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“Nay, not a hair upon my head is harmed, thanks to your due diligence, my masquerading champion -- ? How do I even begin to deliver that line, I’ve never been saved by my true love before! And why would my true love be anyone as barbaric as a rebel working against the very kingdom I command, even in disguise!?”
True, Miranda was well and familiar with the concept of the art of theatre, but her suspension of disbelief was being stretched by this one, particular role.
Of course, when she tried out for the play, it wasn’t much of an issue. A princess in a starring role, commanding a tyrannical kingdom with a dark grip over the populace, leaving them to starve in the day, and huddle close at night, fearing that they could be disappeared to a worse fate at any time? Miranda knew it was the role she was born to play.
Except... She hadn’t fully read the plot when she killed, lied, and sabotaged her way to one of the two lead roles, and now that she had...
Well, for as much as Miranda related to her own character, she could not believe, for a second, that the princess, previously kept isolated in her ivory tower above the lands, only knowing what the king and queen sneered at her, released for a time by sheer luck, could ever love a rogue who was working to improve the kingdom for all, and especially not one who would free the princess from her own chains! It was preposterous, it was fiendish, it was downright cute with an ultimately optimistic outlook yet forcibly vague depiction of the horrors of tyranny! It was a monstrosity.
Further still, to have the two meet by the beautiful and daring rogue saving the princess from her own cluelessness about the world, and seeing that she was just as hurt as them? Nope, negative, nada - Miranda had no clue if she could even begin to pull that off.
So... She had asked for help from her co-star and close friend, Vicky. After all, Vicky was supposed to play the dreaded champion of the people, and Miranda did trust her enough to not be too thrown off by Miranda’s dramatics at the entire thing.
It was key to learning, Miri thought, that when you got huffy and upset over not being able to understand even common land romance tropes, and having a high aversion to it due to your own raising, that you had someone to teach you who wouldn’t laugh at you.
( Or make it worse. Miranda had a few cases of things being made worse. )
Flicking through her script, Miri couldn’t help the frown that came over her face, the scrunching of her brows as she stared at the plot in full, none too happy about the contents. She couldn’t help a defeated huff, fins pressing back.
“Perhaps I should cancel my appearance in the play... You would not mourn too badly over having to kiss the Interdimensional Prince instead of me for your role, would you? I hear acting in a play together will only get the two of you married in his universe! I’m not sure how I can even begin to act this out...”











