Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24202592-20131230014408

It's theory time with Waters!~ Yay. So, to feed my possibly newfound love for Summer Rose (I like headcanons, alright?) I began searching for some fairytales she might be based off of (assuming she is canonly based off one). After a bit of searching, The Buried Moon, also known as The Dead Moon, came up in my search engine. After reading it over once or twice, I noticed some possible similarities.

1) "Then all sounds stopped - for coming along the path was a Man, who was cursing the darkness, and praying for safety. Oh how the Moon struggled then! She knew that the Man would be doomed to quicksand or bog if he had no light. The Horrors of the night would drag him down! She gave up on trying to get free, but wiggled until her velvety black hood fell back revealing the glow of her white hair and face. Whimpering and mewing at the light the boggles, the imps and the nameless things scurried back into the depths with sluggish "plops."

'''And somewhere out on the path the Man breathed out a prayer of thanksgiving and hurried towards home. Never wondering where the light had come from. At first the moon was filled with relief that the man had reached safety, but soon was sobbing with the knowledge she was still trapped. The brightness of her light kept her safe, but as the hours went on she sank to her knees and leaned helplessly against the tree."'''

This right here makes me think of the Red Like Roses Part II verse, "Your not the only one that needed me, I thought you understood.". Did Summer sacrifice herself for someone else, but in the end it costed Summer her life?

2) "And from its ebony depths crawled the boggles and the imps and the nameless things; all around the Moon they gibbered and crawled and plotted. Some wanted to poison her. Some wanted to eat her. FInally one suggested they drown her, and with their combined strength they pushed the Moon beneath the brackish waters and covered her with a great stone. Over the stone they commanded the will-o-wisps to keep guard. So there lay the poor Moon, dead and buried."

I'm not sure how much of a similarity this counts as, but 'the boggles and the imps and the other nameless things' would remind me of the Grimm. And possibly the stone being the gravestone in the Red trailer?

3) "One day followed another and the Marsh folk put pennies in their caps in order to welcome the Moon; for she was their protector - lighting their way home. But each night they had to stumble fearfully to their houses, and they were terrified by the Moon's absence.

'''"What has happened?" they whispered.'''

"Where has she gone?"

"What does it mean?"

Such were the questions asked as they watched their livestock, ate their dinners, and drank their ale."

Due to there being no one else around to witness what happened with Summer, she seemed to just one day vanish without a word. Maybe Summer was a well-known huntress, and protected many with her presence. But when she vanished, a major defense against the Grimm was gone. Ruby took Summer's dissapearance as abandonment. "You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would."

4) "She pointed a finger at each and continued on, "Then you can walk bravely into the marsh. Go till you find a coffin, a candle, and a cross, and not far away shall you find the Moon!""

Coffin = The gravestone.

Candle = ???

Cross = In the Red trailer, Ruby had a cross on her belt. She also has the cross bullets and the cross pins on her cloak.

5) "To this ghastly place the Marsh folk hastened, and with the silent strength they heaved the great stone away. And from the depths of the Black water glowed the beautiful face of the Moon; she opened her eyes and her expression turned to joy. Her rescuers stumbled back as she sped past them so that her radiant light could bath the bog in her glow; driving the boggles, the imps, and the nameless things scurrying back to their waters."

This isn't a similarity, but if Summer is indeed based off of this fairytale, maybe Summer will return one day, and possibly help drive the Grimm back once and for all.

Anyways, that's all I have to say. Sorry 'bout the long post xD. Any thoughts, or anything that should be added to this? 