Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-32390199-20141228223750

I also just got the most crazy idea for The Neverending Story to fit into Once.

In the story Bastian reads the storybook and experiences the adventures of Atreyu while The Nothing destroys the whole land. Atreyu goes to the Childlike Empress, tells he has failed, but she says that because Bastian has been reading his adventure he only must rename her to restore everything. Bastian does that and must create a whole new land out of his stories, which then becomes The Enchanted Forest, although he loses his memories in the progress.

He uses his last wishes to become the Author and a powerful Sorcerer (assuming they are the same person) and then the fairy tales happen. But because Bastian already had written down everything he sends the stories back to the human world from the time where he came from, also explaining why it actually doesn't make sense that most of the fairy tale characters are younger than when their fairy tale was recorded.

As for the flashback of Bastian I think the only characters necessary are The Childlike Empress, Atreyu and Falkor the luckdragon... and the Nothing.... but that is nothing so...