Timeframe
I'm looking for an artist to do a short (to be posted all at once, or half now half later -not something updated page by page, weekly or otherwise).

Story
I've listed all the ones I have currently outline (or summarized 8D; realized the outlines were kind of too much to read). I'm really only expecting each artist to choose one they like, but if you want to do more then one that's awesome too c:

I also have other fairy tales I'm reworking, and plan to do more, so if you have a specific one you're interested in just PM me.

Blue Rose - Romantic Version - TAKEN!
(tsundere jousei love story with a cheesy happy ending. which means the guy needs to be really good looking because that's like, the universal cue for quick love affairs lolol)

A very beautiful but haughty princess has just come of age and her parents want her to wed. Suitors come from all over the place but she turns them all down. This starts to anger the king and he tells her to come up with a list of requirements as she can't just refuse them for no reason. She's angry right back and says she doesn't need to make a list -she just has one. She'll marry whoever can bring her a blue rose.

For a while, they start showing up, but then the suitors realize she might have not meant it so literally. One brings her a bouquet of fake flowers, another sapphire jewelry shaped like roses, a painting of blue roses, dyed roses, etc. She mockingly turns them all down.

The princess has a bit of a superiority complex, but is really angry that unlike her older brother who's next in line for the throne or her older sister who's married a neighboring monarch is now reigning queen, her father, the king, has let anyone and everyone get in line to ask for her hand. In a sort of act of rebellion, she rejects them all despite their rank and standing.

A traveler from a faraway country shows up and says he's heard of the princess in search of a blue rose. She says she's not searching for it , but is waiting for someone to bring her one. He says she'll never get what she wants that way, which irks her. She tells him to leave if he's not here to bring her the rose. He pulls out of a cloth bag with a drawstring and says he, in fact has one with him. She's startled and stands from her seat, really curious. She tells him to hurry up and present it, if that's what he's here for. She's sure its some sort of fake anyway. He doesn't open it and says he'll give it to her for a reward. She just wants him to hurry up and says if it's really a true blue rose she'll stick to her word and marry him, even if he is a nobody. He says her hand in marriage isn't what her wants, and that embarrasses and angers her so much that she just yells for people to throw him out for mocking her and storms off.

The next day she's taking a walk in her garden and hearing music, wanders towards it. She finds the traveler sitting under a tree playing a lute. She's startled and asks why he's still here. He just smiles and tells her to calm down and says he's been invited to stay by the king. She says he's lying and he must've snuck in, and turns to run away. He tells her to wait and he'll teach her to play the lute. She scowls and tells him she has no interest in such a common instrument. He offers to sing and play for her instead. She turns him down and says he's bad at it anyway, and she only wandered over to find out where the terrible noise was coming from, but she's not leaving. He laughs and says he's hurt and she's a hard one to please. He asks her why her only requirement for a suitor was a blue rose and she tells him it's none of his business.

He says it sounds like she doesn't want to get married, because if the rumors are even close to true, she's had her choice from hundreds of men from all over the land. She says a nobody like him wouldn't understand. She might've had hundreds to thousands of suitors, but she might as well have had hundreds to thousands nobodies and commoners asking for her hand. She tells him if she had been born male she would have had a chance at the throne, and if she had been born first, even if she was still a girl she would have only been married to someone next in line to the throne. She can get teary at this point and resent her father or feel her doesn't think much of her. The traveler tells her maybe the king just wants her to be happy and marry whoever she wants. Having responsibility for a country isn't necessarily as great as she'd think. She gets mad again and tells that as someone of royal blood that should be her obligation, and if that's not what should happen for her she might as well be one of those ladies in waiting. He's surprised and asks her if that's really wants, then says she must have never been in love before. She gets all red and embarassed and says she's leaving.

She goes to bed that day thinking about him and wonders why she's so bothered by what he says, and then wonders if she should just give up this game and marry someone she's okay with, and drifts off to sleep. She wakes up the next morning and finds a blue rose on her windowsill. She picks it up and is surprised to find that it doesn't stain, and is certainly a real flower.

She brings it with her to look for the traveler, because she's sure he's the one who put it there, and finds him talking to the king on his throne. He says that since the alotted time period has passed without her choosing her own suitor, his prince would like to take his betrothed's hand in marriage now, and plans to take her back to his country. She asks what the meaning of all this is, and the king tells her it's exactly as she's heard. She was supposed to marry a prince in this faraway foreign country as part of a truce the kings decided on years ago, but before the princess came to age , the countries' conflict had already been long resolved and they were dependent on the trade routes that passed through each country, so the king asked whether they could just forget about the marriage. The prince had said if she already had someone in mind and they were married before the end of the month, he'd let it go.

They explain it to her and she's having a hard time taking this all in. The traveler holds out his hand to her and asks her to come with him. He says she's a very prideful and stubborn girl, but would probably make a good queen. She's all torn now because she's already fallen for the guy, and she tells him to explain the rose to her. He says he's the court magician and making a blue rose was a simple task. When she's queen, he could conjure a whole garden full of them if she wished. She tells him that a blue rose is a blue rose, and she won't go back on her word; he's the one who brought her the rose, and he's the one she'll marry.

Blue Rose - comedic version
(airheaded happy girl, fast paced and energetic, comedic and light)

A certain king with three daughters of only a year apart each is set on marrying them off. His first daughter says since she's of royal blood, she'll only marry a prince. His second daughter says noble lineage or not, her husband must be rich. His youngest daughter thinks really hard then blurts out that he has to bring her a blue rose first. /facepalms all around.

Suitors come from far and wide for the princesses, even the youngest because even though she's kind of a wide-eyed airhead, she's probably the most beautiful of the three. And c'mon she's a princess. Imagine the dowry.

In fact, the other two sisters are kind of pissed she has the most people lining up for her, until they find their husbands rather quickly and she's the only one left.

One brings her a dyed rose, and she holds out her hands for it, delighted. But then the rose stains her hands and she epically disappointed and drops it, saying she didn't think they'd have so much blue pollen too. Her sister is amazed at her stupidity and tells her the flower's dyed. She's shocked and had no idea, and politely rejects the guy.

Another brings her a ring with a large cluster of sapphires shaped to look like a rose. She tilts her head, confused, and asks why he's proposing with a ring before bringing her the flower. Her other sister says, no, that IS the flower.

Yet another brings her a vase filled with gold and patterned with blue roses. She smiles thanks him for being supportive of her quest, and promises she'll put the rose in this vase once she gets it. He doesn't even know how to respond to that.

A pirate enters after him and her sisters start to call for someone to throw him out, but he presents the princess with a blue rose and her eyes sparkle as she accepts it. Her sisters ask if she's crazy and that he's a pirate and that's probably a fake because blue roses don't even exist-

She asks him where he got it, and he smiles triumphantly and tells her he stole it from the last country they stopped by. She's fascinated and wants to hear more. He says they're extremely rare, even in that country and their court's royal gardener has the important job of tending to these, and that only the royal family ever gets to see them. She thinks that's awesome and is totally psyched they really exist. He asks if she'll marry him and she agrees without hesitation and they leave on a ship.

Snow White - Comedic Version
After the Queen dies from childbirth the King grieves for years, but finally does remarry nearly 15 years later -to a countess who is also a widow. The marriage is looked down upon because she's of lower rank than the previous Queen, who was a foreign princess, and there are rumors that she can't have children either, which is a problem because the King only has a daughter.

The new Queen is an optimistic and stubborn person. She's also very girly. She's been looking forward to spending time with her new step daughter, the princess, and shopping and doing each other's hair and planning balls. She has this blonde fluffy adorable image of her.

The ladies in waiting bring her to Snow White's room, and it's closed so she knocks. no answer. She asks if she's in there and the maids reply that she hardly ever leaves her room and she hasn't left in quite a while. the queen looks worried and starts pounding on the door and asking how they can be sure she's okay then. The maid tells her they leave all her meals outside and she always takes them and seems to eat so everything should be fine.

The door finally opens and this skinny, scrawny pale kid with dark messy hair in her face is standing there. She asks what they want. The Queen thinks its her servant boy. The maid says thats the princess. The queen asks if she's an albino. the princess scowls at her and the queen dismays as her image of the adorable blonde girl is shattered.

She queen is slumped over her vanity, kind of lifeless and both worried and upset over the princess.

Snow White is in her room, kind of dark but every inch of the walls are lined with posters of a uke-ish looking trap from some game. She's a fanatic.

The queen decides this is the result of the king's negligence and plans to give Snow White back the lovely childhood a princess should have had.

She's pounding at the door and asking her to come out. She says she has something for her as an apology for getting off on the wrong foot. She reluctantly opens and the queen hands her an envelope. Snow White's not exactly thrilled, and less so when the Queen says thats the invitation for the ball she planned for her. She closes the door.

She Queen doesn't give up. She brings dresses, ponies, suitors, cakes, stuffed animals and anything and everything. Snow White doesn't even open the door.

The Queen gives up and sobs to the King for a bit then decides to send her to an all girls boarding school for ladies and the King doesn't mind.

Snow White hears of this and she escapes. Down the window with a rope of bedsheets as all. The Queen sees her as she's running away off into the distance. They chase but don't catch her and the Queen is out of her mind with worry. She tells the King she's at boarding school.

The Queen hires a private eye and he comes back to tell her he's found her. The Queen sneaks over to see how she's doing and sees Snow White as a mafia boss in a tiny wooden cottage in the middle of the woods. She worries for her country's future. She worries that if she's seen, Snow White will just run away again, so approaches disguised as a Senior Citizen.

She shows up and says she needs the Don's help and that her stupid grandon, the PI in disguise, has gotten into trouble with a rivaling group and they needs her protection, in return he'll work for her as a loyal underling. Surprisingly, Snow White buys it, and the PI is left there. The detective then reports back to the queen daily and after a while he gets seen. They think he's a spy for the other group want to cut off his fingers and tongue for being a traitor. The Queen gets the news via piegeon carrier (what) and shows up judt in time to save him in her carriage with all the royal guard and all. Snow White tries to pull a weapon on her and so the Queen tries to wrestle it out of her hands. She finally makes her let go and she slips and hits her head, falling unconcious. The dwarves/mafia members are enraged so the guards take her and they retreat, but the Queen is desolate.

She's pacing around and decides she can't just leave her there after all, she needs to see if she's okay, even if the useless guards wont come with her. She assembles a group of the finest doctors she can find and heads back to the woods.

It seems the rest of the mafia couldn't properly take care of her and don't know what to do to wake her up either, so they're sad and depressed and let the Queen in for the sake of their boss. The doctors, one by one, diagnose Snow White with stupid things, until one doctor with an assistant that looks surprisingly similar to the character on the posters in her room steps up. She grabs him and her eyes snap open and she sits up and proposes. He had no choice, poor kid.

They go home yay happy ending.

Snow White - Dark Version
Snow white is a really proud princess who prides her looks above all others. The king fot remarried, but she doesn't see the Queen as a rival at all, because she's like 25, which is super ancient to her.

But when people start fawning over the new Queen as well, she gets really angry. She sends the Queen a present, a mirror with a gold frame with the inscription: ‘To the fairest of them all.’ The Queen accepts it happily.

The mirror tells her that she's the most beautiful, the fairest everyday, and Snow White just lurks in the corridors thinking it's hilarious. What a psycho. After a week or so the Queen has gotten used to the praise and asks the mirror who's the fairest of them all, but the mirror hesitates before answering. This throws her off a bit. The next day the mirror hesitates again and she's still beautiful but not at her best. The Queens upset but doesn't say anything. Snow White runs down the hall laughing her head off.

The next day she asks again and the mirror suggests she's getting old. This doesn't stop the Queen from using it, but instead she gets rather obsessive over her looks. The mirror's words get worse and worse everyday until it's calling her ugly and hideous. She looks into the mirror again and see's an old hag and screams. She runs down the hall but all the mirrors show her as an ugly old woman. She finally reaches the King and she's sobbing to him etcetc and she looks in his wine glass and her relfection is normal. She realizes Snow White's been enchanting the mirror. Later she sends for Snow White and ends up scarring her face as revenge

Little mermaid - comedic version
“We may be loan sharks, but we're environmentally friendly loan sharks,” is the title. That should kinda set the tone. This one I'm pretty bent on having it in a manga style. More specifically, something DearS, Sekirei, Air Gear, borderline ecchi with a male protagonist who's not so special at first and the girl usually has pretty big boobs and isn't from around here.

Ayuko-chan, a mermaid, saves a man who's been thrown into the Tokyo Bay in a duct-taped plastic trash can by some loan sharks. She's very concerned with keeping the sea clean.

The boss happens to be a fish person as well, half shark, in fact. She doesn't know this at first and goes to him so she can turn human like him too, because she's fallen in love. He eventually gives in because she's like his adorable kid sister.

She moves in with the guy she saved and it's like one of those poor college student meets big breasted magical girl type ecchi-ish mangas. Then the boss tells her that in return for the secret she has to kill this one guy for him. She thinks he's a violator of nature because the image she has of her older brother figure is still one of an environmental activist, and so she agrees. The she finds out the guy is the one she saved and she's desolate. After trying to kill him and not being able to do it she finds out that he's not a serial polluter but someone who signed as a guarantor and now owes money. And that the boss is not just a shark but a loan shark as well.

There's some trouble and now the yakuza are after them and they're running but then there's this tearful shounen manga type reunion between the mermaid and the shark and she's reminding him of his dream of protecting the sea and keeping the world green and everyone's moved and its ridiculous and yay happy ending.

Cinderella - comedic version
Sympathy for Prince Charming

Cinderella is a power hungry, backstabbing little girl who locks her stepsisters and step mother at home in order to go to the ball. There she finds the prince and his secret lover and blackmails him into marrying her, just on the surface, because she wants the title of Queen. The poor guy really has no choice as his lover doesn't mind either.

Rapunzel - Romantic Version
This one's in a modern day setting, and starts with a young boy and girl who meet for the first time, and he narrates as they grow up and she still seems so far away. Kind of a unrequited love due to being “just friends,” for the first half, though they do end up together.

Art
If you could post/send examples that'd be nice. As for styles, I'm pretty flexible for most of them, with the exception of the mermaid one atm.

Contact
Leave a post, PM, or email xxoranges@gmail.com