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movedto-bunny-lovers · 5 months

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My Hawks Nendoroid came today 😊

#otp: wing hero and his dove

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princesssarisa · 2 years

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Character ask: The Frog Princess, Vasilisa the Wise

Tagged by @ariel-seagull-wings

Favorite Thing About Them: Her intelligence and skill. I love that she knows magic, that she's an excellent seamstress and baker too (in the versions where she makes the Tzar's shirt and bread herself, that is), and that she was cursed because someone (her father) was jealous of her cleverness. Fairy tale princesses often earn jealousy, but usually for their beauty, not their brains. She flouts the stereotype that fairy tale princesses are shallow and only valuable for their looks, and she flouts it with flying colors!

Also, I like seeing an animal transformation fairy tale where the heroine is the one transformed into an animal and the male hero is the one who's always human. More often the reverse is true (Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, Snow White and Rose Red, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, etc.); it's refreshing to sometimes see a gender-flip of the usual "animal bridegroom" trope.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: The fact that in some versions, she has magical servants make the shirt and bake the bread that the Tzar commanded instead of doing it herself. That's cheating: the Tzar's order was that his son's wives each make him a shirt and bake him a loaf of bread, not their servants. Fortunately, there are other versions where she does it herself, and those are the versions I prefer.

Also, the fact that after being so active and wise in the first part of the story, she becomes just a silent damsel in distress after she becomes Koschei the Deathless's prisoner.

Three Things I Have in Common With Them:

*I'm intelligent, or at least I hope I am.

*I'm partly of Russian descent.

*I'm a decent dancer.

Three Things I Don’t Have in Common With Them:

*I don't know magic.

*Neither my looks nor my dancing ability would make ball guests stare in amazement.

*I have a good relationship with my father.

Favorite Line:

Her advice to Ivan when she urges him to go to sleep instead of worrying the night away:

The morning is wiser than the evening.

From the Let's Pretend radio adaptation "The Enchanted Frog":

The soul is the thing one tries to find When choosing a mate, keep this in mind. A lovely face may conceal a shrew, Or ugliness bring you blessings true.

BROTP: Her magical servants, in the versions where they exist. In crossover land, I could also see her becoming friends with the Grimms' Frog King, or any other fairy tale characters who go through an animal transformation.

OTP: Prince Ivan.

NOTP: Koschei the Deathless, her old father-in-law the Tzar, or her own father who cursed her.

Random Headcanon: She isn't completely inactive during the last part of the story – from inside Koschei's palace she casts a spell to give the power of speech to all the animals Ivan meets on his journey so they can help him.

Unpopular Opinion: She would have made an excellent Disney princess. It's too bad that they'll presumably never adapt the story because The Princess and the Frog already exists. Oh well... maybe someday they'll adapt the Finnish variation where she's transformed into a mouse instead of a frog.

Song I Associate With Them: None at the moment.

Favorite Picture of Them:

These illustrations showing her dancing and magically conjuring up swans (or doves) at the ball in her human form: