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The Fairytale Meme

How it works:
1. pick a fairy tale
2. au our characters into it somehow, along the guidelines or not.
3. ???
4. profit. c:

1. ALADDIN The classic rags to riches story. One's royalty, and one's not, and they'll do anything to win the heart of their beloved--or at least besotted--even if it means pretend to be rich.
2. SLEEPING BEAUTY A character has been cursed, doomed to sleep forever. Only true love's kiss can wake them up.
3. ALICE IN WONDERLAND Things have gotten curioser and curioser, as a character's transported deep into a magic land where things aren't quite what they seem. A magical court, a reigning queen, talking animals--whatever you have it, you think you probably need to get out of this place and back home. But will your partner help you or harm you?
4. THE LITTLE MERMAID You're a mermaid, for whichever reason. Falling in love with people who have legs is such a chore, but sometimes love requires sacrifice.
5. CINDERELLA. You've been searching for your true love for years, in hopes to rediscover them after a magical night. Will you thread the night itself, or perhaps the reunion--or anything in between?
6. SNOW WHITE Living in the forest is not so bad when you make friends. You hope someday your prince will come. Preferrably before someone realizes you're the fairest of them all and tries to kill you. At least that true love's kiss comes in handy!
7. THE FROG PRINCE Someone was once a handsome prince(ss) and they've been turned into an animal. True love's kiss, again, conquers all, so you better get to hopping. (Or leaping, or slithering...)
8. RAPUNZEL Rapunzellll! Let down your haiiiir! Being cooped up in a castle for all of your life has given you quite the sense of adventure, so why not let the person knocking on your door in? It must be safe, right? Right?
9. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Grandmother warned you not to go walking in those spooky old woods alone, but you did it anyway. With a wolf on your heels, you better start hoping the wolf is kinder than you think--or if not, that you'll run into a kind huntsman to help save the day. Or, even if not that, you'll rely on your powers of badassery to beat the wolf yourself!
10. GOLDILOCKS & THE THREE BEARS Someone's sleeping in your bed! Kick them out, let them stay. I'm not judging.c
11. TARZAN Someone isn't what you'd maybe call a functioning human being. But that's alright--being raised by monkeys (or wolves, or what have you) isn't a reason not to try and understand them. In fact, maybe you're intrigued by the way they look at life. They could certainly teach you as much as you taught them.
12. PINOCCHIO You're a real boy! Whether you were a puppet or a robot, something--and who only knows what--has turned you into a human. Maybe it was just the love of your creator. Maybe it was a little fairy. Who knows.
13. OTHER. Seriously, knock yourself out.

Feel free to ignore the prompts completely and just use the name of the fairy tale--twisted fairytales, once upon a time style fairy tales...everything is fair game. Just don't eat the poison apple!

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[ arya walks at a punishing pace, her short legs taking long leaps over roots protruding from the earth and logs almost as thick as her own torso. bran lags behind. she sends him glances over her shoulder as she dances along the burnt out path, kicking stones beneath her feet as she twists and turns and spins. needle sits in her palm, in case; there are ugly things within these woods, beside the trees with their haunting, and yet, soft eyes, the mouths she whispers to when she escapes from their home and into the woods to be surrounded by those who actually listen and aren't stupid, stupid, stupid. ]

[ bran's slow, taking in the sights, his feet moving inches rather than leaping across continents like hers. the urge to pick him up and toss him onto her back has her curling one hand into a fist and the other around the hilt of needle. he's almost her size, thicker in shoulders and torso, but arya knows she can take him. a wolf carries their own, even the smallest taking the biggest upon her back and pulling him to safety. but it isn't safety where she wishes to take bran. ]

[ turning, she stops and frowns. ] Stop picking at the bread! [ crumbs litter the path they've taken; crumbs of incredible sizes, almost as big as a stone, and some so tiny arya believes it would be swept up with the wind and claimed as dust. they have three rolls of thick bread, baked by her friend, hot pie; she doesn't wish to let them go to waste upon their journey before they've reached their destination, a nice little pond she wishes to take bran to — if only to push him in. ] We have to eat that!

[ turning, her steps are purposefully smaller. she barks into the sky. ] Hurry up!

once upon a time....

hansel and gretel, dun goofed.