Thanks so much! In the original version it's tears, of course, but this adaptation felt a little darker to me, plus, it's kind of hard to picture Steve crying all over someone, so I made it blood.
*grins* Like everything else cool in this story, I stole Steve's torn up hands and feet from elsewhere (two elsewheres, actually, since walking until he's worn through the soles of his boots is from East of the Son, West of the Moon where the heroine wears out a pair of iron shoes). I keep expecting someone to go "I see what you did there" on the religious symbolism there, but so far no one else has mentioned it (though mostly, I spent a lot of this adaptation taking religious stuff out, like the hymn about Baby Jesus that Kay and Gerda sing, and the part with the Lords Prayer and the angels).
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*grins* Like everything else cool in this story, I stole Steve's torn up hands and feet from elsewhere (two elsewheres, actually, since walking until he's worn through the soles of his boots is from East of the Son, West of the Moon where the heroine wears out a pair of iron shoes). I keep expecting someone to go "I see what you did there" on the religious symbolism there, but so far no one else has mentioned it (though mostly, I spent a lot of this adaptation taking religious stuff out, like the hymn about Baby Jesus that Kay and Gerda sing, and the part with the Lords Prayer and the angels).