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lets be real thing 1 and thing 2 were fucking perverts

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Is the fact that I love Cedrise with all my heart but Cedar cant even feel anything at all. As long she is a puppet, is a one sided love.

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More of the babays

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I've been trying a new artstyle

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the combiner wars optimus and prowl fight frankly. I realize i should’ve put all my images into one post instead of posting like 5 of them separately now

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Okokok, so I’ve been kind of on an Ever After High kick recently because the premise is just too good oughhhh and I love thinking about it. So here are a few insane headcanons I wrote down instead of studying for my calc exam. Keep in mind though, I’ve only ever watched the show and read the first book (a few years ago now), so if anything I say directly contradicts canon or is already confirmed, please let me know!!! I really want to interact more with the fanbase!

I headcanon The Storybook of Legends to have passive mental persuasion abilities regarding destinies. The magic coerces students into signing by fueling a bone-deep, instinctual pull to act out their story and attempts to crush any personal reservations or hesitations students may have about their own legacy. Of course the book isn’t the only reason weary students with crummy destinies might choose to sign- there’s peer pressure and the instilled belief that by not signing, everything and everyone will disappear. (This alone manages to convince most soon-to-be-villains with bleeding hearts to go through with it.) But the persuasive magic makes the decision much easier. I imagine the book’s magic only works within a certain range and strengthens with prolonged exposure. It also amplifies near Legacy Day, making it extremely difficult for students to resist the urge to sign. Information about this specific property of the book would be well known and documented by Grimm and potentially other school admin, but is largely hidden from the students of Ever After and the broader fairytale world. 

As Legacy Day approaches, many students who subconsciously fight the book’s influence experience migraines, delirium, and paranoia. Personality traits and values that align with the destinies of students are heightened. Characters fated for romantic or strong platonic relationships may also feel inexplicably drawn to one another, even if they weren’t before.

The mass hysteria around Legacy Day is felt by all, yet acknowledged by none and once the book is signed, the persuasion magic, though still there, becomes far less potent (kind of like when a highschooler accepts a university offer and though they still need to maintain a grade average, they often no longer feel the need to put in as much work as before). I also headcanon this to be part of the reason the Royal/Rebel conflict happened when it did and not before, seeing as the book was replaced with a fake and wouldn’t be able to affect the students in the same way (though the real one was hidden within the school, maybe the Evil Queen hexed it (???)). 

I believe that absolutely everyone in the fairytale world has a destiny. The Storybook of Legends has infinite magical pages, and even minor characters or random town residents have legacies. Though, for many, their destinies resemble something like: continue the family business, go outside one day and witness the protagonist of your story do something cool, fall in love, procreate. We know each retelling of a story has slight tweaks, so I’d think background characters’ destinies allow some wiggle room in what they decide to do with their lives. Still, I like to imagine everyone eventually signs the book. Kind of like those old POV tiktoks that go a little something like ‘when you turn sixteen everyone finds out their future??? 😱’ in the sense that before the school year starts at Ever After (where the Storybook of Legends is kept) there’s like a tour that happens where the book gets paraded around  to major fairytale towns and landmarks and every single kid going into (I think it was) the 10th grade/2nd year of highschool/sophmore year are made to sign the book. 

Additionally, it’s a general rule that the number of children in a background character's family corresponds to the number of parents, so each kid can take on a parent’s legacy. If a family has more kids than parents, it likely means:

A. Someone committed adultery,

B. One child is destined to die an unpreventable death, or

C. (Very rare) the child is meant for another fairytale entirely — like a love interest or a stock hero who dies young and doesn’t reproduce.

And unless they’re from a Stock Family, this balance usually holds.

Segue into my next headcanon -which I think might actually be at least partially canon - stock families! So what are they: I headcanon stock families to be families that produce significant amounts of offspring specifically to act as certain archetypes in stories, more often then not, love interests (to prevent incest y’know). This is part of the reason as to why there are so many different Charming families that aren’t related to one another. Children from these families often don’t know their destinies. (Though Charming parents have successfully bribed Grimm in the past to let their kids peek at their destinies early.) and while many become nobility, sometimes they don't. 

Many of these kids attend Ever After and only see their destinies for the first time while practicing for, or during, the televised Legacy Day at the same time as the entire rest of the fairytale world watching. Legacy Day is especially stressful for Charming children because there’s always a risk that they aren’t part of a story befitting of the school’s prestige and it has happened before that Charming children have signed the book on a mundane destiny during the televised event. I like to think this is why there’s a (seemingly not royal) news reporter with the Charming name in the webisodes. 

I also imagine these families are doomed to fizzle out into obscurity, with mundane destinies, after a few generations (again, to prevent incest), with new ones popping up every few years. Despite this, stock families often have more children than average to meet the demand for fairy tales (e.g. Darling, Daring, and Dexter are three siblings from two parents).

I also like to think that, Ever After, despite housing the Storybook of Legends, is not the only school to use it. It’s canon that other schools exist, in this universe like:

Beanstalk High (giants only),

and a school for villains (where Ramona transferred from).

 This leads me to believe that Ever After is special in the sense that unlike other fairytale schools, they don’t specialise in one archetype, however Ever After is still quite hard to get into seeing as they only accept children who play main or supporting roles in popular fables. I like to headcanon that a school called something like ‘Tall Tale High’ exists and they house primarily children of fictional folk story heroes (think: Pecos Bill, Joe Magarac, Old Stormalong, Momotaro, John Henry, Paul Bunyan) and because folk tales have characters perform absurd physical feats, they often give Ever After a run for their money when it comes to sporting events. Ever After probably lets other schools borrow the Storybook of Legends for brief periods so they can do their own Legacy Days, though those ceremonies would never be as commercially successful. There’d probably also be normal schools too, for background children, so that they can learn to ‘contribute to society’ (Though Ever After actually does actually offer a wide variety of STEM courses, and many Ever After alumni do have lives after their ever after (think Snow White) many with stories aren’t expected to enter the workforce.)

That’s it for now, if anyone wants to disagree or add anything, please do, like I said, I really want to talk to people about the show!

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Quickly doodled Starscream and Megatron as boomer "I hate my wife" comics I found on Facebook, because it's literally their dynamic

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the only thing that made sense tonight

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Italian Nirvana

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cn u do bribelle kissing again? Pls

No more kissing requests they make me panic

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