#I love fae lore and I feel like disney criminally underutilized it

[sparrowmoth]

Baby Dragon 🐲

@fuck-you-i-am-spiderman One baby dragon, coming right up. 💖💖

First impression: “Who is she?” Lmao. I watched the “Rotten to the Core” music video before I watched D1 as a full movie and I just immediately vibed with Mal’s attitude and aesthetic. I was shortly thereafter disappointed when I realized they were forcing her into a Disney princess arc with Ben, but Isle!Mal made enough of an impression on me that I still loved her character.

Impression now: BABY. BABY GIRL. I love Mal. She’s adorable and hilarious and she’s doing her best. I don’t think she should be a queen though. I don’t think she WANTS to be a queen. I wish her arc ended with that realization. I wish she had a chance to go to college and get an art degree or whatever her heart desires. I wish she had a chance to live without expectations instead of going from trying to fit her mother’s mold to trying to fit Auradon’s mold.

Favorite moment: Hmmm, I love during the coronation scene when she takes a moment to address Evie, Jay, and Carlos individually (“you don’t need a prince, stealing doesn’t make you happy, etc”). That scene is so fucking pure and it’s such a sweet vulnerable moment for all of them where, for the first time, Mal makes it abundantly clear that this is her family, not just her gang.

Idea for a story: I haven’t thought out all the potential plotholes, but one idea I’ve batted around like a mouse in my head is where Mal realizes she can’t lie outside the barrier (due to being fae). And unfortunately, unlike Jane or Fairy Godmother, she has no practice with choosing her words carefully, so after getting past the first few incidents where everyone assumes she’s choking (because she was trying to speak a lie), she just… can’t say anything. She’s fucked if Carlos, Jay, and Evie aren’t around to lie for her. It’s so frustrating, she eventually decides, “You know what? Fuck it. I’m just gonna be honest about everything!” Which eventually leads to a situation where, like… Evie asks what Mal thinks of her outfit and Mal, without thinking, replies matter-of-factly: “I want to rip it off and [redacted].” And Evie’s like 😳😳😳

Unpopular opinion: Mal is an abused teenage girl, not a convenient scapegoat for (justified but misdirected) hatred of the white-centric, heteronormative status quo in popular media. She’s not perfect, but neither is anyone else’s fave, and that’s not a bad thing, because perfect characters are boring and unrealistic. This is the hill I will die on, thank you for asking. ;)

Favorite relationship: Rotten OT4 (or just Core Four, either way). I love her dynamics with the whole gang. One relationship I wish we’d seen more of on screen is Jal because the books made me feel so strongly that those two were best friends on the Isle, whether they called it that or not.

Favorite headcanon: Mal is visibly non-human, beyond just glowing eyes. Give my girl some pointy teeth. Give her sharp nails that grow back overnight no matter how neatly she clips and rounds them. Give her patches of scaly skin that appear and disappear on different parts of her body as if her flesh is shifting like sand overtop a second skin. Give her wings that she keeps folded against her back, wings that necessitate custom outfits (courtesy of Evie). Give me a girl and a dragon in one.

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#descendants #mal bertha #malvie #rotten OT4 #core four #descendants headcanons #my headcanons #my writing #my fanfiction #descendants fandom #I have thought about the implications of 'no lying' so much....... #I really want to write something with that #but I want to write a lot of things so lol #anyway I just think that'd be fun #I love fae lore and I feel like disney criminally underutilized it #by which I mean they did not use it..... at all #:(