My Friends Call Me Meg

Siblings from hell

Jasmine clenches her fists, fingernails digging in to her palm, glaring darkly at the blue man, Hades as appears to be called. She didn’t need any help from him, firmly believing Meg and herself could figure all this out on their own.

A slight chill runs down her spine. Lord of the Underworld. How much trouble was she in? What on Earth could he want with them?

“Meg? What does that mean? Lord of the Underworld…is he like the devil?” the princess questions, looking to the other woman with eyes full of concern.

Meg looked to her new friend. “Are you at all familiar with Greek culture or religion?” She asked. IT was obvious Jasmine wasn’t familiar with it, but she felt like she should ask to be polite. “Hades is a god. He is the God of the Underworld. Ruler of the Dead. It is not good that he is a part of this.”

Jasmine watches as the smoke rolls in, a brief moment of fear there was fire just outside the door. Her fear was replaced with a whole new one at the sight of the man, if he truly was a man…he certainly wasn’t human, entered.

She watches the brief conversation between the two with curious eyes, trying to keep her face blank of any of other emotion. “It seems to me you are no friend to either of us,” she states, casting a quick glance to Meg. “Anyone involved with Jafar’s nefarious plots most certainly isn’t my friend.”

“Ouch. Now that just hurt my feelings.” Hades replied, deadpan. He put a hand to his chest as if he felt a stab of pain. “Well! I guess since we aren’t friends, then I don’t have to share my secrets with you. I guess you will have to figure out our little scheme all on your own.”

“Hades...” Meg growled.

“Ah-ah!” He warned, wagging a finger. “No hints.” He turned and waved over his shoulder at them. “Now, I hate to just do a greet and run, but I’m afraid the Lord of the Underworld title comes with a lot of responsibilities. I’ll be back to check on you guys later. Don’t try anything stupid.”

And with that he was gone. Meg sank down hard against the wall. “This is really bad...”

disney princess aesthetics: megara (hercules)

-“You’re going to save them and for what? They don’t appreciate you!”

-“You spill your blood for this city/village and for what? So they can never know the name of the man/woman who saved their miserable lives?”

-“How many times are you going to bleed for them?”

-“Aren’t you tired yet? Haven’t you had enough?”

-“Despair, misery, and chaos. It’s like air to me. But to watch them suffer is much more entertaining.”

-“Look at their miserable lives and tell me what you see. They’re just begging for you to end them.”

-“You’re conflicted I can see it. You don’t want to be the hero but you’re not evil enough to be the villain. So what are you?”

-“You can’t be nothing because you have to be something.”

-“You can’t be nobody you have to be somebody. They need you. Help them.”

-“You’ve shed enough blood. It’s time to stop. You’ve avenged their deaths enough.”

-“You’ve fought until your face was bloody, your ribs cracked, and your soul broken. How much more can you give to them!”

-“You won’t be satisfied until your dead.”

-“This city/village has torn you apart. They don’t deserve anymore saving.”

-“You’d give your soul to them? They won’t ever be satisfied until you’re dead.”

-“You give and you give and give when is it your turn to take?”

-“You’ll burn this city/village to the ground. Murder its people. And then will you be satisfied?”

-“I can’t watch you tear yourself apart anymore for these people.”

-“You’re cruel.”

-“You’ve been caught. There’s nothing more you can do so why are you still fighting?”

-“It’s over. It was a long war filled with countless bodies and bloodshed. So stop…it’s over.”

-“I know you. You aren’t this terrible person people see you as and made you become. There’s still some light within you. I see it…”

-“What has the world done to you to make you feel this broken that you feel the need to hurt other people?”

-“You hurt others because they hurt you.”

-“I can see the torment within you. I can especially tell by the way you mangle the bodies of your enemies.”

-“You don’t owe people anything else.”

-“You’re like the sun and moon. You can either be the light that guides peoples lives to a better world. Or you can be the moon and darken their world. Or- you can be an eclipse and be a little bit of both good and evil.”

-“What do YOU want to become?”

-“You’re the only one who can give others hope.”

-“If it wasn’t for you we’d all be dead.”

-“The histories will never know who really saved us because he/she didn’t want to be known as a hero.”

-“Don’t die for our selfish selves.”

-“You brought this upon yourself.”

-“You can either save lives or take them. So which is it? Who will you become?”

-“You say you’d burn the city/village to the ground. But what happens when you’re standing on a pile of ash and smoke with no subjects to rule?”

-“Your mentor molded you to be a monster.”

-“Your mentor molded you to be a beckon of hope for others.”

-“They will never bow to you.”

-“You’re nothing but a usurper from a foreign place to us. We will never call you King/Queen.”

-“You hide behind a mask all the time and I don’t mean the one upon your face.”

-“Of all the things to have happened to you are you still capable of love?”

-“You were born a villain but you will die a hero.”

-“You were born a hero but will die a villain.”

-“You’ve changed since we first met. You’re becoming something I don’t recognize anymore.”

-“You’re no longer a man. You’re a beast.”

-“Greatness was thrust upon you but you decided not to take it. Why?”

-“We don’t choose these roles they just happen.”

-“I won’t watch you die.”

-“What are you fighting for?”

-“Fates can be changed there’s still time.”

-“Your fate isn’t set in stone.”

-“There’s pain in my chest every time I see you in anguish.”

-“You never meant anything to them. So you turned into the thing they feared the most to leave an impression upon them.”

-“I wish you could see your worth.”

-“Your life is not worth the weight of gold they will pay you for helping them.”

-“I won’t watch you become someone I don’t recognize.”

-“I can’t even say who are you becoming because I don’t even know what you are anymore.

-“When they write of your history they will say it began on this day.”

Quotes and lyrics from the Papermill Playhouse recording of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Change pronouns, phrasing or punctuation as you see fit!

“A baby? Yours? Oh! A monster!”

“Take him. If you can find it in your heart.”

“I will keep and care for him, and teach him at my knee to think like me.”

“What makes a monster and what makes a man?”

“The world is cruel, the world is wicked.”

“How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here?”

“Remember, (name). This is your sanctuary.”

“What I’d give, what I’d dare, just to live one day out there!”

“Just one day, and then I swear I’ll be content.”

“Every man’s a king and every king’s a clown.”

“Everything is topsy turvy at the Feast of Fools!”

“Give me your girls of pleasure, your grapes of Merlot.”

“Is this the third week or the fourth week of the siege?”

“Whoever pays the most I call ‘My Liege.’”

“Darling, to be blunt, you are with the best.”

“Come see me dance to the rhythm of the tambourine!”

“Hey, what can it hurt?”

“This girl… Who is she?”

“She dances like the devil himself.”

“She dances like an angel.”

“And now, ladies and gentlemen, the piece de résistance!”

“Why not take advantage of what you’ve got?”

“Forgive, Master… Won’t ever leave again…”

“Now, boy, you see you don’t belong with normal men.”

“I don’t know if you can hear me, or if you’re even there.”

“God help the outcasts, or nobody will.”

“I thought we all were the children of God.”

“Thanks for giving this moment to me.”

“Could she belong here?”

“Be brave and say something.”

“Pleasure is fleeting, so lips will be meeting.”

“Come keep me warm until morning.”

“I cannot bear to watch and yet I cannot look away.”

“They had a kind of glow around them.”

“No face as hideous as my face was ever meant for Heaven’s Light.”

“I dare to dream that she might even care for me.”

“You know I’m so much purer than the common, vulgar, weak, licentious crowd”

“This burning desire is turning me to sin.”

“Destroy (name), and let her taste the fires of Hell, or else let her be mine and mine alone!”

“Be mine or you will burn!”

“Have no fear, my boy. We will find her and capture her!”

“The wicked shall not go unpunished.”

“The heart of the wicked is of little worth.”

“You have to save her!”

“But that’s what makes you a hero - doing what you’re afraid of!”

“I’ll save (name); Her angel will be me!”

“My apologies, gentlemen, for your imminent demise.”

“Though our lives are tattered and torn, all I’m feeling now is reborn.”

“I must be in a place of miracles.”

“This time, it’s time I’ve learned no love will be returned.”

“And now I know, there’ll be no miracles for me.”

“Could there be a country kinder to our race?”

“Where’s my place of miracles?”

“I used to believe, in the days I was naive, that I’d live to see a day of justice dawn.”

“Someday, life will be fairer.”

“You’re the only one who can save her now!”

“You know what happens when I try to help. I only make things worse!”

“With every new excuse you try out, you only make me want to cry out, "Would that I were made of stone like you!”“

"If I were senseless, I’d prefer it.”

“I’ve wasted my faith believing in saints of plaster, but the only one worth believing in was my master.”

“We just thought that you were made of something stronger.”

“The prisoner has been found guilty of entering the city of Paris illegally, guilty of stabbing a soldier of the church, and guilty of the crime of witchcraft.”

“I will give you this opportunity to recant and save yourself.”

“Someday your patience will finally break; why not make someday come right now?”

“Sanctuary? No sanctuary without her!”

“It was her choice, (name). I could have helped her. Even loved her.”

“Love? What do you know of love? Who have you ever loved?”

“No - you are the weak one. You’re the wicked one!”

feel free to change the pronouns and things to fit your muse!

“do you still believe that they understand you?”

“i believe in everything!”

“you must always remember this. have courage and be kind.”

“you have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body.”

“she’s skinny as a broomstick!”

“she, too, had known grief. but she wore it wonderfully well.”

“you did not say your daughter was so beautiful.”

“_______ is my guest and the eating of guests is not allowed.”

“we ladies must help one another.”

“and that’s what i really want, for you to come back. no matter what.”

“it’s your father. he took ill on the road. he’s passed on.”

“to the end, he spoke only of you.”

“names have power, like magic spells.”

“you shouldn’t be this deep into the forest alone.”

“we must simply have courage and be kind, mustn’t we?”

“just because it’s what’s done, doesn’t mean it’s what should be done!”

“i hope to see you again.”

“she wasn’t a pretty girl. well, she was a pretty girl but there was so much more to her.”

“it’s that wonderful girl. i can’t stop thinking about her.”

“i bet you have never ever spoken to a man.”

“it was my mother’s old dress, you see. and i took it up myself.”

“i don’t believe anymore.”

“you really are my fairy godmother.”

“i’m only a girl, not a princess.”

“well, surely you have the right to your own heart.”

“can you at least tell me your name?”

“your son, _______, is the most lovely person i’ve ever met. so good and brave.”

“it really was like a dream. better than a dream.”

“you’ve become your own man.”

“kindness is free. love is free.”

“and though no one deserves to be treated as you have treated me. why do you do it?”

“because you are young and innocent and good.”

“has your cat learned to sing?”

“you have never been and you will never be my mother.”

“will you take me as i am? an honest country girl that loves you.”