Fiona is grateful to her rescuer despite his un-knightly behavior. Shrek goes back to retrieve Donkey from Dragon, and in the ensuing chase the three of them narrowly escape from the castle. He is all but the knight-in-shining-armor that Fiona expected he won't recite her poetry, she gives him her handkerchief as a token of her gratitude just for him to wipe his face with it, and he hasn't even slain the dragon. She pretends to sleep, but instead of getting her true love's kiss, Shrek shakes her awake and unceremoniously drags out of her tower. Wearing pieces of armor taken from dead knights in the Dragon's Keep, Shrek is mistaken by Fiona to be her "Prince Charming". Shrek becomes the tournament's unexpected champion after besting all of Farquaad's knights, and agrees to rescue Fiona in exchange for the removal of the fairytale creatures from his swamp.įiona first meets Shrek when he crashes into the roof of her tower after being thrown by Dragon.
He chooses Fiona, and holds a tournament in which the winner will have the "privilege" to rescue her from the Dragon's Keep for him. Lord Farquaad is told by the Magic Mirror that in order to be king of Duloc, he must first marry a princess. According to Shrek the Musical, Fiona was seven years old when she was locked in the tower and around the age of 30 when Shrek rescued her. Over the years, many knights attempted to rescue her from her tower only to be slain by her dragon guardian.
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And so Fiona, who was still only a girl, was imprisoned in the highest room of the tallest tower of the Dragon's Keep to await for her true love to free her and break her curse. They had also agreed that Prince Charming would be the one to eventually rescue Fiona (Harold's way of repaying a favor to the Fairy Godmother). But eventually they sought the help of Fairy Godmother, who had them lock Fiona away in a dragon-guarded castle to await her true love to rescue her.
This shall be the norm, until you find true love's first kiss, and then take love's true form." Fiona's curse causes her to take the form of an ogre between sunset and sunrise, and can only be broken by the kiss of her true love.įiona's parents did their best to hide her curse from the world, keeping her home at night so that no one would discover her ogre form. As a little girl, a curse was cast on Fiona by a witch which goes as follows "By night one way, by day another.
Fiona was born in the kingdom of Far Far Away as the only child of King Harold and Queen Lillian.