#amalthea.

i have been meaning to make a post about amalthea's main verse setting. first off: she is from the book-version of the last unicorn, not the movie. the movie is beautiful but the book is downright enchanting.

this verse is one where the unicorn decides to forsake her quest to save all the other unicorns from king haggard and stay as lady amalthea and live and marry lir.

her title is now technically princess, and she will become queen when haggard dies and she and lir take over managing the castle and the village at its base, but many people still prefer to refer to her as 'lady' over other titles, perhaps in a secret unconscious acknowledgment of the fact that she was once an immortal being rendered mortal for a love she does not fully understand because she was not meant to ever comprehend those feelings.

her characterization is rooted in heavy elements of dissociation and depersonalization. amalthea at her core is constantly in a state of remembering and forgetting that she was/is a unicorn: that she was/is not human and that she's forsaking her fate and damning herself by living like this.

while amalthea will be open for shipping in case i get invested in dynamics with other muses, by default she loves lir deeply and is certainly very co-dependently entwined with him--that is how most fairy tales go, isn't it?, where the princess cannot bear to leave the prince's side?

general basis/hooks/starter ideas for easy interactions: your muse is welcomed by amalthea to king haggard's castle for a stay. this is exceedingly crossover friendly because the last unicorn is at its core something of a metatext about fantasy and fairy tales and all the characters (the unicorn is not--but amalthea is) are aware on at least some level that they exist in a story.

if we run with this setting you are welcome to reference the castle as it appears in the movie for setting reference as it's basically what i envision. very dreary, very abandoned, very uninhabitable.