#and Blondie Queen

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This is kind of out of nowhere but I feel like the aesthetics of Raven Queen and Apple White are so similar to Sarcean and Anharion

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OG Royal vs Rebel Squad

They should have gotten more focus, they were such good foils!!

Raven vs Apple: Obviously the biggest example of foils and shown most in canon, both are trying to do what they think is right and are seen as leaders to their groups. Raven wants to bring down the restrictive status quo and allow the freedom of choice, while Apple wants the tradition and security it provides. While Raven is a princess, she is a villain, so she is seen unfavorably through the social hierarchy, while Apple is a heroine with a good social standing.

Maddie vs Briar: Both are trying to cope with the way the destiny system affect their lives. While both are extroverts who enjoy parties, Maddie loves her destiny but is willing to stand against the system while Briar does not like her destiny but is afraid to rebel. Maddie is a refugee and side character in the Wonderland story while Briar is a member of the elite as an important princess character.

Cedar vs Ashlynn: Both want something different from their lives. Ashlynn hides her secret relationship for fear of how others will react, while Cedar cannot lie but wishes she could so she could be let into her friends' confidences. Ashlynn is a princess who would dislikes her destiny and prefers doing other things, such as being in the woods or working in the store, and Cedar is a puppet who would like her destiny of being a real human girl, but disagrees with the system for the sake of her friends.

Cerise vs Blondie: Both are trying to navigate their tenuous position is society. Blondie personally and systematically likes destiny, Cerise personally and systematically does not. Blondie is a gossip hound investigative reporter while Cerise has a huge secret. Blondie lied about her family history to fit in with the classist and elitist society, Cerise lied to avoid facing probably severe repercussions.

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Various photos of the iconic Debbie Harry 💗

she’s such a queen!!!!

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i know that the eah books frame apple, briar and blondie as the 'main' royal trio and ashlynn is sometimes the plus one. then the webisodes sort of switches blondie and ashlynn's positions which i think makes it so much better.

here's my reasoning. boling it down to the basics, apple and blondie's future stories are both short tragedies followed by a long happy ever after. apple gets three trials from the evil queen and essentially gets poisoned for a week and her survival is ensured through all of it. blondie's story with the bears takes less time than that. heck, blondie barely suffers through it. the bears go more tragedy than her.

but briar and ashlynn's stories are much more darker and tragic than those two combined. briar falls asleep for a hundred years. when she wakes up, all her family, her siblings, her friends and everyone she's ever known are gone are long gone. she's displaced from her own time and saddled with a prince she has never met before. ashlynn's going to lose her mother and then her father and then has to suffer through years of abuse from her stepfamily and she just has to bear it. she's going to have lose to lose contact with her friends and break up with her boyfriend and go through all of it alone with just birds and mice to talk to. they both have to make it through so much hardship before they get their happily ever after.

(their ever afters aren't even 100% happy. when ashlynn gets her ever after, she'll eventually go through the last part of her cinderella story and knows that she won't live long enough to see her child reach adulthood. briar knows her child will be cursed too and she'll have to accept the fact that there's going to be that event where her child will fall asleep for a hundred years. they won't be dead, but it's close to a parent burying their own child. since snow whites aren't related to the evil queens in the world of ever after, only apple gets a perfectly happy ending to her story)

the webisodes deciding to surround apple with ashlynn and briar makes apple look so much more naive with her way of thinking. the extreme contrast with her path to her happily ever after compared to her 'bffs' portrays apple as someone who doesnt' think about other people's stories and just focuses on her own. the lack of compassion from apple (and other royals) towards ashlynn and briar is even enough to make ashlynn and briar rebel. apple's blinding excitement toward her future clashes extremely with ashlynn and briar's anxious dread towards theirs.

surrounding apple with briar and blondie just doesn't give the same effect.

in contrast to the royal side, there's the 'main' rebel trio where you have raven, maddie and cedar. maddie and cedar are happy with their stories and like where they end up. raven doesn't. rightly so because her fate isn't a happy one. but maddie and cedar feel so much love for their friend that they're willing to throw away their destinies, their potential happiness in the hope of being able to help her. they're willing to risk their happily ever afters so raven won't ever have to suffer.

what an interesting comparison between two groups when one is descirbed to be 'good' and the other as 'bad' when it's definitely the other way around.

the webisodes may be just marketing for the dolls but they do make some incredibly fantastic writing choices.

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Couldn’t stop thinking about this so I’ve willed it into existence

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Made by me, this was my first try

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Ever After High BRAT Ranking:

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My au season 1 aftermath of practicing signing the book and raven questioning everything

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Currently watching Wes Anderson movies at work with my boss

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Some EAH redesign brainstorming (though quite a few of them are covered or cropped so you can’t really see their designs…)