I’m running out of characters. After the Sword in the Stone tomorrow, I can’t seem to remember any others, so this may be coming to an end.
Cindy was a young girl whose father married a woman so that she’d have a mother and sisters, then promptly died. Her stepmother treated her as a servant, her older sisters bullied her and she was a very shy and quiet girl, afraid of people and very subservient though she continued to dream big.
Eventually she started to come out of her shell. While she never really had friends, she was on friendly terms with people and eventually even got invited to a Halloween party, the party of the year. She tried to put together a costume, but her older sisters ripped it to shreds. Crying to herself, she realized she couldn’t go without a costume so she went up to her room in the attic and stared up at the stars, wishing on all of them that a miracle would happen.
She managed to catch the attention of a fairy who took pity on her and dressed her up to go. The fairy told her also that if she could just defend herself when people tried to bully her she wouldn’t have to put up with it, but instead she just went to the party, met a nice boy and left at midnight when the spell ran out. She dropped a ring on the way out, which the boy would use to track her down.
Her sisters realized that it was Cindy’s ring and knew the boy was going to try and find someone with hands that slender, so they beat up Cindy and made sure they broke her hands, putting them in a cast so that he would lose interest in the finding girl before figuring it out and they would once again have their chance.
There was a strange boy at the market a few days later, Cindy shopping with her hands in casts and having considerable problems with it. He helped her and talked with her, telling her that she really needed to learn to defend herself. He admits that her fairy asked him to check up on her and gave her a gift of a vial that should help. She pressed him and he confessed he’d given the other two to two other girls already who also needed them pretty badly named Snow and Aurora. If she was worried about it, she could ask them about it.
He left and she tracked down the other girls. Cindy tracked the other two down and, assured by both of them that the vial was the best thing to happen to them, took the vial. They also asked about the boy that helped them, realizing that she had actually been able to speak to him and he told them his story.
In the end, they ended up teaming up and working together. They hoped to one day meet up with the boy who had helped them all and replay him, though they still didn’t even know his name.
Tags: cinderella, disney, marvel, sleeping beauty, snow white, sword in the stone
