Spring Sprite

The Spring Sprite is a legendary green female spirit, and magically beautiful young girl who can make everything grow in the forest. She appeared in Fantasia 2000 segment, "The Firebird suite" or L'oiseau de feu sequence, inspired by the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens as the main protagonist, and the fanfiction story Bambi and the Spring Sprite as the one of the two main protagonists (Alongside Bambi).
==Background==
===Personality===
The Spring Sprite is a benevolent force of life and creation. She loves the forest and its creatures, and is happy to bring spring every year. When she was awakened by her friend, the Elk, she felt very grateful of him as he gave him a embracing hug. As a force of creation, she has a creative and artistic side, seen when she forms a flower, has a second thought, and then turns it into a dazzling sight, and revitalizes a barren tree with gorgeous blossoms.
The Sprite displayed a distinct sense of curiosity, as she was puzzled as to why she could not make flora grow on a mountainside, and studied, only to unintentionally unleash her polar opposite, the Firebird, a living primal force of destruction, and horrified by the destruction that followed.
Once the disaster ceased, she was crippled with grief at the loss of so much life, and guilt-ridden for causing it by awakening the Firebird. The Elk, however was able to cheer her up and give her hope when she saw her tears began to heal the land, and rejoiced when she was able to restore the forest.
All in all, the Spring Sprite is truly a loving being of creation and life, and found strength and hope in realizing that no matter how much is lost to Destruction, Creation is limitless, as is the constant renewal of Life.
===Physical appearance===
Formerly as a regular human being, the Spring Sprite, is a British-American young woman with white skin, brown flowing down her back, all the way to the ground, with a red flower on the left edge of her head. Like Tarzan, she wears a loincloth in the color green, with a green-colored broth on her breasts. And unlike her nature spirit self, she later wore a magical, and beautiful ball gown in green color.
As a nature spirit, the Sprite is an attractive young woman-like creature. In her most common form, she has light green skin and long bushy hair, that flows down her back to the ground, of the same color. Her eyes have the color that stands between yellow and light orange, and above them are thick black eyebrows. She is slender. Sometimes, between her hips and arms is a kind of curtain made of leather, that she uses to make flight easier, but she can remove it if she want. Her size varies, but she usually the size of a young girl. Considering she is a nature spirit, she has no clothing and walks around naked.
Depending on her surroundings, she can take on various forms and colors; in water form, she is blue, in ice form, she is brighter blue, in rain form, she is light blue, in nature form, which is her most commonly used form, she is green, in the end of the sequence, she is yellowish green; even brighter, and in ash form, she is dark gray. When in ash form, if smoke is around, she is light brown, and when fire is around, she is blood red, after the forest was burnt and destroyed, she is cool gray.
===Powers and Abilities===
The Spring Sprite has all sorts of abilities all mammals and human beings can do. For examples, when in the water, she can swim just like fish and mermaids. When in the air, she can fly afloat just like birds. Like human beings, she can walk or run. Like squirrels, she can climb up walls and trees. Like hedgehogs, she can roll into a tight ball. However, she has different abilities of magic. While spreading her curtain connected to her arms and hips, she can make layers of flora and grass grow. She can grow plants like flowers, trees, and lots of others. Depending on her surroundings she changes colors. Her tears can heal the the forest that was burned to ashes. Having to restore the forest, she makes huge showers of rain from her curtain. And she can communicate with insects. Huge and long twigs of leaves can mostly grow on her hair.
===Weaknesses===
*Fire: Like other humans, the sprite fears fire, magma and lava, and would flee from the Firebird.
==History==
===Early Life===
Before the ballet of Igor Stravinsky, the Firebird Suite segment of Fantasia 2000 (Alternate timeline; Bambi and the Spring Sprite) began, her backstory took place ten thousand centuries ago, in the same forest, before Mount St. Helens rose. She was born at the start of spring, the fourth human girl, out of four children (1st girl born in summer, 2nd born in fall, and 3rd born in winter), when her mother died in childbirth, and after her father died in the hands of a grizzly bear, before the bear was shot to death at the man's hands himself, having to be caught on bear traps. The girls however, was so lucky, lots of the forest's animals and insects found them. They, along with Mother Earth, and her husband, Aquarius decided to raise the girls in the forest like one of their own. The girl's nursery, the Sky took her and her sisters to seperate empty thickets where no deer lived in, and put a sleeping spell on each of them, that would keep her aging every year. The girl slept and grew up for twenty-five years, until the spell was broken, one by one in each season, just at the very start of springtime. Her three sisters, all became nature spirits who would their own seasons to life after the centuries would pass (1st girl for summer, 2nd for fall, and 3rd for winter). She may have been naked the whole time, but Mother Gaia created her a green loincloth and green broth, perfect for the girl to wear on the first half of the springtime (similar to what Tarzan, and his wife, Jane Porter both wore in the finale of Disney's Tarzan), then a big yellow-ish green ball gown on the second half. Through the season, the girl treated every insect and animal with care, even frindly misquiotes, and spiders, including a humanzied spider, Charlotte (from Charlotte's web), didn't even hurt her.
On the day after the start of spring, the girl was just about to be attacked by a hungry gray wolf, when a young adult boy, stabbed the wolf in the body with a a sword, having mastered swordsmanship, saving the girl's life. They eventually both fell madly in deep, and desperate love, because the boy was born human who grew up after thirty years under a sleeping spell, without his mother and father, and will soon become a nature spirit in the autumn, the "Autumn Sprite". While they were looking into each other's romance hearted eyes, they both came too close, and they bumped into a hug, and a kiss with each other. And sometime, when they both meet each other again, as nature spirits of their seperate seasons, they would eventually be married and have a newborn child or some.
At the very end of spring, just before the next summertime, that evening, the girl found a sign and read "Follow the trail under nature hypnosis to the moment you'll make yourself a nature spirit. Only a mammal will awaken you after thousands of centuries." which was written by her nursery, and the girl remembered that time her adoptive mother told her husband the nursery, that on the day after twenty five years, at the end of spring, she'll become a nature spirit of spring. A glowing yellow spiritual orb was obsorbed bt girl's head and brain, and hypnotized her; her black eyelids in the center of her eyes turned yellow; the same color as her eyes. And she finally believed that her dream to become a nature spirit is about to come true, as she walked through the forest on the trail all the way to a dead hollowed tree standing on the other side of a huge lagoon. She walked on the water, entered a cave, and kept walking until it got extremely dark and quiet in there. But not for long. Just as the moon rose outside the tree, the girl's eyes slowly closed, unable to move, and felt a glimmer of yellow light underneath the water where she was standing. Waves of water surrounded the girl with magical magic, while she slowly spun around, transforming her, dissapearing and disolving into the water (similar to how Princess Odette was turned into a swan), becoming a nature spirit, and sealing her fate forever inside the tree. During her transformation, the girl decided to name herself the "Spring Sprite", and will enjoy herself for the rest of her life. Just as her transformation was complete, and after disappearing and disolving into the water, her sealed fate was revealed that the sprite was again under a sleeping spell that would make her sleep forever, imprisoned in an itty bitty living space inside the Hollow tree (not inside a soiled oil lamp, a bottle, a ring, a vase, or a treasure chest, any genie resides). The sprite slept, waiting to awake from slumber, and hoped that a happy elk would find her. 
Ten thousand centuries have passed, as the Firebird Suite segment was about to begin concluding Fantasia 2000; the elk the Sprite hoped for is on his way to find, awaken, and rescue her. The spirit of her 25 year old mortal self, eventually, remains in the heavens high in the skies.
===Role in the Firebird suite segment of Fantasia 2000===
The Sprite first appears in the sequence where snowmelt drips down in a hidden pool. In the form of a Water Sprite, she merges from the pool to meet the Elk and he leads her out of the hidden alcove and she gets to work, her body turning green and melting the snow away for the coming of the Spring season, covering the forest in fresh foliage. Going up a nearby mountain though, her abilities aren't following her up the slope. Curious as to what's going on, she looks inside the massive crater of the mountain at a small volcanic stone. Touching the stone, it awakens the Firebird, who rises from the ash, smoke and magma to attack the Sprite and destroy the forest. Running for dear life from the flames and lava flows, the Firebird eventually chases her up a tree where the monster rises up for one final attack. Cutting to the aftermath where the landscape has turned grey and ash-covered, the Elk finds a burnt out and grey Sprite, in Ash form. The Elk helps her up and gives her a ride on his antlers as the Sprite cries from the destruction she unleashed. Soon she realizes her tears are healing the land and takes back to the sky in a Rain form, bringing a healing shower down upon the valley. Continuing her work, she bring the plant life back to the forest, restoring the trees and finally covering the volcano in a fresh layer of grass, her confidence fully restored. She then later, magically disappeared in a flash, after bursting out a joyous laughter.
===Role in Bambi and the Spring Sprite===
The Sprite appears in the sequence where snowmelt drips down in a hidden pool after the groundhog saw his shadow. In the form of a Water Sprite, she merges from the pool to meet Bambi and he leads her out of the hidden alcove and she gets to work, her body turning green and melting the snow away for the coming of the Spring season, covering the forest in fresh foliage. The sprite then, found a trail that led her to the village in front of Bald Mountain, the gathering place of Satan and his followers. She heard thunder strike, and thought that they didn't celebrate Walpurgis Night, the equivalent of humanity's own Halloween, and she met of with the evil Chernabog himself who threatened her about making a mistake bringing her to the mountain. the Sprite tried to strike Satan, but was attacked by the Headless Horseman, who pinned her down on a tree, after beating up an army of pridelanders, apes, and experiments. He doesn't listen to the ghost of Bambi's mother, pleading him to not hurt the sprite, and immediately chops her head, but the horseman disappeared into ashes, when her forest was ravaged leaving the landscape turned grey and ash-covered. Bambi explains to his father, the Great Prince, his girlfriend, Faline, his other friends, Thumper the bunny, his sisters and parents, and Flower the skunk, what had happened to the forest, and went to find a burnt out and grey Sprite, in Ash form. Bambi helps her up and gives her a ride on his antlers as the Sprite cries from the destruction she unleashed. Soon she realizes her tears are healing the land and takes back to the sky in a Rain form, bringing a healing shower down upon the valley. Continuing her work, she bring the plant life back to the forest, restoring the trees and finally covering the volcano in a fresh layer of grass, her confidence fully restored.
==Relationships==
===Family===
====Mother Earth and Aquarius====
====Summer, Fall, and Winter Sprites====
At first, during the girl became the spring sprite, she never knew her sisters, but she has been dreaming about getting along with them, during their age-continuing sleep for 25 years. Just after becoming a nature spirit, having being sealed away during her transformation, she finally saw, and got to remember, and recognize her sisters as nature spirits of their own seasons; summer, fall, and autumn. For ten thousand centuries, until their awakenings, the spirit girls of their seasons are the four sisters who would always care for each other. 
====Blossom====
===Romance===
====Autumn Sprite====
The handesome Autumn Sprite, was once the Spring Sprite's boyfriend when they first met and fell in love as humans, after the boy saved the girl from a hungry wolf. He later became her husband when they were finally married as nature spirits. They would date, dance with each other, and work together on bringing the girl's season of spring to life.
===Friends===
====The Elk====
As the sprite's master, This Elk is the only one who can seem to awaken her from slumber after the winter has come to an end. A loyal and best friend, and mentor, this creature accompanies and protects the sprite as much as he can. Guiding her to the trees that need her attention the most.
====Forest Insects====
Like the Disney princesses with animal kindness, the Sprite always cares about her insect and animal friends who can help her through tough times, since they raised her in the forest like one of their own, while she brings the life of spring to the forest. She communicates with butterflies, dragonflies, mantises, honey bees, bumblebees, ladybugs, beetles, and every other forest creature she likes. She also helps newborn insects transform faster, like from caterpillars to beautiful butterflies, ladybirds to pretty ladybugs, naiads to dragonflies, and dozens of other insects.
====Bambi====
Bambi is one of the Sprite's closest friends, as well as her alternate master, replacing the Elk in Bambi and the Spring Sprite.
===Enemies===
====The Firebird====
While not exactly an enemy of the sprite, she is fearful of coming near him again after what happened. Knowing very well that he's able to destroy her home in a heartbeat. Closer than the outer wall of the mountain she won't go because of that. Afraid she would disturb him again and events will repeat themselves.
====Headless Horseman====
The Headless Horseman is the sprite's worst enemy she has ever faced.
==Disney Parks==
===Disneyland Resort===
The Spring Sprite has a role in the World of Color show at Disney California Adventure where she begins the "Colors of Earth" sequence, where she drops into the lagoon, begins creating flowers before eventually creating an entire forest that leads into a sequence based on "Just Around The Riverbend" and appears as part of the character curtain call at the finale.
===Tokyo Disney Resort===
The Spring Sprite also appears in the Tokyo Disneyland parade "Jubilation!" as part of the Forest Friends float.
==Quotes==
===Firebird Suite===
===Bambi and the Spring Sprite===
===Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion HD (Fan-Extended Edition)===
===Once Upon a Studio (Fan-Extended Edition)===
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===Original Ending Screenshots===
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===Live performances===
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===Videos===
Firebird - Fantasia 2000
Fantasia 2000 original ending
Harucon 2014 - spring sprite skit
Spring Sprite Float, Disney Jubilation Parade - Michael Curry Design
==Audio==
===Vocals===
*Sprite's Ghost wail as she is being resurrected from the snowmelt drop.
*Sprite's gasps.
*Sprite's shrieks and screams.
*Sprite's cries after the destruction of her forest.
*Sprite's Sighs.
*Sprite's laughs and giggles.
===Leather Curtain===
===Water Effects/Splashes===
===Weather===
===Magic===
==Theme==
===Igor Stravinsky's "The Firebird Suite"===
===="The Princesses' Khorovod"====
===="Lullaby"====
===="Finale"====
==Trivia==
*She is voiced by Helena Bonham Carter.
*Character animation supervised by Anthony DeRosa.
*Her live-action reference is provided by Sherri Stoner.
*The original ending of the sequence had the Sprite taking on a Sun form and shining over the valley.
*The Spring Sprite behaves in ways similar to animals by the various ways she moves. Sometimes she soars like a bird, floats like a fish or mermaid when underwater, climbs like a squirrel, and runs upright like a human, and even moves in a flowing motion akin to water.
*Interestingly, the spring sprite bears an extremely vague resemblance to Miriam, Moses' sister from Dreamworks' The Prince Of Egypt and Merida from Disney / Pixar's Brave according to a few remarks.
*The Sprite is similar to Ariel from The Little Mermaid (Curious about new things, not able to speak like Ariel in one point of the movie because of the sprite's british-american accent, but can also swim.), Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn (Naked), Chaos from Sonic Adventure (loving and gentle, and formed out of water), Jane Porter from Tarzan, and Rapunzel from Tangled (Artistic, and creative).
*Laughs, sighs, gasps, shrieks, screams, cries, and ghost wail are provided by various other actors, and actresses, including Bella Hudson, the voice of Shahra from Sonic and the Secret Rings, Eveline Novakovic, the voice of Tiny Kong, and Candy Kong in Donkey Kong 64, as well as Dixie Kong in Diddy Kong Pilot, Samantha Kelly, the current voice of Princess Peach in the Super Mario franchise, Rebecca Honig the voice of Maria Robotnik in Sonic X and Shadow the Hedgehog, and Jack Mercer, the original voice of Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost in the Famous Studios Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons Hooky Spooky (1957), Which is Witch (1958) and Doing What's Fright (1959) would be used numerous times.
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