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Ro-Tom_Art

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This blog is for general art. Strawberry Shortcake and Camp Camp brain rots most frequently. KND: @kidsnextdoor-doodles. Sometimes other things like South Park and EddsWorld. Also an Inniter and QSMP fan https://linktr.ee/Ro.Tom_Art
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They shouldn’t have named the O’Hair twins that way because now all I can think is that they are Irish

#for context I am Irish. so I mean this positively#and now a lot of my headcanons for them are projection#rotomtalks#ever after high#poppy o'hair#holly o'hair#o’hair twins#not helped by the fact they’re redheads#since ever after places heavy importance on heritage and tradition I think the twins were 100% taught Gaeilge as a second language#they talk to each other in gaeilge while at eah because none of their friends speak it#oh they were absolutely forced to take Irish dancing lessons#I’d say they should’ve had Irish accents in the show but considering how scarah sounds in mh#I don’t trust Mattel with Irish accents
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I imagine that if there were Oz characters in the eah universe they’d be completely disconnected from the ‘following your story’ idea mainly because of how much they’d have to do

“It’s your destiny to follow in your parents footsteps and their stories”

“… yeah that’s like fourteen to forty books. I think we’ll pass”

#I think the longest story included in eah is pinocchio which is still just one book#if I’m remembering correctly (cause it’s been a while since I read anything Oz) the books canonically exist in universe#rotomtalks#ever after high#oz books
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So like. I hate how Kiss and Spell went about dealing with the fact that Ginger’s mother is supposed to be a cannibal witch

Which is to say it doesn’t deal with it at all and takes the pussy way out by making Hansel and Gretel little lying cunts. It sucks and I hate it

But the wording of Kiss and Spell is intriguing cause it basically says that Ginger’s mum is the Candy Witch and that the Hansel and Gretel from that story are the Hansel and Gretel. Not like the other parent characters who are from long lines of fairy tales

Which leads to what is could’ve been an interesting idea; Hansel And Gretel is a relatively new story. I think that it could’ve been something more built upon, the contrast between being a new story against the other fairytales that have been told for generations (or something idk I’m not good at wording my thoughts)

Unfortunately Kiss and Spell’s Hansel and Gretel story sucked so we didn’t get that

#rotomtalks#ever after high#kiss and spell#ginger breadhouse#helga crumb#gus crumb#local hansel and gretel stan gets mad about pop culture portrayals of the story part 53
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Ok little fairy tale observation

When did we decide that the Beast was cursed because he acted selfishly when he was young and it was a sort of punishment. When did that become the general consensus of the tale

Because in the original written by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, he was turned into a beast because he denied marriage with an evil fairy (who is over a thousand years old, had cared for him since he was an infant, and tried seducing him as soon as he became an adult), and it wasn’t seen some just punishment but as an unlawful act. She’s even imprisonment for her actions against the royal family

#also please just read a summary of the og villeneuve beauty and the beast because it’s so. convoluted for no reason#rotomtalks#beauty and the beast#fairy tales
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Stories I want to base Ever After High OCs off (an ever growing list)

  • Hans My Hedgehog (One of my favourite ‘obscure’ fairytales. Already decided her name would be Hannah M. Hedgehog. To fit the design aesthetic of eah she wouldn’t literally have the upper body of a hedgehog and the lower body of a human, she’d be more of a hybrid. She’s a rebel because she rejects her destiny of becoming fully human at the end of the story and embraces her hedgehog side.)
  • Boy Who Cried Wolf (See my last reblog. Lies a lot but because of their destiny no one tends to believe them anyways. Also accidentally right a lot. Not lying maliciously just doing it for shits and giggles)
  • The Frog Princess (Because I think it’d be funny for there to be two royals who turn into frogs but are completely unrelated to each other. Also there’s so many variants of this story from region to region that it’d be fun to write this girl)
  • Speaking of, The Frog Prince (Specifically the daughter of the princess from the tale and the son of the prince’s gayass servant. Princess Girl does not want to be Hopper’s princess but is slightly willing to enact the version where she gets to throw Frog Hopper at a wall instead of kissing him. Dislikes frogs a bit but plays it up as a seething hatred to scare Hopper. Kind of a bitch if you couldn’t tell. Sporty girl. The servant boy is 100% in love with Hopper, like father-like son, and has the iron bands around his heart. Maybe he could be Hopper’s real true love :x)
  • Pinocchio (Daughters of The Coachman and Mangiafuoco, and niece of Lampwick. The Coachman’s daughter has a pet donkey that everyone thinks is a turned boy, but nope it’s just a regular donkey. She’s a rebel because she doesn’t want to go down the route of her father. Mangiafuoco’s daughter is scary and off-putting, but actually a genuinely nice girl. Would love to perform onstage but she has stage fright and is just so shy in general, so she resorts to puppet theatre instead. Always uses a hand puppet to talk through. Lampwick’s niece is a rebel because she’d rather not turn into a donkey thank you very much. Low-key resented Cedar up until Legacy Day because she believed if Cedar didn’t exist she wouldn’t need to turn into a donkey. Now they’re on better terms since Cedar decided she’d become human in her own way)
  • The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats (Youngest son of the youngest goat. Really I just like people with goat features. He’d feel tense around Ramona, even though he’s pretty sure she’s probably not the wolf from his story)
  • Puss In Boats (Daughter of Puss In Boots. Would probably be able to transform between an animal and human form like Bunny Blanc. Doesn’t really align herself with Royal or Rebel, but has slipped into thoughts like ‘if I can make someone else royalty, why can’t I make myself royalty?’)
  • The Prince and The Pauper (It’s not a fairytale but the books included King Lear’s daughter so I feel like I’m free to do this. I just think designing two boys that look identical would be fun)
  • Mwindo (One of my favourite tales because of how entertainingly OP Mwindo is. I imagine that his son would be equally as OP and like half of the student population is scared of him. But that fear often gets subsided because he’s not that keen on using his powers like his dad was)
  • Commedia dell’arte (Not a story but kids based on the stock characters could be fun. They probably wouldn’t attend Ever After High since they wouldn’t have actual destinies, they’d attend another high school. I had the idea of Cedar doubling as the Burattino stock character, and it developed into all the stock characters being based on different dolls/toys, ie Pierrot being a rag doll, Pulcinella being a wind-up toy, etc. Really I just want Cedar to have people who could understand her whole ‘Am I even real’ situation better, is that too much to ask?!)
  • Two miscellaneous additions that don’t actually align to specific stories; a Warrior Princess and a Forest Witch. (The Warrior Princess is, obviously, the daughter of a warrior king. My idea for her story is that it’s an ancient epic that is so old it has lost its exact name, having been repeated so many times. Also, her reason for following her destiny is less ‘we have to or we all disappear’ and more ‘I have to so I can prove myself worthy’. Her warrior kingdom’s society is very different from Ever After’s society, which she learnt the hard way. She feels awkward hanging out with the other princesses because of cultural differences, and she doesn’t like hanging out with boys because they tend to underestimate her. She was only supposed to attend for Legacy year so that she could sign the Book of Legends because Milton Grimm would not stop bugging her father about it, but she decided to stay after the shit show that happened on Legacy day. I didn’t base the Forest Witch of a specific fairy tale because goddamn it there are too many witches living in the forests in these tales for me to choose just one. In universe she probably has a specific destiny, or a few, I just haven’t chosen it yet. Very closed off from others. Actually lives in the Enchanted Forest with her mother. She also likes archery but how much of her skill is genuine and is magic is up to debate)
  • The Devil (He appears in a lot of fairytales. The OC is a girl who is clearly the daughter of the devil, but it’s never said so no one actually knows it. Every time someone asks about her destiny she’s like ‘it’s nothing important don’t worry about it :)’)
#hello eah fandom I like fairy tales and folk stories#rotomtalks#ever after high#ever after high oc#hans my hedgehog#the boy who cried wolf#the frog princess#the frog prince#iron henry#pinocchio#mangiafuoco#lampwick#the wolf and the seven young goats#puss in boots#the prince and the pauper#mwindo epic#commedia dell'arte
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