#itw witch

[dairy-godmother]

Ok so

You know how many ITW productions make the baker pretty old. Like his 40s or 50s even sometimes.

But they make rapunzel a young woman maybe early 20s

Think about that for a second.

“In the past, when you were no more than a babe…”

RIGHT??

Anyways, my mom and I made a fan theory that makes this work so you can still cast your oldie baker and your young child Rapunzel.

The witch casted a spell that kept Rapunzel young. It’s the same type of magic that kept the witch alive for so long. Of course she’d want to keep her baby young.

It’s literally the exact opposite of Disney’s Rapunzel and that adds more sick epic parallels.

[determinedowl23]

The Baker is the tired father, Cinderella is the oldest sister who is also the stand in babysitter, Red is the gremlin middle kid, Jack is the youngest kid that actually has no fucking clue what he’s doing, and Witch is the wine aunt™

[myalchod]

Have another Into the Woods drabble. Maybe I should try to make this a 26-day challenge? IDEK we’ll see.

The Witch + angst + preference (200 words)

Nightfall finds her sitting amid the corpses of the past season’s growth, with only her own thoughts for company. She should feel elated, flush with the victory she’s waited years to claim, and yet …

Be careful what you wish for, as you just may get it. Words from a lifetime ago that she had once brushed off; how could she not wish to reclaim what had been stolen from her? Had she not suffered enough to have earned herself a reprieve – a return to what had been, to normalcy, to happiness?

If the choice had been given to her along with knowledge of the present, what would she have picked? Withered tendrils shred beneath fretful fingers no longer gnarled, join other fragments scattered brown and faded green across the drift of white skirts, the colours muting in the deepening dark until she can no longer tell them apart. An impossible choice, to give up one or the other, and meaningless – for how could she have known? How can anyone ever truly know what a moment will bring until they stand in it, with no road back?

It does not matter what she would have rather. This is what is.