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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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[ stiles looks forward to his surface visits like nothing else in the world. are they not allowed? technically. would he get in huge trouble with his father if he knew about them? probably. so he's tried his best to keep it secret, but scott's been the only one who's even known where he's disappeared to, because it's very rare for him to do, well, anything without his partner in crime. but he never tells him about the person on the surface who he's been visiting with, the one who helped him when he was ill, who'd he'd exchanged snappy arguments with and allowed him to free him when he was captured.

he told scott he just got out on his own cunning and charm--scott very obviously didn't believe him, but he's a good bro like that.

so maybe he should have seen it coming, when he's halfway to the surface and something pulls on his tail. stiles whips around, expecting a shark or something, even yelping-- ] Ohhh my go--

[ but, no, just scott. his shoulders deflate. ] Dude! You scared the hell out of me.

[ >TRY NOT TO ACT SUSPICIOUS ]

[ > Ultimately fail.

Scott knows when Stiles lies. It's not because he has a tell or anything, it's just because he just knows Stiles. He's relieved that he'd escaped from his captors, but he has a very distinct feeling that he's left out quite a few details in his retelling of his great escape to freedom again. But he'd just nodded along, smiling, clapping him on the back and hugging him a few more times out of the sheer relief that his best friend is safe again.

Except then he started going up to the surface again, and though he'd vowed not to tell his father (unless he gets kidnapped again), he still wants to know the truth. Especially if someone is making him look all dreamy every time he comes back when Scott doesn't go with him. ]

Oops, my bad. [ There's not much guilt to his tone, though, and a grin on his face instead. ]

once upon a time....

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