Minuette Dancer

"Dancing my way into my Happily Ever After!"

- Minuette Dancer Minuette Dancer is a 2015-introduced and all-around character. She is the daughter of the youngest princess in the Brothers Grimm tale The 12 Dancing Princesses. In the destiny conflict, Minuette sides with the Royals as she is content with her Happily Ever After. However, she isn't opposed to the Rebel ideal either, as she believes that all fairytales should be able to dance to the beat of their own drum

Personality
Minuette is a sweet and charming young girl. She seems to care for dancing more than anything and can be quite airheaded and ditzy from time to time, the opposite of her mother who was the only princess who noticed small details in her story. Despite this, Minuette looks forward to her destiny, mainly for all the dancing she'll do. However, she does sympathize with the Rebel cause, even if she's not a Rebel herself. When she's not off somewhere dancing, she can be found shopping for shoes, since she has a bad habit of wearing out her shoes extremely quickly. Minuette enjoys boy bands such as One Reflection, 5 Chapters of Summer, The Bookstreet Boys, and N*CHANT.

She is usually quite sociable and talkative. Minuette is very expressive and she has a habit of talking with her hands, especially if she's feeling rather emotional. She can be described as being somewhat of a stereotypical girly-girl as she enjoys 'girly' things such as gossip, shopping, and cute princes. But there's nothing that Minuette loves more than dancing - We're talking about a girl who named her twelve pet goldfish after dance styles. She can be an extreme perfectionist, especially when it comes to dancing, and there have been times where she's pushed herself far past her physical limits in order to get something up to her standards.

Minuette has the energy of a dancer, which can be shown through her bubbly attitude. Not only does she get excited easily, but Minuette can be distracted easily as well. The only time she really puts her everything into focusing on something is when she dances, and that's about as far as her attention span goes. Because of this, she can seem flighty and naive. Overall, though, Minuette is kind and easygoing, even if she can be a bit of a hardcore dancing addict.

Appearance
Minuette has pale cream skin, long light strawberry blonde hair, and soft blue eyes. She is often seen wearing ballerina-esque dresses as well as ballet shoes. Her favorite colors are ballet shoe pink and princess gold, two colors that she is often integrating into her outfits.

Fairy Tale

 * Main Article: The 12 Dancing Princesses

How the Story Goes
Twelve princesses, each more beautiful than the last, sleep in twelve beds in the same room. Every night, their doors are securely locked. But in the morning, their dancing shoes are found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night. The king, perplexed, promises his kingdom and each daughter to any man who can discover the princesses' midnight secret within three days and three nights, but those who fail within the set time limit will be put to death.

An old soldier returned from war comes to the king's call after several princes have failed in the attempt. Whilst traveling through a wood he comes upon an old woman, who gives him an enchanted cloak that he can use to observe them unawares and tells him not to eat or drink anything given to him in the evening by any of the princesses and to pretend to be fast asleep until after they leave.

The soldier is well received at the palace just as the others had been and indeed, in the evening, the eldest princess comes to his chamber and offers him a cup of wine. The soldier, remembering the old woman's advice, throws it away secretly and begins to snore loudly as if asleep.

The twelve princesses, sure that the soldier is asleep, dress themselves in fine dancing gowns and escape from their room by a trap door in the floor. The soldier, seeing this, dons his magic cloak and follows them. He steps on the gown of the youngest princess, whose cry of alarm to her sisters is rebuffed by the eldest. The passageway leads them to three groves of trees; the first having leaves of silver, the second of gold, and the third of glittering diamonds. The soldier, wishing for a token, breaks off a twig of each as evidence. They walk on until they come upon a great clear lake. Twelve boats, with twelve princes, appear where the twelve princesses are waiting. Each princess gets into one, and the soldier steps into the same boat as the twelfth and youngest princess. The youngest princess complains that the prince is not rowing fast enough, not knowing the soldier is in the boat. On the other side of the lake stands a castle, into which all the princesses go and dance the night away.

The twelve princesses happily dance all night until their shoes are worn through and they are obliged to leave. The strange adventure continues on the second and third nights, and everything happens just as before, except that on the third night the soldier carries away a golden cup as a token of where he has been. When it comes time for him to declare the princesses' secret, he goes before the king with the three branches and the golden cup, and tells the king all he has seen. The princesses know that there is no use in denying the truth, and confess. The soldier chooses the first and eldest princess as his bride for he is not a very young man, and is made the King's heir.

How Minuette Fits Into It
Minuette, being the daughter of the youngest princess, is destined to be the only one out of all of her eleven companions to notice something amiss during the three nights the old soldier spied on them. Minuette looks foward to her story, mostly because of all the dancing she'll get to do.

Family
Minuette is the daughter of the youngest dancing princess and her husband, presumably one of the princes in the underground castle. Since Minuette is the daughter of the twelfth princess, it can be assumed that Minuette has at least eleven aunts, as well as eleven cousins who will serve as the other dancing princesses (or princes) in her story. Minuette and her mother seem to be on good terms since her mother is always buying Minuette new shoes whenever she needs them.

Friends
Minuette is on good terms with Ticktania Tockman and considers her to be a close friend of hers, the two sharing a relationship that is similar to that of a Sherlock-and-Watson sort of vibe. She is also good friends with Alexandra Wonderland, Golden Eyes, and Marianne Fiske, all of whom she loves giving dance tips to. Another friend of hers is Sigmund Frederick, the son of Prince Siegfried, whom she is dance partners with. Normally, she can be seen hanging around various other Royals, such as Holly O'Hair and Briar Beauty, although her bubbly personality lets her get along with most fairytales, including those who are more rebelliously inclined to their stories.

Pet
Foxtrot, Jitterbug, Waltz, Charleston, Boogie, Samba, Jive, Mambo, Tap, Ballet, Tango, and Swing are Minuette's twelve goldfish - all of which are named after styles of dancing.

Romance
Minuette considers dancing to be her "one true love" but she's not opposed to finding a prince who is willing to dance with her forever after. Minuette currently has a small crush on Sparrow Hood, whose 'bad boy' attitude seems to have charmed her.

Basic
Minuette wears a feminine dress with styles incorporating both her Royal heritage and her love of dancing. The top of the dress is medium pink with a gold-trimmed sweetheart neckline and a gold decorative rose. Two light lavender glittery translucent folds wrap around on either side of the bodice. A soft white peplum tied together with a pale pink rose separates the top of the dress from the pinkish-lavender skirt. She wears lavender high-heeled shoes with ribbons lacing up to her ankles. Two small golden bows accent her shoes. Her tiara is fashioned out of light lilac-colored roses with crown spikes jutting out.

Legacy Day
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Getting Fairest
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Mirror Beach
Minuette wears a black and white print one-piece swimsuit with light pink and gold accents. The middle of the swimsuit has a transparent floral knit pattern. A translucent glittery gold skirt wraps around her waist and she wears pink wedged sandals with pink ribbons lacing up her legs.

Hat-tastic Party
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Thronecoming
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Spring Unsprung
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Through the Woods
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Sugar Coated
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Fairest on Ice
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School Schedule
1st Period: Princessology with Mrs. Her Majesty the White Queen

2nd Period: Good Kingdom Management with Queen Charming III

3rd Period: Dance Class-ic with Madame Scarlette Shoes

4th Period: Crownculus with Prof. Rumpelstiltskin

5th Period: Storytelling 101 with Prof. Jack B. Nimble

6th Period: Damsel-in-Distressing with Miss Maid Marian

Trivia

 * Minuette's theme song would most likely be Keep on Dancing by Rachel Bearer
 * Ballet is her favorite dance, although she enjoys other dances as well such as swing, ballroom, and contemporary
 * Her side of the dorm room walls are covered with One Reflection and 5 Chapters of Summer posters
 * Some voice actresses that would fit Minuette are Mandy Moore (Rapunzel from Tangled), Kate Higgins (Barbie from Life in the Dreamhouse), Kristen Bell (Anna from Frozen), and Kelly Sheridan (Various Barbie heriones in Barbie movies)
 * She is the current President of the Once Upon a Dance club, which is a club dedicted to the art of dancing. There, she is a part of a dance troupe called Dance 4Ever After

Quotes
"Every fairytale should be able to dance to their own beat."

- Minuette on her viewpoint of Royals vs Rebels

""Mommy! I've worn through another pair of dancing shoes!""

- Minuette to her mother, at least every other day

"There's only one way to settle this... Dance off!"

- Minuette and her solution for conflicts

"I am Minuette Dancer, daughter of the Twelfth Dancing Princess, and I pledge to follow my destiny and dance forever after!"

- Minuette on Legacy Day