A Magical Evening is a Sofia the First fanfic by StoryWizard2000. It centres around Sofia and the cast as adults, where Sofia is now in a relationship with Lucinda, who was given the position of royal sorceress after Cedric was found out to be a villain and driven away.
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This fanfic contains examples of:
- Adaptational Badass:
- While Princess Sofia was already really strong in the series, in the fic she has even more powers with the Amulet of Avalor and eventually becomes a skilled sorceress when she takes away Cedric’s magic.
- In canon, Cedric was mostly a Harmless Villain who struggled to accomplish anything. In this fic, he manages to escape after being discovered and actually does succeed in revealing Sofia and Lucinda’s relationship and nearly gets the amulet from her.
- Adaptational Jerkass:
- While he was a villain in the series at first, Cedric was also a Tragic Villain who ended up redeeming himself at the end. In the fic, he remains a villain and is even the one who outs Sofia and Lucinda’s relationship.
- King Henrik in the series is a loving father who mostly just tries to appease his spoiled daughter a bit too much. In the fic, he is a cruel jerkass who forces his daughter to break away from Sofia and Lucinda after they are outed as being in a relationship and behaves in a nasty way towards them. The same thing technically applies to Clio’s parents and Hildegard’s mother, but in the series, they aren’t given much characterization.
- Downplayed. While King Nasir isn’t outright cruel like Hildegard and Clio’s parents, he does show disapproval towards the idea of Sofia and Lucinda being together and thinks Roland should help them instead of supporting them and gets mad when Roland refuses his idea. He also forbids Maya and Khalid from attending Amber and James’ party. Though he does in the end, at least he accepts his daughter Maya making her own choice to renew her friendship with Sofia, Amber, and James, even if he disapproves.
- While Prince Hugo was a jerk at the beginning of the series, he Took a Level in Kindness later on. In the fic, he is shown to still be nasty even as an adult, rejecting Amber and James’ invitation to their party and leaving a rude note simply because their sister is with another girl.
- Adaptational Nice Girl:
- Princess Amber lacks the mean streak that she had in the series until Character Development set in and she is nothing but a supportive sister and friend.
- Princess Hildegard in canon, was an Alpha Bitch who was quite nasty to Sofia until she humbled out later on. In the fic, she is a good person who is stuck in a bad situation as a Closet Gay who has homophobic parents. When she becomes Queen, she tries to help her subjects and give more power to them, which ends with her getting outed by the people who lost that power.
- Adaptational Sexuality:
- Princess Sofia and Lucinda are both lesbians, and they are in a relationship, while in canon their sexualities are unclear.
- Princess Hildegard and Princess Clio are in a romantic relationship, while in canon they were just good friends and both had a crush on Prince Hugo.
- Near the end of the story, Baileywick reveals that he is gay.
- Alternate Timeline: When Sofia goes back in time to when she was a child, with all her memories still intact, to create a better future, she creates a new timeline from the old one. It is suggested that the old timeline still exists and keeps going on.
- Babies Ever After: The story ends with Sofia and Lucinda getting pregnant and having kids which they raise together with their partners.
- Bittersweet Ending: The fic uses this in an interesting way. At the end of the first timeline, the villainous threats have been mostly taken care of, and Sofia, Lucinda, Hildegard, and Clio are mostly happy. However, both couples were outed by the villains before they could be stopped, and Hildegard and Clio’s parents died in order to make this possible. Sofia, due to this, feels the need to go back in time and start over from her childhood, getting Cedric and Wormwood arrested so they aren’t able to expose the couples to the public.
- Blackmail: Multiple characters attempt to do this by using the sexualities and relationships of the major characters to get what they want. In every case, though, it ends up failing:
- Cedric and Miss Nettle attempt to blackmail Sofia by threatening to reveal her relationship with Lucinda if she does not give them her amulet. Sofia refuses, and Cedric and Miss Nettle go through with their threat.
- Right after Hildegard's parents die, Lord Dion tries to use Hildegard's relationship with Clio to get her to look over him skimming off the books. This fails when he is killed by Garth for attempting this.
- The Freezenburg royal council attempts to do this to Hildegard and Clio again when they find this out from Wormwood. It fails as well when they are arrested after Hildegard and Clio refuse, but they expose the relationship to the public before getting arrested.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Dion uses this word-for-word when Hildegard refers to Dion's attempt to blackmail her.
- Cast Full of Gay: Given the story's premise, this was to be expected. The major LGBT characters we only know of are Sofia, Lucinda, Hildegard, Clio, Brock, Doyle, and Balieywick.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Hildegard and Cleo apparently started out as close childhood friends before their relationship grew more romantic.
- Coming-Out Story: Sofia and Lucinda end up having to come out to Sofia’s family after they know that Cedric is about to expose them, and Hildegard and Clio have to do something similar later with the public. In the new timeline, the couples are able to keep their relationship mostly secret, but Sofia does still have a moment of coming out to her family.
- Closet Gay: Sofia and Lucinda, and Hildegard and Clio are in the closet for most of the story until both couples are outed as a result of outside forces. In the new timeline, both are able to stay in the closet, which is treated as a good outcome In-Universe due to Deliberate Values Dissonance.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Downplayed. There are quite a lot of people that are perfectly accepting of same-sex relationships, including Sofia and Lucinda’s family, most of their friends, and most of the other kings and queens, as well as a portion of the public. However, it is made clear that there is a large portion of society and quite a few kingdoms that are not accepting of it, to the point where both Sofia and Lucinda and Hildegard and Clio have to keep their relationship secret, and when they are outed, they lose quite a few friends, some of which are of no fault of their own. In the end, the ideal outcome for both couples is being in a Marriage of Convenience and keeping their relationship secret to all but their closest, accepting friends and family.
- De-power: Cedric during Amber and James' party has his powers taken away by Sofia permanently.
- Flash Forward Fic: The fic is set in the future, where Sofia and the rest of the heroes are now adults. Later on, Sofia returns to her childhood to Set Right What Once Went Wrong but ends the story as an adult again.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Sofia does sympathize with Cedric for what he went through as a child, but Lucinda points out that it was still his choice to follow a dark path.
- Gayngst: The fic has quite a lot of this, with Sofia and Lucinda being terrified for much of the early chapters of what will happen if Sofia’s family finds out about their relationship and Hildegard and Clio being closeted while having homophobic parents, something Clio admits was hell.
- Good Parents: Sofia's parents, Miranda and Roland, are completely supportive of Sofia's relationship with Lucinda and try to help out as best they can.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?: Near the end of the story Balieywick mentions he is gay and that Roland knew.
- Marriage of Convenience: In the new timeline, instead of being outed by Cedric and Nettle, Sofia and Lucida enter into marriages with Brock and Doyle (two gay men), respectively. In it, they will be able to hide their sexualities by having a public marriage while they are free to be with whoever they want to. The partners do remain good friends, though, and do end up having a kid as well. Hildegard and Clio supposedly do the same thing as well.
- Open Secret: The secrecy of Sofia and Lucinda’s relationship starts falling apart really quickly. Miranda finds out in the second chapter by accident, Amber figures it out on her own due to her experience with Hildegard, and Lucinda’s mother finds out. Cedric and Miss Nettle do as well, and try to blackmail Sofia with this and out her to the public when it fails. Hildegard and Clio’s relationship doesn’t go much better. Two people find out about Hildegard’s hours after her parents die, and so does Clio’s brother. Wormwood finds out as well, and the Freezenburg council attempts to use this to regain their power, which ends with Hildegard and Clio being outed. This is mostly subverted in the new timeline, with the two relationships being mostly kept secret, only known by some people.
- Peggy Sue: Sofia in Chapter 16, goes back to when she was a child with all her memories intact so she can create a better outcome by stopping Cedric before he can get far enough.
- Queer Romance: The story centers around Princess Sofia and Lucinda's relationship and the struggles that come with it in a not-as-accepting time period. The side romance between Princess Hildegard and Princess Clio also plays an important role in the plot.
- Secret-Keeper: Amber has been keeping Hildegard and Clio's relationship secret for a while, which is how she was able to figure out Sofia and Lucinda's relationship so quickly. Quite a few people end up playing this role later for both couples until they are outed. In the new timeline, since both relationships manage to stay secret, there are a bunch of people keeping them secret.
- Secret Relationship: Sofia and Lucinda try to keep their relationship secret for the first part of the story because they are afraid of how their families and the kingdom will react. It falls apart quickly. Hildegard and Clio have been doing the same thing for a long time, but they end up being outed as well. In the new timeline, both couples do manage to keep their relationship secret from the general public, though.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Wrong is a bit of an overstatement as the first timeline didn’t end badly. It did end with both couples being outed and Hildegard and Clio’s parents dying in an accident. Sofia, using her amulet, goes back to when she was a child to get a second chance in a new timeline to create a better outcome. She does this by stopping Cedric before Wormwood can discover Sofia and Lucinda’s relationship and also prevents him from discovering Hildehard and Clio’s and telling the council. Due to this, neither of them are outed and instead end up in a Marriage of Convenience with only certain people knowing. Sofia also prevents Hildegard and Clio’s parents from dying in the accident. Also in this new timeline Sofia's birth father Birk Balthazar is somehow alive.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Both Sofia and Lucinda only ever show any interest in each other and end up getting together in both timelines.
- We Used to Be Friends: Sofia, even as an adult, is still clearly hurt by Cedric's betrayal and genuinely saw him as a friend. Made even worse by the fact that, unlike in-canon, he doesn't get a Heel–Face Turn.
