#Jacqueline De Ghent

[idkwidatp]

I know that people talk about how live action remakes of Disney movies aren't great but ever after: a Cinderella story is actually reaaaaaallllllllyyyyyyyyyy good because instead of it just being a live action version of Cinderella they make it more realistic and the message is really good too and Jacqueline (one of the two evil stepsisters) is actually really nice to Danielle (Cinderella) and it's one of the only iterations I've seen where she actually stands up to her step mother

[idkwidatp]

"of course not, mother. I'm only here for the food." - Jacqueline de ghent, ever after: a Cinderella story (1998)

(Gifs by @ayo-edebiri and @stevenrogered)

Evan “Food Police” Buckley and Ravi “I’m just here for the food” Panikkar

[starsallalight]

Current muse roster

Ocs:

Carolina Ledoux - 22, Cinderella 2015, she/her, Bebe Cave, shipping closed.

Lord Darien - 25-33, The Chronicles of Narnia, he/his, Tolga Sarıtaş, shipping closed.

Edward Ledoux - 23-26, Cinderella 2015, he/his, Joe Alwyn, shipping selectively open, demi-romantic & demi-sexual, preference for women but open to any gender identity.

Róisín ó Ceallaigh - 20, Irish mythology & folklore, she/her, shipping closed.

Lady Rosamund - 22-32, Cinderella 2015, she/her, Gabriella Wilde, shipping selectively open, demi-romantic & demi-sexual, open to any gender identity.

Canons:

Belle Sauveterre - 20, Beauty & the Beast Broadway, she/her, Poppy Drayton, shipping selectively open, heterosexual.

Christine Daaé - 18, Phantom of the Opera novel, she/her, Ellie Bamber, shipping closed.

Ella Ledoux - 19-29, Cinderella 2015, she/her, Synnøve Karlsen, shipping selectively open, heterosexual.

Jacqueline de Ghent - 17-27, Ever After, she/her, Freya Mavor, shipping selectively open, bisexual, preference for men but open to any gender identity.

James Stringer - 24-25, Sanditon, he/his, Leo Suter, shipping selectively open, heterosexual.

Prince Kit - 25, Cinderella 2015, he/his, James Norton, shipping selectively open, demi-romantic & demi-sexual.

Lucy Pevensie - 20-29, The Chronicles of Narnia, she/her, Indiana Evans, shipping selectively open, heterosexual.

Miles Tuck - 22, Tuck Everlasting mixed canon, he/his, Taron Egerton, shipping selectively open, demi-romantic & demi-sexual.

Sonya Rostova - 19-31, War & Peace mixed canon & canon divergent, she/her, Rose Williams, shipping selectively open, demi-romantic & demi-sexual, open to any gender identity.

Susan Pevensie - 27-33, The Chronicles of Narnia, Jessica de Gouw, shipping selectively open, demi-romantic & demi-sexual.

[clevermird]

tagged by @dandelionsandderivatives to list 5 comfort characters. Like her, I needed to think about it for a while, lol.

1. Meg and Charles Wallace Murry from Madeline L’engle’s Time Quintet: While I will not in any way claim to have Meg’s level of genius, reading A Wrinkle in Time as a 10-year-old undiagnosed autistic girl who excelled in some school subjects and struggled in others, I felt very heard and seen. While I might have related more to Meg, I wanted to be friends with Charles Wallace and A Swiftly Tilting Planet in particular had a massive effect on my taste in fiction as an adult. Both characters are very special to me.

2. Honor “Beauty” Huston from Beauty by Robin McKinley: As I said in the review I posted of this book, Beauty is basically hot cocoa in book form, and that extends to the protagonist. A horse-loving, bookish young woman who hasn’t quite realized that she’s no longer an awkward-looking teenager. She has such a relatable thought process and approach to being trapped in the Beast’s kingdom that you can’t help but liking her.

3. the wizard Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle (movie only, haven’t read the book): I just love him. He’s cute and funny and despite his tantrums, seems like a fun and exciting person to be around - not particularly safe, but fun and wondrous.

4. Jacqueline de Ghent from Ever After: I could have picked several characters from this modern-styled, pseudo-historical, non-supernatural take on the Cinderella story, but Jacqueline’s character arc is my favorite, going from a quiet, awkward girl to the fiance of the crown prince’s best friend and slowly realizing that she doesn’t need to just go along with her mother’s schemes and insults and can in fact side with her stepsister and her other friends. Her last line - “of course not, Mother, I’m only here for the food” is just *perfect*

5. Selene from Underworld: This is kind of a silly/strange one, but Underworld is just my perfect “I’m sad or sick or tired and don’t want to think, I just want fun action with hot people” movie. That’s really all there is to it. Also, I like vampires.

[debarbarac]

1494 - danielle augustine thérese is born to auguste de barbarac, a wealthy untitled merchant & landowner, and his wife nicole de lancret. nicole dies of childbed fever a little over a week later. auguste is left to raise their daughter and run their manor situated on the outskirts of dordogne as a widower. he instills in danielle a deep love for literature, philosophy, hard work, and adventure.

1502 - auguste, realizing that danielle is in need of a gentlewoman’s education as she grows older, courts and marries the baroness rodmilla de ghent. she brings with her two daughters, marguerite and jaqueline, from her previous marriage. auguste dies of a sudden heart attack two weeks after his wedding. danielle is inconsolable, near feral in her grief.

1504 - due to dwindling funds, rodmilla fires the majority of the estate staff. danielle is moved into the attic and marguerite is given her old room.

1505 - danielle starts to perform more and more of the household chores, to help alleviate the stress on of the remaining servants, paulette, louise and maurice.

1509 - marguerite (and jacqueline) are introduced at court. rodmilla starts seeking an advantageous match for marguerite, her sights set on the newly crowned dauphin, henry de valois, still mourning the death of his elder brother years previous.

1510 - rodmilla slowly begins selling off the contents of the manor to the court armorer, pierre le pieu, to pay for her mounting debts. she starts small, to avoid arousing suspicion of the other members of the house.

1512 - danielle meets, is courted by, and eventually marries henry. she becomes dauphine of france. manoir de barbarac is lovingly restored. the subject of their sudden marriage is a matter of great intrigue to both the court and surrounding countries.

[hclyrevivals]

ღ * ➜ (  olivia cooke , cisfemale , twenty-five , she/her ) it seems like danielle de barbarac might be making a new home in mystic, connecticut. a canon character from ever after : a cinderella story , danielle was seen walking down main street. while they arrived four years ago , they do not believe they have been here their whole lives.

❀ ˚ ↬ full name : danielle de barbarac

❀ ˚ ↬ relationships : jacqueline & marguerite de ghent, step sisters

❀ ˚ ↬ sexuality : bicurious

❀ ˚ ↬ shipping : open

❀ ˚ ↬ occupation : unemployed

[wyrdhearth]

@sinamor : ❝ you’re too scared to admit it. when things go bad, you want to explain it away. ❞ tristan thorn ➵ danielle de barbarac.

danielle faltered at those words. her chest tightened inexplicably. she had never been in denial of what her step-mother was like, cold cruelty and all. but was it truly so terrible to wish for love when she had been close to the only family she had ever known?

...but no, that was not true. not when she knew jacqueline, who was as kind as marguerite was vicious. not when she knew gustav, who had been as a brother to her for many years now. not when paulette, louise, and maurice all had taken part in raising her. why then, was it so impossible to let rodmilla de ghent go?

❝ I do not wish to explain it away... not –– literally, anyway. ❞ she shook her head, looking down at her hands –– man-ish, as rodmilla had once called them. ❝ perhaps it is the child in me, but I wonder if people can change. and then I recall her whippings and I think: perhaps not. ❞ she shared with tristan a small, wry smile. ❝ I know I am naive. but I cannot help it. ❞

FEAR STREET 1978 : not accepting.

[sayingitwithgifs]

[athousandtales]

[idkwidatp]

HERE IS A REMINDER FOR THE DAY THAT BEATRICE FROM OVER THE GARDEN WALL/JACQUELINE DE GHENT FROM EVER AFTER AND DIPPER PINES ARE MARRIED IN REAL LIFE

[jaeausten]

Ever After: A Cinderella Story.

[hitchell-mope]

Good film. Now on to the first animated sequel

[starsallalight]

After the wedding, not only does Jacqueline become Danielle's main lady-in-waiting and confidant, Henry also gives her a title. What her exact title is can vary, and can either have Jacqueline fulfilling her father's title and becoming the new Baroness de Ghent, or she can be given a higher title, such as Comtesse or Marchioness/Marquise.

[archivistofnerddom]

Things people need to watch to understand me as a human being (an incomplete list):

Legally Blonde

Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Jacqueline de Ghent might actually be my Patronus)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek: First Contact

Galaxy Quest

Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

The entirety of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended editions)

The Polar Bear King

Downton Abbey (TV show more so adorable than the movie, but I always stan Edith Crawley and Elsie Hughes)

Torchwood (Ianto lives!)

Hell House LLC (only the first one)

Spirited Away

Howl’s Moving Castle

Little Women (1994 version, ‘cuz Gabriel Byrne is everything in this thing)

Captain Marvel

Wonder Woman (the No-Man’s Land sequence made me misty!)

Pacific Rim

[princesssarisa]

Another nice stepsister is Gabrielle in the 2013 Broadway version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2021 musical also has stepsister Marie become Cinderella's ally in the end, and even Disney redeems Anastasia in its two direct-to-video Cinderella sequels.

Jacqueline seems to have single-handedly started a trend in Cinderella adaptations of having one stepsister be good at heart and eventually break free from her mother.

She was the original and the best, though.

Jacqueline from Ever After!

I love Jacqueline! She’s the reason I always want there to be a nice stepsister in the Cinderella story even though, as far as I know, she’s the only one of her kind.

But that is the thing I love about her the most. She embodies the beautiful and heartening idea that kindness can be found in unexpected places. And in her case that isn’t a happy accident; it’s to her credit.

It’s true that Jacqueline is positioned to be sympathetic to Danielle because her mother and Marguerite don’t treat her very well either—they’d throw her under the bus in a heartbeat if they had to—but that still doesn’t mean she had to be kind. She could have tried to avoid being lumped in with Danielle by being extra cruel to her and by trying to win her mother and sister’s “favor” by flattery. The temptation to that was probably pretty high as a potential defense mechanism against their cruelty.

And instead she doesn’t. She shows Danielle kindness. It’s in small ways at first and not necessarily the most “heroic”—it’s realistic in that she doesn’t have the courage or even the means to stop the cruelty—but she’s there to help afterwards and that IS a balm. My favorite scene with her is when she takes care of Danielle’s wounds after she’s been whipped—pause to think about @byjoveimbeinghumble saying that Ever After is the DARKEST version of Cinderella and how that is achieved without any extra twists to the story—not just because it’s relieving to see someone take physical care of Danielle but because she says “she shouldn’t have said that about your mother.” Which Danielle needed even more than the treatment of her wounds. Jacqueline reminds Danielle that there are people who care, that there are people who aren’t cruel, that not everyone is out for themselves at the expense of human decency. And she needs to know that not just so the memory of her mother can be saved from cruel words, though that too, but so she can stay sane and remember that this isn’t the reality of the whole world, just that of two particularly awful people.

It’s such a gentle scene and such a truthfully sister scene (when they both start laughing about Danielle punching Marguerite it is the CUTEST) and what I love is that the movie shows you that Jacqueline means that moment of kindness beyond only the moment itself. By the end of the movie, she has fully separated herself from her mom and sister and is instrumental in the fact of Danielle’s happy ending and so gets her own instead of the fate that befalls her mother and sister.

She’s a beautiful example and reminder for me that people can change, even from within a rotten circle, that we aren’t divided into inflexible camps of good and bad but that we all have choices to make and they can be different than those expected of us or forced on us. By position, Jacqueline isn’t a “good” person; she’s one of the enemy. But by the end of the story she isn’t because she hasn’t let herself be. And that is so hopeful. We need to pay attention to the Jacquelines of the world to give us hope and also to remind us that a total “us” against “them” worldview is wrong and false, that we have to see people as individuals who are capable of changing and choosing different paths than the one they’re on at the beginning.