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Medinoc
(Before Recorded History)
2012-01-02 10:36:12
The description of the girl reminds me of Fantaghiro.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Rhannas
Since: Dec, 1969

I remember watching a two-part fairytale series (or a movie divided into two parts) in the 90's. It was a beauty and the beast fairytale, but the girl was very tomboyish. She had short brown hair, like a bobcut, and she wore pants. She would also ride a horse and I think she even had a sword. The beast was a man cursed by a witch just like in the original story but I don't think he lived in a castle. I think he lived in a cave where he hid himself from the world.
I was very young at the time so there's not a lot of it that I remember. I thought it might be a Hallmark fairytale movie because they used to air a lot of those in the 90's. Who knows?