This is Anthology 1
being the first part of the Disney Princess Anthology
PRINCESS AURORA
"I was born asleep, I will die in sleep, if I even die." (1990)
I couldn't say much in front of my friends, even if I wanted to. You can say that I am shy. Yet I have much on my mind, such as how much the Disney Princesses have change all of us in general and myself in particular, what I could have been without the likes of Cinder and Snow constantly reminding me what to do and when to sleep. To that end, I think that I would have been a full-fledged stoner forever lying asleep.
I've always been physically tired in my family's house. My father was the Steward of some kingdom I don't even remember well. That made my mother the Stewardess and me something of a faux-princess. None of us were revered well simply because my parents weren't exactly part of the royal lineage (I personally find all the royal family lineage stuff to be a load of bullshit just to confuse ordinary people). Especially since there wasn't much close to the castle we lived in. The nearby building was an inn full of horny (old) people. The only place worth going into (as far as I saw) was the bookstore. It was run by a tired shoemaker and his son. Geth and David respectively.
David was my first love of my life. I saw him once in a bookstore when I was trying to purchace a copy of Dante's Inferno. (It was translated into English by the late Lord Byron of England). He said if I was interested in poetry, which I was.He then asked me If I loved his collection of his paintings. (He did them all himself. They were very surrealistic. Needless to say, his pieces were very much despised.) I did actually enjoyed the type of imagery that could only be explored by going beyond the obvious. That was the motive to finally deciding to buy my own painting supplies, to which David and others supported.
That is to say that my family was shocked to find me painting someone in an unusual manner, usually with the face small and out of shape and proportion to the rest of the body, and naked, even when the subject was wearing many layers of clothing. (as of now, I still don't know much on the fuss on nudity. It must be the sort of 'original sin' rubbish I keep hearing from the hysterics on say the 700 Club) Never mind that most people never knew or even wanted a female painter. Also never mind that most people left the art world once there were more of surrealism, futurism, etc. instead of pure realism they come to understand better. I was a favorite among a crowd of sophisticates.
My dress, however, can tell you otherwise. That's because I often dressed like a real princess, since that was about the only thing I can wear without assistence from anyone. Plus, I think they look good on anyone, even boys. Custom didn't allow any of us to wear trowsers like the commonfolk got to wear.
One day however, a great plague struck the kingdom hard. With time, many people, including my mother, father, and David, got very sick. Sadly, most of the people in my circle would die of the illness. That meant poor father, poor mother, and especially poor David. I survived because I was wise enough to escape unnoticed to the forest, where the plague rarely hit. On my tredging to see what layed beyond, I fell onto a pond.
When I awoke from the pond, the plague had subsided, and many people were born in the town again. So, I decided to go back. I was in for the shock when I returned. First off, the kingdom had been completely forgotten, replaced instead by a 'republican' form of government. I also awoke to find that some of the town customs had changed, updated, or just forgotten. It was my first realization that a large chunk of time stood between the sleep and the wake. So I took the time to explore the town on my whims.
I saw a new 'coffee shop' where vendors sold beans used and grinded to make a hot drink called coffee. I would then associate the coffee as a sort of a social drink, since most of the patrons of the shop would regularly talk to whoever is close to them while drinking that stuff. I also happend to stop by a bicycle-smith, he made those weird mechanisms that a person sits on and cycles a lever with the legs. I have never seen such mechanisms before. And then there was the machine that depicted elements on a screen, moving! I thought that the machine was amazing, that it could offer a form of reality that was only reserved for dreamers like me. And then I saw what should have been a really large boat. So, on my 18th birthday, holding a ticket that said "One admission on board the R.M.S. Olympic to New York City 4th of April, the year of our Lord 1911." I was later told that that ship had nearly sunk many times before.
Anyway the ship landed on a strange town with towering buildings. In there, I had brought in my skills as a painter. So most people would pay me to see me paint, and have the final result given to them to keep. It was a good system. Luckily I was able to retrieve my supplies by going to were the castle used to be (it's all rubble now). I could scarcely remember where I left it. I then sold the old one, and had plenty to buy a new one and rent out a room in one of those towers. At first, when I saw the money, I thought it was phoney. I had never seen dollars before.
With time, I got used to the calamities of New York life, and even made some friends. Some of them would be my companions in the Disney princesshood. They included the bitchy Ella, the quiet Bellene, and the energenic Saginelli. Each one was special in their own ways, like I adored Sagii's singing ability. But we all shared the love of the arts, no shit there. During our fame, we also got to know more people, four of them would eventually join as well.