eah snow white and evil queen hcs because i have class of classics brain damage
when snow is nervous she mutters the last lines of the snow white story under her breath
every time snow visits eq she will stand outside the door of the mirror room and repeat the lines until she feels ready to enter (though she never fully does)
after eq’s release (dragon games) but before they pick team captains, snow breaks into eq’s room (one of ever after high’s guest rooms where milton is letting her stay) and sees her for the first time in a long time without her headdress on
snow’s first thought - absurdly - is that she looks unnaturally small without it
the night before they pick captains, eq asks snow, “do you think my little birdie is going to play for me?”
milton gives eq the largest room in the castle, but she is never actually going to use the bed - she is too unstable and restless for sleep
they’re both underweight, but eq is emaciated
when they were younger they used to climb to the top of the highest towers of the school and map out the arena together
in the last game of their senior year, a beanstalk had grown to block snow’s signature route
snow steered her dragon directly into it anyway
snow won the game for her team and graduated with three cracked ribs and a mottled indigo stomach
her dragon, paralysed from the neck down, died of sadness a little before her coronation
when she has nothing else to think about (which is rarely), she wonders why it obeyed
snow’s posture is always perfect; beside the slouchy eq, she looks brittle
their last game still gives snow bad dreams
snow has dreamed of dying every night since that game, and of eq every night since eq was locked away
snow couldn’t sleep more than an hour at a time after graduation because she didn’t know when eq would come to poison her
snow was scared to die before eq could poison her
when snow woke up after the game (in an incredible amount of pain) flat on her back in the grass, her first thought was to get baba yaga to call eq over so that she could do it right away
eq could have - she carried snow’s apple everywhere
the poison apple spell was the first spell eq ever learned
they were so young when their mothers read the story to them, they don’t remember that it happened - only how it felt
between them, snow is actually the first to wonder if maybe the storybook of legends isn’t as powerful as they were taught
because snow knew in her heart that she could have died during that game, and that having signed the storybook in her legacy year would not have protected her
eq disagrees, and gets testy when snow voices this
after all eq used the book to take over the fairy-tale world
eq dry-heaved when raven dissolved it
eq’s voice is derisive even when she doesn’t actively mean to be, as though derision is what she based on
eq looks startlingly young when her hair is damp and obscures her cheekbones
snow seldom looks young anymore, but her eyes still have that disarming baby animal quality
even in a state of relaxation eq’s body is always contorted somehow - limbs angled unnaturally, bones protruding where they shouldn’t be, shadows distorting her features
they have forgotten each other’s true names - storybook magic
every once in a while snow asks (subtly) for eq’s name, but never receives it
this wounds her deeply, though she’ll never admit it
because milton refused to do anything about the beanstalk, snow returned to the arena after her prince woke her and had her seven dwarves raze it to the ground
though when snow talks about the past, she never says “after my prince woke me” - she says “after i was poisoned”
when snow sees an apple, her mouth aches and her skin starts to feel sore to the touch - like a child with a fever
snow has a bad habit of gnawing on her lips until they bleed, but it’s hard to tell from afar because they’re already blood red
some time after the events of the show snow’s mental and physical states begin to deteriorate rapidly
apple’s coronation has to happen prematurely because her mother has become useless as queen and can’t do a thing except sleep for days straight in her glass coffin and argue with the shadowy woman in the mirror (who only sometimes argues back)
when snow sleeps for days, she dreams things are different
