Disney royalty couples

Like these (but kind of ‘eh’ on seeing Mel Gibson here)

A very heart-warming series by artist Marciano Palácio. 

Sadly it still is considered shameful by society for a boy (or a male of any age) to like and identify with strong female characters, which is why the message that these illustrations convey is particularly important.

Let’s paint with all the colors of the wind and hear the ocean calling us, because today is a very special day!

Happy Earth Day to this beautiful planet of ours that we call home. It needs our love now more than ever 🌎💚 🍃🌊

Dreamworks Princess AU Part 2

(Please see this post in reference to the other AUs involved).

@tornrose24 I’ve honestly thought about that too. It would be pretty extreme since the two movies are so different. I especially love the idea of the MvA cast in utter confusion over the musical numbers with Susan trying to question how everything is coordinated. Bob being Bob wouldn’t be bothered by it at all.

We can have it set that Susan was a princess from the human kingdom of Modestelle while Poppy is the princess of the neighboring troll kingdom Troll Town. The two were best friends when they were little despite their size difference and had so much fun together doing all sorts of things. That is until Susan accidentally knocked her aside during their games which caused her to fear that she may have hurt her. So she’d try to avoid Poppy while Poppy just wants to see her friend again. And she gets her chance when the king and queen announce Susan’s arranged marriage and have invited the citizens of Troll Town to attend. But when she gets hit by the radioactive meteor and turns into a giant, Susan panics because of her height and is fearful that she’ll hurt someone. Especially when she sees Poppy trying to help her. She runs off to the mountains in self exile while Poppy and her band of friends run off to find her. It follows the same path with Susan embracing her new height after befriending the monsters who have inhabited the mountains while Poppy comes across Branch who has more experience living in the deeper parts of the forests but isn’t keen on Poppy’s excessive optimism or her merry crew. We can also include the Alien dictator trying to take over the kingdom in a way similar to the Duke of Weaselton and Creek would be suited for Hans who’s (SPOILERS) trying to take over the kingdom of Troll Town and is secretly working with the Alien dictator to get rid of the two princesses. (I also want to avoid including the Berken since I want to include them and their culture for Bridgette’s story).

And yeah, we’d really have to be careful with how we treat the characters from the Prince of Egypt. It’s too enriched in religious significance that it would be pretty offensive if the story turned too…Disney. Maybe we can have Tzipporah’s goal as to be the new chief after her father.  Jethro still passes away just like Tia’s dad so now Tzipporah is in charge and is doing everything she can to keep the caravan strong and healthy. But her sisters are worried that she’s working herself too hard and isn’t enjoying her life like their dad would have wanted. They’d also recommend that she try to look into finding a husband. But she doesn’t have time for that. As for Moses, he’d still be the playful and reckless prince as before but he ends up in the clutches of the court magicians. They’re tired of his pranks and how he’s causing trouble for Egypt. So they figure they could try to ‘get rid’ of Moses by tricking him into going into their private office to foresee his future. But with the use of flashing lights and homemade remedies, they end up erasing his memory, dress him as a peasant, and have him thrown out of the city. (The use of Friends on the Other Side would be similar to the magicians using the Egyptian gods as their friends and having them help with their schemes). And that’s all I have so far. I’m not sure how Ramses would fit since he goes from brother to antagonist later on and I don’t know how to include the ‘freeing of the slaves’ subplot. We may have to omit these parts if necessary.

I figure for that AU, the story would begin with a ceremony being held for Toothiana. She’d be given her wings after her years of selfless work with children and she’d be assigned to live with North, Bunnimund and Sandy. But Pitch crashes the party and casts his curse on Toothiana making it so that in 1 years time, the memories she’d create and inspire among the children of the world would become corrupted resulting in the guardians being hated by the children and ultimately forgotten.  So the new group decides to head out to a secret base that will protect Toothiana from Pitch’s curse while continuing their work. And eventually Jack would come on in as a new guardian to help them defeat Pitch and would end up winning the interest of Toothiana.

You’re very welcome for that Rose. ^_^ And sure, I can think of some more ideas for the other princesses.

So I mentioned Bridgette before and her story would be very similar to the Cinderella setting. She’d have loving parents who ended up dying and left her in the care of Chef the evil stepmother. She’s more occupied with her image as a celebrity chef so she has Bridgette take care of the cleaning and washing of the house. One day Chef gets an order to make an exquisite feast using several trolls for the king and his son so she’d have Bridgette come with her as her ‘assistant’. While Chef is preparing the feast, Bridgette ends up chasing after an escaped troll which is when she comes across Gristle Jr. The two have an adorkable moment together where Jr is interested in learning more about her while Bridgette is amazed that someone as important as him would be interested in a homely girl like herself. But the moment is cut short when Chef is kicked out after failing to provide any trolls for the feast thus separating the two. Chef takes her anger out on Bridgette by doubling her chores and forcing her to work nonstop; she’s also petty enough to make even more messes after Bridgette finishes something. But Bridgette distracts herself with her encounter with the prince and imagines what life would be like if she lived in the palace. I’m wondering if we should include Poppy and her posse as the mice friends for the sake of cameo. Maybe Poppy could fill in as the ‘fairy godmother’ who gives her a new look and the means to sneak out to attend the ball.

For the Croods in the Little Mermaid setting, I imagine Eep and her family as mermaids who are fairly content with living in their not so open range of ocean. It’s really old, is devoid of sealife, and is filled with large craters and rock structures. But Grug is the patriarch and isn’t bothered by this as long as his family is safe. Eep however wants to explore beyond the ocean and see the other parts that have more life. Guy would be a normal human boy who ventures around in his boat with his pet sloth. The two become amazed by each other’s presence since they’ve never seen anyone like each other. I also feel that there would be a sense of evolution involved in the sense that Eep would spend more time on the surface that her tail fin would slowly change into two legs giving her the ability to walk. Much to her father’s horror. From what I remember from the movie, there wasn’t really a human antagonist who could fill in for Ursula so the evolution thing could fit in for how she’d be able to walk on dry land. But if you have another idea for this, I’m more than willing to hear it.

Chel’s story would follow the same path for the Pocahontas AU. Although like with the Prince of Egypt/Princess and the Frog AU, we’d have to be extra careful with how this is done. Mainly because both of these stories are set in the colonial era and we don’t want to get into anything too controversial. So for Chel, she’s more along the lines of a…escort but she doesn’t want to follow that path anymore. She initially tries to leave her home until she secretly discovers Cortes’ fleet docking several miles away from El Dorado. She also ends up finding Tulio and Miguel during her path and she ends up learning about Cortes’ colonization plans and desire for gold. She initially considered leaving everything behind but thinks twice after the men question what she wants in life. I’m not exactly sure what would motivate her to try and save her home (maybe after seeing Cortes being a sadistic monster and mistreating his men). And there would also be a love triangle involved where she ends up falling for Tulio who is in a relationship with Miguel. (They were originally written to be gay in the first draft of the movie so it only makes sense if they ended up being gay for this AU).

And for Marina, her role in the Brave AU would be about her struggling to come to terms with her arranged marriage. In this AU, she has to choose between the righteous and moralistic friend Proteus or the ‘bad boy’ Prince of the Sea Sinbad with the choice of her hubby resulting in changes to the relationships between the kingdoms. Sinbad’s kingdom is more like an unofficial system involving various criminals, pirates and anti-government citizens. I figure Eris could be involved as the witch who ‘offers’ to help Marina with her choice in the matter. Except it ends up with Marina unintentionally leading Sinbad to turn Proteus into a Cthulu type creature. Eris hoped that Marina would choose Sinbad and the three kingdoms would be at war over the result. So now the three friends have to reach Eris’ domain to discover the secret to saving Proteus while Marina finds a path in which she can make her own destiny.

And that’s what I have so far. What do you think?

(This is in response to part one, but also for this part 2, @princeasimdiya12 )

Oh yes, that sounds good. There could be more added like... Well Po would recount the Mulan story to the kids like he did when telling stories about the Furious 5 (with epic epicness), Moses could recount the Princess and the Frog story to children on everyone’s journey to the promised land (though his guilt over certain things, plus him being humbled at this point, would make him turn himself a flawed, yet still possible to redeem man in the tale), Hiccup and pals would recount the Aladdin story around campfire in Berk... and of course George and Harold would tell their version via a comic book (all the while praying that it doesn’t inspire yet another monster of the day).

Ah the Shrek musical. Everyone is divided on it, but it has nice additions (plus, that’s where the infamous ‘When words fail’ song I used for ‘From Fathoms Below’ originally came from).

So the stranded Boov would be like the Kakamora... why do I have the feeling it’s Smek who gets to be the leader who gets hit with the blow dart? XD (We could also have the whole ‘Tala’s spirit visiting Moana out on the ocean as Tip either dreaming about her mom, or her mom almost having an out of body experience from near death that Tip passes off as a dream).

So... it’s STILL Megamind’s fault that Hal becomes more dangerous through gaining superpowers in this AU... eh, we know he’ll eventually fix that. Oh, I love the idea for that rose. That’s a nice way to tie it into the AU. I’m trying to imagine the ‘Beast dies’ version of this scene, but it’s a hilarious parody where its all “No, I’m not really dead! Just a flesh wound... STOP PLAYING SAD 80’S ROCK MUSIC, DANGIT! UGH, YOU KNOW THIS SCENE SHOULD BE SERIOUS IF I WAS DEAD, AND YOU CAN’T GIVE ME THE DECENCY FOR SOMETHING LESS CHEEZY! Except Stairway to heaven, that works fine.” (I admit, I just wanted to write something I knew WIll Farrell would say. I also recall that he made a hilarious Beauty and the Beast reference and called himself a ‘sexy beast’ which now seems hilarious in hindsight).

I’m trying to imagine a KFP version of ‘Girl worth fighting for’... it’s almost hard, but the idea of them singing it is pretty funny. Oh, wait... does Oogway get to be the Emperor? He’d be perfect for that and that means he lives this time! ^_^

Yeah, maybe we can have like three teachers, and one Headmaster who needs to manage/discipline but that’s it. Piqua used to be two separate towns before they connected (I researched that for the BatB AU) so the same thing could still apply. (Oh GOD, Principals CAN actually sub for classes, so if he tried to run MULTIPLE classrooms, he’d be dead!)

Ok, now for responses to part 2

Yeah, that seems like a good way to combine both stories. Especially to have Susan and Poppy as friends, and seeing the villains getting to work together (and yes, I did think of Creek as Hans for this AU too... and Gallaxor (I think that was his name) would make a good duke... actually now I wish Rain Wilson had gotten that role instead of Alan Tudyk). I’d love it if, as a nod to the winter theme, Susan and her friend’s hideaway was somewhere in the snowy mountains above the kingdoms and it suited all their needs (well... I can hear Link complaining until he finds a convenient hot springs area). I can only imagine the paranoia and terror Branch would have over meeting the monsters. Only for them to point out that the trolls would also count as a sort of monster–just more magical and less suffering over prejudices from humans. And yeah, we’d save the Bergens for the Cinderella AU.

I like where you’re going with the Princess and the Frog AU (Oh god, the priests would make EXCELLENT Dr. Faciliers, that was just perfect!) Maybe this could be an alternate universe where slavery never happened, but there’s still that uneasiness between the Egyptians and the Hebrews. And maybe Ramses doesn’t have to turn out the way he did (he could be a combination of Naveen’s parents and Lawrence where he either might be ok with what happens to his brother because he wants him to take more responsibility, or he could be tricked into thinking the Hebrews were responsible for his disappearance). I feel like God Himself would be the Mama Odie figure–encourage the main characters to reflect upon themselves to know what it is that they truly need (it works because it feels like Mama Odie had closer ties to religion rather than magic–and of course, her song was gospel inspired. I’m not saying Judaism and Christianity are the same, but they technically believe in the same God from what I understand). And if used carefully, this could work.

So in the Sleeping Beauty AU... not much changes for the characters besides the story. (It would be tricky to pull off if one was not knowledgeable about the books and each characters’ backstory) but I like where you’re going with it. But you managed to make THIS Maleficent even more evil with an even BETTER revenge plot due to how messed up it is.

YES YES YES to the Cinderella AU because you made it better than the Disney one (especially for having our couple meet and know each other a bit longer than Cinderella and her prince did before the ball, ESPECIALLY compared to the live action version). And Poppy and co. SHOULD be the ones to help Bridgette out like they did in the movie (though hopefully they won’t have to act like her rainbow hair this time). Maybe they’d have a way to get Bridgette a nice carriage (which will most likely look like a sparkly abomination, knowing Poppy). I know that the ‘glass slipper’ in Trolls were roller skates, so maybe we could have those shoes with the wheelies in them, but it’s made out of glass (not the wheels though, that seems impossible).

I have NOT seen the Croods, so I don’t know what to add to the Little Mermaid AU, but the idea of turning into a human through evolution sounds like a nice twist to the original tale.

The Pocahontas AU would be tricky for those same reasons. I like the idea of Chel staying after seeing Cortes after who he really is. Pocahontas didn’t end up with John Smith so... guess the boys get to stay in their relationship. I don’t see any problems with that.

I’ve never seen Sinbad, so I don’t know what else to offer for the Brave AU.

Well, that’s it for now... I kind of feel bad that I’m witholding the main gist of the Snow White AU (while providing hints) after we’ve covered everything else for the others, but I can cover the basic ideas like you did for these ones and then expand upon it in a separate post.

I was actually wondering if those girls matched up with those princesses! I was hesitant because it had been so long since I had seen ‘Road to El Dorado’ and ‘Prince of Egypt’ not only is a very religiously important film, but there were some unfortunate historical similarities between Tzipporah and Tiana that I was not sure to include. But yeah, both women perfectly fit those roles and when I think about it, there is some important religious themes tucked in Princess and the Frog too (especially where light magic or religion used for good will and compassion/love always win over religion used for evil or selfish desires).

Disney Princesses of Color in Wreck-it Ralph 2

They all look amazing

Also, what ‘Rapunzel face?’ None of these gals have that face!