Renée

**Princess Renée of the Velvet Kingdom** is a member of the Cursed Princess Club.

## Appearance

Renée has waist-length wavy strawberry blonde hair and green eyes. Due to her curse, her doctor gave her a remedy of sewing her mouth shut with a zipper, which only appears when she speaks. Renée is constantly surrounded by swans, also due to her curse. She typically wears a red and white dress with frills and gold buttons along the chest, gold high heels, a thick gold necklace, gold heart earrings, and a gold crown. She's dressed differently in (S3) Bonus Short 1.

In the physical book, Renée's accessories are slightly different. The bottom of her crown is red, her earrings are more detailed and have red crystal hearts instead, and her necklace has more detail. The frills on her dress have also been straightened.

## Personality

Overall, Renée is often seen as graceful and composed on her public mask. She is one of the quieter members of the club, as her curse limits her to using a notepad to communicate. However, she seems completely content with being relegated to the back of the club and taking on more of a supportive role: choosing to feed her swans at the pond with bread pieces and volunteering at the flower shop. Though patient, Renée both knows to stand her own ground while still being forgiving to Aurelia once she realizes how important their friendship is to her. Her hidden mask is has hard time to forgiving Aurelia.

## History

A banshee overheard Renée and her sister gossiping about her, so she cursed both of them so that objects spill out of their mouths whenever they speak. Renée spills out frogs while her sister spills out gold coins, so her sister has become more popular due to her curse while Renée has been shunned. Thanks to her curse, Renée eventually joined the Cursed Princess Club, where she met Aurelia, who became her best friend in the club.

One day, Princess Gwendolyn ran into the woods, distressed over her fiancée Frederick calling her ugly, and stumbled across the Cursed Princess Club. She was introduced to the club, including Renée and Aurelia, and was given special treatment by the other members of the club. However, Aurelia was angry over her special treatment. She felt that since Gwen didn’t have a curse, it was unfair for the rest of the club that Gwen could join, and decided to trick her into going into the barn. This barn was where Prez, the president of the CPC, stayed when her curse was inflicted and she turned into a were-spider on her period. Gwendolyn entered the barn and was quickly brought to safety by Curtis, but the other members arrived, including Renée and Aurelia. A discussion occurred over who had given Gwendolyn the note that tricked her into entering the barn, and Gwendolyn accused Aurelia of giving her the notes, due to her handwriting and the fact she could have licked the locks on the barn doors due to her curse. Aurelia finally snapped on Gwendolyn and tried to confront her, but Prez appeared and told Aurelia she would have to banish her from the club. Before Aurelia left, she attempted to talk to Renée and tell her that "*she was doing this for her*", but Renée simply spat at her.

After Aurelia left the club, Renée began to resent her, and scoffed when her fortune cookie said it was never too late to forgive, though she did become sad when Aurelia was mentioned, and started writing a card to her. Gwendolyn talked to her about this, and Renée decided she would talk to the swans at the pond about it. However, a storm soon rolled in, and when everyone was safe inside the base, Gwendolyn realized that Renée was still outside. The other members began to panic, fearing that Nell's earlier prediction would come true and Renée would die in the storm. Later, though, Renée came back, being carried by Whitney; preventing what could've been her death.

## Relationships

#### Aurelia

Renée was Princess Aurelia's best friend, and seemed to be really close. However, when Aurelia is discovered to have tricked Gwendolyn into going in the barn, Renée started to resent her. Before Aurelia left the club, she told Renée that she had done it for her, but Renée just spat a frog at her.

Renée was unable to forgive Aurelia for a while after she left. She scoffed when her fortune cookie said that it was never too late to forgive, and was upset when Aurelia was mentioned. Still, thanks in no small part to Gwendolyn, she eventually realized that she did want to send a card to Aurelia, and on the said that she was still mad, but she missed her. After Aurelia returned to the club and said her speech, Renée seemed to approve. The two are now on good terms, with Renée helping Aurelia with her uniform before Gwendolyn's Dinner Party, and hanging out together again.

## Quotes

"Oh! No no, this is the only remedy our doctors came up with for my curse, when I--"

"When I die, please-- blargagh..."

"I'm still mad. But I miss you."

"Hmm... I don't like slowly writing out what I want to say or having frogs come out of my mouth, but ... sometimes it's better than putting our foot in our mouths, right?"

(Renée silent screaming to Abbi, Bernadette, Deianeira, Jolie, Sally, Thermidora) "That's enough! Everyone retreat!!"

## Notes & Trivia

* Renée reminds Gwendolyn of her sister, Maria. This is because both are adored by some sort of animals (Renée is swans while Maria is woodland creatures) and are graceful. Additionally, Renée is cursed to have frogs spill out of her mouth. Maria is a fear-vomiter, and when sings while she's upset, she sounds like a croaking frog. A fanart made by im-doing-good at Tumblr depicted the scenario where Maria and Renée vomitting together as the following link : https://www.tumblr.com/im-doing-good/732932282973913088/they-would-be-besties?source=share&ref=\_tumblr
* Renée's name means "born again".
	+ This could refer to how she was saved from a near-death experience (that Nell predicted) by Whitney.
* Renée and her sister's curses are most likely inspired by the fairy tale "Diamonds and Toads". In the story, a pair of sisters are given a test by a fairy. The elder sister fails the test and is cursed to have toads and vipers fall out of her mouth, and the younger sister passes it and is blessed to have jewels, precious metals, and flowers fall out of her mouth.