The relationships of Princess Aurora.
Romance[]
Prince Phillip[]
Aurora and Phillip
Aurora first meets Prince Phillip when she is a baby. They are betrothed to each other by their parents so that when they are old enough to get married, their kingdoms can peacefully be united. However, when Phillip first meets Aurora, he is not all impressed and does not seem satisfied that he would one day marry her. When the evil fairy Maleficent arrives at Aurora's christening and curses her to die on her sixteenth birthday by touching the spindle of a spinning wheel, one of the three good fairies, Merryweather is able to soften the curse, but they make a deal with Aurora's parents to take her into the forest to raise her for her own safety. This also causes the betrothal of Aurora and Phillip to be postponed until Aurora would return home once she is completely safe from Maleficent's curse.
Sixteen years later, while Aurora is out picking berries, her singing catches the attention of Phillip who is out in the forest, riding on his horse, Samson. Phillip, enchanted by Aurora's singing, tries to follow her voice, but fails after accidentally falling into a creek and getting soaked in the process. As Aurora walks through the forest with her animal friends, she reveals to them how upset she is over the fairies being protective of her as she dreams of meeting someone new and eventually finding love.
To make Aurora feel better, a few of animals, including an owl, a squirrel, a cardinal, a bluebird, and two rabbits notice Phillip's cape, boots, and hat, and steal them where they dress up as a prince so they can encourage Aurora to not give up on her dreams. As Aurora dances and sings "Once Upon a Dream", Phillip follows the animals and upon seeing them wearing his cape, boots, and hat, while playing with Aurora, he realizes they only took his apparels to make her happy. Enchanted with Aurora's singing and beauty, Phillip pulls the animals aside so he can join Aurora in singing and dancing while getting to know her. However, when Phillip reveals his presence by joining in her singing, Aurora gets startled and feels bashful while trying to leave as she knows she is not supposed to be around strangers. Though Phillip insists they have met before, Aurora tries not to get acquainted with him, but when he starts singing to her, she gets comfortable with his presence and starts dancing with him. While dancing with Phillip, Aurora eventually falls in love with him while not knowing he is her betrothal. When Phillip asks for her name, Aurora is tempted to tell him, but still remembering she isn't to speak to strangers, she does not tell him. However, before Aurora leaves, rushing to get back to the cottage, she tells Phillip where she lives and asks him to meet her there later that night, so she could introduce him to the fairies and get to know him more.
After arriving at the cottage and being given a surprise birthday, Aurora excitedly tells the fairies she met Phillip where she happily daydreams her time with him while singing and dancing to herself. However, Aurora becomes confused when she notices the fairies are not happy, but concerned for her. She then becomes shocked to hear that she had been betrothed, learning of her true identity as a princess. Upon hearing from the fairies that they plan to take her back to birth parents, Aurora becomes upset and insists on staying at the cottage as she promises to meet Phillip, though she is still unaware he is actually her betrothal. As the fairies also do not know Phillip is actually Aurora's betrothal either, they tell her she could never see Phillip again, making Aurora feel heartbroken as she bursts into tears and runs up into her bedroom, crying.
Later, Aurora sadly goes with the fairies to King Stefan's castle where she prepares to reunite with her parents as the kingdom celebrates her birthday. After the fairies gift her a crown and place it on her head, Aurora looks at her reflection in a vanity mirror and still believing she could never see Phillip again as she is betrothed, starts crying again. Meanwhile, as the fairies leave Aurora alone so they can give her time to grieve, a heartbroken Aurora does not notice Maleficent arriving at the castle where the evil fairy takes an advantage over Aurora's sadness and feelings for Phillip. This causes Aurora to be hypnotized by Maleficent where she then falls victim to the evil fairy's curse, much to the fairies' horror and disbelief.
After Aurora is put into a deep slumber, the fairies put everyone in the kingdom to sleep until they can find a way to wake Aurora up. Eventually, the fairies discover Phillip being the boy Aurora has met in the forest all along after Flora overhears King Hubert attempt to tell Stefan about how Phillip intends to marry a peasant girl before falling asleep. The fairies then go out to search Phillip, who may be the one capable of breaking the curse and save Aurora and the entire kingdom from their slumber. However, he ends up being captured by Maleficent, who ambushes him at the fairies' cottage due to his arrival to meet with Aurora due to their plans to meet with each other.
While imprisoned by Maleficent at the Forbidden Mountain, Phillip is told of Aurora's true identity by the evil fairy and tries to attack her in a fit of rage when Maleficent reveals how she intends to keep Phillip imprisoned until he grows into an old man so he and Aurora would unable to be together, only to be prevented due to being chained to the cell's wall. However, the three good fairies come to Phillip's rescue and help him escape from the Forbidden Mountain, so he can find Aurora at Stefan's castle and save her from Maleficent's curse and the whole kingdom from their eternal slumber. Though the enraged Maleficent does everything in her power to prevent Phillip from saving the realm by becoming a large dragon, he is able to slay her by plunging his Sword of Truth into her heart.
Shortly after Maleficent's demise, Phillip arrives at Stefan's castle and manages to successfully find Aurora sleeping up in one of the castle's towers. Once he approaches Aurora, he gives a kiss which is true love's kiss, thus waking Aurora up and breaking the curse just in time. Once Aurora wakes up, she smiles as she is happy to see Phillip once again while becoming even more happy when she learns that her betrothed and her love are the same person.
After being reunited with Phillip, Aurora heads downstairs to the castle's throne room with Phillip, arm in arm, where they meet with their parents, who are also awake from their slumber, along with the other castle residents. Aurora and Phillip then share a dance together before they share another kiss. Sometime later, Aurora and Phillip get married, living happily ever after together.
Family[]
King Stefan and Queen Leah[]
Aurora embracing her parents.
Ever since she was a baby, Aurora was adored and loved by her parents, King Stefan and Queen Leah, as she "filled their lives with sunshine," hence her namesake. Shortly after her birth, Aurora's parents held a christening to celebrate and decided to betroth their daughter to King Hubert's son, Prince Phillip where their two kingdoms can be peacefully united when they were old enough to marry each other.
When the evil fairy Maleficent crashed the christening, angered over not being invited, she placed a curse on the infant Aurora where she would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die before sunset on her sixteenth birthday. Both of Aurora's parents were horrified and saddened to have their daughter be cursed to a cruel fate. Despite one of the three good fairies Merryweather managing to change the curse where Aurora would fall into a deep sleep and be awaken by true love's kiss, her parents still feared for the daughter's safety where Stefan ordered all the spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned. Later, both Stefan and Leah agree to have the three good fairies raise Aurora in secret for sixteen years and even though it hurt them both to let their daughter go, they did it for Aurora's sake as they both wanted her to be safe.
For over sixteen years, Stefan and Leah missed Aurora and worried if their daughter was staying safe from Maleficent's curse. Aurora, on the other hand, had no knowledge of her parents or their identities until the fairies told her during her sixteenth birthday party. On Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Stefan prepared to welcome their daughter home, but were unaware that Aurora had fallen victim to Maleficent's curse as the fairies put them to sleep so they could find a way to awake Aurora from her deep slumber.
When Phillip managed to destroy Maleficent (as a dragon) and break her curse by sharing true love's kiss with Aurora, he also freed Stefan, Hubert, Leah, and everyone else from their indefinite slumber. Stefan, Hubert, and Leah are overjoyed to see her for the first time in years. Upon meeting her parents, Aurora embraced and happily reunited with them before they watched their children share a waltz together.
Friends and allies[]
Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather[]
Aurora with Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.
Announced by the herald, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather were invited to Aurora's christening, where they became the baby princess' fairy godmothers and adored the infant Aurora almost immediately when they first met her. The fairies then gave Aurora some gifts where Flora and Fauna gave her the gifts of beauty and song, respectively. Before Merryweather could give her gift, the evil fairy Maleficent cursed the baby to die, out of pure spite. Although Merryweather was able to soften the curse to make her fall asleep, Aurora's parents King Stefan and Queen Leah were still fearful where they proceed to burn all the spinning wheels in the kingdom. The good fairies knew that the King and Queen's actions were not enough to protect the princess, so they decided to raise her themselves, disguised as peasants. To ensure that Maleficent does not manage to locate Aurora, they cease using magic for sixteen years and called the girl, "Briar Rose."
Over the years, as the fairies raised Aurora, they grew to love Aurora as a surrogate daughter even though Aurora called the fairies her "aunts." On Aurora's sixteenth birthday, they wanted to prepare a surprise for her, so they distracted her by sending her out to pick some berries. As Aurora was out picking berries, she revealed to her animal friends how overwhelmed she was with the fairies still treating like a child despite being a teenager, revealing Aurora does not like the fairies being overprotective of her, but she still does care for them. As the fairies prepare for the birthday party, using their magic wands, Merryweather and Flora have a debate about what color Aurora's dress should be. When Aurora returned home, they happily surprised and wished her a happy birthday, but when Aurora revealed she met and fell in love with a boy she just met, the fairies immediately became concerned as they knew Aurora had been betrothed to Prince Phillip since she was a baby. They then revealed her true identity as Princess Aurora, and their intentions to return her to her parents that evening. Aurora became heartbroken because this meant that she would never see her true love again, leaving the fairies sad over having to share this news with her.
That evening, they brought Aurora to the castle and after taking her into one of the castle rooms, they gave her a crown as a gift, but Aurora was still upset about her arranged marriage, so they left her alone to grieve. This proves to be their mistake once Maleficent hypnotizes Aurora. While sitting outside, the fairies discuss on Aurora's arranged marriage and before they can make a final decision to tell Stefan about the boy, they discover Aurora had been possessed by Maleficent, who had been informed of Aurora's whereabouts by her raven, Diablo as he discovered the fairies hideout when witnessing Flora and Merryweather's color brawl earlier. The fairies proceeded to pursue Aurora and save her from Maleficent. But unfortunately, because Aurora pricked her finger on the spinning wheel that fulfilled the curse, Flora, Merryweather, and Fauna have found her too late, much to their horror and despair, as they're briefly confronted by Maleficent, who mocks them of trying to stop her and for trying to protect Aurora. After putting Aurora in bed, the fairies decided to put everyone else in the kingdom in deep sleep until Aurora awakens.
While putting the servants and villagers to sleep, Flora briefly overheard King Hubert attempt to tell Stefan about how Prince Philip intended to marry a peasant girl. Flora then realized that Philip was the boy who Aurora had met earlier that day and immediately informed Merryweather and Fauna of this discovery. Knowing that Philip is the only one who can break the spell and save the entire kingdom, they go in search for him, but they arrive too late at the abandoned cottage and discovered that he has been kidnapped by Maleficent. Though reluctant, they traveled to the Forbidden Mountain to free Philip and assist him as he battled Maleficent, who assumes the form of a fire-breathing dragon. After Maleficent's death, the fairies took Philip to Aurora and he successfully lifted the curse. Once Aurora awakened and reunited with Phillip, the fairies were overjoyed to see their surrogate daughter be saved. Once the entire kingdom awakens from their slumber, the fairies then happily watched Aurora as she reunited with her parents, and shared a dance with Phillip. While Aurora and Phillip dance together, the battle between Merryweather and Flora resumed when Flora finally noticed that Aurora's dress was blue and changed it to pink. Merryweather noticed and changed back to blue. The fight continued as the couple danced, and the dress continued to change from pink to blue.
Even after being told of her true identity, Aurora continued to share a good relationship with the fairies where she still referred to them as her "aunts."
King Hubert[]
Aurora giving King Hubert a kiss on the cheek.
When Aurora was born, her father, King Stefan and his friend, King Hubert decided when Aurora was old enough, she would marry Hubert's son, Prince Phillip and unite their two kingdoms. Even after the evil fairy, Maleficent placed a curse on Aurora that caused her to go into hiding, Hubert and Stefan still made arrangements to have Aurora marry Phillip once she was completely safe from Maleficent's curse.
Sixteen years later, Stefan and Hubert continue planning for their children's futures. Hubert showed Stefan some plans for a new place for their children, but Stefan hypocritically opposed this idea and his claim of the original idea as a shock for their children soon erupted in a brief brawl after Stefan insulted and threatened to declare war at Hubert, but the two made up for their quarrels and reconsider. When Phillip returned from ride on his horse, Samson, Hubert was shocked when Phillip revealed he had fallen in love with a peasant girl and intended to marry her. Upset, Hubert reprimanded Phillip and still intended to have him marry Aurora, but Phillip remained firm with his decision and successfully convinced his father to accept his decision. This caused Hubert to later worry how he was going to break the news to Stefan. However, neither Hubert or Phillip were aware that the peasant girl Phillip fell in love with was actually Aurora as she had been living as a peasant for sixteen years in secret. But just as he and the others were about to be put to sleep by the fairies, Flora overheard a sleepy Hubert trying to tell a sleepy Stefan about Phillip meeting a peasant girl, and realized that the man Aurora met in the woods was actually Prince Phillip.
After Aurora and the residents of the kingdom were awakened from their slumber as a result of True Love's Kiss that broke Maleficent's curse, Aurora and Phillip walked together arm in arm to meet with their parents, now awakened from their slumber, where Hubert was confused to see them together and unaware that his son had actually saved him, Aurora, her parents, and everyone else in the realm. As Hubert tried questioning Phillip about this, Aurora gave him a kiss to show she accepted him as her future father-in-law, causing Hubert to blush. Brushing off his confusion, he and Aurora's parents happily watched Aurora and Phillip share a waltz together.
Lord Duke[]
Aurora telling Lord Duke about perseverance.
Lord Duke is one of King Stefan's servants where he is actually the majordomo of King Stefan's royal court.
Now having larger roles than they have in the original animated film, Princess Aurora is put in charge of her father's kingdom with Lord Duke as her advisor while her parents, Prince Phillip, and King Hubert go out of town for the Royal Conference.
During her brief tenure as temporary ruler, Aurora was informed by Duke that she must sign the signatures. She told him that her father said that the papers needed to be signed and that she was busy dealing with the banquet. But when an upset Duke thought that reading will take months and complained that they'll never get through all the signatures, Aurora told him that they must show perseverance. When Duke gets into several mishaps while trying to re-arrange all the fallen papers, she shows concern to the clumsy majordomo. After falling into a moat while trying to get the paper, he gives it to Aurora, which revealed to be the speech King Hubert forgot for the Royal Conference. When Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather decided to give it to Hubert, Duke reminded Aurora that they have a lot of work to do for the kingdom.
The next day, while dealing with the villagers, he assisted her in dealing with what the villagers wanted. At one point, he advised Aurora that they should rest, claiming that Stefan would understand, but Aurora determined not to give up. However, when dealing with the red-haired farmer who wanted more chickens, she hesitated, but Duke told her to stick with the problem by showing perseverance.
But while he goes out to find the forms he forgot, Aurora's inexperience of using magic led to several consequences like giant chickens, green pigs, and cows, which headbutted Duke out of the castle wall and warn his boss about what he saw. However, Aurora is able to solve the problem without magic by handing out all cows to the villagers, just as Duke, Stefan, Leah, Hubert, Phillip, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather enter the throne room after he warned them about what he saw in the throne room.
At the end, Lord Duke, along with Prince Philip, King Stefan, Queen Leah, King Hubert, and the Three Good Fairies, attend a Royal Banquet that was hosted by Aurora, who told them ruling a kingdom can be hard and fun. They applauded at Aurora's brief speech and enjoy the banquet, not before Phillip, Stefan, and Hubert mentioning the "rumors" of cows, giant chickens, and green pigs, which caused everyone to laugh.
Forest Animals[]
Aurora and the forest animals.
As Aurora grew up and was raised by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather in a forest, at a woodcutter's cottage, Aurora befriended the animals that resided within the forest. Due to being instructed by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather to not meet or speak to people, as they were working to keep her safe from Maleficent, Aurora's only friends were the forest animals.
Whenever Aurora would go out into the forest, she would sing and talk to the animals about her problems and hopes, which the animals are willing to listen to. One day, while Aurora was out picking berries as the fairies planned a surprise party for her sixteenth birthday, Aurora met up with the animals and after singing "I Wonder" with them, she told her friends how she felt on still being treated like a child by the fairies and how she dreams of meeting a handsome prince. After hearing Aurora describe her dreams, a few of the animals, including an owl, a squirrel, a cardinal, a bluebird, and two rabbits spot a cape, boots, and hat belonging to Prince Phillip. They decide to take them and pose as a prince in order to make Aurora happy and encourage her to pursue her dreams.
When Aurora saw the animals dressed up as a prince, she realized what her friends were trying to do and played along with role of meeting her "dream prince." Aurora and the animals then danced together as Aurora sang "Once Upon a Dream" before Prince Phillip arrived and pulled the animals aside where he joined in singing with Aurora, leaving her and the animals surprised. The animals then watch Aurora get acquainted with Phillip where the two fall in love with each other, causing the animals to grow happy for them.
After Aurora was freed from Maleficent's curse, reunited with her parents, and married Phillip, she continued to visit animals in the forest, showing she still valued them as her friends even after discovering her true identity as a princess.
Enemies[]
Maleficent[]
Aurora lured by Maleficent as the curse comes true.
When Aurora was born, her parents King Stefan and Queen Leah held a royal christening to celebrate her birth. However, they did not think to invite the evil fairy, Maleficent to Aurora's christening. This caused Maleficent to arrive, crashing the christening, and she fooled Aurora's parents into thinking she was offended by their forgetfulness, convincing them to allow her to bear her own gift to Aurora as a way of showing no hard feelings and not providing a good explanation of why they didn't invite the latter, out of fear of angering her. However, Maleficent placed a curse onto the innocent baby princess, decreeing that before sunset on Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Aurora would die by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. This horrified Aurora's parents and the other guests in the royal court that Maleficent quickly fled the scene, feeling satisfied that she managed to get her revenge on the kingdom. Following this, Merryweather was able to soften Maleficent's curse so Aurora wouldn't die, but instead fall in a deep sleep until she was awakened by true love's kiss. Despite the curse being softened, Stefan ordered all the spinning wheels to be burned in a failed attempt to protect his daughter and prevent the curse from ever happening. The three good fairies also decided to raise Aurora themselves in secret, in order to protect her as they knew Maleficent would do anything in her power to get her curse fulfilled.
Under the three good fairies' protection, Aurora managed to grow up and have a happy childhood while staying safe from Maleficent's wrath. However, Maleficent was determined to find Aurora in order to ensure her curse can be fulfilled, spending sixteen years looking for her. When Maleficent's goons fail to find to Aurora after years of searching, Maleficent took matters into her own hands when she ordered her pet raven, Diablo to look for Aurora. He was able to successfully find Aurora as a result of Flora and Merryweather using their magic to fight each other as they were arguing about what color Aurora's dress should be. Diablo then eavesdropped on Aurora, learning her true identity from the fairies and their plans to take Aurora back to her parents during the celebration of her sixteenth birthday, causing Diablo to immediately fly off, unnoticed, and report his findings to Maleficent.
After Aurora returned to her parents' castle, she sat alone in a room, crying over not being able to see the man she met and fallen in love with again due to learning she had been betrothed, though she didn't know the same man was actually Phillip. Maleficent, arriving at the castle, noticed and took advantage of Aurora's depression to fulfill her curse. As Aurora cried, she was suddenly hypnotized and lured by Maleficent to a secret room up in one of the castle's towers, forcing the panicked fairies to chase after her. Maleficent then conjured up a spinning wheel. Aurora tried to resist after hearing Flora, Merryweather, and Fauna warn her not to touch anything, but sadly, she touched Maleficent's spinning wheel and fell into a deep sleep. As a result, the three fairies have arrived too late to save her and gasped when Maleficent briefly mocks her rivals of trying to stop her by showing them Aurora's unconscious body before she vanished, laughing maniacally as she felt satisfied that her curse was finally fulfilled, while the fairies sobbed over their failure to stop Aurora from being cursed.
At one point, Maleficent had discovered that her curse had been softened by Merryweather and decided to kidnap Prince Phillip in order to prevent him for freeing Aurora and the rest of the kingdom from their deep slumber. After capturing Phillip, Maleficent imprisoned him within the dungeon of her castle in the Forbidden Mountain. There, Maleficent taunted Phillip with the knowledge of Aurora's true identity and revealed her intention to keep him imprisoned until he grew elderly, then let him go to seek out Aurora, who wouldn't have aged a day since. In other words, Maleficent would have Aurora still under her curse and by the time she was ready to release Phillip as an old man, so he and Aurora would unable to be together.
However, the three good fairies came to Phillip's rescue and helped him escape from the Forbidden Mountain. When Maleficent discovered that Phillip had escaped, she did everything in her power to stop Phillip from saving Aurora from her curse. As Phillip managed to avoid Maleficent's attacks with the help of the three good fairies, the evil fairy furiously decided to take matters into her own hands where she personally confronted Phillip at Stefan's castle. To make sure that her curse on Aurora could never be broken, Maleficent transformed herself into a large, fire-breathing dragon in order to stop him from entering the castle, but he successfully managed to kill the evil fairy-turned-dragon with the Sword of Truth after the enraged good fairies empowered it. After Maleficent was finally killed, Phillip made his way to Stefan's castle, where he found Aurora sleeping in one of the castle's towers and gave true love's kiss; thus saving Aurora from Maleficent's curse and the other residents in the kingdom from an indefinite slumber.