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Cinderella - 04 - HD
🕑 Added 2024-12-19 05:33:05 +0000 UTCIn search of a wicked stepmother
Who oh WHO could it possibly be?! (I say that as though it should be obvious, but I actually have no idea if anyone would have reasonably called it.)
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Oh HI, Agent Bishop! Er, Lady Bishop? Something Bishop. How's it going?
I think this is the closest my story gets to having something similar to what was invented for the animated Disney version?
In Perrault's Cinderella, there is a "gentleman" who does marry a second wife, but there's no mention whatsoever of motivation. It can be assumed that he simply liked her. It can also be assumed that her personality differed to how she presented herself, as she "shows herself in her true colors" after the wedding.
(This is a little confusing, as she's presented as "the proudest and most haughty woman" in the paragraph before that, but maybe he liked that about her?)
ANYWAY, what makes this similar to the Disney version is the father's motivation being less love for themselves, and more there being a mother for their child. This is not meant as a reference to the Disney version, it just sort of works out that way.
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Comments
Dan Shive
I considered Lavender playing the role, but not only did it feel out of character, it felt like I would potentially be defining her character, while out of character, in the eyes of the readers. Bishop can be entirely in-character (just in a different context).
IvyReed
Hey wait a minute! you're not Lavender! Then again Lavender is fantastic and wouldn't ever even, so this is an acceptable alternative. "Agent Bishop! Er, Lady Bishop? Something Bishop." Clearly she's "Bishop" Bishop, works for a clandestine supernatural church of some-kind, Van Helsing style.
Warren (Stephen) Rose
Oh! My bad, I hadn't thought to guess on casting. Er, I guess the stepsisters will be Susan and Diane? Or the stepbrothers will be ... Hedge and Guineas? And the enchanted carriage will be pulled by Tara and Andrea? Bishop seems a solid choice, especially if she's more indifferent towards Ted than hostile?
Windscion
I did nazi that coming.
