Episode 23

## Chapter Link

Ep.23

**Episode 23**, titled "**Frederick & Laverne**", is the 23rd episode of Cursed Princess Club.

## Synopsis

*Prince Frederick carries a llama, has a bad flashback, and possibly accidentally kills someone who may or may not be his fiancée.*

## Characters

*Characters are linked in order of appearance. First appearances will be in bold.*

* King Leland
* Prince Blaine
* Prince Lance
* Prince Frederick
* Laverne
* **Unnamed evilly smiling males** (in Frederick's flashback)
* Syrah
* Saffron
* Abbi
* Princess Gwendolyn (mentioned)
* Monika

## Music

CPC OST vol. 2

* Track 09 "Fatigue"

## Location

* Outside the Plaid Palace
* Mountain near the Pastel Palace, Haunted Forest, and Cursed Princess Club

## Story

Outside of the Plaid Palace, King Leland is calling for his sons to get ready for their visit to the Pastel Kingdom. Prince Blaine and Prince Lance enter the carriage, and Blaine asks where Prince Frederick, his brother, is. The Plaid King informs them that he gave Frederick a head-start to get to the Pastel Kingdom with Laverne, the family's llama. This shocks both brothers, and the episode then cuts to Frederick carrying Laverne up a hill, while sweating and repeatedly complaining.

In frustration, Frederick asks why, despite the fact that he's dirty and smells like a llama, he has to entertain Princess Gwendolyn (his fiancé), before remembering that his life literally depends on it. Frederick decides it couldn't hurt to get to know Gwendolyn a bit, since he didn't really learn anything about her when they met. However, these thoughts are interrupted when he looks up and sees a patch of sunflowers. There is then a flashback made of two panels. In the first, we briefly see two boys maliciously grinning, one saying "*Hey, Sunflower...*"; in the second, the panel is filled with pieces of ripped paper and shards of broken glass. Frederick shakes his head, snapping himself out of it, and yells "Aghhh, I just want this stupid trip over with!!!" He throws Laverne onto the ground and tells her that *she* will be carrying *him* for the rest of the trip. He gets on her back and attempts to command her to take him to the palace, but she forcefully bucks him off. This causes him to fall back down the hill, and he groans "I don't think this trip can get any worse." However, he then looks up and realizes he was *very* close to falling from a cliff, making him feel a lot better.

At the bottom of the cliff, Frederick notices three familiar people (Syrah, Abbi, and Saffron..) doing exercise, and mutters about how "these backwater kingdoms always have such weirdos.." He then hears a sudden rustle to the right and looks over to see a girl in a dress he recognizes - Gwendolyn's green one, the one she was wearing when she met him. He assumes the girl is Gwendolyn, though she has black hair, and wonders what she's doing there. We then get to see what the girl in Gwendolyn's dress is doing - turns out it's Monika, who stole Gwen's dress last episode, and is currently collecting shiny stones. Frederick tries to talk to her and taps her on the shoulder, but this surprises her, causing her to slip, and.. fall off the cliff. After Monika disappears from Frederick's sight, she turns into a crow, but Frederick is still in disbelief because he believes he has just *murdered his fiancé*.

## Episode credits

* Art, writing, and music by LambCat
* Edited by Eunice Baik
* Base coloring by Shei Draws

## Notes and Trivia

* In the Haunted Forest, there's growing field of giant sunflowers
	+ sunflower seems to be trauma button to Frederick