Jack of Tears said:

Would any of them encounter kids from the Real World, maybe?

I just killed this topic... Again... didn't I?

Can any of you guys think of any concepts for the heroes? Please?

Well, if you really insist on making a Grimm adventure with native characters(I still think this is wrong, but who am I to judge?), there is no lack of interesting adventuring types here for the players to be.

Questing knights? Swashbucking pirates? Students in the Black Tower? Talking animals?

It has no end!

Any ideas for sample characters? I (yes, it's me, the guy who started this topic) will allow even characters based on existing fairy-tale characters, though new characters are allowed...

By sample characters, do you mean seven pregenerated kids, one from each archtype, for you to base a tale around?

The only limits are your imagination. If you have the book then it shouldn't take much to come up with some pregens of your own for your players to play.

Don't be rude. If he asks for help, it means that he needs it. I am just making sure what kind of help he needs.

Well, as this is a thread about native player charaters of the Grimm Lands, I'd sort of like to know what sample characters of that sort you could come up with...

Then we return to my last question to you. What kind of tale do you wish to run? The Grimm Lands are vast. We cannot help you create heroes without, at the very least, knowing where they will come from and where they are going, for example. A crew of pirates will not help you if you do not want a pirate story, and an order of questing knights is no good if you do not want it.

The Alchemist said:

Have no idea how I was being rude but....Okay whatever...

 You could play an "awakened" character ... someone who, by chance and the fickle nature of faerie, became self aware one day and took their destiny into their own hands.  Imagine that boy who cries wolf ... every day he runs to town and cries the wolf is coming and eventually it does and the boy is eaten ... these things happen all the time, but this once when the wolf comes the boy doesn't run, but instead picks up a rock and - when the wolf reaches him, following its "script" he bashes in its head.  Suddenly empowered by a sense of "self" or "free will" the boy begins to see the other things he can change ... and where that leads him is down one grand adventure ... 

Any ideas for potential "awakened" characters that might correspond to different archetypes? (That is, the Bully, the Dreamer, the Jock, the Nerd, the Normal... Thing, the Outcast, and the Popular... Thing?)

Now we are talking. I really like the whole "Awakened" concept!

The Bully would be a heroic knight who slayes evil doers and has recently started to doubt the virtue of his causes.

The Popular is a spoiled princess who is just bored with her royal life.

The Outcast is a minor outlaw who is just incredibly sick of alwayes failing comically at the end of the story.

The Dreamer is a pathetically talentless wizard's apprentice who decides one day that maybe everything would be better if he just ran away.

The Nerd is a genius but eccentric inventor who is depressed about never managing to create anything truly scientific(The laws DON'T WORK!)

The Jock is a wild, violent pirate who has started to rethink his goals in life.

And the Normal... He is just a worthless, not-special-in-any-way peasent boy. He wants to be a Hero.

Do they have names? If you can think of any, please tell me. Also, what is the peasant's destiny? Also, what are the events that made them awaken? And are any of them talking animals and the like, and how do they meet?