This Is Gold!

this is gold!

“Just part Big Bad Wolf, Sir.”

“I knew it. I’m done, everyone stealing my thunder. I’ll call the huntsman myself. I don’t want to deal with this. I didn’t even catch lunch. smh. “.

“Wait. I have the most fabelous meat pie ever and it’s a family recipe and can feed like 5 people. I’m sure grandma won’t mind. Wait, where is she?”

”The bed was empty when I came So IDK.”

”Oh no. Grandma prob went to terrorise some sheep again or blow the pig’s homes down or BOTH.“

”I- Those were my jobs. Ya know what, I quit. After I have some pie. Then I’m relocating.”

”Ooooh! I heard Camelot’s great this time of year.”

”Are ya suggesting I become a Knight?“

“Eh, why not. Probably more fun than doing a couple things over and over again.”

A Thought

The Grandma from Little Red Riding Hood is an interesting role in Ever After High because EITHER -There is someone out there whose entire destiny is to be eaten by a wolf OR -There is a possibility that Ramona Badwolf could be the next Grandma.

Facts 10000000%. A diary of Chase would be so interesting and give a new preseptive. He probs felt lonely. I think he a 'sheltered' prince to the public's mind. When in actuality he obv the red knight is his duty so he knows of people but doesn't get time to mingle. I was so shook when Lizzie and the wonderlandians didn't know him. He knows of people but was really unknown to em and not close

ever think about how not only were we deprived of most of the guys' dolls, but we were also deprived of their diaries? like. can you imagine if we got actual depth to sparrow? humphrey? hopper? they could've found a way to pull off one for tiny if they just thought abt it for long enough. hell, daring got two dolls and yet no diary. can you imagine if we got daring from his own point of view? all the accounts we have of him are either laced with resentment bc he's the golden boy or played for laughs. there's soooooo much wonderland lore in the diaries, can you imagine if we got one from chase, who actually stayed in wonderland after it got sealed off?

Well there's room for so much angst tbh. Like the line of the actual book starts with 'All of this has happened before and will happen again' so this boy legit goes in loops with the Darling girls. It's hinted that even Wendy's mum knew him and had adventured with him. And in the end it's mentioned he take Wendy's daugethers for adventures too. Plus the quotes i checked out for this other project i have as pretty bittersweet.Again I love this elaboration and seriously need more lols!

Some OC and Canon Character Relationships for my Peter Pan/Ever After High AU

Peter is an irrepressible extrovert. Why do you think he periodically left his island to make new friends and bring them over before the legacy system? He will be friends with anyone who doesn’t rub him the wrong way first, and even them if they say sorry and he thinks they mean it. (Prejudices like sexism and the bias against villains’ children are just more silly grownup nonsense to him. You should make people sad only for perfectly logical reasons, like if they hurt puppies for fun or won’t give totally deserving immortal boys chocolate they totally deserve. But he’s never properly got the ‘sins of the parent’ thing. Yeah, he fought every Hook from the cycle’s start, but that’s ‘cause every Hook was themselves bad and wanted to fight him first! Right? …Isn’t that how it went?) This whole ‘maturing’ thing is very, very New and Hard and Scary, and he develops a deep fear of losing his nerve on it after coming so far, aware he’s had a consistent habit of forgetting any emotional growth he got in the past. His personal affections are fickle and impulsive day to day, especially in the beginning. His strongest bonds are undoubtedly with Scarlet and Fire Lily. Peter’s beloved or at least admired and appreciated by the masses for his innumerable daring feats, generally nice disposition and of course singlehandedly keeping the cycle of destiny in Neverland turning all this time. However, it can be difficult for him and others to discern between his friends and mere fans. At first, he doesn’t care. What matters is people think he’s cool. The more attuned to how bad the status quo is and how important others’ needs and rights are he becomes, the more he favours Rebels like Raven, Maddie, Kitty, Darling, Cerise, Ramona, Ginger (if you give him good food, he is your friend for life), and Melody. He still loves plenty of Royals as people and slowly learns how to see the world in less black-and-white terms to maintain his friendships with them. Some will find him annoying or bratty, but it’s difficult to truly hate him because, well, if you have an ounce of self-awareness as the Hooks are famously lacking, it seems absurd to hate a child who probably neither knows why you do nor is bothered that you do. Hating people is Not Fun, so he’s reluctant to commit to it, so it’ll tend to be an unsatisfyingly one-sided animosity on your part.

Blondie is eager to interview the illustrious Peter Pan. Always glad to talk about himself, he doesn’t see much problem with her nosiness, pickiness and lack of respect for privacy and appreciated her ability to put an entertaining spin on anything. He sometimes assists her collecting gossip.

Duchess is one of the few who actually do hate Peter. She cannot stand that she’s doomed to a tragic end of loneliness and heartbreak, while his life is an endless procession of fun, freedom and happily ever afters. Plus, he’s a loud, tactless nuisance. He mistakes this for a tongue-in-cheek rivalry and accordingly enjoys teasing her for a long while. Eventually he does figure out Duchess is really hurting, regretfully dropping it, but his usual tactics to make people feel better don’t work with her. Left no other options, he confesses he was kinda attracted to the first Wendy Darling and it hurt him deeply to say goodbye to her forever, so he can’t imagine how awful her destiny would feel. Then they just keep their distance from each other in strange understanding.

Sparrow and Peter get along great. The boy is happy to be a diversion or nimble fellow pickpockets in Sparrow’s thefts. He might want to keep one or two shiny things, but often the look of revelation on the victim’s face is payment enough. This friendship mildly strains Sparrow and Duchess’s relationship.

Scarlet and Faybelle are instant BFFAs. They both noticed they were the most genuinely enthusiastic and happy kids in the first General Villainy lesson and struck up a conversation. Now when Scarlet needs a truly understanding ear (well, it’s more that Faybelle lets her vent and then changes the subject to something different, usually herself, but talking to her always makes her feel better) or just wants some no-questions-asked, no-strings-attached mischief, she knows the Dark Fairy’s daughter has her back. Faybelle cheers her on during her sports games. They help each other with work in their several shared subjects.

Scarlet: I mean, I’m honoured to inherit my father’s role and all, but I don’t want to be just another Captain Hook, you know? I want to be that Captain Hook.

Faybelle: Right? And the Evil Queen stole my mother’s part, so I’m stuck in the shadow of two villains! I can enjoy being evil and still want to be special.

Scarlet: That’s exactly it! You are so much better than the fairies in Neverland.

Faybelle: Of course I am. I’m better than everyone.

Scarlet: Except at piracy!

[They laugh and high five.]

Faybelle isn’t impressed by Peter at first, but after he tells the story of the original Tinkerbell trying to kill Wendy as a funny anecdote in an interview with a very underprepared Blondie, she realizes his moral code is also pretty flexible. So she allows him to tag along with her and his sister a few times, and warms up to him. As long as she stays nice to him and Scarlet he’s cool with all her villainous… quirks and he has many lifetimes’ experience in troublemaking. He has no idea why more people don’t like her. She seems similar to him and almost everyone at school likes him. Having real friends who trust and accept her helps Faybelle a lot, not that she’ll admit it. The chaotic trio confide in each other their respective gradual turns toward morals and the worries and insecurities they give them, like Faybelle’s dissipating hostility to her classmates and crush on Briar, Scarlet’s interest in and protectiveness of her identity besides villainy and piracy and Peter finally catching up on the remorse and empathy he’s been delaying.

Scarlet also befriends Darling (her favourite fencing partner) and Ramona.

Meghan is friends with Ashlynn, who shares her kindness and love of nature, Blondie, who shares her curiosity and secretly wanting more out of her destiny, and Briar, who shares a pack of younger siblings and knows a lot of ways to have pure, undiluted fun. Since she can plan all those parties so flawlessly and keep up with her work while having narcolepsy, Briar must have hextremely efficient organization and time management skills. She’s a mentor of sorts to Meghan.

Fire Lily has never needed a lot of friends, he’s most comfortable with just a few people who understand him and he can come to when he needs to while able to do the same. So he only has a couple friends other than Peter - a childhood friend he’d lost touch with and now becomes a responsible big brother to - Scarlet - a childhood rival annoyingly good at antagonizing him and getting his flawless facade to crack, who he comes to see as a sister through association with Peter - and Meghan - who he has seamless platonic chemistry with on his first day. He bonds with Cedar over their love of art. Her honesty is refreshing and forces him to face and resolve his mistakes and problems; it isn’t always fun, but he knows there’s more to life than fun unlike certain people, and doesn’t back down from the challenge. Ashlynn and Hunter are his allies in environmental activism. Neverland has much better harmony with nature than Ever After, so seeing the mainland’s level of harmful industrialization is quite a culture clash.

Hope ya don’t mind me adding my thoughts. Was supposed to be a small comment but evolved into a long post so.

I love love love Ever After High and kinda liked Descendants but defo has many flaws and missed opportunities. Still annoyed that Descendants ended EAH smh.

Competition be brutal. And descendants was a quick cash grab. To be fair EAH started around the time once upon a time ended so idk. EAH is leaps and bounds better don’t get me wrong. I am just tryna analyse it from diff angles.

Ships:

The love potion and no consequence was icky. Them getting married young was random. Mal and Ben were sorta cute but also pretty rushed. Liked the Benevolent and Malevolent symbolism and the light and dark thing. Yin and Yang thing. It seemed so cool but failed pretty bad.

Ben had more chemistry with Evie tbh. The 2nd movie is evidence of this. They seemed so chill and Ben seemed more focused. Mal and Evie also had more chemistry cause they spent more time together.

EAH’s canon ships Dexven and Hunterlynn are very unproblematic and cute. Though I find Hunterlynn pretty meh cause I’d have liked to see em more as individuals before they got together but I can live with it. And Dexter in the webisode was not shown outside him being shy, a love interest of Raven and him being a bro to Dare and Darling. Dex and Rae were cute and awkward and sweet and I was so happy when they got together but justice for Dex having more to him!

Jane and Carlos are kinda okay. Jay and Lonnie have an interesting premise.

There’s so many hints of ships in EAH and also a lil bit in DD.

Characters:

DD didn’t try as much cause they were banking on nostalgia which sadly worked. So much wasted potential!

So many more characters we could’ve been added. Frozen characters, Enchanted characters (though we’d have to have a lotta editing and explanation, better off in book form). Merida and Moana also being here. Tinkerbell and her movie series being part of it. If they made the tangled series canon there could be more conflict! And if they made Cinderella 2 canon. Cass and VarIan being good but still being put on the Isle and same with Anastasia, she married her baker and had a few kids and was great sisters with Cindy but still taken away.

I love the core 4, Mal, Jay,Carlos and Evie are lovely. But the movies doesn’t even give Jay and Carlos much bonding time with the gals, it feels like the group spilt off while coming to the isle.

One thing Descendants did better than EAH, was how the girls and boys are pretty equal in DD. Not blaming EAH since they wanted to show off the multitude of designs and it reminds me of like Sims, gals have so much more stuff in terms of things.

Disney had pure nostalgia so it should put backgrounders like Easter eggs. Wanted to see more Auradon kingdoms. It did what Disney didn’t let the characters do previously. It let the Disney princesses grow up. And it’s a world with so many places from the multiverse.

But also why are Belle and Adam such tyrants and outta character. They don’t even explain it or acknowledge it! Why did they mess with death and bring villains back from there. Why not flesh out the world and add more Easter eggs.

Adam hates magic cause he and his staff were cursed long ago or maybe there were harsh consequences for messing with death that befell him and they vowed not again?

Check out the books and tie em into canon. I wanted to see more isle kids and Auradon kids. Like in the first movie in rotten to the core, maybe we could’ve seen Anthony Tremaine in the back up dancers. What about people walking about? Maybe hinting bout Dizzy (her carrying supplies)? Mother Gothel walking about. Other villains?

EAH did this pretty well. Check out the Royal and Rebel Pedia for more research. We have Lily Bo Peep and son of hero of Harlem, we have Cari Pillar in wonderland high maybe. We have a girl that can be the daughter of the Midas king. We have a lot of somethings.

Art and naming and Dolls and designs:

EAH’s art and visuals and aesthetic was something else entirely. They made it kinda modern without losing the old fairytale theme.

Obv EAH and DD are told through diff things. DD is live action and has pretty bad graphics and cgi at time but the outfits and hair look decent and the acting is good.

Both have book series on the side and I love both but get this feeling of extra wonderment from EAH like what’s gonna happen? And the books focus on other characters in EAH

EAH made the world feel alive and the characters had really unique beautiful names.

DD’s names were basic, kinda bland but somehow worked. The names being close to the parents showing how narcissistic the parents are and how they saw the kids are little them, meant to be exactly like them and a means to an end. The amount of toxicity and torment these kids must’ve had to deal with tbh. Did the villains have kids to seem sympathetic? It sorta worked I suppose. They got their kids to try and do their dirty work and Ben felt super sad and was like the kids don’t deserve to suffer for what their parents did.

Like Op said DD’s punk style looks interesting and I love the intricate detailing on EAH’s characters. I have a few EAH dolls and no DD ones. EAH dolls stand alone in terms of doll quality and are leagues above the rest.

Songs:

Descendants songs are BOPs though. My fave EAH song was the theme. No tea or shade to anyone who likes the other songs.

Closing:

I have always loved fairytale retellings. So I appreciate both. I have fics for both. The descendants one is a major major fix it fic. Adding more characters and side characters and fleshing the world out. Both still WIPs do wish me luck. If ya wanna discuss more with me, please do so.

This is barely the tip of the iceberg in discussion of these two. This was my personal opinion and I was not tryna attack anyone or undermine anyone’s points. The fanfic writers of both be top tier btw!

descendance sucks

descendance is like a worse version of ever after high. its b a d. i watched it while babysitting for a family friend. the main characters design looks like a bad cosplay of some ugly punk girl. then thereś the half baked romance in the first movie. to me it felt like they had no chemistry at all. just a love spell and children getting married. ever after high is simply superior in every way. the designs are miles ahead of descendance. they actually look like the children of the characters there supposed to be. and the writing is way better to. they also have cool dolls. the one thing i like about descendance is that they had a kinda punk looking character but again they failed. so yea i hate descendance and ever after high is wayyyy better.

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Got on here for commenting on ships and such. Missing Ever After High a lot. I be writing fics. Fell down the rabbit hole again. Got a lot on my mind. This is my first post. Ravin’ Queen is a triple  entendre to symbolize my faves: Raven Queen, Lizzie Hearts. Briar Beauty.

Reblogging, hopefully not slowing ya down if ya tryna make a full on long string post. Your hand writing is beautiful and i could imagine it so well. And ayeeee mention of Wonderlandiful World which be one of my fave books. Peter has such leadership tbh, he's charismatic. Also Fairies do live long/ are kinda immortal so Tinkerbell being here is realistic. I love how deep and thought out this is!

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So in the book Peter Pan this adorable exchange happens when he first meets Wendy:

[She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

"Surely you know what a kiss is?" she asked, aghast.

"I shall know when you give it to me," he replied stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble.

"Now," said he, "shall I give you a kiss?" and she replied with a slight primness, "If you please." She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him, but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand, so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before, and said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain around her neck. It was lucky that she did put it on that chain, for it was afterwards to save her life.]

(It does this by blocking an arrow Tinkerbell jealously tricked the Lost Boys into firing at Wendy while she was flying so she wouldn’t get between her and Peter.)

And nobody asked, but my EAH version of Peter has kept Wendy’s ‘kiss’, the thimble, likewise on a chain necklace, wears it everywhere and is very protective of it, getting defensive and uncharacteristically quiet when asked about it, because it’s the last thing he has of her and the time before the legacy system. The gifts from her descendants just don’t make his heart hurt the same way. Those Darlings weren’t trying to be themselves with him, they were trying to be her, but they weren’t. No one is.