#Raven/[character name]

[cozylittleartblog]

what if there was a plague doctor that was so so so cute (and was also secretly a bird themself)

[contrarianwitt]

a part of me dies when the raven cycle is added to the dark academia “what the fuck richard” genre because first of all it’s not dark academia at all and secound of all HE GOES BY GANSEY AND THATS ALL THERE IS!!! AND HE IS VERY KIND

[wqemzz-blog]

Giving Ronan Celtic tattoo designs is my agenda, perogative, scheme, and some may even say my destiny

[rotomartsblog]

I’ve been thinking about my version/rewrite whatever of Ever After High so I’m just gonna list a few lore tidbits about the world and some of the characters

So first things first I want to say that my version of the EAH school is more based on European secondary education than American (since I’ve decided that EAH should logically take place in Europe). Mostly N. Ireland’s secondary school system since that’s what I’m most familiar with. Anyway- EAH students go through seven years of school from around age 11 to age 18 (give or take a bit). EAH officially has two stages of education; the Freedom stage and the Legacy stage. The Freedom stage is the first three years of school and the Legacy stage is the remaining four years. The Legacy stage itself is split into two sub-stages, Pre-Signing and Post-Signing. The story begins in the second year of the Pre-Signing Legacy stage, where Legacy Day will take place at the end of the year. Students also can only room with people from their year.

I wanted to actually establish what the Curse on Wonderland actually is since that never actually gets explained in canon. Basically, the Curse takes the form of an erupting black fountain in the centre of Wonderland that leads up to the sky, “polluting” the atmosphere. It has both a physical and mental effect on the people of Wonderland, making them physically weaker while also “corrupting” their minds I guess? While the people of Wonderland have developed medicine and treatment for the curse, it’s more effective against the physical symptoms than the mental ones and it isn’t widely distributed.

Speaking of Wonderland, the Alice of the story is the only “character” that follows the Legacy system, because the rest of the characters are from Wonderland and don’t follow the same rules as Ever Afterlings. This doesn’t mean that the characters don’t have family legacies and traditions but they operate separately from Ever After’s.

Speaking of Alice, Alistair has been trapped in Wonderland since he was 10 years old. He isn’t as fond of Wonderland as his canon counterpart. Also his last name isn’t Wonderland it’s Adventures. I know that’s sounds equally stupid but it’s makes more sense to me based on the lore I’ve established.

Card people have the ability to go “flat” like a card. Also, they’re made of the same material of a playing card (specifically card stock), and they feel like such whether they’re flat or not.

Card people are limited to only two colours in their designs; white and the second colour depending on what suit they’re from (Clubs are green, Diamonds are blue, Hearts are red, and Spades are purple), except their eyes, which can be any colour. The exception to this is royal cards, which have three colours; white, black, and their suit colours (also their eye colours of course, which in Lizzie’s case is green). The outlier to this entirely is the Joker cards, which have no set rules for how they’re coloured.

There’s never a set number of Jokers for each generation of card people. In the previous generation, the parents generation, there were two: the red joker and the black joker, but in the current generation Courtly is the only Joker card.

Chess people are living chess pieces so they are made of wood.

Card and Chess people aren’t ‘born’, they’re literally made.

Lizzie, Kitty, and Maddie are the first Wonderlandians to attend Ever After High.

When the Evil Queen was imprisoned, all known entrances to Wonderland were closed off. However, new ones can be made either on purpose or accidentally. This is how Darling ends up in Wonderland.

When Ever Afterlings go to Wonderland their colour palette changes because idk I think it looks neat.

Also the Evil Queen cursing Wonderland and being imprisoned would’ve taken place like right before Raven started EAH.

Okay done talking about Wonderland onto something else. King Charming is a piece of shit human being. He’s a bad dad and an unfaithful husband who has a whole lot of illegitimate kids. Blondie is one of them.

Raven ended up rooming with Maddie in their first year at EAH because over half of the students in their year requested to specifically not be roomed with Raven.

Briar’s mum was asleep for 100 years because I don’t want to work out how it’d make sense if she was from the previous generation. Rosabella’s mum is Briar’s mum’s great-niece. Briar and Rosabella call each other cousin because it’s simpler.

Rosabella, despite what is believed, is actually the Beast in the story. The reason it’s believed she’s the Beauty is because the society of EAH is #sexist and #homophobic so the idea of the Beast in BATB being a girl or a boy being the Beauty is unbelievable. Rosabella suspects she’s the Beast because when she was younger she grew horns, though she’s forbidden from telling people this.

Briar and Rosabella’s parents are not on speaking terms because of a situation revolving around Rosabella’s horns. When they grew in, Briar’s parents had offered to babysit Rosabella while her parents were busy. Briar’s dad then dehorned Rosabella (and he wasn’t trained for it so it wasn’t a pleasant experience for Rosabella). Rosabella’s parents were obviously upset about this so they cut ties with Briar’s parents.

By the time the story begins Ashlynn’s mum is dead so she’s kind of going through it. Her dad hasn’t remarried yet.

I’ve messed around with the ages of some characters so while most of the main cast is the second year of the Pre-Signing Legacy stage, some are in different years. I haven’t worked out everyone but the important ones right now are that Dexter and Darling are in the first year of the Pre-Signing Legacy stage and Ramona is in the first year of the Post-Signing Legacy stage (and Justine I guess since they’re roommates).

Also most roommates will probably be the same as in canon since I can’t be bothered to change those.

Despite Legacy Day being when you pledge to follow your destiny, there are expectations on people whose stories typically happen when they’re young (case in point: Alistair being in Wonderland when he’s 10). Cedar often deals with people prodding and asking questions since she’s still a puppet as a teenager, though her dad also started his story late so it isn’t unique to her.

Raven doesn’t listen to Tailor Quick in my version. Sorry to swifties but sometimes you write a character and realise some things don’t work with their personality. Raven listens to goth music and dad rock. Dexter still listens to Tailor Quick though.

Speaking of music tastes, Poppy listens to Ska punk and Holly hates it so much.

Cupid was told to hide her monstrous features when going to EAH, so she’s masquerading as a Cherub. Also for a majority of her first year at EAH she’s faking her personality.

EAH’s school is specifically for European stories and there are different school in other regions for their stories.

Idk how yet but I’m planning on including references to other fairy tale authors and collectors like Andrew Lang.

I’ve planned a few arcs and mini stories for my version, some of them replace canon arcs. A few of these are a story based on A Wonderlandiful World, a rewrite of Way to Wonderland, a rewrite of Dragon Games that features two of the mention regional schools, a story I can only describe as “Cedar gets psychologically tormented by an arm puppet”, the Blood Knight story, and a story that replaces Epic Winter.

While EAH is typically only open for people with legacies to follow, there is a course available for people without legacies. However, it’s incredibly expensive and the course is kept entirely separated from the main course. Non-legacy students aren’t even allowed to be roommates with legacy students and there’s few opportunities for the two courses to interact. Poppy was originally in this course before Holly managed to get Headmaster Grimm to transfer her to the main course and the Charming family have a deal with the school so that none of their children go to the non-legacy course.

That’s all for now I think.

[femmehysteria]

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

[greatwyrmgold]

I've been watching both Raven of the Inner Palace and the new season of The Apothecary Diaries lately. It's obvious why people compare the two series, but one big difference I've noted is the protagonists' social awareness.

The semi-titular apothecary isn't a social savant, but she knows her place and how to keep it. Maomao is a lowborn servant surrounded by noble consorts and high-ranking eunuchs and the like. If she annoys them, her life will get harder; if she pisses them off badly enough, her life might end.

She acts accordingly. Maomao doesn't always do the socially appropriate thing, but she needs some unusual stress before she snaps.

By contrast, the semi-titular Raven Consort is a mixture of sheltered, isolated, and naive. There's a lot she just doesn't understand about the "proper" way for a noble consort like her to act. She didn't understand how giving Jiujiu something the Emperor gave to her could be insulting to either of them, let alone both. And even when she's not overtly oblivious like that, she's relatively informal and headstrong, even in the presence of the Emperor.

Luckily, she is the Raven Consort. On one hand, she's isolated from any schemers who could exploit her political incompetence. On the other hand, her status is grand enough that she can get away with more; even the Emperor is not that high above her station. No one would behead her for breaking a mirror.

Of course, she spent most of her childhood in the palace, being raised/trained as the new Raven Consort. Meanwhile, Maomao spent her entire childhood in the red-light district, learning how to be a skilled commoner while the rich and powerful tower above you. Of course they would have different relationships to power.

[once-more-with-anxiety]

not to be dramatic but if I think too long about Noah Czerny and how none of the Gangsey remember him and how he died without reason and how he was just so happy, despite everything, (maybe happy is the wrong word), I start crying and screaming and tearing my hair out.

[silverthelovebug]

I love this image

Cupid and Blondie have no reason to be doing allat

You can’t tell me they didn’t go to Thronecoming together.

“I’ll vote for you.” “I’ll vote for you too.” Type beat.

They made out after this/j

Seriously though, girls supporting girls, look how happy they are that Apple won (I’m assuming this is for the country that she won in), they are smiling and joyous, no jealousy :3 Raven is proud of her roomie!!!!!!

Meanwhile Cupid and Blondie are like intensely holding hands and begging gay in the back.

[thebarontheabyss]

If everyone had to choose one dessert to eat for the rest of their life what would it be. (Author too)

Mine would be lemon muffins

🥺 UGH, what a sweet ask (I'm so sorry for the horrible pun)

I'll start with me-self! I'll die happily eating an Apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

AND NOW FOR THE REST :D

Death would probably pick something like a Salted Dark Chocolate Tart. Bittersweet, like existence itself.

Tiramisu. Layered and irresistible.

Cherry pie, without a doubt. Tangy, sweet, and a little messy 👀

A Mochi ice cream. Simple yet... complex.

Macarons, but specifically their more luxurious Swiss version: Luxemburgerli.

A plain sugar cookie. 🥺

Baklava. Surprisingly sweet.

A Honey Cake—created in the 12th century, for a matter of fact!

Black forest cake, with worms, of course.

[friendofcars]

exhibit a: adam's birthday, july 3

exhibit b: skepticism

exhibit c: etymology

exhibit d: the witnessing of divinity

exhibit e: martyr in red

(feast of st. thomas / the raven boys, the dream thieves, blue lily, lily blue, and greywaren by maggie stiefvater / thomas the apostle / st. thomas / liturgical colours)

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[matchihachi]

NEIL JOSTEN, #10.

ummmm yeah i can draw backgrounds! uh trust me! no i dont want to talk about it ever!!

[acronym49]

Made for this multi-animator project, Harpy Hare! -> https://youtu.be/Pk97LtRGX_M?si=CRoLnMIWZucOcybg

Gonna binge post all the animations I've been working on, swear I'm not dead!

[birdofdeath-comic]

im so late posting this but here's my part for the goblin comics discord halloween collab :3

[palilious]

[dnd oc] Yllfira managed to tame a raven in our last session

[websitewizard2005]

the posthuman war more like the posthuman WARRIOR CATS

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