Exordium
In a land where fairytales and magic is real, stories used to end with a happily ever after. No princess went without her prince. No villain went unpunished. It was a happy ending for all, strike the villains of course. That was how it always was, but the stories seem to be changing recently. The heroes are not getting their deserved happy endings. Instead the villains seem to be stealing them.
Take for instance the tale of Aladdin. It tells the story of an orphaned street rat named Aladdin in the kingdom of Agrabah. Aladdin had been tricked by the sultan's vizier, Jafar, to steal a magic lamp for him. The plan backfired on Jafar however when Aladdin ended up getting away with the magic lamp and summoning the genie himself. Through the help of the genie name Genie, a magic carpet, and Aladdin's monkey-friend, Abu, Aladdin met the princess of Agrabah, Jasmine. As Aladdin was busy wooing Jasmine, Jafar discovered his secret and stole the lamp. Jafar wished for Aladdin to disappear and for him [Jafar] to be ruler of Agrabah. But the story goes that Aladdin didn't truly disappear and managed to come back to Agrabah and stop Jafar. Aladdin was supposed to live out his life happily with Jasmine, but it had been changed. Aladdin was supposed to come back and stop Jafar, but he couldn't figure out how to. He was stuck in the frozen wasteland he was banished to. He did manage to find his way back to Agrabah, but only years later. By that point Jafar had become such a powerful ruler it would be impossible for Aladdin to defeat him alone. Jasmine had been forced to become the queen consort of Jafar, while her father was a servant.
Then there is the story of Cinderella. We all know how Cinderella grew up underneath the thumb of her evil step-mother, Lady Tremaine, and her two step-sisters, Anastasia and Priscilla. How Cinderella's luck was pretty much in the gutter until one night her fairy godmother helped her out and gave her a chance to woo the prince. Cinderella ends up falling in love with the prince and they get married. That was how it was supposed to be, but the Fairy Godmother never showed. Cinderella never got a chance to even go to the ball, never allowing the prince to meet her. The prince was forced to marry one of the girls who showed up at the ball and that ended up being Priscilla. Cinderella now works as a servant at the castle to her horrible step-sister, now turned queen.
How about the story Snow White? Or the story Mulan? The story of Peter Pan or Beauty and the Beast? Even the story of Alice in Wonderland? They all used to have happy endings, but not anymore. It is becoming a pandemic amongst the fairytale stories. No more happiness, only for the villains. Something needs to change and soon.
So that is the prologue to the story. (Exordium means, in Latin, "the beginning of anything". I was trying to be fancy.) It is obviously set in an AU. I will be accepting a total of ten characters, no more than that. (Spots available are below.) I wanted to take a spin at a type of "What if"-story. There was no uniting the kingdom under Belle and Beast and thus no Isle of the Lost or Auradon. Some of the characters from the movie will be there, in all their brilliance. (Mal, Evie, Carlos, Jay, Doug, and Ben.) The stories I am planning on incorporating in are [obviously] Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Snow White, and Aladdin, as well as Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Mulan, and Peter Pan. I may add some later; I'm not entirely sure.
EVERYTHING IS CURRENTLY CLOSED!