#princess vivian

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Sofia the First WIPs and Sketches. Some of these are kinda old.

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"sabrina carpenter should play rapunzel I need to see her as a disney princess" SHE ALREADY IS ??

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I like her character design a lot

[srfelixeo]

"I'm finding out what being royal's all about"

Season 1

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I've always loved Hugfia since I got back in STF. But why do I kinda ship Vivian and Sofia 💀

Like I'm rewatching "The Shy Princess" and the subtle glances though 👀 Yes, I know it could be a friendly thing but I seriously see the chemistry.

Vivian being shy then Sofia helping her overcome it, ummmm....I honestly love it.

But, honestly, I also ship Vivames or whatever their ship name is, but I ship Sofia and Vivian more💀

My multishipper side is coming out, 😭

[lolotheparagon]

The Princess Prodigy is one of my fave episodes of the show cos Vivian is already one of my fave side characters (as she's grown from a shy princess to a badass normal princess with musical talent to boot) and I think Sofia and Vivian are super cute together so I had to draw them rocking out together in their school band outfits from that episode

Seriously, this show is super precious. Please watch it

[spacevixenmusic]

I am so glad this anime knows EXACTLY what it's doing

like, holy fuck, the monster fuckers and furries are EATING WELL this season

bonus:

(via Sacrificial Princess and The King of Beasts)

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So, I know I made a really long and super rambly post about the episode the "Sorcerer's Secret." But, I am not done because I want to bring together the threads of a few posts I've made before.

One of the things, I find, as someone steeped in the show almost daily with my kid like a really, really strong tea, is that the characters in the show are very human. Despite living in a high fantasy setting, the emotions they have are very real.

This is true of like ... ALL the characters. They're all incredibly real people. And, I LOVE THAT! It's so lovely. It feels super old school 90s cartoon-like because of that. There really aren't any totally flat major characters. Which, is something I only ever really see in Bluey and Sesame Street as far as more "modern" programming goes. (And, let's face it, Sesame Street is just a super old school thing that has kept running into the modern era.)

That out of the way, I think it's super important to recognize a few things.

Human brains are not meant to operate in isolation. And, specifically, what I love about Season 2 is *a lot* of characters who were previously isolated coming out of isolation to find acceptance and start to trust more deeply. We see this in Vivian in the "Sorcerer's Secret" episode as she learns to trust her ability. We see Cedric actually *enjoying* things - genuinely - for once! We see Baileywick opening up about things that are personal to him beyond just his work. Trust is being built between Sofia and her friends/ mentors, and she's the bridge between them and he friends.

However, one of the things I really like, specifically with Cedric's arc, is that it ebbs and flows. He is, at times, self-interested. But, over time, as trust is built, that starts to dissipate more and more. He becomes more genuine. He's freer with his emotions going into Season 3. He's a little less uptight. He's a little less self-centered. He's a little more loving.

I can imagine, based on Cedric's experiences, that trusting anyone would be difficult. It's much easier to create distance when hurt has been felt for a long time. And, yet, time and time again we see him breaking down the barriers of his heart to let people in.

I love "Sidekick Clio" as well. It's a great episode. It sends me into peels of laughter every time I watch it. But, I also think is shows just how much Cedric wants to *be wanted.* And, for a while, the games, the pranks, the joys of creating the effects for the play provide him that. Yet, you can see James light up in that episode as well. There's a connection there. Something is being built there. The walls are slowly coming down.

And, yes, Cedric still struggles with wanting to take over the Kingdom. He does put active roadblocks in the way of the characters in certain episodes as the antagonist right up until his redemption. But, it leads to a really beautiful moment of writing and dilemma. It leads to an important discussion of "Am I good? Am I crazy? Am I bad? Or has life left me some kind of mix of all three that I must sort through, understand, and then decide how to act on?"

Cedric has been led to this juncture by the love he has for his apprentice and this amazing person who has shown him nothing but kindness EVEN when he has been lousy. But, at the end of the day, the question he's faced with is "Am. I. Evil?"

And, the answer is no.

But, in order to get to that oh so satisfying conclusion, we have to build into it. We have to see the trust develop. We have to see the walls of the tower come down brick by brick. And, sometimes that's messy, BUT it doesn't make the things he taught Sofia any less real, or the love he has for her any less valid when he shows it.

It just makes Cedric messy. It shows that trust is a process. It shows that human relationships are complicated. But, the love we feel as people who are healing and learning to build trust is very real. The apologies we make when we're on the other side of our hurt count. And, we can all find paths to forgiveness and atonement through communication and service. (The Valjean metaphor lives on.)

My final thought I want to wrap up with is this.

In putting all the lifting of this relationship on Sofia, we run into three problems.

The first is losing her as child. Part of what helps Cedric is just that Sofia exists. He gets to watch her succeed, have hope, and be a kid. He gets to see her have some of what he, likely, wishes he had but, due to the Incident, didn't get to have.

How much more willing would Cedric be to protect her childhood because he didn't get one? How insensced would he be/ is he over how Sofia has been treated by the Protectors because of this?

(Cedric has absolutely told off the Amulet. 1,000/10 he has yelled at it for making her do too much.)

Cedric understands Sofia. He knows what she could lose, and has lost, because he lost it. I think that's a profound part of his dilemma between his goodness and his villainy.

The second thing is focusing solely on how "Sofia fixes" or "heals" Cedric is that it detracts from the other meaningful moments on Cedric's journey. You mean to tell me that seeing Vivian succeed at disappearing bubbles or helping Clio literally fly weren't also meaningful to him? Or, that his growing relationship with James wouldn't have also reminded him of himself? Or, the depth of a relationship he seems to have with Calista, and that that love wasn't also important to his transformation? Or, even as Cedric himself seems to imply in his speech on DotS, that his desire to HAVE a relationship with his sister and Roland again that doesn't involve being nitpicked wasn't fundamental to his redemption arc?

If Cedric lets evil win? He doesn't have hope of reconnection with the people he wants most to rekindle relationships with or to continue to be in the lives of those he cares about most. He can't be the world's best uncle from exile.

The final thing is that, as I mentioned in a past post, it really detracts from Cedric as accepting the love he is given and working to trust. I think, without recognizing the difficulty of that, we lose a fundamental part of his character and why he's so compelling. He's experienced a lot of hurt and a lot of isolation, and that takes TIME to heal from. Somehow, despite this, he finds good in things and tries to grow it. And, we see that occur more and more instead of less and less as the seasons go on. This culminates beautifully into DotS and "In Cedric We Trust."

Cedric has let himself return to who he was before he was hurt. Because, there is no way the kid who just wanted to calm his sister down and make her look cool was evil in his heart of hearts. So, instead, Cedric has learned to see himself for who he is ... as good. To use a quote that, at least one other person will probably get a little chuckle from, "the evil has been defeated" and, even when it seemed all hope was gone, hope and goodness found a way in anyway.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. If any of this sounds incoherent, I have some kind of mystery virus and am not feeling all that well. So, pardon my crazed ramblings.

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@stfshipappreciationweek BONUS!!!

Vivian and James (Jamvian/Vivames) as Odette and Daniel from Barbie of Swan Lake

Amber and Desmond (Desamber) as Genevieve and Derek from Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

(This was my first attempt for Desamber, but I wasn’t fond of the results. So I turned them into Rapunzel and Stefan instead)

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You know I don't want to be one of those people that are fanfics are better than the source material (granted Arthurian legend is basically fanfiction at this point because where is the source material here? The Once and Future King? Le Mort'd Arthur? Geoffery Monmouth's Historia Brittanica? The Welsh Triads? Mabinogion? Did I spell or pronounced any of this right?) , but sometimes I feel like the Merlin fanfictions are better than the show itself because the show doesn't have a linear storyline every season. The closest it came to that would probably be Season 3 because of how it's clear the main villains are Morgause, Morgana and Cenred and it's all about stopping them. Granted Season 1 had Nimue, but there were other filler episodes within, and same with Season 2. Season 4 may have had the cast against Morgana and Morgause, mostly Morgana but idk… honestly, I'm hesitant to say S3 was best because of Morgana's entire personality change…anyway I digress. What I mean is there really isn't any linear storyline, and yet a long fic can be practically an entire season with a whole over-arching plot that goes episode to episode.

You also get background information about the world that's pertinent to the plot. Then again BBC Merlin is a children's show in a way right? Or it's family-friendly, so it doesn't need to be…complicated. Though I was pretty disappointed with the Vivian episode where we didn't really get much information about the 5 kingdoms that came for a peace treaty, and why did they came for a peace treaty? What was it for? How come people talk about war, but we never see it? Right, BBC Merlin isn't trying to be complicated. Just a fun story about a jouster putting a love potion on a prince and princess in order to disrupt peace treaty proceedings to start a war.

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Princess Vivian: [lovingly] Sweet Arthur…

Merlin: Yeah, he's pretty sweet, all right. His head is like a hay-covered honeydew.

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Rewatching The Princess Prodigy for my girl Vivian. But the magical aspect of this episode intrigues me. We're introduced to an entirely new form of magic: magical music! I like how it works, with sheet music being the written spell (at least, I think that's how it works?). I also find the idea of being able to steal someone's musical talent to be interesting.

Here's my theory: Baron von Rocha is a sorcerer who specialises in the field of magical music. This type of magic is lesser known and not commonly practiced, because though it is extremely powerful, even more so than wand magic, it requires one to practice their musical skill to a great extent.

Baron von Rocha decided to go into this field of magic, wanting to be a more powerful sorcerer, but he was too impatient to take the time to master it on his own, and wanted greater power more quickly. So he discovered a shortcut: the spell he uses in the episode to steal musical talent. This spell is of course shown in the episode to have a downside: the stolen musical talent fades, and it probably fades quite quickly. For this reason, he keeps having to find the most talented musicians and singers to steal talent from.

Adding more to it with, well, sort of a headcanon: that magical music is one of the subjects at Hexley Hall; an elective that lots of students take, enticed by the promises of great power, but discouraged by the effort required. After all, it's not as simple as learning a spell. You have to know how to play instruments first, or sing.

This class is probably where von Rocha actually first started this theft business. Instead of giving up like any other frustrated student, he instead stumbled upon a spell; one that would give him the great power he wanted, with none of the required effort. He tricked fellow students who were better than him into performing the spell, giving him the musical skill he needed and making the other students quit when they found themselves suddenly lacking all their built-up skill. The teacher thought he was a prodigy, but truly he was a fraud. And he kept doing this for years, stealing the skill of all the skilled musicians he could find, even stealing from songbirds!

Now, if only he had spent all those years actually building his own musical skill, ha.

Going to relate this with his presence in Day of the Sorcerers now: After losing all the stolen musical talent at the end of The Princess Prodigy, Baron von Rocha has found himself back at square one, with little musical skill of his own and therefore little power. He quits magical music and decides to simply do wand magic instead, the mainstream branch of sorcery. When he gets the opportunity to have a powerful item like a medusa stone, become king, and take revenge on the princess who ruined his career, of course he'd take it!

Magical music gives you potential to be a great sorcerer, but only if you're willing to put in the time and effort required. Which Baron von Rocha, unfortunately, was not.

[majoresca]

Princess Vivian as a magical girl with powers related to music.

[srfelixeo]

Even more doodles

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One of my favourite ships of ppl they didn't have a single interaction X)) I mean they definitely would have met at some point for diplomatic reasons I'm sure :)) women on that show were given so little attention by the writers so I'm pretty much just making headcanons ant every single one of them X))

Also I saw a post abt Mirthian being a sorceress and it's been living in my head rent free they explained the thought process so welll

Best part abt being an artist is you create the context you wanna see in ur fandom hihi

Enjoy~