birdwithoutasong | Fairytale AU Meme [Open]

Pick one of my characters and I'll toss a disney/fairytale au scenario at you! I've got some rough descriptions of their roles below. You can start, or you can just give their name in a top-level and I’ll write something up. These can be shippy or not, although given the descriptions I’ll probably tend towards that way unless you tell me you don’t want that

Alec: Damsel in distress, suicidal, who thinks this whole thing is stupid and this story can be ended if anyone at any point just solves the problem of the ‘princess’ for good

Annabel: Necromancer, who tries to find love by bringing hers back from the dead

Dominic: Knight, who’s pretty sure that he’s supposed to slay the ‘dragon’ but might end up falling in love with him/her instead

I-No: The evil witch, finds delight in other people’s suffering

Ivy: The persecuted heroine, who badly wants to believe in love but doesn’t really believe that it can trump the facts of life

Kai: Prince charming, careful and earnest, hugely romantic who thinks that life’s course can be changed by love

Ky: Either the hero, earnest but not very good at people, or the damsel in distress who’s going to apologize for having to be rescued

Rose: Ghost girl, who will accept a coat in exchange for being able to touch and feel for a while

Sol: The dragon, why are you waking him up from his nap just to rescue a princess? He doesn’t have time for this crap.

Valentine: The evil king whose goal in all of this is power and also just seeing the ordinary people scramble

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"Then we'll have t'let it get closer." It might not actually be the easiest way to take care of the problem, but Sol's never bothered to work on finesse when he has raw power.

"Alright." She won't resume her singing, at least not loud enough to carry over the waves. Melissa will just hum a little bit underneath her breath.

Sol's going to relax on his rock, closing his eyes. Hey, he didn't say how far away the ship was, and he definitely has time for a nap.

Melissa will settle on hers as well, a soft song similar to a lullaby being her tune now. It's not filled to the brim with magic- or at least, she's not trying to put magic into it, a siren's song always has some- but it is pretty.

After a while he stirs, nostrils flaring as he catches the scent of human on the wind, and the scent of their weapons a moment later.

"How close d'you want me to let 'em get?"

Melissa glances up, looking out at the horizon. She can't even see the thing yet, but she knows it's likely coming. "Not close enough to actually attack," she says, but other than that she'll leave it up to him.

"And y'wanted to watch." If not, he's been wasting his time, so he kind of hopes that's not the case.

"I did." What, he's not doing it just because he wants to? That's sweet.

He might as well give someone else a show, if he's going to do it anyway, right? Which is why he takes off, wings spread wide as he gains some height and therefore speed.

Melissa will sink a little bit more into the water, but her eyes are still on the dragon and on the boat that's coming clearer and clearer into her vision.

He'll fly once over the boat just to get them panicking a little and to make sure she has a clear shot when he flies back around towards her, flame shooting from his mouth to catch the mast.

Melissa will happily watch the show that's being put on for her, leaning up further on the rock to get a better view of it all. It's a very pleasing image what that mast gets set alight and she's quite happy he's making it so she can watch.

Perhaps he shouldn't draw this out, just burn it quickly and be done with it, but Sol can't help from wanting that little more, for Melissa to truly have a bit of a show. So he watches them trying to put out the fire on the mast for a moment before he flies again, this time getting just the prow of the boat.

She wouldn't have minded the rapid burst of flames, but the fact that it's so clearly a show is also really doing it for her. The sailors are panicking quite badly at this point, half of them trying to put out the fires and some of them trying to turn around and attack the dragon.

He's going to wrap it up soon, catching them with one last burst as he really catches the boat on fire, before he spirals down to land on the desk, landing there until it starts to sink underwater. He roasts anyone he goes after him.

Landing on the ship is a nice touch. Some of the sailors try to go at him, but most are smart enough to just try and abandon ship to see if they'll survive this encounter. (Melissa finds that unlikely, but if it looks like they might she can always start singing.)

The ship does rock a bit and start to sink under Sol's weight, even before the fire breaks through the hull. When it starts to truly sink, he springs off of it, circling in the air for a long moment before he rejoins Melissa.

"Good enough, my lady?"

"It was," she practically purrs in reply, now laying down a bit more on her rock now that it's over, "You sure know how to put on one hell of a show." Melissa chuckles, tossing her hair over her shoulder. "Maybe I'll be able to repay you with an equally enticing one, someday."

He snorts, a puff of fire snaking out over the sea. "Just consider it a good gesture to a fellow."

Melissa chuckles, a hand reaching down to the water to skim across it. "If you say so."

"Y'have any fancy abilities, besides your singing?"

Melissa shakes her head. "But my singing can do a number of things." Breaking boats is just the most fun.

Another snort. "Like sway men's hearts?"

"Why? Feeling swayed?" she teases, with a little laugh, "But I suppose that could be one use, yes."

He laughs, tail hitting the water and stirring up waves. "Don't think that would work."

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