Elyon Brown / W.I.T.C.H.

A lost princess from a faraway world.

A 14-year-old girl who discovers she's a lost princess from an alien realm, drinks copious amounts of kool-aid, and realizes her biological brother had been lying to her the whole time.

I thought her blue dress and rings-in-her-braid thing were really cool when I was a kid. I actually tried to imitate that with metal binder rings for my Halloween costume in sixth grade! Her storyline was one of the first redemption arcs I read when I was younger, and it's intriguing how dark W.I.T.C.H. actually was for a tweenage audience before being acquired by Disney.

Decades later, I'm still pissed about the Disney acquisition. We lost the opportunity for actual evil princess Elyon, and we're never getting a full reprint...

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