#stf headcanons

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I like the idea of Miranda and Sofia celebrating Dia de muertos and setting up an altar to Birk, which includes Lorelei after sharing the tradition with Roland and the twins.

For this headcanon, because my headcanons have to make sense in my head or I can't sleep peacefully, I invented another very long headcanon where Miranda has Avalorian ancestry. How? I haven't figured that out yet.

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Rant #2

ookk guysss,it’s time for a thought experiment,one which has been done a million times before….

✨What if Sofia never became a princess?✨

And yes,I know,this has been seen in many angles before and yessss I hear what you guys are gonna say-“oh but Art,what about time paradoxes?!without Sofia so many bad guys wouldn’t have been defeated and Elena would still be trapped and Amber would still be a spoilt brat and it would be the END OF THE WORLD!!!!!”(not hyperbole)

and you are all absolutely right.

But let’s all assume that,for the sake of this totally legit science experiment which I am absolutely not conducting because I am terrified of my exams tomorrow or smth(I’m not scared.really.i swear.),that nothing happens and things are absolutely a-ok👌 !

Then,what would Sofia do?(besides being her sweet amazing self as always ofc)

well…obviously,take over her mother’s shoe shop once she is old enough(coz miranda would still be running her shop duh)

or

OR

consider this diva right here

….Madam Colette.

The tough,nitpicky designer of the royal family whose work is impeccable and who has made interns cry over One.Wrong.Stitch. (Her talent is so legendary that so many royals,dukes and duchesses have tried to bribe her or even capture her to work for them. Each time,she has declined(and escaped with her grit,determination and ability to make grown men cry for their mothers)).

This lady,she happens to see Sofia’s needle work.

(yes,this magnificent dress was made by an 8-YEAR OLD.Amazing ,right?🤩 )

She sees her work and goes-

“Yes yes,this girl,she will help me now!She is a star in the making!Truly talented!!”

Thus begins the saga of Sofia Balthazar the Fashion Apprentice(title pending,guys pls suggest something better)

…Then she runs into the royals again.

Sofia just can’t escape the royal life in any universe huh?

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Cedric's bisexuality headcanons:

I love the fact that most of us accepted as a group that Cedric is bisexual. Like, he looks like he would like women and still he looks like he would like men too.

My personal headcanon is that Cedric discovered his sexuality in Hexley Hall when he was a teenager and had crushes in girls, but also boys... that he didn't wanted to have a crush on. With girls he was like "I'm weird and she would never like me", with boys he would be like in PE (physical education - sports class), would be the worst player in the game anyway, and would sit at the bench, distracted by some boys practicing the sport. He is never good with sports anyway, but...

He did some kind of small research during some short years somewhere in his teenage years. At first he noticed that he was staring too much at traits people deem masculine (like chest, muscles, or getting shy when accidentally touching hands with other boys) and already started to wonder if his sexuality was indeed exactly straight. His father saw him as peculiar and said all kinds of stuff, often regarding his weirdness, maybe wondering about his mental state, or questioning his sexuality, of course, in a mocking tone. This definitely left a mark on Cedric, because every time he felt that attraction for other boys he would remember Goodwyn saying those things, and he reprimanded himself.

So as the days went on, he started studying the possibility, and meeting with tons of situations where he would get nervous or feel attraction towards other boys' traits. He had some small crushes here or there but he never told them and absolutely wouldn't want them to know that, or else they would think he was weird.

He likes boys. He likes girls. He felt confused for a long time about which one he liked more but turns out that he can't ignore a side while considering the other. He likes both and he understood he likes both.

I'm not a Cedric X Roland person but maybe during that time when Cedric was discovering himself he ended up staring a bit too long at Roland (at some traits, to be more specific) and thinking "phew. I guess that's it then". I don't think he was ever in love with him or had a crush on Roland, but he felt so envious of him that this got mixed with a jealousy and hatred he couldn't quite put into words. Envy, really.

He feared that people would bully him more than they did if someone ever found out. He also feared that this would distance him socially from other boys if it ever became a public knowledge, and most girls were distant from him already. Cedric was already "weird" enough and didn't wanted to have another trait that would cause even more bullying and judgement, so he kept it a secret and denied it to himself for a long time. Even in Hexley Hall, he was like some kind of black sheep among his peers. He didn't quite fit in friend groups, was usually seen in the corners, hiding himself as most as possible, using those long bangs to cover his face to make people forget he was even there. He would often be grumpy when interacting with people during high school, specially with Greylock, that insisted on teasing him all the time. He liked to push himself away from people to shield himself from any disappointment, never letting any vulnerability show so that no one would affect him too badly, but the sexuality topic? It was a secret wrapped in chains and locked with seven keys very deep inside his heart and he made sure no one would ever find out.

Winifred maybe would accept Cedric's sexuality but Cedric feared of what Goodwyn and Cordelia might think or do to him after coming out so he kept it from everyone. Cedric already thought he was flawed, but discovering his sexuality made him feel ever more flawed and a disgrace for his family, even though they didn't knew. He wondered what he had done to be like this. "Why must I go through such harsh situations? Why did I do in my other life to deserve all that?"

Now Cedric is a 37 (1st season) to 42 (4th season) year old and he's more sure of his own self, even though he still has some internalized homophobia and fear of judgement. He knows what he is and what he likes but keeps quiet and pretends he doesn't. That's until a moment he just decided to accept who he is, without shame. He still fears saying that out loud for the whole world to hear but now he understood what he likes and who he is. That's not something he is afraid anymore. But still, convincing him to talk about this topic is a hard thing to do. It makes him feel vulnerable, but everything is about confidence, so...

I thought a lot about teenage Cedric while I was writing this. I wish we had good scenes of him from the show so that I could add him here. I want to make more drawings of him, he deserves it.

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Do you have any headcanons about how James and Amber adjusted to having a mom again?

It took Amber a lot longer than James to adjust

James adjusted to Miranda immediately without hesitation

Despite adjusting, they sometimes fear Miranda to be a wicked stepmother. Too many fairytales will do that to you.

Calling Miranda Mom, let alone Mother, for the first time had left them in shock.

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 Possible explanations for why King Roland made his first wish on the Wishing Well

Now all of these aren't so much theories per say as “throwing stuff on a wall and seeing what sticks” because the showrunners could not delve into topics like this in the actual runtime, and it probably wouldn't have been very relevant to the story that they were trying to tell anyway, so nearly every theory has an equal likelihood to be true more or less.

  (I'm also not going to mention this in my write ups for the possible reasons for the wish, and we have no way of proving this one way or the other, but I'm always inclined to prefer the thought that Roland II had discussed making the wish with Lorelei before he actually made it since it would be something that would affect both of them. Even if it only physically affected one of them. Because this just seems like the type of thing you should tell your partner about if you do it).

 This is a long post (Over 2000 words), so I'm putting it under the cut, but TLDR there are several different magical and physical reasons that are possible.

 General content warning for discussion of topics that are too dark/medical to ever be shown in a kids show. Spoilers for Forever Royal.

 We should first start off with what the wish was in the first place in case you don't know or need a refresher. Word for word, this is how it's stated in the flashback scene in the episode Forever Royal:

  “In the nearby castle lived King Roland the Second, who had wanted a family so badly he tried making a wish in a wishing well. The wish came true, and twins were born. But the Queen fell gravely ill….* The children were happy but never knew what it was like to have a mother.”

 * The quote never says that she is dead in so many words, but the visual on screen is of the queen arranged on a bed with her eyes closed, holding flowers. There's basically no other way to interpret it except that she's been laid out for a funeral.

 Now, as a note, we never actually get to hear what her name is in the show, but the creator of the show Craig Gerber made a Twitter post saying that her name was Lorelei https://x.com/CraigGerber_/status/1038831208430370817?mx=2 (as a personal note I normally consider stuff that show creators or writers say on Twitter or other social media as secondary Canon, but I basically completely accept this because we don't have any alternative name, and it works. And I'm sure that they'd use it in the sequel series if they ever talk about her.) So I'm going to be referring to her with that name for the rest of this post.

 When analyzing this quote, it seems that “wanted a family” basically means “wanted to have biological children” since we know he already has a wife and family members like a sister and a mom. I just think it's interesting that they word it this way because it kind of masks what his actual wording would have been to the wishing well. Because in the episode “When you wish upon a well” the well did grant Amber’s second wish in a way that fulfilled the basic criteria of her wish, and yet caused an unintended side effect that deeply distressed Amber and put Sofia in danger. So, it could possibly be that the way Roland wished for children could also be interpreted as accidentally directly causing Lorelei’s death. But we don't know what the words were, so we don't know if that was what happened or not. “Fell gravely ill” is a vague enough statement that it can basically be interpreted to fit any kind of theory.

 So without further ado, here are almost all of the ways I could think of that could be motivation for making the wish. (AKA infertility theories.)

Magical reasons:

 In this world, magic is an everyday fact of life, so they could have been unable to have kids because of a curse! Now it could be a curse on either Roland or Lorelei, and then the curse was just too strong to be broken by regular magic, but the Well’s magic was strong enough to get past it, (permanently or temporarily). The possible motives could be basically anything. It could have been cast by a jealous ex-lover, or a person who thought that the union was bad for political reasons.

 But I did come up with a fun little theory that maybe it was a curse that was intended to be benevolent, behold: The Double Bloodline Curse!

 We know that the throne of Enchancia passes from oldest child to oldest child, and the same seems to be true for the royal wizard as well. Both lines are hereditary, and both are always parallel to each other. It makes sure that the reigning monarch always has a royal wizard and vice versa. But it is interesting because Roland the First and Goodwin the Great are approximately the same age, same with both of their sons, and both of their granddaughters to an extent, although the age difference is seemingly larger between Amber and Calista.

 Now this could be just a coincidence that the people in these families born for 3 generations are very close in age, but what if it wasn't? What if there was some kind of spell or curse set on the people from both bloodlines so that they wouldn't be able to have children until their counterpart(s) was/(were) also in a position to be able to have children. Let's say that Roland the Second married and tried to have kids, but both Cedric and Cordelia were not married or seeing anyone and/or just neither of them were interested in having children at that time. Therefore, the curse activated to prevent Roland II from having any children.

 And this curse was probably put on the line by an actual royal wizard from it, assuming that it would be better off for both families and the sake of the kingdom if the new monarch and the new wizard were always peers age wise so that they could both ascend to their positions at the same time. Is that flawed reasoning and ultimately going to hurt their families more than help them in the long run? Absolutely! But it wouldn't be the craziest or worst thing that someone from either of these families has done.

 It's definitely possible for it to be magical reasons and would be interesting to explore in fanfic, but this isn't the only possibility.

Biological reasons that are linked to infertility:

 The first one is what if Lorelei was unable to biologically have children.

 It's popular fan-cannon (and I have seen it used in several fan fictions), that Lorelei was too physically weak for her body to/she had some kind of physical condition that meant she couldn't bear children. But the wish overrode that condition and after giving birth she was so weak that whatever possible illness/birth complications/regular pregnancy recovery happened afterwards she wasn't strong enough to survive it.

 In my opinion this one seems plausible, but I personally do not like it and do not think it makes sense for the characters. If she seemed medically unfit to give birth before the wish, then it would be ludicrously irresponsible for Roland II to make a wish for her to have the kids that didn't also strengthen her in a way that she could have them and survive. Additionally, I believe that if there was a lot of worry throughout the pregnancy that she might not be able to survive it, that Roland would have just made a second wish for her to be strong enough.

 Some may argue that it wouldn't have been possible to strengthen her enough to be able to survive giving birth, but may I point out that the wishing well has the ability to turn a regular human girl into a cat. Like literally change your species. Strengthening someone enough so that they can survive a pregnancy seems pretty minor compared to turning someone into a cat.

 And Roland is normally pretty good at noticing when people he loves are in distress, he'll stop what he's doing and talk with them and try to make the situation better. Now if Lorelei was hiding her physical symptoms from everyone for whatever reason, it could be possible to do that with others especially servants who she didn't spend much time with, but considering how much time Roland spends with Miranda he probably spent the same amount of time with his first wife. If they were in close proximity to each other that often for months on end he would notice if something was wrong and ask her about it and try to solve the problem. Therefore, I personally don't subscribe to it in my own headcanons.

 Another interpretation of this is that Lorelei was the one who is unable to have children, but it was because of some type of condition that was not due to weakness but another type of biological factor(s). The wish allowed her to have the kids, but then she died because the Well directly took her life as a price for the wish/because of how the wish was worded. Or she just happened to get unlucky and die from one of the several medical reasons that a person can die from giving birth no matter their physical strength. It's pretty similar to the first one but I am much more inclined towards it.

 But what if Roland was the one who was biologically unable to have children?

 This one doesn't seem to be explored in any fan fictions I've seen but I think this one is interesting to consider as well. I think most people's reasoning is that if Lorelei died from the wish, then the wish must have just physically affected her and therefore cause [wish] equals effect [death], but if it was going to take her life as a price/consequence for the wish anyway, it may not have necessarily needed to have affected her physically at all. Or the Well never took her life at all, she just got really unlucky and died from random chance. And there's plenty of medical reasons that men can be unable to have children. We don't know what kind of medical knowledge they have in Enchancia, but it may not have been advanced enough to find a solution for Roland or even know that he was the one who was infertile.

 He could have caught an illness as a child that had adult infertility as a side effect (angst potential. If he was also isolated for a long period of time away from other kids this could also partially explain why he became estranged from Cedric). Or it could be a genetic reason, like being intersex (I say as I read that one of the most common noticeable effects of Klinefelter syndrome is being tall. And it would fulfill a certain letter for possible LGBTQIA+ headcannons). Or he could have been severely overworking and under eating (there are a few times in the show where he does this, albeit not to a self-destructive extent, and that’s after he’s had kids and been king for years, also angst potential).

 If this was true, then it could also be possible that he was only temporarily able to have kids depending on how the wish worked. Or depending on the wording of the wish he might only be able the have kids with Lorelei exclusively. So if he and Miranda wanted to make a kid together, they might not be able to (more angst), unless another wish was made (but I doubt he would risk it).

 And a really dark possibility for Roland being infertile is that maybe the wish did NOT make him fertile but instead had a, what I am going to describe as a “love potion” effect on Lorelei and she got pregnant from someone who was not Roland. Now I think that this possibility is really horrifying for a number of reasons, but I've never seen it used in a fanfiction before and I'm not sure if anyone else has ever thought of it, but it exists now. I say that Amber and James do look like Roland, but I would also say that they definitely look more like Lorelei than him, so if you wanted to do a horrifying big drama fanfic this is a possibility for that.

Biological/other reasons that are not infertility:

 But what if their trouble with having children wasn't linked to infertility?

 There is the possibility that Royal Prep/other schools they had gone to had such a terrible sex education class that neither of them knew how to get pregnant and at this point were too afraid to ask. So they wished for it instead. I think this one only works if you're going for an adult humor fanfiction because, this just seems really unlikely to me. Even if they hadn't been educated in school, they would probably still ask someone or have been told by someone or have read it in a book by this point. Especially since part of their job as ruling monarchs is to produce heirs, I'm sure someone in the court would have explained it to them if they didn't know.

 Another slightly more reasonable but still unlikely reason is that maybe one or both of them was asexual. So they needed another way to start the pregnancy and decided magic was a good way to do it. I feel like if this was true then they could have just solved this by going to an actual wizard or doctor and getting help from them, so I don't think this is very likely but I'm trying to go through all the possibilities here.

 But on a far more serious note there as been a possibility I've been thinking about lately that does seem likely considering how often it happens in real life. It could be possible that Roland and Lorelei had already tried to have children, and she was able to get pregnant, but it ended in a miscarriage or a stillbirth. Maybe she was already pregnant by the time Roland made the wish, and he wished that this time it would be a successful pregnancy. The way he looks in the flashback makes it seem like Roland is really sad and kind of desperate about the whole situation and if this possibility was true, then it adds an extra layer of sadness to the whole ordeal.

 ****Also, this isn't attached to any single theory but I wanted to add this: I think that whether the wish caused Lorelei’s death or she died from completely natural causes, it must have happened fairly quickly. If the illness that she got after giving birth lasted a long time, then wouldn't there have been enough time for Roland to have made another wish to save her? Meanwhile if it happened very quickly or without much warning then he may not have had enough time to save her. If it happened quickly, it would also mean that there was less of a chance for the doctors or midwives or sorcerers to do anything to save her.

 *****And regardless of whether it actually was the magic of the wish that killed her or it was from the same causes that any non magical birth can suffer from, I think Roland believes that it was his fault that Lorelei died. He probably doesn't know for sure whether it was the wish that did it or not, but that wouldn't matter if he felt like it was his fault. His exact words to Amber about it were: “My wish didn't turn out so well either.” But we know that he loves Amber and James, and he's very proud of them, so the quote isn't about being a father to them or their existence. So the only other possibility for him saying that it didn't turn out well is what happened to Lorelei.

On that note, those are all the reasons I could think of. Feel free to say in the reblogs or comments which one you think is most likely and/or which one is your favorite. Here's a cookie for getting to the end of this post 🍪

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Assuming that Goodwyn is his given name, that seems like his parents also had high expectations for him, similar to how Goodwyn expected Cedric to fulfill his role as Royal Sorcerer. Considering that, I headcanon that Goodwyn was a natural at magic, allowing him to exceed his parents/the kingdom’s demands. And because of his experiences, he doesn’t understand why Cedric is so mediocre at magic, unlike him.

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About my Hexley Hall ocs for the Teamwork comic

@beefyburgerbloggin9000 I wanted to upload this before but I hadn't had time to draw it but here is

For now I only did this about Adalia

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About my OCs for the Teamwork comic: Fabien

(WARNING: Mentions of hunting magical creatures and killing)

I didn't calculate the space well and couldn't fit this on the sheet lol:

Fabien comes from a long family of beast-hunting wizards: Goblings, ogres, dragons, and any other creature that "represents a danger." His family was very popular in his home kingdom, Isleworth, until the reign of King Philip and the succession of his daughter Princess Charlotte, who pushed for the acceptance of the various creatures that shared their kingdom: leaving Fabien's family without work.

Eventually, disowned in Isleworth, they migrated to another kingdom and have traveled between kingdoms "fulfilling their work as hunters." Fabien's family, however, continues to call themselves "proud and true people of Isleworth, "embracing" the original "values" of their land.