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Skyra decided it'd be a great idea to skip maths. She hated mathematics anyway, except for the few times it came in handy for her. Instead she enjoyed the nice midmorning sun shining on her face. Her ears twitches slightly listening to the various sounds of the wildlife around beacon. Lying on the grass like that a quiet purr emitted from her chest while she started to hum. After a while she started to sing to the tune she was humming.
It was an old song her foster mother used to sing to her when she got injured in a training battle. Slowly she took deep breaths of the fresh and clean Beacon air while singing that song.
She didn't want to study Maths anyway, she'd rather learn some history or even poetry. One might not think of Skyra as a lover of the written art, but she really was. She had worked hard to keep her image as the tough girl on the block, but her foster parents, and as she heard her real parents, too, were heavily engaged in all kinds of different types of art, especially literature and poetry. Lying in the grass like this she because reminiscent of everything that happened in her past. To say life wasn't tough on her would be a big lie, but this attitude of hers helped her survive especially in regions of Remnant where girls, like she was, couldn't follow their dreams. To strike her down on this path of her, she let nothing stand in her way and that was just as she wanted it.
Slowly her eyes closed as Skyra continued to bathe in the sun, her ears still twitching regularly.

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Skyra coughed a bit. "It's not the noise I fight for.", she corrected Mokuren, "It is what the noise stands for that I fight for. Remember the faunus-rights movements that turned violent? I want to fight so that innocent citizens, who want their rights to be the same as others, won't have to suffer, get injured or even die. When I was young, I saw mothers lose their children and children losing both their parents and their siblings. The aggression of the White Fang didn't help in the slightest either." Skyra shrugged and sighed.
"My weapons are pretty precious to me, you know. It's the only thing I have left of my mother. She, apparently, was a general once, you know, in the war. These weapons...", she activated the energy blades of the two swords. "These weapons belonged to her, but I barely even knew her. When I was, like 2 or something, both my parents were assassinated. Luckily, because of their ties to the Blue Dragon Order, I got 'adopted', more or less. Ever since I've been looking for traces of who might have killed my parents, but I realized, I'm not strong enough yet, so that's why I am here."
Finishing up her story Skyra looked intently at Mokuren.
"See, that's why I take so much care of my weapons. They are my only link to the past. In fact, I'd build a shrine for them, if I didn't need them. What's your story then, Moku? Why are you here?"
She tilted her head and blinked at the fox-girl.

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Huh. I thought eins was One. Guess I suck at german even more.

@KabenSaal

It does. But it also is a form of "a/an"

Ein is one, two in germAn begins with an S so when you count in quick succession it sounds like Eins.

@Prince of Seraphs

Do I have to tell you what bullshit that is?
1 eins
2 zwei (sounds like tswei)
3 drei
4 vier
5 fünf
6 sechs (sounds exactly like sex)
7 sieben
8 acht
9 neun
10 zehn
11 elf
12 zwölf
13 dreizehn
14 vierzehn
...
20 zwanzig
...
30 dreißig
...
100 hundert

and so forth.

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Sounds fair to me :D

I'm going to sleep now, though. 5 am xD

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I personally want to go towards the myth/legend route. Basically a "historical" event which was "enhanced" "slightly" by magic or other stuff.

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...but at this point in time the line between the two has become blurred to the point that the two words can be used interchangeably.

@Prince of Seraphs

No... just no. I have to strongly disagree with you there with all the useless knowledge I have acquired in 13 years of German Elite Schools. It may be the case in the US or in the English language sphere, but there is a strong line of separation between fables and fairy tales in Germany and in the German language.

According to G8 websites (G8 being the current Elite curriculum) the strongest point in which Fables are different from Fairy Tales is, that in Fables, ONLY animals act. There are no humans. All the animals are in place of a human.
In fairy tales there can still be an animal who is talking, but in fairy tales characters always fall into two categories, evil and good. There is no neutral. Of course there can be some kind of moral in a fairy tale, but it is mostly up for interpretation what the moral is. Another striking point is, fairy tales generally don't have an author, they are told from mouth to mouth without writing them down, leading to lots and lots of change in the story over time until the Brothers Grimm decided to write the most popular down starting in 1812.

Of course, as is the case with everything German, we also have two words for Fairy Tales. "Volksmärchen" are those who are tales where nobody knows who first told it. "Kunstmärchen" is something an author invented and they are therefor only regarded as fairy tales because they have the same literary features as fairy tales.

One striking difference I just noticed after reading the article again is that fables have characterized characters. Although, depending on how they look (are they a bear or are they a fox), they will have certain other character features, which will be pretty consistent throughout all different fables, especially of a single author. The characters in fairy tales are flat characters. Other than their task or what they strife to do, they have no depth at all. That's because the character could as well be you or me.
Fables also have the goal of teaching somebody while remaining entertaining. Fairy tales have no such goals and such the moral they might have, which not a lot do have (well, unless you can interpret something into it), remains pretty hidden and is not the focus of the story.

By the way, I still apologize for this rant-y-seeming post. I just couldn't help it. My 13 years of German education felt insulted xD
So I just wanted to teach what I know. I know this might not be a big deal on the other side of the Atlantic, it might not even be in the UK, but in France and Germany it is.
As such I have noticed that the English websites, that try to teach this, lack the clarity and straightforwardness of the German ones. I mean, this is something you get taught in 6th grade here and it remains relevant until the A-levels.

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Just according to keikaku.

(Keikaku means plan)

But yea, I just threw in some german words I knew, for the fun of it.

@KabenSaal

By the way, what you wrote was total gibberish.
If I'd transcribe what you said into English, acknowledging the order of the words you put, because that'd make a tiny bit of sense in English, but not in German, I'd say it this way:

"Not a big attention/respect/consideration"

which makes a tad bit of sense in English, but only because the words are in the correct order. If I'd rearranged them to make as much sense in English as they do in German the result would be something like this:

"Big attention not a"

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tl note

achtung means stop

@HereComesTheSnow

No, it doesn't.

It means "Be careful" or "attention!", most of the times.

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If we're getting clinical I believe fables have a more structured and poetical writing style but past that their is very little difference between them and fairy tales. If you want me to choose I'll say write a fairy tale but I don't believe there is much difference.

Also I believe the earliest written fables date back to Greece in 550 BC but as a style of story telling that was propagated by oral tradition it is more than likely that they are older than that.

@Prince of Seraphs

Yes, but the modern Fable was popularized by Germans at the start of the 19th century during the romantic-period, as were the so called "Volksmärchen", literally "people's fairy tales", like Rapunzel and the Golden Goose and Red Riding Hood, called "Rotkäppchen" here.
Mostly because of the desire for an identity as a nation, as Germany was divided up into hundreds of smaller states where the people felt they all should belong together in one whole country.

Fables are different from fairy tales in a whole matter of ways.
This describes it pretty accurately for a website in English. German websites are a lot more in-depth.

differencebetween.com/difference-betwe..

As you can see the whole "moral" thing is not a fairy tale thing, but belongs to the fable. Fairy tales are more or less "epic adventures with magic and stuff". Fairy tales mostly have the conflict of good vs evil, whereas fables try to teach morals like "do not steal" or "do not lie" etc.
Yeeeah and fables have talking animals and plants which always have the same character, the lion as the king, the raven as the misleading character and the magpie as the thief.

I think what you want for this contest is a combination of both, right? The "epic" story of a fairy tale, without magic and magical creatures, but with a moral to the story?

P.S.: Sorry for going on a nerd rant here, but as a German citizen, I feel it is my duty to protect my cultural identity. That's basically all my country has left.

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@Prince of Seraphs Do you want a fairy tale or a fable? Because those two things are two different types of stories. I know this because both were invented in Germany, I live in Germany and my mother teaches German as a subject. xD