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Lizzie can't hear the Narrator, but she regularly uses the Narrator to give instantaneous messages to Maddie and Kitty. It's faster than using her phone, and more fun. "Omniscient voice that only Maddie and Kitty can hear! Tell them I'm working on a project in the Grove and will be unable to meet them in the tea shop as we planned!"

#eah #ever after high #lizzie hearts #the narrator

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For the Dark Fairy's role to have been stolen by the Evil Queen then the cursing of Sleeping Beauty must have happened some time past graduation, this makes some sense given that Briar hasn't been cursed yet I guess, and we're given an explanation it all going down on Sleeping Beauty's 18th birthday party, which is also fine.

But given the Evil Queen's age isn't in the hundreds, Briar's mother can't have actually fallen asleep for hundreds of years, and Briar's age relative to Raven's suggests that Briar's mother wasn't sleeping for vary long at all? Briar's parents probably went to school together and their friends are likely all still alive. It would even make sense that this is what happened because it explains how the Evil Queen managed to go an extra eight-plus years until the Invasion of Wonderland until she was actually arrested for interfering with stories; if the outcome of the first time she did it allowed Sleeping Beauty to avoid the actual horror of her story unfolding the way it was supposed to.

But Briar's fears are still based on the idea that her mother did sleep for hundreds of years and all her friends are dead and she did end up being married to a man she had never met before. Which, don't work with the timeline. At least let her sit at a table listening to her mother recount stories with her friends during a dinner party and lose her appetite as she realises she won't be able to do the same because the Evil Queen broke script for her mum and isn't around to break script for her.

Or maybe Briar has heard the stories about how hard it will be from her Grandmother, who only had the two children before her husband died in an accident that may have not been an accident, and Briar can't help but think she might be trying to mentally prepare Briar for the worst even as her friends and mentors brush the stories off as the kind of stories old people tell to scare children.

But you have to pick whether Briar's mother did sleep long enough to get that trauma from her, or if the Evil Queen stole the Dark Fairy's role. Because the Sleeping Beauty story has to have happened before Briar was born, and Raven was eight when the Invasion of Wonderland happened. So every year that Sleeping Beauty was asleep for is another year on top of 8-9 that the Evil Queen got away with interfering with a story before everything with Wonderland. And every year Sleeping Beauty is asleep is another year that every other kingdom has decided to let the Evil Queen carry on without being arrested given no one during that period of time knows what the outcome of the Evil Queen's spell would be when the Dark Fairy's spell is meant to be the safe one. And every year that Sleeping Beauty is asleep for is another year added to the age of all the parents, even if Sleeping Beauty herself doesn't age.

I don't think she was asleep longer than a year at most.

We also know that the Snow White story had to have happened before this as well. So imagine being the newly crowned Queen White, who is eighteen. You've pardoned your step mother for her actions against you because they were made for the sake of the story. She's also eighteen, you argue, and she's married to your dad who may be a good man but is at the very least 36 but probably more likely in his 50s (assuming he didn't get married as soon as he turned 18, and that you weren't conceived an born that same year, supposedly the Good King has a naval career, and you might even have older siblings who would later die fighting your step-mother: someone had to be assumed heir to the Good King's name after all) in what was for all intents and purposes an arranged marriage [I like to think it was a genuine arranged marriage the Good King didn't want but also didn't want to go to war with the Evil Queen's father whoever he may be, but the Storybook of Legends is also playing matchmaker here so].

Then she curses someone who was probably your friend in school.

A fair few people are blaming you. If you hadn't let the Evil Queen run free instead of being locked up, or even killed, for her crimes the story would have happened the way it was meant to.

What else can you do but point out that the Evil Queen is still the Evil Queen, and the spell that put you to sleep was able to be broken with True Love's Kiss. There isn't even a time limit.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up she's overjoyed that it hasn't been that long at all.

When Briar finds out that Raven's page said she'd interfere with the Sleeping Beauty story as well and Raven is refusing to do it, she might well be angry.

#ever after high #eah #briar beauty #i can't help thinking about the international politics that must have been happening at the time this was all taking place #it must have been insane #which only adds to my belief that the seven charming siblings that are the main charmings might have also had their own problems #specifically with family infighting that may have become a full fledged civil war had their parents not been alive #something something briar and ashlynn talking about destiny and how it's unfair that your friends will just wait around for you to be saved #when they know terrible things are happening to you particularly regarding the actual abuse ashlynn is destined to suffer while everyone #knows where she lives and briar promising to throw a party as soon as they're out of school where she'll invite everyone from school #including Hunter and she promises not to be at all mad when the party's crashed by her Cinderella Story Briar'll push Hunter out the door #after her at midnight to play the role of Prince Charming if she has too.

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I've mentioned a few times that I don't particularly like Selfors' characterisation of the Charming's in Semi-Charming Kind of Life. But I do like what she did with other characters in her other works that I don't give her enough credit for.

Particularly, I like that she made the Dark Fairy a Good Mother.

It answers questions I had early on about Faybelle's character, and particularly her complete lack of support for Raven's desire to write her own story instead of following in her mother's footsteps. Because Faybelle is someone who shouldn't want Raven to follow in her mother's footsteps, the Evil Queen literally stole the Dark Fairy's role in Sleeping Beauty, and even before that the Evil Queen had a reputation that would be difficult to rival (more so when you're cursed to be forgotten). Raven divorcing herself from that particular narrative means Faybelle has less competition for notoriety, and adds security to her role that she probably hasn't had since her mother's spotlight was stolen*. But, like how teenagers with perfectly fine parents will moan about their parents being the worst will shrug off the peer's similar complaints about their own parents as over-exaggerations when they might actually be under-exaggerations, Faybelle can't understand why Raven might not want to be like her mother, because Faybelle's own mother is a really good parent despite also being evil and a villain. And it takes actually agreeing to work with the Evil Queen for Faybelle to realise why.

*I'll admit I'm still a little confused about the timeline of Briar's parent's story given the affects on her. Which I have more thoughts on for another post.

#ever after high #eah #faybelle thorn

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I'm thinking about EAH putting on an "event", perhaps a charity ball type thing, where there are students from any class attending (because you don't not invite certain important people lest they choose to curse you and your baby) but it's still graded on the basis of performance counting towards extra credit in various subjects (dance, wooing, princessology, etc).

Only you don't choose your own partner.

It's a bit like the teachers pairing you up for a group project with other people in the class, but the metric they are using to decide who gets partnered with who is based on the Ballroom Dance portion of the evening. As your ideal Ballroom partner is meant to be the same or similar height to you (you're supposed to be able to see over their shoulder, though generally the person being spun should also be short enough to go under the arm).

Which is where ship pairings come in.

Obviously, as a Dexven shipper I'm thinking about Dexter and Raven being around the same height. Maybe they were paired up together originally and Dexter had to do some smooth talking to stay paired up with Raven because someone balked at the idea of placing Raven with a Prince Charming (especially when his extra credit class is Advanced Wooing), or maybe he was originally paired with Duchess but Duchess made a fuss of some sort about Dexter being a bad dancer in the practice dance they had and Raven gets defensive (jealous) and does a practice dance with Dexter to "prove" that Duchess is the problem (inadvertently earning extra credit points for one of her villain classes for stealing someone else's prince) and getting paired with Dexter instead(I think that one would need a meaner-than-canon Raven given she'd be roleplaying a villain part to even do that in the first place, as the Prince dances and professes his love to someone who is not the Swan Princess in Swan Lake. Poor Duchess).

Meanwhile, Apple is having a crisis of her own because she and Daring aren't height matched and that's just feeding into her preexisting insecurities about her looks as she believes it implies she's not good enough for her role if she doesn't match her Prince Charming. Like maybe the two of them did get paired together anyway for that reason and Apple is still a little short despite that and whatever heels she's already wearing.

Or maybe they didn't get a chance to try as Apple and Darling get paired together since EAH has more girls than boys. And Darling gets to play the part of Prince Charming comforting the upset princess, and slowly falling in love, while Apple is perhaps too caught up in "destiny" to realise that she might not be straight (or rather rejects the few glimpses she does have during the dance when she does let herself have some fun because she's too scared by the fact she doesn't know how taking that chance at happily-ever-after would turn out).

#ever after high #eah #raven queen #dexter charming #apple white #darling charming #duchess swan #and this is why I think the charming siblings height should go dexter daring darling btw ballroom dance partners #apple's one of the shortest and raven is one of the tallest; though shortest girl is maddie and tallest girl is briar #briar being the tallest girl makes me think that rosabella is tall over short; it's possible she's average height though #the only problem is that the books also describe Daring as being bigger than Dexter; which could be muscle mass i suppose #something something Dexter and Daring had different training growing up because Dexter was premature; the Charmings being overcautious #(he and Darling have been premature to allow Queen Charming time to recover from the first pregnancy before getting pregnant again; #having one pregnancy so soon after another is a reason for a premature birth and another is carrying more than one child so...) #but that's off topic

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I’ve been reading Pinocchio and I’m at that bit where Pinocchio first knocks on her door and she tells him she’s dead and waiting for a hearse. And it would just be so funny if that was what happened before Headmaster Grimm started telling people that she didn’t want to play her part in the story and went poof because of it.

Like what if he called her up asking her to be a teacher or something and she deadpanned at him that she couldn’t do it because she was dead?

#eah #ever after high #headmaster grimm #blue-haired fairy

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This is a reminder that Dexter already had a Cabbage-Throwing Catapult when Raven needed a distraction for Headmaster Grimm in the books. Like yes he was helping Raven because he has a crush, but also he already built that and wanted an excuse to use it. It’s just such a random thing to already have and to have also built yourself.

#ever after high #eah #dexter charming #this is also a reminder that Dexter knew that Headmaster Grimm loved throwing cabbages over the school walls #and that Grimm liked doing it enough that it would distract him from his office without any question as to why Dexter had a cabbage-throwing #catapult in the first place which is also random information to just know about someone who is the Headmaster of the school you go to #I would actually like more information on things Dexter has noticed about people especially given he's a pretty judgy character in the books

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Thinking about Dexter and how his parents thought there might have been a chance of him being the Beast, and wondering what about him growing up must have made them think that it was him (opposed to Daring or any of his many cousins).

Like, I know his “I’ll help anybody who needs it” approach was presented in a “I’m not like other girls” kind of way to Raven, and his agreement that it is unfair that there are people like Raven who never get a happily-ever-after is also framed for Raven’s benefit, and that both these things are there to establish him as a potential love interest. But what if that was expanded on to give him more depth, instead of just being to flag him to the readers as the male love interest?

What if Dexter was already taking this kind of approach to how he goes about solving problems as a hero at home?

For example, what if Dexter’s first reaction to seeing a mob of goblins or orcs walking up the main entrance of Charming Castle was to go out an talk to them? (Which is potentially stupid if they’re armed, and he was almost certainly yelled at for doing it) And while he’s out there he starts thinking, “hey, maybe these people have a point their conditions aren’t fair” but he’s still got to do something about the mob to at least de-escalate the situation somewhat, and so he just... helps them unionise or form a guild? And now the group are protesting legally so you’ll have to negotiate with them instead of attacking them, dad.

This will almost certainly cause friction between him and his parents because a) he’s just walking up to a potentially dangerous group of people who are armed and angry without back-up or a weapon and that’s going to get him killed one day, they’re allowed to be worried for his safety and sanity they’re his parents, and b) that’s not how you’re supposed to heroically solve this kind of thing why can’t you be normal.

Headmaster Grimm will hate it even more because he’s probably not paying the goblin and fairy cleaning staff. He knows full well that one of the differences between Kingdom Management and Kingdom Mismanagement is whether or not you should support your employees unionising, or pay your employees a living wage. Something, something... Grimm doesn’t want people to be too good because it’ll start making him look bad.

But given Rosabella is said to be supporting a new Beast-related charity or cause every week, maybe Dexter’s destiny will be the Beast?

#ever after high #eah #dexter charming #This is also a way more interesting conflict for Dexter and his parents that whatever it was in the books or comic #you can understand where they're coming from regarding the argument for his safety but also root for him because he's right #and he's got an internal conflict about his insecurities about being a good hero and measuring up to his dad's expectations and gaining #confidence in his own ability to judge what is the right thing opposed to what he's told is the right thing and also himself as a hero #AND maybe there's some character growth for the elder charmings because your adult characters should also have character arcs #there's no way Headmaster Grimm is pro-union #Raven said she wanted to choose her own career and he devised a complicated plot to gaslight her into thinking everyone would die if she did

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chamber mates ☆•°*

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Hear me out: What if the reason Good-Enough Charming was called Good-Enough and not another adjective beginning with G wasn’t because his parents couldn’t think of anything else, but because Good-Enough’s mother had an affair with her brother-in-law (who was the father of the Charming cousins with names beginning with E)? It would explain the need for hyphenating in a G-E pattern and, if Good-Enough’s mother had left her husband to fill out the paperwork after the birth and he knew or suspected, it could also explain why the name is barely nice.

#eah #ever after high #charming family #not me wanting the charming family to have large royal family drama #the extended charming family needs names #i am now accepting recommendations for names for the extended charming family

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A painting I got too involved with of Apple and Snow White, it’s just a small part of my comic and isn’t even in a full frame and yet I spend way too long on it. I made it a lot lighter than the original painting lol mostly just because I didn’t think Snow would want something so dark in her castle. I feel like she’s kinda crazy about keeping her castle light and dreamy.

Anyway, Im not super happy with it but I thought I’d post it despite my opinions about it😌

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D-DARLING?!

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Raven if Daring/Cerise ever happened:

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I really loves Darizzie and I thought Lizzie would look great in a Pin-up style so I drew this, the worst part to draw was the background jsksj.

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The Evil Queen finds out that the Charming’s also don’t approve and just instantly starts being the most supportive parent of this relationship (or trying to, the Good King is actually winning by virtue of being sincere, but her husband won’t live forever).

Dexter mentions once that the Evil Queen at least has the courtesy to pretend to like him while his parents are probably having backroom meeting’s with Grimm trying to orchestrate his and Raven’s breakup.

Immediately, King and Queen Charming are like well we can’t let that stand. “You’re right Dexter, we haven’t been at all proper with this. We’re sorry. Say how does Raven feel about taking more Princess courses? You know instead of the evil ones because she doesn’t want to be evil. I’m sure we can help with that.”

Thus begins the pettiest feud, that actually works as a form of enrichment for the Evil Queen who is spending so much of her time planning ways to one up the Charming’s from her mirror prison cell that when some of her followers find her she asks them to help her support Raven instead of break her out again. She’s definitely not planning to take over the world at any rate.

broke: focusing on the temper tantrum the charmings would have if they found out dexter was dating raven

woke: focusing on the absolute fury and chaos that would reign if the evil queen found out her daughter was dating a charming

#raven queen #evil queen #dexter charming #ever after high #eah #king and queen charming

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One of my favourite (if not my most favourite) Dexven dynamic is a scenario where it’s early enough that pretty much everyone is still running screaming from Raven at the beginning, but Dexter—who has been raised with his mother teaching him that screamkng from a princess is not how you treat a princess and his father telling him that if doing something scares him he should do it scared—practically forces himself to stay put.

The resulting conversation seems to be going quite well—whether Dexter knows he’s attracted to Raven or not at this point isn’t quite as important as the fact Dexter has absolutely no idea how to actually end the conversation they’re having. Also neither does Raven.

Which, of course, leads to Dexter panicking and asking Raven on a date.

She says yes. Maybe she’s also panicking. Whatever these two are officially accidentally going on a date.

Now, as someone who is not a big fan of asshole-parent’s in stories thought up to make me happy, King and Queen Charming’s general reaction will be how? followed swiftly by we don’t really approve but this family has a reputation to maintain Dexter you can’t break her heart and when she breaks up with you it better be for something mundane and not newsworthy.

Dexter, attempting to both please his parents and plan a good date, decides to take Raven to the theatre to see a musical—not a romance, he assures his parents.

The musical is Wicked.

Some time later behind closed doors, Headmaster Grimm will be trying to convince King Charming to intervene. “We tried before the first date,” King Charming says, “he’s just too Charming.” A pause. “He gets that from me you know.”

#ever after high #eah #dexter charming #raven queen #dexven #dexter charming x raven queen