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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
10th Jan, 2019 01:10:22 AM
Working on cleaning up List Of Shows That Need Summary
I vaguely recollect some animated movie with a young female main character who lived in a tower (basically Rapunzel) in (I think) a town. One day an adult male guard came up to her and started creeping on her (chess may have been involved, I forget; this happened at night I think). I think it was later the same night that she eventually leaves the tower and down under a collapsed building/roof(?) finds some sort of glowing treasure/animal (it's hard to remember which; if it was an animal it was small and became her companion). She eventually gets captured by either a witch/wizard who I think had a crow(-like?) familiar. Anyway I think she crash-landed next to the wizard's castle and like left a big crater in the stone brick walkway. I don't remember much from here other than the wizard's castle being composed almost entirely of a single spiral staircase with a balcony up top and rooms down below. Eventually the protag finds her way to looking through prison bars (maybe she was doing chores?) down into a big painted room with a woman in a chair casually embroidering(?). Somehow she gets into the room and has a conversation with the woman about how she's content (I forget if she gets rescued). At some point I think the protag flies away in some sort of Castle in the Sky-esque airship. I think this is when some giant god-like crystal wizard is first seen? They had a white color scheme in any case. Some way or another the protag finds her way to a village in a plains valley that the wizard's castle and her town overlooked (this scene is set at sunset). If the village wasn't suffering from a drought then I have no idea why this happened, but someone waterbended like an entire lake to wash over the plains. Happily ever after??
Okay yeah so in hindsight this was almost certainly a dream but hey at least there's some great inspiration for your next whatever.