#asha princess

[your-ne1ghbor]

Thank you very much for reading my message and I really liked your design. I asked if you could make Asha fall asleep in this position.

Lol Alr

So here is Asha thinking about life :3

So yeah...

Thanks for the suggestion :3

[kiirostarz]

Okay, I have a couple more theories about Wish. As a fan of Star Darlings and Wish, I might be mixing a few things together (because of my personal headcanon), but I'll try to explain it with and without the Star Darlings context.

Alright, I still stand by my belief that Magnifico is a Starling. However, the last time I watched Wish, I think there's another character who could also be one. I'm referring to Asha's father. They don't really explain or focus much on him, but the way they refer to him as a "philosopher" and how he gave so much importance to the stars makes me feel like it would be interesting if he were also a Starling. In non-Star Darlings terms, he would be like Magnifico, a being from another place with magic, but with completely different ambitions.

So, the "little story" I created is about how a Starling left their place in Starland to discover the world for themselves, eventually fell in love with a human, and started a family in Wishworld (Earth). And that's why his family is deeply rooted in star beliefs and understands the effects of stars and wishes on people much better.

Also, I want to believe that Asha's selection for this super-powerful wish and her selection as a fairy godmother wasn't random, but because technically she would be half Starling, so it makes sense (at least to me) that they chose her.

I also don't quite know how to explain it, but I've been thinking about how to add Star to the equation. I really feel that Asha, in her world, whether canon or headcanon, is a truly special character. She's the kind of character who radiates positivity and helps others no matter what. I feel that's who Asha is, and as someone so special, she shouldn't receive just a simple wish orb. This relates to a previous post I made about Star. She should receive something that, like her, is equally unique and special, like Star. I mean, Star isn't just a star because it can do so much more than one that's just stuck in the sky. It's also not a simple wish orb because it's not something specific that Asha requested, like something materialistic; it's something connected to Asha's feelings. In fact, maybe I would have liked it if the movie had emphasized more when Magnifico captures Star, like when he destroys Sakina's wish, since in theory Star is Asha's wish. But well, that's just a small detail.

Another detail, but this one is small. It's about Asha and Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. Really, this was just a big reference to her. It's not that I dislike the character's race change or anything, but I would like both characters to interact as two separate characters. Also, people forget that, actually, all magical characters, or most that I remember, use the same shade of blue. So… it was a small detail, but I like to think that Asha is a new fairy godmother in the group of Disney wizards. I mean, I'll keep calling her a princess because she's my princess and I love her, but I also love that she's the most recent magician or fairy godmother in Disney. And yes… I think that's everything. ❤️

[artist-issues]

If you haven’t seen Wish yet and you love Disney, do not go see it. I am telling you now. It is ripping out the hearts of the Disney movies you love and then waving their corpses around as if celebrating those hearts.

I’ll explain why, again: the message of Wish? Awful. Anti-Disney.

But they've been doing this for a long time. Saying one thing with their movies, and saying another with their PR and Disney Parks Soundtracks.

I'll explain.

Main Idea of Disney's Wish (and the You Are the Magic theme park song and merch): "The power to make your wishes come true is in you."

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Most Disney Movies' Idea on How to Have Wishes: "Do what's right, (trust a higher power) and something even more wonderful than what you wished will happen."

Don't try to argue with me about this. You have to look underneath the slogans and the sweater designs and the song titles to what the stories actually support to acknowledge this.

Because you can’t say “do what’s right” has power unless you answer the question “who gets to decide ‘what’s right?’” (Which, coincidentally, is a question Wish brings up and then doesn’t answer.)

Audiences of Disney used to accept that wishing on a star was much like prayer; there’s something you long for, and it’s out of your hands, but you wish for it and you do what you know is right in the meantime. And you’re not crushed, you’re not downhearted, because somewhere in your mind you trust that the combo of those two things—wishing on a higher power and diligence to do what’s good—will be what makes your wish come true.

Trust in a higher power—COMBINED WITH:

—diligence to do what’s good.

The Blue Fairy (higher power) gave Geppetto his wish specifically because he had demonstrated commitment to do good, whether he got what he wanted or not. The Fairy Godmother (higher power) gave Cinderella her wish specifically because she kept on being kind and good to low creatures like mice and wicked stepsisters, whether she got what she wanted or not.

Do you know why that combo (higher power + diligence to do good) is impactful? Timeless? Important?

Because it’s selfless. You want something, but you’re not going to sacrifice doing the right thing to get it. You’re not going to focus so hard on making what you want a reality, on your own, that you miss out on things that could be more important than what you want. And, you’re not so self-focused as to believe that if you don’t do it, it won’t get done.

Jeez, that’s the whole point of The Princess and the Frog!

Tiana wishes to have her own restaurant, and she believes that only her own hard work will grant that wish. She misunderstands her dad’s advice before he dies. She isn’t willing to trust a higher power combined with her own diligence to do good—she only trusts her own ability.

It’s not until she realizes that Ray, the character of faith, was right all along that she learns—what she wished for was too self-focused. It wasn’t complete without love. Something bigger than herself. And getting that was never going to happen just based on her own hard work.

But you know what? It was never going to happen just by a “higher-power” flavored shortcut, either. Because Facilier offers her her wish if she’ll just trust him, no hard work needed. But what does she say?

Trust in a higher power + diligence to do what’s right = selflessness, and getting more than you could have ever wished for. And if your wish is selfish, doing those two things will change your wish into something selfless.

More examples? Get ‘em while they’re hot, in case Wish made you forget, just like the current #NotMyDisney executives have forgotten, what real Disney wishes are for.

Belle wishes to have adventures in the great wide somewhere--but when she's imprisoned and that chance is taken from her it's not reversed because she worked hard to make her wish come true. It's granted because she gave up her wish for her father: she just did the right thing, regardless of her wish. And in the end, she does get what she wished for, which is adventure in an enchanted castle...and much more, because she gets true love, a throne, and a castle full of friends.

How about the One Who Started It All? The one Wish is failing to pay genuine tribute to?

Snow White wishes for someone to love her, and he does--but when they're separated, she does not exercise power to make The Prince come back to her. Instead, she loves who she can where she’s at—the Dwarfs. In the meantime, she has faith that he will keep his promise, and that pure trust in a higher power outside of her control is a big contributing factor to why the Dwarfs come to love her, and learn from her...and in the end, even more than she could've wished happens. He does take her to his castle, but she also has seven new friends who also love her, and the Queen is dead. And she didn’t need to use “the power in her” to work harder and get it done. She just needed to not focus so much on herself at all.

How about a male main character? One who’s wish starts out selfish, but after learning to wish on a higher power and be diligent to do the right thing, gets more than he could wish for?

Aladdin wishes to be somebody different (somebody he believes Jasmine could love, somebody who lives in a palace and is respected and “never has any troubles at all.”)—but doing everything in his own power for that wish proves that it was selfish all along; so he switches to doing the right thing, regardless of if his wish comes true, and he gets even more than he could’ve wished. He gets real love with Jasmine, he gets his friend Genie, and he gets to be free from feeling “trapped” because he doesn’t have to hide who he is anymore.

Or Simba?

Simba wishes to get to do whatever he wants as King—but when Mufasa dies and he’s convinced it’s his fault, it isn’t for that wish that he goes back to Pride Rock to confront his past and his Uncle. It’s because he had an encounter with a higher power—his father—that helped him to realize his wish was selfish all along. He gives up the selfish wish, and he goes back to take his place as king, not so he can do whatever he wants, but so that he can take self-sacrificial responsibility that comes with ruling. And because he just does the right thing, finally, he gets more than what he wished for.

How about something more recent? Zootopia.

Judy wishes to make the world a better place by proving she can be what she wants to be and catching bad guys—but when she tries to make her wish happen on her own, in her own abilities, she fails and is forced to realize that she should’ve been looking for help by understanding “bad guys,” like Nick. It’s only after she humbled herself, admits she’s wrong, and changes her wish from “proving I can be what I want and catching bad guys” to “proving that understanding each other makes the world a better place” (much less self-focused) that her wish comes true—and so much more. She does make the world a better place, and she does get to catch bad guys, but she also gets to befriend one who was a good guy all along, and become all-around more effective at her dream job.

This is how Disney always has been. Because it’s at the heart of good storytelling, and even life (not to get too dramatic.)

The power is not in you. Because it’s not about you. Self-sacrifice, faith, and doing the next right thing regardless of if you get your heart’s fondest desire is what makes more than just your wishes come true. And there has to be belief in a higher power to make that message powerful.

But Wish?

Not only is it bad at showing instead of telling. Not only is it lazy and soulless.

But it’s characters rip the Star out of the sky and say “don’t wish on this. Wish on yourself, to get what you wish for. You don’t need a higher power. You don’t even need to sacrifice to do what’s good—whatever you do is good, because you are the one doing it.”

That is wrong. That is not true, and it is not powerful. There’s no sacrifice in focusing on or placing your trust totally in yourself, and it undoes every good thing Disney has done up until now.

And it undoes it on the 100th anniversary, and it flaunts Easter eggs of the very things it’s undoing.

[malotte00]

Girls ✨

[slayjensen]

💫 Asha concept art 💫

God I wish they committed to a design that better represents the Amazigh people.. it really just feels like they copped out and went with the generic princess face and this boring ass dress.

She at least deserved to keep her traditional jewelry and ornamented hair..

Disney concept art is almost always more dynamic than the final movie designs..

[mafik-sun]

Here are three eras of Disney.

The Beginning (Snow White), the Renaissance (Mulan) and Modern Times (Asha).

[warryart]

Asha and Star concept sketch🌟

[princess-ibri]

So after seeing the Wish concept art, I had a thought…

And that’s how we’re gonna get Human Shapeshifter Star in the DisneyVerse 💫

[achimancosujpg]

Okay so!!! I saw this version of him and i had to draw him!! I drew the @kiiwiibun ‘s version. Credit to them for the character design :3

[honeymariejai]

A fairy godmother 🧚 and a star 🌟 fall in love

My redesigned versions of Asha and Starboy! Star will still keep his marketable plushy form hence being a shapeshifter and will be mute. Asha will have more of a “snarky” laid back personality rather than just being quirky cause that’s just annoying. I also redesigned her entire outfit cause she looks like a boring background character. This movie deserved better

[toaverse]

Found some concept art of Asha on Twitter.

Once again, the concept art designs are better than the original...

[the-barefoot-hatter]

people, can't believe i have to say this, Asha and Isabella don't look alike. look at the wildly different profiles! they are just both disney brown girls with dark hair in purplish dresses

Similarly, Asha does not look like Esmeralda

or even really Elena

you know who's face profile she does map over?

friggin'

rapunzel

the hair even parts in the exact same place!

c'mon disney, did you have to reuse this body model AGAIN? you think just because you tweaked it very slightly, we wouldn't recognize the same silhouette??

disney, you just did Encanto, did you learn nothing about designing female characters? You also did Raya, and Strange Worlds, and Moana-

let 2010 gooo already

[cerulean-crow]

They mean so much to me <3

[kaykayidkk]

…It’s DONE…I guess…

I think later I’ll see a detail and I’m going to correct it lol I’m not used to uploading my drawings… :P I hope u like it jiji

btw sorry if the gif is not full 4k T-T

[animatorroseoak]

So uhm… they should’ve stuck with the concept art…

[gummygoatgalaxy]

Proud Father

Just King Peppy and his kiddos Viva, Asha, Lyreleaf, Poppy and Pippy

I met a fellow trolls fan who has a super cool Poppy sister oc, so im adding her to my oc Pippy's little world/au

Pippy belongs to me, Lyreleaf belongs to my bestie @phoofoz and Asha belongs to my new friend @kanzi-thel10n