#The Sleeping Beauty

[natolesims]

Let's make some friends 🧸

The nooboo fever was real and every single one of our girls have chubby little bebes in their households right now. Let's seize this autumn day to introduce them to each other! Tia hosted a playdayte at home to do so.

Everyone came, except Lottie's little girl... she's far away from us in Del Sol. Maybe next time 🥲

[enchanted-keys]

Fumi Kaneko as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet 2020)

[guzgecesi]

[vitoriabas]

I made these in a short illustration course I took in the beginning of last year to try to defibrillate myself into drawing again. The course was wonderful, but I never shared this piece because I hated it. The exercise was to create an illustration for The Sleeping Beauty, and I chose the scene where the fairies bestow gifts upon the baby. Turns out that in the original tale there's a whole bunch of fairies.

I was not happy with the outcome, at the time I was back in Brazil and away from materials I normally use, so a lot of choices felt unnatural to me. It feels simultaneously overworked and unfinished.

But hey ho.

[diavalkitty]

[jokesitos-art]

More silly stuff of the Villains, yippieeeeeee

Refs:

[misandriste]

La Belle Endormie (2011) dir. Catherine Breillat

[the-twst-cast-needs-therapy]

I'm pretty sure someone pointed this design choice out already, but I am certain that Silvers eye colour is a nod to the colour changing dress of the sleeping beauty/Aurora. It's a very subtle reference and honestly so cool.

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Sleeping Beauty

Artist : Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920)

[vvalliu]

[venomwrites]

So, I felt conflicted about everything in the last chapter. Which I think is a good thing. I get Cait should have talked with Vi about her decision. But I also understand her need to do something for herself. And I've loved that Cait went and did it regardless but also in the end gave Vi a choice to be a part of it. Plus the reconnect of intimacy with the dropped badge was a nice touch because Cait actually recognized Vis trauma.

And I feel for Vi. I do. That is some fucked up shit that happened on that bridge. And not her fault. And Cait should have been more mindful of that. And I need that to be recognized. But here is the kicker: I understand Vis conflicted emotions but I also understand Vander's anger.

Because: Vi is not responsible for her trauma. But as you said: She is responsible for working through it. And what she went out of her way to do is hurt Cait. It's a trauma response. And it makes sense to lash out. But it's no excuse to do it. It's no excuse to go out and hurt ppl. And she did so deliberately. And it's conflicting in the best way. Because on the one hand, the person Vi cares about so so much, who kept her alive, goes off to join the force who hurt her deeply. But on the other hand Vi goes out of her way and maybe only temporarily to hurt Caitlyn who fought hard to keep them alive in a way traumatizing her in return.

It's a great thing! I was conflicted writing it!

I really love what you said at the end because one of the things that really drew me to exploring this AU was how Vi and Caitlyn would experience the Bridge. And we know Vi's trauma, but imagine being Caitlyn who gets tear gassed in her living room. And we see that trauma affecting them as they grow up. Caitlyn has now experienced a taste of the brutality but for all her resources she can do nothing except try to make this one Zaunite a bit less miserable. And Vi grows up filled with anger towards Piltover but also aware that there is at least one Piltover person keeping her alive.

I tried to plant this seed that Felicia, Vander and everyone else thought Vi's soulmate was someone in Piltover with resources, but no-one considered it was the Kiramman's. Vander even says to Cassandra that he wondered why she called off the Enforcers on the Bridge. So Vi's Soulmate is both directly responsible for her survival and very connected to her parents death. I think it leads to a lot of complicated feelings for Vi regarding her Soulmate even though Caitlyn did not do any of those things directly.

Vander doesn't want Vi to make his mistakes. He doesn't want he poisoned by the anger that poisoned him. That's why when he sees her being deliberately cruel to Caitlyn with the face tattoo, he calls Silco. It's almost past the point of whose right or wrong, it's kind of forcing Vi to see that she can have the anger but it's going to cost her a lot. It's almost an echo of the 'who are you willing to lose' scene in the show.

That's why I loved that scene where she finally says to Caitlyn you really hurt me instead of lashing out. And I think that's what lets Caitlyn say Vi hurt her too. The violence turns from physical lashing out to words. They grow past their predecessors because they don't descend into the same violence. Even though it would be justified. When I was a kid learning to cross the street, my mother used to tell me you can have the right of way and still be killed by a car.

Now for the acknowledgement of the trauma, this came up in my other fic but Caitlyn actually takes off the bandage. She has the VI tattoo in her official Enforcer's license. She does it so every time she takes it out she remembers what Enforcers did to Vi and her family. It's a reminder to consider her actions in the line of duty.

And then when Vi becomes an Enforcer, their licenses match.

Also. yes I loved the dropped badge. Especially in the wake of Vi deciding to go with the other Soulmates (which Cait didn't even tell her about to spare her from it). I love that when Vi decides something is more important than her anger, Caitlyn shows her she's always been more important than the badge.

[natolesims]

Welcome to the save, little princess 👑

[enchantedbook]

'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood' from the Fairy tales of Charles Perreault, illustrated by Harry Clarke, 1922

[geekverse08]

Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, Patti LuPone and Kathryn Hahn on the set of Agatha All Along episode 7🔮

[lovelyballetandmore]

Davi Ramos | The Australian Ballet | Photo by Simon Eeles

[enchanted-keys]

Sae Maeda as the Fairy of the Woodland Glade from The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet 2023)