Charmiona

Charmiona is the het ship between Prince Charming and Princess Fiona from the Shrek fandom.

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The movie starts with Charming narrating "his" story of how he braved all sorts of climates and obstacles in his quest to save Princess Fiona. But once he actually reached the Dragon Tower, he didn't find Fiona, but the Big Bad Wolf laying in her bed. He assumes the wolf is Fiona under a curse, but the wolf quickly clears that up and tells Charming that Fiona is on honeymoon. Charming is completely shocked, asking with whom.

Later, when the Fairy Godmother pays Fiona a visit while she's celebrating her wedding to Shrek with her parents, Charming appears again in Fairy Godmother's flying limo when his mother picks up one of her clients, Fiona's father King Harold. The Godmother reveals to Harold that Charming is her son and that they are not happy about some ogre barging into the Dragon Tower and stealing her son's Happily Ever After away from them. Harold tells them that Charming was too late, but they don't want to hear it and tell him that he's got to figure out a way to make things how they're "supposed to be".

Meanwhile, Shrek grows increasingly uncomfortable in the castle of his in-laws, being forced to sleep in his wife's childhood bedroom. To get his mind on other things, he finds Fiona's childhood diary and reads it, finding out that Fiona had never been allowed to sleepover with her princess friends due to her curse that turns her into an ogre every night. He is shocked at finding out that Fiona was looking forward to finding her Prince Charming and started obsessively writing "Mrs. Fiona Charming" on every next page of her diary, nearly driving Shrek mad. He realizes that he has to find a way to make himself more handsome to be accepted, which is only reinforced by King Harold placing a bounty on Shrek's head. After befriending the bounty hunter, Shrek and company visit the factory of the Fairy Godmother behind Fiona's back, stealing a "Happily Ever After" potion that will make him handsome for one day, permanently so if his true love kisses him before midnight.

Since Fiona is his true love, she becomes human again as a side effect of the potion. The Fairy Godmother finds out about the theft, but decides to use her manipulations to spin the story to her advantage. She tells her son to assume Shrek's identity, locking the real Shrek inside a room in the castle while forcing him to watch Fiona embrace Prince Charming. In reality, Fiona is deeply unsure if Prince Charming really is Shrek, but her parents seem rather thrilled at the result, only King Harold realizes what is actually going on, having met Charming before.

Nonetheless, Harold stages a secret meeting with the Fairy Godmother and Charming, believing that Fiona is not buying the idea that Charming is indeed Shrek. He considers just letting Fiona be happy with Shrek and cancelling further plans of trying to meddle with her love life. The Fairy Godmother is appalled at such a thought crossing Harold's mind telling him how straining it was to her son to pretend to be an ogre. She gives him a love potion to spike Fiona's drink instead. Harold is very clearly disgusted at what appears to be a regular occurence for the Fairy Godmother, but Shrek being discovered at listening in on their meeting distracts the Fairy Godmother before she could manipulate him further.

At the night of the ball, Harold actually goes ahead and pours the love potion into one cup of tea, leaving another one for himself. He then asks Fiona whether she would like to have a cup. Fiona laments how sudden the change of "her husband's" demeanor is, watching him drinking the attention of the crowd makes her believe that he had gone mad. Harold tells her that she should be happy that her husband changed for the better for her, but Fiona realizes that she fell in love with Shrek as he was. Harold then gets second thoughts about the love potion and tells Fiona to take the cup that he didn't spike.

During the ball, Fiona is further suspecting that something is up with Shrek, deliberately avoiding every attempt of Charming to kiss her. The real Shrek manages to escape jail just at the right moment, but the Fairy Godmother tells her son that Fiona already drank the potion, he should kiss her. Charming then kisses Fiona against her will and for a moment it seems that it's all over. Fiona gently caresses Charming's face with both hands... and knocks him out cold. Harold then reveals to the Fairy Godmother that he may have "accidentally" given her the wrong cup of tea. The Fairy Godmother is completely enraged at her plan falling apart and now nothing is stopping her from just killing Shrek. However, Harold reflects her blast right back to her and she turns into a pile of bubbles. Shrek then reveals that if Fiona kisses him before midnight, they would remain beautiful forever. Fiona rejects that idea, she wants to stay with the ogre she married. Charming ends up being distracted by the ugly stepsister Doris.

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Charmiona is a bit more well-liked than the first movie's Farquiona, arguing that Charming is a spoiled douchebag at worst compared to the tyrannical Lord Farquaad. Some even argue that Charming had a right to be cross with losing his chance with Fiona, since he was the one destined to rescue her, ignoring how he left her waiting for goose-knows how long and that Fiona ended up happily married anyway.

As a "fairy tale prince turns out to be the villain" story, Charmiona is sometimes credited for setting the template for Hanna, especially for how similar Anna is to Fiona (at least in the first movie).

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