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"She's a princess... and I'm...[[Aladdin (Disney)|just a street rat]]..."

 

 

Contrast [[Alpha Bitch]], [[Princess in Rags]]. Compare the [[Ojou]].

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunts Ghosts]]'' novel ''Honour Guard'', Kolea tells Curth that in joining the Ghosts, she has become this, since the two of them were not of anything like equal status back home -- she would never have known his name. She shrugs it off: she knows many people of his status now.

* Neone Delft of [[Stationery Voyagers]] discovers she is actually {{spoiler|Princess Wendim Shinroff}} of Neomlot, and that Hidicky Delft was only some kind carpenter that adopted her after a particularly lazy [[Evil Sorcerer]] merely [[Ripped from the Headlines|abandoned her in a dumpster to die]]. She is finally reunited with her biological parents; only she views her new life as a Voyager as her true [[Mission From God]]. After a brief moment of happiness, they tell her that bringing the family back together was all for nothing: [[Downer Ending|Astrabolo is about to destroy everything and there is no hope]]. On the other hand, being unable to do anything whatsoever with her royal heritage doesn't get her too down: she had no intentions of actually saving Neothode anyway because [[Genre Savvy|she already realized it was hopeless]].

** She's better off without 'em anyway - ''Dragonlance'' elves [[Can't Argue With Elves|are almost all a bunch of insufferable, arrogant, hypocritical pricks]] (case in point: the civil war that split the elves millenia ago was fought because a royal elven prince had the gall to take a human bride. Guess who Laurana is descended from.)

* In [[Patricia a McKillip]]'s ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Saro, after the magic renders her mute and dazed, ends up a [[Scullery Maid]].

* ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' has Princess Ashe who faked her own suicide so she could lead the resistance. She wants to ascend the throne to save the kingdom but has no proof that she is really royalty. Thus the game's plot kicks in.

* Pinky in ''[[Bully (Video Game)|Bully]]'' fits this trope perfectly.

* Nina of ''[[Breath of Fire II (Video Game)|Breath of Fire II]]'' is a literal fallen princess, shunned by her kingdom for her black wings, which are thought to be a curse, {{spoiler|caused by her ancestor, presumably the Nina from the first ''[[Breath of Fire]]'', marrying outside the clan, presumably to Ryu, also hero of the first game.}}

** Nina from ''[[Breath of Fire III (Video Game)|Breath of Fire III]]'' is an even better example; she left behind the life of a princess because she preferred life outside the castle, helping to fix the kingdom's problems, to her pampered life in the castle.

 

== Web Original ==

** Jadis (codename She-Beast) probably counts too. She had to leave her fancy Montessori school as a child when it came out that her dad is the notorious supervillain Dr. Diabolik.

* Aki from ''[[Sailor Nothing]]''.

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