#skeptic as the visiting prince who's SO not on board with the arranged marriage and having to deal with smitten's buckwild advice!

[deconstructthesoup]

This... this is probably an absolutely insane idea, but...

*small sigh, head in hands, mumbling under my breath*

A Slay the Princess "Barbie: Princess & the Pauper" AU where Damsel is Annalise, Prisoner is Erika, and... god help me, but you know that Opportunist would be the perfect Preminger

[nctasja]

HELLO AGAIN! This is Natasja’s like... third intro and it’s! mainly the same as the last one but with the last event factored in and stuff! Also, I’m wiping some of her stuff clean so that I can make new connections so if we plotted before I last was here and you’re interested in plotting again please let me know!

&&. announcing her royal highness, ( natasja kristina magnusdottir ), the ( 27 ) year old ( princess ) of ( iceland ). she is often confused with ( alicia vikander ). some say that she is ( uptight & skeptical ), but she is actually ( level-headed & intelligent ). ( natasja ) is arranged to marry ( lily james ). ( ooc: ferb / 20 / cst/ she,her )

so nat’s mother died when she was very young, and ever since then she’d been in the international spotlight. her father always propped her up as the perfect princess while her brother goofed off at boarding schools. this was the beginning of the rift in the family.

she was a child when they arranged her marriage. then they explained it to her as her duty to her country, and she honestly believed them, and allowed pretty much everything to happen.

she was a model child for years upon years. her brother goofed off and her father had mistresses but natasja remained the perfect member of the royal family. she was thrust into the public eye and she lived for it.

but as she grew into a woman, things changed. everything felt futile if she was never to be allowed to wear the crown upon her head. why should her brother get to spend his days partying and drinking and one day get to ascend to the throne, when she was there?

natasja was the political genius, the one who negotiated with other countries at her father’s side. she was the one who knew everything, her brother never bothered to even earn a degree. she felt cheated.

and so she resented him with every fiber of her being. she wished she was born first, even convinced herself that she deserved the crown: that it was somehow her birth right and not his. it was whatever made her sleep easier at night.

but her father chose to ship her away. off to a tower and then off to an island. far away from reykjavik, her home which she loved so much. and even though she was among friends, her anxieties still held on tight to her. she worried about her father.

it turned out she was was right to worry. while she was away an icelandic magazine uncovered his infidelities, and suddenly her father was right in the middle of the biggest sex scandal in icelandic history. nat returned home to try and snuff out the fire, only to find her father throwing as much wood onto it, to keep it burning.

those two weeks of her life were surreal. her brother returned from vegas with another scandal: he’d stated, while drunk in a casino, that he would abdicate the throne and give it to natasja. she should have been able to be happy, that she’d finally been given that birth right she deserved so very much, but the next day another surprise landed on her doorstel.

their father became engaged overnight to a woman who’d been his mistress for years, revealing that natasja and aleksander had a half sister just a year younger than natasja. even in his mourning for their mother, he’d managed to cheat. she hated him for this.

her family continued to ruin everything she’d worked hard for, and she escaped for a few weeks to visit the island and relax: it was what she deserved. she cried on shoulders and hid away and suddenly things were okay.

then she returned to reykjavik and held her head high for the wedding of her father. she spoke on camera at the reception, laughing and seeming to have the time of her life. but the second she was off the stage, away from revelers and journalists alike, that grin wiped off her face and she cried for hours.

it seemed her life was upside down, and she just wanted to run away again. so, that’s what she did.

her father insisted that this time, she bring aleksander and her half sister along, but the three of them moved to the island “for their own protection” and she finally was back in paradise, with her best friends near her.

It didn’t last long, with the attack and subsequent occupation leaving Natasja with a broken nose and a nightmares that haunt her every time her eyes are closed. She’d done her best, protecting those around her, but she can’t help but still feel like it wasn’t enough. 

wanted connections:

the brother : ALEKSANDER MAGUNSSON, THE PRINCE OF ICELAND

Natasja and her brother have a very strange relationship, one filled with turmoil. Her brother is a partier, more than Natasja was ever allowed to be, and she resents him for it. She thinks of her brother as a free spirit, a sparrow set free, while she remains in the cage, sad and broken. But underneath all of the bullshit and the moments of pure anger, Natasja can feel in her heart that no one on the Earth knows her better than her big brother. He held her hand at their mother’s funeral, he promised her the world when she was too young to reject the offer a silly, he even braided her hair when she didn’t want any of the staff to touch her in her awkward teenage years. Underneath all of the headlines and the alcohol, she knows Aleksander has her back no matter what. Now that their father has chosen to remarry without much of a warning, and Natasja is left to pick up the pieces of an empire with a public relations problem, her brother has chosen the bottle to drown his sorrows in. But when they’re both sober, they whisper, secrets and plans that must not be shared - especially not with their new sister, the newest duchess that seems to want to know Natasja so well. While blood may control who some call their family, it is woefully wrong in this case. Natasja and Aleksander are family, by blood and by choice. Their half sister, the newest member of the Icelandic royal family is not - no matter how much of their father’s blood runs through her veins.

Recently, Aleks has grown distant from the family, and everything came to a head when a drunken night ended with a video of Aleksander renouncing his time on the throne. After the ensuing fistfight when Natasja returned home, they have yet to sit down and really speak about their plans about the throne. That conversation itself will be fully explosive, especially if Natasja is denied something she’s always wanted yet again, because of Aleks. Even with the complications of a half sister, and the mess their father has made in recent scandals, Nat knows that the thing that matters most is the Icelandic people, but does Aleks even feel the same way anymore?

the half sister : THE DUCHESS OF KÓPVOGUR

Natasja and her half sister are new to meeting each other, both are nearly the same age, as NAME is the product of an illicit affair her father was having before Natasja’s mother’s untimely death. With her appearance, now more than ever, Natasja resents everything about her. From the announcement of the marriage, which NAME insists is a happy occasion, to the fact that Natasja’s parents weren’t the perfect couple her father always made them out to be, they were never meant to be a big happy family. And now that her father has sent away the newest member of the family, too, the stakes are higher for Natasja. She has to be better, faster and smarter in every conceivable way than her half sister. Basically, the two are at odds in Natasja’s eyes, but in NAME’s eyes, things could go either way.

Even as things change, sending her sister along to the island has caused more cracks in Nat’s facade. She wants so badly to have a sister, to like the person who was presented to her as sharing half their blood… But it’s never that easy, is it?

other connection ideas:

her father and brand new stepmother

a trusted royal advisor

a former fling

someone she butts heads with in the international world

a public enemy, someone who’s traded barbs in the press.

a friend who may be more than a friend? like someone she likes and she’s skirting around because her marriage is arranged

i’m also down for any ideas you have just like, come talk to me in the DMs or if you want hit me up on discord! my name is swanronson#0806 !!!