"One day my prince will come..." This phrase, part of the famous Disney song about Snow White, irritates the ears of many people who grew up with her and other princesses in the past of fairy tales. Fairy tales, both the original versions of dark fairy tales and Disney's pacified retellings, have had a strange habit of portraying women as passive creatures who do little except learn to stay in their place through grooming. Unless the woman is the villain of the story, in which case her strength and power sort of twist and deform her, sometimes literally, so as to make her envious of the beautiful, innocent little heroine. In my story I tried to betray these ideals of female beauty and instead show that a heroine can be powerful and courageous without being the most beautiful of all. Alice, our little heroine, is a guy who isn't afraid to get down and dirty to achieve his goals. aspirations. My goal with her is something that has kind of been done before. Alice was reimagined as a tough woman, but I felt like she betrayed the original Lewis Carroll Alice. Many Hollywood retellings of fairy tale characters have a habit of making them tough only when they become adults. I wanted Alice to remain a child because I felt that, as a children's story, children should be able to identify more with the main character. Steven Jones states in his article on the innocent, persecuted heroine genre: “They often share individual episodes, such as being victimized by their mother, stepmother or stepsisters as in “Snow White” and “Cinderella,” from being put to sleep as in “Snow White” and “Sleeping Beauty”, or from being expelled from their parents' home, as in “The Maiden”. no hands” and 'The princess locked in a mound.'” I wanted my Alice not to be this persecuted heroine who lets things… Alice or the Queen show a lot of grace except when they're fighting. Alice only takes on feminine qualities when she spins and dodges during a fight. The Queen's anger makes her a bit ungainly but during combat she moves quite fluidly. The title I chose for this story, which has a sequel in the works, is exactly what I wanted it to be. Not your fairy tale. As the story continues, Alice meets the other members of WRW, other girls who betray their fairytale roots in their worlds. This story and its sequel are exactly as the titles suggest, they are not a fairy tale, the days of the ideal of female beauty are swept away revealing strong and powerful young girls, ready to fight for what they believe in. They are girls who can be both. fighters and helpers. They are beautiful in a different way; their beauty is in the form of confidence.