#and both the highschool and fantasy aspects of eah really make it the perfect playground for that sort of thing

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For your rewrite of eah characters, can you do lizzie hearts?

To be honest, there’s not much that I would change about Lizzie from a character perspective, except for one tiny thing that affects her relationship with Maddie: she hates Raven’s guts with a passion for a good long while.

Lizzie is her mother's daughter, she tries her best to fit the image of her mother that she has in her memories and in the cards she left her, and as such Lizzie assumes everyone else is trying to live up to their parents as well. Raven's existence is a near constant threat as far as Lizzie’s concerned, which is why Maddie’s closeness to the Evil Queen's daughter unnerves her. She barely let their friendship slide in first year, relenting only after a cryptic conversation with Raven where Raven disclosed that Maddie saved her years ago and that she is indebted to her (it’s a bit more complicated than that, but honestly Raven's problems with communication could be its own post). Maddie is one of the wisest people Lizzie knows, so between the confrontation with Raven and Maddie's insistence that she would be ok Lizzie backed off for a bit, never accepting Maddie's friendship with Raven but not openly trying to stop it as she did at the beginning of first year. After legacy day however Lizzie makes it a mission to separate the two. Lizzie isn’t a fervent believer in destiny the same way Apple is, but she does believe that following it will eventually bring her a step closer to wonderland being uncursed as there can be no “Alice in Wonderland” without the titular land. And to Lizzie, who idolizes her mom and tries to mold herself in her image, and as such believes the same for others, Raven's refusal to sign feels dangerously similar to her mother disobeying destiny to curse over wonderland. She refuses to believe under any circumstances that there could be a world where Raven’s rebellion and furthermore her friendship with Maddie are anything other than an evil plot to destroy everything just as her mother had planned. She tackles this issue head on with rage and authority the same way she believes her mother would, and it causes strain on her relationship with Maddie. While this issue doesn’t split the Wonderlandians apart for long it does force Lizzie into situations where she has to interact with her Ever After peers more like Daring, Cedar, and Duchess.

Eventually Lizzie does get over this and makes up with Maddie, but it only happens after she becomes somewhat disillusioned with the version of her mother that she built in her head out of memories and nostalgia. She still loves her mother, but much like in the third book she learns that sometimes she needs to follow her heart, and not just the cards.