A/N: A series of drabbles from Tumblr, some for Avani/avani008 and one for an anon.
Anne Boleyn
a) Five sentences of a fairy tale fusion that suited Anne Boleyn best
The fairy tales speak of the cruelty of Cinderella's stepmother, the spells she used to entrap the King and enchant him away from his true wife and entreat him to treat his eldest child so abominably. They do not speak of the cruelty the King was capable of long before the stepmother ever set foot in the country, and how he would continue to heap demands upon his eldest daughter long after he himself had executed his wife. They do not speak of how the stepmother would smile secretly to see her stepdaughter and her own child playing together, how she would trust in that friendship to keep Elizabeth safe when she was locked in the Tower, counting down the hours till her death. They do speak of how Cinderella never hated her sister, how she was too pure-hearted to ever do such a thing, but they do not speak of how Cinderella's sister was perhaps the only other person in the world who ever truly understood her.
Cinderella's stepmother will have to wait for another generation so that she may have a fairy tale of her own.
Katherine of Aragon
a) One wish she would make on the Monkey's Paw – and what the consequences would be.
Her wish: Deseo siete sietes para comandar mi vida she whispers one night when she is five years old and in the darkness of the Alhambra and she is the littlest Infanta and the future Princess of Wales and future Queen of England. (I wish for seven sevens to command my life.)
The consequences: [My Seven Sevens fic]
Anne Boleyn, in five words, all starting with the letter R.
Ring
With Henry at her side and a ring of devoted reformers and bishops around her, Anne dares to imagine they can cleanse and heal the cankers of the Catholic Church.
Reasonable
George may be one of the most brilliant courtiers at the English court and one of its youngest ambassadors, but to Anne, he will always be her insufferable elder brother who needs a good thwack about the head every once in a while to keep his arrogance within reasonable limits.
Rank
She loves Elizabeth desperately, almost painfully, and prays that she may be granted a little brother who will be her equal in every way, and who will preserve her rank, honor, and safety.
Rage
For all this talk of adultery and plotting and treason, Anne knows what her worst crime truly was, what truly piqued Henry's rage, and it was not her failure to bear a son, but rather her failure to be the wife he expected.
Resound
Dignity, and thoughts of Elizabeth's future, stay her tongue on the scaffold, but the truth resounds loudly in the words she does not speak, and as she kneels, she knows history will judge the best of her.
A/N: FFN doesn't allow links, but the consequences of Katherine of Aragon's wish are summarized in my fic "Seven Sevens", also on my profile.