A Story for Shakespeare-Introduction

A Story for Shakespeare

By Sunshine

 

Intro

The things that happen in Pipersville are never quite normal. Certainly, no one would ever consider the people of Pipersville normal. In fact, everyone here was shipped here by invitation. An invitation extended because of their natural hair color, which normal people were slightly wierded out by. It caused enough people discomfort that an old myth was plundered, discovered to be true, and the land of this myth chosen as a site for a new kind of people.

The Blue Family, Generation 4

Princess Imaga was marrying one of the most notorious philanderers in the history of Pipersville. Jackson was a Super Star Athlete; Scion of the first and most prominent family in town after his older brother had a child out of wedlock and his parents basically disowned him over the shame. Girls simply don’t inherit in the Blue family, meaning little sister Emma was out. However, both Princess and Jackson embodied exactly what made Pipersville so unique. No one had anything like genetically normal hair. It was blue, purple, pink, green, red, orange, yellow- not blonde at all. If hair was black, it was streaked with vibrant rainbow hues that nature could never dreamed of in all the history of genetics. So everyone with different hair was issued an invitation to move somewhere where their hair color wouldn’t attract so much notice, or ridicule. Most people took up the offer without a second thought.

 

Jackson had the world at his fingertips. Rippling muscles, boyish charm, wealth unimaginable. His ancestors had invested wisely and Jackson now owned most of the town. He had found a perfect wife. One who didn’t question anything he did. Though Princess had a few oddities of her own, she had been more than willing to present him with 5 kids, putting her art aside to raise them to be pillars of the town. She also ignored the whispers, the rumors, the tales of what Jackson really did with the fan girls who followed him obsessively.

 

Princess, however, did give warning to the girlfriend of oldest son, Esher. Maybe not the right kind of warning, (Hats? Seriously? She’s freaking out about hats. TALL Hats!) but she really was looking out for Tangerine Orange. At least she thought she was.

Hale is the Blues third child and second son. He was one day destined to inherit the Blue Empire as Esher had decided he’d rather live the quiet life of a sculptor with his new wife Tangerine.

 

Geneva, a few years older than Hale, was left out of the equation since she wasn’t born with the right parts. After marrying Naval Orange the couple stayed at the Blue mansion for a few months just in case Jackson or Princess passed away. The three teenagers left at home were simply too young to care for themselves or the real estate empire they would inherit. And though she would never admit it to anyone, Geneva had a secret.

Esher, Geneva, Hale, Kellan, and Katia had all attended the local public school, instead of shipping off to boarding school. Every child in the tiny town of Pipersville attended this school and got to know each other well. The gossip that flew down the hallways was sometimes sensational, sometimes funny. For the sheltered, privileged Blue children, it was titillating, exciting and quite informative.

 

Did gnomes really move all on their own? Macie said it was true! She even saw it!

 

Oliver swears that the Grim Reapers favorite food is hotdogs. Not just any hotdogs, hotdogs from the greasy old food truck downtown! He knows it because his sister Iris said so.

 

 

For the last several years Jackson had been home less and less, Princess had been absorbed in her art more and more. The kids were increasingly left to their own devices and friends. But it wasn’t until Geneva had tried to ask her crush Rowan Pink out that the rumors, and their knowledge of the family tree, took a different turn.

 

 

 

Rowan turned out to be a half-brother by Strawberry Pink, Tabor and Lolly half-siblings by Katharine Blitzkrieg. Suddenly, almost all their school mates were potential siblings. They looked to home seeing the effects their fathers actions had had on their mother, and their marriage. Was such an institution really worth it? Esher believed so and married the week after graduation. Geneva had waited a few years before settling down with Naval. Though there were still moments of wild emotional flux.

 

 

 

The graduation of Hale was going to prove a turning point in the family history. They were all determined that it would be so. And with Jackson passing away just a few weeks before the event, everyone was determined that it would be for the best.