Yay! The girl is no longer forsaken by the world! She and her brother no longer will hide out in the forest. Happy end, right? RIGHT?! Um… what was that? Nothing! Nothing at all! Move along XD
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Well that escalated quickly… xD
I love how they blush in the first panel ^^
Ah, fairytales. ♥
Her blush is sorta more adorable. Of the flustered, “what the hell?” variety.
And naturally. Love at first sight stuff.
Random man who has been trying to kill your deer brother for a few days tricks you into opening your door, and then asks you to live with him in his castle? Seems legit >_<
Love love love fairy tale rules!!!!
Let us be just. He didn’t know he was her brother until recently, and as soon as he did, he stopped trying to kill him.
It’s not a matter of him knowing/not knowing it was her brother. It’s could be her perspective.
I’d be worried if hunters came to hunt my pet dog, let alone my pet deer… Let alone my brother deer!
Its like “Hey I just met you and this is crazy but marry me baby!”
Lol, Fairy tale logic at its finest here folks lol.
King: “Well kids, I meet your mother when I was hunting her brother, who was a deer, throughout the woods, and stumbled across her. She was the most beautiful woman that I ever saw so I immediately asked her to marry me.”
Jane: “I, of course, immediately said yes and your daddy agreed that we could take my deer-brother with us.”
Child: “Geez, my parents are the weirdest people ever.”
King: “But wait, it even gets better! Because your mom saved her brother from being a tiger or a wolf!”
Jane: “Yeah, the water was totally talking to me and telling me it would turn my brother into a wolf! But he was so thirsty after this suspicious mushrooms! I ate them too. And your dad.”
Child: “This explains EVERYTHING!”
I why did you design the King with Glasses?
Er, why not? King’s can have bad eyesight too.
Glasses are CUTE!
Agreed with that! Glasses make him less “suspicious and creepy stranger” and more “bashful guy feeling instant love.” I love guys in glasses.
Now We’re getting to the parts I can’t remember.
Whooooa lol I know the whole “only in fairytales” deal, but seriously?? haha
I was not expecting a marriage proposal
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy…
…but here’s my wedding proposal,
so say “yes”, maybe?
XD–exactly why I was thinking. Most kings seem to meet pretty girls in the woods–and immediately propose marriage!
So the kind wears glasses! That’s awesome, he looks so nerdy it’s cute.
Really, King, are you nuts!!!!????!!!!
You’re asking a girl living in a hut somehwere hidden in the woods all by herself with a deer, without getting to know her, to be your wife?!
In a world of magic, where the bad witches disguise themselves with beauty?
How stupid can you be???!!!???
For all you know she could have been sent to the woods because she murdered her parents and turned her brother into a deer (you don’t even know the nature of her deer yet) so that he can’t talk as a witness in a court-martial. Your risk, when you’re thinking with the wrong head and your hormones….
(now, again, I have to congratulate Gina and Elle for the great images, and again, I must wait for the next pages. Thanks for all so far!)
I have to day that Elle did an AWESOME job with this, the King is quite cute ;)
No happy ending yet, folks. I remember this tale and to quote Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: “Hurt lurks, pain prowls, sorrow simmers”.
And then she died, and the next day the king ate deer stew…
Good thing I remember the story ending differently ;)
HA! Excellently played. Not just in the foolish king, but in the magnificent portrayal of this point I ever so awaited to see X)
You guys know how to make these stories shine.
Oh God…the king…so adorkable…I can’t even comprehend the cuteness of this scene <3. Awesome job guys!
This is absolutely adorable. Her brother has absolutely no say in this whatsoever.
Heh, at least he unknowingly set up a romance between the two.
Okay, that first panel may be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.
Well, that was quick. I wonder if they’ll manage an instant wedding too.
I like how the king is nerdy and cute.
King: Will you be my DEAR wife?
Jane: only if I can bring my DEER brother along.
No pun intended I am sure Grimms :)
He wants a deer wife.
He does the does.
Oh, I love the King being a little dorky with his glasses and getting all flustered! So cute :3
Flustered nothing, an instantaneous marriage proposal is pretty dang brash.
I’m not dissing the art, but no she had better not be the most beautiful girl you’ve ever seen. She looks twelve. Even in the early middle ages, women were older than that when they had sex with their husbands (weird shotgun weddings not included).
This is Elle’s art style. If you look at All Fur it holds a similar child-like innocence. The page of her growing up and ample bosom is there to help illustrate she is older than twelve.
Also, just as a side note, in the Middle Ages girls could marry as young as twelve and boys as young as fourteen.
Yeah, she appears to be 16-17 to me, which is practically an old maid by their standards.
She’s not young. She’s just short.
I remember from history class that the reason why people married young was because back than, people died young. 30 years and older was considered an old age by than. It’s also why ppl tried having as many kids back than as possible too because there was plenty of deaths back than.
There also wasn’t really any hiding from being exposed to death back then, too. There were no funeral parlors, so wakes were held in the home. Also, back then a wake meant that people would sit up with the body for a night just in case they weren’t really dead and should happen to “wake”. Medical science was not what it is today. But I’ve gone off on a tangent . . .
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Lol what’s scary is that he only promised her brother would be fine as lone as *she* lived . . .
Keep up the good work on Erstwhile.It’s great reading.
She lives in a one-room home in the jungle with just her brother (the deer) for years… and is a teenager.
He clearly worked this out.
They’re made for each other (by which I mean her ladyparts are screaming for attention, and he knows he just found an easy lay).