Aesop Animation: Goldilocks (Patreon)

Sorry about the delay guys, but we're finally back to fully introduce the last batch of Disney Princess Stand-ins for Aesop Animation! And we're starting with Aesop's more modern Disney Princess, Goldilocks.

Consider the modern Aesop Animation princess that kickstarted a brand new renaissance for the studios, Aesop adaption of Goldilocks and the Three Bears took a more expanded turn of adaption in a way that man animation fans loved. The character of Goldilocks debuted in the animated movie "Just Right", and Goldilocks stood out from the other Aesop princesses in that her own parents were antagonists of the movie, being extremely polar opposite King and Queen who wanted Golde to be like them. Her stressful upbringing by her strict, extremely polar-opposite parents caused her to develop anxiety and OCD tendencies to make everything just right. So stressful was it that Golde opted to run away to the abandoned enchanted forest, and it was there that she met the family of talking bears who helped Golde overcome her anxieties and embrace herself for who she is and what she wants to be, and not what others want her to be. In the end, Golde's parents were defeated and Golde herself chose to remain in the enchanted forest with her new family as its protector. Despite the success and rebirth Golde's movie brought to Aesop Animation studios, she did not get a chance to enjoy her newfound fame as her creation and debut came to pass just as Helvira had been unleashed and taken over Toontopia. Dropped into her new home amongst her own people in a time where their world was essentially a cartoon holocaust, Goldi quickly found herself tortured and abused by the Cartoon devil alongside her new family, which wreaked havoc on her OCD and anxiety. Despite Toonman defeating Helvira and restoring their world, Golde is essentially a cartoon child of war and has suffered forever emotional and psychological trauma because of it. Despite receiving counseling and aid from Toonman, the remaining Aesop Princesses and many humans who created her, Golde's turmoil remains the most defining reminder to Toonman that him reclaiming his purpose as a cartoon came at a great cost his people paid the price for, and he has never forgiven himself for it despite setting things right.

So, yeah, Goldilocks or Golde for short is a more modern Aesop Animation princess, being a stand-in for Rapunzel or Anne and Elsa as the modern classical animation princesses. Because a lot of my own ideas for animated movies are based on Public Domain and fairytale stories that Disney hasn't done yet, Goldilocks and the Three Bears was a big one that I've always wanted to attempt into making into a Disney Princess movie. The problem that I struggled with for so long was that I always had a million different ideas about how to go about it and none of them ever stuck for that long. It wasn't until I decided to collaborate with my good friend and fellow animation lover Zigwolf on his idea for an adaption of Goldilocks that I found the story I had been wanting to tell for a long time. So most of the idea behind Goldilock's adaption for Aesop Animation is all Zigwolf's ideas, I just reminded it and added a few of my own to make it work. As for Golde's role in the NRGVerse, I knew that I wanted to do a more modern Aesop Princess, in that I mean a Princess from a movie that was recently made within modern times, because I wanted to tackle the idea of cartoons who were created and brought to life just as Helvira had taken over Toontopia and explore what the ramifications of this would be. So Golde and many Toons like her constantly serve as a reminder to Toonman that even though he found his purpose again, it came at the great cost of his own people suffering to pay the price, and he's been trying to make it right ever since. So between the Toons who sided with Simon, Moonhawk, or Rocky Road against Toonman, he's got a lot to make up for.

Hope you guys like this adaption of Goldilocks for NRG Comics! Let us know what you think with a comment below.

Toonman: The Animated Ace © NRG Comics

Art by SecretScrapV2 with Idea by Zigwolf