>> Oh, I love this spin on the classic story. :D <<
Yay! \o/
>> I give credit up a storm to Charlotte, for her multiple clues. Welcoming female bodyguards *and* handling a falling spell and its results without a flinch, to say nothing of continuing to love El for who he is. <3 <<
Charlotte is awesome. She has also scoped out her options, picked the best one, and continued to gauge El as the best catch despite the challenges.
>> Is that a Twelve Dancing Princesses nod I see in there, in the reference to all the princess's aunts as well as her mother? Squee! :D <<
Yes.
>> If so, I wonder if the eldest is queen (unlikely, as she married a soldier canonically), or if it was another daughter who met Rumpelstiltskin before taking the throne. Second-eldest, as the eldest already had a life of her own started? <<
I had not actually worked out all the other character relations. However, in the versions of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" that I have read, the king has only daughters. That means whoever marries one of them would become the next king, since historic fairytales generally disallow female inheritance.
This isn't the only time I've used that story as inspiration. Quite some time ago, I did a version with the hero cross-dressing as a princess and one of the underworld princes falling in love with him.
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Date: 2019-10-07 06:11 am (UTC)Yay! \o/
>> I give credit up a storm to Charlotte, for her multiple clues. Welcoming female bodyguards *and* handling a falling spell and its results without a flinch, to say nothing of continuing to love El for who he is. <3 <<
Charlotte is awesome. She has also scoped out her options, picked the best one, and continued to gauge El as the best catch despite the challenges.
>> Is that a Twelve Dancing Princesses nod I see in there, in the reference to all the princess's aunts as well as her mother? Squee! :D <<
Yes.
>> If so, I wonder if the eldest is queen (unlikely, as she married a soldier canonically), or if it was another daughter who met Rumpelstiltskin before taking the throne. Second-eldest, as the eldest already had a life of her own started? <<
I had not actually worked out all the other character relations. However, in the versions of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" that I have read, the king has only daughters. That means whoever marries one of them would become the next king, since historic fairytales generally disallow female inheritance.
This isn't the only time I've used that story as inspiration. Quite some time ago, I did a version with the hero cross-dressing as a princess and one of the underworld princes falling in love with him.