#Duchess Swan

[capitan-copi]

[katriaarts]

part one of the six fanarts!! I got enough requests that I'm gonna do two hehe

[badlydrawneverafterhigh]

[lizzieheartsfanclub]

The most effective thing about Ever After High is that every student has their own personal struggle that adds another element to just how life-ruining the destiny system is.

Apple is so terrified of what will happen to her if she doesn’t follow her destiny, that she is willing to compromise everyone else’s happiness to make sure it happens. This disregard for other people is only encouraged by the influential adults in her life.

Ashlynn has to be a servant to an abusive family and live knowing that the ultimate end to her supposedly happy ending is dying to set the stage for her daughters traumatic backstory, starting the whole cycle over again with no chance for any of them to escape.

Blondie feels so pressured to fit in to a deeply classist/monarchist society and ashamed of her parentage that she constantly presents a fake version of herself to everyone she knows, even her best friends.

Briar has to spend her whole life waiting for the moment her destiny comes and she falls asleep for a century. She knows that when she’s woken up, she will be forced to marry a boy dozens of years younger than her who she’s never met and live knowing that everyone she ever loved is dead and gone, the very things that she watched cause her mother’s emotional breakdown.

Cedar’s father was so afraid of watching her repeat his mistakes that he overcorrected, making it impossible for her to ever learn lessons for herself. She is also forced to share incredibly personal details with anyone who asks her questions, and can’t be trusted by her friends with any of their secrets, and it’s all because of her father’s past trauma.

Cerise has to hide who she truly is and never gets to see her family together and happy despite the fact that her parents have potentially the most healthy and mutually beneficial marriage in the whole franchise.

Daring was groomed from birth for a destiny that ends up not actually being his at all, leaving him aimless, feeling as though he has no purpose and has wasted his entire life.

Darling is forbidden by patriarchy and destiny to become a knight, the only thing she really wants, and at which she would be better than both of her brothers. She has to hide who she is and what she loves from everyone she knows

Dexter lived his whole life never knowing what his destiny would be but also knowing that whatever it was he’d have to commit to it forever the moment he discovered it at Legacy Day.

Duchess has spent her whole life knowing that the story she’s commited to living out ends in tragedy for her, and then had to watch the very people she’s been jealous of for years because of their seemingly happy endings give up those endings, while Duchess, loyal and rule following Duchess, is still stuck with her tragedy.

Faybelle tries so hard to commit to what she sees at her destiny that she’s never had a real friend in her life. Even still, no one recognizes her for all that effort and all she’s given up to be a suitable villain. Everyone is more afraid of Raven, who doesn’t even want to be evil.

Hunter has to constantly go against his moral compass to fulfill his destined role as a Huntsman and to try and make his father proud of him.

Kitty has been taught over and over again to value her Mother’s approval over all else, even at the expense of her friends. Her destiny is to create mischief, but how much more mischief can a dissolving world take before it’s too much?

Lizzie finds it almost impossible to express love or care for anyone else due to her mothers excessive conditioning that’s nearly akin to brainwashing. The saddest thing might be that her mother is actually, in her own way, trying her best to prepare Lizzie for a world that will only ever see her one way—as a villain. Now she lives in Ever After, princess to a kingdom that might not even exist for much longer, having given up everything for a destiny that may soon be impossible.

Maddie is a refugee forced from her home into a world she barely understands at a tender age. But she cannot express any angst or negative feelings about this circumstance, because to do so would go against her character. She lives in a world obsessed with destiny and stories while not even knowing if she’ll ever be able to return home and live out her story.

Raven is judged by almost everyone around her for her mothers crimes, many of which were required of her by destiny in the first place. She is nearly forced to commit to becoming a tyrannical megalomaniac (and almost falls into it herself, several times) who would be sentenced to lifelong punishment and torture for committing acts that weren’t even her idea in the first place, and the one punishing her would have been the very girl who begged so often for her to stop being so difficult and just follow her destiny.

[unfortunatelyjelly]

i imagine her swan friends don't know her destiny and duchess wants to keep it from them as not to hurt them

so this is duchess preparing to go to the ball knowing she'll see the prince with the dark swan and knowing she'll soon have to fulfill her destiny :V

[jash-t]

𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑. 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒:

"𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙖 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝘼𝙨𝙝𝙡𝙮𝙣𝙣'𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙚'𝙨"

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐷𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑. 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠

- Next Top Villain

[blueberriesyogurtz]

Divas

[s33r4]

ANOTHER CUZ THESE ARE SO SILLY 🤭 || if you watch eah TALK TO ME PUHLEASE. I’ll love you forever trust.

[ennow]

Part FIVE 😛

Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4

[sadly-never-after]

I love it that Duchess has a total number of three people she kind of likes:

A young refugee who is known for apparently wanting to decapitate people

A girl who happily joined forces with an imperialist dictator known for committing crimes against humanity

The most harmless but extremely obnoxious boy in her school.

[everafterwhat]

Lore Dump!!!

Just an exploration of some of Duchess’ family! There’s a bunch of info on the pics about each character, but the basics are; Celeste is Duchess’ aunt and serves as the guardian of the girls, Princess is Duchess’ little sister, and Raven was adopted into the family when she was around two years old.

I might sketch up some castle designs soon, the idea is just a tad bit daunting as I haven’t done castle design before but you’ve gotta start somewhere right?! I tried using glaze or whatever it’s called so please excuse the weird texture/color change💓

EDIT: Just realized I wrote Celestina instead of Celestine on her info page, her name is Celestine lol!!!

Anyway, these are the girls!!

[capitan-copi]

[katriaarts]

black swan

[kat-cant-draw]

DUCHESS REDESIGN! I think I’ll do Lizzie next 🦢

[yolouat]

[whoruntheworld-lesbians]

One of my favorite parts of eah is that there is so much ship potential. Literally everywhere. You throw two names together, I'll have a list of headcanons on your desk by Monday.