As Princess

From hard upbringing in poverty, she had become fierce, focused, pragmatic, and unrelenting. She did well with everything she encountered, good but not great, too often greedily eager and thus choking the life out of the bounty before her. Childhood trauma forever colored her disposition into a fatal character flaw poised to unravel.

From age three it was apparent how things would play out. She was greedy in a lazy way because she could get away with it, and out of embarrassment she denied accusations that she deserved to be treated like a princess. No prince took the bait or mistook her for royalty, though peasants frequently enjoyed her generous drunken love.

She gradually grew harsher, her soft features becoming harder and bitter, as her soul harmoniously sought unity to show itself on her face.

No man seeking a pleasant woman would mistake her for one.

She was intent on being treated as a princess, with all the frivolity it entailed, simply because someone had once told her she deserved it. She locked in on that expectation and held up the fantasy as if it was real and founded in nature.