SHIP AESTHETICS (for myself) 3/??: Snow and Eva--Snow Queen
Snow Queen is the result of my persistent “WOW WHO CAN WE MAKE A VAMPIRE” back around--actually it might’ve been like exactly a year ago. Originally, it was MK and Revati going in as Snow and Aurora, but I wanted in because who am I to say no to vampires.
Eventually we crafted this beautiful mythology, spanning 400 or so years, about Eva and Snow and the lives they lead. Like the tide, they ebb and flow, but eventually they always come back to each other.
One of my favorite things about Snow Queen is how we played with the original fairy tale--Eva’s envy over Snow being the fairest in the land is because she does not want to share her. She wants to be Queen of Snow’s heart. She does not ask for the Huntsman to carve Snow’s heart out; she knows it belongs to her and her alone.
They are dark. They are twisted. Their love is at best, manipulative and dramtic. At worst, murderous. They are petty, they are overbearing. Snow wants to be adored. Eva wants no one else to adore her.
But they understand each other--they know each other’s faults and flaws, they know how to work with them. They love each other fiercely, passionately, with an intensity that has not faded after three hundred years.
Is it a healthy love? No. What’s going to happen to Snow Queen in the future? We’ll just have to wait and see, won’t we?