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OMG PLEASE SHARE YOUR SLEEPING BEAUTY AU!!!! SOUNDS AWESOME

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IM MORE THAN HAPPY TO :D

So here it is, my Ghostknife Sleeping Beauty AU (or should I say Dead Beauty because y’know. Wiwi.)

Once upon a time, there was a medieval kingdom named Prime, ruled by King and Queen Wisp. The two of them, needing an heir, had a son, who they name William.

On the infant's first birthday, they hold a celebration at the palace, inviting nobles from across the realm to attend. This includes some members of the Prime Force, powerful enchanters who protect the kingdom: the ones in attendance include Harlem Shade, wielder of the darkness; Tide, wielder of the oceans; and Ms. Gilbert, the Prime Force’s leader. Each of them bestow a magical gift upon William. Ms. G blesses him with intelligence and curiosity; Harlem blesses him with a connection with the darkness; and Tide-

Tide doesn’t get a chance, as it is then the party is interrupted by an unwelcome guest; an infamous, dangerous being of pure chaos known as the Trickster.

The Trickster, before anyone can stop him, places his own gift upon William: before his sixteenth birthday, he will prick his finger and die.

With that, he leaves. The King and Queen are distraught, but Tide does his best to console them. After all, he is yet to give his blessing. Though he cannot undo the Trickster’s powerful magic, he can attempt to weaken it, proclaiming that William will not permanently die. He will one day be awoken from death by true love’s kiss.

As the years go by, William’s parents don’t tell him of his cursed fate, but they are highly protective of him in the hopes of avoiding it. He is not allowed to leave the castle, all sharp objects within it are to be thrown out or dulled, he is placed under near constant supervision. He only has one real friend - Dakota Cole, a child cared for by one of the servants in the castle, the two growing up together. Also Tide, the member of the Prime Force who comes to check in on William the most, but William sees him as more of a guardian than a friend.

But Ms. Gilbert’s gift of curiosity makes William very eager to leave and see more of his kingdom and the world - all the books in the royal library can only tell him so much. When he’s eleven, with the help of Dakota he attempts to sneak out of the castle at night. But they’re caught, and in response his parents order for him to literally be wrapped in so many blankets at night that he can’t physically move.

On the morning before his sixteenth birthday, that’s how he awakens, wrapped up in blankets as usual. But it’s who he is woken by that’s surprising: not his servants, not Dakota, not Tide, not his parents. Rather, it’s a strange man with red skin and wild white hair. He introduces himself as the Trickster, and says he’s one of the enchanters in the Prime Force - a lesser known one who prefers to stay out of the limelight. He says that, in honour of his birthday the next day, William’s parents have allowed him to go out and explore the kingdom.

William is a little suspicious, not knowing why he’s never heard of the Trickster before when his family is so close to the Prime Force (plus this guy just acts really weird)… but his excitement to finally be able to leave gets the better of him. He gets dressed and ready for the day, and then the Trickster creates a magic door that leads right to the town’s centre.

William spends the day wandering around and seeing all he can - though he quickly becomes painfully aware of how inexperienced he is with talking to people. A lot of citizens excitedly approach the prince when they see him; the only exposure they’ve ever had to him has been royal portraits, of course they’re eager to meet him for the first time… but William honestly comes across as incredibly socially awkward to an almost unnerving extent. He does his best to stick to the shadows and go overlooked.

Of course, it doesn’t take long for the news of the prince being seen wandering the town to reach the castle, where his parents have been frantically searching for him since the servants found him absent from his room.

Eventually, William ends up in the woods bordering the kingdom, needing a bit of a break from all of the people. It’s here that the Trickster reappears through another magical door. He asks William a few questions about how his day has been, before nodding to a nearby black rose bush, suggesting William pick one to take home as a memento of his day. William still doesn’t know if he should trust the Trickster… but what could be so harmful about picking a simple rose?

When William’s parents, accompanied by the Prime Force and the royal guard, find William, he is lying unconscious in the grass by the bush, not breathing, no pulse. His finger tip is bleeding, pricked by a thorn of the rose held loose in his grasp, and his black hair has a streak of white, a sign of the curse placed upon him.

Ms. G and Harlem escort William’s grieving parents back to the castle, promising that they will find a way to exact revenge on the Trickster, while Tide takes William’s body to a tower deep in the forest, far enough out and well-hidden enough that the Trickster should hopefully never find him. There, William will rest until his true love is found.

A whole year goes by. William’s parents do their best to identify someone who may be their son’s true love, but it’s a hard thing to do; none of the suitors they interview seem to fit. After a lot of searching and a hard battle, the Prime Force successfully banish the Trickster to a realm known as the chaos zone, trapping him there seemingly for good. It does not break William’s curse, however. The Prime Force’s magic is enough to keep William’s body from decaying for the most part as time progresses. Dakota takes it upon himself to regularly visit the tower to check on his best friend, talking to William’s body in the hopes that maybe he can hear him.

It’s not until what just so happens to be William’s seventeenth birthday that everything changes.

A young elf with long purple hair, wearing the outfit and face-mask of a rogue, is wandering the forest, looking for a place to sleep for the night. He eventually comes across a secluded tower - seems like the perfect place.

He pulls out a sword, which magically shifts into a chain and grapple, which he uses to scale up the wall, entering the single room at the top. He goes to the bed, intending to sleep - only to find a boy, one that seems about his age, lying there.

The rogue initially thinks the boy is sleeping and almost leaves - but then he notices, the boy is incredibly pale, his fingertips are purple, he isn’t breathing, he has no pulse. He seems… dead.

The rogue freaks out, instincts taking over to try and resuscitate the boy. Though he has magic, it’s undertrained, and healing isn’t exactly his strong suit, so he ends up pulling off his mask, leaning down and trying to breathe some air into the boy’s lungs.

And it is as soon as their lips press together that William wakes up.

The first thing he registers is pain. His body is slightly decayed, he’s still half dead. But he’s awake.

Then he registers the lips that are currently pressed against his own.

He abruptly sits up, catching the rogue by surprise… and then instantly starts panicking. Where is he? What happened to him? Why does his body hurt so bad? Why did everything go blank after picking that rose? Who the fuck is this weird guy who seemed to be kissing him?!

The rogue does his best to calm William down. He introduces himself as Vyncent Sol, saying that all he knows is that while travelling he found a tower, climbed it, found William seemingly dead, and tried to revive him. William, still incredibly shaken by the fact he was, well, dead, but less on the verge of a panic attack, introduces himself too - but leaves out that he’s a prince. It isn’t exactly at the forefront of his mind at that moment.

Vyncent, not really knowing what else to do now, awkwardly says he should be going, about to leave - but William isn’t exactly comfortable being left alone in a tower in the middle of the forest, not knowing where his kingdom is or how to get there. He asks Vyncent if he can travel alongside him, figuring he might find home along the way. Vyncent is hesitant, but ultimately agrees. It can’t exactly be good to leave a kid who was just dead alone in the woods, can it?

As the two travel across the realm, William learns more about his half-dead state following an encounter with some will-o-wisps in the forest. He seems to have some new ghostly abilities that they show him how to use: intangibility, levitation, invisibility, the ability to summon blue fiery wisps… It’s a little cool, but also incredibly anxiety-inducing to learn he’s not quite fully alive.

Also along the journey, William learns more about Vyncent - his real name is actually Virion, and he’s from a magical kingdom on a floating island. It was recently attacked by a lich, which banished him away through a portal. He is now trying to find his way home, hoping that his father’s team of adventurers, The Greats, will have defeated the lich by the time he returns.

William resolves to keep quiet about being a prince and not return home yet. Vyncent saved his life after all, the least he could do to repay that would be helping the guy get home. Plus, he wouldn’t mind spending a little more time with Vyncent…

Meanwhile, Dakota goes to William’s tower for another of his regular visits. When he heads inside and finds William’s body absent, his first instinct is to try and summon the Prime Force; but the ritual he knows doesn’t seem to work? So he figures they’re busy and therefore it's up to him, starting to venture out on his own journey to find William.

He doesn’t consider how odd it is that the Prime Force would ignore a magical signal coming from the prince’s tower, especially Tide who would check up on William’s body almost as regularly as Dakota. It also doesn’t occur to Dakota that he hasn’t actually seen any of the Prime Force around the castle in a few weeks.

Back to William and Vyncent, after a week or so of travelling they’re tired and need a break, some rest and good food - and they may just get that as they run into a boy called Ashe Winters. The three get along pretty well. Ashe apparently lives on a farm with his father, Mark, and he invites William and Vyncent to stay for a few days. Mark is reluctant, but agrees on the condition that William and Vyncent pull their weight and help out around the farm while they’re there.

As they take the guest room in the farmhouse and stay for a while, they can’t help but pick up on how occasionally Ashe acts… a little off. Like something else takes over him. Plus, he has this book in his room that he refuses to let anyone else touch, which William can sense has some kind of spiritual energy. And for some reason, every time William and Vyncent bring up leaving to continue their journey, Ashe is really, really insistent they stay just a few more days…

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