Rika's Fanon

Hello my fellow Fairy Tale Lovers! Since my Ever After High Cast is at a decent size now, still growing, I figured it would be time to elaborate on my very own Fanon.

## Fanon

Of course, I will not stray to far away from the official Ever After High canon, trying to follow the general rules of the EAH Universe but might have to add some fanon additions that have not been touched upon in the canon or slightly change some stuff around to make it work with my narrative.

### Timeline

The biggest struggle I have with EAH and creating OCs for that fandom is the specificity of parents and parent stories. Unlike Monster High, where your OC can be the child of any one Vampire or Gargoyle and not has to be related with any canon character of that species, EAH uses very specific fairy tale characters to create descendants of. There does not seem to be such a thing as "the daughter of a Rapunzel" no, it's the daughter of THE Rapunzel and it makes sense...but it also makes it hard to stay away from the canon cast - especially since I tend to overthink stuff a lot. That's why, for the most part, I will just ignore that a canon cast even exist...potentially placing the timeline of my Characters before the canon. Given the fact that there have canonically been Students before Raven Queen and Co. that have gone through a similar phase of questioning the very system of their Universe, I don't think it is too farfetched to handle it like this, I don't think?

I'll still try not to get into Fairy Tale territory that the canon already touched, so I will very unlikely create a daughter of Rapunzel or the Evil Queen, but I MIGHT create descendants to other characters of the story. For example, creating a descendant to one of the dwarfs from Snow White is still a possibility, as it hasn't been done in the canon. Should I ever feel the need to create a child of Snow White though, I'd either place her into this wikis own timeline, or will do what *Once Upon a Time* did and argue with "There are different versions of fairy tales, so there can be different versions of the same character" :P

### Myths and Mythology

I have a very strong opinion on that, that I have been defending uncompromisingly in the past. **The canon did it, so it is fine.** Namely, with the very character that introduced us to the franchise, C. A. Cupid. While yes, there are fairy tales including Cupid, but the canon makes it clear that she is the daughter, albeit the adoptive daughter of the Myth, not the story. So for me, creating characters based on mythology rather than Fairy Tales, Operas/Ballets and Legends is absolutely fine.

#### Gods and Goddesses

Part of mythology are deities. I will stay away from them for the most part as I find them incredibly hard to create without them going full deus ex machina able to resolve any conflicts too easily.

### Crossovers

I only allow crossovers with Monster High as it is part of the canon. That doesn't mean I won't base appearances of certain characters on their Disney depiction, for example, but I will never claim "Elsa" as the Mother of my daughter of the Snow Queen.

#### Mirror Images (versus crossover characters)

You probably know of the trope in film and literature of a parallel, usually "upside-down" universe, where everything is the complete opposite, usually done with good and evil: Everyone who is good, is evil and everyone who is evil is good. While a mirror image is not necessarily the better or the eviler version, they function similar. They are two different, separate, sometimes opposite versions of the same character. One that belongs to the one universe, Monster High, and one that belongs to the other, Ever After High. To separate them from crossover characters, which are the same characters hopping between the universes, mirror images have different first names, but share the same last name to indicate their connection through more than just appearance. In short, a crossover character can only exist in one universe at a time and won't be present in the other than. Mirror images exist in both universes at the same time. There is no known way to have these images of one another actually meet, because whenever one crosses the portal to the other universe, they will automatically swap places with their mirror image and fill their roles but with their own conscience, memory and personality.

Characters with known mirror images are: Poussey Meowth (> Nekota) and Hagzissa Wickerbottom ( > Walpurga)

### Wickerbottom Clan/Family

Much like the Charming family is a family of princes and princesses that fill up fairy tales in need of a prince or a princess, the Wickerbottom family is a family of witches meant to fill up fairy tales in need of, usually an evil witch. Within the family it is believed that this rather unfortunate fate, to replace witches who didn't survive their stories to have offspring of their own, is due to a curse that was put upon the Wickerbottom Family as a punishment for the sins and crimes of the very first Wickerbottom Witch, who is said to have been the evilest, most ruthless witch imaginable. The story changed so much over the centuries, that it is unknown if it is just that, a story, or if there is some truth to it. One major thing suggesting a curse of some sort however, is that usually, Wickerbottom offspring is female. The chance that a son is born from a Wickerbottom is so slim, it happened only once so far. (MORE TBA)

Known Wickerbottoms are: Mavilda, her sister Hagzissa and Hagzissa's Mirror Image Walpurga.