Brave (2012 Video Game)

Susanne Blakeslee: The Witch

Quotes 

• [Merida follows the will-o'-the-wisps back to the Witch's cottage and confronts her] 

  Princess Merida : You! You turned my mother into a bear! This is all your fault!

  The Crow : My fault! My fault!

  The Witch : My fault? Oh, but who am I to refuse the "Future Queen of DunBroch?"

  Princess Merida : All right, but... but you tricked me!

  The Witch : Tsk. Tsk. All that anger and mistrust, that's what caused this in the first place.

  Princess Merida : You caused this!

  The Witch : No child, this magic is far older than the spell that changed your mum... Long ago, a terrible bear born of willfulness and mistrust began to stalk these forests...

  The Crow : Mor'duuu!

  Princess Merida : Mor'du?

  The Witch : Aye. But the beast lives on. Mor'du is kept alive by anger and selfishness. He still wanders the forest, his cursed spirit corrupting the power of the ancient stones. That corruption has seeped out from the stones, blighting the forest and resurrecting all manner of terrible creatures from ages past. Harpies, mandrakes, spirit wolves! And it's twisted me own magic, too, making the results... unpredictable. Your mother's touched by that magic now. Mor'du's power comes from the very waystones he's corrupted. You must defeat the creatures to cleanse the waystones and turn back the blight!

  Princess Merida : Me? Why do I have to do it?

  The Witch : Because, ya silly girl, you're the best archer in this kingdom!... Well aren't ya?

  Princess Merida : But can I trust ye?

  The Witch : [laughs]  Without trust, your mother will be trapped like that forever. Do you want her to end up like Mor'du?

  Princess Merida : O' course not! I suppose I've no choice then.

  The Witch : Ah! I almost forgot! Here, take this charm; you'll need its help to cleanse the first waystone.

  [Merida takes the charm and then runs off to cleanse the waystones] 

  The Witch : Now go! Quickly! While we were gabbing about, the blight's already spread here, to my own home!

• Princess Merida : [narrating, after cleansing the waystone at Frozen Loch, and before heading off for the Ruins of the Ancient Kingdom]  I still remember what the Witch told me when she gave me the spell.

  The Witch : Mend the bond, torn by pride.

  Princess Merida : [narrating]  Now I understood what she meant by pride. Mum had said I was behaving like a child. An' I called her a... a beast. I never tried to understand her. I only hope it's not too late...