#lost princess

[aliahjordan]

Insomnia Drabble #2

I saw a TikTok of a Princess being burned at the stake with a Jester because they had fallen in love and the Prince she was married to had her and him burned for her infidelity. The Princess and Prince were in a loveless political marriage.

The priests were wrong, as they often are. Magic did exist in their world. The queen, belly swollen with the child of her true love, watched as her love, beaten and battered, smiled at her for the last time as the flames licked at his feet. Her own pain not registering as she watched her love smile at her for the last time.

They did not know that the Gods were watching and they were disturbed by what their followers had done in their name. One villager who had stayed, cried for the couple. This one villager believed love should have no status, no limits and no borders, stayed and wept for the couple. She wept for her queen, she wept for the love that shown in the jester’s face even as he was burned alive. Wept for the unborn child. When she had cried herself dry, her throat raw and near bleeding and her father had come to find her, that is when she heard the sound. Barely there. A cry. A coo. Coming from the burned alter of the queen. 

The villager moved without thought to the rubble and ash. Ignoring her father’s pleas and the stares of a growing crowd. Moving the chard beam that held the queen’s shriveled body hostage she saw what had made the sound. A baby. A beautiful baby girl blanketed by the ashes of her mother.

The Gods were pleased, it seemed, with who found the baby they had saved. They placed their blessing upon the woman in hopes she would keep the child. 

With whispers from the wind in her ear the woman fled. No guard was able to capture her. Her feet were sure and no path was hidden from her sight. She ran far, farther than she had ever ran before. Her legs felt no pain nor fatigue. Her lungs stayed full of air. She did not hunger. 

For days the woman ran scarcely stopping. When her body finally gave out she was weeks of travel away from the capital. The Gods led her to a hidden cabin deep in the forest no one dared enter. There she would raise the babe as her own, preparing the child for an uncertain future.

[cinderellaheist]

Manon of the Spring (1986)

[lanadelreyandghostfan]

[moonlight-dragon]

𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝟐: 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐠𝐞 · 𝐈𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬‎

He was a shepherd. He shepherded stars. He was to put them where the Man in the Moon said. He knew. Jack knew. But the she was lost. And weren’t stars meant to guide lost princesses home?

"No, I can't let you do this." Her hands covered his gripping the staff, as desperate as the plea leaving her lips. Tears broke the trails of gold his thumbs had drawn across her checkbones, over her freackles scattered across them like stars. She was beautiful. The chuckle that bursts from him is both fond and helpless, his warm eyes looking deeply into hers, his lips trembling. Breaking the staff would mean never shepherding stars again, severing his ties to the Moon court, becoming nobody's son, Jack —hers. He found himself thinking that was everything he ever wanted to be. "Would I become too much to handle, sweetheart?" She laughs as her body surges towards him until their foreheads touch, the happiness radiating out of her dancing across his skin. He had chose her, over the Stars, over the Moon who would not miss him. To Hell with them. She had enough light for them both —she was the Sun princess. As if to make a statement, her hair began glowing, the specks of gold in his eyes glimmering. He was beautiful. "Never."

[chaotictoon]

Lost Princess

Bloom and Rupunzel parallels both lost princesses who were taken from their kingdom and discovered were they came from.

[elijones94]

🌼🌻 Rapunzel 🌸🎨

[crappysandals]

This is all of us here on the AOS tag, making theories left right and center with whatever little we know and sharing it with our clown town and the clown citizens appreciating, humoring and discoursing on it.

[pixiedust111]

Another subtle parallel between them!

And the funny thing is, both of them actually ended up being a princess/prince.