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Destiny: Brave
Merida closed her eyes. That bear still haunts her nightmares. Maudie often sits in her room with her, to help her fall back asleep. The king and queen had no idea.
Fergus: Mor'du! Elinor, hide! [Elinor and Merida run off, one of Fergus' men passes a spear to him, Fergus charges towards Mor'du but he snaps off Fergus' spear, then we see Elinor and Merida escape on horseback, then Fergus holds up his sword at Mor'du and shouts] Come on, you! [suddenly Mor'du lunges forward and the screen goes blank]
"And that is the story of how I lost ma' leg!" yelled Fergus, getting his children and the tribe leaders to laugh, his wife to hit him and Maudie shook her head.
Merida: [voice over] Some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it. Others say fate is woven together like a cloth, so that one's destiny intertwines with many others. It's the one thing we search for, or fight to change. Some never find it. But there are some who are led. The story of how my father lost his leg to the demon bear, Mor'du, became legend. I became a sister to three new brothers, the princes. Hamish, Hubert and Harris. Wee devils more like.
Her brothers cackled. Merida looked at them. Her mother sighed and her father laughed.
They get away with murder! I can never get away with anything! [we see Merida, now a teenager talking about her life, as the doors to the palace open we see Merida biting into an apple and Elinor looking disappointed] I'm the princess. I'm the example. [Merida quickly discards the apple and wipes her mouth with the back of her hand and starts walking towards her parents] I've got duties, responsibilities, expectations. My whole life is planned out, until the day I become, well, my mother. She's in charge of every single day of my life. [we see Merida reciting a traditional English song in a monotone voice and looking bored]
"I hate doin' tha'" said Merida.
"It is how you learn proper punctuation" said Elinor.
"Don't mean I like it though" said Merida.
Merida: A Robyn, jolly Robyn, and thou shalt knowe of myn.
Elinor: Project! [Merida projects her voice louder]
Merida: And thou shalt knowe of myn…
Elinor: Pronounciate! You must be understood from anywhere in the room, or it's all for naught. [Merida mutters to herself] Merida: This is all for naught. Elinor: I heard that! From the top.
Fergus laughed. He loved his family.
[we see Elinor teaching Merida geography] A princess must be knowledgeable about her kingdom. [she takes away the paper that Merida is writing on and holds it up] She doesn't make doodle! [we see Elinor teaching Merida how to play the lyre which sounds out of tune] That's a C, dear. [then we see Merida holding a bird with Fergus standing beside her, as Merida tries to feed the bird it flies off and attacks Fergus, Merida starts laughing as Fergus tries to fend off the bird] A princess does not chortle! [then we see Merida trying to stuff a big bite of chicken in her mouth at the dinner table] Doesn't stuff her gob! [then we see Elinor opening the curtains in Merida's room to wake Merida] Rises early… [then in the kitchen] Is compassionate… [then at the King's throne] Patient! [at the dining hall] Cautious! [in Merida's room] Clean! [then we see Elinor with Fergus walking passed Merida] And above all, a princess strives for…well, perfection! [we see Merida waking up, geting dressed, taking her bow and arrows, running downstairs to her horse, Angus, and riding off]
"Now this is my perfection" said Merida, eagerly leaning forward.
Merida: [voice over] But every once in a while, there's a day when I don't have to be a princess. No lessons, no expectations. A day where anything can happen. A day when I can change my fate. [we see Merida as she riding into the forest, shooting her arrows at different targets, then sitting near the cliff's edge and carves on her bow, then see climbs a rock and when she reaches the top she drinks from the waterfall nearby and the screams and jumps up and down in excitement]
Elinor watched this in shock. Merida did all of them perfectly. She was graceful. And she was happy.
She hadn't seen her daughter happy in a long time.
[as Merida finally returns to the castle, she jumps off Angus] I'm starving. You're hungry too, I guess. [Merida pats Angus and he strikes her with his tail] Poof!