Once Upon A Meme

[serenesuccessor]

 

a fairy tale meme

 

(Credit to witchoftime)

 

Step 1: Post a comment with the character name and fandom in the subject. 

Step 2: Someone will respond with a number (RNG generated or just chosen based on whatever they prefer) between 1-11. They are now that character role in a story! 

Step 3: You can either do the same to determine your character's role within that story! Feel free to twist the role around as necessary. 

Step 4: Play and make merry!

 

 

Character Roles

 

1. Princess 

One day your prince will come... Or maybe you're going after him! Or maybe you've been cursed/captured/whatever and are in need of rescue! Those towers won't climb themselves, and those kisses that awaken you from a century of slumber aren't exactly cheap.

 

2. Prince Charming/Heroic Knight 

You're handsome (hopefully). You're charming (you think). You have a great outfit (this is debatable). Regardless, it's time to go find and rescue your one true love! ... Er, wherever she or he might be.

 

3. Villian 

Man, those two up there sure are annoying, aren't they? Maybe it's time to do some kidnapping, curse some royalty, plague a kingdom, or whatever other nefarious deed you might be thinking of. In any case, the truly important thing is to make sure your cape and collar are appropriately intimidating and black.

 

4 . Red Riding Hood 

... Or whichever other cute little girl that roams the woods in her free time that you can think of. You're cute, you have a pretty outfit, and there's something growling in the bushes but whatever it is, it can't be too dangerous, can it?

 

5 . Wolf 

You're a wolf. Or a bear. Or some other animal. Or some random person with animal ears and a tail. Maybe you're evil, maybe you're just misunderstood, but you still can't stand those annoying people that keep wandering around your forest. Maybe they're even in your house, eating your food! The nerve! Or maybe they just look delicious, who knows.

 

6 . Dragon 

You're a fucking dragon. Maybe you've kidnapped a snack, maybe someone came to hunt you down, maybe some hobbit is stealing your treasure, maybe you're just chilling. You're a dragon.

 

7 . Witch 

Bring out the hat and broomstick, it's time to get the cauldron bubbling. Good, misunderstood, evil, who knows what you are. Except for a witch. You're definitely a witch. Try to avoid shoving small children into your oven and you should be fine.

 

8 . Cheery Animal Sidekick 

Cheep cheep! Boy that princess sure is pretty, huh? You should sing with her and do her chores for her and obey her slavishly- wait... Well, whatever you're doing, you're cute and small and mildly annoying.

 

9 . Cursed Prince 

Life was just perfect for you, until you got on the wrong side of that witch/wizard/cheery animal sidekick pushed just too far. Now you're cursed! Into a beast? Into a frog? Maybe you have really bad acne now? It could be anything (seriously, anything you can think of) but luckily, the cure is simple. Find your one true love and get that magical first kiss.

 

10. Fairy Godmother 

When your princess is in need, she's only got one person to turn to. Her fairy godmother. It's your job to advise her, help get her out of any scrapes she happens to be in, or maybe you got her in the mess to begin with.

 

11. Random Extra 

Wow, all those other guys sure are weird, aren't they? You'll just get back to work. Even with all this nonsense going on, life continues.

 

 

Prompts

 

① Sleeping Beauty
Fallen into a deep, magical sleep, the only thing that can wake you is true love's kiss!

② The Little Mermaid

Oh no! The witch has stolen your voice! Use sign language, write a sign, get your love to kiss you or else get stuck in the ocean again.

③ Tarzan

He's a wild man! Will you teach him the ways of the world, and maybe the ways of love while you're at it?

④ Beauty and the Beast

The prince has been transformed into a beast by a spell, the only way for it to be broken is for someone to fall in love with him. Who will be the one to break through to him and break the spell?

⑤ Cinderella

They met at the ball and really hit it off, but when the clock struck midnight, that mysterious lover ran off! All that's left is a glass slipper, time to start knocking on doors...

⑥ Frog Prince(ss)

Will you kiss that frog and turn them into your true love?

⑦ Rapunzel

Locked in a tower, will love ever come rescue you?

⑧ Aladdin

Can someone who grew up on the mean streets capture the heart of royalty?

⑨ Swan Princess

Swan in the daylight, human at night, can love conquer all and find a way to break the curse? 

⑩ Open

Do any fairy tale you want or combine options to make your own. :)

 

 

Meme a combination of this meme and this one.

 

Comments

of course you did omg

[notrequiredtomakesense]

[Why does this always happen to people Tybalt knows. Why. Why why why. That he's even near the shore right now is a complete fluke--he'd gotten picked up by some humans while a cat and had been unable to get away until just a few minutes ago. (What, even Kings have embarrassing moments.)

So it's luck, really, that finds Tybalt walking past just as Toby swims past]

...October?

It's Toby's lot in life, to be half a fish, it seems

[dammitmother]

[Oh thank Oberon someone she knows, someone who recognizes her. She'd almost rather it have been the Luidaeg at this point, since that's where the solution is likely to lie, but she's pretty far away from the docks just now, and that distance in this state seems impossible.

She tries to return his acknowledgement and finds... nothing. Not even a croak. So instead, she nods her head vigorously, wet hair pasted to her cheeks as she pulls herself up on a rock to get out of the water. The water that burns, though the air really isn't much better, given that it's night in San Francisco.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

Why are you a mermaid? [A pause] Again?

[And does she not remember how to speak? That's almost more worrying than the fish tail]

[dammitmother]

[A eyeroll because really, Tybalt? You don't think if she could speak, she would be swearing up a storm? So instead she pats her throat with one hand ala Ariel, eyes wide with 'get it?' in them.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

[Oh no.]

...you're not serious. Did you really stumble into a Little Mermaid curse, Toby? How?

[dammitmother]

[The shrug is half confirmation and half 'what did you expect?'. This is her life Tybalt, this is what she gets for existing.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

[Tybalt just groans softly. Why. Why him? Why Toby?]

Well, come here then. I'm not going to you, and I think we both know how these curses usually work.

[dammitmother]

[Because your lot in life is falling in love with difficult women? She doesn't know. All she knows is that pulling herself further up the rock she's found is difficult and slippery work.

And that's the best she can do. She looks down at the (green, this time, weirdly enough. You would think...) scales covering where her lap should be and shakes her head. Best she can do here buddy boy.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

You're telling me you can't come up to the shore? Or that you won't?

[Sigh]

I never thought there would be a day where I missed hearing your voice, Toby.

[dammitmother]

[How is she supposed to differentiate between can't and won't with this rudimentary level of communication? Her 'yeah, well' shrug fades into steeling herself to go back in the water, even for as long as it takes to get to shore. Even with her ridiculously high pain tolerance, it's like swimming through iron. It hurts to breathe. It hurts to move.]

[And yet somehow she manages to shove herself off of the rock and back into the water.]

[It burns and freezes and it's a long moment or two before she manages to thrash her way to the surface again to get her bearings and head, painfully, to shore, her face a grimace.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

[As Toby swims and Tybalt actually thinks things over, he realizes that if the original curse had the mermaid dancing on knives, then logically...

Well, he's an ass, isn't he?

As much as he hates the water, it can't be half as bad for him as it is for Toby. Tybalt takes a few steps into the ocean, going about knee deep before he just can't go any further]

When this is over, remind me to kill whoever cursed you.

[dammitmother]

[Somehow, blindly, she makes it, half running into him and clinging to him like a drowning woman. And normally she'd be concerned about how this looked, running (as it were) to him like a fucking damsel in distress, but she's in way too much pain to give that any consideration.]

[The words somehow manage to get through, letting her know that she's found the right person, at the very least, and she nods at whatever it was he said.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

And I get first shot. You can watch.

[And with that, he presses a quick kiss to Toby's lips, hoping this works]

[dammitmother]

[She'd silently laugh and try and joke that he would have to get there first, but that would require much less focus on everything hurting. Transformation sucks, and involuntary transformation even more so. There's no sparkly lights or sprays of water other than the tide around them, but eventually there's a woman with legs clad in soaked jeans ready to collapse back down into the surf because pain on that level is exhausting, no matter her neuroses about water.]

Fuck.

[It's quiet and croaky, but it's an actual word that she actually said, so hey.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

[Tybalt catches her and lifts her into his arms before heading back to dry land]

Yet again I am responsible for saving you. I should start keeping a tab.

[dammitmother]

[She would protest if she weren't so damn grateful--and busy trying to catch her breath.]

Do that... and I'll start calling you... Prince Charming.

[Which would annoy them both, probably.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

I'm afraid you missed my princeling days, October, and "King Charming" doesn't have a nice ring to it.

[They get to the shore and Tybalt glances down at her]

Can you handle the Shadows?

[dammitmother]

'Could make it work.

[She hesitates, thinking about it long and hard because she desperately wants to be warm and dry and the Shadows? Seem like a bad plan right now.]

Moot point. Wet. Wouldn't go well.

[notrequiredtomakesense]

...right. Is your car anywhere nearby? Or should we call Danny?

[dammitmother]

[Does she remember what the hell she did with her car before wandering into stupid curses?]

The car's at the park, Golden Gate. ...Where are we?

[She sort of lost her bearings in the water, but judging by the rocks in the water either went north or south from the park. She guesses south, but just how far...]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

Closer to TPC than Golden Gate. Let's call Danny.

[dammitmother]

Right.

[She takes a moment to process just how far south she got and the fact that she'd lost all sense of time in the water... then twists around in his arms to dig her cell phone from her pocket.]

[You would expect it to be dead, with the soaking it took. But shockingly, it lights up when she flips it open.]

Ah, gotta love Tamed Lightning technology.

[notrequiredtomakesense]

April is quite helpful, yes.

[Call Danny already, Toby, Tybalt's getting worried[

[dammitmother]

[Already dialing in the number. And huddling as close as she dares for warmth once she puts the phone to her ear. Her jacket is rather conspicuously missing, it's true. Still, she manages to put on a not-totally-worn-out-ish, if weary, tone.]

Danny? Yeah--you read my mind. TPC. I know it's a long run for you, but- It's a long story.

[A pause and a breath of a laugh.] Yeah. Open roads.

[Business concluded, she shuts the phone and moves to put it in the pocket of the jacket she isn't wearing, then gives up and holds on to it. Ah well.]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

Where is your jacket? Still in Golden Gate?