10-16 notes

ch 10:
desiree makes it to the city by night
"A WHOLE NEW WOOOOOOORLD"
She is comforted by beggar women in the alleys of the city
she follows the masses and makes her way to the hotel
she wonders how she will make it past the gates and inside
she gets told off rudely by the vendors and the guards
she sits at the sea and wonders why she got laughed at for wanting to see daniel
she meets a woman who sympathizes with her which apparently so far seems to be the solution to all of her problems, meeting women who like her cause she's patient/pretty/whatever and this time she gets shoes and a dress and a pretty comb but not food

ch11:
she bathes in the sea and wakes up on the beach in morning feeling prettiful
the shoes are painful oh boy just like the little mermaid having to walk and feeling herself get stabbed with every step
she runs into the beauxhommes speaking french and daniels like oh girl you look familiar and she says in creole yeah cause i saved your life and his dad is like "Ew peasants lets go dont ever speak to me or my son again"
they drive away and she swears to stay until they accept her or something and then she wishes on a butterfly and artisians are like "??" and she just laughs and they laugh too because her laugh is super duper pretty and cool and wow she's the best and i really do not like this mary-sue-ing of our main character
she stays on the hotel grounds eating the fruit from the orchards and hiding it in the guests's trash and bathes and washes in the hotel pools and how has she not gotten caught and thrown out yet?
she is patient and waits
some stranger finds her sleeping cave and its daniel so she sings that song and he's like "hey i know you" and somehow they understand each other???
and then he faints and she holds onto him again and stuff

ch12:
daniel's godmother finds them and she's like girl you should leave
daniel wakes up and argues with her because he got a good night's sleep and says that she should stay
but then daddy beaux shows up and is like "whats going on" and then gets upset with daniel for consorting with peasants and matilda for going back to her disgusting peasant ways of believing in gods
she begs him to give desiree a chance and daddy beaux walks out cause he just cant deal and also she implies daniel is very close to death
they do their little smile thing and shes like "yeah the gods brought me and daniel back together so his dad's wishes dont matter at all"
she works as a servant but also gets to sleep in the same bed as daniel because i dont know
somehow he recovers and she gets weaker and theyre like bound together through pain splitting magic???
theyre in love and desiree is keeping her butterflies captive even though her wishes have been fufilled
matilda lets her know hey daniel is well now but like there's no reason for you to stay
gabriel had left for france so daniels like hey she cant leave make her pretty so even my dad cant tell her to go away
the ladies are like "oooh andrea andrea" and stuff and theyre jealous of her cause she's black and pretty and daniel loves her
lucifus the guard reminds desiree of papa ge and she is scared

ch13:
he plans a ball for when his dad comes back
ok so desiree is now the little mermaid AND cinderella
everyone says she's pretty
matilda gets distressed because desiree is being courted, daniel's dad still isnt back, stuff
also she ditched her magic red comb and still keeps her butterflies captive which is kinda weird cause its like youre dropping one tradition but keeping half of it?
matilda tells her she needs to run away before she is hurt because reasons and desiree gets scared and runs away
she reaches for a butterfly but then runs into IRL papa ge who just looks at her and she gets scared and then the butterfly leaves and she just kinda stands there?

ch14:
Andrea comes back from france, dad beaux says that he and daniel should go to her homecoming
so turns out andrea and daniel and betrothed to each other and he's like wow andrea's so cool and she's like well i love you so i think andrea is cool too and matilda is like "this is not how this is supposed to work"
and then theres a ball for andrea and andrea is blonde and white and pretty and desiree has this growing panic inside of her
and andrea is like "daniel can we keep this pretty black girl" (wat?) and then she gets put out of daniel's room into her own down the hall

ch15:
desiree doesnt eat and matilda is like this is normal i mean like you were basically his concubine and he kinda doesnt need you when his wife is around
her comb is lose and matilda tries to offer to make her pretty so she can marry the ambassadors that want her and shes like no i want daniel but matildas like no theyre getting married dude
she dreams/sees the gods who all speak through papa ge and theyre like "lol" also daniel tells her no andrea and i both love you which is why you need to stay its like they treat her like some pet but not really
papa ge says "heres a knife, THE INFIDELS MUST PAY FOR THEIR BETRAYAL"
"i saved this life and i can take it too" ok calm down girl
and then he turns and smiles in his sleep and she drops it and is like I CANT DO THIS and runs away very conflicted
she gets kicked out by the guards and the vendors listen to her cause theyre cool and theyre like "well uh thats life suck it up"

ch16:
there is an impending storm before the wedding
desiree hasnt eaten/slept in 2 weeks which is actually impossible because the world record is around 11 days with no sleep
apparently there are rich AND poor people at the wedding and desiree's just kinda there watching through the gates and she waves at matilda who's like "oh my god why are you still here"
the pair go to their honeymoon while the crowd watches
many butterflies show up and the crowd's like "this is scary we should probably go" and gabriel beauxhomme comes back to a corpse on the road and he's like "lucifus take out the trash" and then the storm starts and the first drops are on her face like tears the end