For me, I don't think Duchess considers to be a villain except she is heavily misunderstood. She is a Royal except a Rebel by heart, but she will follow her destiny except she doesn't enjoy her destiny when it ended up in a tragic ending. I wanted to punch Apple White except I couldn't stand her when she made a remark within one episode involving a "Food Fight" and bickering involving the aftermath of Legacy Day.
The food fight stopped except Apple White caused a "Food Fight" again when she made a remark that Royal will have "Happily Ever After", but she doesn't. Geez, there are times that I wondered if Duchess have a character development within an Ever After High, but I supported for SparrowxCerise or SparrowxDuchess and Dizzie. I am not sure if Sparrow and Cerise are cousins or not since they shared the same name.
I saw Duchess have more potential as a character as she doesn't seem to like Apple White. She wanted to have a "Happily Ever After" like Apple White, but she doesn't want to die. What if she came clean that she was Rebel? What if Raven Queen was friends with her? Apple White needed to have some sense of reality since nothing is perfect in reality and the only thing that she needed to realize first of all. She needed to realize something more than that…
I needed to get away from Skull Inn, but to do something new out of the ordinary. I don't want any hatred against Duchess since I see her as a princess struggling, but I like her style and color theme as well.
I don't own Ever After High.
What IF?
Chapter 1: What if Duchess is friend to Raven?
Raven's POV
I know that Duchess was a Rebel within a Royal's heart, but I understood her pain since her story ends with the bitter note. I am not trying to insult her or anything, but she envied Apple for a good reason because she had the best destiny. I am not going to tolerate myself being shielded away like my own mother. I am a Princess and I wanted to have my own happy ending, but I had to look out for those who hated their destiny.
Lizzie told me that Duchess needed a serious talk and I was the only one available. No-one hangs out with her except for Sparrow, but they don't love interest. I know she had a crush on Prince Charming except I don't think she loved him fully. I understood not all Royalty are created equally. Some are proud for their destinies, but others aren't when Maddy told me about one Royal who don't like her destiny.
It's disappointing that the others are forced to their own destiny, but it's not destinies are created equally. Lizzie told me that Daring doesn't want to follow his destiny to be with Apple White since I know that he doesn't want to get married. It was odd for me to hear something from Lizzie, but admitted that she didn't want to fall in love with him. Until she took on a dragon ride with him and I never expecting that Royal have a Rebel Heart.
I understood about why Duchess antagonized the others who don't follow their destiny, but her destiny is more tragic. She envied Apple White for a good reason, since she had the best ending unlike her. Her ending is tragic like mine, but I would talk to her except I have a forgiven heart to help a Rebel out in need.
"Lizzie!" said Duchness to her surprise when Lizzie came into their dorm room except she frowned when she gave me the look,"What the hell is she doing here?"
"To talk to you!" Lizzie said to her, "I know you signed your destiny, but you aren't a Royal by heart? I understood how you wanted to antagonize those who don't follow their destiny. You wanted to gain a good reputation into earning a happy ending and tried to get your Prince Charming except do you think that he love you?"
Duchess was upset when Lizzie confronted her, but I don't think that she loved him as a friend except use him as a trophy husband.
Lizzie's POV
These girls wanted to have Daring Charming as their Husband Trophy, but where is the love in this. Duchess and Apple White know that Daring is a human, but a lifeless object to complete their destinies except this isn't how it works. They cannot have Happy Ever After by marrying to a Prince as an object except we are still people including the inhuman. Daring charmed any girls except what's the point if they loved him for his looks.
"Well…"
"Well, what?"
"I don't get what Daring got an interesting in you instead of me?"
"Because I am not obsessed with men and I judged by personality. I took him as a prideful loser, but I heard Sparrow dared him to try to impress me, instead it failed. I tried to avoid him like a plague for his schemes instead I understood there is a softer side within the Prince. I have never driven a dragon before, but it felt something out of the ordinary."
She needed to understand the facts of life, but it cannot fairy tales. This isn't destinies, but this is reality. I didn't care if Apple White complained me that Prince Charming belonged to her due to her destinies, but they don't have to follow what the Legacy's Book says. This is a reality when I wanted to live a peaceful with my kingdom instead of following what my mother wanted me to be. She was proud of me when I wanted to become something more than the opposite than her.
She wasn't the Queen anymore due to the Exile except I wished that she didn't cause a fool of herself for her selfish acts. The White Queen was my Aunt as she raised me right, unlike my mother since she didn't leave me alone and I remain connected to my mother as she regretted her action. Everyone thought I was going to become like my mother, but I won't anymore. I wasn't trying to be a Rebel, but a Good Royal instead of looking down as a villain.
"I don't care if Apple White pouted when she loved him because of her Happy Everafter. I don't care if you and others are jealous of me except someone treated me as a human. It doesn't give you the right to belittle anyone just because they don't want to follow the destiny. You can't force anyone to follow their destiny or destroyed their reputation. I wanted to keep out of it, but I am glad that Ashlynn found her Prince Charming."
I haven't forgotten that Headmaster Grimm tries to make Raven Queen become the Evil Queen. I understood that she doesn't want to, but Maddy was right about one thing. She doesn't follow what everyone wanted her to become, but I wanted to say it straight that I am not a fool. Apple White tried to convince her to become an Evil Queen, except it failed all together, but I wished that Headmaster Grimm didn't focus on the Royal.
If I retired, I kicked Headmaster Grimm for corruption the school, but I know that he was doing his job. Giles Grimm was better when Maddy and I talked to him over tea time, but I am getting distracted here. I understood that Duchess doesn't want to have a destiny, but signed the Legacy Book. It doesn't mean that she have to, but she changed her destiny on she wanted. She did it out of fear as she signed it.
"What do you mean?"
"I would like it if Faybelle Thorn takes over her destiny, and I will get my own Happily Ever After! Apple White is expecting me to be frienemies with her except she thought wrong…"
"Not to mention that Briar Beauty poisoned my cake to make Apple White happy, but it carried the consequences on what if she got the wrong one."
I understood Briar Beauty trying to make Apple White feel better, but the Princesses aren't supposed to do such thing. They are lucky that this is a poison changed someone into an animal, but I will laugh if Hopper kissed Briar Beauty. I blackmailed her to make sure that she doesn't do it again since it already happened before.
"Wait, what?"
Everyone thinks Raven Queen did such thing like this except Daring Charming disappointed from what happened. He disapproved them since he had his own honor, but he could cook. He doesn't want to become Apple White when she smiled as she thought Raven Queen followed her destiny. Who wanted to have a destiny involving someone poisoned an apple, but where was the effort in this?
Her story is famous and everyone wanted her story except it was lacking of character development between the characters. Where's the effort? While those who have tragic endings, they developed into something else as well, but I wanted to say that sometimes I wished that the Legacy Book didn't spoil anyone's destines.
"But that's not the point, but what's the point? Not all Endings are created equally for everyone, but…"
"What's the point? I am a Royal!"
"You are a Rebel by heart when you aren't happy for what your destiny become. I don't want to make enemies with you at all either, but I know you don't like your terrible faith…"
"Well, I don't care about my faith, but why haven't you followed your destiny like your grandmother?"
"Do you think I will be selfish to say that I refused?"
She had a point there, but it was foolish for everyone to blame it on Raven Queen for ruining Apple's tale. I know Duchess doesn't want to end up dead since she didn't get her Happily Ever After, but she isn't aware that she found her Prince Charming. I'm aware that she considered Sparrow as a friend when she tried to avoid her feelings for him, but we needed to work on that.
"There is another thing, I don't think Raven Queen is selfish in reality, but the true selfish person who needed a sense of reality. That person is Apple White, everyone thinks she is so perfect during Legacy Day. There is nothing perfect about her as what if there is no Happy Ending for her if her tale goes wrong. She wanted to simply make Raven look bad by poisoning an apple, but I don't think Prince Charming's kiss will break the spell either."
"What do you mean, Lizzie?"
"If you were in her shoes, would you eat an apple and die before rescuing by the Prince? Give me one good answer."
I know my mother told me about the dark, twisted to this story from the past except I knew something was odd about it. I didn't want to say anything or get involved with anything about the source. It wasn't right to try to convince Raven to sign, but I didn't think she disappeared. The Legecy Book told if a person doesn't sign a book, but it means that they will disappear. Maddy told me about the incident and I reacted with surprise that Raven was still alive.
"Uh?"
"Wouldn't you dare eat an apple from a stranger? Do you dare allow a stranger comb your hair?"
"Well, I don't like apples, and I wanted…"
"You wanted to live a Happily Ever After instead of a tragic ending," Raven said.
"What do you know about Happily Ever After?"
"Well, we shared something in common and we have tragic endings, but we had a different role in our story. I don't want to be enemies or frienemies, but I wanted to be your friend. No one has to follow what their parents did, but you don't either. I don't care if I supposed to be Evil Queen, but I don't care if anyone feared me or not. I wanted you to understand that I am not like my mother…"
"I…"
Duchess doesn't want to become friends with Raven Queen, except I know she struggle with her prideful attitude. She doesn't get along with Apple White, but followed for what her heart is. None were in denial as she struggled with her prideful attitude. She tried to blackmailed Ashlynn Ella to follow her destiny, but she hated her more due to the fact. She had the best of both worlds between the Royal and Rebel. It doesn't matter when Cupid told everyone that it doesn't matter if they are the Royal and Rebel, but everyone had a prince from the secret party.
"How can I trust you?"
"It takes one step at a time and then you get to know me, but I wanted to try to be friends with Apple. I wanted to try not become frienemies, but it was nothing to do with her. I wanted to try to not like her except she is to focus on her Happily Ever After. She tried so many times to make follow my destiny, but I don't want to be shielded away from mirror."
"So, you don't like Apple White…"
"Let's just say that I don't like her, but I wanted her to accept me the way I am. It doesn't mean that it's going to work. When I tried to take a Royal Class and Apple tried to convince me that it's wrong for me to try to take a different class…"
"Let's face it, she is a complete foolish to try to live a fantasy where she will never get. The good thing is…"
"What is that?"
"If she kept it up, she isn't going to follow her own story since she is taking something that Raven would take. Even though, it's wrong for her focus on her destiny and she needed to focus on her Happily Ever After. Not all destinies are created equal when I don't seem to believe that Legacy Book makes a person disappeared. If you haven't signed the book, you won't disappear, right?"
"I see your point," Duchess said with a sigh, "but what will others think?"
"Don't let others get in a way, but you have to be yourself, to show what you truly are. You are a Royal except you are Rebel too…"
Duchess' POV
I don't understand either of them except they had a point about one thing. I wondered if I shouldn't sign my name, but it doesn't mean that I disappeared right. I wanted to get my Happily Ever After, but I didn't enjoy much my ending. It felt like brainwashing, but signed by free will or fear. I thought that if someone didn't sign, they will disappear. I didn't enjoy my ending, but I was a Rebel at heart. There were jealousy and hatred for my enemy, but Raven and I have something in common.
None want to have a tragic ending, but there will unfair advantage. I wanted to say something except I frowned when I remembered my father raised me after my mother died. Raven raised by her father too, except I wondered within my mind. If I should do something within my heart as I am a Royal except I am a Rebel. What will the others think of me?
Would I be unpopular like the rest of them? I didn't want to downgrade myself, but I wanted to become acceptable to others. I don't want to be ignored, but I hated it when I don't get my own Prince Charming. I considered Sparrow as a friend, but not a lover. I don't want to admit that I love him, but what will become of me if they discovered that I am going out with a Rebel? I wanted to make a good impression to the Royal except it's a bittersweet moment when I couldn't stand Apple White. I hated her for having her own Happily Ever After and I hated her for being Miss Popular.
I wanted to cry, but it's a struggle when Raven extended her hand as I stood before her. I wanted nothing to do with Raven Queen since she is evil except I saw her eyes. I saw that she was a Royal except she was a humble person, but I tried to look away. It's ironic that these eyes remind me of my own mother from the pictures, but I hated being overshadowed.
I wanted to hate Lizzie for taking my own Prince Charming except I couldn't blame it on her. Daring was a perfect key to his perfection and everyone is jealous on Apple White. It doesn't mean that Daring doesn't want to marry anyone, but he wanted someone to understand him like Lizzie.
Lizzie was right when I couldn't focus on Daring, but I wanted him to be my husband. I didn't see him as a human when I looked at him, but he… I don't understand anything about why things change, but I wanted to blackmail him like I did to the others to follow their destiny. I couldn't if someone going to blackmail me, but I wanted to keep them in line. I wanted to show favor to Headmaster Grimm except he doesn't seem to care much about the others feeling, but he dictated. I struggled to try to accept Raven's hand, but I wanted to accept her as a friend.
"I…"
"I…"
Instead, I ended up slapping her in the face when my pride gets the better of me.
"I will never be friends with an Evil Witch!"
Raven felt the sharp pain as she pushed back, but I didn't mean it. Lizzie reacted with a face palm as she tried to comfort Raven, but she rushed out of the room. I didn't mean it when Lizzie felt an uncomfortable as she noticed Blondie spied on us, but she looked back at me before she left.
I didn't mean it when I wanted to teach her a lesson except I felt guilty within my heart and I went after her. I didn't mean to do such thing like that as I wanted to alone except that wasn't right within my heart. I looked away from Blondie before she walked up to me for an interview. I pushed her away as I wanted to apologize to her except I couldn't as the crowd witnessed it. I didn't mean to, am I cruel? Am I? I wanted to hide my face in shame as I didn't mean it, but my heart told me to apologize to her.
I didn't want to do it right in front of public instead I left no other choice. I felt guilty for what I have done, but my attitude gets the better of me. I wanted to know that if it was a set-up or not. I wanted to know why everyone took notice of me.
"Duchess, what happen?"
I didn't want to look at my own enemy in the face when she wanted an answer if Raven followed her destiny. It doesn't matter anymore when she looked innocent except I knew that she is selfish.
"What does it matter to you?"
I didn't say anything else when I hated Apple White, but I don't care what everyone thinks. I hurt Raven Queen, but I don't like her when I gave her the look. I saw that she hoped Raven Queen follow her destiny, but I saw her eyes were selfish. She looked innocent in everyone's eyes except I hated her for a good reason.
"Excuse me?"
"Are you focused more on getting your Happily Ever After or Raven Queen? Do you care about someone who doesn't want to follow your destiny? Do you care about your friends more than yourself?"
"What are?"
I didn't waste time when I looked away from her, but she tried to follow except I turned into the swan. I flew to search for Raven out of the window, but I don't care what the others say. I don't know about what people say, but it doesn't mean my attitude is going to change. I didn't mean to hurt her as I saw her crying on Maddy's shoulder when I flew up to her. She cried in the woods as I changed into my form.
"Raven, I'm…"
"What did you do to her?"
"I didn't mean to do such thing like this, but I was…"
Raven didn't want to see my face as I cried when I went close to her. I didn't mean to make her cry as I sat next to her and I sighed.
"What you are saying is right… We shared something in common when we have a tragic ending and it doesn't mean that we are enemies. You were right when I cannot focus on one guy to complete my story, but I wanted to say. I am sorry…"
"I am sorry for belittling you, but I am sorry for following what other peoples' say. I wanted to say it straight right now, but I wanted to say…"
Raven looked up at me except she looked at me with sadness as Maddy tried to keep her calm.
"I couldn't follow a person for having the easy "Happily Everafter", but I am sorry that Apple doesn't understand on how a person feels…"
Everyone gasped in horror for what I am saying, but I had zero respect for her. Everyone wanted to beat me up except I had my reason when I wanted to stand up for what's right.
"I wanted to be clear, but I don't like my Tragic Ending on what I will become within my story. I wanted to have my own Happily Ever and I don't want to die at all. I couldn't stand being overshadowed by my own enemy, but everyone thinks she is so perfect instead she isn't. She isn't perfect through anyone's eyes, but everyone thinks she so "Perfect". She isn't in reality when she considered Raven selfish. I'm very sick and tired of everyone acted like Apple is their Goddess, but I'm sick of everyone treated Raven Queen like she is Evil. She isn't, but I think I found Apple White the true Selfish Princess…"
"Duchess…"
"What the… How dare she call Apple a Selfish Princess?"
"This is bullshit… How dare she?"
"How dare I? How dare I? Oh, you think she isn't selfish, but I thought Raven was selfish except she will do out her way to do something that none expecting her do too. Her heart is on the right path when I come to realization and I thought she was doing something selfish."
Apple reacted with this when she heard the words coming from my mouth. How dare I say something bad about her, but I looked like a Royal? I wasn't in reality, but I don't know why would say something right in front of them. I had to stand up for what I believed within my heart, but I may be the ugly duckling except I wasn't in reality. How could I say something against a Royal.
"Selfish, how could I be selfish?"
"Shut up Apple White," I said to her in anger when I should have slapped her instead of Raven Queen, "you are in reality when you thinks that you are going to get your kingdom except you are still high school. You think everything of yourself and your Happily Ever After, but you think that everything is perfect in your own world."
She reacted with surprise when I put down, but everything gathering for what Lizzie says. Everything isn't perfect through anyone's eyes, but what got me doing something like that. I looked at Apple and I saw nothing more, but a selfish person who wanted to follow her destiny and have her own Happily Ever After.
"Not all people want to follow in their parents' footsteps and I wanted to follow my footstep, but I don't want to die a tragic death. I tried to hold it back when I wanted to reach on top, but I was jealous on everyone focused on you for being Miss Popular. I have a harsh truth to reveal to you, but to those who think that I am following my destiny and sign my name on the Legacy Book."
I couldn't stand it when she says that everyone gets their Happily Ever After and Raven don't during the Food Fight. How could she say something like that? Haven't she forgotten that not all of us have a Happily Ever After from the Royal and Rebel. I wanted to come clean when I wanted to tell them straight that I wasn't a Royal from the beginning as they looked at me with disgust.
"I am not a Royal!"
"What?"
"You heard me… I am not a Royal and never wanted to follow my Destiny, but I thought if I didn't sign except my story will ease to exist. Raven proved a point when she didn't sign the book, but I couldn't believe it either when she didn't disappear. She supposed to be a Royal instead she was a Rebel as she can't stand her destiny being shielded within a mirror. I'm surprised that she closed the book before everyone, but she considered to be the "Bravest" person except when things got intense with us cheering and booing. Raven tried to reason with you as we froze. The last thing that I heard… You say that Raven was selfish and cried like a crybaby as you thought she destroyed your Happily Ever After… How selfish are you?"
Raven surprised, "Wait, did I froze you within the Legacy Day?"
"No, I escaped when I flew away after transforming into a swan, but I couldn't forget about the scene."
How could I forget about it when I disappeared before she frozen the Royal? This is their future Queen, but it is such a foolish mistake when everyone blamed it on Raven Queen for destroying Apple's story. She didn't when she runs out of the stage as her night was ruined, but I laughed when I saw her crying. The first time, I saw her cry out and I was graceful that Raven Queen did something that I never have done before. I wanted to have Blondie do something to humiliated Apple White except I had my own standard to try to keep it cool.
"What's this have to, do you being not a Royal? Don't you care about your destiny?"
"I don't… I wanted to rewrite my own story instead of having a tragic ending. You say that we have a Happily Ever After except Raven don't. They are two of us who don't have a Good endings like you and the others have. You are a fool to disregard the others who don't have perfect endings, but…"
I didn't say anything else when I took a deep breath as I wondered what the heck is Apple White thinks.
"Do you think that all Royal wanted to follow their destinies?"
"Well, some Royal will like to follow their destiny, not all deserve a Tragic Endings… None like what they will become, but I didn't like my story either."
"You are the daughter of the Swan…"
"Shut up, don't compare me to my mother's story since I don't want to die. I don't care if someone tries to make follow my destiny and can't stand it when someone try to discourage me that I am doing it wrong. I couldn't stand the pressure of being a Royal anymore, but I am sick and tire of you as well. You thought everything was perfect when you take someone's kingdom and try to make Raven look bad. You are selfish Princess since Raven Queen doesn't want to follow her destiny and I mistook her within the party. I took everything back since I see you as a selfish queen trying to have your own happy ending instead not realizing that someone doesn't want to be with you…"
"What are you saying? Are you saying that me and Daring aren't meant to be?"
Apple reacted in shock as tears streaming down her face when she thought that I going to take Daring away from her.
"You traitor!"
"I am not interested in him, but…"
Before I was going to explain except she slapped me across the face right in front of everyone. She is jealous that she thinks that I was taking her "true love" away from her. I didn't say that I love him except I began to realize what Lizzie says. Lizzie didn't find Daring attractive at first except she came into the realization on her true love except I loved him because I wanted him and I be together, but there is no love connection between us.
"You traitor! How dare you try to take my "true" love away from me?"
"Your true love who is only within your story that is going to help you wake up from your sleep and then you are his Queen in one day! I don't think that he wanted to marry to a selfish princess who thinks that she is going to rule the Kingdom perfectly. I don't think so if she don't listen to someone's heart."
"Are you trying to start a war against me?"
"Who say I am? I am not on your league anymore when I am a Rebel… I am not trying to start a war with you…"
I didn't enter in Apple's Cake Contest since I don't enjoy her contest for the best cake. I wished that I have a contest where I try out all the cakes except I was raised differently. I wasn't spoiled like Apple White or the others, but I am not trying to start a war with her. Everyone gasps all they wanted and I don't care if Blondie posted the news. I had to stand up true to my belief when I stood before her as the storm began to rain, but I couldn't forgive Briar for what she did for Raven's cake. I am not that cruel or a Prankster when I had my limits when I don't go a bit too far.
"You are?"
"I couldn't believe this…"
I looked at Raven when I nodded, "I am a Rebel in reality since you are still the brave one for not signing it."
Apple yelled out in anger, "What Raven did? It was unforgivable…"
I turned my back except my cheek was sore as I walked up to Raven Queen. Everyone was getting wet from the storm except I wouldn't dare allow her to touch my hair. I wouldn't dare allow her to try to attack me as she was turning red as she surprised and shocked by this. I was a "Rebel", but not a Royal anymore when I looked away from my enemy.
"I can't say much about it anymore, but hiding behind the mask… There is a true villainess…"
"I am not a villainess, but Raven supposed to be the villainess to complete my story and MY HAPPILY EVER AFTER! How dare you Duchess?"
She could stomp her feet all she wanted when she was angry at me for turning my back against her. I was glad that Raven did one thing and she isn't going to get her "Happily Ever After". She couldn't hold back her own friend from falling for a Rebel, and I think the detention gave me a clear mind. I couldn't stop a Royal from falling for a Rebel as I looked away from her except Lizzie smiled at me for standing up for myself. I felt the pressure coming out of my body when I smiled for the first time, but not evilly. I smiled calmly when I stood up for myself and I was a "Rebel", but I should be proud of it.
"I don't care anymore!" I replied, "Look around you…"
Blondie recorded everything, but everything was on life when Apple realizes that she was Out of character. They thought she was kind and beautiful of them all, everyone thought that she was perfect. Everyone thought that she was going to be a "future Queen" instead she isn't anymore. She screamed out in anger when she tried to act innocent except she felt embarrassed by everyone. I didn't say a word when I stood there strong and prove a point.
"Everyone saw you for what you are and you should be ashamed of yourself. Everyone, including Headmaster Grimm praised you for following your destiny and I think they see what a true villainess is…"
I walked away from her as I ended up apologizing to Raven for everything, but she was able to forgive me. She and the Rebels surprised when I confronted Apple as I smiled when everyone frowned at me. It was raining, but it felt just right when I smiled as it felt good.
"Without Raven, I don't think you will never get a Happily Ever After…"
She screamed in terror as she ran back inside the school as they heard her cry and her fans followed her. Daring and Lizzie isn't going to confront her as they expect Daring to comfort his future wife except he didn't. Her friends looked at me before they went to comfort her except there is some who didn't. I wondered what was the next step after this beautiful moment. I smiled for the first time when I looked up to the sky as my mother smiled back as she flew into the heaven, but the moment ruined when Headmaster Grimm isn't happy.
"Raven Queen, I am sorry for what…"
"I forgive you…"
He could hate all he wanted, but there is no way to change what I am.
TBC
It's possibly that I will continue on with the series except if you have a suggestion or a request involving "What if?" I will try to upload it except it will take time when I have to work…
