Another “What if Marinette was the daughter of ...” AU ft. Dr. Harleen Quinzel aka Harley Quinn.
So Harleen had a one night stand, it wasn’t exactly her thing but it happened and now she was expecting a little bundle of joy.
Does she go look for the father?
No because She’s a Smart Independent Woman who got her Doctorate and doesn’t need a man.
Thus her little sunshine Marie Margaret Quinzel ( named after Mary Ainsworth, a pioneer in childhood attachments , and Margaret Floy Washburn, first woman to get her Ph.D in Psychology) was born.
Harleen made sure to spend time with her daughter and ensure she knew she was safe and protected, she’d seen enough patients with abandonment issues on the job.
She wanted the best for her little sunshine and when the offer came to work for Arkham Asylum with the big raise in her salary and hours she could get off work she agreed.
Sometimes she regrets ever making the decision .
Marie grows up learning to analyze people just like her mama. Harleen knew that she had always been an abnormal child, apathetic and borderline obsessed with learning the small things about people in some ways, it was the reason she was interested in psychology in the first place, but she knew it would prove useful for her daughter in the future.
Then she met him .
The thing that destroyed her mama and one of the few people Marie loathed.
Mr.J
Harleen hadn’t told people about Marie, she knew the people she worked with (both patients and co workers) weren’t exactly the most reliable or stable. She hasn’t even mentioned a thing to him.
She had felt it coming, her falling for Joker and tried stopping herself butbwas infatuated.
She wanted to learn everything about him.
But that made him dangerous.
Harleen wasn’t sure what to do but she decided it would be best to send her baby away with her cousin in Paris, Tom Dupain, who she’d attended the wedding of a few months after Marie was born.
Harleen hadn’t realized it but it was probably the best thing she could have done for her daughter.
Harley did her best to keep contact with her daughter but with all the insanity and her need to please her Puddin’, she suppressed her memories of Dr. Harleen Quinzel and fully immersed herself into the role of his Harlequin doll to the point she forgot she ever had a daughter in the first place.
It wasn’t until Mari sent Her a birthday present that she triggered her memories and completely broke down.
How could she forget her own daughter?
Harley , with the support and love of Ivy and Selena, begins to turn a new leaf. She stops escaping Arkham, she stops working with other villains, she stops working for Joker.
It brings concern to the Arkham workers, who end up informing the Big Bad Bat, but there are other inmates, those with children, to have knowing smiles as they look at the work Harley puts in to becoming a better person.
Batman suspects something of her or that’s its a trap by Joker until she confesses that she’s not changing for himself but because she’s trying to be a better person for someone special in she wants back in her life .
Marie misses her mother dearly; she even started doing her hair like her mom’s for this reason. She began to question her aunt and uncle, the kind Dupain-Chengs who treated her like their own daughter and as an equal to Bridgette (She’s even registered as Dupain-Cheng in the school system because of the system’s fault but neither she nor her uncle and aunt found it necessary to go through all the work to change it since it had been years by the time they realize), what happened to her mama once she turned ten. They would change the topic whenever she did but eventually a year later they told her of the things her mama had done; the person she was forced to become by the hands of a monster.
Marie never blamed her mama, she was well aware of her mama’s struggles as a child.
She blamed Joker and wanted nothing more than to see him locked up in the pits of Tartarus.
When Marie turned twelve she was surprised when she came back from school; In the living room was Her Mama along with two women she recognized as Poison Ivy and Catwoman.
Harley expected yelling and screaming from her little sunshine, she deserved it after abandoning her, but was reduced to tears as the girl before her just gave her a bone crushing hug.
Since then Harley either visits Marie or Marie visits her in Gotham
(She and Tom were both in agreement that they prefer Paris visits over Gotham but Marie deserved to know her roots and would be protected by Rogues but Harley questioned if it would be enough against Joker)
At fourteen Marie Margaret Quinzel became Ladybug, protector of Paris. She definitely did not tell her parents, not her two moms or her psudo-parents, because she didn’t want to stress them further.
She also starts her first year of high school by American standards or 3ème in France, and is just overwhelmed by the different personalities and issues these kids have;
Looks at Chloe: “You’ve got mommy and abandonment issues as well as a low-self esteem”
Suffice to say Chloe doesn’t bother Marie anymore or tries to make herself small around her. After talking one afternoon she gets Chloe to open up and thus her road to recovery is a go.
Its worse when she meets Adrien and immediately wants to remove him from his home and just wants to wrap him in a blanket burrito. She recognizes the signs of isolation, his child-like view of the world with his naive sense of what friends and school should be like, his abandonment issues as well as inferiority complex.
She basically becomes the class therapist and they love her for it. Marie still wants to be a designer though.
At fifteen Marie Margaret Quinzel was visiting her mother in Gotham, with Kaalki and Tikki at her side of course, and was taking inspiration on the Gotham rooftops when she met a boy.
Definitely older than her but she could feel the waves of anger rolling off of him, she could feel the corrupted magic damaging and controlling his soul.
That was the night she met Jason Peter Todd.
The two start talking and Marinette hears his story, he wasn’t gone enough to attempting to kill children, and when he was done all she said was
“You look like you need a hug”
She decides that he needs help, unless they want a blood thirsty criminal on the lose not that Gotham lacks any, and takes him home.
The Sirens did not expect to see Robin come in through the window along with Marie.
Everyone knew Joker killed Boy Wonder II
They definitely did not expect him to try and kill Harley because of the Madness, his mind wanting revenge on the Joker.
He took out a gun and aimed straight to Harley’s heart, part of him wanted it to be a swift death, but was snapped out of it when Marie jumped in front of her mama and started talking him out of it.
Jason would not kill a child.
Marie is offended since he’s only like two-three years older but her short height and pigtail do not help.
Thus begins Jason Todd’s road to recovery from Pit Madness with the help of the Sirens and Marie, who also learns how to remove any residue magic with the help of Tikki.
Bonus:
When Marie meets Lila: “Oh you’re just a pathological liar with a superiority complex and an Overall Bitch”
Marinette Dupain-Cheng was sitting in her room, sketching out a new design for Penny’s wedding dress. She’d been honored when Jagged and Penny had asked her for a commission, Marinette had wanted to give it as a wedding present but they refused so she’d just need to think of something else.
As she sketched she realized that someone was calling her, she looked at her clock and at her sleeping kwami; 11 p.m. Who would be calling her at this time?
She looked and saw the contact on screen: Bird Boy
If she was correct it was five in the afternoon back in Gotham, if that was where he was.
“Hello𑁋?”
“Mari you have to save him!”
To say she was startled was an understatement.
They met a little over three years ago when the whole splitting of worlds took place as Ladybug and Robin. They had changed but remained close friends and even knew each other under the mask. At seventeen he was now Nightwing while she remained as an older Ladybug.
“Please Mari! We’re not gonna make it”
“Dick? What’s wrong, you’re not making any sense!”
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?”
