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EAH rewrite intro

sooo, I've been thinking about how the world of ever after is really messed up so instead of, I dunno, sitting here and enjoying my tea and a show that's about 12 year old, I'm trying to rewrite parts of it (at least parts of the worldbuilding)

PART 1

Gather round and let us tell you a tale of the world of Ever After and our part in the paths of our beloved characters.

Long before EAH was established, two great magic wielders called the brother Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, saw a glimpse into our world aka the readers world (see book 3 Shannon hale ch. 24) the brothers thought we were gods so tried to make a connection to us. through trial and error they made the storybook of legends but it wasn't what they wanted. it told them past present and future and every reality in between. discouraged they gave up and made a school to help kids control their magic abilities. but it wouldn't stay that way.

PART 2

while the school was being built Jacob got married and had kids. the older brother, Giles, was more quiet and reserved compared to his younger brother Milton. they grew up going to the school and apprenticing under their uncle and dad. they knew about the Book but were told that they couldn't see it till they were older, but Milton being the curious and energetic 16yo he was sneaked a peak aaaand instantly regretted it. it showed him very horrible reality with wars death and famine. there were good ones but the bad ones had a hold on him and he was determined to find a way to stop it.

"my great plan to stop bad things

get all the trust from dad and uncle so the give the school to me

find a spell to pull people towards a safe reality

wait till dad and uncle cant stop me

implement

live happily ever after"

PART 3

it went exactly according to plan except step 4. he found and edited a spell that was like a subtle mind control that got more extreme over time, but when he cast it, the spell wasn't strong enough. where the pull should have been like a heavy chain on a chihuahua it was more like a piece of yarn on a Doberman. Milton only knew one person who could cast the spell. Giles. he had been traveling around learning all sorts of magic. Milton sent him a message asking for help casting a protection spell and Giles, happy to hear from his brother who hadn't been responding to his letters, readily agreed. he got there and Milton and him cast the spell. Milton claimed that part of the spell they had to sign the book. unbeknownst to Giles, Milton didn't actually sign it. Giles was now tied to the book. Milton practically shoved him out the door so Giles left and ever after high started with its first year of students.

ps. the rest will be on my other blog specifically for EAH

wondergang posting 🔥🔥

I gave Bunny and Alistair a little redesign 🐱 don't really like the originals :P

🩷Madeline Hatter🍵 "Madden up, people!"

So I was cleaning my mother's house and I found my old Ever After High coloring book?? This one is unfinished and I'm pretty sure I got some of her color palette wrong because I didn't have Internet access back then to search for reference lol

Ever After High Headcanon

Alistair Wonderland is the only member of Chess. The Wonderlandrians decide to join the chess club for their friend.

The most effective thing about Ever After High is that every student has their own personal struggle that adds another element to just how life-ruining the destiny system is.

Apple is so terrified of what will happen to her if she doesn’t follow her destiny, that she is willing to compromise everyone else’s happiness to make sure it happens. This disregard for other people is only encouraged by the influential adults in her life.

Ashlynn has to be a servant to an abusive family and live knowing that the ultimate end to her supposedly happy ending is dying to set the stage for her daughters traumatic backstory, starting the whole cycle over again with no chance for any of them to escape.

Blondie feels so pressured to fit in to a deeply classist/monarchist society and ashamed of her parentage that she constantly presents a fake version of herself to everyone she knows, even her best friends.

Briar has to spend her whole life waiting for the moment her destiny comes and she falls asleep for a century. She knows that when she’s woken up, she will be forced to marry a boy dozens of years younger than her who she’s never met and live knowing that everyone she ever loved is dead and gone, the very things that she watched cause her mother’s emotional breakdown.

Cedar’s father was so afraid of watching her repeat his mistakes that he overcorrected, making it impossible for her to ever learn lessons for herself. She is also forced to share incredibly personal details with anyone who asks her questions, and can’t be trusted by her friends with any of their secrets, and it’s all because of her father’s past trauma.

Cerise has to hide who she truly is and never gets to see her family together and happy despite the fact that her parents have potentially the most healthy and mutually beneficial marriage in the whole franchise.

Daring was groomed from birth for a destiny that ends up not actually being his at all, leaving him aimless, feeling as though he has no purpose and has wasted his entire life.

Darling is forbidden by patriarchy and destiny to become a knight, the only thing she really wants, and at which she would be better than both of her brothers. She has to hide who she is and what she loves from everyone she knows

Dexter lived his whole life never knowing what his destiny would be but also knowing that whatever it was he’d have to commit to it forever the moment he discovered it at Legacy Day.

Duchess has spent her whole life knowing that the story she’s commited to living out ends in tragedy for her, and then had to watch the very people she’s been jealous of for years because of their seemingly happy endings give up those endings, while Duchess, loyal and rule following Duchess, is still stuck with her tragedy.

Faybelle tries so hard to commit to what she sees at her destiny that she’s never had a real friend in her life. Even still, no one recognizes her for all that effort and all she’s given up to be a suitable villain. Everyone is more afraid of Raven, who doesn’t even want to be evil.

Hunter has to constantly go against his moral compass to fulfill his destined role as a Huntsman and to try and make his father proud of him.

Kitty has been taught over and over again to value her Mother’s approval over all else, even at the expense of her friends. Her destiny is to create mischief, but how much more mischief can a dissolving world take before it’s too much?

Lizzie finds it almost impossible to express love or care for anyone else due to her mothers excessive conditioning that’s nearly akin to brainwashing. The saddest thing might be that her mother is actually, in her own way, trying her best to prepare Lizzie for a world that will only ever see her one way—as a villain. Now she lives in Ever After, princess to a kingdom that might not even exist for much longer, having given up everything for a destiny that may soon be impossible.

Maddie is a refugee forced from her home into a world she barely understands at a tender age. But she cannot express any angst or negative feelings about this circumstance, because to do so would go against her character. She lives in a world obsessed with destiny and stories while not even knowing if she’ll ever be able to return home and live out her story.

Raven is judged by almost everyone around her for her mothers crimes, many of which were required of her by destiny in the first place. She is nearly forced to commit to becoming a tyrannical megalomaniac (and almost falls into it herself, several times) who would be sentenced to lifelong punishment and torture for committing acts that weren’t even her idea in the first place, and the one punishing her would have been the very girl who begged so often for her to stop being so difficult and just follow her destiny.