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The Wondermadness Chapter 12: Brother Bother

Wahoo! Two updates in a row! Time for the Chad of this timeline to make his debut >:D

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New to the Wondermadness?

An imagined sequel to Descendants: the Rise of Red that takes the novels into consideration and answers the question of: so what changed? If you're a fan of Beyond the Isle of the Lost, love triangles, and a healthy dose of guilt getting in the way of pining lesbians, check it out!

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GOSH I'm so late to respond to this but YES UNCLE MUSHU IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE!! I am a firm believer in the animal sidekicks being a big part of these children's lives 🙏

Thank you @cleverqueencommander for suggesting I draw Shang Jr. I love this little family so much

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Got any headcanons on the dwarves and their children?

A few, but my favorite one comes FIRST AND FOREMOST: trans Doug Dwarf IS REAL IN MY HEART OKAY

Her name is DAPHNE because that's a better riff on Dopey's name anyway!

I headcanon dwarfs as being a fantasy race separate from humans with an affinity to the underground who happen to commonly have dwarfism genes, which is what the seven have (and Daphne, because Devie should've always had Evie be the tall gf and I will die on that hill), but one doesn't necessarily need to be short to be a dwarf! Planty of tall guys like her brother Derek are still dwarfs despite their heights, they just didn't get the dwarfism gene lol

I'm not the biggest fan of canon!Doug's personality if we're being honest, a lot of the character choices reek of desperation and come off more annoying than endearing in my opinion. I just feel that the message of 'finally being seen for more than just my looks!' is kinda lost there when... The only reason Doug was ever on Evie's side is cuz she was pretty and he had a crush on her 💀. Still, the potential of Devie is extremely cute to me and I feel like it doesn't take much work to make them work!

I've got an alternate first meeting for them with this HC under the cut 🤭 plus some more notes!

I would say that after their first meeting all Devie really needed was a moment where Daph actually SEES EVIDENCE of Evie being smart instead of just jumping to her defense bc she's pretty. My thought process was something along the lines of Evie accidentally showing her up constantly (bc she's cheating with the magic mirror) and Daphne being both baffled and slightly angry that she's being knocked out of the top student spot by someone who ISNT EVEN PAYING ATTENTION (cuz Evie is ofc too busy making googoo eyes at Chad to even pretend like she's actually working hard for her grades) but then the two of them end up getting paired up for a hands on chemistry assignment and Evie is able to figure everything out without even thinking of consulting the mirror due to her experience with making her own makeup using whatever she had available to her on the isle.

And boom! Daphne now knows Evie is authentically smart and just needs a chance! It makes the whole 'being acknowledged' message just work so much better!

I also feel that Evies whole entire relationship with being so obsessed with princes reads as very... Comphet-ty to me. Of course she APPEARS attracted to Chad but when they finally get a moment alone the FIRST things she asks about is how big his CASTLE is!!! 😭 Like Lord. Whoever wrote Evie and actually thought that was straight behavior has to do some PERSONAL soul searching LMFAO

Anyway, obviously most of what I wrote here is just total rewrite so... Oopsie daisy. But I subscribe to the trans HC anyway! I think that a lot of her awkwardness in dialogue and character choices could end up being excused with her just being really insecure in who she is as a person while she's figuring all these things out about herself. Plus the hair in the third movie... I mean, need I say more? Classic t girl cut ✋🤚 no one shoot please.

Anyways enough of this agenda. Here's some more HCS!

- everyone in the dwarf family knows at least a little sign language! Dopey is mute (in some sources selectively but in others completely) so I like to imagine that he knows sign language and his brothers learnt it with him in solidarity! Since it's used so commonly around the house Derek and Daph are fluent in it too and their cousins know a couple words here in there. I also think Daph would've taught Evie just a bit of sign language so they could talk (sign?) shit about Chad directly in front of his face LMFAO

- Snow White is the godmother of ALL the dwarf cousins which is why she has no descendants of her own in the franchise. Shes too busy spoiling her godkids!!

- Evie always has this line about canon!Doug not being a 'real prince' but instead the 'prince of her heart' - but the thing is, the dwarf cousins have actually grown up with very refined educations that they basically ARE royalty in all but blood! Snow White made sure that none of them ever wanted for anything and they each have their own rooms in her castle. She personally funded every single one of their hobbies which is why so many of them seem to excel in the things they're pursuing

- most of them have poor eyesight but that's just a general trait of dwarfs as a species. Their eyes are pretty sensitive to sunlight but they can see exceedingly well in the dark or underground!

- even though the dwarfs were EXTREMELY touchy about Snow's whole... Stranger danger don't let anyone in the house etc etc rule, Daph was one of the only students we saw be open to the VKs coming over- and I'd like to believe it's a general trait that most of her cousins shared! Snow isn't a girl that likes to dwell on the horrible things that happen to her, she chooses to place EXTRA importance on how the dwarfs welcomed her into their home despite not knowing her and how their KINDNESS towards a STRANGER is the reason she is who she is today! So, even though the seven like to keep to themselves and are usually highly aware of the dangers strangers pose, almost all of the cousins are EXTREMELY sociable individuals

- a lot of the 'Name Jr.' dwarf guys don't actually share the traits their fathers are named after to the point that most of them are oxymorons. Their friends usually nickname them after traits that ACTUALLY suit them

- at least one of them has an EXTREMELY guilty pleasure of really liking apples that they have to hide from the rest of the family... Not sure who tho

That's all I got for now! Thank you so much for the ask! Sorry for derailing a little in the beginning but I brought it back in the end 💪💪💪

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It started the way it always did.

Ace of Hearts was a loyal soldier in the Queen’s guard. In fact, he was one of her best, and he wanted for nothing else in life than to serve her to his fullest capacity.

It always started out that way...

But Ace was something of a defective card.

Or: The one where Ace's love for Red is the thing that keeps saving him and dooming him over and over again.

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for the... MANY spadeheart fans out there that definitely exist LMAO I hope you guys enjoyyyy... and also help me fill the tags there’s only me and two other people on there single underscore tear underscore emoji

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Have any headcanons about the Tourney team boys?

Herkie.

Aziz.

Ben.

Chad.

Jay.

Carlos.

Failed Tourney Team Member:

Bash.

I love talking about the lesser known characters.

YES I DO THANK YOU FOR ASKING I had a mini phase where I really wanted to see more of the tourney squad interactions - I even drew some comics!

Granted these are a BIT outdated (I have different number HCS for the boys too since I thought Carlos being 101 for the dalmatians was too cute!)

From left to right they're Herkie, Aziz, Jay, Chad, Ben, Taylor (son of Tarzan) on the floor, and Carlos waaaaay in the corner lol.

Now to get to the real meat! I'll keep it under the cut for dash clutter lol

First thangs first! The guy who made it into the pic despite not having speaking lines or book presence.

Taylor

- Son of Tarzan and Jane Porter, like I mentioned before, but he always introduces himself as the son of Jane (and grandson of Archimedes Q. Porter) because he genuinely believes that she's the famous parent. She's the one with a degree and book and college presentations after all! He gets seriously confused when people have no idea who he's talking about and laughs when they recognize Tarzan's name over hers. No matter how many times people tell him Tarzan's his actual famous parent he thinks it's a joke.

- He speaks the animal language, like his father. It gets him a few Disney Princess jokes from the rest of his teammates but it's all lighthearted! He's also really good at mimicking sounds like Tarzan. If Coach Jenkins ever loses his whistle he just has Taylor mimic the sound lol

- because he usually talks to animals he never realized that Dude started speaking English LMAO

- he has a sister named Janice who is EXTREMELY tech savvy and is basically the 'you don't UNDERSTAND ME' teen archetype who butts heads with her environmentalist hippie family. They both have 'K' as their middle name initial, Taylor's is for Kerchak and Janice's is for Kala.

- he won't put on a shirt unless absolutely necessary. He hates clothes in general but he keeps his pants on for everyone else's sake. His jersey number is 24 in reference to the original 24 books in Tarzan's series!

Herkie

- son of Hercules and Megara, of course. He's got the superstrength of his dad and the weak ankles of his mother 💔 his real name is Herakles, because that's less personally offensive to me and the nickname still works!

- he's not as witty as Megara but he has her sass in SPIRIT. He can pull a face and pose that conveys sarcasm better than any wisecrack could and it makes people remark that he's a lot like her, even though he doesn't have the vocab to back it up

- Phil is banned from Auradon Prep because of him. He would keep showing up at Herkie's games to heckle and ended up hurting a lot of fragile teen boy egos.

- he's got his own Pegasus named Peggy-Sue. Yes it's horrific, yes I think it's too descendants-core for me to change my mind about it. He and Aziz like to compete in flying races, horse vs carpet, and have exactly zero concepts of 'fear of heights' or 'motion sickness' between them.

- he and the rest of the Olympians figured out that Hades was Mal's father before she even knew he was her father. They just thought it was common knowledge, her outbursts and fake personas were too Hades-like for them NOT to connect the dots. Because of this personal villain connection he was one of the AKs that took a little longer to warm up to the VKs, but nobody else could figure out where his attitude was coming from lol

- his jersey number is 12, for the 12 Olympian gods and for the original Herakles' 12 tasks

Aziz

- son of JALADDIN *Lego spin* and one of the most easygoing guys on the team

- in my heart of hearts Jay ends up getting adopted by Jasmine and Aladdin so Aziz ends up as his adoptive brother

- Jordan is his absolute bestie and their ringtones for each other are Friend Like Me

- he LOVESSSSS stargazing! He's part of the astronomy club at AP but his favorite way to look at stars is to drag Carpet up as high as it'll go at night and just lay back in it. Herkie, as the only one with a height tolerance like his, likes to join him sometimes to see Hercules's constellation up close!

- he is EXTREMELY organized but not in, like, a purposeful way. Aladdin and Abu like to play little pranks on him and 'steal' his things without telling him (just to not lose their street rat edge) so he'd never know if he genuinely lost or forgot something or if his dad and monkey were messing with him. He now keeps a really detailed mental list of his stuff so if something's gone he knows they were behind it. This also meant that when Jay showed up at AP he was the first to notice that someone was snatching their things lol

- his jersey number is 40, for the 40 thieves

Tyrone

- son of Terpsichore from Hercules, the muse of dance! Like his mother and aunts he can travel through artwork, but usually stays away from it cuz he doesn't like the feeling of switching art styles lol

- he and Herkie are familiar with each other from growing up on Olympus together and also being the only dudes on the team to wear togas. It's STILL manly 💪😤

- in a meta sense, he's the one responsible for all the spontaneous dance numbers in Auradon working so well. His mom's the muse of dance so he always has the guys ready for when Ben wants to declare his love to random villain girls in song form after games

Li

- son of Chef Louis, and, since I hc him as being Best Bro from the School of Secrets web series, also Smee's great nephew! His mother is Smee's niece and she and Louis bonded over their sea-adjacent backgrounds. Mermaids stress them both out.

- He's always complaining that there's not enough Seafood in the cafeteria but Mrs. Potts won't hear it

- despite his parents' iffiness over sea creatures, he's good friends with Akio!

Akio

- son of Aquata, Ariel's nephew.

- too many of his cousins went to seaside academy so he decided to branch out! He always gets extra rough with training when he knows they're about to go up against the Mermen.

Emir

- son of Amal, Aladdin's ex-best friend from the Aladdin cartoon.

- After traveling the world on his journey of redemption, Amal settled near Auradon, so Emir has never been to Agrabah, much like Jay. He uses this as a point to relate to him when Jay admits knowing that it's where he's from, nationally, but not feeling particularly connected to it due to growing up on the Isle

- Emir and Aziz knew absolutely nothing about Aladdin and Amal's past but still ended up really close. It was due to their sons' closeness that Amal and Aladdin eventually discovered the connection and rekindled their friendship :)

William

- grandson of Wilhelmina Packard from Atlantis

- the other guys on the team try to bond with him but every second when he's off the field or out of class he's chatting loudly on the phone with his out-of-auradon buddies

- despite this, he's a really great team player and is super reliable! He does join their hangouts from time to time but is usually on the phone in the background yapping away (like his grandma lol)

Other Jersey number HCS

Jay - 03, for three genie wishes

Ben - 21, for the age his father was when the beast curse was lifted (/how old he would've been when the curse was sealed if Belle never showed up lol)

Chad - 00, midnight in military time but doubles as a laugh about his loserness

And that's all I got! The main guys are pretty fleshed out characters so I don't think they need my support haha. Thanks for the ask! This was really fun to do :D

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The Wondermadness Chapter 9: Scrapped Opening

Did I ever mention that I originally had a love interest planned for Ace in The Wondermadness? I absolutely fell in love with her but unfortunately that meant that she would've most certainly taken over too much of my fanfic so I had to give her the boot 😓 the ever-amazing Astral let me know that they wanted to see her though so here's her intro scene!

The three of them stepped out onto the tourney field, with Chester in the lead, his arms open wide as he basked in the sunlight.

“Ahh… I dunno why you keep saying that Auradon is terrible, Ace. Their sun has ours beat by miles!” He declared, flopping down onto the grass beside the bleachers and rolling around in it. “That crotchety old star is always too bright or too hot, lost its balance from being up in the sky for so long, but this sun has it down to a science!”

“I think our sun is fantastic!” Ace protested, crossing his arms and turning up his nose. “And I don’t think all of Auradon’s terrible… They have good handshakes.”

“Issss that it?” Chloe laughed lightly, taking a seat on the edge of the bleachers while the rest of the students milled about.

Some were already running their own drills across the tourney field, others were catching up on the bleachers, waiting to spectate the tryouts. On the far end of the field, a group of cheerleaders accomplished a series of complicated flips, showing off for the new players they may be cheering for soon. It seemed like everyone had someone to talk to in the buzz of excited anticipation… except for one person. A girl, who was sitting alone not too far from them, inspecting her nails casually as if she couldn’t care less about the upcoming tryouts.

Something about her made her stand out sharply against the rest of the scenery. Maye it was because she seemed sort of lonely. Chloe’s shoulders sagged, well, we can’t let that stay that way! She thought, and was just about to invite her to join them when Ace scoffed loudly.

“Well, Auradon’s lucky I’m even giving it that much— I’m still not entirely convinced you didn’t make it up yourself, Chloe! It’s far too clever for this place…” He sniffed.

“What?! I did not! It’s definitely real, didn’t you get to shake anyone else’s hand yet?” She asked incredulously.

Ace’s breath hitched and Chester rolled over backwards, clutching his stomach as he laughed.

“Oh, Blue, you should’ve seen it!” He howled.

“I wanted to, but Red didn’t let me…” Ace pouted, digging his toe into the grass petulantly. “She’s been stopping me from shaking hands all day! Says it makes me look like I’ve never been out of the house before.”

“Cuz you haven’t,” Chester remarked.

“Cuz I haven’t.” Ace nodded. “None of us have, and why should we?! Wonderland is perfect! Other than the handshaking, if it is real… the score is Auradon:1; Wonderland: 10,117.”

Chloe giggled, covering her hand with her mouth. “That’s way too specific.”

“Well, I’ve been counting,” Ace said proudly. “Would you like to hear about each point?”

“Uh…”

“Great!” Ace leaned back against the bleachers, tallying the items off on his fingers. “Firstly there's the paths. Did you know that they always keep the same ones? Apparently there aren’t any broomdogs, so no one thinks to freshen them up! Then the bushes, of course, it makes sense for them to grow erratically out in the woods, but they grow the same no matter what location they’re in! They haven’t even got the sense to grow in interesting shapes when they’re out in public spaces, completely squandering the opportunity for plants that would like to be artistic! Aaaaand speaking of those, did you notice how the flowers here don’t even talk? I could excuse that if they were asleep in their flowerbeds, but even in places where the soil is too hard to sleep on they refuse to speak a word—!”

“Aaaceeeee,” Chester yowled, clapping his hands over his ears. “Your complaining is ruining my grass experience! Why don’t you go shake hands with someone, Red isn’t here now, she can’t stop you!”

Chloe wanted to protest against the order— just because Red wasn’t around, it didn’t mean that they shouldn’t listen to the rules she set!— but she was too relieved that the tirade of critiques stopped (it was almost worse than Chad’s when he got fired up about disliking something), and besides, she reasoned, Red wasn’t actually an authority figure…

Well, she is to Ace. She’s ‘his princess’. Her brain supplied mockingly. The thought just made her purse her lips tighter.

“Hey… that’s true!” Ace perked up, kicking off the bleachers to find his first victim. “She won’t mind once I show her how many friends I’ve made.”

“More like she won’t mind as long as you blink your long lashes in her direction.” Chester snorted, rolling over to his stomach and resting his head against his folded up hands. “Ooh! Princessss!! You don’t miiiind that I shook people’s hands, do you? I’m too pretty to be mad at!” He trilled in a high-pitched voice and fluttered his lashes violently up at Chloe.

Something inside her twisted uncomfortably, but the sight was too funny for her to not let out a small laugh.

“See, Blue already forgives you,” Chester dropped out of his pose, laying flat in the grass.

From where she was sitting, Chloe could almost understand where his cat argument came from. His brown hair poked up at just the right spots to look like little cat ears on the top of his head, and he was laying so flatly it was like his bones were just as flexible as the animal’s.

“Save your mockery, friends, I’ve got it” Ace said decisively, marching away from their group and towards the girl Chloe had spotted earlier, who was now inspecting the nails on her other hand.

Chester cracked an eye open at that and quickly sat up at the sight of the girl. “Oh, me-wow.”

Now that she was really looking at her, Chloe couldn’t help but agree. The girl was tall, with long honey-colored hair tied up in a ponytail— and it was suddenly clear why she had stood out so much in the first place— her skin was so golden it practically glowed. She almost looked too glamorous to be out in the middle of a tourney field with mortals like them.

“Hello!” Ace said loudly, stopping stiffly in front of her and locking his feet together, like a soldier would.

The girl glanced up from her hands slowly, assessing Ace up and down. “Uh, hi?”

“Did you notice that you’re the only one out here all alone? It makes for a very sad sight, were you home sick the day they were handing out friends to everyone?”

“Excuse me?” She raised a single eyebrow at him, putting her hand down.

“Oh my fairy godmother…” Chloe facepalmed in secondhand embarrassment, clambering up from her seat to save the interaction.

“Wait, no!” Chester grabbed her by the ankles, watching the scene unfold from between her feet. “I wanna see what happens.”

Chloe grumbled, trying to pull herself out of his surprisingly firm grip. “That’s—!”

Ace shrugged. “Unless you prefer to be alone, that’s alright too. You don’t need friends, really, but in my opinion they certainly make life easier and more fun to live.”

“... Is this your weird way of making fun of me?” She snickered, crossing one leg over the other and leaning back in her seat with a curious expression. “Cuz you’ve got to be the saddest bully I’ve seen yet. Were you home sick the day they taught you how to put those muscles to use against frail little girls like me?” She drawled, tilting her head to the side, letting her long hair drape against her shoulder.

Chester and Chloe winced as one, but Ace just threw his head back and laughed.

“AHAHA! Oh, I see now! I’m so sorry if I came off as rude, where I’m from we really do have handout days for friends. I see Auradon is, once again, behind on such things…” He shook his head in disappointment. “It ensures that no one is left lonely, unless it’s by choice. My first Friendship Day is how I met my friend Chester!” He lifted his finger up, pointing to where Chloe and Chester were watching a few paces away.

Chester poked his hand out between Chloe’s legs and waved as Chloe gave the girl an apologetic smile.

“Huh… waddaya know…” the girl muttered, looking up at Ace again. “What does this have to do with me again?”

“Well, I wanted to know if you were lonely by choice! Cuz if not, then I’d like to be your friend!” He stuck his hand out expectantly, eyes shining. “Let’s shake.”

The girl snorted but made no move to take his hand. “Do you even know who I am?”

Ace shrugged. “Does it matter? Let’s be friends and shake hands. Or, let’s not be friends and shake hands anyway, for a conversation well-conducted.”

The girl looked down at his hand, then back up at his face, and then over at Chloe and Chester, who were still watching everything happen with bated breaths. “Oh, I get it now. You and Tweedledee and Tweedleblue over there are all part of the Wonderland crew, arentcha?” She thrust a thumb over in their direction.

“Just Tweedle-me, actually!” Chester shouted back to her.

“So you’re new around here… and have no clue who I am.”

“I could,” Ace insisted, pushing his hand even further towards her. “I’m Ace of Spades.”

The girl smirked and let out a short laugh. “Like the card?”

“Exactly like it. I’ve got my suit printed on my chest and everything.”

The girl narrowed her eyes with interest. “Huh. What’s a girl gotta do to see that?”

Chloe coughed loudly and Chester made an uncomfortable hissing sound.

“Erm… wait for the weather to be appropriate to go to the beach?” He shrugged. “Though I only go to the beach with my friends. I’m no oyster!”

“Wow… I have no clue what you’re talking about. You really are from Wonderland.” She laughed, finally bending forward to reach for his hand. “Fine, you win, Wonderboy. Let’s shake.”

Ace smiled broadly, clasping their hands together excitedly, but before he could manage a single tug, the girl shook once and— with all the force of a cannon— flung him straight over her shoulder and into the bleachers behind her.

“Ack!”

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“Ace!” Chester yowled in distress, disappearing from beneath Chloe and reappearing at Ace’s side in an instant.

“What was that?!” Chloe yelped, stalking up towards the girl furiously. “That was totally uncalled for!”

“I was just shakin’ hands, like Wonderboy asked.” She smirked, looking over her shoulder in amusement as he clambered out from between the seats, blowing a strand of her hair aside with a single breath. “Big, strong boy like him. He can handle it.”

“Just because he can handle it, doesn’t mean you should throw him!” Chloe spat, sizing her up.

The girl looked up at her with a bored expression and sighed loudly. “Look, I didn’t mean to, honest. That’s just what happens when people shake hands with me. Don’t like it? Don’t shake.”

Chloe gritted her teeth and started for her sword— she was seriously not liking this girl's attitude about all this! — but then, the reminder of her own unwanted thoughts popped into her head, and she realized that if this girl’s Herculean strength was anything like that, then she’d be the worst kind of hypocrite to hold it against her.

“That… was… AMAZING!” Ace cheered, crawling his way back over to them with bright eyes.

“Really? You’re a durable guy, huh?” The girl smirked.

“Sure am! I’m a card, after all. I can’t believe it… I only wanted to shake hands with someone, but instead I found Auradon’s world champion hand-shaker! How lucky is that, Chloe?!”

The tension left Chloe’s shoulders at Ace’s reaction. If he didn’t have any problem with the girl, then she shouldn’t hold grudges on his behalf.

“Yup… super lucky.” She trailed off, assessing the girl once again. Something about her looked familiar, but she couldn’t figure out why. “So, who are you, then? You still didn’t say.”

“The name’s Megan. My friends call me Meg, at least they would if I had any friends.” She lifted her hand, gesturing to it pointedly. “All that freak strength was great for my brothers, but let’s just say, as a girl… the chance that you might rip out hair instead of braiding it if you sneeze doesn’t get you invited to a whole lot of slumber parties.”

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The Wondermadness Chapter 11: Here She Comes...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58085458/chapters/164303878

Yeahhhh baby! New The Wondermadness chapter out! I love writing villains I should write a whole fic for them (-the evil worms in my head)

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New to the Wondermadness?

An imagined sequel to Descendants: the Rise of Red that takes the novels into consideration and answers the question of: so what changed? If you're a fan of Beyond the Isle of the Lost, love triangles, and a healthy dose of guilt getting in the way of pining lesbians, check it out!

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"My mother never let me have friends over. Or have friends." Yeah, she erased your friends's minds and turned them into a cat and a card soldier and that was fucking horrific and I hope they're okay now purely for Red's peace of mind

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So canon Ace is supposed to be Red's love interest, right? Well, I propose a polycule; RedxAce and RedxChloe, and then Ace and Chloe are just buddies.

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Going back to my roots with this one.

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Thank you @cleverqueencommander for suggesting I draw Shang Jr. I love this little family so much

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we need to talk about why original descendants characters have the ugliest ship names. wtf is mevie??? fucking BAL????? why cant we have something cute like glassheart 😭😭😭

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Thank you @cleverqueencommander for suggesting I draw Shang Jr. I love this little family so much

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Melissa De La Cruz when Disney tells her about the 4th Hook child, 3rd Facilier, and a dozen new characters she’s going to have to figure out how to fit into her already canonically confusing book series