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Epilogue

~The Charming Siblings Saga~

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read the previous comic —> here

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return to the beginning —> here

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Ever After High: Fairy Queendom Quest

Coming whenever I feel like it….

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Charming Siblings Saga EXTRA

Read the latest and final installment HERE.

first of all, thanks a ton to everyone who kept up with this miniseries and showed their support! my favorite part of making it was getting to share it and see people react to the parts i was excited about.

i have more to say, but first, here are the initial designs i made for the adult characters + their kids and the car. (note: i made these in the same week i released the penultimate comic, but didn’t get to work on the epilogue itself until this past month, so the integrity of the artwork may not be on par with the actual comic.)

anywho, below the cut, i’m gonna share some background regarding how i created this series, to any who may care.

originally it started because i felt like drawing daring reaching out to his siblings. i just kind of wanted to do that, no intention of creating a narrative based on that. but then, i got this idea for another comic, one that would explore his breakup with lizzie from his perspective. so i did that. but THEN i was driving to work and got this awesome idea to flashback to daring’s childhood and use that as a character study, and then i thought, “well what if i explored all three of the charming kids and showcased snapshots of their childhoods from different perspectives and had it all culminate in a confrontation between the three of them wherein they finally work out their differences while using imagery of them as kids to illustrate each of their mentalities emotionally? and then at the end have a time skip to daring as a father with his own kids to parallel his own flashback to being a child and then call back to the first comic with him reaching out only this time dexter and darling are facing him and-” and yeah by that point there was no stopping me from seeing this through to the end because the idea just sounded too good to me.

of course, it’s been over a year since then, and looking back at even the more recent comics compared to the last one + my other artwork from present day shows an uptick in quality that almost urges me to remaster everything and polish its rougher edges. but if i did that i would be taking away valuable time i could be using pursuing my career. which allows me to segway into the next thing…

maybe you already knew this, but if you didn’t, my goal in life is to make comics professionally. specifically, i aspire to be both the writer and illustrator of my own original comics, and this was my first semi-realized endeavor of that kind. so the experience of making this was really important to me.

i know there were long hiatuses as a result of my life interfering, but i sincerely thank all those who were patient and waited despite the circumstances. it does mean a lot. i was always excited to open tumblr to go through my notifs and read all the comments and tags that people would leave. seeing other people interact with your art is an experience that has a profound impact on you. or me, at least.

i don’t expect many people to take the time to read this. you’re probably just here for the content of the franchise that we’re mutually interested in, not for whatever this is. but if you do read this, thank you. and thanks for all of your support. i’ve got more stuff coming, so don’t think i’m done.

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Husband of Snow White, Father of Apple White… Heroic “Hero” Charming

adult design:

teen design:

everyone who knows him personally calls him “Hero” but it’s pronounced like the word arrow. do you feel me.

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UPDATE:

☆ The Charming Siblings Saga: Chapter 4, Part 2 coming soon! ☆

More info. below the cut. ⓘ

the penultimate issue of ‘The Charming Siblings Saga’ is in the final stage of completion. i just need to finish editing every page together, adding backgrounds to certain panels, and then inserting the speech bubbles and all instances of type in the comic. then it will be ready to post.

i want to thank everyone for your interaction with my work and engaging with it as you have. your continued support helps boost my morale and encourages me to continue creating content portraying my vision of ever after high. so thank you for showing your love for both my work and this franchise.

i am very excited for you all to see the conclusion of this miniseries and hope you will enjoy it and whatever else i create in the future. stay tuned!

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So, now that "The Charming Saga" has come to an end, what do you plan for future projects? I'm hoping you will expand upon your EAH Au because it's seriously so good.

Also, it might be only me, but I would love to see your version of Darling's confession to Apple about the whole Prince Charming fiasco.

But, as for now, enjoy your break. You deserve it! ❤️

Merry X-mas and happy New Year! 🎄🎉

hi, thank you for the kind words.

for starters, i don’t necessarily consider my content an AU but rather my own continuation of the canon universe seen in the television series and webisodes. but i do want to continue making content for it, yes.

in regards to that, it’s definitely something that would be bound to happen down the line, but it’s an important moment i don’t want to depict just yet.

still, expect that there is more to come. i’m currently working on a visualizer for Fairy Queendom Quest.

thank you so much for the ask!

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i’m gonna be so real with you guys, i get so much whiplash seeing ever after high content be it from here or elsewhere because in my head i’m already thinking about stuff five story arcs away and then i see edits about apple and destiny and i’m like “you have no idea what she’s in for. you have zero clue.”

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yapping about Briar. fellow Briar enjoyers assemble.

okay okay i don’t make it too obvious (or maybe i do, i wouldn’t know) but briar is my personal favorite character. i think about where the stories of all the characters would go and what their arcs would be a lot, but hers in particular is really important to me.

so i wanna talk about it.

first of all, she’s narcoleptic coded, right. we all know that. but her mom on the other hand reads to me, like, an alcoholic mother? and her dad is just willfully ignorant. either way, there’s a huge sense of neglect going on in that family. i mean go figure why briar would be the one doing most of the work raising her brothers. and of course she’s a party girl, because who’s gonna stop her? her parents? see yeah exactly.

so i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say she doesn’t have very strong parental figures in her life, at least not at home. but, and now you have to really hear me out about this one, i think baba yaga could take up a parental role in her life.

i know it isn’t much, but the seeds for her having at least a hint of a connection with baba yaga are there.

in the webisode “Stark Raven Mad”, baba yaga scolds briar for rambling about her party, and then as the commotion picks up she’s still exercising authority over briar in particular.

then there’s thronecoming, wherein, when briar is sulking at the dance, upon noticing the picture on the projector, she asks baba yaga for answers, who provides them.

and then skipping all the way to epic winter, after the girls become a little creeped out by her mannerisms and book it, briar is the one who makes sure to peak back in and give a parting remark.

so i think there’s potential there to be explored. her feeling neglected at home and then finding solace in another adult at school would be neat.

but the fact that it’s baba yaga is important, so just put a pin in that and we’ll circle back to it.

now, i think out of the core four, she was (at least at first) the hardest to actually pin-point what the future of her story could look like. with raven, i think it’s pretty clear her journey is just continuing to combat the prejudices of the world as she fights for change, apple is now pretty much on a path to figuring out her own future as ruler of a kingdom and what that’s going to entail, and maddie is the goofball that’s there to have fun and be supportive along the way.

then there’s briar. and, let me be clear, no, in my mind that girl is not sleeping for 100 years with where things are heading; in the main universe of the story, briar will be free of the sleeping beauty destiny.

but it’s like, if she’s not gonna sleep, what more is there to actually do with her? what direction COULD her life go in? because if she’s no longer fated to sleep 100 years of her life away, then she can’t just party like there’s no tomorrow anymore. she’d need to decide what she actually wants to do with her life.

and i think i have an idea.

i mentioned her narcoleptic coding at the start with intent to bring it up again. see, you might notice that a lot of the fairytale aspects of ever after high can be read as allegories for real-world problems. for example, hunter and ashlynn’s relationship is treated in their world the same way society may look at queer couples or biracial couples. or how raven’s mom being trapped in a mirror is their world equivalent to not paying child support.

with that kind of correlation in mind, i think treating briar’s curse as a condition could open up an interesting opportunity. i think, in their world, curses as a whole could be viewed as a separate branch of medical specialization, with briar spearheading this notion of thought.

we know briar is well-versed in chemythstry already. in the webisode “Briar’s Study Party” she makes note of the fact that she’s been studying forever-after, and she demonstrates enough knowledge in the subject to enthusiastically teach it to her friends, who all end up acing their tests on it as a result.

i think this is something she could potentially make a career out of. i think she could come to the conclusion that she wants to be able to help break curses for people everywhere, and could pursue learning to develop potions and elixirs to do so.

which could happen under baba yaga’s tutelage.

picture this: briar declares her newfound goal, to which baba yaga offers to teach briar all she knows in order to achieve what she’s set her sights on. briar—with an ounce of hesitance—accepts, and baba yaga officially takes her under her wing with the intent of mastering sorcery.

obviously, she wouldn’t lose who she is in this. she’s still gonna be an impulsive, adrenaline junkie who desperately needs a screentime limit on her mirrorphone. but in this process, she’d be rounded out by baba yaga and would in turn mature a bit from the experience. she’d get serious about life, but she wouldn’t let go of who she is at heart.

this could lead to her becoming the resourceful one in the main group. like on adventures, she’d be able to pull out a potion or whip something up (because i’m not going to let raven’s magic make her too o.p. she’s gotta have limitations) as a solution to problems. she could really have a role that proves useful and important to the story.

that’s my ideal pitch for where to take briar’s character.