Iām having Ramona Badwolf thoughts and Iād like it to stop please.
She does Super weird shit to Ceriseās themes and worse they donāt even develop hers because the brand was being murdered at the time. ā¦We didnāt even get a Doll :(
Ok, so like, Originally, Cerise is supposed to be both. Thatās the point. Sheās the daughter of Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. No matter how hard she tries, she canāt perfectly fill both roles, nor can she completely ignore either. Cerise, as the only child of both Protagonist and Antagonist, canāt possibly menace herself. She will be living proof of whatever conclusion the universe comes to on Destiny. If thereās a sibling, well, that actually solves more of her problems than it creates. Being forced to hurt someone you love for the story is pretty par for the course in Ever After.
Thereās a really interesting concept in Only Child Cerise in being both, and in having to pick one to be to the world, the ābetterā one, for her safety, for her own good. In the metaphor for a biracial child, in Passing. In the consequences for families in interracial relationships before Loving vs Virginia.
Professor Badwolf is presented as a loving father who is as present as is possible. Who is trying his hardest to be there for a family that will be punished for their association with him. His absence and distance from Ceriseās public life is both protection and a sacrifice. One he undertakes voluntarily. It would be a bit different, for Ramona, as a child, to be forced into this dynamic, a kid that they sent off to another school, away from even her Father, to be trained as a villain, to be considered a Danger to her Sister.
Those themes actually get a little dire in a situation where one child is chosen to go on the opposite side of that fence. In the unfortunate consequences of the retcon introduction of Ramona meaning she is excluded from those scenes of the Badwolf-Hoods even in private, as a perfect family. In what it means about the biases and cruelties and priorities of those parents that isnāt called into question if they only have One Child theyāre trying to give the best life possible. Even if it means enforcing something that hurts her.
Still, Ramona isnāt pointless, even or especially in the context of other siblings in Ever After High, like the Charmings, and the OāHairs.
I just think Cerise and Ramona could very easily have a pretty fucked sibling relationship. You know, given that theyāre basically identical and one of them got designated the Bad Child and the other got oppressively policed in her every action to hide the similarities. Each resenting the other for living the half of their life theyāve been denied.
I think about how itās the Parents that pick what fairytale their child follows a lot. I think about how age affects favor and how ādestinyā is directed by what the more important fairytale is. The uncertainty about what story specifically a child will follow, and those assumptions made by adults treated as fact, shaping the way that those children are treated, how theyāll grow up.
Poppy and Holly are twins but only one gets the destiny, and only one wants the destiny, and only one is technically allowed to pursue it.
Daring was always supposed to be Appleās Prince, but he isnāt. Darling was never supposed to be anything but a damsel, but she is. Dexter is arguably both free and neglected, as a Prince without a set story. That uncertainty affecting him socially and within his family as he is a Royal facing a similar uncertainty as to his future as all the Rebels.
Raven in the books having a little brother. One thatās Good.
Ramona was born first, a year earlier, and sheād been, from the beginning, her fatherās daughter. Something she didnāt understand until later. She was still small and wobbling and overwhelmed my loud noises and bad smells when she met her sister for the first time. It was a secret. It was the most foundational lesson of her childhood. The one thing that made everything else happen. Her almost twin that looked like her and had to hide her twitchy sensitive ears. Who squirmed in her arms and wasnāt allowed to hunt the same way that she wasnāt allowed to go to the cottage. Warmth and brightness and good smells and other things she wasnāt supposed to have. Her Fatherās daughter and no one ever asked who elseās. Sheās alone and alone and alone, off at a different school and away learning different things and getting hard and sharp and rebellious and a little mean because sheās never been the one in the soft warm cottage that bakes with her pack. With the same fangs as her sister and a rattle in her throat that was never allowed to be anything but a growl.
Ramona having to be the Big Bad Wolf, always, from the beginning. Because Red is a village girl. Thereās a lot of those.
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