Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-27818776-20140617015526

Have you ever heard of the Italian fairy tale book, the Pentamerone? I'm asking this, because in one of the stories, I believe that there is one antagonist in it that may be a complete monster. This character in question is the Queen from the short story entitled Sun, Moon, and Talia.

Essentially, Sun, Moon, and Talia is an earlier rendition of the Sleeping Beauty tale. In the story, Talia falls into a deathlike state, and a king comes by and has his way with the comatose body. She later gives birth to two children, and one of them wakes her up by sucking the spindle off from under her thumbnail.

When the King's wife found out about the two children, she attempted to have her cook kill those two children, and then cook them up in several dishes which she could then feed to her oblivious husband. When she thought that the two children were being eaten by her husband, she began to mock him for his mistake. She then tries to set Talia herself on fire, and asks her to give her her clothes because she thought that they were too valuable to be burned with a lowly woman.

I have proposed this character on TV Tropes, and so far I have three votes for her. However, I need to explain to some of the users what the heinous standard was like for the Italian book. So far, from what I'm currently reading on the Pentamerone, the Queen easily meets the heinous standard. While there are a few acts of violence that are within the book, the Queen manages to outshine those antagonists due to the sheer sadism that she employs into her actions. What do you think? Can you help me with this character? 