Ok but like, imagine if Grimm tried to turn back time on legacy day to stop Raven from refusing to sign, only for another student to end up rebelling each time. On the first time loop, He rewinds to an hour before legacy day and has the main snow white characters move to the back of the line with an excuse of saving the best for last or something of the sort. He assumes that since she’s a teen and everyone else will sign before her Raven will give into peer pressure and sign without a scene. But then halfway through Hunter, who wasn’t moved because he plays a more prevalent role in the red riding hood story, slams the Storybook of Legends shut and declares his unwillingness to live a life of violence and to live without the love of his life, thus causing the daughter of Cinderella who just signed the book to fling herself into his arms. Unexpected, but Grimm rationalizes that if he just moves Hunter to the back as well then it’ll all be fixed. Highschool relationships tend to be short, and legacy is more important after all. So on the second loop he moves all the snow white characters to the back, and sits in the crowd with the tension finally leaving his shoulders now that the main problem has been diffused. Except it hasn’t been diffused, because Briar Beauty watches her story play out in the book and in a fit of hysterics rips the binding in half once she sees a reflection of future self in the mirror, with tired eyes wearing clothes a century behind the time reminding her violently of her mother. And it just keeps happening. On one run through Cerise Hood tears her cloak off and reveals her true heritage as a wolf, causing pandemonium on the crowds. On another Darling Charming somehow takes a sword out of her long skirt, and severs her page from the book, declaring she refuses to be a damsel anymore. On one incredibly harrowing timeline everything was going fine until Kitty Cheshire refused to sign, giving him a nonchalant shrug and a taunt of “better rewind again” while her ever present smile haunted him. It gets to the point where he rewinds to a month prior to legacy day, spending that month keeping Ashlynn and Hunter away from each other, Bribing Kitty, separating Cerise and Ravens class schedule so that their friendship can’t form and pushing Darling to take on a damsels in distressing honors project with Apple in hopes his top student will rub off on her. In the end his efforts are fruitless however because somehow Apple is the one to rebel, apparently having fallen in love with Darling sometime in that month. just, the chaos if it all.
the sader + dovey + lesso (+ callis, before she leaves; + the shadow of evelyn sader) dynamic is one of my favourites ever. sader & dovey are good friends, enough that sader literally made her who she is (the crystal ball, the fairy godmother); dovey doubts sader and sader doubts himself in turn. dovey & lesso are. yeah. all that. lesso -> sader is disdain; is distrust; is thinking he's delusional but having to know by the end that he isn't. sader -> lesso is the knowledge that by bringing his sister back, he's going to ruin her life (and others' in the long run, but for now, hers); is guilt; is duty. out of all the teachers in the School they understand best what they're fighting for. they are the foundation, they are its heart.
and callis & lesso are friends, and find themselves in similar positions, only one has the chance to raise their child and one doesn't. the sins of the parent are the sins of the child, or are they? and callis & sader are. well. canonically they never interact. callis is the most important story sader will ever tell. they're coparenting. they both died for agatha.
and the sader siblings are worlds apart. and evelyn -> lesso is ruining her life just because she can; lesso -> evelyn is powerlessness, is futility. and callis & evelyn are two sides of the same coin, one who wanted love too little, one who wanted it too much.
I tried something a little different while painting this but I wasn't satisfied with how it turned out, but I quite like it with just the base colors.
Bitches really be wondering whether they want their fav teacher to be their mom or their mommy like sorry but those are very different hun
It's me. I'm bitches.
i do not believe anyone in the charming-swan-mills-stiltskin family is straight
Finished it yall🥺❄️
I just love them sm😭🥺
This made me so fucking angry I have to inflict it on all of you.
okay i've had multiple anons asking for my opinion so i'm just gonna say this here: i think y'all are thinking about the hayffie age gap a little too hard.
at most they are 5-6 years apart. and this isn't me condoning university grads getting into relationships with high school students but, and here's the thing, hayffie literally aren't romantic at this point and (by general fandom lore standards) they won't be for a very, very long time. most hayffie lore has them getting together in their late 30s to 40s. and idk if the mere idea of an adult effie seeing a teenage haymitch like at most 3 to 4 times across the span of several years before he becomes an adult himself makes you uncomfortable i don't really know what to tell you. even after they're both adults, i feel like it's a loooong road before they start looking at eachother with even the slightest bit of attraction, by which point i feel like the 5-6 years is kinda superfluous. the fact that there is no indication of the age different in thg and cf should tell u exactly how superfluous it is by the time they hit middle age.
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Barbara Howard and Melissa Schemmenti being cute. Would the classy modest woman of God display this much decolletage? Probably not. Am I still going to put her in this dress? Absolutely. I gave her her pearls…canon enough lol. Is Melissa whispering something incorrigible in Barbara's ear…or was she too tempted by an exposed ear to resist a little PDA? Who's to say.
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