Cinderella
Ella Cendrillon was a miraculous baby. Not in the sense that she was amazingly beautiful, or incredibly clever; her existence was quite literally, a miracle. 31 Crescent Drive was burnt to the ground on the 18th of September, 1990; when the firemen were sifting through the ashes, they found Ella, still cradled in her baby basket, sleeping peacefully. The newspaper headline, which framed a photo of her still sleeping soundly, read CINDERS ELLA, and the name stuck.
In some early versions of 'Cinderella', the heroine's name is Ella and her nickname derives from her sleeping in the ashes of the kitchen fire. It doesn't make sense in the modern world for Ella to be cleaning fires, so I've changed the reason why her nickname emerges. Additionally, Ella's surname literally means Cinderella in French. In all versions of the story, Cinderella is an orphan (common theme in fairy tales) so all I've done is lose the stepmother. I never understood why she didn't ship Cinderella off to a relative or something anyway, if she really didn't want her.
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