Or that Andersen was writing longform journalism.
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I'd like this better than the convoluted-ass Little Mermaid-Frozen-Tarzan theory crap.
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Alternative interpretation: the Little Mermaid is not fictional in ours.
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I mean he also wrote the story Frozen is based on so maybe this is like "Wreck of the Titan" or "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" and he writes eerie predictions of the future
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Surely they didn't think that deeply. I'll headcanon that Hans got his story from the "real" thing like the conceit of the Sherlock Holmes stories
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Andersen was clearly pulling a Watson
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So wait... He took the story of a mermaid who braved the human world and found her prince, and re-wrote it for posterity as a girl who picks the wrong man and kills herself... WTF Hans. Who hurt you?
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Ibsen was Norwegian
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It's a fictionalisation, like Macbeth, Arthur and Oberon in Gargoyles (the Rosetta Stone of the shared Disney universe).
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