Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28486044-20160727075112/@comment-25936766-20160727190809

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: Ending the series like that would go too far against the grain. The series inspiration is from fairy tales, and fairy tales more often than not have a happy ending. Only the modern-day fairy tales, and only because some people thought all fairy tales must be for children and since children cannot handle anything slightly dark they must have happy endings.

The real, old fairy tales rarely had happy endings. Or only happy from a certain point of view. For example, the Little Mermaid: She dies. And this was even before the tales became grimmified and such.

So having not a happy ending, but a bad or bittersweet ending instead, would actually follow the "Fairy Tale" theme, if they want to go that route.