History Literature / SugarAppleFairyTale

* EvilCounterpart: Bridget, like Anne, was raised by sugar artisans, but her father barred her from pursuing her dream of becoming one herself. She has become a bitter person as a result. She is essentially what Anne would have become if she'd given up on her dream, had no one supporting her desire to become a Silver Sugar Master, and instead chose to coast by on her looks and whatever connections she could get; and if she hadn't decided to treat Challe as her equal.

* QuantityOverQuality: With the sugar apple crop in decline, the Radcliffe workshop devotes its refining efforts to mass production with less emphasis on quality control.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: There's no shortage of webcomics, manga, and light novels that depict slave owners who treat their slaves kindly in a heroic light. This series only does this for people who give their fairies access to their wings, meaning the fairies in question are always free to leave. Bridget in many ways is a criticism of this archetype. She thinks putting a fairy slave in a GildedCage is a kindness, and the series doesn't spare any opportunity to remind us of how spoiled, selfish, and petty she is.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Jonas at first appears to be following Ann out of the belief he was in love with her. However in the third episode. he steals her entry to the silver sugar festival and smears blood on her clothes so she would be too preoccupied with the wolves.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Bridget, like Anne, was raised by sugar artisans, but her father barred her from pursuing her dream of becoming one herself. She has become a bitter person as a result. She is essentially what Anne would have become if she'd given up on her dream and instead chose to coast by on her looks, and whatever connections she could get, and if she hadn't decided to treat Challe as her equal.

** Bridget later finds out that [[spoiler: her family is not fond of the idea of her running around with a fairy slave she obviously bought to be her personal boy toy]], and she's throws a hissyfit when her father announces his plan to [[spoiler: give Challe back to Anne if she can improve their workshop.]] When her response to this is to become even more hyperfixated on him, [[spoiler: her father takes Challe's wing, bars her from spending time alone with him, and orders Challe to stop indulging her.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Bridget, like Anne, was raised by sugar artisans, but her father barred her from pursuing her dream of becoming one herself. She has become a bitter person as a result. She is essentially what Anne would have become if she'd given up on her dream and instead chose to coast by on her looks and whatever connections she could get, and if she hadn't decided to treat Challe as her equal.

** Bridget later finds out that [[spoiler: her family is not fond of the idea of her running around with a fairy slave she obviously bought to be her personal boy toy]], and she's throws a hissyfit when her father announces his plan to [[spoiler: give Challe back to Anne if she can improve their workshop.]]

* HappinessInSlavery: Despite fairy slavery being a widespread practice, there are some fairies that seem to be content where they are. Kat's fairy Benjamin, for example, gets routinely bossed around, but he tells Mithril that he knows where his missing wing is and can take it any time he wants, implying that he stays with Kat by choice.

* EvilCounterpart: Bridget, like Anne, was raised by sugar artisans, but her father barred her from pursuing her dream of becoming one herself. She has become a bitter person as a result.

* InterspeciesRomance: Anne, a human girl, is set up to fall in love with Shalle, a fairy man. [[spoiler:They are married come the end of the series.]] Other human/fairy pairs are teased throughout the story, such as Kathy who all but states she has a crush on her master Jonas, or Duke Alburn [[spoiler:whose beloved Lady Christina was a free fairy]].

* WrongGenreSavvy: When Bridget meets Challe, she assumes that Anne treats him as a slave and offers to "rescue" him by offering him what amounts to a GildedCage.

* DeconstructedCharacterArcetype: There's no shortage of webcomics, manga, and light novels that depict slave owners who treat their slaves kindly in a heroic light. This series only does this for people who give their fairies access to their wings, meaning the fairies in question are always free to leave. Bridget in many ways is a criticism of this archetype. She thinks putting a fairy slave in a GildedCage is a kindness, and the series doesn't spare any opportunity to remind us of how spoiled, selfish, and petty she is.

** Bridget was barred from pursuing her dream, so instead of admiring how Anne was able to do so, she resents her and refuses to help her when she's being sabotaged. She's also envious of how Anne has gotten the favor of so many men, especially Challe who she's fallen for. This is all despite how Bridget, after accepting her father's refusal to let her become an artisan, happily coasted by living the high life on her family's name and doing nothing to expand it.

* DirtyCoward: Jonas and his family go around spreading rumors that Anne was the one who cheated after his plot fails.

* ShowingUpChauvinists: While Anne's mother was a talented and respected craftswoman, Anne herself eventually realizes that her chosen field of sugar sculpting is male dominated, and not many men take kindly to her. The students of the Radcliffe Workshop in particular are incredibly sexist to her, with them even accusing her of coasting off of Kat or Kieth's favor. She spends the third arc having to work twice as hard to prove she can do her job, and even then they ''still'' get mad and [[spoiler:try to burn her hands in boiled sugar out of broken pride]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Bridget was barred from pursuing her dream, so instead of admiring how Anne was able to do so, she resents her and refuses to help her when she's being sabotaged. She's also envious of how Anne has gotten the favor of so many men, especially Challe who she's fallen for. This is all despite how Bridget, after accepting her father's refusal to let her become an artisan, happily coasted by living the high life on her family's name and doing nothing to expand it.

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* WordSaladTitle: In any other story, "Sugar Apple Fairy Tale" would seem like a random mishmash of cutesy words, but here it at least refers to two of the most important elements of the story (the sugar apples that produce silver sugar and the fairies).

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to Jonas, Duke Alburn is someone who's gone mad from his grief but isn't quite as despicable. However, he isn't a great or responsible guy either as he verbally abuses Anne, destroys her initial works, and eventually threatens her with death all the while neglecting affairs of the state. But whereas he does [[KickTheSonOfABitch beat Jonas physically]] for his lack of results, he notably never lays hands on Anne and gives her the chance to finish her work while she treats him as someone who needs compassion and understanding.

* WordSaladTitle: In any other story, "Sugar Apple Fairy Tale" would seem like a random mishmosh of cutesy words, but here it at least refers to two of the most important elements of the story (the sugar apples that produce silver sugar and the fairies).

15-year-old girl Ann Halford, wanting to follow in her mother's footsteps by becoming a Silver Sugar Master, must go to Lewiston to attend a sugar {{sculpture|s}} festival to receive a medal from the royal family. However, the journey would be reckless, so this forces Ann to buy a fairy slave to act as her bodyguard. As such, she purchases a mysterious warrior fairy named Shalle Fen Shalle, but it comes at the cost of her being torn over whether to free him or use him as protection.

* BodyHorror: Standard practice for enslaving fairies is to rip one of their wings off and seal it in a bag for the owner's safe keeping. If this sounds painful, it is, especially since wings are essentially a fairy's heart.

* ShowingUpChauvinists: While Anne's mother was a talented and respected craftswoman, Anne herself eventually realizes that her chosen field of sugar sculpting is male dominated, and not many men take kindly to her. Jonas' school in particular is incredibly sexist to her, with them even accusing her of coasting off of Kat or Kieth's favor. She spends the third arc having to work twice as hard to prove she can do her job, and even then they ''still'' get mad and [[spoiler:try to burn her hands in boiled sugar out of broken pride]].

* ProperlyParanoid: When Anne's silver sugar gets stolen, she immediately suspects Mithril did it, since he was in the carriage with the barrels of sugar while she was out. Even though [[spoiler: Jonas was sabotaging her]], the very end of the arc shows a very full and very satisfied Mithril after having eaten his way through all the sugar.

* JustSoStory: Both women in general and fairies are discriminated against, and like many cultures there's a folktale explaining why society is justified in doing so. In their own creation myth, the first human woman eventually betrays and falls in love with the first fairy man.

* ShowingUpChauvinists: While Anne's mother was a talented and respected craftswoman, Anne herself eventually realizes that her chosen field of sugar sculpting is male dominated, and not many men take kindly to her. Jonas' school in particular is incredibly sexist to her, with them even accusing her of coasting off of Kat or Kieth's favor. She spends the third arc having to work twice as hard to prove she can do her job, and even then they ''still'' get mad and [[spoiler:ttry to burn her hands in boiled sugar]].