Queen Elinor wants her oldest daughter to stop slacking and to start looking for a job.
Here it is, the start of Merida's arc. Unlike the Arendelle sisters, her arc is actually streamlined. Naturally since these skits are about friends, she will ask them to hook her up with a job. And naturally, the pressure of finding something she's going to have to do for the rest of her life will get to her. And since these skits are still comedies, her job search will start off normal and then go right into the weird with many laughs along the way. Wait to you see what I have Flynn Rider do as a career choice. lol
But other than him, everyone else will have a career they already had in their respective canons or something close to their personalities (EX: Hiccup is still a dragon trainer, Anna being the 'face' of Arendelle, etc.)
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Somewhere in Castle DunBroch, three naughty princes running around their home like they giggled like the little miscreants they were. Elsewhere in the castle, their older sister with long, curly, red hair looked for them in frustration as her dress was practically covered in dirt. She grunted in anger: it was her duty as an older sister to look after her younger brothers, but they were not making it easy for her.
That's the last time I allow them to have my sweets for a year, Princess Merida thought.
It was just her rotten luck too. Her parents had decided to have a meeting about border patrol and Queen Elinor, bossy as she was, demanded that Merida babysit her triplet brothers for a few hours. The nanny was sick in bed because she'd had caught a cold following Queen Elsa's visit. Merida figured that it could not have been Elsa since it looked like she never even understood the concept of shivering. Jack said there was some guy in the nanny's room and they were 'treasure hunting in a cave,' so it was probably him who gave her the cold.
Either way, Merida suffered the consequences of someone else's actions.
"Damnit," Merida said to no one. "This isn't how I was supposed to spend my day. And Rapunzel and Jack are coming over any minute. "
Still looking for Rosemary's babies, the tomboyish princess failed to notice a trip wire in front of her. She stumbled, yelped, and fell face first onto the floor.
Merida sighed. "At least it can't get any worse."
No sooner than she said that, a bag of flour fell on top of her. Now she was covered in the baking material.
"Okay… ack!" Merida coughed out flour. "NOW it can't get any worse."
And as if fate conspired against her, the third of part of the trap, chicken feathers, slowly drifted toward Merida.
Outside the castle, the princess of sunshine and the spirit of winter were heading towards their destination as they had the fun day planned. First, they were going to play another round of William Tell, with Jack having the apple on his head as he always lived for the thrill… if he could manage to stay corporeal that is. And then they were going to commit pranks on the reclusive witch in revenge for being very annoying. Jack was excited while Rapunzel was rather concerned about the activity.
"Are you sure we should be doing either of those things?" the princess of Corona asked. "I mean what if you get hurt? It's not like we know for sure what passes through you and why?"
To be honest, Jack REALLY wanted to know what objects can phase through him and why he didn't simply fall right through the Earth. "Don't worry, Rapunzel," Jack assured. "Besides, if all else fails, blame the leprechaun of St. Patty's Day."
Rapunzel had no clue what he was talking about since she still couldn't even believe that Jack was friends with the Easter Bunny. As she stopped thinking about that she noticed that Merida had not come out to greet them.
"Where is she? It's not like her to be that busy."
"Yeah," Jack agreed. "She lives the life of adventure, exploration, and using firearms. Besides, we'll join her anyway if she's off on an expedition. We could find a third thing to do after the others."
Rapunzel was confused about Jack's firearm comment. "The bow isn't a firearm. Who told you it was?"
Jack gave a stunned look and then raised his hand in the air and yelled "Damnit, Anna!"
As the pair headed for the castle in excitement for the adventure they were going to have, Rapunzel yelled. "Merida? Come out and play. Let down your hair!"
Jack gave her an odd look.
"What? I always wanted to say that myself?" the long haired princess giggled.
The doors opened and Merida walked out of the castle. She looked like a disaster since, in addition to the flour and feathers; she was covered in horse feed, sausage grease, and sheep wool.
And mom just expects me to have kids? Merida thought to herself.
"Oh my gosh!" Rapunzel exclaimed. "What's going on with you?"
"Sorry, guys," Merida frowned. "I can't play with you today. I'm stuck babysitting my rotten brothers. And they're more fidgety than Eugene trying to find a mirror."
Jack tensed up, "THAT bad, huh?" Jack knew that Eugene's level of vanity rivaled that of Narcissus.
Rapunzel just sighed in annoyance due to her friends having fun at the expense of her husband's dignity. But she came up with an idea.
"How about Jack covers a field with snow and then we can have a snowball fight? That will tire your brothers out, Merida."
Jack nodded in agreement. "Good idea. The last hoorah before Mother's Day."
"Jack, Mother's Day was last week," Merida explained. "Who told you that Mother's Day hasn't passed yet?"
Jack raised his hand in the air again and yelled "Damnit, Astrid!"
Trying to keep on the topic aof babysitting, Merida said. "Well let's try it anyway. It can't be any worse than the games my brothers are playing now. Besides, what's the worst that could happen?"
90 minutes later
"I am very disappointed in you, young lady."
That stern and upsetting tone came from Queen Elinor. Merida simply lowered her head in shame. How could she foreseen the madness that wouldcome from her brothers?
"But mom, I swear it wasn't my fault!" Merida defended. "How was I supposed to know that the boys were throwing weapons like a bunch of loons?"
Actually, the weapons were the least of the queen's concern. The boys letting the farm stock run loose, clogging up the drinking wells with grass, and almost setting their father on fire didn't help the princess' case.
"So," Elinor began, "Whose fault was this?"
She REALLY wanted to hear the true perpetrator of this madness. If she was lucky, she could look back on this excuse and laugh.
"It was... uhhhh. Jack Frost's fault," Merida muttered as she tried to hide by covering her face with her curly hair.
"Oh Jack Frost you say?" Elinor gritted. "Really Merida, you're almost 17 years old. When are you going to get rid of this imaginary friend of yours? Let alone stop blaming him because of your negligence."
It was at this point that "imaginary" Frost started pelvic thrusting behind Merida. The princess of DunBroch could not help but snicker at the image but she suddenly stopped when her mother looked at her as if she was going to yell so loud, you could hear it on Mars.
But Elinor kept her cool as she knew that trying to out stubborn her daughter would be a fruitless task.
"So you think this is funny? Well you must learn how to take responsibility."
"But I did. Remember that time you turned into a bear and…"
"We agreed to never talk about that again!" Elinor comically snapped before she regained her composure, "Now as I was saying, you have too much free time to laze around the castle. You're getting a job."
Merida was dumbfounded. "But mom…"
"No buts, young missy," Elinor interrupted. "It's time for you to start pulling your own weight. You're an intelligent, talented, young woman. It shouldn't be too hard to find something to do or even start a job all on your own. And look at it this way; you can use the money you earn on anything you want. Maybe a nice, new bow."
Merida knew that deep down, her mother was not asking her to do something devastating like marrying either a shy idiot, a tantrum throwing idiot, or an idiot, but hey teenagers.
"Well fine. Maybe I can become a 'face' character at carnival or something," Merida said sassily.
"Not with that attitude you won't," her mother snarked right back. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'll have soldiers escort your friend, Rapunzel back to her ship and give your brothers a strict talking to."
As Elinor left, Merida was left to her own thoughts. Thinking about the situation, she felt a bit worried. But not because it would cut into her free time but because all of her friends seemed to have found their callings already and she had started to be concerned if she was going to bloom lately.
Well, maybe I can ask them to show me what to do. Merida thought. That way, I could find something and Mom would stop acting like a shrilling monkey on my back.
Besides, it can't be that hard whatever they're doing.
But what if it is, then what? And if not that, what if I completely loathe what my friends do?
"So sorry about that, Merida."
Merida snapped out of her thoughts as she saw Jack sitting next to her. Speaking of which, she is ticked off at the spirit.
"Thanks for messing everything up, Jack. Why did you throw the happy, fun snow thing in my brothers' face BEFORE you made a snow covered field? They started throwing weapons at Maudie."
"Well I wanted to try it out on children," Jack explained as he recalled that the Easter Bunny hadn't gone mad when I'd done it to him. "It's not like I thought… THAT would happen."
"Now I have to get a job. What could I possibly find?"
"I can put in a good word for you with the Guardians."
Merida just looked at Jack and gave him an 'are you kidding me' face.
"Well if you don't want my help, go find the wanted ads," Jack said and then he clapped. "Come on chop chop."
Merida just sighed, covered her face in her lap, and muttered, "This is going to be a nightmare."
Now for some replies from reviewers:
davidholguin2- No. As I said, there's no shipping outside canon relationships (which means Rapunzel/Eugene, Hiccup/Astrid, & Anna/Kristoff are okay. And the latter is iffy since Kristoff isn't going to be in this story much) Also, I'm not a fan of Jelsa or any other fan pairings among the Big Four + Frozen. Besides, the Frozen/RotG is like 99% Jelsa anyway. There's no shortage
YouNameIt- I have something planned for the Season Princesses to do together. Hint, the thing they will do together will be cartoony and most likely illegal lol. But sadly, that's for the next character arc.
