Fairy Tale AU
Inspired by The Lunar Chronicles, Once Upon a Time, Ever After, The Company of Wolves, Red Riding Hood, Ella Enchanted, Snow White A Tale of Terror, and Mirror Mirror. It takes place in a fairy tale world where the characters are based off of classic fairy tale characters.
Lucy - Cinderella: Was once a happy child who lived with her loving and wealthy parents Jude and Layla until a mysterious fire killed them and destroyed their home. Lucy was then taken in by her maternal aunt Minerva who is Queen of the Fiore however Minerva makes Lucy a slave and regularly loans her to work for other nobles. As the years pass Lucy grows up to be a lovely girl and hard-working girl who never loses hope. One day she discovers a magical key that releases her inprisoned fairy godmother Levy who aids her with her magic and informs her that she is destined to destroy the source of Minerva’s powers and restore the rightful heir to the throne. Lucy then journeys to find the heir and the one weapon that can destroy Minerva’s power. Joining her on her journey is Natsu the prince of Alvarez who she met at her aunt’s ball. She finds herself falling for him but is not sure if she’s good enough for him.
Juvia - Snow White: Daughter of King Hector and the late Queen Diane, Stepdaughter to Queen Minerva, Princess of Fiore. Her mother died in childbirth and her father married Minerva when she was seven years old. Though spoiled by her father she was sweet and adored Minerva. Years later Juvia grows into a beautiful and sweet maiden who is declared “The Fairest of Them All.” Making her stepmother jealous, when she tries to have Juvia killed the girl runs away into the forest where she meets three dwarves: Gajeel, Elfman, and Romeo who agree to hide her from Minerva. While living in the forest she saves and falls in love with Gray a huntsman who unknown to her has been sent by Minerva to kill her. She is the rightful heir to the throne of Fiore and upon seeing how her people have suffered she vows to somehow stop Minerva.
Erza - Red Riding Hood: An orphan living with her grandmother in a village that’s plagued by blood thirsty werewolves who have the power to take the form of humans. As a child she witnesses a pack of werewolves slaughter her neighbors and seemingly kill her best friend Jellal. Heartbroken and vengeful after his death she vows to destroy all werewolves by killing their alpha. As an adult she is headstrong, determined, and extremely gorgeous, doning a scarlet red hood that protects her from werewolves as she sets out to kill the alpha wolf. When she finally meets the alpha she is horrified to discover that the alpha is in fact Jellal who was not killed the night of the attack but was actually transformed into the new alpha wolf.
Natsu - Prince Charming: the carefree, immature but noble hearted Prince of Alvarez, younger brother to the late King Zeref of Alvarez. He visits the kingdom of Fiore where Queen Minerva immediately plans to marry him and take over his kingdom. During a ball she holds he falls for a girl dressed in gold who disappears at midnight leaving behind only a shoe. He keeps the shoe with the intention of using it to find his mystery girl. When he meets Lucy who unknown to him is the girl he met at the ball, he joins her on her journey to find the weapon to destroy Minerva’s power and the heir to Fiore. During the journey he and Lucy grow close and he notices some familiar things about her. Despite his immaturity he is actual very serious about one day being king of Alvarez and is not sure if he’ll be as good a ruler as his brother was.
Gray - The Huntsman: He lives in the same village as Erza and protects it from werewolves gaining the reputation as the greatest huntsman in all of Fiore. Cold and bitter, he will hunt down and kill anything for the right amount of gold. When his reputation reaches Queen Minerva she offers him his weight in gold if he hunts down and kills her stepdaughter Juvia. Gray agrees but on attempt to kill her he injures himself badly but is saved and tended to by Juvia. At first he plans to kill her once he recovers until her beauty and kindness thaws his frozen heart causing him to become conflicted about weather or not he should hurt her.
Jellal - The Wolf: Erza’s childhood friend who as a boy was abducted by werewolves after they killed his family and marked as the new alpha by the elderly one so he could die. When he reunites with Erza he reveals to her that the not all the werewolves are evil and that some cannot control themselves when they transform and that this is due to a curse that was cast upon them by Queen Minerva's mirror. Jellal is very much in love with Erza and tries to stay away from her for fear of hurting her but she is determined to free him from the curse no matter what.
Minerva - The Evil Queen: The beautiful but vain, selfish, and cruel queen of Fiore. Once she was a sweet girl who was extremely close with her faternal twin sister Layla but was greatly abused and neglected by her parents due to the fact that while Layla was born beautiful, Minerva was born hideous. Despite the fact that Layla loved and cared for Minerva, Minerva could not help but secretly envy her. As a woman she discovers a powerful, all knowing mirror that grants her wish to be “The Fairest of Them All.” Her lovely new appearance soon catches the eye of the grieving widowed King Hector and she becomes queen however she still envies Layla and the mirror corrupts her into becoming evil. So evil in fact that she murdered her sister and brother-in-law, inflicts the werewolf curse upon those who defy her, and enslaves her own niece Lucy just because of her resemblance to Layla. She soon becomes jealous of her stepdaughter Juvia and plots to kill her while also planning to marry Prince Natsu of Alvarez.
Gajeel - The Head Dwarf: The leader of the three dwarves. He is strong, rough, brooding, and really hates it when people bring up the fact that dwarves are short claiming that it’s just an insulting stereotype. Despite his rough act he posses a heart of gold and serves as a surrogate father to Juvia. Being very protective of her and suspicious of Gray when he shows up. He was once in love with a fairy named Levy and the two planned to run off together but on the night they were supposed to meet she never showed up. Leaving him to believe that she never loved him and that true love doesn’t exist.
Levy - The Fairy Godmother: A good fairy who was assigned to watch over and care for Lucy should anything happen to her parents. She had fallen in love with the dwarf Gajeel and after the death of Layla and Jude, the two made plans to marry and raise Lucy together but on the night they were to meet Minerva had her in prisoned leaving Gajeel heartbroken and Lucy to the mercy of her abusive aunt. Lucy frees Levy years later with her mother’s key and Levy aids Lucy with her magic such as making her the belle of the ball or showing her the way to the weapon that will defeat Minerva. All she really wants his to help Lucy and reunite with her true love Gajeel.
The mirror: An evil spirit trapped inside the looking glass which is all knowing and can grant desires but it corrupts whoever uses it with the intention of causing chaos and destruction. It corrupted Minerva by sowing the seeds of jealousy and hatred in her heart. Driving her to use dark magic to commit horrible acts of evil. The spirit gains it’s strength and power by feeding off of Minerva’s hatred, with the intent of taking over her body once all the goodness in her heart is gone. The spirit’s hold on their puppet along with the rest of it’s dark power can only be undone if the mirror is shattered by a secret weapon which is the only thing the spirit does not know of. The only thing the spirit knows about the weapon is that it’s cinder on the outside but golden on the inside.
