The Grimm Place

A Fairytale Webcomic. Where misfits check in, and coexistence checks out.

About the Comic

The Grimm Place is a fantasy comedy indie webcomic with Shrek-style fairytale satire. Styled yet subverted and character-driven like The Sandman arcs. It follows Araquiel, a cheerful angel on a 1-year vacation on Earth, running a quirky hotel in a magical forest next to Cinderella's Kingdom. It's a haven for flawed heroes, reformed villains, and misfits, think Hotel Transylvania meets Shrek meets Supernatural.

Themes: Coexistence, self-acceptance, found family. Self-contained arcs build to bigger conflicts.

Main Characters

Araquiel (Protagonist)

Gender: Male
Age: Probably thousands of years old (appears mid-20s due Angelic Immortality)
Personality: Cheerful, idealistic, thrill-seeking, soft-spoken with rich vocabulary. Loves friendships, acorns, and believes in the good of everyone. Appearance: Pink-furred anthropomorphic squirrel with wings, glowing halo, four expressive eyes, bushy tail, a long purple giraffe tongue.

Big Bad Wolf

Gender: Male
Age: Adult
Personality: Grumpy, perpetually hungry, snarky, but has a surprisingly solid heart (often shinier than expected). Appearance: Classic big bad wolf—tall, furry, fangs always visible in a scowl.

Red Riding Hood

Gender: Female
Age: young adult
Personality: Spoiled, egotistic, plays the innocent victim card often but has hidden depths and a bratty edge. Appearance: Classic red hood and basket, petite size, blonde hair, innocent face that flips to a glare in seconds.

Sleeping Beauty

Gender: Female
Age: Appears late 20s (in dragon form)
Personality: Sleepy, elegant, a bit melancholic. The hotel's original guest. Appearance: Sleek, iridescent lavender-scaled dragon with royal poise and perpetual half-lidded eyes.

Alisson

Gender: Male
Age: Young adult
Personality: Witty, eccentric, excellent cook with a dry sense of humor. Appearance: Genderswapped Alice vibe—blond, often in chef whites, can shapeshift into a purple cat.

Baba Yaga

Gender: Female
Age: Appears early 20s (due to a curse)
Personality: Sarcastic, misses her old scary hag look, not interested in romance. Appearance: Youthful wild-haired witch, chicken-leg motifs in her style.

Captain Hook

Gender: Male
Age: Adult
Personality: Kleptomaniac, obsessed with shiny things, dashing but chaotic. Appearance: Pirate coat, hook hands (multiple shiny ones), disheveled charm.

Handy

Gender: Male
Age: Adult
Personality: Anxious, Insecure, unlucky with building, but sweet and loyal, yup, he's the pig who builds the brick house in the "Three Little Pigs" Fairytale. Appearance: construction worker-themed anthropomorphic pig, often looking frazzled.

Gideon

Gender: Male
Age: Adult
Personality: Powerful occult detective, investigative, loyal, badass against demons, he was the seventh goat from "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats". Appearance: Anthropomorphic white-furred Goat, trench coat, magical runes, John Constantine vibes.

From Heaven & Beyond

Wellington Q. Wells (old friend, angler fish soul), Archangel Gabriel (Araquiel's big), and others who watch from above.

Portraits are placeholders—I'll swap them with custom drawings as they're completed! More characters (including antagonists) will get spotlights over time, but no spoilers here, because i'm busy drawing my webcomic and learning how to code HTML.