Prologue: The story so far…
Our story opens up in the same as with the 1st, 2nd and 4th Shrek films… An instrumental version of It Is You (I Have Loved) begins to play in the background as we close up on a familiar looking storybook. When the first page appears, it shows an illustration of Princess Fiona from the Shrek movies, there by her side is Prince Adam from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. As each page is turned, one at a time, more illustrations show the respectful story to each and every image… The narrator of our story begins to tell the story.
"Once upon a time Princess Fiona had a special friend from Conques, France named Prince Adam. When compared to her other friends and family who would usually run away in fear the young girl's curse, Adam was the only one who saw that Fiona was the same good friend he had known for many years, nothing would ever change that. Eventually, Fiona moved to her tower and Adam was left alone without a friend in the world. Through all their troubles, the two kept in touch and wrote to each other and in return, they always sent messages back to one another. Years went by and the two never heard from one another again, for Adam had begun facing his own problems. He too, wound up becoming a monster himself on the inside and outside. It has now been at least nearly a decade since both their predicaments and the two are happily married to their individual lovers: Adam to a peasant girl turned princess/queen named Belle, and Fiona to an ogre who has been made an official knight named Shrek. And in those years, neither one have seen or heard from one another, until that faithful day, where our story begins. This is that story…"
Author's notes:
So this was a short introduction, but there some things I'd like to point out...
* For instance, you might be wondering, who's narrating the story? Is it Shrek, is it Prince Charming? My answer is neither, it's actually a character of my own creation named Fairy Godfather.
- Essentially, he's the ex-husband of the Fairy Godmother as voiced by Jennifer Saunders in Shrek 2, and of course, that meant Prince Charming was his son. And while he does believe the same values and the like as his ex-wife, unlike her, he does believe that Ogres and other fairy-tale creatures deserve their own chance at a Happily Ever After, and also unlike her, he is not evil, he is good through and through.
- So who voices him in my mind? The Star Wars franchise's and Batman: The Animated Series' very own Mark Hamill. Personality wise as you'll eventually soon see, he's a combination of Robin Williams' take on the Genie from the 1992 animated film of Disney's Aladdin and a stereotypical New York Mafia mobster, only he does not kill, he's very benevolent.
* I'm sure many of you are wondering by now, which version of the characters from Disney's Beauty and the Beast will I be going with, the 1991 animated film or the 2017 live-action remake? Answer, I'm going to try and mesh some of them together or just keep one version separately alone.
- For an example, Adam will be will read with books as in the 2017 film instead of forgetting how to do so as in the 1991 film.
- Likewise, I'm keeping Mrs. Potts husband from the 2017 film alive, but unlike that film, I will keep the fact he and his wife had multiple children besides Chip as seen in the 1991 film.
- I will keep Maurice as the inventor from 1991 instead of the 2017 music box maker Maurice, as that version felt more like he was based off Geppetto, that being said, I can still keep the fact he loves to paint as seen in the 2017 remake.
- For his beastly form, Adam will maintain his 1991 film looks, as the 2017 remake looks were while not terrible, they certainly were not that great either.
- And finally: LeFou, will not, unlike his 2017 counterpart, be considered a homosexual, he'll be a straight man, and as you learn later on, LeFou is not his real name, it's actually Lafayette U. François.
* And finally, there are a few other characters creations and story details I'd like to point out.
- For instance, Adam and Belle will have had children of their own at some point, so in this case, they have twins: A girl named Rose and a son named Ben after his Descendants counterpart (I have not seen that film series, noted, nor do I intend to).
- Likewise, I've made Shrek a knight because I figure at some point after Shrek Forever After, Queen Lillian (Fiona's mother) will have made him an official one, per King Harold's (her husband/Fiona's father) orders, or Arthur (Fiona's cousin) will have done so, etc.
That said, until the next chapter, my fellow readers:
I'm M. R. Parkerson signing off…