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This all started with a fanfiction idea for Paper Mario (2001) about the secret world of the 'Crystal Palace', with original characters such as the Crystal Prince (Akira), his personal servant (Cosmo), and the Crystal Queen. For those of you that know nothing about it (which makes sense because the site is down), it was about Akira losing everything with the downfall of the monarchy, all based on his father's horrible decisions.

Throughout the years, Kate and I liked to talk about and poke fun at it a lot, and eventually I started using the characters and setting in parody for a comic involving Paper Mario that I drew as a sophomore in high school called The Adventures of Akira and Jennifer. I got to develop my ice prince (into an effeminate, near-sighted jerk), turn the two of us into a true partnership, and... somewhere along the lines, create our hybrid daughter who came to visit us "through a time machine". But soon, Crystallina was a character we really liked and wanted to toy with some more, and if we did that, it'd have to be in her own time, when Akira and I were adults and had obviously developed romantic feelings and later got married. Since future + daughter of original characters + adventure is usually the formula of Disney sequels, we thought it'd be funny to do something deservingly satirical of Disney since our beloved childhood favorites like Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, and Cinderella had all been grabbed by the ankles and shook for every penny they were worth. 

And so, we have Crystal Palace 2, which could be considered a spin-off of a spin-off, straying so far from what Paper Mario originally was, or even what my fanfiction "Crystal Palace" (the first) was supposed to be like. But... the very fact that this story is an epic sequel with no beginning  is what makes it funny to us. Most of this plot is not innovative. The father is royalty, the main character/daughter has to find out her connections, her new friends are a penguin and a polar bear, and the key to her identity and strength are within a piece of jewelry she has obliviously worn for years. But what we believe is creative is the cast's very acknowledgement that the plot doesn't make any sense, like everyone has the mind of an adult, but they subconsciously, and against their will, execute what bad children's animated movies are all about. And even in a senseless plot, the characters are poignant and blunt with themselves and others, antagonists as well as protagonists enthusiastically embody their cliche role, and everyone's behavior stretches sometimes quite a bit past the line of decency. 

I also don't own Disney or aspire for this to become a Disney movie! It's completely separate and only parody (think Drawn Together) and as of now, it has no agenda of even becoming an animated movie. If it ever does, we'll cross the copyright bridges when we come to it.