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3[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/irene_small_1547.jpg]]
4[[caption-width-right:256:Just because you stopped beliving in fairytales doesn't mean they stopped believing in you...]]
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6''Irene and The Firebird'' (original Spanish title ''Irene y el Ave de Fuego'') is a WebOriginal serial published in Wattpad and Fictionpress about a young woman named Irene: a peasant in a small medieval Russian village. She's the daughter of the milkman, Gregory, both trying to get by and struggling to survive.
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8Irene's been bullied since she was a little girl, all because of the ludicrious tales about the firebird: a mythical creature that her father claims it saved his life years ago, and ever since then, he has been telling the same story, eventually becoming the laughigstock of his community, the town of Ensk.
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10Irene believes that all those stories are nothing but fairytales, until one day a stranger comes to visit, following the trail of the mysterious bird...and nothing will ever be the same.
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12The serial is updated weekly and you can find it here:
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14http://www.wattpad.com/story/13168949-irene-y-el-ave-de-fuego
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17!! The story provides examples of:
18%%* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: PlayedForDrama, for once, in the case of Gregory.
19%%* ArcSymbol: The Firebird.
20%%* CoolOldGuy: Gregory.
21* DarkerAndEdgier: One of the points of making all this story was to recreate a Disneyesque fantasy, but going a little farer involving regicide, bullying and social ostrazacion, and the ugly side of an at first sight typical fairytalish small rural town.
22%%* DeadpanSnarker: Irene and Ruslán, to the point you could name it their favorite hobby after literature.
23* FamilyBusiness: Ruslán's the son of the butcher, and he hopes his child takes on his job one day.
24* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The story is heavily based on medieval Russia. However, the official name of the kingdom it takes place is "Vassilea Rus", making it somewhat of a fictionilized version of a real historical country.
25%%* {{Jerkass}}: Quite a good number of Ensk population towards Irene and her father.
26* KingIncognito: [[spoiler: Aleksei, the young stranger that arrives to Ensk, turns out to be Vassilea's Prince]]
27%%* RebelPrince
28%%* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan
29* SmallTownBoredom: How Irene feels at the beginning.
30* SaveThePrincess: Somewhat inverted AND played straight at the same time [[spoiler: Irene trying to help Prince Aleksandr, and he in turn tries to help her sister, Princess Zlata]]
31* SpiritualSuccessor: Since the author loves Disney so much, you can see a heavy inspiration in this story, but also to old Soviet animation movies and short films like TheHumpbackedHorse.
32%%* TheStoic: Aleksei.
33%%* WeatherAndEnvironment: Due to the setting, there are different weather tropes: SnowMeansLove, SnowMeansDeath, DramaticWind among others.
34* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield?:
35** The name of Irene's town is "Ensk", in Russian means "N-City" (any given place)
36%%** The Vassilea Rus itself.

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