The Storybook Handler

The place where your usual fairytales go to live and die, and the poor girl in charge of untangling the mess

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Hiya! It’s @alexajswan here and this side blog is solely dedicated to a writing project I’ve been working on, a fairytale retelling based on many different classic stories and some more obscure ones that I am quite fond of. Inspired by my favorite previous retellings, Disney movies + Descendants, Ever After High, School for Good and Evil and mainly Once Upon a Time.

Stories featured include but are not limited to: Peter Pan, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, Rapunzel, the Little Mermaid, the Wizard of Oz, Arthurian legend and many more…

Though some things have been mapped out, this story is still a work in progress so feel free to follow along and suggest anything you think might be fun!

Thank you to @freakazoiddaydreamer as always for being so encouraging and helping me out with betaing, inspiration and letting me blab about nonsense <3

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What is a storybook handler? ⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 📚

A role given out to those a deity deems worthy of carrying out the most strenuous of tasks—untangling a ‘rogue’ fairytale.

A handler is not necessary when the characters in your usual storybooks carry out their respective tales as they should, in the way they have been written to do for thousands of years.

But as every writer is aware, characters tend to have a mind of their own, and a handler is the person in charge of making sure they don’t stray too far away from their fates or worse… the author’s intentions.

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Meet the main character 𖦹°‧

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Paige Julia Blightmoore ⋆📚

I thought good guys got to be happy - Hard Times, Ethel cain 

Troubled mousy army brat turned librarian. She grew up on base with her single father and a younger sister she is incredibly close to---as her mother ran off when both Blightmoore daughters were young children. She spent some time in the military, trying to meet her father's expectations of her, but some legal issues made her ultimately decide it wasn't for her. With a difficult life, Paige resorts to fairy tales and storybooks as a source of comfort.

The last thing she ever expected was to end up in one.

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MBTI TYPE 𐙚⋆°👑.⋆ᥫ᭡

INFP - Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving

They tend to view themselves as smaller than they really are.

SYMBOLIC ANIMAL 𐙚⋆°🐭.⋆ᥫ᭡

A duality of resourcefulness, adaptability, and fertility alongside timidity, destruction, and disease.

CHARACTERS SHE’S SIMILAR TO 𐙚⋆°🌼.⋆ᥫ᭡

Twilight Sparkle, MLP: Smart, kind and caring. Like Twilight, Paige would do just about anything for those she cares about. She holds great responsabilites, and a crown that weights heavy on her head. 

Emma Swan, Once upon a time: Resourceful, whip-smart and emotionally closed off. Like Emma, Paige is into a world she is not familiar with and immedietly placed on a pedastal she can never truly live up to. 

Bob Reyndols, MCU: Troubled, guilt-ridden and an aching desire to protect others. Like Bob, at first glance Paige may seem like a soft spoken and shy creature, but both experience life altering tragedies that cause them to come out of their shells and phase their darkest aspects head on.