Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20150719111502/@comment-26463535-20150725054310

Well, "The Girl Who Pretended to be a Boy" would be a perfect fairy-tale to base that character off of since she has to pretend to be a boy in order for her father to give proper tribute in order to be part of the emperor's empire and not get violently conquered and ends up being sent by the emperor to win him this fair girl, who ends up falling in love with "him". The last task requires an attack at a fighting nunnery, where she attacks the one guarding the water of youth while the others are listening to the visting monk. After they find out what she did, the monk curses the thief to become the opposite gender. So then the fair girl is able to conive the emperor's death, marry the one she fell in love with, and live happily ever after as emperor and emperess.