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@traumas-mermay-2025 Day 22: Shells and pearls

Miranda x Roland mermaid AU!

Greetings!

LILACS !!!!!

I saw @duckker 's fanart and @caellekae 's fanart of Miranda in her beach dress and decided to make this into a trilogy.

(Also put my pencil sketch under the cut)

 Okay so it was confirmed that for Sofia the First Royal Magic, the same animation studio (Link) and many of the people from the creative team who worked on Firebuds (Link) are going to make it. So, I watched some episodes of Firebuds to try to predict what Royal Magic might be like, and I made an absolutely amazing discovery! Now I am more excited for Royal Magic than ever before because this is amazing and awesome, and it makes me so happy! The parents are treated as completely normal and accepted by everyone else in the show, and there's an episode (Balancing Act) that talks about how families are the people who love you and that they can be bigger or look different than one might expect!

 Anyway, here are some of the main episodes with Violet and her moms:

Firebuds Season 1 Episode 4a Picnic Pile-Up

Firebuds Season 1 Episode 21b Job-O-Rama Day

Firebuds Season 2 Episode 8a Balancing Act

 These families are just so adorable and it's so amazing that the creative team was able to do this! Like in Sofia the First they weren't able to have any overtly LGBTQ+ characters, in my opinion there was coding for some characters, but nothing openly confirmed in the show itself. In Elena of Avalor they were able to have certain scenes in “Sweetheart's Day” and “Coronation Day” that implied possible gay and lesbian relationships, but nothing overtly stated (along with more coding). And then in Firebuds they are just like: Yep, they’re a couple. They're married. Love is real.

 Anyway, I'm excitedly hopeful that Royal Magic is going to have LGBTQ+ characters, either new ones or characters we already know being confirmed.🏳️‍🌈

Playing pretend together.

Remember that time where Miranda nearly drowned?  Honestly, I don't think we talk about that enough as a fandom.

Roland II and Lorelei during their wedding in the palace garden.

Miranda and Birk during their wedding on the beach.

Do you have any stf hcs that you've thought of but haven't had the chance to use/talk about?

I don't know if I have mentioned this one before (bad memory) but you know how Aunt Tilly takes Queen Miranda inside to explain her what being a Protector is about? Well I hc that Queen Miranda straight up lost it during that conversation and gave her a whole mouthful for putting Sofia into so much danger and not seeing anything wrong with making a literal child a Storykeeper/Protector. And of course I also hc that their relationship was quite strained after that conversation.

My entry for Draw the Princess! I could not choose which Princess to draw, then I remembered that I didn't have to!

She may be a good fairy now, sure, but around her celebrity crush? Not a chance.

(Extra Context: in this comic, and this picture).

Ask game! List five of your favorite or top songs, then send this ask to the last ten people in your notifications

Okay sure! Hard to narrow down top five of all time, so have five songs I love that are all Canadian Folk music!

The Dreadnoughts - Polka Never Dies

Rum Ragged - The Thing About Fish

Stan Rogers - Witch of the Westmoreland

Great Big Sea - Donkey Riding

James Keelaghan & Oscar Lopez - ¿Buddy Where You Been?

(All of these are YouTube links).

Queen Miranda, Mistress of Evil

  The story behind this is that when Halloween rolls around, on the third year of her being queen, Miranda decides that she really wants to dress up this year for Halloween, because she hasn't yet since coming to the palace. Back in the village she always used to dress up as a villain, but she was not sure if that was still acceptable now that she had become queen. Of course, as soon as she mentions this idea to her family, they told her that they thought it was a fantastic idea, and she should go for it! In fact, maybe she should even “take over the Kingdom” for Halloween (A.K.A. themed Halloween party where she's in charge)! So she made her own costume and the rest is history.

  Wormwood can't talk yet at this point in time, but everyone could tell that he wanted to be her evil sidekick for Halloween, so he's acting as Diablo to her Maleficent. (Even though he knew this whole thing was fake, Wormwood still very much enjoyed this because Maleficent is his favorite villain of all time and Miranda is surprisingly good at acting in character).

We never get to see what most of the characters were doing for Halloween in season 3 of Sofia the First, so this may as well have happened! (She has no idea how ironic this will be by the time of season 4). You can see Miranda in costume here.

Sketches of young and old Roland II and Tilly I made. Their child designs are really cute, and also I think it's funny how tall he becomes compared to her. Are these two separate artworks, or is this some kind of time travel/future/past vision scenario? You decide!

October can’t come soon enough

This was originally meant to be a 100% goofy funny comic, but somehow it turned into angst halfway through. I still think it's funny that Minimus canonically learns the truth before Amber and James though.

(And thanks to @ograndebatata for helping me rewrite the script to be more fitting).

Comic Script: Roland: … So, now you know the truth about my first wish on the well. I'm sorry I didn't tell you before. If any of you has anything to say, please do. Roland: Okay… one at a time please. James: Does this mean I'm half-wishing well? If someone put a coin in my mouth could I grant their wishes? Roland: WHAT?! NO! Absolutely not! Sofia: I'm sorry dad. Minimus and I already knew, and I think he has told every horse in the kingdom by now. Roland: That's not… how did you…? Amber: Daddy… does that mean I could have killed Sofia when I turned her into a cat? Would she be dead because of me? Roland: No Amber. That wouldn't have happened. Don't worry, no one got hurt. Amber: But Sofia almost was! Roland: But she wasn't. She's alright. All of you are. I'm sorry I only told you now. but please remember we both love you all very much. And we'll all get through this together.

So, here's my first Sofia the First fanfiction! It features Roland II and Miranda having a conversation about something that they definitely needed to talk about eventually, and what better place to do it then there? (Trying not to give spoilers but I did put tag warnings on it just in case, because there are some heavy topics discussed).

King Roland II/Queen Miranda sketches because they are so cute together! Also, they never kissed on the lips in the show, so I needed to correct that.

Vote for who you think would be most likely to die for narrative reasons!

Learning from grandma!

More Queen Lorelei sketches!

Adding more to my headcanons about her: She and Roland met when they were both going to Royal Prep. She was a Princess of a Kingdom but not the first born so ultimately her older sister became Queen, but Lorelei still wanted to learn about ruling and had an interest in economics. She and Roland became friends and would often do assignments together and both went to EverRealm Academy, eventually falling in love and getting married. When ruling together they could cover for each others’ weaknesses, she had a good sense of numbers and was able to cover financial problems and policies best, while Roland was better at diplomacy.

To the public she came across as more regal and serious in comparison to Roland's joviality, but she still had plenty of quirks. Ever since she was young, Lorelei always kept pet giant silk moths around, she raises them from worms to adults making sure to feed them enough mulberry leaves every day or schedule the servants to feed them if she is unavailable. She finds it quite humorous whenever someone mistakes a moth for a more usual pet only to be shocked when it's a giant bug, but if you actually insult them she will not be happy. Fun Fact: the scientific name for the domestic silk moth is Bombyx mori.

Queen Lorelei, Roland II’s first wife and the biological mother of Amber and James. She only gets a few seconds of screen time in the final episode of the series, but I think about her a whole lot.

I wanted to give her a few different outfits and hairstyles for these sketches because I imagine she would have been very fashionable. We know absolutely nothing about her personality, but I like to headcanon that she really enjoyed paperwork, numbers and lists, and often created new financial policies and trade deals for the Kingdom. Also, it's interesting with her design because while Amber does look like her, I would say with the size and spacing of her eyes and the shape of her face James resembles her just as much as Amber does. And her hair bangs are really neat because she has little hair curls like Amber does but they are also perfectly symmetrical like James’ are.

Since we never see him in the show, except for his hat, I have decided to make my own design for Birk Balthazar, Miranda’s first husband!Using what little we know about him from sources outside the show and combining them with my own headcanons, I am really happy with how this all came together.

Since he is Sofia's biological dad, I think she must have inherited her hair colour and texture from him, so I wanted to show that.  Since he is from Freezenberg and is a sailor I thought he should have a big beard and mustache. He is wearing a long coat that he ripped the sleeves off so his sailor tattoos could be seen. On his right arm he has tattoos of an anchor (because he sailed across the ocean to the western kingdoms many times before), a polar bear (his favorite animal, and one of the main animals of his homeland), and one he keeps covered with a scarf Miranda gave him. On his left arm he has a carnation (the flower of Miranda's homeland), and an orca (given to him after he saved a ship from a sea monster as a token of his bravery).

Had to make some screenshot re-draw sketches of Queen Miranda because she is gorgeous. I also wanted to see what she would look like with short hair.

Just finished the game and I agree with Muu, Rhok'zan x Stardust forever. They're going to make the greatest songs of all time, for all time.

This comic is brought to you by: me rereading the Brothers Grimm and remembering how horrifying “The Juniper Tree” is. (Also “Hansel and Gretel” is pretty messed up too, but still).

Comic script: Amber (to Miranda): So you're definitely not going to be an evil stepmother like the ones in fairytales? Miranda: Yes, I'll be good. James: So, if we ran out of food, you wouldn't convince our dad to abandon us in the woods with no way home? M: No, I would not. And if we were low on food, you could have mine. A: Speaking of food, you would never cook us in a stew and feed it to our loved ones, right? M: No! Absolutely not! What kind of fairytales have you been reading?! J: The Grimm ones. A: Final question worst possible scenario, would you ever dress us in servant clothes and force us to do chores? M: No, and are you sure that's the worst scenario of the three? A: Absolutely. Without a doubt.

(Original pencil sketch version of the comic under the cut)

I think that them getting married on the same day they met is both the funniest option and the most stereotypically Disney option.

Although, I feel like they would have probably gotten to know each other a little bit before they decided on marriage.

But I still think it would have been a short time considering that their kids hardly know each other after the wedding and Tilly wasn't able to make it to the wedding, which could have been for any number of reasons but the wedding being on short notice would be a possible explanation.

It is never revealed in the show how long it was between Roland and Miranda first meeting and their marriage to each other. So how long do you think it was? (I can't have an option for every possible time-frame so just vote for the one that's closest to whatever you headcannon/theorize is the time frame).

(I've been wondering this for a while now, so I needed to make a poll about it. I need to know what the rest of the Sofia the First fandom thinks of this.)

Bone spaghetti.

Oh no I have been give an anonymous ask about Bone spaghetti, and now I am compelled to answer the ask about the Bone spaghetti.

Bone spaghetti.

Sooo in honor of (the last few minutes of) Valentine's Day, I wanted to share this little wip of a fantastic couple that I fell in love with despite of how little we saw of them. The pose is based on my favourite couple of all times, from an old Polish movie titled "Pan Wołodyjowski" (eng. Colonel Wołodyjowski/Fire in the Steppe).

Original scene under the cut (it's basically a calque skjhfsjhf)

Oni <3333