Bedtime Stories

[Jofwu he/him]

Challenge: Rewrite Brandon's books as a (brief) children's story!

I'm not much of a writer, but I'll start off with a poor attempt. Curious what others can come up with!

Elantris:

Spoiler

Once upon a time there was a magical city full of magical people called Elantrians. They had silver hair and glowing skin, and anyone from all over the countryside could come to seek their help. But one day there was a great earthquake, and suddenly the Elantrians got very sick. Their silver hair fell out, their glowing skin turned dark and spotty, and their magic no longer worked. The city's gates were locked, and it became a prison for people who caught the disease.

One day a man named Raoden became an Elantrian. He was thrown into the city and found that the people living there were miserable. No matter how careful they were, their bodies always hurt. No matter how much food they ate, their stomachs were never full. This had turned them into selfish, angry people. But Raoden believed there was a better way. Instead of taking food from others he practiced going without, and before long it wasn't so hard being hungry all the time. Instead of being very careful not to get hurt he put himself at risk to help other people. And Raoden found that helping others gave him the motivation to keep going every day.

After Raoden taught all the Elantrians how to live the better way, the people stopped fighting and began to help one another. As friends, they were able to accomplish great things, and together they discovered the reason for their sickness. They found a library full of ancient books that explained how to use the old magic of the Elantrians. With help from his friends. Raoden used the magic to heal himself and all the other Elantrians. Once again their hair grew long and silvery and their skin began to glow. The whole city began to glow, and it still does today.

 

[Dragon314 he/him]

Mistborn

Spoiler

Once upon a time there was a place called Scadrial. It was ruled by an evil man, The Lord Ruler. He was very mean. He made a group of people work and didn't even give them lollipops.

 "The lollipops are only for my friends. And since you aren't my friend, you don't get a lollipop."

This made a man named Kelsier very mad. He told his friends that they would steal all the candy that the Lord Ruler had and give it to all of the people. He got the help of a girl named Vin. Vin had the power to shoot rainbows out of her feet and fight bad guys.

Then Vin met one of The Lord Ruler's friends. He wasn't so bad. Vin liked him. His name was Elend. Elend was very smart.

Uh-oh. Kelsier was caught by the bad guy. The Lord Ruler was very mad that Kelsier was trying to steal his candy. He sent Kelsier to prison. Then he threw away the key.

 This made Vin sad. Then she got mad. Then, she used all her rainbow power to tell the Lord Ruler that he was wrong, and stole all of his candy. The End.

 

[Truthweaver she/her]

Shallan's story-arch:

Spoiler

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Shallan who lived happily with her mother and father and brothers in a big, beautiful house with big, beautiful gardens. One day, Shallan began to develop amazing powers. Naturally, Shallan's mother decided her daughter would have to be killed, but Shallan managed to kill her mother first with her magical disappearing sword. After that, things got bad, and eventually Shallan had to strangle her father with her own necklace after he maimed her brother. Putting on a creepy façade of false cheerfulness, Shallan became a ward to another woman with amazing powers and discovered a mythical city. The end.

 

[Jofwu he/him]

< the children