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    Again- what if Pinocchio our beloved was not able to become a "real REAL *live* *LIVING boy*" just after his original 'adventures'??? Through *no fault of HIS OWN*?? Because of something his dear sweet gentle father's family had cruelly callously done a long time ago??? What if HE was Cursed semi-similar to Penelope Wilhern, and his own curse could *ONLY* be broken the same way as hers'... andGeppettowasn'twithhim, even though Jiminy Cricket and Figaro and Cleo still are along with Fabiana and Sabina????

    Also- what if *Lampwick* had not only escaped Pleasure Island, but had a pretty deep dark BIG secret of his own?? What if JIMINY CRICKET did?? ...And What If Harry Potter was neither a professional Quidditch player nor an Auror plus *NOT engaged or married to and in love with Ginny Weasley*, let alone still in the wizarding world??? Well, *let'ssee*, shall we...?

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    A familiar foe has warped the boundaries of space and time to bring sixteen maidens of royal essence into a world completely under her command. Some hail from the same timelines, and some represent the shadows of worlds that could have been.

    Though all have their differences, especially in what it truly means to be "royal", they are all are faced with the same nightmarish choice: to fight each other in a twisted tournament, or risk their worlds' happily ever afters.

    Which one of them will save their home? Which princess shall reign as the Fiercest of Them All?

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    "Ahhh...! Would that I had a child with lips red as blood, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow, and eyes like stars- how *BEAUTIFUL* she would be! *How PERFECT*...!"

    So says the queen of Esperia Ilaria wistfully to herself one day after accidentally pricking her finger while sewing by her bedroom window. King Geppetto just longs for a child *PERIOD*- he does not care if he-or-she is beautiful, merely pretty, plain, or even *UGLY*...
    Fourteen years later, both royals' wishes are granted- but the cost is that young Pinocchio's mother is very very jealous of ANYONE surpassing her in Beauty (and prowess on the stage), resulting in his having to run away after his death is *faked* rather than carried out...

    And *just WHERE* does our sweet sweet little prince end up finding Safety??? -In the forest home of SEVEN MONSTERS thought to be as dead as he ...one of whom he especially gets along with as much as and yet *MORE THAN* his best friend Romeo Lucignolo. Who is that?? *Soliel Roberte De Lacey once merely known as either 'The Creature' or 'Frankenstein's Monster'*...

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    -*Just what it says via the title and in the Tags*, dearies! An AU of an AU just because I plain love 'Wicked' (book, musical, and FLIPPING FINALLY the movie), Disney's 'Pinocchio' plus the original Collodi serial-turned-novel and (sort of) 'Lies of P', the fairytale 'Snow White' -which YES, *DOES include* the 2025 Disney remake that just about *EVERYONE* has been decrying and disparaging for so long, thankyouverymuchmostkindly for asking-, just about any version of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' (but especially the 1994 movie, the 2007 musical, 'The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein', and of course the 1816-18 novel itself [no shade on Universal's and James Whale's 1931 and 1935 B&W horror films, though- I promise!]), other certain Horror Monsters both Classic and Universal, and to a point the DARK retelling/sequel series 'Dorothy Must Die' by Danielle Paige in which Glinda the Good Witch has a twin sister! (Also the idea justplainwon'tleavemebe- and I don't want to *LOSE it*, so... *Here you/we are*. [Aaaand NOW we have '*HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON*' added to the mix; OTPs included. *Whaddya know*...???])

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    Mostly based off the 1991 and 2017 movies, plus elements of other versions.
    Rewrite of Beauty's Wolf
    After fleeing the plague and moving to their country home, Maurice raises his young daughter alone for some time till an injuried She-Wolf seeks shelter in his barn with her young pup. But this isn't a regular wolf but instead a werewolf as is her pup. Soon the small families merge and Belle is no longer alone but the girls still have trouble in their small down, till one day they set out on an adventure they had never thought they'd have. Nor that their youngest sister would be with them learning that their world was in for a great change.

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    Kids won't be kids forever ...and sometimes not-so-'baby' Roo gets *REAL tired* of acting an innocent goody-two-shoes wise beyond his years. Same with Pinocchio- and yes, he's been VERY *HURT* in the past (why do you think that one never sees the 'Pinocchio' Villains around anymore?), but as rough and eager as he can sometimes be, his best friend/boyfriend/truelove Roo would *never ever* do anything to *HARM him*!

    So -again- the gloves come off, so to speak, one partly-overcast yet sunny afternoon while another pair of long-time boyfriends and mates go bouncing together... (Though NOT *in either of their gardens*.)

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    While Pinocchio and Jiminy are *SWIMMING back* to Home and Geppetto from Pleasure Island, the Tornado in Kansas also happens to scoop THEM up- in the form of a *HURRICANE*!! A Cyclone both tropical and not plus *a SPELL* that cause 'Pinoke' and a certain now-cursed farmhand to *switch places*... meaning that in a little bit, Pinocchio's in OZ and *Hickory* plus his transgendered sweetheart 'Nimmie Amee' are in Pariva, Italy! -Meaning that now poor Pinocchio is *FAR FAR AWAY FROM* his father and Figaro and Cleo and HOME...
    Pure Accident??? NOTSOMUCH (*we ALL* know who to blame for this!!)...

    This CRUSHES 'Pinoke(s)', of course, causing him to break down crying- which means that it's *tears* and not A Groan (TM) that Dorothy Gale, Toto, and Hunk | Scarecrow eventually hear in the apple orchard near The Forest. Which means it's PINOCCHIO THE PUPPET AND JIMINY CRICKET plus a couple more friends Old and New who join the party alongside Zeke | The Lion rather than Hickory | Tin Man and end up clearing one Witch's name, exposing and bringing another to Justice along with a *TRUE Heartless*, freeing both a 'Wizard' and a long-lost Princess... and finding Love along the way.

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    When Dorothy Gale tried to vanquish the Wicked Witch of the West as ordered to by the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by way of melting her, she accidentally also splashed the pages of the Grimmerie, inciting/triggering its' magic and whisking them *ALL* away- meaning the Witch, herself, and her little dog Toto, too. As a result, everyone in the land of Oz sorrowfully thinks that both she and the other Wicked Witch are dead... but they couldn't be more wrong.

    No- nonono! Instead, Dorothy Gale, Miss Elphaba Thropp-Diggs, and Toto are whisked back Over the Rainbow... but NOT *back to Kansas*. Where DO they end up, then??? In New York, New York, it turns out- where Dorothy is adopted by the not-so-Wicked witch who becomes a nurse/doctor since she still wants to make good.

     

    One of her patients just so happens to be a certain former puppet-boy no more Wicked than she... and *HIS aunt* (who happens to be a FAERIE rather than a sorceress)?? Well, she eventually becomes 'Mama Elphie's' *BELOVED* and a surrogate aunt to the sweet sweet boy mainly known as either 'Pinoke(s)' or 'Nocchi...

    But Elphaba and Dorothy Gale's adventure/journey is FAR FROM over, it turns out...

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    -More-or-less, rewritten fairy-tales either popular or no concerning the 'crack' pairing of Doctor (In-Training) Victor Frankenstein's Creature | Monster and Pinocchio, because PLOT BUNNIES during writing of 'Workings of the Heart' *will not leave me alone*, dangit!! Occasionally instead actual horror/dark fantasy because *big fat flipping DUH*- *FRANKENSTEIN* and PINOCCHIO, or modern-with-magic.

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    They were due to Be Married, though they'd *never before met*... Their parents were *THRILLED*- but both young grooms, for different yet similar reasons, were filled with REGRET...

    Then, in a moment of panic and despair, 'Carlo' (*OOPS*!! Sorry- I mean, *Pinocchio*) desperately fled- and by a *GRAVE misunderstanding*, ...married the CORPSE groom instead. On first glance, he was 'awful' frightening, but on second and third, both quite handsome and charming as well as kind- he would *NEVER* be False! All that he seemed to lack was, well- *the beat of a pulse*...

    THIS is a tale of wit, charm, and strife about a sweet timid young man and The Love of His Life- the *OTHER tale* of 'The Ghost of the Talking Cricket'.

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    Pinocchio Belmagio's father 'good Geppetto' never *exactly promised* to send him The Angel of Music to guide and look after him once the gentle-natured old woodcarver was in Heaven ...but he DID always say whether telling the story or no that angels are all around, and tend to show up in unexpected times and places. And during his then-darkest moment, -well, *The Voice* which 'Little Woodenhead' first hears in his dreams and then dressing-room was certainly there when he needed an angel! And so, it only stands to reason...

    But Pinocchio (or 'Pinoke[s], as The Voice sometimes fondly calls him) does not meet his Angel of Music -his guide, his guardian as much as Madrina Antonia, *his CONSCIENCE*- face-to-face until many years later. Not until a certain 'childhood sweetheart' comes back and ignites pure utter *JEALOUSY* in his broken battered slightly tarnished heart that Pinocchio is slowly but surely healing...

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    Twilight!AU with the main pairing being Jiminy Cricket x Pinocchio- *HOWEVER*, the former drinks his Respect Medicine three times a day, and the latter is no bland pushover 'dumb-ass in distress', thankyouverymuch!!

    Also- Agnarr and Iduna DO NOT die, Elsa and Anna were never separated, Bruno gets a caring and loving family, Simon is given a chance, Alice and Pinocchio are *JUST FRIENDS*, and Chiara Belmagio is Aunt/Mother-Figure of the Year after Cass Hamada. Nothing but *GOOD* on the latter, after the *Hell and back* her young nephew's been through just recently...

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    He looks and sounds JUST LIKE 'poor Erik' from both Gaston Leroux's *ORIGINAL* 'Phantom of the Opera' and Susan Kay's 'Phantom'... Jiminy *well knows* this- he's heard it all his life either to his face or whispered behind his back ...but he NEVER ONCE expected it to turn out to be a *GOOD thing*- for someone putting on a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's POTO wishing to put some more Leroux and Kay into the mix to say outright, '*You have THE PART*, and THAT'S THAT; never mind that you're *not* French!'

    He's supposed to either HATE or at least *DIS-like* 'le Vicomte Raoul de Chagny' ...but *just HOW* can he bring himself to truly loathe such a fair sweet innocent boy??? (Answer: *he can't*. Not *OFF-stage*-!)

     

    Meanwhile, Pinocchio really truly does reunite with his childhood friend Miss Wendy Moira Angela Darling ...and has his heart stolen almost right away by a certain 'Opera Ghost' with the features of a cricket and the voice of a selkie when they first meet. People usually prefer *Carlo*- but not Signore Jiminy Sebastian Archie Grillo-Gold. *NO, SIRREE*! He very much likes 'Pinoke(s)' JUST FINE, thankyouverymuch...!

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    'P' AKA Pinocchio wants to *LIVE*- not DIE; not even for *Carlo*, because *Carlo is GONE*!!! Carlo is G-O-N-E, and *NOTHING* is going to change that, Daddy Dearest Geppetto- no matter WHAT you try!! So, in his darkest most desperate moment, he tugs at something *deep inside* him ...and VANISHES. Into thin air. Leaving a certain old man furiousandgrieving in the ruins of a city once known as 'Krat'...

    Where does Pinocchio end up, meanwhile??? Down in the underground home of a certain Angel of Music/Phantom of the Opera named 'Erik' under the Palais Garnier Opera in Paris, France. Where he and Gemini plus a stowaway Spring also meet Ayesha the Siamese and 'the Persian' Nadir Khan- two of Monsieur Erik's only friends in the world.

    Erik usually truly trusts *NOBODY*, ...but a certain Real-as-anyone-else-SO THERE boy with eyes as bluesweetinnocent as Christine's, his own 'faerie kisses' and facial features, and of the same ethnicity and hair-color as Luciana who's been through Hell as much as he soon changes that quick-smart -before and after The Unmasking. (-And so does a 'childhood friend' of *Pinocchio's*, later...)

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    "There was a sudden shift beneath her – the gravestone crumbling under her added weight. She hadn’t anticipated this piece of stone being so old and brittle. She cried out in surprise as she lost her balance and was flung from her hiding spot, tumbling forward into the wide-open space.

     

    When she looked up, she found herself staring straight into the eye sockets of Jack Skellington."

     

    Rewrite of a scene from the Sally's Lament: A Twisted Tale book by Mari Mancusi.

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    Snow finds something that might just save her from her stepmother's tyrannic rule over her life. Or, at least, change her life irreparably.

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    Tinker Bell comes to visit Wendy-- only to meet a "potential foe"!

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    Anna enjoys her first Autumn in the kingdom!

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    Pinocchio's stepfather Ben and elder adopted sister Asha are both *VERY* skeptical of the existence of spirits- Ben especially so ever since his first spouse Alyssa, a paranormal tour guide, died in a car accident; never mind that he more-or-less accepts *Fae/Fairies* and other kinds of magic dark, light, and grey just fine! ...But Pinocchio believes same as Geppetto, since Jiminy is a *BORN spirit* himself as well as Fae-touched.

    That lapse of faith is put to the test when an exorcist priest comes knocking and asks of Ben, "You wanna be *a HERO*??" And when a ghost mariner plus Jiminy Cricket follows them all home, therefore forcing Ben, Geppetto, 'Nocchi, Asha, Figaro, Cleo, Valentino, and their newest family member Tater-Tot back to the Gracey Manor in order to help Doctor Gabbie and her son Travis along with Madame Harriet, Father Kent, and Professor Bruce Davis against the evil entity hiding amongst the house dripping with souls... they've gotta FIGHT whether they like it or not, or else risk being the Haunted Mansion's 1000th soul trapped for all eternity by *HIM*.

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    Anna shows Elsa how to bake her famous snowman cookies!

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