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"If we had children there'd be life enough," she said. }}

 

 

Of course, the girl, named [[Meaningful Name|Tatterhood]] for her ragged clothes (she also carries a wooden ladle and rides on a goat), has her redeeming qualities--she's a stone-cold [[Badass]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]] who [[Cowboy Cop|takes the law into her own hands]] where goblins and witches are concerned, even running outside during their terrifying celebration and [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|bopping them on the head with her ladle]]. Her maids are less brave, though, and a witch turns the beautiful princess into a calf. Tatterhood, deciding that this just won't do, takes her sister on a long sea-voyage to break the spell, eventually breaking into the witches' castle and fighting them all off in order to turn her sister back into a human.

After this, the sisters travel at sea for a while, until they come to a faraway kingdom where the beautiful princess ends up [[Values Dissonance|marrying a forty-year-old king while Tatterhood marries his son]]. When Tatterhood marries, however, a final surprise awaits...

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Tatterhood. And ''how.'' Even when only [[Little Miss Badass|"half grown up"]] she takes on an unknown number of trolls and witches and beats them easily.

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: A variant of this happens to the beautiful sister when a witch gives her the head of a calf.

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Averted, as the heroine of the story is ugly as all get-out and has a definite attitude, but isn't a bad person. Of course, {{spoiler|she turns out to have the ability to ''make'' herself beautiful at will, so...}}

* [[Big Brother Instinct|Big Sister Instinct]]: Tatterhood is the older twin, and she is ''incredibly'' protective of her sister.

* [[Cool Horse]] / [[Horse of a Different Color]]: Tatterhood's riding goat, who is ''just'' as [[Badass]] as she is {{spoiler|and even turns into an actual, and very beautiful, horse at the end}}.

* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Tatterhood is a female version of this.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: The whole thing is about twin princesses.

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: A very mild version with the Queen in this story; while she never plots to kill anyone, she ''does'' show a rather... callous philosophy when it comes to motherhood. One of her mentioned reasons for wanting children is so she'll have someone to scold, and when Tatterhood is born, she's repulsed at her ugliness and tries to keep her locked up so she won't have to see her.

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