"Anastasia is very preoccupied with aesthetics, and she’s quite emotionally stunted. I don’t think she realizes quite how selfish she’s being. She’s just this selfish little toddler." — HOLLIDAY GRAINGER ♡
sometimes disney sequels are like sooo funny. like cinderella 2 is two shorts of dumb badly-written bullshit barely stitched together into the narrative and then they drop the fucking BANGER of the anastasia short which is better on its own than like all the other disney sequels and was so well-loved it was considered canon enough for the third movie and then we just never talked about it again
Hi, Raven. I recently found out that Professor Train has daughters, is that true?
Yup, that’s canon!
A lot of staff lore is obscured behind Unified Exam events, where you trade in the tokens you earn in cumulative battles to get new staff voice lines. This is the case for the lore surrounding Trein’s daughters; we first learn of them via bonus lines.
Trein mentions in a March 2021 (JP) Unified Exam line that he has “daughters” (I assume 2, but a number was not specified when I checked) and a late wife. His daughters are already adults and have left home. Trein says that his daughters grew up strong and healthy, and that seeing the NRC kids reminds him of them. We also learn in other voice lines that his daughters write letters to him and worry about his health and wellbeing, urging him to contact them if he ever needs help.
This is, presumably, meant to mirror Lady Tremaine’s family, as Trein is twisted from the Evil Stepmother, who also had daughters and a deceased spouse. Interestingly, Trein does not mention a stepdaughter or a stepson. However, it could be that he considers twisted Cinderella as a “true” daughter of his. Alternatively, there just isn’t a stepchild at all. We don’t have that information yet.
(Trigger warning for well, murder. This one gets kinda dark...)
In trying to work out a turning point for Cinderella I kept thinking it had to be at the moment after her dress is destroyed, when she's at her lowest point. But of course that's when the Fairy Godmother comes in, and it felt sort of cheap to say "well the Fairy Godmother just doesn't show up" cuz why wouldn't she? What would stop her?
And then I had the thought of Cinderella 3. Where the Fairy Godmother has been stopped, and can't come to fix anything.
And Cinderella 3 already falls into a very prevalent fairytale trope of the step-sister assuming the heroine's form and place, often by either turing the heroine into a different form--or outright doing away with her. And the Stepmother seemed pretty set on the latter with trying to send Cinderella over the cliff in that twisted pumpkin coach.
And in the Darkside verse, she succeeds. The mice fail to rescue Cinderella, and the coach goes over. Anastasia tries to back out still, but without Cinderella showing up to spoil the ruse and back her up in facing Lady Tremaine she's quickly bullied back into place by her mother, and marries the Prince in Cinderella's form. The Royal family is bespelled once more to keep them complacent and gain Lady Tremaine even greater power.
But these types of Cinderella tales never end with the stepfamily escaping the price of their evil deeds, and neither does this one.
A year to the day of her untimely end, a restless spirit breaks free of her unmarked resting place. A spirit of flame and fury, wreath about in the vines of the couch that carried her to her doom.
There is to be a ball that night, celebrating the Prince and Princess' one year anniversary, a magnificent affair, and all are invited to attend. Though no one is expecting this particular guest, and by the nights end, those left standing will never be able to forget her...
[Image Description: Three digitally composited images of Anastasia Tremaine and Vanessa, created using Disney screencaps. The first image is Anastasia, holding one of Vanessa’s hands in both of her own. They are smiling at one another.
The second image is a view in a mirror. Anastasia is sitting in front of the mirror, smiling and brushing her hair as Vanessa laughs behind her.
The third image is Vanessa, and Anastasia, both in wedding dresses and holding bouquets, walking down the aisle together. Vanessa is looking ahead, and Anastasia is looking at Vanessa. There is a crowd around the aisle, slightly bowing to them. End ID]
Animated 9: Cinderella III: A Twist In Time v Return To Never Land
Cinderella III {original-Cinderella (1950)}
It is in the words of Seamus Gorman 'A Masterpiece'. In his series reviewing the Disney Sequels it was considered the benchmark to measure all other Disney Sequels by. I don't remember which sequel got the damning 'It was good but it was no Cinderella III: A Twist in Time.' This movie has it all: time travel, characters with 3d personalities, that one iconic meme where the king says 'I forbid you to take another step' and the prince jumps out the window. Its so silly, its so fun, it is a masterpiece. Link to the Seamus Review:
~Anastasia redemption arc and character development
~The cat, lucifer, gets more screen time
~The king has a backstory
Time travel, and the prince. "But the talking mice say she's the wrong girl" " I forbid you to take another step down these stairs!" "Ok!*jumps out the window*"
Return to Never Land {originial-Peter Pan (1953)} *spoilers?*
It follows Wendy's canonical daughter Jane, in every version of the story where Peter returns to the Darling's window, he meets Jane, and this story gives her her own adventure. with Wendy as a turn of the century child, it isn't too much of a stretch to assume Jane would be growing up in the middle of a deeply contentious time in British History, that being the London bombings of World War 2, and Unlike Wendy, whom needed to understand that she didn't WANT to never grow up and embrace her coming maturity as it arrives, Jane had been thrown into a position in her family where she had needed to grow up too fast, and in her trip to Neverland understand the importance of that child-like wonder she had nearly lost.As such, she starts out deeply skeptical and frustrated by the nonsensical nature of Neverland, and being more trusting of adults than of children whose attempts of 'playing with her' were little more than bullying with the thin veneer of 'just a game', which ultimately allows her to be manipulated by Hook. But even then manages to grow attached to the lost boys and connect with Peter and due to her inability to fly for most of the movie had almost fully integrated into the world of Neverland and became the first Lost Girl by the time of the third act.While it's held back by the painfully early 00's music it's ultimately a very compelling story about a child in a deeply traumatizing situation finding temporary haven in a place untouched by the war that had so deeply distorted her worldview and ultimately reclaiming her right to have a childhood after constant danger of death and destruction had nearly wrenched it from her entirely.(also there's no racist Native American stereotypes that exist just for the sake of themselves and could have easily been some sort of fantasy species but nahhh it was the 50s so native americans were SUPER okay to be racist about/s)