User blog:Hiddenfolk/12 dancing princesses

While watching descendants I kind of thought of a concept I'd love to see. It's unlikely I'll make her, but eh I still wants to talk about her

The princesses of the original tale were portrayed as vapid, willing to let people be banished or executed for their nightly dance sessions to continue. They are full of themselves.

That would be terrible for a child. Even worse, maybe, if the mercenary was their father, and extremely strict and militaristic. And imagine the princess only wants a pretty collection of children, who are perfect on the surface. But she harbours a grudge for having her dance sessions stopped, and being forced to marry the man who did it.

So imagine a character who doesn't inherit the love of dancing, but the love of sneaking out at night. They do this to blow off steam because of their mother's lack of caring for her to be her own person, and her father's iron fist. These are compounded by the fact that she's also the next princess, so even in school they constantly compare her. She's deadly afraid of her mother's grudges, and I dare say her mother might use her as an outlet for the loss of her freedom, by getting her to do things for her.

She constantly pretends that she's the kind and responsible eldest sibling, while being resigned to the fact that there's no way her parents will give her any attention apart from if she does something wrong. She's not a good dancer, so for fear of disappointing her parents practices to the point of collapse just to be passable. She has a strong need for freedom, and searches for secret passages and escape routes (to dodge wrath if needs be).

When raven rebelled she almost cried from relief, from realising she was not the only one who wanted to stop working towards her destiny.