AN~ Oh my GOSH this was awful. Edited.
It was, the frog prince reflected, rather difficult to get used to living like the peons. Oh, sure, he'd been finished with being royalty for decades now, but it was still hard. He missed living in the lap of luxury.
It was even harder to get used to being an ordinary person than it had been to get used to being a frog, actually. And definitely harder than getting used to being a sort of shifting frog-human thing.
Being a frog-monster/man was actually really easy to get used to. Sure, he was rather larger than he'd been as a frog, but he knew what it was like to be big already, and he knew what it was like to be a frog. Being both at once was nice, and he could have thumbs and wear clothes whenever he wanted. It was the best of both worlds.
But being an ordinary human in the eighteen hundreds, well, that was awful. Especially living on the frontier wilderness of the New World. Wilhelm actually expected him to help build his own house, and the rustic little cabins they put together didn't even have water inside, or indoor bathrooms! It was not what he was used to at all.
Most of the rest of the royalty in the town (about a third of the people who'd come on the Neu Anfang were royalty) were having just as hard a time adjusting as he was, small consolation that that was. Only William Charming, who'd set himself up as a mayor in their poor excuse for a settlement, seemed to being doing well for himself. He was one of the few people who'd managed to bring much money to the new continent, and he'd used it to buy himself a magic mansion. The frog prince didn't know where the man stored all that stuff, but he would have loved some access to it.
Life. Was. Awful.
Sure, there was no persecution here, and he didn't have to hide who he was, both of which were great, but he was half starving, penniless, and saddled with a complaining wife who hated this just as much as he did, and who blamed him (if you hadn't gotten yourself cursed, we'd have lived and died in the thirteenth century just like the rest of my family, and we'd have been perfectly happy!).
Oh well. He supposed he'd just have to make the best of it. Although he deserved better. He was royalty, after all.