Close. The basic plot is 'Sleeping Beauty' is male, and instead of getting blessed by 3 good fairies, he gets 3 curses (in a 'may you live in interesting times', 'the reward for good work done is more work' kind of way, more for the lols, but not straight for the evulz). Then the Maleficent analogue shows up and basically curses him with death by spinning wheel spindle. The aforementioned 3 demons strike a deal with the king to keep him protected until the curse expires (I'm basing the generic outline on the animated film), since they want to see him 'suffer' under THEIR curses and they can't do that if he dies. They raise him as his sisters, away from the royal family, and make him do all the work in the house as the cosmic deadline looms closer. The kingdom, meanwhile, all swtiches to wearing leather or hand-spinning their thread, making clothes really expensive, though they're allowed to go to the next town over to buy clothes.
He, meanwhile, grows up thinking he just has 3 really slutty and lazy sisters, meets the handsome princess, and finds he's being stalked by the demon who uber-cursed him, who acts like a nagging mom. On the eve of his 16th birthday, he finds out he's royalty and is kinda shocked to find out all he's ever known was a lie. Turns out, the handsome princess is actually his sister, the the one who uber-cursed him is actually his mom— the king had an affair while learning magic and when he dumped her, she had Sleeping Beauty, gave him to his dad to come to love him, then cursed him with death to punish him (the dad). Sleeping Beauty gets pricked by a rusty spindle and the curse gives him tetanus, paralyzing him and slowly choking him to death (or possibly stop his heart).
Sleeping Beauty is saved by his sister (use your imagination, and pretend she's the Sun King), and when mom decides to use the direct approach, dad loses it and uses magic to turn into a dragon and fight her. They fight, and she gets the chance to go at Sleeping Beauty, but his three demon sisters, who turn to also be his ACTUAL sisters on his mom's side (Once Upon a Time has infected me...) step in to stop her. This gives dad time to get at her and they mutually annihilate...
That's the rough I have now, not counting the subplot of Little Red Riding Hood's (who is a boy too) grandma being a demon, the wolf being a people eater demon, and Sleeping Beauty as the huntsman; the plot with Hanel and Gretel; and Sleeping Beauty using crossdressing to find out what happened to Cinderella's stepsisters after they married Bluebeard the pirate...
Thinking of putting this on fictionpress for feedback before publishing. What do you think? Too much?
edited 9th Nov '14 8:42:47 PM by SCMof2814
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Would it really stop you if it was?
I think that the premise is workable.
Hmm, I take the wait and see approach.
I'd advise against that. With me you'll be waiting for a LONG time...
I think that over all the sleeping beauty part seems good, but you may want to either remove the other fairy tale sub-plots or make them into sequels; the way you described them as an after thought sounded like they would be better developed separately.
Fate Grand Order players will know me as Ryusei-Go.
The subplots are more setup for further story lines or at least exciting events to happen between the start and finish of the book, so that it's not all domestic angst. Besides, it's easy to cut them out. Though not Male Cinderella. Male Sleeping Beauty needs a bro.
edited 20th Nov '14 1:59:41 AM by SCMof2814
WHY is TV Tropes doing a kickstarter?
Yuri fanfiction writer! http://www.fanfiction.net/~shanejayell
Money, dearie, money.
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Okay, after yet another long bout of writer's block, I've finally churned out something 2814-related. This is meant to be a little something set after the current arc, inspired something from the latest chapter of INNOCENT.
Hayate cheerfully banged Graf Eisen on the table. “All right, this meeting will come to order,” she chirped as an aghast Vita took back her Armed Device, cradling it to her chest and cooing at it comfortingly. “It's time for us to decide on a name!”
The full complement of Uminari's City's Magical Girls (and boys) plus her own knights all looked at her blankly. “Huh?” Alisa said, speaking for everyone as Levi smiled in cheerful vacancy.
Dearche scowled, crossing her arms. “Make sense, will you! ”
“We need a name, my king,” Hayate said happily. “Mahora has Ala Alba. Fuyuki has the Fate Knights. Tokyo has the Sailor Senshi. Takamiya City has the Amakawa-Youki Harem. Even Misaki has the After-School Alleyway Alliance. We're the only team in the United Magical Girl Association without a proper name!”
“I don't think they actually call themselves a Harem,” Fate corrected gently. “And I think the Alleyway Alliance is reconsidering.”
“What's a harem?” Nanoha asked.
Everyone, even Levi, opened their mouths to tell her to ask her mother, but wonder of wonders, Hayate was faster. “It's what Yuri's Material-chans are!” Hayate chirped.
As Dearche gave her physical template a dirty look promising painful shiny magic death beams, Nanoha blinked. “Oh, protectors? Is that all?”
“Yup!” Hayate sad before anyone could stop her. “Yuri-chan has her harem of Materials, and I have my Wolkenritter.” She looked so innocent Yuuno resisted the urge to arrest her on the spot.
“Can we get back to the name thing?” Alisa said loudly. Why did they keep getting distracted with things like this?
“Right!” Hayate declared. “We need a proper overall team name! A banner under which to rally all the Magical Girls—”
“And boys,” Yuuno said in a longer-suffering voice.
“— and boys,” Hayate said smoothly, “of Uminari City!”
Nanoha nodded at her words, slamming one fist down onto a palm. “She's right, of course! As warriors of truth, love nd justice, we can't just go around without a name for ourselves. It would be against tradition!”
Hayate nodded. Nanoha was a traditionalist about a lot of things, and being a Magical Girl was one of them, despite the fact 'tradition' only consisted of about 3 years of real life and anime going back to the 60s. That didn't make her go any easier on those claiming to be Phantom Thieves, though. Kaito Kid and Arsene Lupin 3rd wannabes soon found why their idols left taunting notes only to normal police. Unless they were in Gotham, but everyone there was nuts. “Exactly, Nanoha-chan! I'm glad someone agrees. Do you have any ideas for a name?”
Nanoha nodded enthusiastically. “How about 'Justice Sentai Gavanger'?”
She beamed.
Everyone, even Hayate and Fate, gave her a blank stare.
“It's cool, right?” Nanoha prompted.
“How about 'Burning Fairies'?” Alisa proposed, mostly to change to subject.
“Don't you mean 'Flaming'—?” Levi began.
“I know what I meant!” Alisa said.
“Because 'Flaming' would have been way more accurate,” Levi continued cheerfully.
“How about 'Nanoha-chan and her Merry Friends'?” Fate proposed.
“So we're just her extras?” Yuuno said dryly.
“I'm not a 'merry friend',” Vita said, crossing her arms.
...Lupin's not a part of this crossover? Darnit, and my headcanon was that he was living quietly in retirement somewhere in 2814.
Hey Shadow, remember your fic "War for the Great Grail"? Well now that Achilles has shown up on Apocrypha and as a Rider, now what?
edited 1st Dec '14 10:50:05 AM by mike21
It's obvious what the group's name is:
The Befriended
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I picked Achilles a long time ago, basing her on an RP forum I read.
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“So we're just her extras?” Yuuno said dryly.
“I'm not a 'merry friend',” Vita said, crossing her arms.
“Fate-chan!” Nanoha, well, whined. “Secret identity, remember?”
“That's what she objects to?” Dearche said flatly.
“Nanoha-san seems to have a hidden egotistical streak,” Signum agreed.
“How about 'Uminari Girls'?” Suzuka proposed.
Zafira and Yuuno coughed loudly.
“And Boys?” Suzuka appended smoothly.
“They just keep forgetting we're here, don't they?” Yuuno said.
“You get used to it,” Zafira said. “Eventually.”
“You get used to the rotting soul pain of being a nonentity?” Yuuno said.
“Oh no, that lasts forever,” Zafira said. The two sighed.
Yuri Eberwein, who'd been mostly silent until now, hesitantly ventured, “Perhaps we should decide on a theme first?” At the looks, she paused, then continued. “As I recall, Ala Alba was named after Magus Erebus' parent's group and AngelGARd's wings. The Fate Knights are mostly knights of some sort. Perhaps we should identify a common theme amongst ourselves first?”
There was a pause.
“Magic?” Nanoha proposed.
“Everyone has magic,” Reinforce pointed out.
“Low concentration of mages my little loli ass,” Vita muttered under her breath. “Did the TSAB ever say when they were going to get around to doing a proper survey?”
“The practice of Ancient Belkan style?” Stern proposed.
“As a proud user of modern Mid style, I'd like to get a second option,” Fate said.
“Green Lanterns,” Nanoha said proudly, putting one arm around Yuuno, much to his surprise. “I like to think that overshadows my magic, no offense Raging Heart.”
“None taken, my master.”
“What else do we have in common?” Hayate wondered aloud, tapping her lips.
Levi tilted her head. “Nanoha-chan's all shot us in the face?”
There was a sudden stillness at that.
“I don't aim for he face!” Nanoha protested, breaking the stillness into teeny tiny pieces.
“You do,” Fate, Vita, Dearche, Stern, Reinforce, Arf, Signum, Shamal, Alisa and Yuuno all chorused.
“Eh? You too Alisa-chan?” Nanoha said, pouting in betrayal.
“Nanoha, you gave me my first bloody nose, and I'm pretty sure you're also the reason a lost a tooth the next week,” Alisa said.
“You made Suzuka cry!” Nanoha said.
“So you kept telling me. Repeatedly,” Alisa said.
“So, are we calling ourselves the 'Nanoha Victims Support Group'?” Arf asked. She sounded like she might be serious.
“Secret identity!” Nanoha emphasized. “Seriously, it's not that hard to remember to do! Can't we use some other theme?”
“Like what, our criminal records?” Vita said dryly.
Everyone but Yuuno gave Nanoha a look. “What?” she innocently asked the many people she had arrested.
edited 1st Dec '14 10:37:34 PM by SCMof2814
'The Befriended' DOES actually make sense...
This is great.
Have you chosen the name yorself yet, or are you just ad-libbing?
I have some names picked out, but a name for the whole group… I'm still considering, trying to see where the writing takes me.
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“Secret identity!” Nanoha emphasized. “Seriously, it's not that hard to remember to do! Can't we use some other theme?”
“Like what, our criminal records?” Vita said dryly.
Everyone but Yuuno gave Nanoha a look. “What?” she innocently asked the many people she had arrested.
Wordlessly, all the convicted criminals in the room exchanged looks and changed the subject.
“How about something cliché and generic?” Shamal suggested. “Like 'Uminari Defense Force'?”
“It's a bit too generic, isn't it?” Hayate said. “In this modern time, we need something with a bit more kick to it. How about 'Riot Force'?”
Everyone gave her a skeptical look.
“It's not like we really handle a lot of riots, Hayate-chan,” Fate said diplomatically.
Everyone nodded in agreement that calling it 'Riot Force' when they didn't actually have anything to do with riots was a stupid idea. Hayate pouted.
“Why is picking a name so hard?“ Nanoha sighed.
“I think it's because we're three distinct groups,” Yuuno pointed out.
Nanoha blinked. “We are?”
Yuuno counted off on his fingers. “Well, there's Hayate's lesbian army—”
“Et tu, Yuuno-kun?” Zafira said, betrayed.
“— Yuri's loli annihilation squad—”
“That's us!” Levi chirped happily.
“— and Nanoha's childhood friends,” Yuuno finished. “That's three distinct groups. Maybe we should just pick a name for each group and then see if we can hammer a neutral term for all three to be under?”
“I'll say it right now, I'm NOT going to be part of the lesbian army,” Zafira said, crossing his arms stubbornly. “A man can only take so much!”
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Ganbatte, Zafira...!
And now, more 2814 omake! Ah, I've missed writing these loonies...
“Hear hear.” Yuuno agreed.
“I'm not talking to you right now traitor.”
As Yuuno slumped in depression, Hayate reached over and patted Zafira on one bicep. “You're absolutely right Zafira-kun,” she said. “We have been a little insensitive. As much as I'd like having a personal lesbian army, we also need to take you into account in our naming scheme.”
“How about 'Hayate Senshi Wolkenritter'?” Nanoha suggested.
There was a brief pause as all the Wolkenritter tilted their heads. “I'm okay with it...” Vita said slowly.
“Secret identity, remember Nanoha-chan?” Hayate said pointedly.
“'Night Sky Senshi'?” Suzuka suggested.
“That's closer,” Hayate mused.
“Wait, why do we need a new name?” Vita demanded. “'Wolkenritter' is a fine old name with a long tradition of asskicking!”
“And planetary destruction,” Alisa pointed out. “No offense, Rein-san.”
Sigh. “None taken.”
“Well, it raises the question of whether I'm a Wolkenritter,” Hayate said, smiling knowingly. “And whether I can join in on Wolkenritter bonding time.”
There was a pause. “So, this new name?” Vita said brightly, trying to suppress the idea of Hayate joining 'Wolkenritter Bonding Time', aka, an orgy in Signum and Shamal's room. “What should it be?”
“I'm now inclined towards 'Night Sky' something,” Hayate mused. “The Tome of the Night Sky is what brought us together, after all.”
“Plus if you get turned mind-controlled and evil or we run into evil alternate universe versions of you, we can call them the 'Darkness' something,” Nanoha chirped.
There was a pause. “Evil alternate universe versions?” Dearch said. “Seriously?”
“Yup,” Nanoha said. “It happens more often than you think. Fortunately, Evil Green Lantern Corps know to stay in their own universe. Or something. I'm not quite sure, the Guardians handle that sort of thing, we just blow them up when they show up.”
“What a horrifying thought,” Shamal said faintly as images of an evil Nanoha with full power filled her mind.
edited 4th Dec '14 4:25:49 PM by SCMof2814
“Wait, how did I not know we might run into an Evil Green Lantern Corps?” Yuuno asked, mildly panicked.
“It's in your code book,” Nanoha said, slightly exasperated. “Really Yuuno-kun, haven't you read it by now? You've had months!”
“Nanoha, I asked around on Oa. NO ONE reads the code book unless they absolutely have to. It's just not sane! Even MOGO hasn't read the whole code book, and he's one of the oldest living Lanterns. He says it's boring. A sentient PLANET thinks it's boring. And his hobby is making new mountains using only continental drift because using vulcanism is cheating.”
Nanoha sighed. “Standards sure have slipped since I was recruited,” she said wistfully. “Why, in my day...”
“I have it!” Yuri exclaimed, clapping her hands. “How about 'Court of the Night Sky'? You're a queen and her retainers after all, and you dispense justice as you see fit. Just like a queen holding court.”
Hayate titled her head, consider. “Hmm... Court of the Night Sky...” she said, sweeping her hand up like some in-movie director in a particularly histrionic movie. “Has a nice ring to it...”
“Would that make you guys the Court of the Purple Sky?” Alisa asked, looking at Yuri and the Materials.
“No!” Dearche said firmly. “Of course it doesn't! While I suppose it is an appropriate name for the lunatic and her coterie, it is hardly becoming for one of my stature, let alone our sovereign!”
Yuri tilted her head pensively. Her face was thoughtful. “'Court of the Purple Sky' seems like a good name...”
“Of course it does!” Deache proclaimed with absolutely no irony. “It is an entirely appropriate name that you have chosen, my sovereign, one greatly befitting you, who stands highest above us all!”
“Are we sure she doesn't have any Gilgamesh parts in her?” Fate hissed at Hayate. Hayate shrugged.
“Ooh, how about you guys?” Levi asked, leaning towards Nanoha. “What are you going to call yourselves now?”
Ok, I'll take a guess at that... how about the fairy godmother is actually a demon out for Sleeping Male Beauty's soul, and it turns out the woman he pines for is a nympho who doesn't give a damn about who it as as long as she gets her fix.