despite him eating to other girls. She's gonna go far
She's got her priorities right
Plus, something awoke in her, but at least she's still an emotional healthy dom to a sub who never knew he badly needed all the hugz until he got them.
I mean, he's a prince
...and he was a dragon.
Thats two great reasons right there!
She also listened to the advice of a benevolent mysterious woman in the woods. Of course she'll get far.
I mean if you go through the trouble of whipping the prince all night might as well get sth out of it right
I realized something, The white rose *did* bring a daughter, the lindworm's wife, a daughter-in-law!