Cinderella/History

History
As a child, he had lived on the streets begging for change, dirty and under dressed, seemingly in nothing more than a blanket, until the day Cinderella found him, claiming he was filthy and that she had nothing to give him as she tossed a bucket of water onto him.

As the towns people began to laugh, he apologized for them laughing and advised her to get away, as they would only laugh at her for being around him, but she stared at him in silence for a moment and then quickly took his hand and began to walk, claiming she would make him hers as she had nothing to give him, then proceeding to say how his eyes were grey, a perfect fit for the ash princess.

Time passed and he genuinely thought he would spend his whole life doing no more than protecting the woman who had taken him in from a life on the streets, as he had nothing else to repay her with other than his protection.

Until one day, when a letter and glass slippers arrived, as Cinderella had come of age, the king was to take her hand in marriage, as her father had promised.

As expected, her knight responded in shock, but she explained the circumstance, as to which he congratulated her, seeming reluctant to even do so, before saying how she'd finally be able to live in luxury.

She cut him off, suddenly stating she loved him.

"If that pumpkin were a carriage, and that mouse a coachman,"

"Would you run away with me?"

He apologized, asking her forgiveness as he replied he couldn't, as his only desire was to see her happy.

He, who had nothing, couldn't provide her the sort of life a king could,

But, his wish was unfulfilled, as Puss in Boots took it upon himself to inform the king of the two's feelings for one another, whispering to him,

"What if it is not your highness the princess desires, but her own lowly servant?"

The king was outraged, sentencing the ash princess to be burned at the stake.

And as the flame came to a stop after the princess' unfortunate demise, her knight knelt to pick up her melting slipper, and through tears he said,

"From now on, I will dress in ashes! I will avenge her!!"

He didn't want to think about anything at that point, all he felt was hate.

Hate for everything that took her from him, he hated himself for killing her.

The fairy tale demons, the humans, he hated them all, but most of all, he hated himself.