Summary: What if they were all insane and the stories we know were just in their heads?! Insane!DisneyPrincesses
A.N. and Disclaimer: Hey! Basically I had an idea to make a Real World! Nonmagic! AU about where the Disney girls would be if the movies still happened. And since magic and talking animals are not real- the girls are crazy.
So. This is a story about how the girls became insane and what ACTUALLY happened to them while the movies "happened" inside their minds.
I do not wish to offend anyone.
I just wanted to make something that made sense of the Disney universe in a new way and (unfortunately for some of the girls) created very dark fates for them. I tried to make some of them a little bit more light-hearted and funny, because... well because I wanted to- and there are all different types of insanity and we can still laugh even if it's very serious. Because otherwise life sucks.
So no flames because this is mine and you can either enjoy it or don't bother reading it.
Because fairytales do not exist.
Only in our minds.
Chapter One: Belle
They had all been discarded. Thrown away by those who should care about them, even though they were broken. Each of the girls had been diagnosed as clinically insane and sent away to an asylum. Some received visits from the curious paparazzi, others a faithful lover from 'before'. Some of the girls refused visitors. Others were watched closely because they bit orderlies.
Belle did not bite orderlies. Well, only when she was truly frustrated. Belle was frustrated a lot. She was frustrated because she was NOT insane. Of course, Belle realized that biting orderlies did not help her cause in proving her sanity, but when no one will listen to you, you tend to do things you might not normally do. Like bite people.
Belle was not insane; she had just taken a lot of drugs. She needed rehab, not to be locked up in an insane asylum! However, the Board of her father's Company had agreed that after all of her escapades, "the problem" (Belle and her bad publicity) were best quieted and contained in an asylum with all the other 'unfortunate' young women from across Europe.
Belle knew her father would be of no help. He probably hadn't even noticed she'd been sent away. Her father was always locked in his wing of the mansion, creating new and wonderful things that had been the start of her father's Company. The money they made off of those inventions had made them obscenely wealthy. The multi-million dollar Company continued to thrive and a Board of trustees now ran the company and, apparently, her life.
Belle had not been a normal heiress, for she and her father had lived most of their lives quite poor, and often struggling to survive. Belle was known for her compassion and her absent-mindedness while reading. When they became wealthy Belle had struggled to adjust.
The last straw however was when the Board arranged for Belle to be married to a man called Gaston. Now Belle was a fairly amiable girl, but the man they insisted upon was abhorrently self-centered, and had disgusting habits.
In a fit of teenage rebellion and homesickness, Belle returned to her old neighborhood, and sulked in a darkened corner of the local bar. There she'd been approached by a handsome and wonderful man. A considerate, clean and intelligent man and they flirted all night long. Belle continued to visit the young man, gave him money when he asked, for she simply had too much to know what to do with, and 'fell in love' with him.
Belle soon found out a horrible truth being kept from her. She found out that her 'love' dealt and partook of a number of drugs. She hadn't known before because she had always met with him when he was fairly coherent and clean (in his 'Prince' state, she soon dubbed it). However, one day Belle had visited Prince's flat unannounced and had had her first witness of 'the Beast': Prince filthy, drooling, and sprawled out, slid half onto the floor and drugged out of his mind.
She named his drugged state 'Beast' because Prince raged and frequently became terrifying and violent while on his drug of choice. Belle was petrified, and fled. However, foolishly, she resolved that it was up to her to 'save' Prince from himself and get rid of 'the Beast' forever.
Things quickly went downhill from there. Beast hit her, yelled at her, cursed her and told her she and her 'help' were unwanted. He confessed to approaching her in the bar because he recognized her and hoped to use her for her money. He crushed her heart and abused her with no remorse. As Prince however, he plied her with praise because of her efforts, declared his undying love, strung her along with the hope of his recovery and tempted her with entreaties to try the drugs, just a little bit, just once.
Prince wore her down, little by little, while her father continued his work in ignorance and negligence, and her resolve wavered. The Board couldn't care less what Belle got up to, so long as she met with her fiancé Gaston and did nothing to embarrass The Company.
Soon, Belle and her resistance sagged, and slipped away. She tried a bit of the drugs, and tried a bit more again a couple of weeks later. Soon, Belle refused to return home, increasingly dependent on Beast and his drugs.
The Board had to send out search parties for the wayward heiress, as society had begun to 'talk'. The press had a field day reporting about the missing heiress and the Board became increasingly agitated.
When Belle was found by an obsessed Gaston, even more bad publicity ensued concerning the disgusting condition she had been found in. That was when the Board announced that Belle had gone insane. Why else would an heiress live with a poor drug addict? This only benefitted the Board members, as they finally had an excuse to lock her away like her father and fully take control of The Company. In the words of the current President of The Company, "We are merely watching out for Belle and her poor grieving father in the face of this terrible tragedy".
Thus, instead of the drug rehab she so desperately needed, Belle was sent off to an asylum for crazy young women and left to rot.
Shh shh shh, we're getting to the insane princesses, but Belle is our (more or less) sane tour guide through the asylum. Patience, my pretties!
Next up… a super dark take on Snow White's story. But after that some comedic relief with Sleeping Beauty! So take heart, they're not all dark!