Jaycee Woods

Formatting my “Princess Treatment” draft story, I was reminded of how on occasion I wrote similar stories with a key variant characteristic to create different stories with distinct characters.

This recent was similar to the first pass edited “The Princess’ Choice.” In both a princess is being forced into an arranged marriage, she irrationally resists patriarchal direction due to her own flaw, the patriarchy has its way with her, and in the end she gets exactly what she truly wanted but only because she reformed her own flaw.

While the earlier Princess Veruca was a willful brat, Princess Liselotte evades responsibility as if avoiding becoming an adult. It is a parable of aimless modern women who demand princess treatment without the responsibility of being married off to a foreigner to secure a military alliance.