#crystal winter

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Ooo doll redesigns/au designs

We've got Spring Unsprung Holly, Getting Fairest Maddie, and Epic Winter Crystal !!!I'm gonna discuss my thought process under the cut

Spring Unsprung Holly

I tried to go for like a renfaire kinda thing, which will be my thought process for any other Spring Unsprung designs, really it's a pretty simple design, I spent most of my time drawing it annoyed because stuff wasn't working out. She's got little towers for heels also she has locs I just drew them rly big, they aren't that thick though drawing every individual one would've just been a lot of detail. The purple was taken from her actual doll any resemblance to Disney's Rapunzel is unintentional. Please ignore that the dress physics make absolutely no sense.

Getting Fairest Maddie

I like reinterpreted this line a little into more of a pyjama/sleepwear line just because the og line is literally just the same dress 4 times, however it still fits the original idea behind the line. Went for more pastel colours because I just like Maddie in pastels. Additional note Maddie would sleep with a bonnet I just didn't draw an alt version with that.

Epic Winter Crystal

Technically Epic Winter is Crystal's core doll however I designed this as if she has an actual core doll and this is a separate outfit to fit into the Epic Winter line. Unintentionally ended up with a slight 1920s inspo for the face, other than that I think her design is pretty self explanatory.

[iheartlava]

Ever After High animation is beautiful

THIS SHOW NEEDS TO MAKE A HAT-TASTIC COMEBACK !!!

[hoolay-boobs]

Love them

[silverthelovebug]

Faybelle will never hear the end of it

[moths-wonderland]

Crystal Winter agere moodboard💎❄️👑

[xbomboi]

thoughts about Epic Winter, & reconciling its place in Ever After High’s story as a whole

i wanna talk about epic winter because it—arguably more than any other aspect of the franchise—is definitely ever after high’s ‘ugly duckling’ piece of media, so to speak.

now obviously, a lot of it has to do with being the final big installment in eah’s main story, its premise being a side quest that sidelines the main protagonists in favor of new characters who are comparably far less compelling as the show’s actual leads, leaving the audience without any actual closure to the story which they were following.

in isolation, epic winter isn’t that terrible (though i think most would agree its better parts are the ones centered around already-established characters as opposed to the new ones), but in context it leaves a sour taste.

i entirely understand why anyone rewriting the series would either heavily rework it, only keep more important story beats such as daring’s arc & faybelle’s side plot, or completely remove the outing altogether.

in my case, however, deleting epic winter isn’t an option; my intentions are to continue where ever after high left off, and organically finish what they started. that means epic winter stays in tact, sanity be damned.

with that writing handicap, i can’t edit any pre-existing media in the ever after high animated lineup, which has forced me to brainstorm ways to recontextualize the purpose for epic winter’s place in the story and make the time spent on its story retroactively feel, at the very least, a little more worth it.

and the solution i found comes from viewing all that is introduced in the special through chehkov's gun.

(if you're unfamiliar, chehkov's gun is a narrative rule that everything introduced in a story must be done so with a purpose to serve. i.e. if you give a character a gun, they must shoot it.)

what's done is done; if we have to go on this detour following crystal winter and the top of the world, so be it. but let's pocket it like a tool that can be used later.

so here's my idea: bring crystal and the winter kingdom back into the story later down the line when the events of the story have reached a far more grandiose scale.

basically, i think the best way to use crystal would be when the story reaches a point of confronting and opposing the ruling powers in the fairytale world. having become the new snow queen, naturally, she'd be included in a gathering of the rulers of the kingdoms in the fairytale world.

i want there to be a moment in the story where the ruling powers gather together, and we see familiar faces return (including ones that we'd be introduced to after epic winter but prior to this), such as snow white, king charming, the queen of hearts, and of course, crystal.

with her outlook that would most reasonably be more aligned with the students at ever after high, she could end up being one of-if not the sole person-those present to voice opposition to whatever unfavorable verdict the rest of the rulers have made, as it would serve as direct conflict for the protagonists. she'd find herself outnumbered and ultimately her voice holding little to no power to sway the decision (especially being disregarded for her rather young age). afterwards we'd see her reflect on her frustrations with her colleagues and their rule of the system, thinking about it in terms of what kind of ruler she wants to be, before seeing her find determination towards something, though we aren’t yet shown what she actually decides to do.

the next time we'd see her would then come a little later, the conflict reaching the most dire circumstances. all hope is lost for our heroes; raven, apple, and co. would be down on their luck against odds they're unable to overcome. and that's when crystal would show up to offer her support, providing the numbers of her kingdom as allies to help better the odds. (she wouldn't be the only ally to show up, as this would be a 'getting help from all the friends we made along the way' ordeal. she would simply be one of said friends.)

crystal's help would ultimately play a part in winning the conflict. and because the audience would be familiar with crystal and the winter kingdom to a decent extent way prior to that point, the inclusion of it in the present fight at hand wouldn't feel like an ass-pull or a deus ex machina of sorts; it would make sense and feel earned for the most part.

and i think that's honestly the best thing to be made of epic winter's main adventure. we can't change it or fix it as it is, but we can create a payoff for it all later down the line. think of it like begrudgingly doing chores that lack any enjoyment factor, only to find that afterwards, you're glad you did.

so, yeah, that's my idea for how to give epic winter a genuine purpose. but i'm just spitballing.

[blackbirdsnonsense]

So in my watch through of Ever After High with friends we almost got through all of Epic Winter and rewatching it I really have to say...it's not NEARLY as bad as people make it out to be!

In fact, I didn't think it was THAT bad the first time either! I mean, I get being annoyed that it ended up being the end of the series but judging AS the end of the series is a bit unfair since that was just dumped upon the creative team by Mattel being dicks. So instead of looking at it as the end of Ever After High, maybe look at it on what it SHOULD have been, the beginning of the next chapter of the story.

That's why I'm not too upset that Raven & Apple ended up taking a back seat in this special cause their story already had it's conclusion. Hell, Apple LIVED her story so other than dealing with the fallout of that there wasn't too much they could do. So I don't mind it focusing on some of the other characters for awhile.

And as much as people want to focus on Crystal's arch being about, "learning to tie her shoe" that's REALLY an over-simplification of the story. Cause she was proactive throughout all of it & WAS the real driving force behind the adventure. They just kind fumbled it with that being her "big character growth moment" cause...well it wouldn't Ever After High if they didn't screw up their message somehow.

Sorry not sorry

But, yeah, the special really isn't much worse than the others, it just had the misfortune of being the point where Mattel decided to axe the series. I would have loved to see where the series would go after Epic Winter but I'm not going to hold that AGAINST Epic Winter.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Also, I like the twist of Daring actually being The Beast instead of Prince Charming. That's the stuff I love from Ever After High

[froggywentaprincin]

Ever After High Characters that would fit in pretty well as they are at Monster High, based on appearance:

Ramona Badwolf

Cerise Hood (not hiding the fact she’s half wolf)

Bunny Blanc

Cedar Wood

Crystal Winter

Farrah Goodfairy

Faybelle Thorn

Jackie Frost

Northwind

[frogboy0]

Some doods :P

The second pic is just some stuff I made while writing the Epic Winter arc :)

Also if it wasn't clear enough in my Epic Winter, Apple has BPD ^^

[athena-xox]

List of my favourite polyamorous eah ships. Do with this what you want.

Maddie x Kitty x Lizzie

Sparrow x Duchess x Poppy

Cedar x Cerise x Kitty

Raven x Cupid x Dexter

Jillian x Nina x Rosabella

Ashlynn x Crystal x Farrah

Northwind x Daring x Sparrow

Apple x Raven x Darling

[dumbdolphin333]

I have a confession

I’m a Crystal winter hater

[faybellesbeauty]

i did some notes about the whole… dating?? mess?? of my college au fic… and well this is it in a nutshell

Lizzie is dating Maddie who lowkey has a crush on Raven who’s dating Dexter but they keep almost breaking up because Cupid used to have a crush on Dexter and he thinks she still does except shes dating Blondie who found out about Rosabella and Daring and the fact that Rosabella has a crush on Ramona who’s dating Justine who’s still pining over Duchess who doesn’t even fucking exist in the story except as Sparrow’s ex and Sparrow is single but trying to hit on Briar who’s dating Faybelle who literally doesn’t give a shit about anyone else except Farrah who she hooked up with once and who is currently in love with Ashlynn who’s dating Hunter who’s probably actually gay and realizes it later on when he sees Daring without a shirt (but thats unrelated) and he’s friends with Cedar who used to date Cerise who’s currently dating Kitty who Lizzie used to have a crush when they were in middle school and she accidentally hooks up with Daring and realizes she’s been in love with him all along. Then there’s Apple and Darling, who are completely unrelated.

So what do we get out of this???

Briar/Faybelle

Kitty/Cerise

Daring/Rosabella

Blondie/Cupid

Maddie/Lizzie but also Daring/Lizzie??

Bunny/Alistair (not mentioned because they’re just. there. in their own little world.)

Ramona/Justine

Apple/Darling

Farrah/Ashlynn

(might or will break up)

Raven/Dexter

Crystal/Jackie (jackie cheats lol they aren’t mentioned anywhere and idk what to do with them except have like. two lines about them as gossip.)

Hunter/Ashlynn (Farrah comes inbetween oop)

[dexterouslycharming]

Rewatching eah has gotten me thinking about different headcanons I have for the world and the characters and one that ones to mind right now is my headcanon that Crystal is the product of magic, she's not actually the child of the snow queen and king (I mean come on she doesn't even look like them?? Why is she purple??) Her existence is purely based in magic and her health and magic abilities depend on how much magic is in Ever After

[hoolay-boobs]

Rosabella’s everything. He’s just Daring.

[winterr-w0nderland]

Me: I don't have a favorite type of character

My favorite type of character:

[everafterhighliveaction]

Crystal Winter, daughter of the Snow King and Queen

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