cadnis oneshots so i can get some f*cking sleep

shining in the starlight

hello everyone!! merry late christmas and happy chanukah and kwanzaa to all who celebrate!! and happy december to the rest of you :)

welcome to part 1/3 of our holiday disney collection! this one is a tangled au as requested a little while ago, and i took the excuse to write a couple other disney aus i've had swirling around my head for a little while. so. why not put myself at risk of getting sued by the rat corporation all at once lol

actually while i'm at it. disney!! i am only taking inspiration from this movie and not claiming to own any of the content claimed within!!

just in case.

apologies for not managing to get this up on christmas!! i wanted to stick to our usual wednesdays but in the process of proofreading this one i managed to delete a solid 70% of it forever. so the middle 10k words or so of this one were written in one go in a panic on tuesday lol. so fun!!

anyway enough chat!!
tw for
tangled spoilers
kidnapping
parental/domestic abuse
verbal abuse & gaslighting
injury and death (temporary and non-graphic)
and as always if i've missed something please let me know so i can add it in!

enjoy!!!

originally drafted on may 4, 2024

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This is the story of how Janis Sarkisian died.

Okay, fine, not really. This also isn't really her story.

Anyway. A long time ago, a single

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of starlight

fell from the heavens to earth. From the stardrop, a magical flower bloomed. This single golden blossom had the ability to heal the sick, the injured, and then some.

The flower eventually passed into legend, but still it bloomed, and people from all the lands coveted its wondrous capabilities.

Including one old bitch in particular, but we'll come back to that later.

Millennia after the stardrop fell, kingdoms arose nearby. The one closest was known as Evanston. A small kingdom, tightly knit, with a beloved King and Queen.

Who, conveniently for our story, were about to have a baby.

Just before the baby was born, the Queen fell deathly ill. Hope seemed lost. And that is usually when people start to look for a miracle.

A miracle in the form of a flower, in case you forgot.

The entire kingdom set out to look for the fabled flower. It was found safe at the base of a mountain just outside the kingdom, and carefully plucked to be returned to the palace to save the Queen.

The power of the stardrop was enough to save both the Queen and the unborn child, and she gave birth to a healthy baby.

A daughter, that they named Cadence. The song of the stars.

The baby was born with vibrantly red hair like the fiery heat of the sun, already falling in ringlets to her hips.

In celebration of her birth, a lantern was released into the sky, to thank the stars for her health and her gift.

And for a brief, shining moment, everything was perfect.

And then it wasn't.

The dimmer ones amongst you will have forgotten the aforementioned notorious old hag. She did have a name, though it was known to few.