#buttercup || westley

[agentperezbian]

I'm curious. Tag this with your sexuality and what your favorite M/F ship is.

[pigeon-princess]

This is true love. You think this happens every day?

[airitree]

~THE PRINCESS BRIDE~

But it is (loosely) historically inspired by the late 1400s... I'm also starting to understand horses now

[Prints are available on my shop!]

[ahhrenata]

thank you everyone for replying with suggestions and submissions!!! there was soooo many good choices! (and you guys introduced me to some new pairs - and some I’ve forgotten about 😅- that i may do some more doodles for later!) I went with the most suggested pairs and a couple that I’d been itching to do before and never had the chance to. I had a lot of fun with this so thank you again for participating! 🧡

[kwistowee]

#girl same THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) dir. Rob Reiner

[k1ssun]

For every fantasy romance with a princess, there's an alternate universe of a homoerotic romance filled with misfortune

[pedroam-bang]

“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

The Princess Bride (1987)

[kairithemang0]

Normalize throwing yourself down a hill for your lover

[ssavaart]

I got an email from Tumblr saying "You're on our radar" and I didn't know what that meant until I saw 5,000 new notes on my Princess Bride painting of Westley that I did back in 2014.

Wow. Thank you.

The Princess Bride is my favorite movie and I don't want to inundate you all with too much Princess Bride art, but, I did a little series of watercolor cutout "animations" back in 2022 and they're still some of my favorite things I've done.

I hope you like them.

Sending Big Hugs from the Hobbit Hole. ♥♥♥

Scott

PS. I'll post more of them if you'd like...

[a-happy-beginning]

As you wish.

—Westley, The Princess Bride and Hook, Once Upon a Time, “Good Form” and “Save Henry”

[kirasknightley]

Endless List of My Favorite Movies: The Princess Bride (1987)

[mcrcki]

she had been late for work, alarm never going off and leaving her still getting situated as she nearly ran down the block. she had been trying to reach her boss the entire time, and still coming up empty. if she could just get a hold of them, then she could stop running. she hated running. she rounded another corner, needing to catch her breath as buttercup heard her name called out, confusion washing over her as she looked at the other, unfamiliar and staring at her. "can i help you?"

Closed starter for @mcrcki (Westley and Buttercup)

Having been here for a year without her had been awful. He just got her back when suddenly he was in a weird world with nothing he knew around him. He was really trying to adjust, though it wasn't the easiest thing. He had decided to go to the cafe around the corner from his work when an all to familiar face caught his eye. Relief washed over him. "Buttercup?" He couldn't help but smile. The face of his love, the one who kept him fighting and alive.

[tossawary]

In "The Princess Bride", Westley is (forgive this phrasing, I mean it relatively fondly) "a petty bitch of a man", but I can kind of see where he's coming from giving Buttercup a hard time at the beginning. It's a very human thing to have a temper.

He went off to seek his fortune and was attacked by pirates, which I assume was a bloody and unpleasant experience. He had to beg for his life and spent a long time as their captive, threatened with death every single day, even if it later turned into a less serious morbid joke. Life on the crew of the most famous pirate in the world was presumably pretty harsh at times and he worked his ass off training himself up to be worth feeding and keeping alive, then to be able to hold his own in this new life. Piracy is hardly a very safe profession.

For all we know, Westley did attempt to send letters home, but he probably had to work hard to scrounge up the money for it and find someone semi-legitimate willing to carry it, and this is hardly an era of reliable mail. He probably had to just hope that Buttercup 1) wouldn't hear the news of his first ship's destruction and/or 2) would trust in his love for her enough to know that he was alive and fighting to come back.

When Westley finally becomes the Dread Pirate Roberts, he's still stuck with the former Dread Pirate Roberts for a little while, and then he has a pirate crew who have expectations of him. He cannot sail the damn ship himself. It probably took a lot of work, threats and persuasion and the slow building of trust, in order to get a ship full of men to eventually take him back to Florin. Like, would he even have told them about Buttercup? (It would be funny if there's a crew of pirates out there cheering Westley on in True Love.) Would he have had to promise them some reward?

He also went out in the world to make his fortune and he already knows that he's dreadfully late, so maybe his position is, "Okay, I will build up trust with my crew by building up our fortunes, WHILE slowly but surely moving back across the world in the direction of Florin so that I can see the love of my life again. This hellish experience traveling all over the damn world will all have been worth it for her."

It's possible that Westley was mostly having silly pirate adventures worthy of a comedic operetta, but based on the tragedies of Inigo and Fezzik's own backstories, this world is not actually that nice. Westley is being flippant and lighthearted when he later summarizes things for Buttercup, but he does seem to be one to make light of / ignore his personal suffering. I do think that he did probably make some friendships through this hardship and had some good experiences along the way, especially near the end, but I also think that the beginning of his journey must have been really shit.

So, Westley fights hard to get back home, then lands somewhere in Florin and is on his way back to the farm, but then finds out from some random villagers (or Buttercup's parents) that his shitty former prince is marrying an incomparably beautiful milkmaid named Buttercup. Like...? The love of his life didn't wait for him (she thought he was dead and is also being forced into this, so that Humperdink can murder her to start a war, Buttercup did nothing wrong) and traded up for some SHITHEAD PRINCE??? That has to HURT. (And Westley does not like admitting to feeling pain!)

Even if he loves mischief and drama, Westley is being an unnecessarily huge jerk when he kidnaps Buttercup away from her kidnapping, but also yeah, I see how his temper might be running hot. He's struggling with the fact that his True Love might have moved on after he's probably been using her memory as a thin rope of sanity for years.

[ahhrenata]

You did Westley and Buttercup for the last(?) request thing you did, and they were so cute, I loved them. I'd love to see you do them again :)

yay!! I’m glad you did! I love princess bride - it’s my ultimate comfort movie and never fails to make me laugh 💜

[childotkw]

My dad and I always talk about a re-do of The Princess Bride - all the other things people say. Fred Savage should come back and read the book to his grandkid. Certain pieces should be scene-for-scene like the original, others should be completely different. The absolute batshit energy must remain.

But we were talking this morning about another possibility that I think would enhance all of the above.

Everything remains the same, except Buttercup and Westley swap roles. Not swap genders. Swap roles. Buttercup is the 'farm girl', Westley is the asshole that pulls her pigtails. They fall in love. Buttercup goes off to find fortune on the sea, 'dies', and Westley mourns.

No other character changes anything about themselves.

Westley gets picked to marry Prince Humperdinck (it's imperative that no reason is ever given as to why), Buttercup becomes the Dread Pirate Roberts (the one before her, Ryan, was a chaos gremlin and thought she'd be an excellent, if hilarious, replacement). Buttercup comes to rescue Westley from his upcoming nuptials.

They bicker. They argue. They reunite.

No one acknowledges the fact that the Dread Pirate Roberts is apparently a young woman. No one cares that Prince Humperdinck is set to marry a man.

Just...pure, unfiltered, batshit insanity.

Just a grandfather slightly changing a story to read to his granddaughter.