balladbird said:
Belle as Margery Tyrell is one of those choices that makes more and more sense the more you think about it, considering her role in the first act of the story was basically using her wits and courage to remain in the good graces of the monster that fate decided to place her with. XD
Snow White, though, was just a poor choice for Shae. Granted, Disney's squeaky-clean image wouldn't allow any of its princesses to make a good transition into prostitution, but you could have at least picked one who was canonically older than 14.
Well as "Evil" Therumancer I feel the need to point out that being medieval or at least based on the middle ages, they wouldn't be following the American standard of adulthood and sexual morality, no more than a lot of the rest of the world does. Truthfully at 14 she'd be more than old enough to whore, or be married out for that matter. I mean if we're going to be disturbing enough to cast a Disney princess as a prostitute in a dark fantasy story, they might as well go all out, no?
Now all we need is to have someone make "Disney Princesses as prostitutes in a high quality bordello" each displaying her own erotic specialty.... on second thought, no... we really don't need that.
All joking aside, the big reason I responded is that with Disney's recent diversification there has been a lot of speculation about the Princess line and where it might be going, especially in terms of the popularity of Marvel products. Allegedly there has been some talk about wanting to have "Disney Princess" and a more limited "Classic Princess" lineup featuring only classic animated Disney characters. Discussions about Storm, or Black Widow (whose last name "Romanov" was at one time implied to make her descendent of the Russian Romanov family implying her lineage goes back to Anastashia though I believe this was dropped, it's an angle that could be picked up again) being added to the lineup have been floating around for years now. If they start dipping into some darker territory (former tribal goddesses turned street thief turned X-man turned part time mutant terrorist gang leader , or an assassin government or freelance) I suppose it's only a matter of time before they decide to actually have a Disney princess with a backround as a prostitute (via being a victim of human trafficking or whatever). Given Jasmine's harem girl outfit, use of a whip, and the way family members have been used in some middle eastern cultures, there has already been some off color speculation about what she might have actually been doing on behalf of the kingdom before she met Aladdin (maybe it's just me, but I'm guessing she wasn't a virgin)....
At any rate, give it time, and I suspect the desire for money will stretch the definition of "Princess" even further and move from simple politically correct territory into economic backrounds, and even wanting to give some of the girls dark backer backstories in order to be "inspirational". It will happen steps at a time, but I'd imagine to begin with we'll see a princess line show up involving at least some Marvel characters, and then in a decade or so there will be a definite division. Whether it's truly being discussed or not, I think the business aspects of things will intevitably lead to that "classic princess" sub-group, with a more inclusive and darker general "princess" label replacing it at the forefront.
