.𖥧.𖤣 DREAMING OF ROSES 𖤣.𖥧.
Dreaming of Roses is a Sleeping Beauty retelling of sorts that follows the classic Princess-type character who is doomed to fall asleep for a hundred years, a curse that will be inacted if she pricks her finger before her eighteenth birthday. However, this story focuses on the time before her slumber, and the... friendship that the Princess forms with the knight assigned to keep her safe from anything that could cause the curse to take affect.
STORY
The story is about Princess Esther Rose and Dame Ramona. Esther has been cursed to fall into a hundred years of sleep if she pricks her finger before her eighteenth birthday, with no guarentee of when or how this could happen and Esther Rose's birthday approaching fast, in the Princess' last five days as a seventeen year old the King and Queen assign the young Dame Ramona to watch over and protect their daughter.
While Ramona is determined to do her job well, spending so much time with the Princess causes the two to grow rather close, but things can get messy and difficult once feelings become involved. Besides, Ramona is meant to be fighting dragons and saving villages from evil... not getting her hair brushed and listening to the sound of the Princess' laughter. The sooner that she can guarentee her safety and move on from all this, the better.
Only... can Ramona really guarentee her safety? Or will fate prove too powerful of a force to stop?
Meanwhile, the lonely Princess craves connection--expecially with one as noble and kind as Ramona--but finds herself unable to do anything about it. With the weight of her impending doom at the hands of her curse, she finds herself helpless... if only she could get the words out, if only she could find a way to be anything more than passive pawn in her own story.
In the end, Esther Rose falls asleep and wakes up a hundred years later and lives the rest of her life married to a prince she doesn't know surrounded people who are all unfamiliar. If only she could have a chance to do it all over again... to get a different ending... to see Ramona one last time...
CHARACTERS
To the left here is Ramona and Esther Rose, the two main characters of this story.
Ramona is a knight. Despite being only eighteen, her skill had been proven when she saved a village by slaying a dragon, promoting her to knighthood at a very early age. She's stubborn, heroic, and has a very strong sense of justice and duty. She stick to the rules like no other and has immense respect for authority. On a deeper level, however, she fear getting close to people and truly expressing herself.
Esther Rose is the Princess of Rosewick, who has tragically been cursed to fall asleep for a hundred years. Despite the looming threat of this curse, she remains a cheerful and optimistic young lady. She doesn't get out much, so when she does she's incredibly friendly and talkative, having loads of energy and very much giving off sterotypical homeschooled kid vibes. Despite her happy exterior though, Esther Rose is afraid of the curse means for her future, and upset with her lack of control in her own story...
Here we have the two fairies of the story. They play a minor role at the begining and kind of?? The middle?? (the story isn't comnpletely planned out so I'm not too sure).
Espinoza is the wicked fairy. Although, people say she wasn't always so wicked. Simply that years of being alone has slowly made her grown bitter over the years, her hatred only growing as she began to isolate herself deep within the magical forest. With years of building resentment, a lack of inivitation to celebrate the new Princess of Rosewick was just the final straw...
Nasrin is the good fairy and I have significantly less to say about her. She is the one who adjusted Espinoza's curse to put the Princess to sleep rather than kill her.
These are the other royal characters the feature in the story, but their roles are even more minor than the fairies, so I'm not even gonna bother rwith individual descriptions.
Alvaro and Paloma are Esther Rose's parents and King and Queen of Rosewick, and Harvey is the Prince from the distant future that Esther Rose gets married to. According to one of my friends he is what you would call "huzz".
I imagine Palomna and Esther are pretty similar, but Paloma's just... more calm, and Alvaro is a big worrier especially when it comes to his daughter. Annnnnd Harvey is kind of ditsy?? Sterotypical overly romantic and heroic prince type.