The Fourth Wall

(as inspired by Syaoran no Hime)


"Kuya Sheo? You didn't sleep again last night, did you?"

"How'd you know?" the bleary, bloodshot-eyed, fatigue-wasted Author in question asked his darling imouto Jess.


And so is born…


An Impossibly Twisted Fairy Tale


(a.k.a. The Legend of Sleeping Snow White Cinderella Rapunzel Jeanne and the Bambi Beast– which explains why I went for the shorter title instead )


Prologue

the shorthand…


Long long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…


There lived a princess by the name of Jeanne.

Her full title wasPrincess Sleeping Snow White Cinderella Rapunzel Jeanne. (As such, everyone just went with the shorter appellation of Jeanne-sama.)

She was the most beautiful and kindest girl in the whole universe. There was great celebration on the day of her birth as she was the firstborn, the only child after twenty-five years of the King and Queen being married. The faeries of the realm, led by the Pinkan Angel, came to bestow abundant blessings on her.

However, she earned the enmity of the evil Ice Queen, who envied her beauty and hated her kindness and knew that this girl would bring about her doom one day. (That and the King somehow forgot to hand the spiteful thing an invitation to the big birthday bash.)

The Ice Queen planned to kill Jeanne before the latter's seventeen birthday for the simple reason that once the girl hit seventeen, a plot shield would activate and she would become immune to future evil. Thus she marshaled her forces and plotted while at her feet her hunchbacked pygmy flunky cackled like the imbecile he was hired to play as.

Meanwhile Jeanne grew into an absolutely lovely waif. Her father the King sought to find a suitable husband for his daughter before she became sixteen. He sought far and wide, long and short, black and white. Finally, he found a good match: a handsome young dowser knight prince by the name of Lyserg, from the noble house of Diethyl.

But the Ice Queen knew all of this beforehand. She spun her evil web of deceit, intending to kill the Princess (actually, reducing her to a comatose state was enough, but as the Ice Queen was wont of saying, "Aim for the stars, you'll at least hit the Moon.") before she could bring about her destiny.

But other powers were abroad, some arrayed against the Ice Queen, some neutral. They would all come together into a massive saga that would make last year's War of the Ring look like a boring sideshow.


And so begins this yarn…

to begin in the next chapter…