You know, the clumsy girl always bothered me by not being clumsy enough all the time. Let’s make up for some of that.
Aurora was always a clumsy girl. She tried gymnastics once and broke three bones on the first day. She tried dance and twisted her ankle. Almost everything she did resulted in some sort of injury, so she was home schooled where she wouldn’t get herself hurt. Finally, once high school came around, her parents agreed to let her go.
Here, she proved to be no less clumsy. Her first gym class resulted in her tripping into the volley ball net and having the posts fall on her, giving her a concussion, though she made friends and insisted that she would do better next time. She didn’t actually manage to do much better, but with the help of her friends and their quick reflexes, she managed to avoid further injury.
Being quite pretty despite her klutziness, she managed to attract the attention of a strange boy. She tried to turn him down politely, but he did not take it well and made an elaborate plan to trap her with magic that hinged largely on her sewing project that she used as an excuse to say no. He cursed the machine, but did not count on her inherent clumsiness. She tripped, fell into the machine and managed to severely injure herself to the point of severe blood loss, causing her to go unconscious.
The trouble was that the blood loss should not have put her into the coma she was in. Though physically healed, she stayed asleep. It wasn’t until she had a visitor several months later when a strange boy appeared in her hospital room. He broke her curse with a kiss and gave her a gift before disappearing in the form of a vial that would help ensure this wouldn’t happen to her anymore.
It took her several months before she finally drank it, first giving a little into her pet dog to see if anything would happen. When nothing did, she drank it herself and discovered the effects right away. She could walk around without tripping for starters. She didn’t get hurt in gym class and, even better, she did well in it. It made some people wonder what had happened to her and, to avoid the uncomfortable questions that she couldn’t answer, she started to act a little clumsy here and there to keep the attention away from herself. In private, she discovered just how quick and agile she had become.
It wasn’t until much later when her school came under siege from someone demanding a ransom or the kids would die that she started to test the limits of her newfound agility. Not really wanting to draw attention to herself from her classmates, she hid her identity and saved the school, but not after one of her friends got shot because she took too damn long deciding whether or not to jump in and help.
The thrill of saving people was addicting and she started to do so regularly, making a proper costume for herself and took to the streets to help wherever she could.
Tags: disney, marvel, sleeping beauty, sword in the stone
