Fridge / Ever After High

Fridge Brilliance

• Maddie is a Rebel even though she's perfectly alright with walking in her father's footsteps. But- aside from the whole "best friend" angle of her support of the Evil Queen's daughter- there's also the fact that she's the "mad hatter's daughter." And what could be more crazy than leading a school rebellion to change everyone's destinies?
  • It also sets up a perfect parallel with Briar: a Rebel who likes her destiny and a Royal who dislikes hers.
  • Additionally, even if Maddie herself doesn't care for free will, that doesn't preclude her from believing others should have it. For example, there were several male suffragettes who fought to allow women the vote.
• Apple and Raven's parents: if Raven is the daughter of the evil queen, that means she is also the daughter of Snow White's Dad, which would make them half sisters and the aunty of Apple. So wouldn't that mean as the next Evil Queen she would have to marry her brother-in-law Apple's Dad, Prince Charming, to become Apple's stepmother, meaning she will have to kill or at the least mess up her sister's relationship with him and then make plans to kill her own niece after that? And that notes that Daring and Dexter are the sons of Prince Charming, so wouldn't that mean that Apple at the least have to marry her half brother? Apple will then have children and so will Raven, and we start the whole thing over again. It's no wonder Raven doesn't like her destiny.
  • There are multiple princes and princesses. The chances of everyone being related to everyone are slim, mostly to avoid Unfortunate Implications.
  • In Ever After every prince who is destined to rescue and marry a "princess" has the last name "Charming". It implies nothing about familial relationships.
  • From Cerise in the second book, about Same Surname Means Related:
    Raven: Hey, are you related to Robin and Sparrow Hood?
    Cerise: Distantly. And let me emphasize—distantly.
• Fairy tales have different versions so why are only the "good" versions true? Perhaps each generation is actually a different version of the tale, or the royals are trying force all destinies to have a happily ever after for them.
  • Actually it's revealed that the bad versions are also true, as the Book reveals that Duchess Swan's expected to have an unhappy ending as the next Swan Queen.
• Even though the show seems to lean towards the Rebel's side, it actually supports both Screw Destiny and Because Destiny Says So. It says it's okay to want to write your own story if you don't like the one set out for you, but it also never says that it's wrong to follow that destiny if you want to - Maddie, for example, is perfectly happy following in her father's footsteps and this is never portrayed as a bad thing. The problems happen when someone who wants to follow destiny thinks that their destiny is entirely dependent on someone else following theirs; if they could figure out a way to get around that problem, both sides could probably coexist.
• Apple White is a blonde (i.e., fair-haired). She's literally the fairest one of all. Further, this blonde hair that deviates from the norm is a clear sign that her story isn't following the tracks that are written.
• At first, I couldn't figure out why the symbol of the Rebels was a winged heart, until I realized it's a literal "free heart", which is what most of the Rebels aspire to be.
  • A winged heart also symbolizes love- which motivates many characters to rebel against fate- and is a clever way of alluding to Raven, the first Rebel and their unofficial leader.
• Of course there's no Daughter of The Little Mermaid in the lineup, despite that being a pretty obvious story to go for; she'd have to become a human to attend her classes, which would pose a huge contradiction in her story, where she becomes human for the first time (and it kinda sucks for her, since it hurts).
  • It looks like one is on its way. There is a trademark for Meeshell L'Mer
• I refuse to believe, intentional or not, that nobody noticed the brilliance of making Ashlynn Ella a vegan, seeing as how in one of the earliest renditions of Cinderella, it wasn't a glass slipper, but a squirrel fur slipper she famously wore, I bet she wouldn't be such a Royal if it kept to that tradition.
• In "Cedar Wood Would Love to Lie," Cedar is stumped on finding an outrageous story, and we see a giant, a living cookie and a dwarf. It seems to be an attempt at humour, until you remember that this is a fairy tale world, where all this is totally normal. Ashlynn and Hunter dating is the most far-fetched thing Cedar could have found!
• Apple being besties with Briar and Ashlynn makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Apple is destined to have an evil stepmother and (in some versions) be treated like a slave, like Ashlynn; she's destined to be poisoned and fall asleep against her will, all out of spite, like Briar. But unlike Briar, Apple just has to sleep for a relatively short time until Daring comes to wake her up, but Briar must sleep for 100 years. And unlike Ashlynn, Apple escapes her stepmother and gets to live with dwarves that love her until she gets to marry Daring, but Ashlynn must suffer a little more before her prince finds her.
• In "The Cat Who Cried Wolf" Cerise tries to hide her speed she gets from her wolf side, but by "Thronecoming" she's openly been using it to the point that she's asked to be on the bookball team because of it and uses it to win the game in front of the entire school. She also growls at people, tears Cedar's pillow apart with her teeth, and lets out a victory howl when she wins the game. Spending time around Raven and the other rebels seems to have gotten her to come out of her shell and be more comfortable with who she is.
  • Also its noted her father is a bad liar and cannot act to save his life. Cerise simply takes after her dad (she's not exactly subtle).
• In "Maddie’s Hat-tastic Party," Cerise revealing her "fake" wolf ears creates enough madness to rejuvenate Wonderland Grove. This seems strange because, as we all know, Cerise really is part Wolf. However, in a rigid, by-the-script society like Ever After's, a child of The Big Bad Wolf and Red Riding Hood is unheard of. Cerise's mere existence is madness!
  • Besides the obvious, why would being a child of both the Wolf and Red Riding Hood be a problem for Cerise? Because as the child of a villain AND a hero, she has two different, opposite destinies to follow in the same story!
  • It also helps charge it because what could be crazier than using such Refuge in Audacity to get away with revealing her big taboo secret, openly showing something that could get her banished, that's pure insanity.
• The bit with Lizzie Hearts finding a VHS cassette in the dumpster and not knowing what it is seems like a throwaway joke, but it's a clever Parental Bonus to the fact that most children of today have never seen or used such a cassette.
• For someone who's supposed to be a Wonderland native, the White Knight fumbles around when it comes to Wonderland madness and riddles, the world's official language. Then we find out it's really Darling, an Ever Afterian, under the helmet.
• Why we don't get any character Oz make sense when you realize that unlike characters from fairy tales or Wonderland they don't just have one story but dozens of stories each. Both in which they play major and minor parts. Not to mention the Wizard's role, making everyone believe he's magic only to revealed a humbug, would be hard to repeat.
  • In Spring Unsprung, among the characters not impacted by the spell include Briar, Cerise and Holly. The former two because they do resist part of their destinies for various reasons (Briar because she truly doesn't want to sleep for a century and lose all her friends and Cerise because she's also the daughter of the Big Bad Wolf) and Holly because she's actually the younger twin who technically doesn't have a destiny.
• Daring having a crush on Lizzie is more than a nice way for him to choose his own way. He was told all his life to love and marry the future Snow White, you know, the girl with pale skin, red lips and ebony hair. Since Apple has all but an important feature, Daring subconsciously fell in love with a girl who has all the traits he was conditioned since birth to like. He's following his destiny on his own twist. That's indeed Daring.
• Duchess being a bad influence to Sparrow in the web episodes but suffering Toxic Friend Influence in the books. In some versions Odile was always evil and helps separate Odette from her prince, in others she was just her father's pawn.
• Ashlynn's The Generic Guy status kind of makes sense when you realize that Cinderella is most likely one of the most recognized and parodied fairy tales out there.
• Nobody seems to know that Apple needs glasses, despite all the reading and writing that high school must entail. Why? Because most EAH classes ^note from what we've seen consist of lectures or question-and-answer sessions: the students primarily work in their dorms...and Apple is rooming with Raven, the absolute last person who'd care about Apple breaking convention.
  • Another reason why Apple's been able to keep it a secret is EAH's internet access and massive library. As long as she has a rough idea of what to study, she can research it through the web and borrowed books in the relative privacy of her room.
• While a lot of the fandom seems to resent the fact that the Ever After High's designs aren't as varied between characters as Monster High's are, there's an excellent reason for that. Monsters, both in legends and in horror movies, are SUPPOSED to have widely varied looks compared to just regular humans. That's what makes them scary. Not only are most of the EAH characters totally human, but EAH's style is more like fairy tale illustrations in story books, which tend to gloss over making characters look all that individual and settle on generic cuteness and beauty (at least among heroes) to get their points across. More focus is put into the details of the outfits and the scenery than the characters themselves. EAH perfectly mimics that.
• Briar Beauty's rose theme is largely attributed to the original Sleeping Beauty, who was named Briar Rose, and the castle she sleeps for a hundred years is covered in thorns.
• Maddie's comment about a monster high being silly makes sense. Like Cerise's Ears, most if not all of the students have no idea that C.A. Cupid transferred in from such a school.
• In Save Me Darling, a scared Apple chooses to hide behind Raven. It's hilarious because of Raven's role in Apple's story, but it also foreshadows the events in Dragon Games. Apple got the gender of her 'Prince', if not her identity, entirely correct!
• Courtly Jester and Lizzie Hearts have each a large mark over the same eye, one a heart and one a diamond shape. Both are playing cards, why wouldn't they be marked?
• The solution to Apple's curse makes more sense when you remember that destinies have essentially been made invalid by this point in the story. When Daring attempts to revive Apple with a kiss, he's doing so because he thinks it's his role to, and there isn't a connection. Darling's attempt at mouth-to-mouth CPR awakens Apple because Darling was acting out of concern for Apple's life, and doing what she could to keep her from dying. Thus, the act itself was a better example of true love than Daring's "destiny", which is why it worked. It's doubly appropriate because this revelation means that Darling gets to be the heroic princess she always wanted to be.
• Considering the Evil Queen married the Good King (who is apparently a really kind and nice person, if Raven's adoration and love for him is any indication) and Raven is expected to follow her mother's footsteps, it's kind of no wonder that Raven's love interest would be a dorky Nice Guy, Dexter Charming.
• Daring is a huge flirt with the ladies, which can come across as him just playing up the role as Prince Charming. However, when you take into consideration that he's destined to marry Apple, it can be interpreted that Daring is trying to get as much fun with the girls as possible before he has to spend the rest of his life with only one.
  • It's also a function of his role as a Satellite Love Interest. In many of Prince Charming's appearances in fiction he's pretty much a plot device, with little to do beside marry the heroine. No wonder he would be single mindedly obsessed with being attractive and flirting with women, that's pretty much all he's expected to do.
• Cupid is a Rebel. While there is a logical reason for it, it's especially apropos that the daughter of Eros would identify with the symbol of the winged heart.
• Red and blue are a known color pair, as are gold and silver. What two princesses do we know with red/gold and blue/silver color schemes? The colors are just another hint at their destiny!
• Doubles as Fridge Horror. Duchess still being in Royals, despite not wanting her unhappily ever after (That's right the original story, not Don Bluth) makes sense when you take into account Duchess is an Alpha Bitch and what do Alpha bitches do: they stay inside mostly the top-tier social circle (which Royals could be as they have more people of actual royalty). Also, considering, most of the Rebels seem to non-royalty (or not sane in Lizzie's case), it's most likely Duchess is staying in the Royals out of pride. It's Fridge Horror and/or Tearjerker because if she stays: she'll be condemning herself to dying (or suicide). It's no wonder she's always sabotaging the Royals, she's too prideful/arrogant to transfer, so she has to look for other ways.
• The reason Cedar is in the Rebels makes sense since she's a Nice Girl. Whereas Pinocchio was rebellious (in Disney)/had to learn to be good (orginal). It's most likely she doesn't want to stop being nice, just to have an internal rebellious phrase, then go back to being nice.
• Cerise siding with the rebels despite her destiny being quite simple (go to a house, get eaten/tied up by a wolf, be rescued) makes much more sense when you know the aforementioned wolf would be her own sister. Add on the fact that many iterations end with the wolf being killed (whether that be through being cut open and stones being put in their stomach, or simply being chopped to pieces), no wonder Cerise would rebel against destiny!
• Cerise's annoyance at her and Ramona's fight getting attention from the entire school becomes more understandable when you keep in mind they're sisters. Imagine if every fight you had with your siblings was watched by all your fellow students. It would get old very quickly.
• Wolf pups tend to have conflicts with their pack mates when working out their place in a pack. By definition Cerise and Ramona are pups since they're both still teenagers. Their Sibling Rivalry might somewhat come from this.
• The Wonderlandians who escaped Wonderland (Lizzie, Maddie, and Kitty) are extremely close (Kitty considers Lizzie a sister and Lizzie describes Maddie and Kitty as the only ones who understand her). While it may be the bonding of being the only Wonderlandians, there's also the fact that Mad Hatter is likely sheltering Lizzie and Kitty (he doesn't strike as the type who'd let children go homeless). Five or so years of living together, along with the bond of being the only Wonderlandians, they basically are a family now.
• While we don't often see Cerise's full hairstyle due to the hood, it appears to be layered, slightly shaggy and the fringe is visible. What can a layered, shaggy and fringed hairstyle be described as? A wolf cut.
• Cupid's love life being a trainwreck almost makes sense when you consider she's only adopted, thus not biologically related to the God of Love.
• In Dragon Games, Badwolf is the only teacher not turned into some form of animal (discouting the fact he already technically is one) nor is he held hostage by the Evil Queen. According to Mira Shards' diary, the pair were friends during their schooldays. The Evil Queen isn't completely devoid of feeling so its possible she wasn't willing to harm her old friend.
• Also in Dragon Games it seems that the CPR Darling gave Apple acted as True Love's Kiss, but that may not be the case. In the original tale of Snow White, a kiss wasn't what awoke Snow White. It was a clumsy servant fumbling with the casket she was in that dislodged the apple piece and awoke her. Darling's CPR may have had a similar effect without any romantic intentions.
• Apple, Briar, and Ashlynn being close friends make sense when you consider Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella are the most popular fairytales.
  • Probably not intentional, but those are all the first three princess movies Disney ever made.
    • Goldielocks is also a popular tale, but not quite as those three. Which is probably why despite being friends with them, Blondie isn't considered to be apart of their clique.
• How All of The Charmings are treated and their powers. Daring is implied to be the Beast, who was spoiled and vain. He gets the most attention in the show, which is the one where viewers can SEE the characters. Daring’s power is his teeth glowing, just like the beast when he transforms back to normal. Darling’s power is to slow down time. She is implied to be Apple’s Princess Charming and her magical touch allows her to show up to places on time. Dexter’s fairytale is unconfirmed but there are a lot of signs that it’s Cinderella. In the books, they get more attention than Daring does and they are both shown to be more successful in helping out when real trouble comes while Daring often has to be helped out. With both Dexter and Darling having Prince Charming roles while Daring has to be helped in his story, it makes perfect sense.

Fridge Logic

• If Raven wanted to be evil, wouldn't she avoid signing the Book because it would basically guarantee that she would lose? Encouraging her to be evil doesn't seem like it would actually make her follow her destiny.
• How is it possible for Briar Beauty to exist at this moment? Her mother apparently slept for 100 years yet we are also told that the Evil Queen was the one who caused it, meaning she should as of Ever After High still be sleeping and not be able to birth Briar. Okay, we know that the Beauty's are an expanded line AND they have many, many children (Briar has at least 8 siblings) so it IS possible that perhaps the Beauty bloodline provide a female for each generation gap (not that all the fairy tale characters have to have children at the same time, only if their stories are connected and even then they have substitute bloodlines), its also possible that the Wicked Witch bloodline provides daughters to fulfill each sleeping beauty role, but this would be an amazing coincidence even for this show. Do we know for sure that Briars mother is the same Sleeping Beauty that the Evil Queen cursed?
  • Where does it say that Raven's mother is the one who originally cursed her? If you're referring to the part where she was messing with everyone else's stories, it could be that she cursed Briar's mother again after she had already been awoken and had Briar.
  • I always assumed that by The Evil Queen barging into Sleeping Beauty's story, that it was Briar's one, that she appeared on Briars birthday/christening and cursed her, instead of Faybelle Thorn's mother.
• If the princes are the sons of Prince Charming, wouldn't that make them Apple White's brothers? They must be desperate to keep the blood-line going. (However, fanon has declared them Ashlynn's brothers until canon proves otherwise, going by Disney Animated Canon logic — the prince in the Cinderella movie was Charming while Snow White's was erroneously christened Ferdinand by the fandom.)

  • The princes being Ashlynn's brothers have been Jossed by Word of God (they have a sister named Darling.)
  • There are numerous princes in the Fairy Tale universe. While this means they aren't brother and sister, this could mean that they're actually just cousins. Which would also be historically accurate.
  • "Blondie Branches Out" reveal there are numerous families with the surname Charming. Daring, Dexter, and Darling are related to only one Charming family, not all of them.
  • And this is confirmed in the books. There are a bunch of Charmings around who pretty much exist so that there will be a constant supply of generic princes and princesses to fill positions in stories as necessary. (Dexter even mentions the Beast as a potential role.)

• Why would Snow White name her daughter after a fruit that almost killed her?
  • Because everyone in this universe knows how their story goes, and it's what lead her to being awakened by her prince and becoming queen. After all, this is exactly why Apple White appreciates Raven so much.
    • Also, Apple loves apples, and it's possible she gets this from her mother. After all, if an evil queen wanted to poison her stepdaughter, she might use her favorite food to make sure that the poisoned offering was actually eaten.
  • It could also be in part because Apple is just a placeholder name. There have probably been multiple Snow White's over the generations, and it would be more than a little confusing to have a mother and a daughter sharing the same name, so the daughter gets a different name until she's ready to take the title of Snow White
  • In more than a few versions of the Snow White tale, The Evil Queen is stated to be Snow White's step-mother. If that's true in this universe, then that would make the Good King that fathered Raven Apple's grandfather, meaning Raven would be Apple's aunt.
    • It also means that for the story to be played straight, based on the Grimm version, at some point Apple's mother will die, and her father will marry a girl that's the same age as his daughter, and is his sister-in-law.
    • Not to mention Dexter is in love with a girl who is both his aunt/stepmother-to-be.
    • Um, what? Raven isn't Dexter's aunt nor would she become his stepmom, unless I'm missing something here.
    • Possibly averted in the webisodes, as so far all we've heard is that Raven needs to poison Apple, not necessarily become her stepmother. This might be the story's way of handling things if the Evil Queen and Snow White are the same age. The books, on the other hand, have Apple and Raven wonder about this themselves.
• Is Cerise technically the big bad wolf and little red riding hood, since she's the daughter of them both? How did her father and mother hide their relationship, since Hunter's father was the previous huntsman and was involved in their story?
  • Since Mr Badwolf is still alive he could have just been chased off in their iteration of the tale and returned to find Cerise's mom later on. After all, at the end of the story the hunter simply leaves once he's saved Red and her grandma.
    • Solved in the second book: Red Riding Hood saved his life by setting off a smoke bomb to let him get away.
    • It's also revealed that the Mad Hatter was the one who wed the two together, making him the family's Secret-Keeper.
    • It was revealed that she does have a sister who takes their dad's last name.
• Duchess can turn into a black swan, traditionally associated with Odile instead of Odette. Then you recall that Swan Lake traditionally has the prince accidentally confessing his love to Odile, not Odette. Modernized that could be construed as, say, accidentally sleeping with and/or marrying the wrong woman. How do we know Duchess' mother is really Odette, given how important mistaken identity is to her story?
  • Which then begs several more questions: Where does Odile herself come from if Duchess is going to be raised to be the next Odette and if tradition dictates that the children of the fairy tale character MUST follow in their parent's footsteps... does this mean that none of the Swan Queens have ever followed in her mother's footsteps? A third question rises: if Duchess is the black swan and thus Odile, why did the Storybook of Legends tell her she was destined for Odette's fate? Does this have anything to do with the Storybook of Legends being broken, as Giles Grimm suggests? If so, who broke it? How is the story of Swan Lake managing to continue with its lead protagonist perpetually switched with her impostor? Or is Odette meant to be the impostor? If every Swan Queen in training has in fact been Odile's daughter, why has Headmaster Grimm continued to let them pass through his school, when he's so obsessed with tradition? Wouldn't they all be a danger to his continued obsession with ensuring every fairytale proceeds exactly as it should, as all Swan Queens are rebel by default without realizing it, as they pursue a destiny that isn't supposed to be theirs? Will Duchess become a white swan when it comes time for her to achieve her destiny? Are all Odiles raised to be Odettes before they turn the tables and decide to join Rothbart to gain the happy ending they thought they were denied, and force their unhappily ever after on someone else? It's either a giant Plot Hole or a great set-up; having written that last question I think that's probably the case. And thus probably a little fridge brilliance and fridge horror; Duchess thinks that way because she's meant to.
  • Or maybe, Oldie and Odette pulled a Red Riding Hood and Duchess is the daughter of both of them.
  • Considering the biological impossibility of that, I think it's more likely that Odile's curse on Odette affected Duchess, leaving her an uncertain mix of the two Swans.

Fridge Horror

• The premise of the series is that the fairy tale characters' children are forced into their parents' roles, even if they don't want them or have befriended someone on the opposite side.
• Children of fairy tale characters are compelled to live out their parents' life-stories. Most fairy tale protagonists are motherless (and living mother-figures tend to be evil in fairy tales). This would mean the fairy tale princesses we all know and love either die shortly after having daughters (they might possibly have to commit suicide) or become Abusive Parents themselves. Of course, if the later is true, it would come off as their expected role, as how people expect Raven to poison Apple.
  • "Ashlynn Ella's Story" has confirmed that Ashlynn's mother (Cinderella herself) is destined to die a premature death, and her father will be forced to marry a woman who will abuse her. Added to that, she is currently living with one of Cinderella's stepsisters, who is using her as a slave.
    • Where does it say that last part? Her step-aunts live in the castle with her and her parents, and Ashlynn does chores because her mom wants her to practice for her story.
    • Taken further, that means all Cinderella's Happily Ever Afters only last until it is time for their children to take the role, at which point they die young. Which means that's all that's waiting for Ashlynn if she follows the story too...
  • Not to mention that the fate of the evil queen in fairy tales is always horrible, Raven is pretty much expected to be evil and then suffer and die horribly (or end up in a freaking mirror for the rest of her days). No wonder she hates her fate so much.
    • That might be questionable, since we see several villains at the school, apparently having performed their roles without further repercussions, unless teaching is some kind of community service. Raven's mother was a particularly evil Evil Queen, after all, so she might have gotten a harsher punishment than most.
    • But she sees her destined story on Legacy Day, and it does end with imprisonment. That's not great incentive to get reluctant villains to fulfill their fairy tale roles. It's possible that the previous Evil Queens have been genuinely evil enough to be punished more harshly than other villains; Raven's mother definitely was. Although, the Storybook of Legends is a fake, so make of that what you will.
  • Briar will sleep for one hundred years. Depending on the tale, her whole castle may fall asleep with her. So either A) we lose a whole ruling family and court for 100 years or B) Briar loses everyone she's ever known
    • confirmed by Thronecoming. And Briar is not happy at all.
• The Cheshire Cat's cursed book brainwashes characters into becoming their opposites. Not the opposite of their stories, but themselves. We saw the damage Apple caused under it's influence, but what if someone like Raven had read from it?
  • She'd not be as bad as Apple, though. Raven still has an attitude and traits that make her still capable of villainy- she likes practical jokes and seems to actually enjoy her villain classes, and she's rather blunt and direct. Looking at Raven past her dislike of her destiny and dark magic, think she'd probably end up a Prone to Tears Shrinking Violet Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, but small potatoes next to Apple, who is a Purity Sue and is supposed to embody Incorruptible Pure Pureness (even if she doesn't always hit the nail on the head she's way closer than Raven). She'd, at worst, like to use her magic for its intended purpose rather than re-purposing it. She wouldn't even be The Dragon to Apple, she'd be more like... The Starscream.
• If The Little Mermaid exists in this universe (she hasn't appeared, so who knows), would her story end as it does in the book? Considering this series doesn't seem to be shying away from Downer Endings and Bittersweet Endings, such as Odette's and Briar's fates, it is possible. And seeing as everyone knows their stories, that would mean that she would know that her story will end horribly and there is nothing (unless the rebels are correct) that she can do to stop it.
  • While it is possible that it exists, it would be awkward to portray it: The whole point of her character is that she has lived all her life underwater, and becomes enamored with the idea of humanity(and a soul). If she meets the others, that whole thing is moot. Following from there, her original story she dies, so there is no way to have children, in the "happy ending" she becomes a human permanently, so there is no way for her daughter to be a mermaid. (Unless they go back and forth from "Wants to be human" to "Wants to be a mermaid")
  • There are trademarked characters for the story, we just haven't seen them yet so we don't know which version they're following or how it works.
  • It's possible it will follow a variation of this. That is to say, the current Little Mermaid will have been born of a former mermaid, however the spell did not apply to her children, so the original was forced to send her daughter to her father, who was still ruling over the seas, in order to raise her until she was older. Perhaps Ursula would have cursed the former mermaid to cause this situation in the first place, preventing her grandfather from simply making her human.
• In WTW, did the Evil Queen give Courtly power to try and force Raven into signing the book and inheriting her powers as part of her escape plan?
  • My guess is yes as the next special features her. I think the spell that imprisons the The Evil Queen is based on her being the Evil Queen. By having Raven sign, the spell would be weakened allowing her escape.
    • You're right. Partially.
• Cerise Hood, who's very existence as a human-werewolf hybrid violates story tradition. Considering how many of her peers are stickler to follow their destiny at whatever the cost, and how many find the idea of violating these norms infuriating, one can only imagine what they might do to her if/when they discover her heritage.
• As mentioned above, if Cerise were to follow her destiny, it would end with her being eaten by her own sister and said sister being chopped to pieces.
  • Which is honestly more Nightmare Retardant than anything- them being sisters most likely means they will in no way follow their destinies. Their parents didn't.
• More of a Fridge Tearjerker; Ramona is a year older than Cerise and we can assume she's also a school year ahead, so a junior. The students sign the book in sophomore year. Ramona has already signed the book when her destiny involves dying. The book was fake, but Ramona didn't know that. She signed her own death warrant and she's only sixteen years old.
  • Again, considering her own parents didn't fulfill their destinies, knowing the next Red is her baby sister most likely made signing the book the easiest thing Ramona has ever done. She knows her sister won't lead her to her death, plus by the point she signed, Cerise likely knew Hunter well enough to know Hunter would never kill Ramona.
• In Unfairest of Them All, the entirety of Hood Hollow, barring Red and her mother, were going to murder/banish Cerise for her heritage, considering her an abomination. Sure, she earns her right to stay but will Cerise ever feel safe at home again, knowing everyone around her wants her dead/banished?
• Speaking of Hood Hollow, Cerise offhandedly mentions that “someone misplaces a shoe, they go straight for the torches and pitchforks”, and while she was probably exaggerating, but it still remains that they use torches and pitchforks, or something alike to those, for offenses that would be regarded as minor in the real world, to the point where she refers to it in a casual manner.

  Cerise: Every. Single. Time. Someone misplaces a shoe, and they go straight for the torches and pitchforks.

• In The Storybook of Legends, when discussing Cerise, Cedar says she doesn't talk. Cedar cannot lie, and exaggerating could be considered lying, heavily implying Cerise does not talk. How anxious must Cerise have been about the secret for her to not speak a word, not even while in her dorm.
• As mentioned above, Cerise's destiny involves her sister dying. The Unfairest of Them All confirms that Little Red watches the Big Bad Wolf be killed by the Huntsman. Not only would Cerise lose her sister, she would also witness it.