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Author’s Note: The story Alfie is reading to the children is loosely inspired by the Malay Folklore; Legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang
Ginny (on the phone): Can we add fairy lights around the dance platform? Maybe some canopy curtains too?
Catalina: What colour do you want it to be in?
Ginny: Maybe white? Or do you have any other suggestions?
Indirah: I think white is good. Maybe we can hang the fairy lights on the curtains too.
Ginny: Ooh~ Good idea!
Catalina: Alright, do you have any other decorations you want to add?
Ginny: Well, I do have something in mind…
*knock knock*
Rainier (from outside the room): Ginny? Are you in there?
Ginny: Yeah! Don’t come in!
Rainier: Why? What are you doing in there?
Ginny: I’m working on my dress. You can’t see it yet!
Rainier: *chuckles* Okay~ I made strawberry cheesecake for tea time. Come and eat with me when you’re done~
Ginny: Alright. Give me a minute!
Ginny *thinking*: Hmm the wedding dress is almost done. All that is left are the bridesmaid's dresses.
*phone rings*
Alfie: Don’t pick it up.
Catalina: *breathless* It’s Ginny’s ringtone. I think she wants to talk about the wedding preparation.
Alfie: Urgh, cockblocker.
Catalina: *giggles*
Catalina: Hey, Ginny. What’s up?
Catalina: Mhm, I see…
Catalina: Oh, I think I already— *gasps*
Catalina: Wh-what are you doing?
Alfie: Don’t mind me. Continue the call.
Catalina: Alfie— Sorry, Ginny. Can you repeat that?
Catalina: *voice shaking* Y-yeah. I think red is nice.
Catalina: *gasps* I-I’m fine. I…I accidentally dropped something.
Catalina: *breathless* It’s getting late here. C-can we continue the call tomorrow? Yeah, okay bye.
Alfie: *playfully* Done already? I was just getting started.
Catalina: You are in a big trouble, Mr. Frederick.
Alfie: Ooh~ I’m so scared.
Catalina: You’re not sleeping tonight until I’m done with you.
Alfie: Is that a threat, Mrs. Frederick?
Catalina: *scoffs* It’s a promise.
Indirah: Wow, you ordered more than usual. Are you getting the cinnamon roll for Alfie?
Catalina: Huh? This? Nope. They’re mine!
Indirah: Whoa, you must be very hungry. I thought you hate those?
Catalina: I just want to give it a try. They’re not too bad!
Indirah: *chuckles* I’m glad you’re enjoying them then.
[Scene transitions to Lina and Alfie going on an engagement, maybe cutting ribbons for the opening of the children’s library? Alfie reads a book for the children.]
Alfie:…the King fell in love with the Princess after seeing her beauty and asks for her hand in marriage. But the Princess has set several conditions for him before she can agree to his proposal.
Ali: What are the conditions?
Hanna: Yeah! Tell us, Mr. Prince!
Alfie: The Princess’ conditions are; the King must build a golden palace for her to live in and a golden bridge all the way from Mount Belcoast to Mount Silvie for her to walk to and from. She then would also want seven barrels of tears from a young maiden for her to bathe in. And a bowl of the blood of the King’s young heir.
Hope: Whoa! That sounds crazy impossible!
Ali: Right? Why would she give him all that conditions?
Catalina: Well, that’s actually her way of subtly telling him that she doesn’t want to marry him.
Alfie: Exactly. And in the end, the King got the hint and returned to his Kingdom. He’d rather not sacrifice his child just to marry someone.
Hanna: Wah~ The King is a good dad! Just like my appa!
Hope: Tell us more stories, please!
Catalina: You’re going to be a great dad one day, Alfie.
Alfie: Why’d you say that?
Catalina: You’re good with kids. And I know you’re going to be great to our kids.
Catalina: It’s just like a dream I had. You and the children, asleep on the bed after you read them bedtime stories.
Catalina: Just remembering that dream again makes me so happy.
Ginny: *content sigh* This feels like a dream. Everything feels so perfect.
Rainier: Well, if it is. I don’t want to wake up.
Ginny: I can’t wait for our wedding. It’s going to be perfect.
Rainier: I know. I can’t wait too. We’ve waited so long for this.
Ginny: You make me so happy. I don’t deserve you.
Rainier: You do. You deserve everything good in this world.
Rainier: And I’ll continue to make you happy. Until we’re old and grey.
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What do you think about the claim that any relationship Jaune could have with Weiss or anyone else her age is creepy now because of his age? A lot of people are trying to say that it doesn't matter that Jaune has his young body back, he's still a 40 year old in a 20 year old's body. I think that's giving those 20 years of his that he spent on his own and stuck in a cycle too much importance and that it takes his aging process too literally to begin with when it was more of a tool to explore a theme - but I dunno, maybe I'm biased because I DO ship him with Weiss.
I'm not surprised people would say this, but I honestly think people who say that are majorly misreading everything and this is without having anything to do with ships.
The point of Jaune aging is precisely that he did not develop the entire time. All those years, he stayed the same mentally. He went to extreme lengths to make sure everything and everyone around him stayed the same as well.
I think I said it in the anima/animus meta, but regardless of shipping, the point is that Jaune is not a 40 year old in a teen's body now, but that he was, in the Ever After, a teen in a 40 year old's body.
Jaune being young again was him being fixed. Jaune got to return to his true self in a parallel to Ruby--and that means being a teenager.
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Gardenia Estate, Belcoast (7:56pm)
♫ Music plays in the background ♫
Belle: Dira! Over here!
Belle: We’ve been waiting for you! What took you so long?
Indirah: Sorry for the wait, Aunt Bee. The traffic was quite bad.
Belle: It’s alright. You’re here now. Niamh, you remember Dira, right?
Niamh: Of course~ It’s nice to see you again.
Indirah: Same here.
Niamh: Oh, this is my nephew, Dom. Dom, this is Dira. You went to her brother’s wedding a few years ago with Saoirse and me, remember?
Indirah: Nice to see you here. I didn’t know you were related to Auntie Niamh.
Niamh: Oh? You know each other?
Indirah: I’ve met him several times. He lost his wallet the first time we met and he also got lost in our Campus.
Domhnall: *chuckles* That’s me. Sorry I didn’t recognize you sooner. You look different without all that tiara and stuff.
Indirah: *scoffs* Is that so? Do I really look that different?
Domhnall: Well, if I’m being honest, you look prettier without them.
Belle: Dira, dear, why don’t you take Dom to Ginny and Rainier over there? He arrived a few minutes before you and hasn’t greeted them yet. Maybe you both can greet our couple together?
Indirah: Yeah, sure.
Domhnall: What are you doing?
Niamh: Nothing~ Just go with her. You’ll thank us later.
Domhnall: Aunt—
Indirah: Dom? Are you coming?
Domhnall: Yeah, give me a sec!
Sofia: So Ginny told me that you guys are trying for a baby now. How’s it going?
Alfie: We’re still working on it.
Darien: Have you decided how many kids you want?
Alfie: We haven’t talked about it yet.
Sofia: Well, you should. Don’t go in blind. Being a parent is not like playing house.
Catalina: We’ll talk about it soon. I’m sure we’ll figure out how many we want.
Darien: You better stick to the plan or else you’re gonna end up like your Uncle Em here.
Emery: Hey! Don’t be mean. Belle and I planned to have a big family. We love the chaos.
Sofia: Mhm. Sure you do.
*Darien & Emery laughs in the background*
Catalina: Alfie?
Alfie: Hm?
Catalina: We never talked about how many kids we want.
Alfie: Mhm. I thought I’d let you decide that. You’re the one who’s gonna push them out.
Catalina: I know that. But what if I told you I only want one baby? What are you gonna do then?
Alfie: Then one child is what we’ll get.
Catalina: *clicks tongue* Alfie! Is this not important to you?
Alfie: Of course it’s important to me.
Catalina: Then why aren’t you telling me what you want? If this is important to you, we would’ve had this conversation before we got married.
Alfie: It just never crossed my mind.
Catalina: Oh, so you’re saying you never thought about having kids with me before?
Alfie: Don’t twist my words. Of course I’ve always thought about having kids with you. I just never gave it a serious thought.
Catalina: *huffs* Fine then. Since you say it like that, then I guess we’ll only have one.
Alfie: *sighs*
Alfie: Three kids, max.
Catalina: Just three?
Alfie: *snorts* What? You want more?
Catalina: *scoffs* Three is fine. Not too much. We both have three siblings too and our parents can handle that. It won’t be too hard.
Alfie: Eh~ We’ll see. If our kids take after me, they’re going to be a handful. I was a naughty kid, y’know.
Catalina: I know. Nothing I can’t handle. If I can handle their dad, I’m sure I can handle them too.
Alfie: We can handle them. You and me.
Catalina: Yes. We.
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I think Duchess Swan deserves more to her story. It seems she's an underrated character.
i do too. i actually had an idea for a webisode about her that would involve her younger brother (yes i’ve decided she has a brother). a few months ago i actually made this design for her brother:
so the webisode would play out a lil something like this: duchess’s little brother is finally enrolled at eah as a freshman and thrilled to be with his big sister, but she gives him the cold shoulder and is only embarrassed by him.
then everyone ends up loving him and giving him a bunch of attention which irritates duchess, and then to tip off the iceberg he reveals he can also turn into a swan, and when he does, his swan form is WHITE. and everyone is like ‘whoaaaa’ ‘so cool’ ‘omg amazing’ meanwhile duchess can’t take it anymore and just storms off. but her ever-caring brother follows her off.
her brother looks for duchess and finds her alone in swan-form floating in the pond she usually dances on, so he transforms into his swan form and he confronts showing concern, but she lashes out and expresses not wanting him there. and he’s confused so then (turning back into human form) she explains that she already feels like a second choice daily and now he shows up and is ‘a better her than she is’ which makes her feel worthless.
but her brother (after also transforming back) reassures her by saying that he just wanted to be just like her because he admires her so much and thinks she’s just the coolest, and even if nobody else sees that, she’s still his hero. this cheers duchess up, and she offers for the two of them to do some dancing together, and he gleefully obliges.
and that’s how that lil webisode would end.
as for the commonly raised question, “how would duchess have been born if her mom had to die?” and how she’d have a younger brother at that…
i firmly believe duchess was hatched from an egg. she and her brother are incubator babies.
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