Thread: Fairy Tale ClichÃ© [ Misha & Kitten ]

The Royal Castle, Tat'allia How boring. Kire thought to herself, shifting in her stance ever so slightly to make it look like she was still paying attention. She glanced around the room and realized that almost all of the nobles within the country were here today for her Coming of Age Ceremony. Today, the Princess of Tet??allia was turning eighteen years-old and her father had invited every noble under his rule to attend to her crowning in the guise of formality, but to also filter through all of the men within the room. The King was dead set on finding someone for his daughter to marry and to take over the thrown once he was ready to step down, but the lack of people that they could agree on was slowly grating his nerve. He wanted her to be happy with whom he chose, but to also pick someone that wasn??t going to send Tet??allia into chaos. The neighboring kingdom had been restless in the recent years and he feared that without a true heir that could carry on the lineage of the Royal Family, then Tet??allia would be invaded by others once he was weakened. ??Kire, will you step forward?? the King requested, his voice softer than the firm voice he was using to do announcements as he spoke to her. She didn??t pay attention to what else he was saying because they had been through this enough times that she memorized her lines and his own lines. When he spoke certain words, she knew to close her crystal blue eyes and bowed her head to receive the Crown of the Northern Star. It was a temporary crown that would later on be switched with the Queen??s crown, once she was married. With someone I don??t love? the blonde??s mind happily supplied her. It was a strangely bitter moment that she had been looking forward to and dreading at the same time. As a child, she was never allowed to leave the castle and her friends were selected by her parents and their advisers. She was sheltered, but she wasn??t stupid, and she knew of the ??outside?? world and what it contained. Kire wanted to be out there, and wondered if once she was married, would she be able to travel like her mother had with her father? Of course not?mother was trapped in this place until her death. ??Upon my good name and my ancestors?? good name, I pledge my life to serve my kingdom and to pray to the Goddess for Tat??allia??s peace.? the blonde Princess recited, standing up straight to stare out into the mass of people before her that would seek her hand in marriage and that she??d probably never met before this day. Without a word and just knowing that her father was done with her??since he turned around and began to speak to the nobles again??she gave a small bow to the ??audience?? and began to retreat to the garden on the other side of the castle. This garden was where she would spend most of her time to rest and get away from the formalities that circled her life. ??Oh, get over it, Kire. Woe is me? she mocked herself, shaking her head and glancing behind her to make sure no one was following. ??Little Princess is like a caged bird Little Princess can??t do anything herself?ugh?? she shook her head and shoved back her formal dress so that she may start climbing the side of the wall. The vines there nicked at her white dress and ruined the ends, but she couldn??t care less, because at the moment, she was set on escaping the castle. She couldn??t handle the thought of being trapped in the life that her mother had and dying with someone she did not love, so with effort and some pains, she decided she would leave. It was too clich for words and she almost laughed at how stupid this felt, but she hoped that, like the fairy tale books she head read, she found something better.