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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 872909" data-attributes="member: 6929">A surprising number of fairy tales by people with evocative names like Grimm have some pretty hairy endings.Snow White ends with the wicked stepmother being forced into red-hot iron shoes (at the wedding, no less) and dancing until she died. You could blow that all out of proportion just to show that it's alright to horribly torture your enemies.Another one (I forget how it goes - typical girl-quest to find a certain boy, I think, they all blend together after a while) ends with a really nasty trick. The villainess has the ear of the king, but the heroine manages to reveal her duplicity to the king in secret. The next day, the king asks the villainess what the apt punishment for someone doing (something like kidnapping, enchantment, spoiling someone else's wedding, all kinds of nasty stuff) that he knows she's been doing but she doesn't know he knows. She says, "Hm. I'd put the wretch who did that in a barrel, drive nails into it from the outside, and drag it down to the harbour behind a horse." Needless to say, she's very quickly approaching the waterfront and everyone else lives happily ever after.Once again, the moral of the story is that vengeance is fine and really nasty tricks are OK so long as they're against your enemies.I can't think of any 'fictional' fiction off the top of my head, but 'historical' fiction like this should hit the spot.</blockquote>