Lol. Cinderella AU where Pride is Mythal’s mistreated step-child and Lavellan is the dashing daughter of King Haninan and Queen Ireth, and they throw a fancy ball in celebration of their eldest son’s engagement, which all the fairest elves of the land are invited to attend. And Cinderpride’s step-mother bans him from attending even though one of his step-sisters is June’s betrothed because she has Plans for him.
But Cinderpride’s fairy godmother (idk Flemeth?) shows up and gets him some pretty clothes and is just like ‘go put a cork in Mythal’s stupid plans’ and Pride is like ‘I don’t really know if I should, I mean, she’s clearly got an endgame in minde’ and Fairy Flemethmother’s just like ‘boy she makes you clean out the hearth when you’re supposed to be the owner of this place’ and he’s like ‘hmm good point’ and turns up.
And General Lavellan’s all like ‘oh look another party kind of snore fest and - wait hold up who’s the gorgeous dude with the glass hair toggles?’ At which point she goes up to him like ‘would you like to dance?’ and Cinderpride’s internally screaming because yes.
So they do, and General Lavellan sweeps him off his feet and Cinderpride has hearts in his eyes and so does she and it’s all lovely until he sees Mythal and she almost catches him and he has to bail. And Lavellan’s kind of moping about it and Haninan’s like ‘what’s wrong kiddo?’ and Lavellan tells him and he’s like ‘well that won’t do we best have a KINGDOM-WIDE MANHUNT!’ and Lavellan’s like ‘papa no’ and Haninan’s like ‘papa YES’.
At which point the land is scoured for that One Hot Dude the General Danced With and Lavellan’s just like ‘really it’s fine I’m sure he had his reasons for leaping over that hedge and bolting down three flights of garden steps while thanking me for a lovely evening’ and Haninan’s like ‘what are kingdom resources for if not facilitating true love?’
‘Defending the realm and managing infrastructure?’ Lavellan suggests, and is waved off.
But of course, the search comes to naught because nobody thinks to check Mythal’s attic. And June’s just like ‘I’m kind of offended that you interrupted my betrothal celebrations with a manhunt for a dude my sister danced with once’ and Haninan’s like ‘look I’ll be honest son, your future wife scares the shit out of me, and this crystal-toggle-wearing hedge-jumper sounds way more manageable than anyone else I ever imagined your sister ending up with’.
Still, it all falls apart, until one fine day when Lavellan’s having lunch with her soon-to-be-sister-in-law and she gets a look at the guy cleaning the kitchens and trying to pretend he’s not spying on her wistfully and is like ‘!!! You!!!’
At which point Cinderpride is all ‘but how do you recognize me without my glass hair toggles or fancy coat?’ and Lavellan is like ‘…..seriously?’ and Cinderpride is all ‘in my defence Flemeth told me they were enchanted’ but whatever, Lavellan found him! And she wanted to ask if he would maybe like to attend another dance with her? Or twelve? Or maybe all of them?
Pride decides he would. And Mythal’s not too pleased, but eh. At least he’s marrying up.
