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The Wishing Kingdom: Chapter 1: Our Story Starts

(The screen is blank for a few seconds, until a font that says “A few years later” appears, one that faded away, we get our first glimpse of the hamlet, in that area, there’s triangle-shaped roofs of each house staked onto cobblestone rocks in front of some swoopy trees as it’s built as a safe habitat for others to stay safe from the king and queen, then, we see some ragged-clothed people holding on to some laundry and some soil to create a fireplace for themselves to stay warm and to make some food from it as well.)

(Like this shot from The Last Unicorn except it’s showing the rest of the Hamlet.)

After 2 minutes of all that is going on, we get introduced to 17-year-old Asha as she is seen sleeping in her bedroom until the sunshine splashes on her face, waking herself up even though it was so early in the morning.

“Woah! Is it that time already, it’s gone fast than I can hardly imagine!” Asha stretches her arms while seated in her bed, she also got a small glimpse of her pet goat, Valentino with a piece of white cloth on his mouth persuading her to do her work.

“MAAAAAA” Valentino screeched with such enthusiasm.

“Hey there bud, ready to start the day?” She hops out of bed to touch his face as she gently takes the cloth out his mouth, not long after, we get to see Sakina and Sabino walking over to Asha’s side.

“Awww, our little Asha being a grown-up lass, isn’t she just so gentle?” Sabino touches her cheek playfully while he gives his hand to petting Valentino, Sakina joins in too before she is urged to say something as well.

“Yeah, you’re so right, dear, and she will always remain to be here with us for eternity.” She slowly looks at Asha, a slow orchestral background plays that is so loving and gentle before Asha speaks.

“Awww, thank you guys, I could’ve never asked for anything better, now, who’s ready for chores?” She got herself up and held up the white cloth as if she were one of those guards, almost leaving confusion on Valentino, Sakina and Sabino’s faces.

That is until Valentino started jumping around Asha with his paw gesturing the outside of the hamlet, being impatient, from that reaction, Sabino, Sakina and Asha look at each other before they shrugged, grabbed their equipment and opened the door to a brand new day, which leads to the first song!

Our Hamlet/ Our Rosas

In this opening musical number, it shows us what life is like between both worlds, the hidden hamlet which was made as a safe habitat for folks who want to be safe from the king and queen who held Rosas captive, it’s a bit like “Belle”, “Circle of Life” and “Steady as The Beating Drum”, it’s sort of like that but more of a welcome edition to the world.

(Before the song starts, Asha opens the cottage doors with Sabino and Sakina by her side as she grabs her basket to get her work done!)

(Asha)

The people have so much joy in the air,

They know a brand new day is here to stay,

It’s the same morning,

The town here is shining, whoops sorry!

(During the first line, we get a shot of a few people walking around and doing their work with smiles on their faces while Asha strolls around with her basket following every step, in the final line, she accidentally bumps into a young man who is just about to finish his laundry, as she runs off, he rolls his eyes and continues with what he is doing.)

Everyone’s got something,

On their mind that’s spinning,

Behind these roots and those leaves,

Lies a town I can’t leave!

(While Asha is singing the second line, she is seen jumping down on the stairs of each cottage simply made of rocks while observing the people around her, when she says the third line, she gestures the trees and spins around them as if this is her place of comfort.)

(Everyone)

Here inside this hamlet,

We grab the cloth and go,

The scrubbin, the washing,

Is all we have to hold,

Here inside this hamlet,

Our wishes stay aglow,

Who knows what miracles,

Have in store,

In our hamlet.

(With the chorus going in, we go into some townspeople telling others about the work and using their hard work as a purpose to keep their wishes glowing, in one shot, Leo is seen guarding one house whereas Dextrous sleeps on his shoulder, he wakes up suddenly to start guarding, in the final line, we than pan over to the kingdom of Rosas, where King Magnifico and Queen Amaya rule over their subjects.

A citizen of Rosas starts to sing as he is carrying a massive sack of royalty for the king and queen)

(Citizen 1)

With all this load left to hold, I might drain,

What if they find out, they might go insane!

(Citizen 2)

These broken wings of mine,

Yet when will they fly again?

(Both citizens are at the marketplace of Rosas when singing those lines, the first line is supposed to show how the people are forced to work tirelessly with no sleep in order to please the king and queen, and also, the line “these broken wings of mine, yet when will they fly again?” that citizen 2 is singing, the line is supposed to highlight how the citizens of Rosas are enslaved by Magnifico and Amaya’s power forcing them to do everything they say, but the question that is sung emphasises freedom for themselves so that they can pursue their own dreams of their own.)

(Both citizens)

It feels like death is holding on to me,

Just you wait for the day, we’d all be free!

(All citizens)

Right here in Rosas,

Where flowers stay bloomed,

Where a tragedy hits so deep,

Which made our home so bruised,

Right here in Rosas,

We’re holding onto our hopes,

Who knows what lies beneath this hoax,

Behind those heavy doors,

In our Rosas,

In our hamlet!

(In the last chorus, we get a massive set of choreography where the citizens are gathering around as they are dancing around the plaza, in one shot, you get a medium shot of a few people in rags being persuaded to dance along with the citizens, in another shot, some people dance around the statues of Magnifico and Amaya paired together, throughout this number, we get the idea that the Hamlet is a safe haven where they keep their wishes protected whereas Rosas is a literal dystopia where slavery is forced by the king and queen.)

After the number, the camera goes right back to the hamlet where Asha is just about to get her work finished.

There’s a point where she spots Dextrous humming the previous song whilst leaning against the cottage door, her hand rested on his shoulder while she suggests him to get on with his job.

“Eh, sorry miss, I’m just bothered at the moment, it’d be best if you leave me here to rest.” Dextrous replied as his eyes are half-closed like he was about to go to sleep.

“Oh, come on, doing your own work isn’t so bad after all.” She expressed while her hands grasped onto her basket of laundry where she was about to head to the river nearby, that is until Leo arrives with her sketchbook in his hand.

“Heh, looks like you forgot this! Now let’s see here, hmm…” He snoops over her pages (not in a mean way but more of a playful yet innocent way.) which only made Asha twitch her eye a bit, so she starts some banter while he still has her book.

“Been swearing, haven’t ya?”

“No, no I haven’t, I was only just filled with smoke, how can I not puff it all out?” Her sarcastic voice puts him off a bit but it doesn’t bother him.

“Heh, I didn’t know you can tell me how this got you to write like this?”

“Stop playing, Leo, it’s just my thoughts, and personally, it’s like everyone has a story.” She snatches the book of him while she rubs it with her apron, catching Leo and Dextrous aghast when she says that everyone has a story.

“Well, yeah, that is the truth.” She starts opening her sketchbook to show her some of her drawings with Leo and Dextrous. “This here is where I started my first drawing, I know it isn’t perfect like you guys would say it is.”

“Perfect?! Since when did I hear someone say perfect throughout their whole life?” Leo raised his eyebrow, he knew it was all a joke.

Asha’s eyes knitted the friends. “Um, dunno, it just came out of my head, the fact that it’s not really my best drawings…”

“Oh come on, we all love your drawings, imperfect or not.” Dextrous opened his eyes and expressed his true feelings to his trusted friend.

“Thanks… But, I feel like…” After Asha stutters on what is trying to come out of her mouth, we are shown that in a few pages of her messed up sketches and doodles to different types of constillations, gliding across the book as if its a first draft on her finished work,

(This is used to emphasise on how Asha has been willing to inspire people through her own work, she knows that sketching and writing her thoughts is her only strength and she has a fault for seeing the eyes of other people, but in terms of art style, she’s willing to improve as well.)

Leo and Dextrous were wide-mouthed after seeing her pages. “I see, it’s as deep as I could’ve imagined as well.”

“But no matter what happens, you don’t need to always say that you need time to finish with whatever you’re doing, what matters is that we’re here to support you, Asha, just remember that!” Leo’s words fuelled her heart which opened so wide with admiration.

“I mean, yeah, you are the one who fills the world with sunshine.” Dextrous replies as well. (There’s your first reference of the rewrite, Snow White right here, but this is used to describe how much Asha cares for her friends so much and they're willing to support her.)

“So you mean that whenever you’re turning black, I’m the one who completely changes your colour to make you brighter with my heart?” She questioned, she didn’t quite get it all at once.

“Yes, that’s what we mean.” Leo answered back.

Unfortunately, we hear Gilllia’s anger behind the cottage nearby, she is called by him but she walks over with her arms crossed and sat at the furthest pit of the cottage they were standing with.

“WHATS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?! DIDNT MY DAY JUST CRUMBLE?! Her croaky voice caught everyone’s attention all of a sudden.

“Looks like someone got hit by the wrong ball over there!” Dextrous joked as he gestures right towards Gillia.

“Dextrous!” Leo scoffed and knudged him in the arm leaving him shocked.

“Anyway, what’s the point of showing these sketches and making them your life source, kind of a waste if you think about it.” She said more calmly but she still had that temper slipping through her veins.

“Oh Gilllia, it’s not that bad of a habit, unless you get bored of it like it’s the same thing, but you see here, this page looks off, can you see? Here?” Asha walks over to her and then gestures the page of a drawing of a hamlet citizen, (a concept art version if you want to put it correctly.)

It takes her a bit of time to figure out what is wrong with Asha’s drawing, she instead replies with, “There’s not a single thing I can point out, Asha, the drawing is actually quite good, since when did you get this sort of talent?”

“Taught it myself, you know, I was thinking I’d tell you guys since I’ve been curious about what wishes you’ll write for the stars.” The topic slowly changed as soon as Asha is sat between her friends whilst she is hesitant for their answers.

“To be honest, I don’t know what to wish for, but I’ve heard so many stories about the stars years ago.” This was Leo’s only answer he could come up with before Dextrous took his turn to answer.

“No matter how much I might’ve said this, I think I might wish to be more aware of my surroundings.” Dextrous looks down at his feet after that, “But I feel like I’m getting the hang of it, ya know?”

Gillia’s eyebrows transform into a distant frown when she was asked about what she wanted to wish for, but everyone else knew that her mouth was closed, maybe she isn't ready yet or she doesn't feel like talking about it with her other friends, even though they are the ones who she can trust.

“I guess she isn't ready yet, maybe we'll ask her at some point.” Dexterous patted on her shoulder and eyed right at Asha as she is about to pick her own laundry up from the basket.

“Yeah, but I feel like I also don't know what to wish for, making a wish is complicated because there are so many opportunities one person can hold, but does it really matter if we sit down with our head on the desk, we think about what drives us to pursue that wish?” Leo sighed while he slowly caught a glimpse of the morning sky. “When the stars come out, I hope they answer one’s call.”

“Don't worry, Leo, I’m sure they will come out someday, I know it, and it goes for all of you, when your wish is shown on a ribbon, the stars will listen closely and make sure to grant it as soon as possible!” Asha replied to Leo as his heart slowly began to warm up from her wisdom.

We then take a few seconds for the friend group to look at their hearts to make sure that their wishes are secured, meanwhile, Asha glanced at a castle not so far away and then looked back at where she was, until a voice appears…

“Asha! Time to go back home now!” The voice shouted from a distance.

From there, she starts to pack her laundry and before going straight away, she slowly starts saying goodbye to her friends and they wave back as she climbs up the rocks all the way back to her cottage.

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Final Notes

This is the first chapter that I fully wrote to start off the story of “The Wishing Kingdom”, with the hamlet and Rosas song, I wanted to show you different sides of both worlds and how each person lives their regular life, what I also wanted to show you was the dynamic between Asha and her three friends with each of them supporting one another.

Forgot to mention that the montage of Asha’s drawings, I wanted to use that as a metaphor as to what Walt Disney truly meant when he wanted to create fairy tales into movies, like he did with Snow White, it's also a metaphor for animation as a whole, you know like teaching yourself the basic principles and how they inhabit life into characters and objects!

But don't worry, in Chapter 2, you will see Sakina, Sabino and Asha’s dynamic whilst also getting our first glimpse of the king and queen of Rosas and what they do for a living as well. But in that chapter alone, you will see that the wishes mean so much more to the Hamlet according to Sabino, so you will get more of him, so for now, stay tuned for more!

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Wish Animatic 🌟

A very short animatic! I made this in January and quit halfway through, and I’m sure you can tell where I decided to pick it back up. 😂 I found it and didn’t want the effort to go to waste so I finished a bit more of it. Hope ya’ll enjoyed!

Song: Rewrite the Stars from The Greatest Showman

Just imagining the rest, haha.

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@tumblingdownthefoxden @kstarsarts @chillwildwave @mythartist21 Finally finished the oufits sketches for your stars! hope you like :D

@rascalentertainments If you're wondering where star is, well…let's just say I asked forced him nicely to get into a bag to make the oufit, you were right when you said he has a LOT of energy…so much energy that I ended up crashing into a tree 😅

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Have you ever discussed with your colleagues the Wish Rewrite AUs of Star and Asha's children from other stories (not from KOW)? Because at the moment, only the names and appearance of the children of the main characters in your story are officially known. I hope you understand my question, I just don't know how to formulate it.

No we actually never talked about that, I think I’m the only one who has really put thought in the future after the events of my rewrite, considering I’m kinda the only one who finished writing mine 😅 kinda because I speed run the process

@gracebeth3604 @signed-sapphire @oh-shtars @kstarsarts @tumblingdownthefoxden @mythartist21 @emillyverse you guys have any ideas for your Starsha kids?

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Have you ever discussed with your colleagues the Wish Rewrite AUs of Star and Asha's children from other stories (not from KOW)? Because at the moment, only the names and appearance of the children of the main characters in your story are officially known. I hope you understand my question, I just don't know how to formulate it.

No we actually never talked about that, I think I’m the only one who has really put thought in the future after the events of my rewrite, considering I’m kinda the only one who finished writing mine 😅 kinda because I speed run the process

@gracebeth3604 @signed-sapphire @oh-shtars @kstarsarts @tumblingdownthefoxden @mythartist21 @emillyverse you guys have any ideas for your Starsha kids?

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Wait KOW! Aster and Asha have kids!!!?!

Where!?! And what they’ll look like?

Yup! 2 girls

You’ve missed their introduction so let me recap:

So, remember that wishing star that showed up in the sky at the end of Kingdom of Wishes? That big bright star that is basically a product of Asha and Aster’s love?

Welp, that’s Chiara, also known as the Blue Fairy.

Chiara is their daughter more in a technical level since she was created only thanks to their relationship.

She’s calm and collected, wise and overall STUNNING.

We have no art of her design yet, but here some images to give you an idea (keep in mind in my rewrite Wishing Stars change appearance depending on whose wished upon them and brought them to earth, so if Chiara was to meet them, she’d choose to look like a mix of Asha and Aster, like their daughter)

She’d have Asha’s skin tone, but her hair would be blonde, as it’s the case to all Wishing Stars. I particularly love this hair style from this background character from Alice in Wonderland since it has a little star crown similar to this one from the Blue Fairy concept art

So that’s a lot from Asha and Aster’s star child, let’s see what about their human daughter.

Evangeline, or Lin for short, is a spunky girl who loves getting into mischief, she aspires for more adventure in her life. Her desire for something more is so great that leads her to wish upon a star the same way her mom did all those years ago… And that’s how she met her sister.

Just to clarify, Asha and Aster did tell her their whole story including that Aster used to be a star and all that, they didn’t keep it a secret because that’d be dumb and lead to some drama probably.

As for how she looks, I picture her like this concept art for Asha, with the first pic’s hair and second’s dress

Hope that helped! I might one day try to collect all my asks talking about them and save them in my pinned blog.

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And this is the origin of my profile photo（￣︶￣） (THANK YOU BO!!!!✨✨✨)

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If you ever can, could you possibly draw Asha and Aster’s daughter Evangeline? 🥺👉🏼👈🏼

Absolutely fine if you can’t, I know you have a lot on your hands right now with the kowcomic :3

I'm really sorry for the delay! But here you go, the design is basically the same as the one @mythartist21 drew, only I added some small star earrings (which as a curious fact I thought of adding because I also have ones like that and Evangeline, although it has not been written completely, I identify with the character quite a bit)

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Hi Aled! Just pass here to say your art is amazing! You really help to make the wish aus come to life!

@ficsinhistory THANK YOU!!!! I'm really happy to help bring Wish Au to life in some way with my art!!! I know I've said it before but everyone in the fandom is VERY creative writing or drawing their own Au, somehow making their characters feel alive or someone you can connect with, that's why I like to help by drawing them!

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Hello~

If you want detail dump about your new sona design?

Sure! ✨💚 -In my second outfit where I only have a jacket I wanted to show a little my taste for basketball (it's my favorite sport and the only one I know how to play decently lmao,that's why I added the number to my shirt)

This is how I would look without the jacket (imagine that it is a shirt and on top of it there is a basketball shirt please, I made this quick sketch and I don't know if it shows) -I also wanted to have star symbolism on my clothes because of the wish rewrite fandom, so I reused the idea from Aster's redesign by adding a star gradient on my pants. -The scarf exists in real life! I sewed it myself and it is one of my greatest prides lol

There are few of them so I will also say some peculiar qualities that my sona has!

You can say that I look a little like the old crazy cartoons that had those qualities of stretching and changing size o(￣▽￣)ｄ

I like to imagine that I use them to facilitate the process of designing the KOW characters (like in the drawing of Aster) Imagine as if I changed size to add small details to the characters or stretched like a cartoon from the 80s just because I am very short enough to reach some characters *cough*cough* King Magnifico-*cough*

Or simply to not get bored and chat with you in a more fun way!

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"I'm the oldest here. I'm responsible for keeping us safe and making sure we can handle anything that comes our way."

(sketches below)

It only took a few months but I finally worked up the energy to finish this one XD

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@annymation @uva124 HOW ARE WE FEELING ABOUT THE UNDERWORLD SAGAAAAAAAA

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@annymation @uva124 @emillyverse @oh-shtars @kstarsarts @tumblingdownthefoxden @hopeyarts @mythartist21 @dangerousflowerpanda @spectator-zee @gracebethartacc

How would your Asha handle flirting? What about Starboy?

I think that The Fallen Star Asha would be a terrible flirt. She thinks the most basic form of attention is her essentially throwing herself at someone. She sucks at it. Being flirted with, this girl is dense as a brick. More like “why are you being so nice to me? What do you have planned?”

Cielo is a natural flirt. He’s suave and charismatic and a big tease, getting along with people easily. He pays special attention to people they’re attracted to, though, with extra nicknames in Spanish and things to rile them up. To the princess, he is way too sunshiney but in an endearing way… wait, why was it endearing? Being flirted with, even if it’s terrible, is like being flirted with Aphrodite herself.

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ODYSSEUS SCREAMING “WHO?” BUT IT'S HIM. THE HAUNTED MAN WITH A TRAIL OF BODIES STANDING BESIDES HIS WIFE IS HIM.

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just one word SOBBING!!! (I stayed up late listening to the album and the "mom?" STILL DESTROYS ME)

@annymation @uva124 HOW ARE WE FEELING ABOUT THE UNDERWORLD SAGAAAAAAAA

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Fun fact about the underworld saga:

‘558 men who died under your command’ from The Underworld, combined with ‘43 left under your command’ from Ruthlessness, doesn’t add up to 600 men.

Which means that the guy who fell off Circe’s roof and died is canon to Epic the musical.

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HTB: Ch01 - Part 1

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It's here! The beginning of the fancomic that I've been making for a few months now. I started planning this thing almost a year ago, and I am so excited to finally be sharing it. I'll make a proper dedicated side-blog for it later. Next couple pages drop in a week :)

Edit: Updated Navigation tools. Also, there is a side-blog now @heretherebeturtles-comic (it's still empty)