p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="99e4aa5f65e0f1a17c1b49525a3b2e51"My POV:/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="45b3b1b7e2935947faf4425e423ca992"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[as Merida is striking her bedposts with her sword, Elinor enters]/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="628650258dffe875a71dba2bb9a3d979"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: Mother! Suitors! Marriage!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Once there was an ancient style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Aah! Mom! Ancient kingdom!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: It's name long forgotten, ruled by a wise and fair king who was much beloved. And when he grew old he divided the kingdom among his four sons. That they should be the pillars on which their piece of land rested. But the oldest prince wanted to rule the land for himself, he followed his own path and the kingdom fell, from war and chaos and ruin./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: [sarcastically] That's a nice style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: It's not just a story, Merida. Legends are leasons, the ring with truths!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="745095bd06d96aef3fe4e904f83de0d7"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;" Merida: Ach, mom!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="1d989d9f598de111fcf7d3aa4da468a3"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: I would advise you to make your peace with this. The clans are coming to present their style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: It's not fair!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Oh, Merida! It's marriage, it's not the end of the style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor walks out of Merida's room and Merida slams the door shut in anger]/spanspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor mutters to herself as she works on embroidering a tapestry of their family when Fergus walks in]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: You're style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I don't style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Aye, you do. You mutter, lass, when something's troubling you./spanspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: I blame you. Stubbornness is entirely from your side of the family./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Fergus: I take it the talk didn't go too style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I don't know what to style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Speak to her, style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I do speak to her, she just doesn't listen!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Come on, now. Pretend I'm Merida. Speak to me. What would you say?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I can't do this!/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Fergus: Sure you style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor makes a dirty face at him]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: There! There! That's my queen! Right, here we style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[he starts talking in a high pitched girlie voice, pretending to be Merida]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: I don't want to get married! I want to stay single and let my hair flow in the wind as I ride through the glen, firing arrows into the sunset./span/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="8e3159548a789a7a1129c77ff16b2aa2"" I don't sound like that." said Merida./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="9ead9b7c37091bf14910f8c8205a2d4f"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor decides to explain to Fergus what she wishes she could explain to Merida]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="84f4bec57c6dddad05ec84c433680f3d"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: Merida, all this work, all the time spent preparing you, schooling you, giving you everything we never had, I ask you, what do you expect us to do?/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="6b7a95e338cd64d8c51886ff0fabf201"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Merida is now talking to her horse, telling him everything she wishes she could tell her mother]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Call off the gathering! Would that kill them? You're the queen, you can just tell the lords, the princess is not ready for this. In fact, she might not be ever ready for this! So that's that!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="d0d61771c6b59aa4a179ffe9dff3b8fa"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor continues to tell Fergus what she wishes to tell Merida]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I understand this must all seem unfair, even I have reservations when I faced style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Hey!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: We can't just run away from who we style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[we go back to Merida, talking to her horse telling it what she wants to tell her mother]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I don't want my life to be over. I want my freedom!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[the scene then goes back and forth between Elinor talking to Fergus and Merida talking to her horse, but it seems like they are talking to each other]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I'm not doing any of this to hurt you!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: If you could just try to see what I do, I do out of style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: But it's my life! I'm just not ready!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I think you'd see, if you could just...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I think I could make you understand, if you would just.../spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: Listen!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Listen!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Merida's horse neighs in response]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I swear, Angus, this isn't going to happen. Not if I can help it./span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="0b0bee6389f1091ac49cfcc2a2a9d450""Who else found that creepy." I asked. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="447f3cb2c2b25b9263b5bd0182594e15"Everyone (except villains) raised their hands./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="3dcb66b39820525a52921967494ddc7f"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor dresses Merida in a horribly uncomfortable and tight formal dress]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: You look absolutely beautiful./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: I...I can't breath!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Give us a style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[stiffly Merida twirls]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: I can't move! It's too tight!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: It's style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor looks at Merida in compassion]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Mom?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Just...remember to style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[she turns and walks off]/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="b22e52230cdf412d3cdf96efee2df01a"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[to the crowd, as the clans gather to present their sons]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: So, here we are! The four clans! Uh...gathering...uh...for...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor exasperated by Fergus' slowness gets up and finishes his sentence]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: The presentation of the suitors!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Fergus quickly follows on from his wife]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: The presentation of the suitors!/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[the crowd cheers]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Clan Macintosh!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Macintosh: Your majesty, I present my heir and sire, who defended our land from the northern invaders and, with his own sword, stabbed and vanquished thousands more!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[the clan cheers as young Macintosh steps forward to display his sword skills looking obviously vain and spoiled, Merida looks unimpressed]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Clan MacGuffin!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord MacGuffin: Your majesty, I present my eldest son, who scuttled the Viking war ships with his bare hands. Vanquished two thousand style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Lord MacGuffin's son breaks a thick plank of wood in half to show his strength and the crowd cheers]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Fergus: Clan Dingwall!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[we see Dingwall standing next to a very tall muscular looking young warrior]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: I present my only son, who was besieged by ten thousand romans and he took out their whole armor single handedly, with one arm. He was...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[suddenly we see Dingwall pull his son, who is small and weedy looking from behind the tall young warrior]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: With one arm, he was steering the ship, and with the other he held his mighty sword and struck down a whole attacking style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[suddenly a voice in the crowd shouts]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Voice in the Crowd: Lies!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: What? I heard that! Aye! Say it to my face! Or are you a scared sniffling jackanape? Afraid to muss your pretty hair?/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="afebb4681fc233304b2749561ff994bb"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Lord Macintosh: At least we have hair!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord MacGuffin: And all our teeth!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[MacGuffin's son speaks but his accent is so thick that no one can understand him]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Macintosh: And we don't hide under breeches, you grumpy old troll!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[everyone laughs]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: You wanna laugh, huh?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[he shouts to his son]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: Wee Dingwall!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[suddenly young Dingwall jumps onto Lord Macintosh and with his big teeth bites into his arm and with that a brawl breaks out, with everyone fighting each other]/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="748b1f306eca6b435b8a0b63a11fe267"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Fergus stops the clans fighting]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Now, that's all done! You've had your go at each other, show a little decorum. But no more fighting!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[the triplets sneak up and smash Lord Dingwall's toe, as he shouts in pain he gets hit in the face and the fighting starts all over again, with Fergus jumping in to join the fight, Elinor then gets up walks through the crowd and brings back Fergus and the clan leaders]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Macintosh: Sorry, me queen. I feel terrible. My humblest style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord MacGuffin: No style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Sorry, love. I...I didn't...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[she looks away from him in silence]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Yes, dear./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Fergus goes back and takes his seat]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Now then, where were we? Ah, yes. In accordance with our laws, by the rights of our heritage, only the first born of each of the great leaders may be presented as style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[to herself on hearing this]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: First born?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: And thus, compete for the hand of the princess of DunBroch. To win the fair maiden, they must prove their worth by feets of strength or arms in the games. It is customary for the challenge be determined by the princess style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Merida quickly shouts out]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: Archery! Archery!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor looks at Merida and Merida then says gracefully]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I choose style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor turns to the crowd]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Let the games begin!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="1c694045c49695278c3a523e3fa529ed""I know what you're going to do Merida." said Jack/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="45b3b1b7e2935947faf4425e423ca992"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[as Merida is striking her bedposts with her sword, Elinor enters]/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="628650258dffe875a71dba2bb9a3d979"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: Mother! Suitors! Marriage!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Once there was an ancient style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Aah! Mom! Ancient kingdom!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: It's name long forgotten, ruled by a wise and fair king who was much beloved. And when he grew old he divided the kingdom among his four sons. That they should be the pillars on which their piece of land rested. But the oldest prince wanted to rule the land for himself, he followed his own path and the kingdom fell, from war and chaos and ruin./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: [sarcastically] That's a nice style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: It's not just a story, Merida. Legends are leasons, the ring with truths!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="745095bd06d96aef3fe4e904f83de0d7"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;" Merida: Ach, mom!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="1d989d9f598de111fcf7d3aa4da468a3"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: I would advise you to make your peace with this. The clans are coming to present their style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: It's not fair!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Oh, Merida! It's marriage, it's not the end of the style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor walks out of Merida's room and Merida slams the door shut in anger]/spanspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor mutters to herself as she works on embroidering a tapestry of their family when Fergus walks in]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: You're style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I don't style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Aye, you do. You mutter, lass, when something's troubling you./spanspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: I blame you. Stubbornness is entirely from your side of the family./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Fergus: I take it the talk didn't go too style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I don't know what to style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Speak to her, style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I do speak to her, she just doesn't listen!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Come on, now. Pretend I'm Merida. Speak to me. What would you say?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I can't do this!/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Fergus: Sure you style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor makes a dirty face at him]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: There! There! That's my queen! Right, here we style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[he starts talking in a high pitched girlie voice, pretending to be Merida]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: I don't want to get married! I want to stay single and let my hair flow in the wind as I ride through the glen, firing arrows into the sunset./span/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="8e3159548a789a7a1129c77ff16b2aa2"" I don't sound like that." said Merida./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="9ead9b7c37091bf14910f8c8205a2d4f"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor decides to explain to Fergus what she wishes she could explain to Merida]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="84f4bec57c6dddad05ec84c433680f3d"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: Merida, all this work, all the time spent preparing you, schooling you, giving you everything we never had, I ask you, what do you expect us to do?/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="6b7a95e338cd64d8c51886ff0fabf201"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Merida is now talking to her horse, telling him everything she wishes she could tell her mother]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Call off the gathering! Would that kill them? You're the queen, you can just tell the lords, the princess is not ready for this. In fact, she might not be ever ready for this! So that's that!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="d0d61771c6b59aa4a179ffe9dff3b8fa"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor continues to tell Fergus what she wishes to tell Merida]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I understand this must all seem unfair, even I have reservations when I faced style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Hey!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: We can't just run away from who we style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[we go back to Merida, talking to her horse telling it what she wants to tell her mother]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I don't want my life to be over. I want my freedom!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[the scene then goes back and forth between Elinor talking to Fergus and Merida talking to her horse, but it seems like they are talking to each other]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I'm not doing any of this to hurt you!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: If you could just try to see what I do, I do out of style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: But it's my life! I'm just not ready!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: I think you'd see, if you could just...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I think I could make you understand, if you would just.../spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: Listen!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Listen!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Merida's horse neighs in response]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I swear, Angus, this isn't going to happen. Not if I can help it./span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="0b0bee6389f1091ac49cfcc2a2a9d450""Who else found that creepy." I asked. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="447f3cb2c2b25b9263b5bd0182594e15"Everyone (except villains) raised their hands./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="3dcb66b39820525a52921967494ddc7f"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Elinor dresses Merida in a horribly uncomfortable and tight formal dress]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: You look absolutely beautiful./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: I...I can't breath!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Give us a style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[stiffly Merida twirls]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: I can't move! It's too tight!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: It's style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor looks at Merida in compassion]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Elinor: style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: Mom?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Just...remember to style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[she turns and walks off]/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="b22e52230cdf412d3cdf96efee2df01a"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[to the crowd, as the clans gather to present their sons]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: So, here we are! The four clans! Uh...gathering...uh...for...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor exasperated by Fergus' slowness gets up and finishes his sentence]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: The presentation of the suitors!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Fergus quickly follows on from his wife]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: The presentation of the suitors!/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[the crowd cheers]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Clan Macintosh!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Macintosh: Your majesty, I present my heir and sire, who defended our land from the northern invaders and, with his own sword, stabbed and vanquished thousands more!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[the clan cheers as young Macintosh steps forward to display his sword skills looking obviously vain and spoiled, Merida looks unimpressed]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Clan MacGuffin!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord MacGuffin: Your majesty, I present my eldest son, who scuttled the Viking war ships with his bare hands. Vanquished two thousand style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Lord MacGuffin's son breaks a thick plank of wood in half to show his strength and the crowd cheers]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Fergus: Clan Dingwall!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[we see Dingwall standing next to a very tall muscular looking young warrior]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: I present my only son, who was besieged by ten thousand romans and he took out their whole armor single handedly, with one arm. He was...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[suddenly we see Dingwall pull his son, who is small and weedy looking from behind the tall young warrior]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: With one arm, he was steering the ship, and with the other he held his mighty sword and struck down a whole attacking style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[suddenly a voice in the crowd shouts]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Voice in the Crowd: Lies!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: What? I heard that! Aye! Say it to my face! Or are you a scared sniffling jackanape? Afraid to muss your pretty hair?/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="afebb4681fc233304b2749561ff994bb"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Lord Macintosh: At least we have hair!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord MacGuffin: And all our teeth!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[MacGuffin's son speaks but his accent is so thick that no one can understand him]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Macintosh: And we don't hide under breeches, you grumpy old troll!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[everyone laughs]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: You wanna laugh, huh?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[he shouts to his son]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: Wee Dingwall!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[suddenly young Dingwall jumps onto Lord Macintosh and with his big teeth bites into his arm and with that a brawl breaks out, with everyone fighting each other]/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="748b1f306eca6b435b8a0b63a11fe267"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Fergus stops the clans fighting]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Now, that's all done! You've had your go at each other, show a little decorum. But no more fighting!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[the triplets sneak up and smash Lord Dingwall's toe, as he shouts in pain he gets hit in the face and the fighting starts all over again, with Fergus jumping in to join the fight, Elinor then gets up walks through the crowd and brings back Fergus and the clan leaders]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Macintosh: Sorry, me queen. I feel terrible. My humblest style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord Dingwall: style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Lord MacGuffin: No style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Sorry, love. I...I didn't...br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[she looks away from him in silence]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Fergus: Yes, dear./spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"[Fergus goes back and takes his seat]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Now then, where were we? Ah, yes. In accordance with our laws, by the rights of our heritage, only the first born of each of the great leaders may be presented as style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[to herself on hearing this]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: First born?br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: And thus, compete for the hand of the princess of DunBroch. To win the fair maiden, they must prove their worth by feets of strength or arms in the games. It is customary for the challenge be determined by the princess style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Merida quickly shouts out]/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Merida: Archery! Archery!br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor looks at Merida and Merida then says gracefully]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Merida: I choose style="box-sizing: border-box;" /[Elinor turns to the crowd]br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /Elinor: Let the games begin!/span/p
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