BARBIE AS THE PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER QUEEN ERIKA HOW TO
And of course, Madame Carp wouldn’t stop mentioning that Erika had nobody to blame but herself for the situation, since her parents did it all for her.īertie wasn’t too much older than her, but she took an older sister/motherly role and told Erika that she hadn’t actually done anything wrong, no matter what Madame Carp said, and she also told her how to keep Madame Carp satisfied with their work–not that Madame Carp was ever really satisfied. But of course, she was only there to collect her child slave new indentured servant, so on top of losing her parents, Erika now realized just how much they had done for her. By the time her mother died, her father was right behind her, so she essentially lost both of them in one fell swoop.Īfter that, Madame Carp came to collect her, and at first Erika thought she was doing this out of the goodness of her heart–because from what her parents had said, Madame Carp was a wonderful woman. Her mother caught it first, and then her father took care of her, trying to keep Erika away so that she wouldn’t get sick too, and so she wouldn’t have to see her mother like that. Her parents died of an illness they both contracted. Her mother taught her to sing, and she learned how to sew from her father. They were a poor family, but relatively happy, all things considered. They had been working for Madame Carp, but Erika didn’t know the full extent of the situation they were in with her, because they had been trying to protect her from knowing just how deeply in debt they had gone in order to keep her fed, clothed, and with a roof over her head. My headcanon is that they died when she was 12 years old. Headcannon for what happened to Erika’s parents? We don’t see them again after the opening of Princess and the Pauper”