It literally does nothing lol. I put it in there for funsies, and because that sounds like a question that would be on an employee survey lol. May replace it with something else, haven’t decided yet.
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Thank you, I’ll check and out and get on fixing it ASAP. Was it just when selecting ISFP or did you notice it for other selections as well? Nvm already see the problem lol. Quotes within quotes doesn’t work in CS. Just uploaded to dropbox, new link in original post
Hey,I’m really liking the idea of this CoG. I’ve always liked fairy tales both in light hearted and dark versions. If you’re still taking suggestions for fairy tales how about The Twelve Dancing Princesses?
This CoG reminds me less of Once Upon A Time and more of Ever After High. Despite what it looks like,it’s actually fairly dark and very character driven.
It features the kids of fairytale characters that are expected to (partially because of tradition.) to carry on their parents fairytales,even if their particular one has a very unhappy fate,if they fell in love outside of it.
What I mean is that it’s like it in that you can buck the trend and write your own fate for the characters
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Unfortunately I’ve already got 16 fairy tales (for the 16 personalities) but I may merge some elements of The Twelve Dancing Princesses into other stories 
Cool! I’ll look it up 
Also if you’re looking for inspiration for Cinderella,I’d recommend one of favorite book retellings:Ella Enchanted. In this one,Cinderella in question has much more to worry about as she has a curse on her. This was given as a ‘blessing’ by a fairy named Luncinda who gave her the gift of obedience.(I’ll leve it to you to figure out the implications) The two things I like the most is that
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the prince is fleshed out and their romance is given time to develop.
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It deconstructs the idea of a fairy godmother through Lucinda. The thing about her is that she’s not actively malicious,like the evil fairy is in Sleeping Beauty. She genuinely believes that she’s doing a good thing by gifting people with her magic. However,because of her lack of of foresight,it winds up screwing people lives over more often than not.
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Love, love, LOVE Ella Enchanted! I also love “Ever After,” you should definitely watch it if you haven’t already! However both are copyrighted out the wahzoo and I don’t want to rip them off 
I didn’t know that you knew about the book. Screw the movie adaptation up the wazoo though.
Out of all the fairy tale stories,I think you could do a lot with the Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty .
For the Little Mermaid,it’s notable to me in that the mermaid actually has concrete goals. Yes,she(I think?) liked the prince,BUT she also wanted to see the human surface and gain an immortal soul.(as mermaids dont go to heaven/hell after they die,they just poof out existence. Her winning over the prince is tied to her goal of getting one. Maybe you can have the MC comment on this humorously or not.
There’s also Sleeping Beauty which you can have fun exploring the creepy implications(Not the other fairy tales lack that). The fact the Prince has to kiss an unconscious Aurora is already creepy,but in a version of the tale he did lot more than merely kiss her. ( Again,I’ll leave you to figure out that out.) That’s not even mentioning that the Princess wakes up 100 years out of time like Winkle and that every member of the castle staff’s family/friends died long ago and the awful implications of THAT.
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So glad you know the original version! Yes I plan to put quite a bit of humor into this; the fact that the MC is a modern-day person transplanted into a fairy tale makes the story ripe for humor 
Yeah, out of all the fairy tales, this one takes the cake for creepiness. In one version, she is raped and gives birth to twins while completely unconscious and doesn’t wake up until one of her children sucks a splinter out of her finger. Oh, and the king that raped her was married, so he cheated on his queen with a passed out girl. This version of the tale is called Sun, Moon, and Talia.
I’m curious about somethingI took the test and wound up with ISFJ, but when I checked my stats they were all split 50/50,why?
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If you answer the questions juuuuust right, you end up with everything 50/50. (There’s exactly 4 questions leaning towards each “letter,” so if you answer ‘completely agree’ for all 4 Extrovert questions AND all 4 Introvert questions, you’ll end up with an E/I split 50-50.)
The reason I coded that outcome to be ISFJ is based on how common the personality traits are in the US (see pic below). So I tipped it so that when I is > OR = 50%, you get I, so even though you are equally extroverted and introverted, since introversion is more common, you get the Introversion label 
Apply the same line of thinking to the other three dichotomies, and for an all 50/50 score, you end up with ISFJ.
If you don’t think that’s the right outcome, you can always choose your MBTI. Just be aware that when you choose an MBTI, it resets the score. Fear not however; later choices will give you opportunity to shape your stats 
Hey guys,
So I’m thinking I may remove some of the “outer self” stats, and also I may add a D&D alignment system (which is ok to do - D&D system reference guide is under a special free-use licence). The more I think about it, the more I want to do something different.
The D&D alignment system nicely covers what I called “traditional vs unorthodox” (instead it would be “lawful vs chaotic.”) It also adds a good vs evil scale. Actually, I think I’ll keep traditional vs unorthodox and have lawful vs chaotic in addition to it, as to me they have different connotations. I don’t like “good vs evil” because that is extremely subjective and has a line easily blurred (moral ambiguity and all that jazz) so putting numbers to it is hard (ethics class fucked me up fam)
EDIT: Look it’s D&D alignment with real life psychology mixed in. Fun!
I would be adding “serious vs sarcastic” (to keep track of all your lulz decisions 
) as well as “Egoist vs Altruist” (ie needs of self first vs needs of others first)
So anyway, just wanted to know y’alls thoughts on this
And thanks so much for all the marvelous feedback so far!!! 
-Ariella
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Actually I’m definitely an introvert so I don’t see how I could’ve gotten all 4 extrovert questions right.
There might be an issue in how I coded it, let me check I’ll get back to you 
Ok so here are the questions I coded for “Extrovert Agree”:
- You get energized when spending time with others.
- Others would describe you as talkative and outgoing, and you can start conversations easily.
- You tend to speak before you think, and you like to work out ideas with others.
- You can start conversations easily, even with new people.
Like I said, you wouldn’t necessarily have to do everything “completely agree.” I have completely agree as +3, mostly agree as +2, somewhat disagree as +1, negative versions for the disagree side, and neutral does nothing. So there are many ways for you to arrive at a 50-50 score.
This sounds really cool! 
BTW, have you considered adding King Arthur to the list of stories?
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King Arthurs not a fairy tale (then again Alice and Journey to the West are in the list…)
BTW, this is to the author: Maybe if you decide to do a series of games you could use ‘Snow White and Rose Red’ for one of the fairy tales.
I actually got rid of using Alice and Journey. I narrowed down the tales I am using to the following:
- Cinderella
- Sleeping Beauty
- Robin Hood
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
- The Little Mermaid (plus Thumbelina parts; Hans Christian Andersen)
- Rapunzel
- Beauty and the Beast
- Aladdin
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- The Three Spinners
- The Snow Queen
- Hua Mulan
- Tarzan
- Hansel and Gretel
- Iron John
- A Thousand and One Arabian Nights (frame story)
Fairy tales are usually short, which is why I am using them instead of literature; lots of room for interpretation, and easy to get the jist of the story. The only exception is Tarzan; but it holds the #2 place for “literature most used for film,” right behind Dracula. It also fits ATU 535.
The reason I am using 16 is because I am associating a character from each tale to an MBTI. I needed tales which either had protagonists with very distinct personalities (ie Mulan, Tarzan, Cinderella) or ones that had completely un-described protagonists which I could make up personalities/backgrounds for to fit MBTIs. I also wanted to diversify based on place of origin for the tale and ATU classification.
BTW, Beauty and the Beast is technically literature as well, although we regard it as a fairy tale an indeed “beastly husbands” is an ATU classification. Many scholars believe the story has roots in the Greek mythology of Cupid and Psyche. Lots of interesting history, I’m totally nerding out over this stuff
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Well fun fact; a couple iterations of Robin Hood place him in King Arthur’s court! But that wasn’t attributed to the tale until much, much later. I haven’t considered using King Arthur mainly because it’s already been done in other CoG stories (see Pendragon Rising and the Guenevere WIP)
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King Arthur is a fun person to write for since he was around when magic was said to exist, and also people have more knowledge about him than they do with any other king.
And as for the nerding it out other Mythology, join the club 
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