Once Upon a Dream-A Twisted Tale

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Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society.

It should be simple – a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. Hypocrite Monsieur D'Arque is heavily prejudiced against "Le Chamantes", despite being one himself.

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Camera Fiend: Alice, whilst in England. Most of her days are spent running around and photographing things. This actually proves especially useful when bringing the real culprit behind Mrs. Yao's smashed window to light. The Magic Goes Away: The last thing Jafar does before dying is to wish all magic in the world away, which also has the side effect of turning Genie into a human.

Mythology Gag: Some of the words from the songs of the original film appear in either dialogue or Elsa’s thoughts. King Stefan's Castle • Forbidden Mountain • Aurora's Cottage • Forest • Moors • Ulstead • Cavernous Nest At another point, the Hatter quips that Alice once “believed in 6 impossible things before breakfast”, a nod to Through the Looking Looking Glass, the official sequel to the original novel. However, it is important to remember that this is Disney, and with that comes a wave of predictability, particularly surrounding the ending, which wasn’t particularly enthralling, although there were some elements I found quite refreshing. I’m struggling to say more without spilling spoilers!Lady Astrid - a second cousin of Aurora's father. She is killed by Maleficent who uses her blood to sustain her powers in the dream realm Eldritch Abomination: Ursula intends to use the powers of the Elder Gods ( yes, those Elder Gods), who is said to have come from "seas beyond [the seas of the Old Gods], between the waves, between the stars". After the sort of introverted childhood you would expect from a writer, Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games. Finally she caved into fate and wrote Snow and Rx under the name Tracy Lynn, followed by The Nine Lives of Chloe King series under her real name, because by then the assassins hunting her were all dead. She also has short stories in Geektastic and Who Done It and a new series of reimagined fairy tales coming out, starting with A Whole New World—a retelling of Aladdin. My God, What Have I Done?: Rosalind has one at the end after she realizes that cursing the prince and his servants wasn't the right way to protect her people, especially after she realizes that it affected those she cares about.

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Ultimately Guinevere confirms that Mim genuinely does care about her by offering to be burnt to death with Arthur, forcing Mim-as-Arthur to show her magic and end her deception.

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Parental Substitute: In Aurora's dream, Maleficent becomes one to Aurora after uprooting her Abusive Parents. Crossover: Merlin mentions having crossed paths with the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella during his attempts to return to his own time. But when Captain Hook reveals some rather permanent and evil plans for Never Land, it's up to the two of them to save Peter Pan – and his world. Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Monsieur D'Arque. He claims that he's curing Le Charmantes to protect the kingdom, but it's clear he's simply acting out of his own racist prejudice. I compliment the author with how surprisingly dark the story's direction took its characters, which I liked, considering the twist of fate with the characters also affected certain aspects of their personality differed from the well-known versions of their characters, which made it interesting for me.