In the Winter, the Fae slept beneath the hill. Language: English Words: 2,880 Chapters: 4/? Kudos: 7 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 826įor dreamiflame Fandoms: Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare, Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, Winter's Tale - Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, The Tempest - Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare, As You Like It - Shakespeare, Othello - Shakespeare Additionally, once on land, she must relinquish her spirituality, lose her magical powers, and forget that she ever lived under water with the witch. The witch allows the departure of her servant on one term that if she fails to win the love of the creature on land, the spirit must return to the waters, and forever serve the witch, never to see her love again. The spirit begs the witch to allow her to leave her service to pursue her love on the surface. The spirit remains tied to Her and the dark, grim waters they inhabit together, satisfied with the life they lead, until one day they drift too far to the surface, only to become fascinated with a heavenly creature on land. Viktor_er_kaldt Fandoms: Den lille Havfrue | The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen, The Tempest - ShakespeareĪ spirit lives in the murky ocean, in the service of the sea witch. A modern ghost story retelling of The Tempest! Inspired by a Tumblr post Language: English Words: 32,624 Chapters: 12/12 Comments: 22 Kudos: 10 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 345 When their car breaks down, they have no choice but to come to the haunted house. That is, until her brother and his coworkers happen to drive by on a road trip. He now works as a successful businessman for a publishing company that was supposed to be hers, while Prospera ended up banished to a huge mansion in the middle of nowhere with her daughter, Miranda, and only the ghosts of the house's previous occupants to keep her company. Years ago, Prospera's brother decided to take credit for her work, and destroy her reputation entirely. takes place in a creepy mansion instead of an island.
Language: English Words: 17,005 Chapters: 18/18 Comments: 6 Kudos: 4 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 113ĪemeliaBea Fandoms: The Tempest - Shakespeare Fail to capture their attention, and she might just disappear forever.
Her kind lives on the adulation of crowds. Even if some clever dramaturge has decided to stage tonight's production of "The Tempest" as a cyberpunk sexploitation piece about AI rights and the weird emotional incest between Prospero and his children, she knows she can speak her lines, hit her marks, and stick the landing to every last scene.Īfter all, it's not like she has a choice. Every night for four hundred years, she and her compatriots have inhabited the feckless actors who make the same choices, recite the same lines, kiss the same partners, slog through tragedies and victories and long-winded insults. Miranda knows *exactly* how this play ends.
(But because I'm a literalist, this is set in the Old World just before the "Discovery" of the New, based on the Aragonese names that Shakespeare uses for the royal family of Naples: Al/fonso, Ferdinand.)įeedback more than welcome! Language: English Words: 19,928 Chapters: 8/50 Collections: 2 Comments: 5 Kudos: 12 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 86 What happens to Miranda after she leaves the Island? What about Caliban and Ariel? A brave new world, indeed.
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