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Headcanon/AU shit I’ve pulled out my arse for Ever After High:
For a while I’ve been thinking of what could future plot points for Ever After High be and how it would be handled, and I think I’ve come up with one. Frankly heavily inspired by both @pontipines and @nothirtysix with their visions of the main cast Charming family. Nothirtysix’s rendition of the Charmings all having the blue hair streaks but the boys covering theirs up bc it’s a known that it’s majority women that have them.
I’m connecting this to the fact that the Blue Fairy of the last few generations of the Pinocchio story is retired after she made Cedar come to life, retired and VERY comfortable with herself. Cedar’s story isn’t even ‘done’ yet and Blue is living the life without a worry already.
The idea is, the Charming siblings were all born gravely ill and weak, whether they were actually triplets or Irish triplets I’ve yet to decide, but their parents needed them saved, needed them alive. (I imagine Charming inheritance is hinged upon creating children, maybe more inheritance if you connect your children to well known destinies). But they’re all so frail and both times it’s certain they won’t make it past a few months. In comes the Blue Fairy and a deal.
The deal is their children will live healthy and long lives, and back then when not following a destiny is out of the question, that would’ve been somewhere in the fine print as well. (Of course, how frantic they would’ve been, specifics of WHICH destinies was not spoken of. Perhaps being asked to ensure they’d marry royalty would be the move, which, you know, will work out for all of them.)
As a result all three will have the blue streaked hair, something no other Charming’s in either of their lines have. Perhaps their mother takes to dyeing a few pieces to try and create a line of proof. This further explains their strange abilities. Daring’s smile being blinding, Darling slowing down time perception, and Dexter having a faint inducing gaze when his eyes aren’t obscured. They’re magical, truly, because they’re being kept alive by a spell. A spell so big that the payout from the Charming’s was so large that the Blue Fairy could announce her retirement and be left alone for a very, very long time.
Now, to connect to Pontipines’ idea, of Blondie actually being the Charming’s half sister via an affair. She came out healthy, ‘just right’ if you will, and I imagine it was actually the stress and anger in Queen Charming’s discovery of an affair child that led to less than ideal conditions during pregnancy, added on to possible predisposed genetic issues after several generations of closed off royal families. Perhaps even a persisting curse. Or perhaps the amorphous living being of Destiny acting out against being controlled by trying to prune a branch of the Charming’s that infest it so.
Now, the the actual plot idea: the Charming triplet’s are being sustained by a spell that is directly connected to Destiny bc their Destiny to die as infants was course corrected (is also why the Charming’s got pregnant again after Daring so quickly, they thought he was going to die), so their lives are dependent on a system that in their teen years is completely overhauled, so whilst they’re still alive, the ties that they depend on are being shaken and are frankly left vulnerable, unbeknownst to them.
The idea goes something happens with the Blue Fairy’s previously cast spells, they’re left on a type of standby while Destiny stretches its limbs and reconfigures what it’s going to do now that it’s been set free. The Charming’s and co are in let’s say their third year, things have been progressing and change has ruffled many feathers so the Charming kids aren’t talking to their parents right now, there’s a warning from the retired Blue Fairy that she’s had to come back to monitor things and sends out a warning that all her spells she’s cast will lower in power so she can untangle some stuff with little kickback. Everyone prepares to not see Cedar for a while, like a short coma. None of them expect the Charming’s to not being waking up the morning after they give Cedar a big slumber party.
It’s either this or there’s exposure to something that negates the Blue Fairy’s magic but then that’s a reveal via the Charming’s dropping as if they’re dead in front of everyone. Pick your poison.
Ensues is a panic at a sudden reveal through them being in the same state as Cedar that their lives are dependent on magic, and when the Charming’s phones are turned on there’s the realisation that them not talking to their parents meant they didn’t get the badly worded warnings and pleas to come home so the secret won’t be revealed, because none of them were aware their own lives would be held in such a precarious balance.
This is meant to act as a showing of consequence of dismantling the Destiny system as it has been for hundreds of years, so many spells and deals were tied to it that when there’s an eventual confrontation with the Blue Fairy’s for basically blue screening their friends, who are also LIVING HUMANS and not made out of wood, they can’t just be kept in a coma for weeks without medical assistance. Plus the learning that she has to do this now or else so many of the spells would’ve imploded on themselves down the line. Blondie being the investigative journalist she is is in the main group this time, I don’t know just yet how it would all work but perhaps her being their blood sister and not dependent on completing her destiny to live (at least in the same way), will have something to do with the Blue Fairy being able to wake them up earlier by fixing their spell problem sooner bc she’s a direct blood relative.
Any input or further ideas are welcome! This is pretty bare bones lol
I'm ride or die Charming triplets and that it and everything about them is a family secret. On top of that Blondie secret half sister and that they're being held together with risky magic like they're a kid's craft put haphazardly together with glue and string?? That's some good shit. I think legitimately one of my favorite things about them is that none of them have a concrete destiny to start off with. Daring was clearly never Apple's prince, Dexter's is never brought up, and Darling's was pulled out at random so she could go to Ever After High because her parents wanted her to. The Charming parents strike me as very overbearing and controlling and if they get something out of making Daring the oldest sibling, and not a triplet, then they will!
Additional thought: I love the idea that the moment Raven severs destiny that everyone whose lives were tied dangerously to destiny just drop. End of Way Too Wonderland if we consider it that? Party abruptly ends because a dozen teens just fall flat on their faces.
There's also a really nice nuance that comes from this. Was keeping destiny a good thing all along? Were the bad things worth it because it kept people alive? Or is it better it's stopped now so these issues can be fixed and never happen again? Questions that can't be answered until the effected are able to be awoken again. Something, once again, to plague Raven's conscious.
This also sets up a really solid POV switch! If Blondie finds out she's a half sister to the Charmings, switching focus to her feels natural. It gives Raven a chance to step aside and deal with how she feels after putting her boyfriend in a coma. She's too out of it to be the main character! idk what Blondie's up to but her figuring it out and being the one to fix it feels like a really good journey for her to take in understanding how to use her skills with journalism for good instead of as a teen rumor mill. Full noir detective except it's in pastels lol. No one's paying attention to her? She's able to really get some good snooping in. Like. No one but her and the parents involved know, she dug some papers out of a closet type shit. Hiding in plain sight has the adults can't do shit and she connects the dots.
That's all the thoughts I got for now! I love scrambling these kids around, there's so much potential!
I haven't been drawing a lot for a myriad of reasons but one of those reasons has been Tomodachi Life (to absolutely no one's surprise)
Tommy Coolatta has fallen in love with my sona (after falling in love with like 5 other guys lmaoooo) and they will be wed as soon as he gets the guts to ask her out (he will be interupted. his heart might even get broken again). This game fuckin rocks dude
they're so stupid i love them. she will kill him in his sleep and he would like it
I was struggling to figure out how I wanted to draw the dudes so I spent way too long drawing them all. I then sat on the files for another way too long because there were too many of them lol indiviual drawings under the cut!!!!!!!!!
I was struggling to figure out how I wanted to draw the dudes so I spent way too long drawing them all. I then sat on the files for another way too long because there were too many of them lol indiviual drawings under the cut!!!!!!!!!
if you’re reading this, i’m putting a thought out into the world for you. a hope that whatever’s worrying you works out in your favor, that a happy moment comes your way, and that you have a heartwarming reason to smile tonight
*nodding and taking notes* she tries to boss him around like she did in Wonderland but he doesn't have to take her shit, tries to avoid her as much as possible but she's Always there. Hanging out with Alistair? She's there asking for a coffee. Getting to know some of the Ever After kids? Pops in demanding he do her essay. Practicing sword stuff with the Charmings? She wants him to idk peel a fruit with the thing. Comes to a head in the hallways between classes and he blows up in her face. I don't like Courtly so it's a lesson in not being miserable and Chase gets to stand up for himself for once. I think not being in Wonderland would be good for him. Courtly can get sent to the reform school lmao