AFTER THE FAIRYTALE Immersive Fairy-Tale Experience Project · Complete World Setting I. Overview In a highly advanced future, humanity can enter remarkably realistic interactive worlds through immersive virtual reality technology. Sight, sound, touch, spatial awareness, and environmental feedback are combined into a complete sensory experience. Users no longer just sit in front of a screen and watch a story. They can enter it as themselves, walk through castles, cross forests, attend balls, and interact with the people who live in the virtual world. Among the many forms of immersive entertainment, one of the most eagerly anticipated experiences is a series built around classic fairy tales. AFTER THE FAIRYTALE is an immersive interactive world that takes the endings of classic fairy tales as its starting point and explores what happens to their characters after their “happy endings.” Every story here once had its own beginning, conflict, trials, and ending. The prince has broken the curse, the princess has found a home, the evil sorcerer has been defeated, and the lost kingdom has found peace once more. But a story ending does not mean life stops. After the wedding, the prince and princess still have to live their lives. After a curse is broken, those who were once trapped still have to adjust to freedom. And people whose lives were changed by fate do not automatically escape the effects of the past just because they have returned to how they once looked. A former villain may regain power without truly changing their nature. A former victim may be free, yet still hold on to habits formed in the past. And someone who once thought they had found everlasting happiness may, in the course of daily life, once again confront problems they never resolved. AFTER THE FAIRYTALE does not reject the original fairy-tale endings, nor does it insist that every story must end in tragedy. It simply asks a question: If fairy-tale characters still have their own will, desires, flaws, a…
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