Ok so. Fairies, from the irl story a midsummerâs night dream by irl Shakespeare, are canonically in ever after high. Like fairies as in the fairies ruled by Titania and Oberon. From said story. BUT
Thereâs an eah version of Shakespeare?? They call him William Shakespell. BUT THE FAIRIES ARE LITERALLY DERIVED FROM THE TALE BY SHAKESPEARE đ BUT THEY HAVE THEIR OWN SHAKESPEARE?
I know eah is like âa worldâ and thereâs also the world of narrators and the world of readers, so I assume our irl Shakespeare is considered to be of the âreaderâs worldâ? Well. I mean
Okay, are narrators considered to be âwritersâ? Like thereâs that whole thing about how Ravenâs mom doesnât like the narrators because she feels like they have too much power and stuff and thereâs the whole debate on âdo narrators control us?â and then in A Wonderlandiful World, Maddie uses her narration powers to affect reality. So, in a sense, narrators ARE writers. Kind of?
Eah is really meta with this stuff, but even then, theyâŚarenât stories? Well, they are. They, the characters, know theyâre descendants of tales and all that but they never ever address the fact that, in reality, real people like you and me reality, themselves, the characters, ARE written. The characters like Maddie and Raven donât have free will.
So while eah is meta with the narrators and readers being addressed, they donât act like theyâre being written, they act like the narrators (which are kinda writers) are observing their fates. Which like, is not how it works. In reality
Anyways Iâm kinda losing my train of thought here but uhh basically. I donât get the Shakespell dealio đ because WHY is there an eah version of Shakespeare when SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF WROTE A STORY THAT EAH CHARACTERS ARE DERIVED FROM? đ
On another note. I get that Headmaster Grimm and Giles are yk, a nod to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. But theyâre not fairy tales. SoâŚ
Okay, if the people/characters of eah know theyâre from written tales uhh
Wait. Okay so in the books they address the facts that the âreadersâ specifically are in a realm outside of Ever After. But is it ever addressed where the writers come from? Because in real life, clearly, the writers and readers (real people) live in the same world. But in eah, are the writers from a separate world? Are they from Ever After too? Because that doesnât make a whole lot of sense since isnât it said that Ever After was created by the imagination of writing or whatever? đ
Like, the Grimm brothers were writers (yes I know they went around and collected stories and compiled them together, but they did revise and write the stories down). But Milton and Giles Grimm EXIST in Ever After? Like, how? Theyâre not FROM a story?? THEYRE DESCENDANTS OF WRITERS BASICALLYďżź, I think. Or maybe at the end of the day, the Grimms just coincidentally share the same name as the real life Grimms, and itâs all just convenient. But also that means the Headmaster really be preaching shit about destiny and tradition when he doesnât even belong to a story himself đđ
ALSO SIDE NOTE. Does that mean if a character in Ever After writes a story, their story can come to life? Would there be a whole entire separate âEver After 2.0â where stories written by EA characters get lived out? I guess perhaps people in ever after wouldnât have the âmagicâ of real writers, so maybe not?
Oh my god sorry for the total crash out, but I just have a lot to say when it comes to how EAHâs âself awarenessâ works đ and I know Iâm hardly coherent with this rant, idk if I even made any good points but hey, I got it out of my system!!
That is not to be rude, anon. I think this is actually fun to think about. There's so much going on behind the scenes of EAH and it's like a gold mine. Honestly, if I tried to write out my thoughts about Wonderland it too would be a long rant.
