The witch from the episode Princess Briar Rose, known better as Sleeping Beauty, known as Nobara Hime in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, aka Grimm Masterpiece Theater, or グリム名作劇場 Gurimu Meisaku Gekijō in Japan. I'll give you a nrief character/episode breakdown for this one, then talk about the character/lora and prompts. If you were around in '89, '90, you maybe remember this one, you can still find most of the episodes out there on Youtube and occasionally it comes around again on Amazon Prime.

As always, I'm learning what this lora can do right alongside you, I will update the profile with what I find.

So's, upfront, here's where this lora differs from my previous Grimms Fairy Tale Classics loras, and where additional ones become trickier. There really wasn't that many samples of the Witch! I know, she really drives the plot, but I don't think she's in the episode more than 2 minutes, and alot of shots of her are distant full bodies. There's maybe 14 decent pics, and even those I had to do some work on. Well, I padded these out with about 10 more I did in AI, MOST of which I think are decent, but we might see some drift. I did my best, and I'll get to that momentarily, but first the recap:

Its a by the numbers Sleeping Beauty episode, if you haven't lived under a rock all your life, you know the plot, but its got some flaws. For such a big name story, made into how many movies, it felt like they really phoned it in here. Maybe its just one of those things where they don't realize how big it was in the west. Eh, I'll complain as we go along.

I'll give you the Blondie and Dagwood version. I have to qualify this one, usually the Grimms Fairy Tale Classics take some liberty in padding the story out a bit, ya know, give us a subplot or a fight or some world building, and, eh, I just don't remember any of that with this episode.

King and Queen invite a bunch of witches to the birth of their daughter, but forget to invite the most evil looking one, naturally. Now unlike the usual Sleeping Beauty you got what looks like a dozen witches, most of them grandmotherly types with some real Dragon Quest enemy looking animal forms, our bad one is a tall drink of water and turns into a bat! She curses daughter to prick her finger and fall asleep in a sequence where she's gigantic (and took me having to get inventive to work with that). We're about 3 and a half minutes in here, not bad. One of the good witches defuses the spell into being broken by a prince's kiss (I note she's very specific about him being young, which is unfortunate for the beardos who fail later). They burn spinning wheels, some filler, some filler. Princess grows up, pricks her finger at about the 12 minute mark, this doesn't sound like a long time, but on a tight 20 minute schedule, they blew at least a good 4 minutes showing the princess as restless, should have saved some of that for the last half.

Princess and the kingdom falls asleep, and we get a big ol' wall of briars around the castle. Remember those beardos I mentioned? Couple of big husky warrior types try to break into the castle, one of them gets Poison Ivy'd by the thorns in a sequence where we gotta assume he didn't survive.

So this is where, unfortunately, the episode comes apart. We've only got 5 minutes left, and it shows. The prince shows up, enters the castle, kisses the princess, the witch flies off, sent away we're told, which is just a euphemism for dropping a bridge on her. No man, I'm not skipping, thats all that happens in the last 5 minutes. That was your moment for an exciting fight or escape or hey, even just having him hack at the briars some, but, yeah, just totally phoned in there at the end.

Ok! So, why'd I make a lora of the witch then? I like her design! She's very Dragon Quest-y, not only the Dragon Quest witch but she reminds me of Dragonlord from the 1st one. Her designs kind of simple, she's not an ugly hag, she's not a sultry babe, she's just right, she doesn't fit into one of the usual categories. I've done a couple of these loras before, and there's usually three kinds of witches in Grimms Fairy Tale Classics:

-The icily beautiful queen/noblewoman who is also a ridiculously powerful witch (and sometimes disguises as or has a true form of one of the other categories)

-An old human looking witch, usually they'll be moderately powerful but aside from looking like they're outta central casting, could be any old woman

-Uggo Rankin Bass looking monster hags.

As you can see from my collection, I got a soft spot for Grimms Fairy Tale Classics, and especially the villainesses, and I'm running out of characters, you'd be surprised how many only show up for 2 minutes of the story or even less.

Ok, let's see here. Her appearance is female, tall, mature, long purple hair, light green skin that may look blue in shadow (she's mint, she's mint colored!), beady red irises with vaguely yellow sclera, fine lines under eyes, a witch's tall cap, a batwing themed cape/cloak with red inner lining, and a long dark blue or black dress, has a snake themed staff too.

AI will slap lipstick and eyelashes on her all day long most likely, so if you're a strict traditionalist you can try to neg those out.