Personal opinion, but I think Apple's insecurity about her appearance goes beyond her just having blond hair instead of the snow white trademark ebony black hair.
While her mother had very distinct sharp facial features and frame, Apple has very rounded features and frame. Throughout her childhood, she was always a bit chubbier than most children and was gently chided by her parents.
Mind you she was not starved, (their dietician ensured that she always received the necessary nutrients for her age) but she was always discouraged from eating sweets or similarly 'unhealthy' foods.
I’m going to come out-right and say it, I don’t like the fact that the Kingdom Raven comes from/lives in is called Queen Kingdom. It makes sense, both in terms of what the in-verse society seems to value more in a character fairytale-wise (Snow White), and in terms of the Evil Queen being more important to the narrative story-wise (EAH) than the Good King. But at the same time it makes no sense.
I’m not even going to nit-pick at it being called a Kingdom when it being named after the Evil Queen implies it’s a Queendom. Queen Queendom would be a stupid name for a country, and it’s not even the only one to be called a Kingdom when the Queen is the one clearly in charge.
But I have other reasons with disliking it. Such as the outright lunacy that is having your primary sovereign be someone who signed a binding magical contract at the age of fifteen to get arrested or die before having kids. Or how the original Snow White story has the Evil Queen marrying into the family, suggesting a patrilineal succession (or at least Good King to future Good King).
So the Good King is the one left running the Kingdom after his wife is arrested and he was probably running the Kingdom before he married the Evil Queen. That makes the Kingdom Raven calls home The Good King’s Kingdom. And no. I’m not going to call it King Kingdom because that’s stupid.
I’m putting the rest under a line-break.
So we’ve established that the ruler of this Kingdom is The Good King, and now the Kingdom needs a name. Unfortunately, the same kind of lazy kingdom naming that most of the other kingdoms in the series get won’t work here. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t an in-verse naming formula that can’t be used: puns and wordplay.
Originally, I was just going to call the Kingdom Goodfellow, which is obviously the words ‘good’ and ‘fellow’ put together. But then I spelt it wrong, leading to Goodfallow, and I wondered “what is a fallow?”
Fallow can be used to refer to different things, but the two that I’m choosing to focus on here are: the breed of deer that’s called a fallow deer, and the shade of yellow. Because now the kingdom has two things, a national animal and a national colour.
Well, three things. It also has a name.
This might not seem important, especially having a national colour for a kingdom when the characters all seem to have their own colour schemes (Raven and the Evil Queen wearing purple, silvers, and blacks, and The Good King wearing red and gold the one time he’s talked about that I can recall). But having a national symbol in mind for a kingdom is useful if I ever need to describe that kingdom’s seal or the colours on their flag.
So the Kingdom’s called Goodfallow, it has a couple of national symbols that can be linked back to the name, does this mean that the other characters in any fanfiction I write using this now call it Goodfallow also?
No. Where’s the fun in that?
After all, it is still canon-typical that most of the character’s would call the kingdom Queen Kingdom. For example, in the books the reader’s first look at Apple White has her calling some of the dwarfs working for her Pouty and Sloppy when their names are actually Frank and Phil, and even laughs and calls one of them silly when they try to correct her. Because the dwarfs having names like Frank and Phil don’t fit into her own personal ideal of what her fairytale and happily ever after are going to look like, and Raven coming from a kingdom called Goodfallow rather than one called Queen Kingdom also won’t fit into what she wants the narrative to be.
Of course, Apple White isn’t the only character in Ever After High. She does, however, share the same goals and ideals as Headmaster Grimm and as the Headmaster of the school he might even have some power over the course content in the Geografairy class that appears to be a compulsory subject.
The question is now whether or not Raven tries to fight it.
On one hand, she could. She’s the senior authority at Ever After High when it comes to the name of her own country, and insisting it is called something else is going to be massively disrespectful given she’s the Princess and presumed heir. You know that her friends are going to support her, and some of the other characters that aren’t necessarily Rebels but are respectful will too. While anyone still trying to save the sinking ship will look like an asshole and a very rude one at that.
On the other hand, there could be a reason for the misunderstanding and a reason for Raven to keep everyone else ignorant. The royal family in Goodfallow might want it that way.
Think about it, the Good King married someone who, at least as far as he’s concerned, signed a magically binding contract to be evil. Whatever his motives for doing this (and I have ideas on that of my own), there would have been some kind of acknowledgement that doing so could lead to the kingdom going to war. Marrying a main character could well be an acceptable in-verse reason for changing the name of the Kingdom, and changing the name of the Kingdom could well mean the need to reprint “updated” maps.
Presumably, these maps would have up-to-date information in regard to main roads used for trade routes, or have a particular note on which towns and cities are fortified and which aren’t, or mark areas where the geography of the landscape would be marshy and therefore a poor choice of battleground.
If Raven has little reason to believe that the future Rulers of the kingdoms that neighbour hers are going to accept her as her father’s successor, which is reasonable considering the push back against Raven being good. Then she’s not going to want to give up the military advantage she has when it comes to the defense of her boarders.
Especially, not when the biggest person pushing against her is her own niece, who due to a) brief in-verse implications about the Evil Queen marrying Queen White’s father means Queen White would have a biological claim - though generally speaking marrying into another royal family means abdicating titles held in one’s own home kingdom, and b) the original Snow White story has the Good King dying before the story takes place and the Evil Queen dying at Snow’s wedding to the Prince - presumably leaving the two of them in control of that kingdom as well as the kingdom that the Prince came from if he had a claim to the throne himself.
If White Kingdom does boarder Goodfallow the political drama Apple attempting to force Raven into being Evil would hold (and given the Storybook of Legends show Raven as being homeless after being banished by Apple) is a story in itself.
"By the mysterious issues we have been having recently" the kirin King speak up tp the reunion "we must found the one causing this pain and miss fortune on our land"
"Well, why don't you do something albion? Isn't your tribe sooo clever?" The manticore prince mook the golden dragon
"Surely more that your tribe of savages" the dragon drink of the bowl as the manticore growls
"EXCUSE ME?!" He said as Lindsey just sight in desaprove the behavior of the rest while the queen tiger was laughing her lungs out
"Well, we don't exactly know what is causing all this problems" the dragon princess dimera said "does anyone has an idea?"
Alexander was about to answer but the words just stuck on his troath as yeeling between Albion and Elan just grow more and more agressive, until Queen White call them out and gently ask them to behave while the Kirins rules discuss what to do, while Zeta was laying on Lindsey chair as she remains on her cold silent, watching all the other rulers discuss.
Zeta and Alexander make Lindsey companion as Gaby was to busy and Bree on hunting duty with the griffins, the techno griffins bored out of his life as Alexander just causally make one that other question to queen white about the hardcore tribe that she was more that happy to answer for the little folk troll as the kirin queen speak
"We need someone to investigate and found the responsable of this pain" the Queen Rainshine say
"Luck on gettint someone stupid enought to do such thing" Albion say with thay superioty complex as Zeta laught "did i say something funny?.."
"You, actually did, cause here you got someone stupid enought to investigate that!" Zeta said as he stands up and Lindsey smiled "i am Zeta from the griffin tribe! Son of the music and magic" he said making some member of the concuil laught too "me and... Alexander!"
"Uh?!" The little folk said when the griffin take him by the shoulder in a hug
"We gonna investigate as we already have a theory on mind" the techno griffin said proudly as the kirin King look confuse
"Theory? What theory?" The king thunderstorm question
Zeta smiled as Alexander fix his hair "well, since the manticore got murder as well as someone try to attack members of the folk tribe, i have come they may be an impostor among the tribe, someone who has shapeshift to blend in" the folk said as he show some of the evidence about it
"An impostor..sound stupid" the Queen answer making everyone suprise "do you have real proof of that stupid idea?"
"My Queen..give them a chance"..
It was suprising for all the present that actitued was never seen before of her, but the king smiled and give Alexander and Zeta the chance, the folk nervous about it and the griffin was very happy, besides alexander having a odd feeling about many people in this room, but the reuinion ended and it was time of returning each to their tribes.
"What was that my dear?" Thunderstorm calm his wife
"I have no idea of what you are taking about.." she answer as she look at him
"You never are that agressive with other.. and never with the griffin tribe, you know how much they have suffer" the king say as the queen sight
"I am sorry my love.." she said with a sad looking "i have been feeling bad lately"
"When we arrived i don't want you to do nothing, i will do everything for you today" the king smiled as it kiss his wife head "for you to rest" he hug her softly but at the moment she look at the shadow of her husband with some tears
"Thanks dear.."
"Well! What we beging with?" zeta said as Alexander open the book
"Well, here said that Lord Noctury master of shadows can only be free by the hand of someone who shares his blood" the folk said as Zeta tilt his head "His child, according to this the blood of this person must be black as the void and the shadow must obey it command" the folk said as he walk with book with Zeta help to not trip
"Well easy, we make people cuts until get black blood" the griffin said "easy!"
"Not that much..is someone with a great magic if it has the case, it can be anyone.." Alex said feeling already defeated
"Well, lucky the tribe got us!" The griffin said taking the hand of the folk to run as alex yelp softly following his hyperactive friend.
Me and you mommy @ameliaongaku did this little gift to you!!
A little message for her
“You will always have me around, following you and giving you my total support, i love you baby, i hope you have a great birthday and you celebrate even more! Feliz cumpleaños 💕💖”
From me i will say
“The First time i see Torrent it really caught my eye, start talking with you was one of the bests experience in this fandom, you give that little confidence boost into continue with what i am doing! You are a great friend thank you for being here!”
The White Queen after her marriage to Spade. The tattoo on her shoulder is a symbol of her husbands family. And yes. She can change her hair color at will. Usually she would do it to help show her feelings because her doesnt have eyes, but she chose to keep it blue to match Spade.
