mannanaz

first two are cupid and blondie!!! i decided to lump them together because they are roommates and i am an avid blondpid/clondie liker and also cupid is literally the mc of this fic--- anyway here they are!

okay now lore: cupid transferred to EAH at the beginning of Junior year. her parents moved them from one side of the state to the other, forcing her to move schools right after she had just gotten settled at MH. the first three months were very rough on her. everyone at EAH was cautious or downright rude to her because they all knew that she came from Monster High. blondie was the same at first, but after getting to know cupid, they became good friends and blondie air a segment of cupid's love-advice podcast on her newscast and promoted it in her blog. her magical love advice which seemed to work every time, made her skyrocket in popularity and soon, cupid was getting smothered with attention by any and all classmates who sought her well of wisdom.

ever since then, they have been the best of friends, with blondie giving a steady flow of 'important news' about their classmates to cupid letting the reporter borrow her things for 'investigative purposes' (which usually end up with whatever blondie borrowed broken and her uniform all dirty.

that's the tldr of the lore! i might do some side posts about it, but that's all for now! i hope you enjoy the new chapter and look forward to the ones to come!

note: i gave some of the characters more realistic names cuz lets be real who tf unironically names their kid “draculaura”

blondie (blaine) and draculaura (dafne) have been enemies since the first grade, where they both entered in a spelling bee. they were both oddly good at spelling words. they were like human dictionaries.

however, in the end, blondie didn’t make it. draculaura won the spelling bee and advanced to nationals where she won 2nd place, bested by some kid from minnesota.

after losing the spelling bee, blondie’s mother grew more and more distant from her. the only time she would pay attention to blondie was when she made mistakes (“why can’t you be more like that little girl who won the spelling bee? now she went places.”). blondie grew up believing that losing the spelling bee showed her mother that she wasn’t smart enough, so blondie hit the books and took up sports. she wanted her mom to see that she was just as good as draculaura, maybe even better.

blondie now resents draculaura and the word sesquipedalian.

on the flip side, draculaura basked in the attention she was getting for winning and placing second, at first. her parents were a bit disappointed when she didnt win nationals, but they got over it quick. from then on, draculaura has been praised for her superior intellect and effortless straight A’s. behind the scenes though, the expectation to be the perfect straight A student has been weighing on her shoulders for years. she’s never gone a day 100% stress free. she’s constantly worried about how others view her, intellectually. she worries that others won’t think she’s smart enough to be worthy of all the opportunities she’s been given. her confidence in her intelligence is simply a façade.

draculaura regrets winning the spelling bee and now resents her winning word, ascendancy.

Blondie

i knew that i wanted blondie to be a runner (running from bears) but i didn’t know how to convey that through design until i saw a friend in cross country who had a knee brace cuz their knee was hurting from running so much. i had an epiphany so now blondie has a knee brace. its also a small detail but she and cupid have matching “i <3 boobies” bracelets. i thought that since they’re roommates and best friends they would have a matching something, and that something is bracelets.

Draculaura

i thought giving her a more gothic look was the best so i did, just with more pink. the split hair color was also something i liked but i didn’t want it just like that, so i added some mini-streaks in her bangs to make it more interesting to look at. overall, i loved drawing her redesign the most because of the skirt and the hat.

Clawdeen

I STRUGGLED SO MUCH WITH THIS ONE

i wanted her to seem like she has g1 clawdeen’s personality, but her style is mixed with g3 clawdeen and oml i had zero idea how to do that. i probably re did her design the most cuz of how much i struggled. this is the result. im pretty happy. while i was redesigning i def knew i wanted the dyed pinkish purple hair, even if its just a little, bc i love color. i honestly didn’t know what to do with her pants until i saw a pair of pants at the thrift store and thought “oh yeah” so that’s why clawdeen’s pants r like that lmao.

Apple

i literally just took the uniform design i did for eah students and put it on her cuz i 100% believe that she would be the only student to follow the dresscode to a t

In this au, both are boarding schools. EAH has a uniform, but the students personalize their uniforms to match their style, which was against the rules. The faculty was strict with the dress code, until Raven’s freshman year, where she accidentally sprung a series of events that resulted in the students holding a protest against the school’s outrageously strict dress code (raven wore a belt with her skirt the third day of school, which was against the dress code). The faculty began to care less and less as the weeks went on so now kids just wear the basics of the uniforms (white collar shirt, dress pants/skirts/shorts) and personalize everything else (shoes, ties/bowties, arm wear). Monster High has like zero dress code. Freedom of Expression is their message so students can dress however they want.

The rivalry between the two schools has gone back centuries, but no one is 100% sure as to how it all started. There are rumors of how it happened, but there has never been concrete evidence of how it all started.

Some Monster High students say that Ever After High’s founder, M. Grimm, had more influence than Monster High’s founder, H. Bloodgood, since Grimm was a much beloved politician at the time. So, he used his money and power to open his own school before Bloodgood did. This is why Ever After High has wealthier students as well as a bigger budget for the school’s events and their educational and athletic programs.

Some Ever After High students say that Bloodgood had tricked Grimm into signing off a large portion of his wealth to her. Bloodgood had used this money to build Monster High next to a small town filled with artists, artisans, and farmers. The local families sent their children to this boarding school believing it to be the best education around. This is why Monster High’s athletics and arts programs are much better than Ever After’s arts and athletics, since most students at MH were the children of artists and athletes.

Monster High’s architecture has also been known to be the most aesthetically pleasing in the state. Local families had helped make renovations to the school over the years which gave it the unique look. Monster High doesn’t need to hold as many fundraisers as Ever After High since most of the families who have enrolled their children there can just help the school themselves instead of paying for someone else to do it. Gym ceiling caved in? Call Jerry. Water fountain broke? Felix can fix it. Bake Sale for animal shelter? Nelson’s got it. The students are also very inclusive and try their best to be better than Ever After High in that way, being more welcoming and friendly.

The wealthy families of Ever After don’t contribute much to the little things at the school; cafeteria food, broken parts of the school (water fountains, doorways etc), or even some clubs (mostly artistic clubs/ programs). So, the students have to arrange fundraisers for themselves, as long as a faculty member sponsors/chaperones it, which almost never happens. They aren’t as close knit as they make themselves appear, many cliques and bullies roam the halls, excluding most anyone who they haven’t known for most of their lives. The friends that they do have, though, are friends for life. Once a clique is established, there aren’t many things that could break them apart.

THATS THE BACKGROUND GUYS THERE IS ALSO THE DESIGNS

Frankie Stein

I wasn’t 100% sure how i wanted to portray them in this au cuz i rlly like gen 1 and 3 designs and both versions kinda clash. i wanted to do certain things but they would have looked bad. might change the design later (still deciding). in this au, frankie is book smart, but not street smart. they often find themselves in dangerous situations because of this. i wanted to add scars to show this bc i think of frankie as someone who is ready to jump headfirst into anything, literally and figuratively.

C.A. Cupid

I LOVE THIS DESIGN!!!! i loved her hair in mh so i wanted the curl from that instead of her eah hair and i though the headphones would be a cute addition. she is the ‘love goddess’ at school so i gave her heart theme accessories. her personality would be a bit more bold and outspoken compared to the eah version of cupid cuz spunky cupid is everything to me.

Raven Queen

The accidental bad girl. i wanted her to be edgier than most other characters, like avant garde, but i dont think she’d want to draw a lot of attention to herself, since the faculty already think she’s a rebellious teen so she’s only kinda edgy. she mostly sticks to herself and her friends. i feel like raven’s design came easiest cuz i know someone who looks so much like her and thats the way they dress so she’s based off of my lab partner (kinda).