This isn't really what i was aiming for, but my story had to be within the guidelines of the assignment. i really wanted to write that Sleeping Beauty's attendants were in suspended animation or cryo-freeze in a spaceship, or something to that affect. I was also intrigued by the fact that her prince raped her in the original, she has twins, and one of the babies sucks her finger, dislodging the flax from under her nail. In a modern story none of these women would settle for these men or vice versa. Are we too picky today? Cuz my perception is that all these protagonists are a bunch of selfish idiots when all is said and done.
Twilight, in my opinion, is in a way a modern telling of Beauty and the Beast, not that it follows the storyline exactly, but it has the same concepts. Tbh, in my story i wanted to make the female the one in the fat suit, and the "beauty" actually be a hunky guy, but i felt that the multiples birth via fertility drugs. Actually, only two babies seems a bit unlikely, 3-5 sounds more precise, but i didn't have the room to flesh out so many characters in 5 pages, so loosely combined two stories for each character. Aurora was meant to be Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, with more involvement from the stepmother (which in the original was actually her mother: who knew), while Bella is more clearly Beauty and Cinderella. Anyway, off to class, i'm going to be late. ):
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