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I always assumed that Briar’s mum got the version of Sleeping Beauty where the whole castle sleeps with her, and that Rosabella’s mum was there too, maybe a younger sibling who went to a regular charm school instead of Ever After High when it was assumed she didn’t have a story.

Then while the whole royal family is sleeping off the curse Beast’s family stepped in to rule over their kingdom for a hundred years.

At that point both Sleeping Beauty’s prince and the prince who’ll become Beast are graduating Ever After High, where they’ve had a rivalry of sorts over which one of them ends up waking Sleeping Beauty - given it’s an obvious story that’s due to come up or something?

Sleeping Beauty’s prince wakes her and he’s really happy not just because he saved the princess with true loves kiss but he also won this stupid rivalry he had (with someone who was probably his roommate). Only he can’t even be happy for long because his sister in law has been kidnapped by a monster.

After some investigating, and probably some convincing from Headmaster Grimm to leave things be, Sleeping Beauty’s prince comes to the conclusion that the monster was actually the Beast (thought he doesn’t have an inkling as to who the Beast might be) and isn’t that great news your sister gets an important story too.

It’s not great news when the sister comes back some years later engaged to his old high school rival. That’s right they’re going to be in-laws now!

In retrospect he should have known because Beast’s family was ruling Sleeping Beauty’s kingdom until he was cursed. Like his family stepped down suspiciously fast all things considering. It really should have been obvious.

Not long after that Sleeping Beauty is announcing her first pregnancy. And Belle announces her first pregnancy, like, a week later. Which should be happy for the family but really it’s just annoying because it causes drama. Did Beast plan this as a way of one upping or outshining Sleeping Beauty’s Prince? No one knows but it’s all the media will talk about.

At least until the Christening gone wrong. Because Briar’s christening is when the Evil Queen pushes the Dark Fairy aside in an attempt to steal her role!

Sleeping Beauty’s Prince is really annoyed at this point, because his daughter’s just been upstaged in her own story. He can’t, however, fight the Evil Queen. She would win and they both know this.

He can cut off all contact between his family and the Beast’s family.

Worth noting at this point that Belle and Sleeping Beauty probably don’t have the best relationship themselves. Belle at least should be a little resentful of Sleeping Beauty. Not just for being the only one to get to go to Ever After High, but also for Belle losing all of her friends after the enchanted 100 years sleep, and on top of that her (SB’s) husband isn’t even nice to her (Belle’s) husband.

So the process of cutting off contact probably went something along the lines of Sleeping Beauty’s Prince making a big deal of it only for Belle to text “okay x” in reply. Which only served to make him more upset with the whole situation.

Years later Briar is woken from her enchanted sleep after like a year by Rosabella. Who had convinced Daring to help her get past the Night Briar’s after they’d finished their story. Since, you know, there’s no reason the Evil Queen would have used the same 100 year sleep spell as the Dark Fairy would have when taking over. And the Sharon Hale books show Raven as interfering with Briar’s daughter’s christening which can’t have even been framed as possible if Briar was going to actually sleep for 100 years. Not to mention Faybelle would be over 100 if that were to happen and she wouldn’t get her own story.

Also they’re family so of course they love each other.

Briar is so overjoyed she throws a party. Which her dad is thrown out of after he gets drunk and starts a fight with Rosabella’s mum.

Happily Ever After’s all around.

ok so i was thinking about how Briar and Rosabella being cousins works and I came up with some theories.

So first, its confirmed Beauty and Sleeping Beauty are sisters, and this would imply that that both of their parents had destinies. So most likely one of their parents, Briar and Rosabella’s maternal grandparents, was Sleeping Beauty and the other was Beauty. So I am taking this to mean either one of two things happened.

1) They were rebels and it was kept quiet (i think this might be more likely)

2) somehow one of them being a guy messed their story up?

What do you guys think?