Disney's Psyche and Cupid

Li'l Gabbi and I were watching Disney movies and she got an idea to create our own Disney characters. So of course I decided to go all out and research for new characters with personalities and all. Gabbi basically drew Cinderella and the prince in different colors and different names. I created... Psyche and Cupid from one of the popular fairy tales of Rome: Psyche and Cupid.... sorry, that's what the story's really called.


STORY:
A condensed version: Venus is jealous of a beautiful mortal girl Psyche who is admired by all men and sends her son Cupid to make her fall in love with a vile creature, but Cupid ends up falling in love with her and watches her from afar instead. Unfortunately when all continue to admire and praise Psyche's beauty, none desire her as a wife, Psyche's parents consult an oracle, which tells them to leave Psyche on the nearest mountain, for her beauty is so great that she is not meant for mortal man. Terrified, they do as they're told.

Then Zephyrus, the God of the west wind, carries Psyche away, to a magnificent palace where she is attended by invisible servants until nightfall, and in the darkness of night the promised bridegroom arrives and the marriage is consummated. Cupid visits her every night to sleep with her, but demands that she never light any lamps, since he does not want her to know who he is until the time is right.

Cupid allows Zephyrus to take Psyche back to her sisters and bring all three down to the palace during the day, but warns that Psyche should not listen to any argument that she should try to discover his true form. The two jealous sisters tell Psyche, then pregnant with Cupid's child, that rumor is that she had married a great and terrible serpent who would devour her and her unborn child when the time came for it to be fed. They urge Psyche to conceal a knife and oil lamp in the bedchamber, to wait till her husband is asleep, and then to light the lamp and slay him at once if it is as they said. Psyche sadly follows their advice. In the light of the lamp Psyche recognizes the fair form on the bed as the god Cupid himself. However, she accidentally pricks herself with one of his arrows, and is consumed with desire for her husband. She begins to kiss him, but as she does, a drop of oil falls from her lamp onto Cupid's shoulder and wakes him. He flies away, and she falls from the window to the ground, sick at heart.

Psyche tries to look everywhere for him until she finally comes across Venus' temple and begs for the Goddess' help. Still hating the beauty of a mortal woman, Venus sets her up on impossible tasks in return for Cupid's whereabouts. With the help of some of the Gods, Psyche succeeds. Venus, furious at Psyche's survivals, claims that the stress of caring for her son, made depressed and ill as a result of Psyche's lack of faith, has caused her to lose some of her beauty. Psyche was told to go to the Underworld and ask the queen of the Underworld to place a bit of her beauty in a box that Venus had given to Psyche.

However, once Psyche has left the Underworld, she decides to open the box and take a little bit of the beauty for herself. Inside, she can see no beauty; instead an infernal sleep arises from the box and overcomes her. Cupid, who had forgiven Psyche, flies to her, wipes the sleep from her face, puts it back in the box, and sends her back on her way. Then Cupid flies to Mount Olympus and begs Jupiter to aid them. Jupiter calls a full and formal council of the gods and declares that it is his will that Cupid marry Psyche. Jupiter then has Psyche fetched to Mount Olympus, and gives her a drink made from ambrosia, granting her immortality. Begrudgingly, Venus and Psyche forgive each other.






Of course there's some differences since it's now a "Disney movie". Instead of sleeping with Cupid, they spend time with each other at night talking to each other all night long and she doesn't get pregnant ()hat can be revealed at the end instead...). Plus since her sisters tricked her in the original story Psyche gets back at her sisters and has Zephyrus kill them with his wind. None of that... But of course like every Disney character, there HAS to be an animal friend. In Psyche's case, a li'l owl named Phenus. He's her only friend.