Each day has a trope and an AU. You can absolutely combine the two, or choose one or the other! <3
Day 1: Trope - rage baiter x rage baiter // AU - Coffee Shop
Day 2: Trope - touch starved // AU - Models
Day 3: Trope - hurt/comfort // AU - Supernatural/Fantasy
Day 4: FREE DAY!!
Day 5: Trope - jealous partner // AU - Performer/Actor
Day 6: Trope - role reversal // AU - Body Swap
Day 7: Trope - soulmates // AU - Mermaids/Pirates
Have fun! There is no wrong way to participate in StarGoth Week! :3 We're so excited to see what you all come up with. Happy creating!
Reminder: post these during the week of August 17-23.
so… i posted about this under a different post, saying Buddy is the little mermaid — Ariel from the disney version, specifically — and then made my own post as a sort of interest check
since there was some decent excitement for the idea of someone breaking down this trend i noticed, well, here it is
i’m dreadfully sorry in advance because this will be probably a bit more insane than you first imagined… i’m an amateur disney historian and too queer to function
also cw i will be discussing some darker topics on occasion but not in extreme detail just a heads up
before all else, we need to be on the same page about the little mermaid and that it is an inherently queer story with a queer author: Hans Christian Anderson was bisexual, and wrote the original story as a sort of lament about being in love with another man and never being able to be together
but we’re not talking about the original version — we’re talking about the disney version, which was ALSO heavily influenced by out gay man and lyricist Howard Ashman
a queer man in the 80s adapting a fairytale specifically about the queer experience and making sure the ending was happier where the mermaid lives and marries her true love was a revolutionary choice, considering what was going on in the queer community in the 1980s and early 90s (if you’re a young’un, i’m talking about AIDS, a disease that would also claim Howard Ashman later on), which is why it lowkey bothers me SO DANG MUCH when people gripe about the ending being changed — we needed this, y’all, let queer people dream of a happy ending
but anyway, this train of thought came about due to the little shadows arc in CB where they go into little mermaid and, despite the sea witch not having much to do in the original tale after the mermaid gets some sweet gams, Buddy gets quite a lot of focus, specifically on his backstory
and then, of course, at the end of the arc, Buddy does the thing that everyone homages from disney’s version, and i remember saying to myself ‘oh, yeah, Buddy is Ariel haha that makes a lot of sense actually’
my impression was only strengthened by subsequent re-readings and here is the fruits of that
so, the first scene were we see Ariel in the little mermaid is her robbing a grave — it’s a fun scene, and we don’t register her actions as grave-robbing because we don’t see any bodies, but Ariel is looting through a shipwreck in the middle of the ocean and shipwrecks back then were almost always fatal, so this is in fact a grave. our girl loves other peoples’ things.
that aside, Ariel is a character defined by her desire to be more than what she is
at the beginning of the movie, she has the desire to be ‘where the people are’; she yearns for humanity in a nebulous, unfocused way
Buddy also desires a return to his own humanity, which is manifest in Violet’s plan to turn back time to before her brother fused with the villain key — it was a plan i remember questioning, like ‘okay he’s back to human and he assumedly takes the keys with him and… then what? bro was homeless, stealing for a living… what is the plan after that?’
though Buddy might be seen as having more of a reason than Ariel for his desire, the future should he get what he wants is still just as up in the air as hers
the consequences of this desire taking over their good sense and seeking the help of someone without their best interests at heart also eventually lead to a family member being imperiled
eventually, though, they meet someone who gives their desire for humanity some more focus
disguising their true nature with the help of a villainess, they follow around their chosen human and romance blooms, all with the knowledge that this situation is tentative at best
(there is also some severe rebuke on this kind of trust being bestowed to a human from a family member who means well but comes off harsh)
and then we do get to lean into the original tale a bit — in the fairytale, the mermaid is presented the opportunity to kill the prince and restore her status quo… and she refuses. she doesn’t want to hurt her love, even if it will hurt her in the end
now, in the movie, Ariel defeats her adversary and, despite returning to her mermaid forme, is gifted her humanity in the end with the help of her family and is able to live happily ever after with Prince Eric (a prince who, might i remind you, loves music and has great hair)
i’m sure that’s what we all want for our sopping wet victorian orphan, but of course we’ll have to see where it goes~
@zatannasarmrest and I would love to get a StarGoth Week going soon 😍 We’ve created an interest check for you to tell us how you’d like to participate, tropes you love, and more! ✨ Please take a minute to fill this out!! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out <3
Welcome to the Interest Check for the StarGoth Week, a week of prompts centered around Chase and Buddy from Cinderella Boy on Webtoon! If yo
haven’t seen any genderbend versions of these 2 yet (mainly coz i just joined the fandom haha) so here’s my versions of their genderbends without any inspo!!
