Golden Hair and Ash: PREVIEW
Hello everyone! I’ve decided to post a small snippet of my fanfic that will be in the @bsdtales Fractured Fairy Tales zine! Accompanying my fic is some gorgeous art from Keelin @mr-reblogbutton who I greatly appreciate especially how busy it is right now for them! Please wish them good luck! An additional thanks to Taylor @naotoosh and Cyrus @jewishsuperhero for their advice while writing!
Here is the preview for you all for my Rapunzel inspired Kunikida/Hawthorne fic! I hope you enjoy reading this rarepair, and I highly encourage everyone to buy the zine for the full fic when it is released, since the proceeds will be going to charity! Thank you!
There had once been a clan of entertainers who roamed the land. They were a family from a land far to the east with abilities that allowed them to create objects, seemingly out of thin air. It was that ability and their long, golden hair that made them stand out from the rest of the common folk. Everywhere the entertainers went, they would be met with crowds—from young children shouting with glee at the toy animals that sprung up in the town squares, to the adults who watched in wonder at the light shows that were performed at night. And almost as soon as they arrived, they would pack up and leave. As the ventured onward to the next town, the objects they created were left behind as the only proof they had even been there.
With abilities like theirs, it was only a matter of time before someone would seek to take it as their own. So when the family of entertainers was discovered one morning, their throats slit, their long, golden tresses shorn, and the new baby of the youngest couple vanished, people were shocked at the sight, but not surprised it had occurred.
Time went on and people forgot about the family with the long, golden hair. They forgot about the magical abilities and the traveling performances. And of course they forgot about the baby who had vanished while his family lay slain. They became mere stories that parents told their children about at night.
After all, no one knew that baby was now living deep within the forest after being taken by a sorcerer who sought to use the child’s abilities for his own schemes.