Oh man, I love the idea of being the sorceress who's off in the woods somewhere, being perfectly capable of fixing problems if everyone would just take her perfectly-good advice. I feel like that person gets a lot of comfortable robes and her own kitchen where no one bothers her. I remember my favorite game with my American Girl Doll was Felicity's Adventures As An Herbal Healer in the Postapocalyptic Wasteland, which is kind of a sorceress figure. Though I was old enough that she had a will-they-won't-they with the local warlord.
I don't know if I would have been susceptible to plain-old princessing otherwise, but my magnificent nerd of a mother kept saying things like "You know, modern real life princesses don't really have that much fun, we could play Beautiful Princess Attends The Ribboncutting of a Municipal Wastewater Plant!" or "you really don't want to have been a medieval princess, in my opinion, lots of sad things happened to them, but we could play Queen Regent whose husband got bumped off in the Crusades!". (There was probably also some impact from Princess Di in this story, as I was hitting the dress-up stage right as it was obvious to everyone that she was not enjoying being a princess at all).
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Date: 2015-03-25 10:59 am (UTC)I don't know if I would have been susceptible to plain-old princessing otherwise, but my magnificent nerd of a mother kept saying things like "You know, modern real life princesses don't really have that much fun, we could play Beautiful Princess Attends The Ribboncutting of a Municipal Wastewater Plant!" or "you really don't want to have been a medieval princess, in my opinion, lots of sad things happened to them, but we could play Queen Regent whose husband got bumped off in the Crusades!". (There was probably also some impact from Princess Di in this story, as I was hitting the dress-up stage right as it was obvious to everyone that she was not enjoying being a princess at all).