Cinderella

* Character Art
* Battle Mini

**Cinderella** is the Princess of Elegy, and a warrior who battles against the Conclave of Fairies of Neverafter.

## Featured Episodes

* Episode 3: No Place For a Prince or Princess (mentioned)
* Episode 4: Once Upon a Time
* Episode 5: Down Came the Rain (mentioned)
* Episode 12: A Warm Heart and a Tombstone (mentioned)
* Episode 14: Daughters of the Crown
* Episode 15: Leap of Faith
* Episode 18: The Trials of Baba Yaga \*Episode (implied)
* Episode 19: The Ending of All Things (Part 1)
* Episode 20: The Ending of All Things (Part 2)

## Description

Cinderella is a Black woman who wears a mirrored suit of armour that she never takes off as it is so easy to lose. (This means that she has to use the bathroom in her armour, but uses prestidigitation to clean herself up.) She deals with issues as they come up, and has no tolerance for people being glib.

## Background

After the death of Cinderella's mother, she was constantly abused and mistreated by her new Stepmother and stepsisters. She met the Fairy Godmother who decided to help her, and turned her rags into a beautiful ball gown (along with traumatizing several mice by turning them into humans). She met the Prince, who fell in love with her, but something wasn't quite right. Cinderella would uncover her memories from versions of herself in other versions of her story whilst married to the Prince. She would came to the conclusion that the fairies of the Neverafter were controlling destiny. As a result, she confronted the Fairy Godmother and pierced her heart with the heel of her glass slipper.

## History

### The Trials of Baba Yaga

When Destiny's Children arrive with Baba Yaga in the Lines Between, they find that Cinderella, along with the rest of the Daughters of the Crown, have already arrived.

### The Ending of All Things (Part 1) & (Part 2)

For much of the battle in the Canonade, Cinderella, invisibly due to her glass armor, is able to attack, and, in the case of Puss in Boots and Scheherazade, knock them into unconsciousness. When striking down Scheherazade, she is able to take the princesses' magical book as well. However, despite being invisible, she is quickly grabbed by Baba Yaga, and Ylfa is able to wrest the book from Cinderella's grasp which she throws back to it's owner. Afterwards, Baba Yaga freezes the invisible knight, tosses her somewhere across the room, and is caught by the beastly Ylfa.

Later on, after the arrival of the Stepmother and having seen Gerard suck her Fairy Godmother into a storybook, she asks Ylfa to let her go so she can attack her evil stepmom. Pulling out a glass shard, she leaps towards her old nemesis. When her stepdaughter finally confronts her, the Stepmother replies, "It was my destiny to hurt you." Cinderella shrugs, "Destiny, free will. I didn't like it," and begins to attack her, alongside Tom Thumb and Ylfa. with her spear.

Soon after, Timothy releases his spell in the inkwell to give the story characters their autonomy from the Authors, causing the Stepmother to wail in despair. This gives Cinderella the opening she needs to stab her stepmother in the heart, killing her. Her mission failed, Cinderella is given an olive branch from Rosamund, saying that, while the future is now uncertain, they can help each other face it.

## Relationships

### The Daughters of the Crown

Cinderella is a member of the Daughters of the Crown, a group of seven princesses that, when banded together, are foreseen to defeat the fairies and take control of their own stories. Their intention is to destroy their stories in order to give themselves the peace of ending and the horrors and lack of choice that are present within them. She believes these seven princesses consist of:

* La Bête (*Beauty and the Beast*)
* Cinderella
* Elody of Greenleigh (*The Frog Prince*)
* Mira (*The Little Mermaid*)
* Rapunzel
* Rosamund du Prix (*Sleeping Beauty*)
* Snow White

Though when Rosamud leaves, she realizes that the seventh princess can be Scheherazade instead. When Cinderella is able to gain back her book, Gerard is able to see her and Snow White comforting his wife, Elody, as they ride away.

### The Fairy Godmother

In her story, the Fairy Godmother gives Cinderella the glass slippers, ballgown, and magical means to get to the Prince's ball in order for them to fall in love, and live happily ever after. However, unhappy with her lack of agency in regards to the horrors of her life/story, she ultimately breaks the heel off of one of the slippers, and stabs the Fairy Godmother in the heart. This causes the Godmother to go somewhat insane, transforming the townspeople into half-formed object people, obsessed with creating "happily ever after."

### Pinocchio

After finding out the true plans of the Princesses, Pinocchio and Cinderella have a conversation on the balcony of their newly captured castle (formally belonging to the Snow Queen). He reveals that he also is connected to her stepmother, making them, in a sense, step-siblings. He then reveals to Cinderella that the Stepmother is still around, transformed into a type of monster and destroying everything in her path. (Cinderella had previously thought her stepmother had vanished.) Pinocchio then admits that he's revealing all this because he wants to impress Cinderella. Seeing how uncomfortable he is, Cinderella and Pinocchio have a heart-to-heart about how they relate to their stories, and how it's changed through the course of their journey. Cinderella specifically wants to know about how Pinocchio was able to reclaim his story, which he then explains how he did it. He then admits to her that the group actually has Cinderella's storybook, and that the Stepmother tried to destory it. At Cinderella's insistance, the two go off to find PiB who has it.

### Puss in Boots

Once she is told that PiB has her book, she storms up to him adamant that she be able to see it. He lies that it is in his room, despite the fact that he has it on his person. While Cinderella is looking for her book, PiB sneaks up behind her, trying to put her into it. She, in turn, is able to grab the book, and tries to go invisible, but it is counterspelled by Pinocchio. Instead, she dives out of the castle window with her book, calling for the others to go to arms. When they are battling in the Canonade, angry at his attempt to trap her, PiB is the first of the Destiny's Children that she fells into unconsciousness.

### Princess Rosamund du Prix

After the battle in the Canonade, Rosamund goes to Cinderella in a moment of truce. Cinderella muses on the appearance of her Stepmother in the battle; that the pain of all of their lives was either completely random, or completely destined to happen. Either way, it just feels hollow and horrifying. Rosamund replies, while that is true, they can work so that the bad things happen a lot less. They walk away together, talking about a cow that Rosamund had previously met who can jump over the moon.

### Stepmother

When her mother died while she was a child, her father married a woman who was very cruel to her, and expressing massive favoritism towards her other daughters. While marrying her prince, the Stepmother's daughters were blinded by birds. So she came to Cinderella for help. Coldly, Cinderella turned her stepmother away, pointing out that she's the one who also cut off bits of her daughters' feet to fit into Cinderella's glass slipper. This act caused the Stepmother to go to the Baba Yaga, who, in exchange for her name, awakened the Stepmother to the nature of stories, and that she doesn't have a story of her own. Later on, when Pinocchio reveals to Cinderella that the Stepmother is merely a character in Cinderella's story, the princess realizes that, if anything happened to her book/story, it would happen to her stepmother too.

## Trivia

* Cinderella is able to go invisible because of her mirror armor.
* Her mini was sold as part of the Dimension 20 Neverafter Auction for for $1278.
* *Cinderella* has a ATU classification of 510: "The Persecuted Heroine."