Snowlin

Snowlin is the het ship between Snow White and Merlin from the Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarves fandom.

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Merlin is the leader of the group of heroes called the Fearless Seven who combat monsters and beasts in Fairytale Island. However, Merlin and his comrades get cursed to become green dwarves whenever people looked at them after they mistook the Fairy Princess for a witch and attacked her. The only way they can be changed to normal is to be kissed by the most beautiful woman in the world. Snow White is the daughter of King white and stepdaughter to Queen Regina. She is looking for her missing father and ends up finding his journal, explaining that she has to find the Fearless Seven to help them. She then sees a red apple growing on a single tree, not thinking it's dangerous and she reaches for it. In a flash, Snow White changes into a thin woman and the apple has taken the form of red high heels. Queen Regina doesn't recognize her as Snow White and attacks her, but she escapes on a broomstick, leading her to crash at the home of the dwarves.

When Merlin and his fellow dwarves saw the broomstick and the impression Snow White had left in the tree when she crashed, he believed that a witch had infiltrated their home and prepared themselves to face her, but instead of facing an ugly witch, they become star-struck by the beautiful woman who is eating their food. Snow White wasn't aware that the shoes' magic had changed her appearance until she looked in a mirror, but when Merlin asked Snow White her name she couldn't bring herself to tell the dwarves that she is Princess Snow White and ended up telling them that her name is "Red Shoes". Before she asks Merlin to help her find her missing father. Because Merlin and his fellow cursed dwarves were running of beautiful princesses and maidens to kiss them, they were determined to get Red Shoes to give it to them. Since she thinks that their dwarf forms are cute and seem fund of them. Believing that looks are still everything and that his dwarf form won't help him get a kiss from Red Shoes, Merlin looks through one of his spell books, that he can only reach in his human form until he finds the one he has on love spells. While on Red Shoes' end, she learns that her new shoes don't come off that easily when she was making a missing person poster of her father before she notices a figure in the woods that looks a bit like the King. Merlin notices Red Shoes heading there and follows her. Arthur later found the spellbook Merlin dropped and became furious with him before he dashes off to find the two.

By the time Merlin caught to Red Shoes, she has been cornered by a large wooden bunny creature that was sent by her evil stepmother. The cursed wizard manged to zap the bunny before he spirits Red Shoes to safety, he fallowed her to take the led in order to gain his true height and form, but once she turned to face Merlin he reverted back into his dwarf form. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to defeat the living wooden bunny as a dwarf he asks Red Shoes to keep going without him, but her concerns for Merlin has Red Shoes drawing the bunny's attention away from her new friend. Instead of Merlin saving the beauty maiden, she gets saved by Arthur and the other members of the Fearless Seven. This upsets Merlin but once he sees her slap Arthur when he tried to get a kiss from her gives him hope, as it meant that Red Shoes wasn't into him and that there is still a chance for him to gain the spell breaking kiss. Still upset with the knowledge that Merlin had wanted to cheat his way to Red Shoes' lips, Arthur gets back at him by making sure that he and Red Shoes don't spend any time together, so he could get the kiss.

Even though the rest of the Fearless Seven dwarves agreed with Arthur's plan, Merlin wasn't to stand aside while Arthur gets the kiss from Red Shoes. When she handed Merlin a copy of the drawing she had done of her father, he didn't see a resemblance between Red Shoes and the man in the her drawing, Merlin asks her if she takes after her mother. To keep up her lie Red Shoes tells Merlin that he is right.

The group go off with Red Shoes, while Merlin is stuck at home to watch the giant wood rabbit and teases him that he'll get his kiss sometime. Merlin sulks while eating a carrot but when he notices that rabbit wants some carrots too, he rides on the rabbit's back to Golden Goose Avenue with the remark they aren't going to break the curse without him. Meanwhile, Red Shoes goes around with fliers to find her father but often only got dead ends and people trying to give her gifts based on her beauty. She sees Arthur is moping because of the fact she could pull out Excalibur earlier while he couldn't. To make him feel better, Red Shoes offers to pull the sword out for him and that it'll be their own secret, which Arthur is delighted about. Merlin becomes aware of this when he caught up to Arthur. Red Shoes had noticed a wanted poster of herself before she gets chased by Prince Average's guards, who Regina hired to get her shoes back from the woman.

However, Red Shoes outsmarts them by taking off the shoes and appearing before them as her normal self. The guards don't recognize her and leave but she is then cornered by a bunch of heckling knights and take her shoes, thinking they aren't hers. She sees Merlin and Arthur in the street and calls out to them, but they don't realize it's Red Shoes. One of the knights makes fun of them, which makes Snow White angry and tells them that the dwarves aren't hideous before she headbutt one of the knights. The knights raise their weapons at Snow White but Merlin saves her with his lightning magic and returns her shoes. She thanks him and he asks if they've met before, still not completely clueing in that it's Red Shoes. The way that both the dwarfs and the town's people have been treating Snow White ever since she became Red Shoes got her to start believing that her new beauty is the only reason why the Fearless Seven are helping her at all. Merlin heads off with Arthur and Snow White puts her shoes on before she catches up to them, but then the two guards from earlier see her and Merlin gets her on the bunny's back as they escape from Golden Goose Avenue to a flower field. Where he asks Red Shoes about the wanted poster of her.

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Snowlin is the main ship of the Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarves fandom. Fans of the film fell in love with the two's friendship as they become lovers by excepting each other's appearances, along with the unique idea of having the princess fall in love one of the dwarves who turns out to be one of seven cursed princes then to have the fairy tale princess forget about her little friends once she found her charming prince. The lesson that the two teach each other and the audience is why fans commonly draw them as their true selves, than to have Snow White as her Red Shoes self beside Prince Merlin. Sidus Animation have also done their own fanwork of the ship on Instagram.

Because of the popularity of Disney's  film, fans sometimes draw Snow White and Merlin as its versions of the titled princess and her prince charming, for fun. Along with there being fanwork that takes place after the film, as fans imagine what Snow White and Merlin's "happily ever after" days would be like.

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 * Snow White reviving Merlin with the kiss that broke the spell on him, is similar to a moment from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. When Belle tells Beast that she loves him after she came back, as Belle's love for the Beast gives him a second chance of life when he transforms back into a human prince.
 * In the original fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs it is the prince's kiss of true love that revives the titled princess from the apple's poison, while in the 2019 film it was Snow White's love for Merlin that brought life back into him.
 * The Fearless Seven seeing Merlin find love with a woman who is beautiful on the inside than the outside, as it breaks the curse on him, it inspires three of them to find their own unique maidens.
 * As is allowed Arthur to except Little Red Riding Hood's werewolf form, Jack chooses the fish headed woman over the pearl she offered him, while Hans' cooking awoken Sleeping Beauty from her slumber without the need for him to kiss her.
 * Some Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs posters have both versions of Merlin beside Red Shoes. Along with some other posters featuring the chemistry between the two.
 * In the Once Upon A Time series it's versions of Snow White and Merlin also knew each other.