#she cant just Make the decision to turn rebel and jeopardise everyones future

[gaybellethorn]

mh having its central theme be 'embrace your freaky flaws!' immediately followed by eah's central theme of 'repression. repression. secrets. guilt. etc' is so funny

like cerise never gets to take her hood down. cedar never gets the truth curse lifted. the ohairs have to keep hiding the truth of their heritage because it's just easier.

eah is in this weird doll franchise storytelling limbo where the plot itself is allowed to grow and develop and change but the characters have to remain totally stagnant because otherwise it might hurt brand recognition. briar can decide to turn rebel if she wants but ultimately her story still needs to hinge on her destiny of the 100 years of sleep because she's 'the sleeping beauty one'.

and then i, gaybellethorn, eah understander, argue that it's actually very clever and big brained and thematically resonant because it encapsulates how these characters are like self aware stock characters, they know they're one dimensional with just enough characterisation to experience grief at their lot in life but no agency to actually change it because they have to tell us a story, the same story, over and over, prometheus and the eagle. the premise of the show is predicated on the fact that these are the sons and daughters of fairy tale characters, they're not fairy tale characters themselves YET, there's still time before the fall, they could save themselves if they wanted, but youre a doll in a toy franchise called ever after high. obviously you can't.

#ever after high #.txtpst #if eah was about what i think eah is about itd be the greatest media property of all time. which is lucky because it is. #the most themes and narratives of all time like #side tangent but briar dropping the book of legacy in the well at the end of thronecoming is one of my FAVV plot points in the whole series #like at this point shes not a main character but not a side character either #so shes at this min max extreme of minimum personal agency and maximum self awareness and grief over it #she cant just Make the decision to turn rebel and jeopardise everyones future #especially when the main character who COULD make that choice (raven) has taken her decision back and decides to play destiny instead #so she decides to Not Decide. take agency away from everyone. and gets rid of the book #it's so selfish and catastrophic in the name of not being singled out or culpable!!!! it's so interesting and such a WEIRD dramatic gut #punch to end The 45 Minute Special Called Thronecoming on!!!!!! eah is so WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and then they literally never go back to it and it makes me want to cry like they just never have briar be a main player in the book of #legacy plot ever again!!!!!!!! what the fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! #like boring stupid analytical answer is she threw the book away and making the Decision to be a side character who doesnt decide things #so it makes sense that shes just not in the story anymore. like instead of chasing what little agency she could she carved out what little #interiority she had instead so at least she doesnt have a spotlight on that grief and stagnation for the audience to :( over anymore #BUT THAT SUCKS AND IS SO GRIM. I WANT BRIAR TO BE A CHARACTER. #me meta