Neverafter Rapunzel and Cinderella in the new world… freak for freak besties…
It’s so fun fleshing out characters into something that personally excites you.
I’d love a witch!Rapunzel who hates witches. She maybe ritually stole her mother’s magic. She jumped out of the tower herself and knowingly landed in the thorny bushes. She cut her hair but made sure to leave the bottom long… she’s pragmatic and hateful and ever-happy to placate until she can let go of her facade.
In the new world, she might just fully leave her story. No origin, no morally grey parents, and no prince. She goes the Stepmother route and becomes a protagonist in Cinderella’s setting. She’s an ordinary girl with a loving family and magical hair from a magical vegetable garden. She goes on an adventure with her friends.
I really wanted to find some angle to make og Cinderella unhinged, but I think it’s fine if she’s just a kind person in a cruel world, feeling limited and unmade by a world of destiny and fate. It’d be real fun if she was a fairy switched at birth though… she has an otherworldly beauty — the prince falls in love at first sight. Maybe she learned of her changeling status, but refused to join the fairies, and a fairy granted her one wish. Maybe she finds out later that this wish-granting fairy godmother was the one who switched her at birth.
In the new world, Cinderella’s the connecting thread. She’s the most hopeful and optimistic, and they carve out their own future
