no man is an island

fandom: fairy tales | specifically, “Beauty and the Beast” (heavily influenced by Disney)
rating: general audiences
characters/pairings: the enchantress, the prince (→beast); gen
length: ~1000
content notices: none?
summary: Winter in the North Marches is the kind of cold that never lets you go, and only a monster would send an old woman out into it to die.
notes: this borrows a lot more from Disney than I’d intended it to—I didn’t realize until I’d already worked it all out that the enchantress-in-the-snow is unique to their version, but because it was accidental I hadn’t bothered trying to make it in any way compatible with the film. so. anyway, written for #08 (“Pathos”) of 100_women table #15.
ao3 crosspost: here

( pathos, n: the quality or power of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion. )

In a strange burst of inspiration, or something cleverly counterfeiting itself as inspiration, I have decided to do a tiny prompt table just for fracturing fairy tales or otherwise making them female-centric. Table squares will have the fairy tale (if it's that specific) and LJ/DW/AO3 links. Table squares will not have content notices; if you're browsing this table and would like to know, without going to the fics themselves, whether content notices apply, leave me a comment and I'll let you know as soon as I see it. The original table, from 100_women, can be found here.

( once upon a time... )