#even with her best friend whom she’s grown to love despite her initial prejudices while continuing to cling to shallow affection by all?

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The book has canon poly, so it hurts even more bc polyamory as a concept actively exists in the universe (polyamory always exists, but you know what I mean)

AND IT WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM!!!!! IT WASNT STIGMATIZED SO THE SOLUTION IS RIGHT THERE

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TOP 12 PRINCE CHARMINGS (FROM CINDERELLA)

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I made a ranking for Cinderella. Is fair that i make one for her greatest love. What is interesting about Cinderella’s Prince is that, in contrast to Cinderella, who is more of a character defined by her resilient hard work, kindness, romanticism and dreams of a better life, he is more of a simbolic reward for her to win, with makes him a blank slate that gives total freedom to screenwriters, directors and animators imaginations, but over the years adaptations have shown some comonalities: sometimes he is a classical brave hero, sometimes he is a lovely bumbling dork, sometimes he is just a hedonist concerned with his own fun, but at the end of the day, they all fall in love with the honest and good hearted heroine. And tonight, i will share my favorite takes on the man who catchet Cinderella’s and, by extension, our hearts.

12º Tony Oliver as the Prince in Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1989)

There is a Prince who just wants his Dad to stop meddling with his personal life. Specially when it comes to making a ball despite the fact that he doesn’t know how to dance. But thankfully for him, while trying to escape trough the gardens he literary stepped over onto a napping Cinderella, who promptly teached him how to dance, and how to love.

11º Florian Bartholomäi as Prince Viktor in Sechs Auf Einen Streich (2011)

This Prince can’t hit a target with his arrows to save his life, and isn’t particularly excited to have the responsabilities of a King. But he is kind and humble to help Cinderella to catch back some lost piglets in the woods, even if it means getting dirt in the mud, and for her and the audience, sometimes that is enough.

10º Jimmy Smits as Prince Felipe in Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child (1995)

A Prince who admits that he isn’t fit for battlefield and would rather spend time chilling in the Palace’s dance floor. What it’s not to love about him?

09º  Pavel Trávnícek as the Prince in Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)

The original Slacker Prince, who is constantly running away from studying with his tutor to go hunting in the forest. He looks chill enough to accept handing over the actual role of ruller to a wise Prime Minister.

08º Masami Kikuchi as Prince Charles in Cinderella Monogatari (1996)

A Slacker who has to learn about dealing with the consequences of his actions! Charles prefers a hundred times to go out fencing than to studying Power and Politics, and wears his best friend’s Alex clothes to pretend that he is page and go out stealing the grapes of his own family vines. But when Cinderella is unfairly framed by the grape robbery, Charles has to slowly understand that not everything is fun and games, and that he has to think in doing something for the well being of others, providing a good character arc about maturity and responsability.

07º Dougray Scott as Prince Henry in Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

Another Prince who has to go trough a character arc, this time about letting go of his prejudices. Henry first runs in the heroine Danielle while running away from an arranged marriage that his parents are trying to push over him. He falls in love with her when she presents herself as the noble lady Nicole and the two share heroic adventures, but eventually the masquerade will have to be broken, and Henry must decide: will his class prejudices win over him, or will he accept Danielle for who she trully is and assume the love he has for her to the world?

06º Matthew Broderick as Prince Henry in Fairy Tale Theater (1985)

The adorkable Prince who gaved a second ball to see his mysteryous beloved lady again and conquered her hearth with melon balls. Three word describe him: Himbo! Himbo! Himbo!

05º Stuart Damon as Prince Chistopher in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1965)

The veteran warrior hero who after having many adventures rescuing damsels and slaying dragons and evil sorcerours, is getting ready to settle down in a calm, domestic family life. When i watch Damon’s Prince Christopher, i feel that his shoulder will be a strong source of support and comfort to Cinderella after all she went trough, and that’s what makes me to want so much for him to get together with her.

04º Paolo Montalbán as Prince Christopher in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997)

While Stuart Damon was a strong Prince with lots of world experience and confidence, Paolo Montalbán was a young man that, instead of being known as a travelling dragon slayer and damsel rescuer,had the feeling of falling in love itself be his greatest adventure. Because of that, i felt that as a romantic partner, he was in a more equal footing with his version of Cinderella, portrayed as another young lady that was about to discover the world, and the two found the perfect companion in each other for their emotional journey. Plus, it helps the higher ranking that after this 1997 TV Movie production, Montalbán retook the role of Prince Christopher in the 2000 stage production known as The Enchanted Edition. Is he or not the definitive face for this musical version of the character at this point?

03º Richard Chamberlain as Prince Edward in The Slipper and The Rose (1976)

He can sing, he can dance, he has a happy musical number about pondering his mortality in his family’s mausoleum, he helps his best friend getting together with the girl he likes, he fights with his father for the right to marry whoever he wants for love. Chamberlain gaved a very energetic an fun performance to the one of the most idealistic and romantic encarnations of Cinderella’s Prince, and for this he earns the number three spot in this ranking.

02º Michael Wilding as Prince Charles in The Glass Slipper (1955)

After spending years studying in London, Paris and Rome, Prince Charles returns to his father’s small principality to reconect with his people and prepare to become the next rulling Duke. One day, walking in the woods, he remembers that he didn’t knew what sorrow was until one day when he was eight years old and saw a poor five year old girl of sad rebellious eyes crying and running in despair for the loss of her mother. By the force of destiny, he finds that same girl as a grown woman and despite her initial rejection of his polytiness as mockery, he insists in being her friend, presenting himself as Son of the Cook at the Palace of the Duke and teaching her to dance. One day, Charles that he is falling for the sad girl and kisses her, but she runs away, afrayed of being loved. And he melancholicaly sits at the piano to sing, reflecting about how her sad eyes and explosive rebellious temper, instead of repelling, atract him to her, and he asks himself how to make her thrust him.

For being this kind, perfect friend, this version was originally going to be my number one. Until he got surpassed by...

01º  Aleksey Anatolyevich Konsovsky as the Prince in Zolushka (1947)

This is a colorfull russian feature film adaptation of the Charles Perrault version of the fairy tale. One of the highlights of this adaptation is how it combines its visuals with good dialogues, where the characters talk honestly about their feelings. Thanks to that, it is one of the first adaptations to explore the Prince as human being, instead of treating him as a simple trophy. We first see him sitted at the ball, looking bored, trowing a paper plane onto the Stepmother to amuse himself. And then, he is called by his father to receive the new guest of unknown identity, and smiling in awe he says to his father that he cannot speak at her vision. A magician makes a spell for the guests to spent time in their dream lands, and the Prince gets alone with the unknown lady in a beautifull garden, asking what counsel would she give to a friend of his who likes a lady but doesn’t know how to tell her. He gets to sing to her. Back at the ball room, during their dance he guesses that she would like some ice cream, and he goes far as to select fourty different flavours, but when he arrives, the lady says goodbye and that she must go away, but he begs her to stay, declaring his love for her. When she is gone, leaving a glass slipper behind, he admits to have felt ofended with her running from him, but still wants to get reunited with her, going in the next morning to a search in the woods, where he hears a beautifull singing voice: the voice of his mysteryous beloved from the ball, to whom he promisses going in the most difficult quests, if they mean he will earn her love.

Prankster, wish guesser, shy, proud, and, above all, romantic, Aleksey Anatolyevich Konsovsky’s performance is historically significant in reaching the right balance of making the Prince the perfect man of Cinderella’s dreams, while also being palpably human, and that is why he is my number one portrayal of Cinderella’s Prince.

Honorable Mention: Robert Westenberg in Into the Woods (1987), The Triplets version (1998).

This list is dedicated to the memory of Libuše Šafránková (7 June 1953 – 9 June 2021)

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The Pragmatist

❛ I’m a damsel, I’m in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day. ❜

Full Name Ameline de Granada Venegas Alias Formerly Germain Trouvé Age 43 (b. 1598) Alliance The Red Guard Position Cornette (Standard Bearer) and Ensign Negative Traits Stoic, Harsh, Perfectionistic Positive Traits Reliable, Practical, Confident

With the Reconquista (The Reconquest) of Spain by Catholic monarchs through the 11th to the 15th centuries, the golden age of al-Andalus, or Islamic Spain was coming to an end. Spain’s Muslims faced becoming a marginalized group in the Iberian Peninsula. In 1492, when the last Islamic state of Iberia, Granada, fell, Spain’s Muslims faced increased persecution and even genocide. Forced conversions to Christianity and resulting rebellions lead Spain’s Muslim population to become underground, many pretending to be converted but secretly practicing their religion to avoid threat to their lives. Although the final, forced expulsion of the Muslim population of Spain did not occur until 1609, Ameline’s father, a Muslim, and her Catholic mother left the Kingdom of Castille and her father’s thriving blacksmithy to immigrate to France. They had seen the writing on the wall concerning the prejudice against them despite the integration of many, and wanted to raise their only daughter with a better chance to live a genuine life.

Born Ameline de Granada Venegas in Paris, the young girl grew up with two loving parents who did their best to raise her with the idea that she could be whoever she wanted to be. Her father spurred much of this on, as Miguel de Granada Venegas, descended from the Nasrid rulers of Granada but relegated to the life of a blacksmith, was largely discontent with his lot in life. Back in Spain and growing up on the coast of the Kingdom of Castille, he had longed to be a part of the Spanish Navy in order to bring it to a better form of glory. Instead, Miguel watched the Empire crumble from afar, but relegated the stories of battles and their once proud nation to his young daughter as well as taking the time to teach her to read and write.

Ameline grew up with a love for Spain in her heart despite being born on French soil – a complicated love for a country that she had been told had plunged into further chaos and prejudice. When she was eleven years old, the expulsion of Spain’s Muslim population began in full force, and she saw the suffering upon the faces of many of the refugees that settled into Paris. There was a part of her that wished that she could do something – anything – to have changed things. A smaller, but still insistent part of her whispered that if only she had been alive at the right time – if she had been born a boy, if she had been able to be a soldier like her father had dreamed of for himself, she might have been able to prevent the atrocities and the deportation of innocents.

It was too late for Spain at the current time – the broken, bleeding, and beloved country of her heart. She would have to accept that perhaps she could do little for it now – but she could still do something for the country in which she was born. Armed by a humoring father’s basic military knowledge from the swords that he wrought and a fierce discipline, she practiced swordplay every day of her childhood from eleven on – watching soldiers secretly every time that she could. No one saw her – as a young girl, she felt often invisible, and she used that to her advantage. Still, Ameline knew that there was no military unit in France that would allow her entry as a woman, and she had known no woman to succeed in penetrating those closed ranks. For years, she helped around her father’s smithy, stewing in thought and uncertain as to how to make her next move. Eventually, her restlessness and ambition finally forced her into action.

A last, Ameline left a message for her parents, cut off her long locks, and signed up for the French infantry in 1616, posing as a young man. She took the name Germain Trouvé from the name of one of her father’s close friends in Paris and a last name meaning ‘found’ in the hopes that she might find her purpose. While there, although she was never skilled at the heavier pieces of weaponry, she honed her skills at swordplay as well as gained some reputation as a decent shot with a pistol. Young Germain, although he was seen to be reserved, was determined and reliable. Ameline became steadily popular alongside her comrades over time, gaining officership, with none at first aware that the serious but charismatic young man was in actuality a serious and charismatic young woman.

She climbed the ranks of the infantry for nearly twelve years, gaining a high officership position. Although over time Germain’s identity as Ameline became widely known – albeit not openly spoken about – in 1627, a change in leadership and a crack down on the troops led to her dismissal. The highly skilled soldier had nowhere to turn, and few additional non-military abilities – and none of the other regiments seemed initially open to accepting a woman, no matter how seasoned a fighter. Although she campaigned to remain in the regiment – her understanding was clear. She would have to find another path for herself.

It was lucky for her, if not tragic for others, that the Court Massacre of 1627 had left the Red Guard with twenty men dead, and the reputation of the regiment reeling. Cardinal Rossignol was in need of good, dependable soldiers – and if they were dependent on his kindness with nowhere else to turn, so much the better to ensure their loyalty. That knowledge that Ameline would be beholden to him, as well as her noble blood, decided the Cardinal upon enlisting her. Ameline was enlisted in 1628 along with a large crop of other recruits, including later colleague Hasekura Valentin. Although she allowed to serve in the Red Guard as a woman, she was demoted from her previous infantry officer position to a mere corporal. Rankled, nevertheless, she did her best to serve faithfully, although many of the actions she had to complete in the Cardinal’s service troubled her over the years. Over time, she climbed the ranks to gain the position of Cornette (Standard Bearer) and Ensign in 1635. This was the lowest high officership position in the Red Guard (below Captain of the Guard and lieutenant), but one of distinction nevertheless.

It would be inaccurate to say that Ameline is particularly happy in her position in the Red Guard, but she is a career soldier and she hangs tough. Although she may privately distrust the Cardinal and disagree with much of his orders, she is still devoted to the men that serve as her comrades-in-arms and respects Captain Dubois. She remains in the regiment for her Red Guard comrades and for her older parents, whom she now supports financially. Although Ameline may not make all decisions – she is a soldier after all, and cannot explicitly disobey the Cardinal; she helps keep order in the ranks. If she can soften the blow of the actions that the Red Guard commits and serve as a voice of measured reason – so much the better.

Connections

Herbert Dubois – The Cardinal is the highest authority when it comes to orders, and Ameline is not often particularly fond of what those orders entail. However, she does not hold Herbert responsible for funneling those orders down through the ranks, and over the years they have served together in the Red Guard she has grown to respect her captain. Seeing him as an essentially good man, they commiserate secretly over their grumbles of discontent, and she has even taken to – with her military training – helping him become ever more proficient as a fighter. Although Hasekura Valentin had been appointed lieutenant in 1637 and is technically higher ranked than her, it is often the down-to-earth Ameline who more accurately fulfills the role of right hand to the Captain of the Guard.

Hasekura Valentin – The two officers are complete opposites in every way, and although Ameline is occasionally leery of the other’s cavalier approach to things that personally bother her, they work surprisingly well together. Valentin’s quirky penchant for innovation is balanced out with Ameline’s practical tactical bent and their military experience combined make them a formidable force on either side of their captain.

Renaud Marin – During the years of 1618-1620, Renaud and Ameline, under her alias Germain, served together in the French infantry. Throughout much of their time together, with Ameline being slightly senior to him, she served as a mentor to the young man, bonding with him over a shared Spanish heritage. After Renaud left the infantry to serve in the light cavalry, they met each other again only after both had respectively been enlisted in the Musketeers and the Red Guard. Renaud had been surprised to learn that she was a woman, and there is still friction between them due to her being in the Red Guard (and on account of Herbert, whom Renaud dislikes and Ameline is loyal to). Still, they remain on decently friendly terms with each other when she sees the now-envoy to Spain in court, separating the personal from professional.

This character is portrayed by GINA TORRES and is TAKEN

OOC Notes: Please see the information Life in the Military for more details on being a member of the Red Guard. Also, read about the Red Guard Garrison (see locations)!

She is Muslim. Ameline can speak, read, and write French, Spanish, and Arabic.