OT3 Fairy Tale AUs

(prince and princess are to be taken as entirely gender-neutral terms here)

• Person A is Cinderella. Person B is the prince. Person C is the prince’s lover, who lives next door to A and thinks they should get to go to the ball
• Swan Lake: A is Odette, B is Siegfried, C is Odile, who liked and was friends/in love with Odette before Rothbart coerced them into tricking Siegfried
• A is a princess being sacrificed to a dragon, B is the prince saving them, and C has been cursed to become a dragon and doesn’t want a human sacrifice at all
• A is the oldest of the twelve dancing princesses, B is trying to find out their secret and follows them, and C is the ruler of the land A and siblings have been going to to dance, who notices that someone’s following them this time
• A is a princess who loses something in a pond, B is a frog who gets it out for them and follows them back to the castle, and C is A’s fiancé, whose best friend has been mysteriously missing for a while
• A is Rapunzel, B is the witch’s slave who is just as much a prisoner in the tower as A is, and C is the prince
• East of the Sun, West of the Moon: A is the prince who is cursed to live as a polar bear during the day, B marries him, and when they discover who he is and he disappears they go off to rescue him and meet C, who helps and falls in love with them along the way
• A is Aladdin, B is the princess, and C is the genie who desperately wants freedom but still kind of likes A
• A is a miller’s son, B has been transformed into a talking cat, and C is the princess (who figures out what’s going on pretty quickly)
• Snow White and Rose Red, except they’re girlfriends instead of sisters