a proper voice test appears...!

[prisedefer]

Shhhhhh, princess, shhhhhhh. I'm afraid all that comes of kissing frogs are bruised lips and dirtied fingers.

But there is an easy trade when you wish to rouse a prince.

It begins with, Once upon a time. And it ends with death, despair, dread and delusion.

Shhhhhhhhhhhh.

Comments

[raison]

Does it-

[ No- ]

It doesn't have to end like that.

1/3

[prisedefer]

'And they lived happily ever after'?

[prisedefer]

'And they lived happily'?

[prisedefer]

'And they lived'?

[raison]

Wasn't it... "And if they have not died, then they are still alive today?"

That doesn't sound bad.

[knightoftheswan]

............

You sound like the sort of person my mundane listens to.

[prisedefer]

An avid fairy tale connoisseur?

[knightoftheswan]

Something like that.

With a bit of opera when the fairy tale isn't tragic enough.

[regretzio]

[strum]

♪ Akio, Akio, scheming and laconic
His car insurance premiums
Must be astronomic ♪

[prisedefer]

...shall we go for a ride?

[metallic_corruption]

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH, Such wonderful darkness that emanates from your being. You are indeed one of my kin or should I say, you have become one. Tell me, If the hero of the story is also it's villain, is it a tragedy or a comedy?

[prisedefer]

A satire.

[metallic_corruption]

Perhaps it's message is that there really is nothing good, innocent or just in the universe and that people's hope and dreams in themselves, in others, in ideas, and in the future will always come to naught. Therefore they should just give into the darkness in all things and let it consume them!

[derobement]

How uplifting. ( and dripping with sarcasam... )

[prisedefer]

Shall we make a wager?

[unreachableutopia]

Then it is the same with all legends.


[Doesn't she know.]

[prisedefer]

The terrible endings come with alternatives.

[milkshakes]

Doesn't it always? [ light, lilting, and yet matter-of-factly. ] It's almost funny, actually. Modern stories have to warp the original versions so terribly to fit in the happily ever after.

[prisedefer]

Bitterness doesn't become a young woman, does it?

[likeashadow]

The dark of it is, sometimes that's the best endin' yeh can hope for.

Also, if yeh kiss a frog, yer as like teh turn inta one. [her experience of "frogs" differ from many]

[prisedefer]

What a waste of pure lips.

[skirtcladgunner]

Why even bother trying to rouse the prince at all?

[prisedefer]

Tradition. Ideals. Habit.

[kingunmaker]

My. Are those the only things which can rouse a prince? In my experience, power, wealth and women often did the trick just as well.

[prisedefer]

How light your prince's sleep must be.