Our heroine is going through another name change, and is now named Tatiana, but refers to herself as Tiana when she is nervous when she first meets Kat and Jitt. Her old name of Jerrica felt off to me, and I didn't want to go back to Emily, since I have too many characters named Emily already. Tatiana suffers from depression as well as extremely high levels of anxiety. Her depression causes her judgement and analysis of situations to become clouded, always in a darker manner than they really are. She sees herself as ugly, horrid, less than human, since her brain doesn't create enough serontonin to counteract those emotions and she is stuck in a depressive spiral. This story is from her point of view, HOWEVER, when she starts ragging on herself or talking about how everyone hates her, that's NOT what is really going on around her. It's what her depression is tricking her into thinking. Her anxiety makes it hard for her to accept compliments, so she commonly replies to compliments with "not really", or "I don't think I am..."

Kat is the bubbly, optimistic Koopa whom is in charge of clothing and make-up in the castle. She is overly optimistic, bubbly, happy. She takes everything and exaggerates it to the most positive she feels she can make out of it. She talks about Tiana as being beautiful, adorable, gorgeous... but that's just because she CAN'T say anything mean to anyone- she has been cursed with that. She also can not stand to see anyone sad, so she stands up for Tiana when others treat her horribly.

Jitt is the dark, gloomy, short-tempered, gay koopa whom is Kat's assistant. He is obsessed with Ludwig, with feelings he identifies as "love". He hates the idea of any girl getting close to or marrying his precious prince Ludwig. However, after being rejected by the prince 16 times, he decides to help out the last ditch effort for a bride for Ludwig, Tiana, since if he can't be with Ludwig, he may as fucking well help out the girl whom has no choice, and hope he can get Ludwig to at least tolerate her. Jitt is very jealous and possessive, and says horrible things to Tiana. He has no people skills and is very dark and violent. He calls her ugly and useless since that is how he treats all women whom have been brought to try to match with Ludwig, and all women interested in Ludwig in general. And most women, actually. He is rude and a jerk and tends to twist things to the most negative that they can be.

Reality is somewhere in-between what you're told by Kat and what you're told by Jitt.

Narrator POV will come into play occasionally so reality can be seen for what it really is.

Tiana is mainly average, appearance wise, intelligence wise, athletic wise... the main thing that sets her apart from anyone else is her mental disorders of depression and anxiety, and how large her heart is (metaphorically of course). She puts others before herself and always stands up for others. She wants everyone around her to smile. She wants to build people up. Since she knows what it feels like to have no one stand up for you, to be stuck frowning all the time, to be torn down endlessly, and wants NO ONE to feel that way. Ever.

However, that is not her motivation to get through this story. But her motivation won't be revealed until the end of the story.

Next time- the politics of Bowser's kingdom, the line of succession, and background on Ludwig!

Followed by- the politics of the Mushroom Kingdom, The Toadstool Family, and Innocenza?

And finally- Chapter one of this revamped version of this story!

Thanks for reading, and I'd love to hear what y'all think of this story of mine!

~aeschtunesfan August 10th, 2015 10:28 am PDT