+1 Grand Duchess of Russia

[grandduchess_anya]

Hello, everyone. This is Mari, the resident Harry Potter player, and I am introducing this precious bean from the beloved 1997 Don Bluth animated film loosely based on real life Russian history, because why not? And I am a Romanov nerd too.

It is Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia, or just Anya for short. Anya is very loosely based on the real life youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and unlike her RL self, she manages to survive the destruction of her imperial family with a little help of a kitchen boy turned conman, gets amnesia for ten years, and goes on a search for her family and her true identity with the same man, a ex noble, and a lovable dog while trying to avoid being hunted by evil!Rasputin.

Anya is coming fresh from near the end of her film, so Rasputin’s now dead (yay!) but Dmitri is still unconscious and hasn’t woken up from his ‘nap time’ (sad face). And since we all know that Disney now owns the rights to most 20th Century Fox films, Anya will be the sole Fox Disney Princess among the Princess Apprentices, woot woot!

You can find me on Discord (I’m Mariposa21 #4257) and Plurk at mariscorner. See you guys with this girl real soon.

Mid-Winter TDM

[smk_mods]

It is cold. Really cold. An almost supernatural ice storm has plowed through the Kingdoms during the night and covered everything in dripping icicles and sheets of glass that are beautiful in the morning sun but frankly, dangerous. Have fun or go on Missions but try not to break your neck.

I.Jungle Fever:
Ice in the Tiki Oasis? You better believe it! It won't last long but when you're called out there to capture and purify a flock of corroded macaws, it's still glistening and cold. Watch out for falling Icicles.


II.Slip on Down to the Blue Bayou:
Or slip on over the bayou. The strangely magical ice storm has iced over part of the port, thick enough to skate over so long as you don't go out too far. Join the residents in some ice skating-- but listen for that tik tik tik. Is the ice breaking or is that a corroded crocodile? Watch your hands in any case.

Alternatively, since you're bundled up anyway, come volunteer to knock the icicles off the Haunted Mansion. The silly spectors who reside there will be grateful and may even invite you for a meal. After all, there's always room for one more at the table.


III. What's Mine is Yours:
Big Thunder Mine is lousy with corroded, and also, somehow, ice. It's beautiful when the light hits them just right and may throw rainbow shimmers around or sparkle like crystals... or is that sparkling eyes? A lot of eyes? Far too many eyes than you can take on at once. Well, fight or flight time! Whether they are bats, insects, or something far more terrifying, they're after you.


IV. Main Street Frolic:
Is that...snow? Could it be? Well no, actually. It seems there was a mild accident at the candy shop and due to a magical mishap and a too liberal appliance of an experimental potion, all of main street is covered in powdered sugar. Well, never mind. Main Street Residents make the best of it and a little festival has popped up as it seems that the sugar packs pretty well!

Come have some hot cocoa, make sugar angels, make a sugarman or join in the sugar fights (or else get caught in the crossfire). But please, please do not eat the sugar. Unintended side effects can be nausea, dizziness, and having the reputation of eating food off the street. Ew.

There is also, of course, ice under the sugar so be careful not to trip.


V.Wild Card:
A dream is a wish your heart makes and so it is for the wild card threads. Whatever else you want goes here.

+1 CRAU Big Sister type

[aquawayfinder]

Chicklet here.... Again. My three are staying where they are, no one dropped, but one added. Aqua! She was one of the very first characters I wanted in this game, so I am so happy to be able to bring her in finally! She is CRAU like whoa, so be warned.

A brief summary of her CRAU journey:

She was first in a full on AU game where she was a Mutant named Aqua Wayfinder who through a long and convoluted backstory wound up as a professor at Xavier's Academy For Gifted Youngsters while she waited for Terra and Ven to come through the time distortion wormhole that they took the other students into to save them. While she was on a mission on the Blackbird she found herself steeping off a train in Ruby City, where another version of her had been. She met people that other verson had known and discovered that certain people, with Keyblades, when she touched their Keyblade she recalled all her (canon, not the other Aqua's RC) memories with that person.

She was still adjusting to learning that there were multiple hers and trying to figure out which was real when things went crazier. She wound up in the Darkness, then back in RC as it ended. She died failing to save someone from the end of the world, and then... she woke up in Shibuya. (A series of PSLs that I will not be linking without the other players' permissions.) Playing the Reaper's game with Link (from the Zelda games) as a partner, she regained her confidence, and her sense of self and decided that all the versions of her were real and valid. After escaping Shibuya she reconnected with Ven and Terra and together they tracked down Link then went back to Shibuya to save the friends they made there and face down the Composer.

And just as she finished there, having gained all the memories from Terra up to her time with him in [Spoiler], she arrived here, confused and still trying to process.



So yeah, Aqua who has been a Keyblade Master and a Mutant Professor, and then a player in a dead person's game, she is now here to be a Princess (I think, lol) and help save the Kingdoms. Warning, she has become very open and loving and will hug people easily. And will protect and work with people. And teach even as she learns.