I've been reading too many novels lately, and I just had to write this. Review?
Disclaimer: Fairy Tales don't belong to me
Claimer: This story does.
- Prologue -
There are many names for me.
Some people like to call me Beauty. I hate that name the most. I am not beautiful – that is to say, I am not ugly but I certainly am not beautiful – and so I don't like to be called "Beauty". Maybe there are certain aspects of me that are beautiful. Maybe certain people look at me and think I am beautiful. But when I look at myself, I see only me. Not a girl named Beauty, not a girl who is beautiful. Just me.
That's why I don't like the name "Beauty".
Another name for me is Princess. This is not true – not really. Princesses are, well, royalty. I'm not royalty. But exactly what defines royalty? Royalty, when it still existed, defined someone who ruled over others. That person was royalty, and his family was royalty, and his bloodline was royalty.
But in most people's minds, the word "royalty" does not mean the person or family that rules as much as it means wealth. Power. Splendor and glory.
I am not glorious. I am not, in many ways, powerful. Or at least no more powerful than the next person. So I am not royalty.
I am a princess. I am the only daughter of my parents. I have inherited many things from them, many talents that others don't possess. Talents that would be useless in the real world. Talents, though, that only I have.
I have also inherited a destiny. Sort of. I don't really believe in destinies. Or I don't believe in unchangeable destinies, anyway. But I inherited – a future. An expectation. A duty. So, I am a princess.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't call myself a princess. But that's what I'm called by the – well – we'll get to that later. Suffice to say that there are certain people who do call me "Princess". With a capital P.
Which I don't like.
In the original story, I wasn't a princess. In the original story, I was a normal girl who lived a normal life in a normal village.
But the original story is more of a legend. A fairy tale. My story isn't the original story.
So unfortunately, I am a princess. Just not a royal princess.
Since we're on the subject of the differences between the original story and my story, I might as well point something else out. In the original story, he was called Beast. That is not his name. Not any more than my name is Girl.
He doesn't like being called Beast, just like I wouldn't like being called Girl. He isn't a beast, anyway. He's human. Sort of. Not completely.
That's part of the story.