I know you haven’t done anything Ever After related in a while but: How do the other students feel about Briar trying to make Apple realize she was at fault?
Hi! I haven't and I am so glad to answer this! XD
The other students do understand where Briar is coming from, because I mean, that is her best friend forever after! Of course she would try to get Apple to see everything was her fault. But when it starts to take a toll on Briar, on her mental and physical health, is when they step in and put a stop to it. They all care for Briar so too see her slowly destroying herself trying to get Apple to see reason hurt them. Many are very protective of her after she stops trying and they won't let Apple anywhere near her. Especially Faybelle.
It kills Briar that her bffa won't listen to reason and calls her selfish and is just overall horrible. More so she feels guilty for not seeing it earlier. But she eventually realizes it's not healthy to keep trying to she cuts Apple put of her life and actually she and Raven become close!
But ever since Briar stopped trying, Apple got this urgency to make her see that Apple is the victim and she tries to get her to see her side of things a lot. This is why many students become protective of Briar.
Like....why the fuck are they producing and selling mirrors that talk back?
Apple legit has one to ask who's fairest....
Like bitches the only one who has a right to own a magic mirror is The Evil Queen for her tale. Idk why yall be making a mirror that anyone can fucking ask who's fairest.
Like...also why is she asking who's fairest? At the moment it's Raven. Until they graduate, until you and Raven start your tale, the mirror should say "Raven Queen is the fairest."
Not say Apple.
Like...what the fuck???
Also I hdc that the mirror is passed down by generations.
Yeah so I’d like to blame certain parties such as @ladyanput @virgil-is-a-cutie For getting me back into Ever After High Hell.
Summary: Raven King was tired of everyone comparing her to her mother instead of seeing her for herself, its why she opted for castle schooling instead. Unfortunately it was the year of Legacy Day so she couldn’t make anymore excuses.
Besides Evil Queen wasn’t her role; her family knew she was going to be the Good King but well... the Evil Queen wasn’t available.
They didn’t know what happened to the King-Queens and preferably no one outside of their circle of trust would find out.
It was the year of Legacy Day…. Then again Legacy Day was done almost 15-20 years after one, depending on how long those fairy tales had taken to have children.
You know Raven didn’t need to think of the logistics of this already stupid thing.
She never liked the fact that everyone expected her to be just like her mother, the Evil Queen of the previous generation who’d gone rouge and nearly destroyed Wonderland, Mara Queen. People tended to forget that she disowned her mother; after everything she did to her, to the kingdom, to Wonderland, to everyone… to her family. Raven didn’t like thinking of the Evil Queen, having long since distanced herself from the stern but loving Mara Queen, as her mother, ever since Prince had been turned into a rat and Robin had….
“Would you two stop fighting?! Peas and crackers!” Maddie’s outburst had interrupted Raven’s spiral, her Wonderlandian friend just as mad as she usually was. Well her father was The Mad Hatter.
“Um, who are you talking to?”
“Why, the narrators! Oh, you can't hear them, Raven, only I can.” Of course there were narrators, Raven gave a small fond smile at her friend before sighing.
“It's just... Ah! I'm sick of everyone thinking I'm so "evil," because my mom was. It's not fair! They don’t even know the real me! They don’t even remember the fact that I was raised by the Good King” the next thing she knew her outburst of emotion caused all their things to levitate before quickly dropping. “Ah curses, not again”
“No one thinks you're evil. Hehe, now you're just talking crazy! La-la-la!”
“Daughter of the Mad Hatter calls ME crazy?”
“Would you stop with the worry-flurry? Besides, your new do is completely you! No one will tell which Tale you belong to” Raven had been worrying about the whole thing ever since she knew she’d have to enroll at Ever After High though her father had been able to pull some strings and get her excused during her first year, unfortunately Legacy Day prevented her from doing so again. As the duo walked up the stairs, Raven noticed the stares but they quickly brushed over her and focused on Maddie’s Wonderland madness.
Raven was relieved, she never met many other fairy tale characters outside of those who resided in her kingdom or family friends such as Cerise Hood, Ramona Badwolf or Hunter Huntsman. Raven hadn’t expected a visit from Madeline “Maddie” Hatter out of the blue, the girl just stating that the place was in need of a good tea party. She hadn’t left her side ever since.
Raven had long wavy ebony black hair with royal blue highlights in an upsweep, a silver circlet with a ruby in the middle framing her hair. She wore a black corset top with a sweetheart neckline, a white pencil skirt with a carmine red tail that reached her knees to it and a black leather jacket with carmine accents tying her outfit together
She didn’t fit the look people had for the daughter of the Evil Queen.
“See? They don’t even realize who you are!” Maddie cheered before a chime familiar to them both rang. “Yay, tea time! Earl Grey,” the little mouse squealed from atop of her cup hat and brought out the teapot “oh, you clever dormouse! Why, yes, this is a new dress.”
Raven just let herself get carried by the madness and took a seat next to her best friend forever after.
The first half of the first day of school had been… interesting. Her classes were pretty broad but Raven didn’t know what to think of them; Science and Sorcery, Castle Design, Grimmnastics and Muse-ic Class had been fun so far but it was tiring always being on alert to make sure no one learned of her last name.
Lunch was honestly a take of fresh air as she’d be able to hang out with her friends, Maddie, Cerise and Hunter.
Then an unexpected visitor came.
“Hey, uh Raven! Right?” Raven took a good look at the guy in front of her light skin, brown hair with a cowlick and deep rich blue eyes; though it was a shame that his glasses blocked out most of their beauty.
“Y-Yeah. You’re in my Science and Sorcery Class, right?” Raven wanted the Earth to swallow her as she found herself alone with a cute boy as she waited for her friends to finally come to the table.
”Uh-You look gort... I mean great. I-I don't even know what gort is…”
“Well, I'd offer you a seat, but we don’t exactly know each other. To sit here you'd have to be pretty—”
Suddenly screams and squeals could be heard from the castleteria entrance, mostly from the girls, and flashing lights from the center of the group.
“Daring”
“What? No, Raven, I'm Dex, Dexter Charming! Daring's my bro…” while the two had gone back to their conversation neither realized the epicenter of the screams had come to their direction until Dexter felt a familiar heavy pat to the back “ther. Oh, gort.”
“Why, Once upon a hi! I’ve never seen you around here, are you a new student?” Raven had to resist the urge of rolling her eyes, not wanting to make a bad impression, as she could only guess who was behind her.
“Yep. You’re Apple White, daughter of Snow White, and Daring Charming, son of King Charming” Raven stated though Apple and Daring seemed to flourish at the recognition.
“I-uh I have to warn you: don't stare at the teeth. Just got them whitened” oh, so that's where the lights came from.
“You are royally correct! Who might you be?” Apple preened as Raven covered her eyes from Daring’s smile.
“I’m… Raven” the expecting looks from the trio annoyed Raven but she might as well get them over with “Raven King”
“Oh my good fairy! You must be another Royal” Apple cheered until they heard coughing from behind, Raven sighing in relief as she saw her friends.
“Sorry but you’re kinda in our way” Hunter shrugged, waiting for Apple and Daring to move before Cerise rolled her eyes and pushed past them to take her seat.
“Well then I think it's time for us to go to lunch boys! Spell you later, Raven” Apple practically commanded the two Charming boys to accompany her to the Royal table, though Dexter shot Raven a shy wave.
“Well I guess that was a nice first time meeting my niece” Raven joked as they finally began eating their food.
“She sure is something alright” Cerise rolled her eyes before beginning on her large steak.
“For what is she without her people and crown? To which do not approve of Wonderland do” Maddie added along, taking out another cup from her hat.
“She used to be a lot more chill at the beginning of last year” the hooded girl explained, cleaning up from her meaty meal with a dainty napkin “But she started getting fidgety when there was no EQ in the student body. That’s when she really started firing up the whole Royals v Rebels and following your destiny thing”
“Right. So what are Royals?”
“I thought we went over this,” Hunter whispered before explaining “It's everyone who wants to sign their Destiny on the Storybook of Legends and follow their stories. We’re Rebels, the ones who’d rather find their own way in life, though we’re probably going to sign too”
Raven woke up the next day to Maddie’s breakfast tea time alarm chiming; she really wasn’t looking forward to rehearsal today.
She didn’t know her well but Apple White was certainly overbearing; Kingdom Management was practically overtaken by Apple hogging the spotlight and not letting anyone else speak. The only good thing out of it was that she was able to talk to the Charming twins; Dexter and Darling.
“So, when your magical key appears, you insert it gently into the Storybook of Legends, then stand, shoulders back, and declare your destiny to the world! Have I made myself clear?” Headmaster Grimm, descendant of the original Grimm Brothers, spoke to the student body.
“Headmaster Grimm, but what if…” Raven knew she couldn’t, wouldn’t, sign the book unless Robin was around, her decision would alter his and she couldn’t just𑁋
“No questions? Good. Now, we're going to practice with this tiny Manual of Entirely Reasonable School Rules. Who will go first?”
Raven waited nervously as each one of the students scheduled for Legacy Day passed up to the podium; Briar Beauty, Rosabella Beauty, Jillian Beanstalk, Daring, Dexter and Darling Charming, Kitty Cheshire, Hopper Croackington II, Humphrey Dumpty, Ashlynn Ella, Farrah Goodfairy, Maddie, Lizzie Hearts, Cerise, Sparrow Hood, Hunter 𑁋
“Raven… King”
Raven could feel the stare of Headmaster Grimm as she walked up to the podium.
“I'm Raven King and I pledge to follow my destiny as... um... I have a question!”
“What is it?” Raven could tell that she was getting on the Headmaster’s nerves and knew that her next question would definitely cause a ruckus but…
“I was just wondering, I mean, what if I don't want to take the pledge?”
Raven definitely had to have seen all the gasps and screams of horror coming. Grimm stomping up to her and facing her head on though was probably the more uncomfortable part.
“Here's your answer. If you don't pledge your destiny, your story ceases to exist.”
“Ceases to exist? So then... What happens to me?”
“You will cease to exist! Poof! Now, Raven, continue.” Raven could tell that the conversation was over, it reminded her of how she’d talk. She also knew that her next words would cause even more of an issue.
“I… I am Raven King, daughter of the Good King and I𑁋”
“You’re daughter of the Good King! That means- That means you’re my Evil Queen!” Apple squealed in delight, running up the steps and giving Raven the biggest hug she could. More gasps could be heard, even someone fainting, as Apple just began to ramble more and more on how hexallent it was that Raven finally revealed herself, how they’d be roomates to get to know each other and how she couldn’t wait to be poisoned and get her happily ever after just like their mothers.
“Do not compare me to that woman” Raven shook Apple off of her, she could feel her cerulean eyes glow and her hair float.
“I gotta go”
“But the rules are... The rules!”
“Destiny!”
Raven ignored all the yells and just made her way into the Enchanted Forest. She finally settled onto a log, watching on a tree as two black birds circled around their nest before one of them began to chirp at a bush underneath.
It was an injured bird. No.
It was a dead bird.
Raven couldn’t help but cry.
“The Raven flies. The clouds, they sing! The Robin sleeps, with a broken wing. The Apple falls not far from the tree. But what should happen when the tide rolls in?”
Sooooo with the posion apple au what happens after graduation do dex and raven get married? Please say yes
They do! And no one is surprised when they are announced to be the next Snow White and Prince Charming. Raven prefers to still be called Raven Queen over Snow White, but if ever there is a meeting for the big kingdoms she can't get away from the title as that is how she is to be addressed. Likewise Dexter prefers being called Dexter Queen instead of Prince Charming as Charming reminds him of his parents and also there are like a ton of Prince Charmings that meetings get really confusing really fast if any of them are called upon.
They both fight for the right to not go by your Fairytale Name, and of course the Elders and Headmaster Grimm are fighting them right back since it's "tradition." At some point they tried to compromise with Raven and say they can give her a name tied to the tale like Snow White's sister Rose Red, and tried to say they could call her Ebony Black ("skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony" - the Grimm Brothers) she's still on the fence about the name. Dexter in the meantime gets to go by King Dexter Queen and he loves it. Especially when he gets announced as King Queen. He gets a good giggle out of it.
They do have children! I forgot to add this post to the masterlist but here's a link to that --> UwU
So posion apple dexter steps it uppppp like does raven like it and like APPLE IS HER ROOMMATE LIKE WHAT HOW DOES THAT WORK
On one hand Raven does like that Dexter is more assertive and can finally see himself as a hero, one she always knew he could be. On the other hand she feels like he's maybe a touch too protective of her, but it's not just him it's all her friends and family so she can't just blame him.
The only good thing to come out of them being over protective was the roommate changes, Raven would be rooming with Cerise instead. Raven had no problem with rooming with Cerise, but a small part of her hoped she would get to room with Maddie like how they had planned at the beginning of the year, but the Charming siblings and her parents felt she would be safer with Cerise since she was a skilled fighter. So Cherise moved into Raven and Apple's room after Apple moved out was forcibly removed. Finding a new roommate for Apple though, that was the problem, no one wanted to room with her, not even the rebels. For the time being Apple is living off campus at one of her family's homes that is close by the school.
Ao apple and raven have a strained relationship now how does that change apple they were kinda bestfriends
It is 100% strained
Apple is a little unhinged because she doesn't understand that she's the one that ruined their friendship, she fully places the blame on Raven. She is in the mindset that if Raven just tried more to be evil and actually started to dislike her at least a bit to get their story on track.
Raven though is heartbroken but is getting past it, because she and Apple had worked past things, or at least she thought they did. They became friends, and then this happened and now she's not so sure she can make Apple snap out of whatever this is. Especially when she finds out Briar couldn't even do so.
