[ SECRET POST #2609 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2609 ⌋

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Comments

[loracarol]

I heard a theory once that when Cinderella was little, the fairy godmother made the mice talk so that she wouldn't be alone (and the f.g. was constrained from taking her away by things like "where would she go?" and "who would take care of her"), but that was just a fan theory. I kind of like it, though; it explains a little why the mice can talk, but no other animals can.

[caecilia]

oh that's cute, headcanon accepted!

[loracarol]

I'm glad you liked it! I wish I could find the rest of it, because it was rather fascinating, and it dealt with how there could be talking animals in the Disney-verse... I think the hypothesis was that there were two universes? The "talking animals ala Robin Hood" universe, and the "talking animals ala Cinderella" universe.

[sarillia]

That just makes me hate the fairy godmother even more. I think she's terrible. Where was she for all those years while Cinderella was being abused? The thing that had her finally show up and do something was a party that Cinderella couldn't go to? So if the mice thing was true then that was even more little things to make life a bit more bearable for her instead of doing something to get her out of that situation.

lol I know I'm taking this story too seriously :p

[loracarol]

Well, she only shows up when she does because Cinderella's lost all but her very last bit of hope, which implies (to me, at least) that there are rules for when she can/can't show up (up until that point Cinderella had tried to look at things positively, and hadn't felt like she needed help because she still had her hopes and dreams).

It's possible that, in this not-even-possibly-canon scenario, the Fairy Godmother did that while Cinderella was still young, and lonely from the lost of her father, rather than outright abused just yet, and thus the Fairy Godmother had no reason to take her away (and I have to ask, away to where? Just drop her off with a random family like "surprise you have a daughter! :D"?)

I mean, you're free to still dislike the movie if you wish, but I just feel like there was evidence (in the actual movie, and not the theory about the mice) that the Fairy Godmother was limited in when she could show up, and was not all-powerful, you know? (Granted, that's twisted a bit in the second and third movies, with her hanging with Cinderella randomly, but at least in the first move

[sarillia]

Who said I dislike the movie? I love Cinderella. I just hate the godmother.

I used to come up with elaborate scenarios that may have explained my problem with her, and even wrote several retellings exploring some of these ideas, but I can never help thinking that if I was in her position I would have tried to do something.

[loracarol]

Ah, my bad.

I don't know, I always got the impression that there were rules for her/her "kind" if you will, considering that we don't know if she's even human or not. And it makes sense (to me), because a lot of the older Cinderella stories had the same theme; the Cinderella character wouldn't get any help until/unless she asked for it, be it asking for help from a magic tree/her mother's spirits/the ants and birds to do chores...

[sarillia]

Somehow the idea that her mother's spirit wouldn't act until she was called upon makes more sense to my mind than a fairy having the same rule. That's probably just me being weird though.

[loracarol]

Maybe. :3

[(Anonymous)]

I love this. I love you. I've always had lots of different theories about these sort of things over the years, and I love that someone else shares this!

There could be all sorts of rules: she cannot directly interfere with human lives being important. What she does for Cinderella is give her a dress and a carriage and some coachmen, she doesn't magically make the Prince fall in love with her or anything. She doesn't even make them meet. The FG picked the perfect time at the perfect moment when she was in the position to do the most amount of good for Cinderella.