Saving the Princess

[sirhugs]

Despite my moniker and avatar, I have yet to save a damsel in Distress, even a fictional one.
So has the time come for me to tell uch a tall tale?
How about for you?

If so, how far do we follow the traditional tropes of the hero on the epic quest, and how much do we pervert them?

What are we saving the Princess from?

• a standard mail order leering villain?
• a mythical creature, perhaps a dragon?
• a non-villain suitor- the prince from the neighbouring kingdom, matched for an arranged dynastic union?
• a uniquely Literotica incestuous suitor?

Where are we trekking to save her from?

• a dungeon?
• a tower?
• a castle in the woods or across the sea?
• her bedroom, where her father/mother/aunt/uncle/brother has her locked away?

Who is the unlikely hero?

• the perfect mate, rejected by the family for political reasons?
• a disgraced knight?
• a peasant with a secret?
• someone uniquely Literotica flavoured - a relative, a lesbian lover, an orce, an anthro, an...??

What are the obstacles?

• natural barriers such as rivers, mountains, oceans, volcanoes?
• magic
• a series of puzzles to be solved?

Happily Ever After?

• the classic wedding?
  • or the nude variety?
  • or the feminist princess really didn't want rescuing after all?
• a perversion for a twist?
  • any range of kinks
  • the hero beds the Queen instead?
  • the hero is bedded by the king instead?
  • or there's just a big famiy fuckfest?
  • or...
• is there the clasic for lit pregnancy reveal or cliffhanger?

 

[StillStunned]

Not necessarily a princess, but I've played with the "saving the damsel" trope.

I make it explicit in "The Oath and the Fear", after Sligh saves Avilia from a dragon. The twist is that she killed the dragon, but she's trapped underneath it:

"For you, my hero." She handed the cup to Sligh, leaning close and kissing him. "For saving me from myself, and from a murderer, and from a dead dragon."

In "Hag-Ridden", two princes break a curse and the ugly hag becomes beautiful. The twist (besides how they break the spell) is that *she* cast the curse, and when it ends all the energy she poured into it flows back into her:

Yet she was not wholly unsatisfied. "What a fucking," she murmured, running her hand across her smooth stomach to the golden-red curls below. With the curse ended, her strength had flowed back into her, and she was now as fair as the land itself. "Those two cocks, hard as rocks, thick and thin for going in, long and short to make me feel taut. The finest fucking, with a bit of sucking, a bit of licking and all the dicking."

Her fingers found her folds and slipped between them. "It broke the curse, sweet one, but none the worse. What new chance awaits, what fates? Two Princes for using, seducing, ruling and running. One to take me to wife, two to usher in strife. Strife and hate, oh, we can't wait, sweet one, we can't wait!"

And the tagline for "Goldflower" is literally: "Sligh is kidnapped. Can Avilia save him and his virtue?"

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The only princess I've written, so far has never been in need of rescuing.

 

[THBrigsby]

Shrek.
King or other high ranking political official has heard of a princess or witch/wizard locked away in a tower on a fiery mountain guarded by a feared dragon. He 'hires' or tricks or coerces a young farmer to rescue said damsel for his own gain. Farmer kills the dragon by dumb clumsy luck or in true Shrek fashion he by-passes killing the dragon and there is a narrow escape.
As night falls (sun goes down) our damsel transforms into a ravenous nymphomaniac.........

A few comedic twists - The 'dragon' is old and fat, or isn't even a dragon. The farmer can be really dim witted.
Also our farmer doesn't have to be young, and maybe he wasn't always a farmer.
There's a lot of pieces that can be swapped or changed depending on tone and direction.

 

[BeechLeaf]

What are we saving the Princess from?

• a standard mail order leering villain?
• a mythical creature, perhaps a dragon?
• a non-villain suitor- the prince from the neighbouring kingdom, matched for an arranged dynastic union?
• a uniquely Literotica incestuous suitor?

Why not all of them? Her mother was ravished by a dragon, and bore another baby. The fairy godmother spared her shame by swapping him with the new-born son of a neighbouring king, a bad man. The baby, now named Twirlio, has a dark secret: during the day he is a normal top-hat-wearing, mustachio-twirling bad prince, oppressing peasants and looking for orphans to fling into the snow, but in the evening he transforms into Nina pretty ballerina dragon form and surveys neighbouring kingdoms for victims. One night he spots the princess locked in a bedroom in a dungeon in a tower surrounded by a moat...

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I have a sketch of an idea in my Story Ideas file, a knight who bravely goes off to rescue a lady that was kidnapped by a wicked old lord and languishes in his distant castle. Turns out, the old man is her uncle, he saved her from a forced marriage to a rich guy she despises by inviting her to "visit" and just never go home until her dad gives up on the marriage thing, and then daddy dearest lied to the brave knight because he can't stand the idea of being thwarted.

In my outline, this is a comedy, as the brave knight can't really fight his way through entire duchies full of soldiers or something, so he's constantly seducing or tricking or sneaking (and getting caught by amorous farm girls) around, and finally gets into the uncle's castle in drag. This cleverness and preference for not butchering everyone who gets in his way impress the noble lady, who has figured out that if she's already married to someone reasonably acceptable to her family (like, say, the younger son of a foreign king who is now a knight errant), she can maybe make daddy shut up about Lord Evil Guy already.

(In the epilogue, Brave Sir Knightly is explaining to his new and very pregnant bride about all these women showing up with newborns he fathered in the course of rescuing her. Their Chamberlain also demonstrates that he can embarrass the hell out of his lord by hinting at the night they spent together, with Knightly keeping his female persona up even when they were in bed.)

 

[Rob_Royale]

What are we saving the Princess from?

• A dreadful arranged marriage. Word gets back that her new husband and his family are doing depraved things to her.

Where are we trekking to save her from?

• The neighboring kingdom

Who is the unlikely hero?

• The bastard son of the king. (yep, they are half siblings)

What are the obstacles?

• he's poorer than dirt and has to take jobs along the way

Happily Ever After?

• Not initially for our hero, who arrives to find the princess is being ravished by her new older husband and his two sons, and the captain of the guard. And couldn't be happier. No rescue required nor wanted. However, our hero did have a variety of sexual adventures on the way, so it wasn't a total loss. He ends up going back to a MILF innkeeper where he worked to earn traveling money, warning her bed the entire time.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Here's an option - gender swap.
After a sucessful siege of the family castle of her betrothed, the pirincess is left for dead amid the rubble. Hoever, the prince tried heroically to save her before he was captured. Though it was an arranged marriage the two were falling in love and she saw her happily-ever-after for the briefest of moments, before the battle tore it away.

What will she do to save him?

 

[sirhugs]

Why not all of them? Her mother was ravished by a dragon, and bore another baby. The fairy godmother spared her shame by swapping him with the new-born son of a neighbouring king, a bad man. The baby, now named Twirlio, has a dark secret: during the day he is a normal top-hat-wearing, mustachio-twirling bad prince, oppressing peasants and looking for orphans to fling into the snow, but in the evening he transforms into Nina pretty ballerina dragon form and surveys neighbouring kingdoms for victims. One night he spots the princess locked in a bedroom in a dungeon in a tower surrounded by a moat...

Sooo much going on....

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

hmmm…okay, surface plot vs real plot

Surface plot:

Powerful Kingdom’s Princess has been kidnapped by a great evil. Each generation this great evil spirits the new born Princess away. Countless people have gone to rescue her with a promise of marriage and immediate ascension to the throne and they have all failed: some die, some go missing, some return but they have given into wild debauchery and madness.

Still, many attempt to rescue the Princess and slay the great evil. Our hero is a simple commoner or maybe a goblin: no expects much but he is allowed to be a candidate

The actual plot: It’s a trap. The princess is not a new one each generation: she is the FIRST princess. She is the great evil and has been fueling the kingdom’s prosperity with a spell that makes her insanely powerful as long as she stays in her tower and offers up sacrifices and orgies. The cover story works because open warfare with the kingdom would be too costly and while people are oppressed, no one is ready to go forth for an actual revolution when there’s the option of just rescuing the princess. So suitors and revolutionaries go forth, die in the attempt, join her endless debauched parties, or get away but go mad from what they see.

Plot could go a few ways: MC learns the secret too late and dies/goes mad, or manages to actually trick the princess into leaving her tower, thus “Saving” her and breaking the spell she put on the kingdom.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

There's always the "thinking outside the box" solution, like getting some local official to redefine the borders so the Tower is actually part of the royal lands, and the princess is suddenly no longer in exile. Of course, the next step would be "Run away from the Great Evil at top speed for the rest of your life."

 

[sirhugs]

hmmm…okay, surface plot vs real plot

Surface plot:

Powerful Kingdom’s Princess has been kidnapped by a great evil. Each generation this great evil spirits the new born Princess away. Countless people have gone to rescue her with a promise of marriage and immediate ascension to the throne and they have all failed: some die, some go missing, some return but they have given into wild debauchery and madness.

Still, many attempt to rescue the Princess and slay the great evil. Our hero is a simple commoner or maybe a goblin: no expects much but he is allowed to be a candidate

The actual plot: It’s a trap. The princess is not a new one each generation: she is the FIRST princess. She is the great evil and has been fueling the kingdom’s prosperity with a spell that makes her insanely powerful as long as she stays in her tower and offers up sacrifices and orgies. The cover story works because open warfare with the kingdom would be too costly and while people are oppressed, no one is ready to go forth for an actual revolution when there’s the option of just rescuing the princess. So suitors and revolutionaries go forth, die in the attempt, join her endless debauched parties, or get away but go mad from what they see.

Plot could go a few ways: MC learns the secret too late and dies/goes mad, or manages to actually trick the princess into leaving her tower, thus “Saving” her and breaking the spell she put on the kingdom.

don't forget the "lots of kinky sex". this IS Lit after all.

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

There's always the "thinking outside the box" solution, like getting some local official to redefine the borders so the Tower is actually part of the royal lands, and the princess is suddenly no longer in exile. Of course, the next step would be "Run away from the Great Evil at top speed for the rest of your life."

Yeah, I was thinking something like that, but a bit more explosive.

He goes to the Princess, who embraces him, and as she has done many times before, seduces him and prepares to drive him mad.

Only as they make love, the whole tower literally shakes and the man clings to her as she shapeshifts and tries to find a way out.

“I am but a simple man, your highness. I know little of curses and magic but I know two things: when someone is a conartist…and how to set explosives.”

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

don't forget the "lots of kinky sex". this IS Lit after all.

Of course. I figure the various candidates would hook up, there would be witches and various demihumans who would try and seduce them, then at the tower they would be tempted by an endless parade of temptation.

Then even if they make it to the princess, she drives them literally mad with lust.

 

[sirhugs]

Someone has to write this!!!!

 

[NuclearFairy]

The princess is a writer. Of course she writes under a pen name, but in her last book she ends it with an authors note saying that it is her farewell piece as she is being trained for a job that will leave no time for writing.

One of her fans is a dragon, who cannot stand to not see more stories by this great author. So after much investigation, and threatening, and occasional ravishments, he discovers that his favorite author is the princess, and so sets out to rescue her from her responsibilities.

 

[sirhugs]

The princess is a writer. Of course she writes under a pen name, but in her last book she ends it with an authors note saying that it is her farewell piece as she is being trained for a job that will leave no time for writing.

One of her fans is a dragon, who cannot stand to not see more stories by this great author. So after much investigation, and threatening, and occasional ravishments, he discovers that his favorite author is the princess, and so sets out to rescue her from her responsibilities.

does he enlist a couple of orcs as the requisite buddies to accompany him on the quest?

 

[NuclearFairy]

does he enlist a couple of orcs as the requisite buddies to accompany him on the quest?

That would aid greatly in the occasional ravishments.

 

[Carnevil9]

Of course. I figure the various candidates would hook up, there would be witches and various demihumans who would try and seduce them, then at the tower they would be tempted by an endless parade of temptation.

Then even if they make it to the princess, she drives them literally mad with lust.

Sounds like you have a good handle on the story. You should do it!!

 

[anthrodisiac]

Of course. I figure the various candidates would hook up, there would be witches and various demihumans who would try and seduce them, then at the tower they would be tempted by an endless parade of temptation.

Then even if they make it to the princess, she drives them literally mad with lust.

You had me at demihumans! This seems like it'd be a fucking awesome story, dude.

 

[Dommemomme]

Despite my moniker and avatar, I have yet to save a damsel in Distress, even a fictional one.
So has the time come for me to tell uch a tall tale?
How about for you?

If so, how far do we follow the traditional tropes of the hero on the epic quest, and how much do we pervert them?

What are we saving the Princess from?

• a standard mail order leering villain?
• a mythical creature, perhaps a dragon?
• a non-villain suitor- the prince from the neighbouring kingdom, matched for an arranged dynastic union?
• a uniquely Literotica incestuous suitor?

Where are we trekking to save her from?

• a dungeon?
• a tower?
• a castle in the woods or across the sea?
• her bedroom, where her father/mother/aunt/uncle/brother has her locked away?

Who is the unlikely hero?

• the perfect mate, rejected by the family for political reasons?
• a disgraced knight?
• a peasant with a secret?
• someone uniquely Literotica flavoured - a relative, a lesbian lover, an orce, an anthro, an...??

What are the obstacles?

• natural barriers such as rivers, mountains, oceans, volcanoes?
• magic
• a series of puzzles to be solved?

Happily Ever After?

• the classic wedding?
  • or the nude variety?
  • or the feminist princess really didn't want rescuing after all?
• a perversion for a twist?
  • any range of kinks
  • the hero beds the Queen instead?
  • the hero is bedded by the king instead?
  • or there's just a big famiy fuckfest?
  • or...
• is there the clasic for lit pregnancy reveal or cliffhanger?

You can save her from me! Oh. But first I have to capture her. Any volunteers?

 

[Rob_Royale]

hmmm…okay, surface plot vs real plot

Surface plot:

Powerful Kingdom’s Princess has been kidnapped by a great evil. Each generation this great evil spirits the new born Princess away. Countless people have gone to rescue her with a promise of marriage and immediate ascension to the throne and they have all failed: some die, some go missing, some return but they have given into wild debauchery and madness.

Still, many attempt to rescue the Princess and slay the great evil. Our hero is a simple commoner or maybe a goblin: no expects much but he is allowed to be a candidate

The actual plot: It’s a trap. The princess is not a new one each generation: she is the FIRST princess. She is the great evil and has been fueling the kingdom’s prosperity with a spell that makes her insanely powerful as long as she stays in her tower and offers up sacrifices and orgies. The cover story works because open warfare with the kingdom would be too costly and while people are oppressed, no one is ready to go forth for an actual revolution when there’s the option of just rescuing the princess. So suitors and revolutionaries go forth, die in the attempt, join her endless debauched parties, or get away but go mad from what they see.

Plot could go a few ways: MC learns the secret too late and dies/goes mad, or manages to actually trick the princess into leaving her tower, thus “Saving” her and breaking the spell she put on the kingdom.

Yeah, I was thinking something like that, but a bit more explosive.

He goes to the Princess, who embraces him, and as she has done many times before, seduces him and prepares to drive him mad.

Only as they make love, the whole tower literally shakes and the man clings to her as she shapeshifts and tries to find a way out.

“I am but a simple man, your highness. I know little of curses and magic but I know two things: when someone is a conartist…and how to set explosives.”

I dig it. Definitely a view from a different angle. I hope you give it a go. I'll help if you need it.

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

I am going to try to write it. I was hesitant as i realized the best way to do it, isn't to have it as just one character but make it an ensemble so the readers can watch multiple parties fall or give up/give in over the journey to the tower then watch the numbers go down to just one...which means it's going to be fairly long.

Like so far I've got:

Goblin merchant: the one who makes it to the end and blows the tower up. However, instead of making him the obvious main character, he is seen mostly in the background of other characters' stories. He plays up the horny, cowardly goblin stereotypes but that's to hide he's one of the few people who have an idea of what's really going on.

Revolutionary leader: Spirited woman who is well loved by her people and puts on the airs of always being in control when she has a crowd but she's secretly being crushed by the weight of her responsibilities, making her particularly vulnerable to enemies who promise a life as their pet or the tower itself.

A warrior nun: Secretly has had serious doubts about her religion but comes to the tower as for once she feels a supernatural evil and hopes by fighting it, she can find an opposing good. She also is far more sexually liberated than she first appears but is also secretly a sadist.

Two monks: two monks who secretly left their fraternal order hoping to get laid on the quest to save the princess. They at first seem like comic relief but their time in the monastery has actually given them a lot of academic knowledge the others lack.

Elf noble: Starts as a by the book haughty prince with the most resources to throw at the quest but is secretly the most scared and self sacrificial

Of course, there would be one off characters (got to have the arrogant ones who get taken out immediately) and tons of encounters on the way. Fortunately, I have ungodly amounts of modules to pick from for the encounters

 

[sirhugs]

Go for it.We got your back.

 

[anthrodisiac]

I am going to try to write it.

That's awesome! Congrats on starting your first story! Don't hesitate to hit us up or pop into AH with any questions you may have. Check out the On Writing threads and other stuff for advice and techniques, there is a ton of great advice that might prove useful for you. Best of luck, this seems like it'll be a real banger!