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There was a series that Mattel made called Ever After High. It is definitely my MLP:G4 replacement. Despite it’s “girly” appearance it had a wonderfully sinister bite to it. To get into what makes the series really good is long winded and I know none of you have the time for it. Just a shame that the combination of Disney killing the franchise with the much pathetic “Descendants” and Mattel’s incompetence on how to deal with the franchise led the series to a cancellation without majority of it’s stories to be incomplete. And I just have no Confidence that even if Mattel would reboot it, that they would do it Justice.
But remembering it now, there is just so much I loved about it:
The Existential dread
The generational trauma
Apple’s decapitation scene
Ginger coming to terms with her cannibal heritage
Cedar Wood’s existential crisis about her becoming human despite her blue fairy being dead
Cerise dealing with being the daughter of both Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
Duchess Swan being a little Sh1t
Man. There was just so much good stuff in the franchise. I can’t help but think of a better universe where it was handled much better than the way it was treated.
Embarrassingly enough. This is the franchise that inspired me to become a writer. I got so enthralled when writing stories for this story and it’s characters that I came to realize that this is just what I want to do.
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