My Fairytale Adaptation of Changelings

I chose Changelings as the story that i wanted to adapt. The moral of Changelings is to'never leave your children alone', this story and moral has a very dark tone, so i wanted to keep that as i feel the scariest tale are remembered.

In my adaptation, the story would start with a rich and wealthy family who was well-known is all the newspapers, magazines, were always in the spotlight, and who seemed, to the outside world, to be extremely happy and very close. However, behind closed doors the mother and father, were always working away in their studies and never had time for their son, except at social events. Now this just left the son, Alex who was always alone and neglected. But one late night a troll family were searching the town for a suitable family to exchange their changeling with, when they saw the wealthy family arriving home in a sea of paparazzi, as smiles and happiness filled the air. It was at that moment, the troll family realised, that THAT was what they wanted for their child. So in the early hours of the morning they snuck into the rich family’s house and swapped young Alex for their own child. The changeling was smelly, troublesome and very stupid, the total opposite to Alex. But since Alex’s parents were so busy they didn’t even notice that their son had been swapped for an uglier, smellier and dumber version of their son.

As time went on the house, began to fill with the Changeling’s smelly farts, burps and the litter that followed him wherever he went. Whilst Alex was with the trolls having a terrible time working as their slave.Soon the Alex’s parents began to notice the mess, and that their ‘son’ was not their son. The mother became distraught with the fact that she didn’t even notice that her son was missing as she neglected him. She wanted her son back so much that she did all that she could to get her son back, by researching the Changeling that she had as a son. The mother and father soon realised that the trolls would bring back Alex if they treated the changeling well and made it happy. So they did this by feeding the changeling well, giving it gifts and one day the trolls came by to check on their changeling and saw that it was brought up well and filled with happiness, so that night they brought back Alex to the mother and father. Since that day the Mother and Father never neglected Alex and gave him all the attention that a child deserves from it parents.