When she was younger and far more reckless with her magic, the Fairy Godmother was once called the Blue Fairy.
Like most other elements, Air has a specialization, too–but where Earth has Metal and Fire has Lightning, Air has more in common with Water. Water which can heal, which can turn a person’s blood against them.
Water is the body, but Air is the spirit.
She brought a wooden puppet to life once.
Surely she can bring a daughter into this world, too.
“Please,” she whispers, holding the still, tiny body to her chest, “Please.”
On a moonless night, several hours after her birth, Jane breathes her first breath.
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The last Avatar was originally an Earth bender, a masterful one at that. From a stone, he gathered and extracted all of its metal and formed a magical sword. The sword that would one day choose Arthur as king.
That Avatar had trained Arthur, had brought him to the Spirit World, bestowed upon him a wisdom that would one day unite all of Albion into a single kingdom.
Of course, that union lasted only for a very short time, the separate kingdoms splitting apart not long after King Arthur’s death. Earth endures, but the loss of his student had the Avatar retreating into isolation for the rest of his long life.
Merlin died only a few years after seeing Albion reunited under a new name.
Mal was born with the impossible conviction that she would one day return to her rightful place–beside the king of Auradon.
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Ben remembers being small and sitting between his parents. He remembers the smell of old books and the warm sunlight shining through the library’s windows. He remembers the way they looked at each other, soft and in love.
He remembers hearing about their story–from them, from his grandfather, from the rest of the household–and thinking that one day he’d like to fall in love, too; to love someone so much as to defy society.
Except he also remembers the way everyone would gloss over just how his father survived Gaston’s attacks. He remembers how his mother would only play in the snow with him and Chip, always with a secretive smile on her lips.
He remembers, fuzzily, being sick for such a long time–no manner of medicine able to cure him–and finally recovering under his mother’s cool, glowing hands.
Bending is dangerous–the other royal families say–except for the Fairy Godmother, benders are villains in waiting.
It’s been a decade since Ben saw his mother. It’s been a decade since Ben learned his father was a coward.
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A/N: Related to this previous drabble. I guess you can consider this the Auradon side.
I’m not very keen on the Merlin section but… mreh. And, I know Albion is only meant to be the United Kingdom but in this weird amalgamated, modern-day-set Disney world, I figure it wouldn’t be too out there to imply that Albion = medieval Auradon…
As for the Ben+parents’ section, uh… given what we see of Beast/Adam and Belle in the movie, I figure that if Belle were a waterbender (healing tears, snow fight, etc) and Beast/Adam were under pressure from the other royal families well. Even though Beauty and Beast’s “evil” was human arrogance, the other kingdoms suffered under magical/bending villains.
EDIT: NOW WITH TITLE “OUTLIVING THE RUINS”
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