I wonder as I wander...

[orangerful]

So, Princesses are all the rage right now, and Disney is not missing this opportunity to drag our favorite girls from their movie stories and plug them into nice little straight-to-DVD packages. At the library today I saw "Disney Princesses: Enchanted Tea Party" and it made me wonder - would these women get along together?

Let's look at the invitation list:

Ariel is young. She just feels that way. I think she's probably about 16. Born and raised a princess (and a fish) she's a sweetheart but not the brightest bulb in the world. Very curious though. And she's still figuring out the whole human world. Hang on to your dinglehoppers!

In the prologue to 'Beauty and the Beast', the narrator mentions that be Beast has until his 21st year to have the curse break, so we can assume he's 21, so Belle is most likely 19 or 20. She's a book worm, very intelligent, and not born a princess. I have this image of her being terribly bored with the silliness of a tea party. She'd probably have a book in her lap so she could catch up on her favorite stories while Ariel prattled on about some shiny rock she saw once.

Princess Jasmine is a bit feisty but also on the young side. Again, I'm guessing in the 16-18 range. I think her and Belle would be able to chat amicably. Belle would probably bring up some of the things she's read about Jasmine's part of the world. Jasmine would talk about the time she almost got her hand chopped off for stealing.

Pocahontas comes across as a much older than the rest of them, I'm guessing like 24. She's a princess but not in the magic castle kind of way. She's just the daughter of the chief. She likes to talk to trees. She would bring corn, because she's an adult and knows you can't attend a party without bringing food.

Cinderella, in my mind, is older because the movie is older! But she's probably around the same age as Belle. Her and Belle would probably get along since both of them were not raised as princesses but married to "charmings" so at least they will have something to talk about!

Snow White and Ariel would probably enjoy each other's company. They have odd best friends (crabs, dwarves) Cinderella and her could discuss wicked stepmothers.

Princess Aurora wasn't really raised as a Princess, but she didn't exactly have a normal childhood either, what with 3 faeries acting as surrogate parents. Her and Snow White could chat about their narcolepsy issues.

Mulan was not raised as a Princess either. She's very clever and smart and occasionally likes to dress as a man. She's a bit more physical than the rest of the ladies. Her and Pocahontas might be able to chat because both of them spent a lot of time outside. Though Mulan comes across as a bit younger than Pocahontas (especially since she was able to pull off the boy disguise), probably around 16 like Ariel. Though she is way smarter than Ariel. (Look, I love the little red head, she's very goal oriented, but she was raised by fish).

I'm not sure if any of the anthropomorphic princesses were invited - Nala, Feline, Maid Marian...that would be awkward.

Comments

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

Hee. I love that you've thought about this.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Well, I had a mini-marathon last night (Pocahontas and Aladdin) and then I had to work this morning, and the first thing I did was order the children's DVDs, which got my brain going...

They just all look so happy on the cover...

[jellibean.livejournal.com]

Interesting... you bring up good points. I think Ariel is 16 or 17--I remember their saying something about her age in the film because apparently when she reached a certain age, she'd be allowed to go to the surface.

Meh.. the real Pocahontas would have been younger than everyone else!

I bet Jasmine and Mulan would get along, because they're both adventurous and defiant.

Did you know that Disney has included Tinkerbell as a princess in some of their Princess stuff? How would she get along with the rest of them? What if she got trapped in the sugar bowl?

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Yes, well we won't nitpick the major story changes (I mean, if we stuck with the originals, Ariel would be dead!).

Tinkerbell? That's a stretch! She's just a fairy! And she doesn't actually talk at all, does she? OH NO what is someone swatted her!

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

I always feel a little put-off by the idea of them lumping all these girls together: as you've pointed out, they are different people, and not necessarily going to automatically get along! Plus there's the inclusion of characters that I wouldn't really call "princesses", like Mulan.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

as another friend of mine pointed out, technically wouldn't they all be speaking different languages too?

Yeah, I think Disney probably just shoved Mulan and Pocahontas in there so they could use their songs...

[destertale.livejournal.com]

I think Shrek did some interesting/funny gags along those lines, esp in the 3rd movie. =) And did you mean Faline? From Bambi? At first I thought you meant because Nala is a kind of cat... /giggle ^_^

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Yes, I meant Faline. That's what I get for trying to sound it out *headdesk*

Still haven't seen Shrek 3, now that it's out I should put it on my netflix list! Might be a good follow up to Spiderman haha.

[toothlesshag.livejournal.com]

Paul said to me:

"Princess Tea party? I have a lot of porn about that hypothetical."

Me, I just thought your thoughts were clever.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Yes, but is the porn about how well they get along *nudgenudge* or how naughty they are when together *nudgenudge*

*goes off to wash brain*

[jackieocean.livejournal.com]

This entire post greatly amused me, mostly because I've put thought into this as well and come to much of the same conclusions.

Belle is totally the coolest of all of them.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Glad you agree (and I'm happy someone else besides me has actually thought about this)! It's hard to deny that Belle would be the best one. I could hang with Belle.

[jackieocean.livejournal.com]

If you haven't seen it yet, you might like to take a look at curiousinsane. There's a link to all of the chapters in order on the user info page. It's a webcomic/story based on the idea of Alice returning to Wonderland years later. Belle pops up (http://community.livejournal.com/curiousinsane/6825.html) once in a while (http://community.livejournal.com/curiousinsane/16231.html) because she and Alice run a book shop together. It's a cute story and the illustrations are great.