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Cursed Princess Club is an American Webtoon written and illustrated by LambCat. Cursed Princess Club was first published for Webtoon’s 2018 new creator contest. Though it didn’t make it to the first round it was picked up and officially published on February 14th, 2019. It revolves around a Princess, who isn’t your average Disney princess. She has the heart and baking skills, but not the looks.

As of October 2022, the official webtoon has garnered around 238.7 million views and 2.1 million subscribers. After the finale on February 6th, 2022, Lambcat went on a break but it was one of the most popular comics in the comedy genre. The comic has a print version that is set to release on January 3rd, 2023.

PLOT
Gwendolyn is the youngest of the three princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Though she may not look the part, her big heart and skills in baking have the quality of a princess. One day, the king of Pastel Kingdom, her father, proposes marriage for her and her sisters to make an alliance with the Plaid Kingdom. However, Gwen, Gwendolyn, overhears her betrothed talking to his brother and complained that “She’s really ugly”. Ashamed and hurt, she runs away into the forest where she stumbles into the Cursed Princess Club. The Cursed Princess Club is a group of outcasted, neglected or just cursed princesses who all support each other one way or another. With the help of these members of the group, Gwendolyn starts to learn how to embrace herself but also find a deeper truth behind her family and mysterious past.

Gwendolyn
Princess Gwendolyn of the Pastel Kingdom, Gwen for short, is the main protagonist in the webtoon. The youngest daughter of King Jack of the Pastel Kingdom; she known for her different appearance from the rest of her beautiful family. She is very talented and enjoys baking, crafting, and sewing clothes. Gwen is the only one out of the four Pastel siblings to take after their mother. Many when they first see her believe she is either a witch, a goblin, or cursed.

Maria
Princess Maria of the Pastel Kingdom is the eldest daughter of King Jack of the Pastel Kingdom. She has a great passion for singing. Like in classic princess fashion, woodland creatures help wake her up and do her hair every morning. She is engaged to Prince Blaine, eldest son from the Plaid Kingdom. She is very caring a protective of her family. Though she is thought to be graceful, whenever she is around Blaine she seems to get nervous and stumble over her words.

Lorena
Princess Lorena of the Pastel Kingdom is the middle daughter of King Jack. Lorena is the athletic one out of the bunch. Unlike her tougher personality, Lorena is so beautiful that flowers bloom all over and around her. She dreams of becoming the head general of the Pastel Kingdom and to lead into battles. Her tougher personality and stamina makes her talented in a variety of sports such as fencing. She is engaged to Prince Lance of the Plaid Kingdom.

Jamie
Prince Jamie is the youngest of the Pastel siblings and the only boy. He possesses great beauty that he literally sparkles and emits glowing light. He is often mistaken for a girl due to his beautiful face. He has an ability that allows him to taste the feelings and emotions of food from whoever cooks it. He is the crowned prince of Pastel Kingdom even though he doesn’t want to be. Jamie is more outgoing and laid-back than the rest of his sisters due to having more freedom compared to them.

Fredrick
Prince Frederick is the youngest of the Plaid Princes and is engaged to Princess Gwendolyn of the series. Due to his weaker body, Frederick was mostly inside as a child and alone. To keep himself entertained he took to books to help pass time; his favorite is “The Tiniest Prince” (A parody of “The Little Prince” by French writer, and military aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.) He isn’t the most renowned out of the Princes from the Plaid Kingdom and is frequently outshined by his two eldest brothers. At the beginning of the webtoon, Frederick mistook Jamie as his fiancée not realizing that Jamie was a boy.

Blaine
Prince Blaine is the eldest child of the Plaid Princes. Blaine is popular, charming, and heroic. As the eldest son of the Plaid Kingdom, he has achieved and mastered many things such as sports and the piano. Due to these high expectations, he is insecure about his appearance to others and meeting everyone’s expectations of how he should act and who he should be.

Lance
Prince Lance is the middle child of the Plaid Princes. Out of the three princes, Lance is the most reckless and rowdy of the bunch. He is a bit more childish and is more interested in sports and become part of the military. He is engaged to Princess Lorena and had a slight quarrel about her wanting to be a leader in the future. He also enjoys eating any type of food.

WHO IS LAMBCAT?
Lambcat is a writer and music producer.

As their bio in Webtoons states, "Just a cat in a lamb suit who loves making music and drinking at least one hot chocolate a week." They are a very private person and though they do have social media it is not used often as they have said that often social media overwhelms them.

They have not previously hasn't had much experience in creating webcomics prior to Cursed Princess Club.

Background of Cursed Princess Club
In an interview by Breana Ceballos on NerdBot, Lambcat states

"So when I was thinking up variations on these themes, I started imagining a world where fairytales were simply just the success stories of people with these curses, and there were actually many princesses-in-distress who didn’t get saved by Prince Charming or weren’t able to lift their curse successfully".

Gwendolyn was created to play on the trope from being ugly to beautiful in a big makeover scene. Gwendolyn isn't conventionally attractive regardless of having a big dress-up scene or not. She is often mistaken by outsiders to be a witch or a goblin. Up until she overheard Prince Frederick say that she is ugly, Gwen has been loved and adored all throughout her life. It was at this point she realizes the harshness of the outside world and how looks can play a big part in one's life. However, with the help of the Cursed Princess Club, Gwen is on a journey to find what true beauty means to a person.