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First of all, I didn't change much of your ideas bc they work really well! Technically we can also think of the duos based on how the Overblot Boys cards had their duos but let's leave it for a future post (and I'll need to write down these promises so I don't forget lol) and we'll go with your suggestions for now~

I’m thinking that Alisson/Alice-Lad would have a duo with twst!Mad Hatter or Chen’ya.

Hmmmm I liked it! I'm thinking of phrases for them already lmao The boys that still have no names will have a [] for a while and we'll come back to this post once we have all of them <3

Pls, let's pray for Alisson! We'll have to go with only Chenya this time but I know for sure he always get caught up in the battle just bc he gets so angry and it's funny lol

Alisson annoyed: "Focus your tricks on the other side, okay, Chenya-senpai?"

Chenya: "Nyahaha! I make no promises, []~"

I also think it would be cool if Nalad and Megboy had a duo (purely based on the vibes, I think it would be funny if Leona and Idia’s counterparts got along! Plus Nala and Meg seem like they’d get along too!)

In this post, I briefly touch on the irony of that considering the proximity of both movies and the little Easter egg the animators put in Hercules. I know they would be the funniest duo! So... I had two ideas lmao

(they being badass together)

[Nalad]: "Let's show them the power of a true king, []!"

[Megboy]: "True king, []? They deserve divine punishment!"

~

(and this...)

[Nalad]: "Finally! I came right on time to be your backup, []!"

[Megboy] deadpan: "Thanks, []. I was starting to get distressed here."

Neige may have a duo with Merrylad to tie up loose ends, but I sort of think Neige would have a duo with someone in his dorm. If the dwarfs really do get their own cards, then I imagine maybe he’d get a duo with one of them, leaving the other six to pair up with each other.

Classic boys! Classic boys! 🗣🗣🗣 The most probable "Someone will die" "Of fun" duo if they go together lol

Neige happy still: "[], now it's time for a little discipline, don't you think?"

[Merrylad] snarky: "It's all I wanted to hear, Neige. That's what makes me the happiest~"

As for Neige with one of the dwarfs, the most classic Dwarfs next to Snow White are Doc, Grumpy and Dopey. I would choose Toby for a duo with Neige bc it will give room for Dominic and Gran to fight each together and it would make Toby smile :)

So the Charblanche duos would be

Dominic & Gran

Hop & Snick

Shelpy & Timmy

Neige & Toby

Then, theoretically Merrylad’s dorm would have an even number of members, so they’d all pair up (like how Diasomnia pairs themselves up, Malleus w Lilia and Sebek w Silver). However, assuming that Merrylad’s dorm has three members (being the three good fairies) plus one, I’m not sure what the last character could be based off 🧐 Mayhaps the owl from Sleeping Beauty? Lol

I'm suspicious to say bc I would love for Merrylad to have his Floralad and Faunalad brothers (the fellowfaeship of the lads lol) but a fourth or simply another member based on the Owl would be chaotic too!

It's one of the things I got sad with the Bladevale soldiers being Silver Owls bc that owl was the pure agent of chaos with the other animals. Bro was unstoppable! But so it's Twst, if we think about it lol

Unfortunately I didn't had many ideas for them 😔

Definitely a 3am thought ask but what are your thoughts? Do you also think RSA and NRC would have duo’s together? 👀

A lot of special thought was given to this, so I hope it meet expectations! I tried to think of two scenarios, the boys helping each other (or trying to) in battle and they being passive-aggressive (a fail to two of them lol):

⏱️♥️⏱️♥️⏱️♥️⏱️♥️

Alisson & Riddle ⏱️♥️

[help (sort of)]

Alisson: "This is a game we'll win in duo, Riddle!"

Riddle: "[], get into formation! Use your head!"

[snarky]

Riddle: "Life under the Queen isn't so absurd, don't you agree, []?"

Alisson: "Yeah, whatever, Riddle, Your Majesty..."

🐱🦁🐱🦁🐱🦁🐱🦁

Nalad & Leona 🐱🦁

[help (sort of)]

Nalad: "So this is your style, Prince Leona? Laughing in front of danger?"

Leona: "You ought to learn a thing or two from me, []."

[snarky]

Leona: "Isn't your obligation to protect royalty, []?"

Nalad: "Sorry, Prince Leona. Forgot you were here."

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Rielle & Azul 🧜‍♂️🐙

[help (sort of)]

Rielle: "Right on time, Azul! Any ideas?"

Azul: "It's more profitable to make them pay, Prince Rielle."

[snarky] *Rielle is snarky here bc Azul got his "this guy is treating me like his annoying son" instinct activated

Azul: "I'm very busy and don't have the entire day, Prince Rielle."

Rielle: "What is your deal with reprimanding me, Azul?"

🐯🐍🐯🐍🐯🐍🐯🐍🐯🐍

Minajael & Jamil 🐯🐍

[help (sort of)]

Minajael: "Jamil, you're a genius! We can win now!"

Jamil: "You're doing very well yourself, Minajael-senpai."

[snarky]

Jamil: "Speechless, Minajael-senpai? It's a fine quality in a rival~"

Minajael: "Hiss any more and you're get into the enemy lines, Jamil~"

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Neige & Vil 🍎👑

[help (sort of)]

Neige: "Vil, this ought to be a cinematic battle, right?"

Vil: "Our power is a reflection of that, Neige!"

[snarky]

Vil: "Say, Neige, who is the fairest one of all?"

Neige: "Oh, don't be silly, Vil! It's you and me~~!"

⚘️💀⚘️💀⚘️💀⚘️💀⚘️💀⚘️💀⚘️💀

Megboy & Idia

[help (sort of)]

Megboy: "Maybe we have a chance, Idia. Even if a small one!"

Idia: "C'mon, please... []. We're screwed over here!"

[snarky]

Idia: "Hehe~ Every god needs a competent minion, huh, []?"

Megboy: "100%, Idia. Thanks for qualifying for the job!"

🧚🏻‍♂️🐉🧚🏻‍♂️🐉🧚🏻‍♂️🐉🧚🏻‍♂️🐉🧚🏻‍♂️🐉

Merrylad & Malleus 🧚🏻‍♂️🐉

[help (sort of)]

Merrylad: "Malleus... it almost seems like a dream brought us here."

Malleus: "So we shall make it come true, []."

[snarky]

Malleus: "Very fortunate to be helped even by the rabble, []."

Merrylad: "Crack your back and say that to my face, Malleus!"

~~~~~~~~

LMAOO

It took a little bit but they're more or less complete for now~ I'm happy with most of the choices here! Pls, Twst, make it happen bc it would be so cool <3

On another note, this is one of the posts I want to come back to in the future when we have a more canon vision of what their interactions look like so see what I got right, wrong or got surpassed by the story itself!

The idea of Neige helping Minajael out on the behind the scenes is perfect, Your Anonymity! I can see him on the cleaning team and maybe more technical things. Whenever someone is sick, they call Neige and he cleans the stage in record time lol

And every RSA boy with a secret spot to have a little personal time alone is also cute! Somewhere to sing, to cry, to vent to the local animals.

Oh, I've been thinking about this lately but it would be funny if every play the club puts on is a Disney movie, like the og movie story and everything. Everyone accepts it bc "well, it's not the tale (bc the characters have other names) so it's okay" or even it could be the original form of each tale.

An absurd form of this is some plays are based on Disney Chanel movies but not all of them pass through the quality check (aka Minajael). Camp Rock's script was barred from being used all the years he's been in the club and will be until he gets an internship.

Minajael is the club's "tiger mom" in the natural sense (and bc everybody got to meet or see photos of his real tiger at home), bc he's the biggest defender of the members and is usually the "leader". He has a pretty good grasp of the arts, feel of things and confidence enough that the others find easy to follow.

If he goes into the strict "tiger mom" sense? Sometimes. He doesn't get into that out of malice tho and the others know. Well, after this game of Relic Labyrinth he might reconsider doing Camp Rock 1... might...

I only got those for now! Maybe if Minajael slips more info about the club, we can get more ideas~

Thanks for the ask, Your Anonymity 💛

Could Megboy be part of the Dark Trio?

It's one of my assumptions, yes. [Discussed briefly here].

The basis for the Dark Trio is morally gray, villain/antagonistic-adjacent/assistant, villainTM. I think in the case of Megboy, in this scheme/spectrum, would possibly be between Rook or Kalim for what Megara represents in the story.

Megboy as Neige's duo in the games

Alisson and Megboy continue to dance from one game to the other, playing with our poor minds lmao

If Twst follows that idea, it would be a very interesting duo as well, as discussed previously in this ask! To newcomers, I gave an idea for Megboy's UM here!

What actually it's becoming interesting to me seeing them as a duo is that Neige/Snow White would be the exact people Megboy/Megara would deceive, much like Hercules. Since SW and Hercules represents the classic tropes of damsel in distress and virtuous hero, both innocent as one of the key virtues.

I agree that they would clash in a similar way Rielle and Minajael did (or worse lol), probably even more considering everything, their personalities, the princesses they're based on, etc, etc.

Neige's reaction

I said before in the ask mentioned above that going deep into Neige's possible reactions requires a post of its own and a great deal of study of that incident in Book 5, which I'll put on a tab to do in the future. Even if we're dealing with speculation, my memory is a bit foggy on Vil's overblot and I want to be fair to all parties in this discussion.

It also weights heavily on Neige's characterization. In Book 7, we saw Silver (whose heart is just as genuine) be destroyed emotionally after he learned the truth about his origins, so it's clear that Twst isn't the type to back down on the emotions of its characters.

It's also on point with Aurora's mental breakdown over discovering that she's a princess and she can't marry Philip bc she's already promised to someone else. She spent all her life living with "three aunties", we don't know what she thought or cared or even knew what a normal family is and suddenly she has living parents, she's a princess and she's a bride. Can't blame a girl for being devastated her entire life feels like a lie.

But if we also base on Kalim (with a grain of salt too on my memories of Book 4), he had a proper reaction to it but also went to fight Jamil either way. It's similar in a way to the Sultan who sent the guards to arrest Jafar when Aladdin revealed he was being hypnotized.

Snow White got scared by what the Huntsman revealed to her. It could be our starting point. But then after going through the forest, she's confronted with fear as a pure emotion but managed to recover. When she begs the Dwarfs to accept her bc "the Queen will kill me", Grumpy gets concerned bc that would backfire on them and her next line is, "But she doesn't know where I am :D"

That's interesting and also why I want to consider with all the care, as crazy as I know that sounds lol Until this moment, Neige has a good variety of possible reactions and outcomes.

The vision

A vision that went through my eyes that would kick start this drama is that, if Megboy has this specific hc UM and they're in Mystic Mortar (the potion making game), maybe he tries to be underhanded* with his tactics to discover what NRC's team is up to (behind Neige's back for obvious reasons) and he reads Vil's thoughts thinking he'll get answers.

*let's say that they choose him for the task bc similar to Rielle's UM, Megboy's hypothetical UM is still not against the rules per se. Reading thoughts is basically like stealing, which is permitted here. It's okay but to each their own consequences... that being said!

Instead of answers on what ingredients they got or if they're planning on sabotage the RSA team, Megboy listens to a monologue of Vil thinking of all the things he did to Neige and his true feelings on the matter, which even if he's better about it than on Book 5, it's still quite a lot for a outsider to go through without any context whatsoever.

And Megboy is like

Bc wtf did he get into? Should he tell Neige? Taking the risk of messing everything bc who knows how he'll react? Did this guy mentioned that he overblotted? He poisoned the apple juice? Destroyed the entire venue? Wha- BRO DIDNT SIGN UP FOR THAT DRAMA

No, it's even worse! Megboy is hit with protective feelings for Neige, similar to how Megara didn't wanted to hurt Hercules. Because how do you kick a big eyed puppy in the face? HOW? What is he going to do now?????

OMG This can be it's own fanfic actually. A parallel universe. He gets back to his team grounds, Neige is like "you went to try something, weren't you?"

"N-neige..."

*a little giggle* "Well, you don't seem happy so I guess it wasn't that worthy. See? If we want to win, we need to work together now with our own hands, not be underhanded like that. It's okay, M. C'mon, the others are waiting!~~"

"okay... no, you're right"

"... are you okay, M? Now you're worrying me...!"

"It's fine! I'm fine! Fine as a... peach..." Megboy internally:

Twst Try To Not Drop Kick The Boys In The Feels - challenge sent and accepted

I'm sure whatever will happen on canon will probably be way worse than this, if Rielle's case is any indication in the moment of that/j I joke but with some tears in my eyes

Rielle & Minajael: Freedom

Their personal drama is relatively the same, although different things are expected of them given their status.

Rielle, as the 7th prince, so not urgently in line to the throne, is expected to be less reckless with himself. Tbf we didn't get the impression the merfolk have any hostility towards humans, at best is desinterest, which makes Rielle and Azul stand out for their respective interests in the above surface world.

On the other hand, Minajael is the 1st prince, putting him directly in line to the crown once his father passes away. A lot of pressure and attention is put onto him bc he's the future of the Tealrajah house.

Both Rielle & Minajael share the wish of freedom to do what they want and pursue their own dreams, not someone's else. Mirroring Azul & Jamil's wishes to reach freedom and independency themselves too.

Alisson & Nalad: Responsibility

Given their circumstances, yes, the original characters stand up against tyranny and abuse of power (in their own way). We don't know how the boys are going to work based on that but possibly something similar!

I used "responsibility" here bc Alice learns to be responsible herself instead of imagining that being the queen of a backwards world is going to solve her problems and Nala helped to bring Simba to his senses of the true responsibility of a good king.

Finding your way in the world is not a easy task but it's necessary! "With great power comes great responsibility."

It becomes a good parallel with Alisson & Nalad to Riddle & Leona, who both performs roles of authority heavily related to a royal-like figure and represents the downfalls and nuances of the topic.

Neige & Megboy: Truth and Heroism

That is the most interesting and tragic bc it's something that rings true to a lot of characters, and these two aren't the exception.

Snow and Megara were deceived in different occasions yet, similarly, it almost cost their lives. But they were saved by acts of true love, from their princes and actions that they did too.

Megboy probably will have the most mysterious take from this... if it follows the original. Maybe in the form of an unlikely and reluctant hero?

Just an aside: No Traitor Megboy theories, please 😑 This fandom can only take so much conspiracies! I swear everywhere has this lol It's kinda like a canonical fandom event in shounen-ish stories that someone has to be a traitor. Anyways-

Idia comes in with both themes is a similar manner. I don't know how to fit in Truth but Heroism is basically his peak point in book 7.

About Neige discovering what Vil did........ I wait for this day with mixed feelings bc while predictions was fun to make, I legit can't fathom what his reaction could be, from a canon stand point. It varies so much. It can get scarier. It can never happen and he lives in forever blissful ignorance. This would need to be its own separate post!

In relation to the Truth theme, true beauty lies within in one's actions (I was not planning on the irony of that phrase tho). Neige's genuine feelings and true innocence, Vil's compromise with true effort and reality.

Merrylad: (my interpretation) Protection

So why protection? This is mostly a prediction based on the Three Good Fairies motivations. They were trying to protect Aurora and the kingdom until the very end, to the best of their abilities and intentions. We know, as spectators, that so much protection without full honesty payed its cost in Aurora falling prey to Maleficent either way (a common trope in this theme, similar to Ariel and Triton).

Interesting enough, Malleus' downfall in book 7 started bc he wanted to protect Lilia, Yuu and others from suffering, by trapping them in a world of dreams. It's a retelling of what the Fairies did to the kingdom so they wouldn't realize Aurora was temporarily "dead" (sleep of death aktually~) yet be protected with her.

Nothing more fair than Merrylad giving his take on this theme as well! Maybe in a more extreme manner or more lax? It depends on the lesson will learn from this situation, granted if that's where they'll go with him.

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[Introduction]

Canon: Eternal Snow Fan Club (book 5, chapter 73).

Fanon: The whole idea that they have a forum and subsections is a fabrication. To be honest, it’s not even clear if Neige had a singing career alongside his acting one, so if he reveals that he’s been mostly an actor this whole thing blows up. But it was fun for the experience, at least. [more on that point in the end of this post]

Canon: Rook’s membership number is 0000002. Neige remembers him by his signature of “R” in his letters, how Rook addresses him as “Roi des Neiges” (King of Snows) and the meet-and-greets events (book 5, chapter 73). Neige thought “R” was a girl and that “R” has a different behavior in the events, but it could be related to Rook’s clothes in the events or just his language when talking. The story doesn’t elaborate on that much. 

Fanon: It’s not confirmed if only Neige knows Rook by “R”.

Special: Neige does ask Rook to sign his letters with his name the next time he writes something. This was not made because this is a “forum post” but I just thought it was an important piece of characterization for Neige because he’s grateful for Rook’s undying support and appreciation. 

Reference: July 30rd is “30+7” backwards and the specific hour of 19:37h is to symbolize 1937, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” movie release year.

Fanon: The nickname was chosen by this pool.

Reference: There’s a lot of references to spring and winter due to the scene showing the dwarves mourning Snow White’s apparent death. In a wintertime panel, the narrator talks about how they couldn’t bury her so they made a crystal coffin. Then, in a springtime panel with flowers blooming, it states that the Prince was searching far and wide for Snow.

Canon: VDC mentioned. Just to put an unnecessary timeline into this fanfic-post. 

Reference: “Snow-skinned prince” because Neige and Snow White have skin “white as snow”.

Reference: The word “cœur” means “heart” in French, Rook’s main language. Both related and unrelated, the Queen asks the Huntsman for Snow’ heart and apples sometimes resemble drawn hearts in their shape, a little different than anatomically accurate hearts. 

Reference: The main post cover is based on Michael Jackson's HIStory Book 1 album cover with an apple-like aesthetic.

[Album 01 — The Sword of Majesty]

Canon: Neige’s first role as a child actor was in the theater play “King’s Road: The Sword of Majesty”, which takes its vague story from the movie “The Sword in the Stone” (1963), very appropriately since he would later enroll in Royal Sword Academy whose Headmaster is Twst!Merlin. Rook talks about the details of King’s Road in his Endless Halloween personal story. 

Cover: The background comes from the 4K screenshots of the movie, found in the site Animation Screencaps, both from the opening credits sequence. The colors used are: red, yellow-gold and gray-silver, in reference to Wart’s outfit when he pulls the sword and the color of metal itself. 

Reference: The tracklist is from the movie’s original soundtrack + the demos, with their titles slightly altered as most of the songs that I wrote into this. The special case is “King’s Road Theme (ft. the Jeweled Hills Children Choir)” which was mentioned as a recurring motif by Rook in his card and, here, it utilizes the movie’s “Main Title” as a possible instrumental without vocals.

The Legend of the Sword in the Stone

Higitus Figitus

Main Titles

That's What Makes the World Go Round

Most Befuddling Thing

Mad Madame Mim

Blue Oak Tree

Fanon/Reference: Obviously, like all the albums here, the idea behind the album as a product is a fabrication for the experience. The name for “Jeweled Hills Children Choir” comes from the Dwarves’ jewel/gemstones mines in the mountains.

Fanon: If Neige is 17 years old as of the main story, he was very young when he started performing and Rook was a child, one year older than him, when he saw King’s Road. I estimated that he could’ve started at 10. 

Canon: The details of the play, the Pyroxene/Shaftlands Royal Theater and the fact that it is considered “one of the three greatest musicals of all time” are stated in Rook’s card.

Fanon: I’ll be honest, I don’t know how Broadway tours work or if a situation like this happens, especially because you won’t dump the burden of singing the entire soundtrack on the back of only one actor/actress, regardless of how much clout they’re getting. I think.

Semi Canon/Fanon: It’s revealed by Rook that Neige gives most of his pay to charities, although only the fan club manages to track the details down (because his focus isn’t that he is doing something but the help itself as a whole) as this fact isn’t often made public. (chapter 6, episode 6) Vil says that he’s certain Neige gave his VDC prize to a charity “that aids unprivileged children in their futures”, so I made an orphanage (Jeweled Hills Children) that could fit in that picture. 

[Album 02 — Little Lord Le Blanche]

Cover: The texture is meant to recall the feeling of background in Snow White’s opening title sequence and the colors used are from Snow’s rags dress, with the blouse’s little black bow. The stills referenced in this whole post are from Animated Screencaps.

Inspiration: The name comes from a classic children’s book called “Little Lord Fauntleroy” by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1885. It tells the story of how young Cedric Errol changed the life of his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, and turned him into a better person after it’s revealed that he’s the sole heir of the family’s earldom and needs to be educated properly. Other shenanigans happen. 

I still haven’t found the time to read it myself but it’s a classic tale of an orphan (in this little boy’s case, only his mother is alive) that changes the mentality and life of an old, cold rich man. I have read another work of Burnett’s, “The Secret Garden”, and while that book has an initially pampered little girl, the premise is pretty similar. 

Canon-as-Reference: There’s only three movies that are actually mentioned in canon about Neige starring in: the movie that he co-starred with Vil, the children’s book adaptation movie that earned him his Diamond Award at 14 and the movie adaptation of King’s Road mentioned in chapter 5. This is not one of them, obviously.

Fanon: It’s normal for actors to have a first movie just for the sake of debut, although most times they aren’t necessarily the star. Since it needed a time before the movie with Vil and the award winning one, I created this one by combining the tropes of “orphan changes an old and cold person’s vision on life”, “the heir to the fortune is discovered in an unexpected circumstance” and the raw premise of og Snow White, who is also an orphan who changed the lives of seven old men. 

Reference: The tracklist are referring to irl songs from the decade of 30, which is the time Snow White began production and was released. The songs are, mostly performed/chosen by:

The Way You Look Tonight — Fred Astaire (1936);

Cheek to Cheek — Fred Astaire (1935);

Moonlight Serenade — originally by Glenn Miller (1939), version by Barry Mannilow (1994);

Over the Rainbow — Judy Gallard (1939);

Sing, Sing, Sing — Benny Goodman (1937)

Begin the Beguine — originally by Artie Shaw (1938), version by Frank Sinatra (1938)

Winter Wonderland — written by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith, Joey Nash’s vocals (1934);

Reference: Since the movie came from the 30s, I feel it’s natural for Neige to also give this old-timey feel in some parts of his style, just like his uniform shoes.

[Album 03 — Middle School Musical: Gabriel / Neige]

Cover: Takes huge inspiration from the first movie cover of High School Musical.

Inspiration: The movie trilogy High School Musical from Disney Channel was a staple of 00s childhood, for children at the time or around it. Whenever they talk about the movie where Vil is the “bully” and Neige is the protagonist, I always thought that it could (not saying it is) a variant of this story. The only difference is that at least Sharpay would get redeemed and back with the group at the end of each movie for the final dance…

Reference: Because the story mentions they were still children, it’s obvious their version should be a grade under high school (where they’re currently studying). So it became a one movie middle school drama. Neige’s character name “Gabriel Edelstein” is because he’s the Gabriella Montez of Vil’s Sharpay Evans. 

Reference: The Edelstein name means, in German and Yiddish, “gemstone” or “precious stone”, referring to the Dwarfs’ gem mines.  

Fanon/Reference: Although there are album cover variants of the HSM soundtrack albums, especially with a title like “[Character]’s Greatest Hits”, the idea that there will be solo versions of duet songs, per example, is completely fabricated on my part.

Reference: The tracklist refers to most of the three movies’ soundtrack. Underlined titles don’t exist. The songs are, mostly performed/chosen by:

Start of Something New — Vanessa Hudgens, Drew Seeley

What I Was Looking For [Ballad version] — Vanessa Hudgens, Drew Seeley 

Just The Math Boy

When It Was Only Me and You — Vanessa Hudgens

Breaking Free — Vanessa Hudgens, Drew Seeley

Is This My Voice? Finally?

We're All Together — All Cast

You’re The Music In Me [Ballad version] — Vanessa Hudgens, Drew Seeley

Gotta Go My Own Way — Vanessa Hudgens

Life-saver

Just Wanna Be With You — All Cast

Can I Have This Dance — All Cast

References: The song titles “Just The Math Boy” and “Life-saver” are references to Gabriella’s character through movies 1 and 2, as she’s established to be very good with math, winning awards at competitions before high school (Sharpay uses that to push her to the “nerd tribe”) and she worked as a pool life-saver in the Lava Springs Country Club.

Special: “Is This My Voice? Finally?” is a contained reference to Neige’s himself in his rise to fame, though foreshadowing a brief period of difficulty. 

Fanon: There’s little to no information on who are the professionals aiding Neige in his career, unlike Vil’s agent whose voice is at least shown briefly in a scene in book 5. 

Reference: I’m not a huge swiftie but I like to watch some dramas that don’t concern me just for the story aspect of it and I have some swiftie friends who aren’t on Tumblr but shared their deep-lore knowledge with me as research. The aspect of Taylor Swift’s story with her first record label became a good inspiration for part of the ideas in this post.

Reference: The acronym “G. H.” refers to the Evil Queen’s real name, Grimhilde, and the single castle tower is a callback to the first scene of the movie doing a zoom in to the room where the Queen will consult her Magic Mirror. This is a symbolism of how this fanon record label trapped Neige into an aggressive contract when he was very young and “used him”, just like the Queen demoted Snow, her own step-daughter and princess, into a maid. 

[Album 04 — Snow]

Reference: “Snow” is referencing Neige’s snowy white skin color again. 

Cover: This was the only easy cover I had to do because I wanted the trio “Snow, Ebony, Rose” to be as simple yet somewhat aesthetic as possible. “Snow” is the only one who won in the aesthetic meter. I used a normal closed eye sprite of Neige and through some editing, I found a clear enough shade that wouldn’t be exactly pure white but that would offer good contrast. The color palette is: gray, white and black, + the purple of GHC. The idea was that all three albums circled back to the same and next colors of Neige’s face (his skin, his hair/eyes, his lips). Sprites from @/alchemivich.

Symbolism (?): It was partially intentional how the intense close ups intensify the idea that the record label is using this boy (who is 12 years old in this timeline) to the maximum of their industry capabilities.

Reference: The tracklist refers to a mix mash of popular songs of the 2000s, some old classics and whatever felt right for this concept. The songs are performed by:

Snow (Hey Oh) — Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Baby — Justin Bieber 

Nobody’s Perfect — Miley Cyrus

Turn Up The Radio — Main Cast, movie “Lemonade Mouth”

A Thousand Miles — Vanessa Carlton

Boys Just Wanna Have Fun — Davis Mallory (a male version cover from Cyndi Lauper’s iconic “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”)

That’s Why I’m Happy — Helen Kane 

(Mr. Sandman) Bring Me A Dream — The Four Aces 

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head — The B. J. Thomas 

I Feel Good (I Got You) — James Brown

Fanon/Reference: While “Snow” is mostly lead single because it would be the album’s title track (like the recent Marina album, “Princess of Power”, first song has that exact title), “Baby” and “Nobody’s Perfect” were mostly famous hits of their artists in the ‘00s era.

Reference: Betty Boop’s voice actress Mae Questel would mimic Helen Kane’s mannerisms for the character and Betty Boop represented a version of Snow White for a cartoon short once in 1933.

Fanon: The name “tri-color series” is because of the three color composition (white, black and red) of the character.

[Album 05 — Ebony]

Reference: “Ebony” is referencing Neige’s ebony black hair, just like Snow White’s. 

Cover: I hate this one with a passion because I couldn’t find a good way to contrast the black with the red, so I had to use a very, very dark blue/purple and it looks… like that. The color palette is: dark blue/purple, black and red. 

Symbolism (?): While the editing in Neige’s Snow sprite was more pastel-ish, in “Ebony”, it’s full in contrast to bring forth intensity. The only sprite I had with his beret removed also had his eyebrows arched in a sad expression, which was accidental but gave me the idea to make this album more introspective, the closest to an “edgy era” any industry would permit Neige going. For now.

Reference: The tracklist refers to a mix mash of popular songs of the 2000/2010s, some 80s classics and whatever felt right for this concept. The songs are performed by:

Ebony Eyes — Rick James

True Colors — Cyndi Lauper

So Yesterday — Hilary Duff

Baby Come Back — Vanessa Hudgens

It’s Autumn Again — Britney Spears

Wide Awake — Katy Perry, cover by Glee

(Stronger) What Doesn’t Kill You — Kelly Clarkson

Scars to You Beautiful — Alessia Cara

Unwritten — Natasha Bedingfield

Fight Song — Rachel Platten 

Fanon/Reference: My mom listens to Ebony Eyes all the time, so this was the first song that came to mind to be a title track. Other songs are more about missing lovers or leaving your toxic ex behind, with the last four being more “motivational” in terms of message.

Reference: “Wide Awake” and “(Stronger) What Doesn’t Kill You” are direct references to Snow White’s poison incident and her comeback, with the latter also referencing Snow’s apology to the animals after being “awfully afraid” of the forest as she was running away stuck in her mind with the fact that her own step-mother was trying to kill her. “Scars to You Beautiful” tackles the message of inner-beauty, just like the previous “Nobody’s Perfect”.

Fanon: The thematic pipeline of tragedy to rising up is quite special for Neige and Snow White, given their stories. 

Irl-Reference: When discussing whether Neige had power over the decisions of his album, the reference actually goes beyond Taylor Swift’s story with Big Machine Records because it’s a problem a lot of singers and artists suffer with their own labels, especially if they go unaware of how predatory the contracts are due to their age or lack of legal support.

Reference: Got this from one of my swifties’ friends because the fans conceptualized at some point that the fifth song in her albums were “her most vulnerable in emotion” and since then, Taylor followed along and reserved this slot for songs with this purpose. Here, we have the seventh track tradition because the number 7 represents the 7 Dwarves (for both Neige and Snow White).

[Album 06 — Rose]

Reference: “Rose” is referencing Neige’s rose red lips, just like Snow White’s. 

Cover: This managed to be barely a save because of the different shades of red. The color palette is: wine red, scarlet red, white + G.H. “sun disco” in black contrast. 

Symbolism (?): The editing in this close up is purposefully saturated so you can see the red in Neige’s lips. In this timeline, he’s 13 years old and this album is more explicitly romantic than the others, with the intent in mind that the record label were just cashing in with the parasocial tendencies of the masses. Think of the first eras of Justin Bieber for example. He was also an important inspiration for these early stages. 

Reference: The tracklist refers to a mix mash of popular songs of the 2000/2010s, with one Elvis classic and a more underrated song that I discovered while scavenging Spotify for options. The songs are performed by:

Roses Are Red — Aqua

Metamorphosis — Hilary Duff

Beautiful Soul — Jesse McCartney

Candy — Mandy Moore

Born to Make You Happy — Britney Spears

Kiss Me — Sixpence None the Richer

As Long As You Love Me — Backstreet Boys

You Belong With Me — Taylor Swift

Can’t Help Falling In Love — Elvis Prestley

Sunrise – Norah Jones

Fun Fact: Aqua, the group that sings “Roses Are Red”, are the famous group for the iconic and satiric song “Barbie Girl”. No reference, I just thought this song goes well with the concept.

Reference: I fought with myself if I should’ve included or not “Metamorphosis” here because the song is good but also weird in some parts. What kinda got me is the verse “Give me a kiss/ C’mon I insist” that does reference Snow White’s romanticisms and the metamorphosis theme of becoming something else (Snow fall and rise from her rags back to the happiness she deserves). 

Fanon/Reference: “Born to Make You Happy” fanon title “Written Just For You” felt like an inside jab that the label could do to themselves as an open admission of what they were doing but also it’s another song chosen from Britney Spears catalog, another singer that suffered a lot with the industry.

Fanon: Despite the fact that, in this story, the label was purposefully incentivizing a parasocial nature between Neige’s work and his fans, I feel like Neige has somewhat a genuine romanticism. It’s just that in future albums, you feel like it’s more free and personal, like a daydream that’s being shared and not directed at fans.

[Album 07 — Beautiful in Rags]

Cover: This album gave me the most headache because I had no idea what to do (and wanted to leave Neige’s sweater as inspo for another album) but I wanted to maintain the “rags” and “patchwork” look, mixing the feel of the rags dress but with Snow White’s princess colors in focus. As if “sew into the cloth”, we have four images: the apple, the red bow, a white heart with “7” in roman algorism and a white dove. Besides them, triangle patchwork cloths with rags original colors (see Little Lord LeBlanche). 

Reference: From Snow White’s prologue, it states how Snow was clothed in rags, as per order of her jealous step-mother (similar to Cinderella). And that she was safe while the Magic Mirror didn’t acknowledge her beauty… until that day eventually came. 

Reference: The tracklist starts with the first three Snow White’s songs (voiced by Adriana Caselotti) in the movie and it follows with a mix mash of different songs from different eras, but that reflects a bit of a SW vibe to Neige. The songs are performed by:

I’m Wishing — Adriana Caselotti

With a Smile and a Song — Adriana Caselotti

Whistle While You Work — Adriana Caselotti

Apple Pie — Lizzy McAlpine

You Got That Thing — Conal Fowkes, original version by Cole Porter

Cherish — Kool & The Gang

Someday My Prince Will Come — Adriana Caselotti

Survivor/I Will Survive — Glee, originals by Destiny’s Child (1st) and Gloria Gaynor (2nd)

I Believe In Love — Lily Collins

Spring Snow — 10cm

I Have Confidence — Julie Andrews, “Sound of Music” movie

Witch Doctor — Cartoons

Frown — mxmtoon

Happy — Pharrell Williams

Hay Fever — Jeremy Levif

Put Your Head On My Shoulder — Paul Anka

Bashfulness — MeloMance

Scatman — Scatman John

I Love You For All Seasons — The Fuzz

Reference: The classic “Someday My Prince Will Come”, in this album is put as “Princess”. The headcanon is that this originated the phrase for Neige’s beret. “I Believe in Love” is from a modern movie adaptation of the tale, “Mirror Mirror” (2012). The songs from “The Doc Is On?” to “Dobey-Dobey-Dopey” is a direct reference to each of the 7 Dwarfs. And the last one, at 19th, is a reference to 1937. 

Special (accidental) reference: The song for Dopey’s (in this context, written as if Neige had Toby in mind) “Scatman”, was written by John Larkin (“Scatman John”) because he stuttered since a young age and through his appreciation of jazz and scat singing, he grew to turn around what was “a problem” into a talent and a song. I discovered this while making this behind the scenes. My initial intention with the song is that scat singing is an old-timey song style, going as early as the 1910s, and the rhyme felt natural. But with the real song’s original intention? Wow. It felt like it was made for the occasion, really! Although I’m aware that Doc is the one who stutters the most among the seven and Dopey simply doesn’t talk. 

Reference: Other songs have the oldies vibes that I mainly associate with Neige, a little bit of soft pop, season references and other things that kinda tie with Snow’s story.

Inspiration: The feud between Taylor Swift and Scott Borchetta who sold the record label, Big Machine Records, to manager Scooter Braun and with the label, the rights to her first six albums [timeline here]. Before that sale, however, Taylor changed her label to Republic Records. Obviously is not a 1 for 1 retelling but the bones of the dispute is mainly about how predatory the music industry can be. I actually forgot I put the exact same number of albums for Neige (lmao). I was mostly focused on the fact that the 7th album needed to be special for him, given the importance of the number.

Fun Fact: It’s stated that everything was resolved when an unknown someone purchased all Neige’s masters from GHC. and gifted them back to him. I made it vague and mysterious on purpose. While I’ll remain neutral on ships, I wanted to give this moment to Neige’s ships in case this inspires someone’s fanfic or a platonic moment, if you want. I know who I picked for my personal headcanon tho~

Reference: “Alba Cottage” forms the acronym “A.C.”, which stands for Adriana Caselotti. It was sort of perfect because “alba” means “white” and Adriana’s name means “dark/black”, two of SW’s characteristics. The “Cottage” part comes from the Dwarfs cottage, where Snow finds asylum from the Queen’s wrath. 

Semi/Canon (?): The tidbit about being a countryside label comes from Dominic saying they live on the other side of Mount Moln, which puts them in a somewhat vague neighbouring village to Harveston (Harveston event, chapter 4-1). They don’t elaborate more on what that means, though, considering that Neige probably needed to live in Fairest City for his acting career and helping at the house at the same time. So I thought of making a little homage to this fact. We do need, desperately, more light on this fact however.

Canon/Reference: In Book 7, during Vil’s dream, Rook reveals that Neige was awarded as Best Actor at the Diamond Movie Awards (the Twst equivalent of the Oscars) at 14 years old. According to the Disney Wiki, it’s an old misconception that Snow White was meant to be literally 14 years old in the story. They needed a jovial feel for her, as a teenage character, but her age is never outright stated in this version of the tale. 

Symbolism: One thing I really wanted for this album is to feel very authentic to what we know, for now, about Neige and give this sentiment that he’s really putting in the work to express himself (hence the very eclectic tracklist). Like Snow, Neige managed to find his steps to a new kind of journey of freedom and dignity.

Fun Fact/Fanon: While we see Neige’s name written in cursive fonts in other albums, this one (in Mr. Dafoe font) is repeated in the next ones as his real handwriting signature (at least in my headcanon). Also as a way to symbolize Neige’s full ownership of his albums. His full signature is used in the next album, here is just as a monogram next to the songlist. 

[Album 08 — Wonderful Holidays]

Inspiration: Holiday albums are a common occurrence in many styles of the music industry (imagine Neige is someone else’s Mariah Carey lol) and I felt it tied perfectly with Neige and Snow White, not only because of the obvious “snow” association, but also because the movie was released on December 21. Which means Snow White is a Christmas movie like Die Hard or Lord of the Rings. Fight me.

Cover: The image is from an illustration of “Better Homes & Garden” magazine, December 1930. I wanted a vintage feel for this album cover and I really liked this image when I saw it, plus the border makes it look like a post-card. First time Neige uses his full “signature”. 

Reference: The tracklist has a mix mash of old classic and modern Christmas songs. The songs are performed by:

Let It Snow — Dean Martin

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — Frank Sinatra

Christmas Tree Farm — Taylor Swift

Winter Wonderland — Michael Bublé

Mistletoe — Justin Bieber

Silent Night — Michael Bublé

The Holidays With You — Sara Watkins

Morning After Night — Sarah Kang ft. Sam Ock

Jingle Bells — Frank Sinatra

Mr. Snowman — Sarah Kang ft. Sam Ock

It’s a Marshmallow World — Jo Strafford

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas — Frank Sinatra

Reference: “Snowy Wonderland”, as in “Winter Wonderland”, is indeed because of the many-times aforementioned princess but also because of the Wonderland connotation of Twst’s world. 

Reference: “Cardigans and Ugly Sweaters” comes from Neige’s signature student uniform sweater. I truly believe he really loves his sweaters. 

[Album 09 — Fairest Of Hearts — A Tribute]

Cover: The image used is from an old Snow White promotional poster. The full version is signed by Adriana Caselotti and it’s seen in one of her house’s doors (check trivia in “Angel, Elegant, Lovely” ahead). The font is similar to SW’s title screen and the use of light yellow and dark blue comes from her princess dress. The second image is from 2001 Platinum Edition and the 2016 Signature Collection.

Reference: It’s an overview of Snow White’s movie story, but with the changes following the Twst mindset that the Evil Queen existed separately from Snow (thus several murder attempts didn’t happen… in this version of the facts). It narrates how she became an orphan, sought help from the Queen (not confirmed in canon), worked hard for a lot of years, met the dwarves and eventually reunited with the love of her life, the Prince. What is called “the third age of cinema” is a reference to the decade of 30. 

Reference: The tracklist has a variety of pop and soft-pop songs, with a few outliers in the middle because of their similarity with the plot here stated. The songs are performed by:

Papa Paris — Vanessa Paradis

Someday My Prince — Evynne Hollens

My Destiny — Katharine McPhee

With a Smile And a Song— Doris Day

So Close — Jon McLaughlin

Secret Love — Mandy Moore

Friends Will Be Friends — Queens

I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman — Britney Spears

I Hope You Dance — Lee Ann Womack

True Love’s Kiss — Amy Addams ft. James Marsden

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) — Natalie Cole

If You Can Dream — Disney Princesses

You’re Still the One — Shania Twain

Your Crowning Glory — Julie Andrews ft. Raven Symoné

Reference: The 13th song, “Bet My House on You”, references a real life occurrence in Walt Disney’s life during the making of Snow White. When the budget for the movie started to thin out and they were barely finished, Disney put his Los Angeles house as mortgage. Even before the fact, the whole idea of a feature film in cartoon/animated format was a huge bet for the studios, Hollywood insiders called it “Disney’s Folly” in the newspapers. But somehow like his heroine, Disney and the studios turned the tables around when the film brought in $8.5 million during its initial international release and it became the highest-grossing sound film of its time (until “Gone with the Wind” surpassed it in late 1939).

Concept: The idea was that Neige made two album tributes to his greatest artistic and personality inspirations, one of them being the Selfless Princess, as Snow is known in Twst. While it’s not uncommon for singers to compose or perform songs with a celebrity in mind, a whole album about this person is indeed hard to come up with. Here, the Snow White movie is thought to be the equivalent of a biopic (obviously following the recounting of events as Twst remembers it).

[Album 10 — Angel, Elegant, Lovely — A Tribute]

Inspiration: This idea came from getting to know a little more about the life of Adriana Caselotti, who gave her voice to Snow White.

Cover: These are real photos of Adriana Caselotti. Cover photos: young and old. Tracklist photo. As sister-album of FoH, AEL utilizes the red used in Snow’s figure on the tracklist. I’m still not sure how I want to make the character of Caselena Adrietta in the story (if she’s still living in Neige’s current time, for example) but I thought it was fair to honor Adriana’s past in full glory. You may also notice that in the tracklist photos, both Snow and Adriana are holding an apple, parallel to each other.

Reference: The tracklist has very few songs linked because Adriana’s career came to a halt due to her contract with Disney, keeping her uncredited in the few roles she got at the time. Each title is referring to a role Adriana acted and some stories of her life:

Dancing Doll in the movie “Naughty Marietta (1935)”

Bunny Girl in the Silly Symphonies cartoon short, “Toby Tortoise Returns (1936)”

Peasant Girl in the movie “First Peasant Girl (1937)”

Snow White in the animated movie of the same name (1937)

Robot Nurse Maid in the Donald Duck short “Modern Inventions (1937)”

Gilda in the opera play from Verdi’s “Rigoletto”. When stopped from acting, the Caselotti’s urged Adriana to try to follow on her mother and sister footsteps in the opera scene but her three attempts at playing Gilda were very unsuccessful and she gave up on doing opera.

Juliet in a verse for the Tin-man’s song “If I Only Had a Heart” in “The Wizard of Oz (1939)”.  

Opera singer in the movie “We Were Dancing (1942)”

Pom Pom in “Hobo’s Lady (1945)”

Singer at the Martini’s Bar in the iconic Christmas movie “It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)”

Opera singer in the movie “Two Sisters from Boston (1946)” but also referring to her sister, Marie Louise, who was an opera singer and teacher of Maria Callas

You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up) — Josh Groban. The song I chose to express the importance Adriana had to the movie and the character.

“A Princess Smile”. Referring to her love for Snow White, despite everything that happened. She was famous for her SW memorabilia in her house. 

“May Your Voice Echo Forever”. So her memory isn’t forgotten.

Reference: “Caselena Adrietta” is a play on the real actress’s full name: Adriana Elena Loretta Caselotti. The initial letters of her three first names also form the album’s title. 

Concept: I wanted to have this moment to appreciate Adriana’s performance and her life story, just as much as I appreciate Disney’s commitment to his story and his dream for the movie while recognizing that he wasn’t perfect by any means. 

Considerations: I wish he wasn’t so stubborn over “not ruining the magic” of Snow’s voice, just because I think much suffering could have been avoided. But people of the time period didn’t have the relationship we have today with voice acting and its actors. The industry itself can be a little difficult even when you’ve had the role of your life: basically, you can’t do anything else because the public will remember “oh, this person is [this character] from [that]!”. But I also didn’t want to simply paint this as solely the tragedy of Adriana’s life. It was difficult but she remained strong against all the odds of her life inside or outside the industry, still smiled and was gentle with everyone. And I wanted that resilience, kindness and beauty to be remembered and appreciated most of all.

[Album 11 — Blue Bird Boy] 

Cover: It’s a bit of a play in the design of Neige’s student uniform sweater, with a few differences (bc I couldn’t get it to look 100% the same, so we’re stuck with “we have Neige’s sweater at home”). There’s the inclusion of the blue bird but the one from this frame. The title is “Blue Bird Boy” for Snow’s kinship to the little bird she rescues that got lost from his parents, before the Huntsman breaks down in tears. The bird appears again to assure the other animals that Snow is kind and she means her apology that she was scared.

Symbolism: While both the Evil Queen and Vil are symbolized by the Peacock, a majestic bird with a beautiful feather tail, a classic symbol for beauty, Snow White and Neige are symbolized by the Blue Bird, a small bird with a simple yet honest beauty. In other moments, she's symbolized by a dove, iconic for its innocence theme. In the tracklist part, that same bird is repeated as three, representing the blue bird family in the movie. The other idea is that Neige incorporated this design as his sweater as we know it, with the aforementioned modifications. 

Fanon: Similar to BiR, BBB (or 3B) is a more personal focused album instead of tributes or for promotional causes.

Reference: The tracklist has a variety of songs, ranging from pop to soft pop, old and new, but that fit Neige’s aesthetic:

Man in the Mirror — Michael Jackson

Can’t Fight This Feeling — JoJo

Time After Time — Cyndi Lauper

Sing Your Worries Away — Alvino Rey

Put Your Records On — Corinne Bailey Rae

Bette Davis Eyes — Kim Carnes

Pocket Full of Sunshine — Natasha Bedinfield

Love Potion Nº9 — The Searchers

Around The World — A Touch of Class

You’re My Inspiration — Chicago

Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now — Olivia Holt, movie “Girl vs Monster”

You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home — Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana

Every Time We Touch — Cascada

Never Gonna Give You Up — Rick Astley

References: “Boy In The Mirror” has the exact same message as its irl counterpart, from Michael Jackson. Similar to the other fanon music, “Cracks In My Mirror”, the idea is that instead of viewing the mirror as a source of vanity or anxiety, the singer/listener finds the courage to better themselves first and share that with the world. 

Fun Fact/Canon: The 10th song, “A Crow Sings Me A Verse” is a reference to Rook himself. Nº10 is his seat number as a third year and “Rook” is the name of a type of crow. 

Fanon: There’s a few things to consider like how Neige wouldn’t be able to know that Rook’s seat would be nº10 and, following the time of “release” of this album, Rook was a 2nd year and we don’t know if the boys stay on their numbers throughout all their years. But I liked to imagine this is already Rook’s favorite song because it’s a love letter to the fans and it doubles his joy when he reaches 3rd year, goes to the same class as Leona and his seat is nº10. It’s fate, mes ami!! 

Rickroll: Yes. I did that. No, I don’t regret a thing. I’m 100% sold on my own premise that they would use Minna de Yahoo was Twst-in-universe Rickroll and that’s me right that putting that fantasy on a metaphorical screen.

[Album 12 — We Are The Land]

Cover: The first image is of five animal couples in the party with Snow and the Dwarfs, this exact moment is when she sings about the Prince. Because she’s sharing her love, everybody feels emotional and caring with each other, since it’s a universal feeling that brings unity. The second image is from a bridge before reaching the Dwarfs home, representing a bridge between people.

Inspiration: This came as inspiration from the album “We Are The World” and the song of the same name, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie for USA for Africa. The idea of a supergroup charity album in a collaborative effort seemed to go hand-in-hand for Neige’s aspirations of helping people through various forms. “World” is changed to “Land”, as in Twisted Wonderland.

References: The tracklist consists of emotional, motivational or friendly songs, most of them from the 80s. They are performed by:

We Are the World — USA for Africa

Heal the World — Michael Jackson

The Power of Love — Huey Lewis & The News

Let It Be — The Beatles

Don’t Stop Believin’ — Journey

I’ll Be There For You — The Rembrandts

You Are Not Alone — Michael Jackson

Stand By Me — Ben E. King

Here Comes The Sun — The Beatles

Under Pressure — Queen

Radio Ga Ga — Queen

For Your Babies — Simply Red

Make Your Own Kind of Music — Cass Elliot

Count Me In — Dove Cameron

Canon: Taking back the point from “TSoM”: “It’s revealed by Rook that Neige gives most of his pay to charities, although only the fan club manages to track the details down as this fact isn’t often made public. (chapter 6, episode 6) Vil says that he’s certain Neige gave his VDC prize to a charity “that aids unprivileged children in their futures”.

Reference: Neige’s chosen solo song “Are You Alone?” is the title of Michael Jackson’s song “You Are Not Alone” in question form, existing as the many-times-referred seventh track with utmost importance. While the song was originally composed by R Kelly and unfortunately seems to be a fruit of plagiarism, the feeling expressed by Michael’s vocals and other singers’ covers rang true to many people at the time. The chorus reiterates unity and feeling connected to someone’s heart. I thought of it as Neige dedicating this to his adoptive brothers, the dwarfs, because as tough it was for them growing up, they were there for him and he was there for them. 

[Album 13 — Dove Of My Heart]

Cover: The image is from the wishing well scene, with the doves accompanying Snow to the well while she picks up some more water to wash the stairs and daydreaming about meeting the love of her life. Neige’s name is used in another font, like in BiR, and with a pink-to-green gradient like the flower vines in the well. The tracklist image is inspired by the Prince’s clothes. 

Inspiration: A Snow White based character? Without another romantic album? Impossible!

Tracklist: Most of these are love pop songs, with a few different ones that deal more with emotion (“Love of My Life, Funeral Bouquet”) and motivation (“Peace Sign”). They are performed by:

King of My Heart — Taylor Swift

What Dreams Are Made Of — Hilary Duff (2026 ver, “Mine EP”)

Love You Like a Love Song — Selena Gomez

Princess of Power — MARINA

Apple Pie — Surely Shirley

Love of My Life — Queen

Funeral Bouquet — Sam Parsons

Daylight — Taylor Swift

Paper Rings — Taylor Swift

Pump It Up — Earl Gregoy, movie “The Substance”, original by Danzel

Your Love is King — Sade

Peace Sign — NateWantsToBattle, original by Kenshi Yonezu

Oh, Pretty Woman — Pomplamoose, original by Roy Orbison

I Will Follow You — Ricky Nelson

If You Don’t Know Me by Now — Simply Red

Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love — Glenn Medeiros

Timeline: DoMH is set before Neige’s 17th birthday, while he’s already enrolled at Royal Sword Academy. 

Reference: Sixteen is the number of songs because, in numerology, it would form 6 + 1 which equals 7, our dear little lucky number.

Fun Fact: One of the songs used is “Princess Power” from the album of same name, by Marina. In the visualizer for another song in the album, “Cupid’s Girl”, she’s using a blue corset and a yellow skirt, which many people immediately associated with Snow White. I couldn’t find anything about Marina denying or confirming if this was deliberate or a coincidence. 

Reference: The song “Pump It Up” is used for the body horror movie “The Substance”, dealing with some of the key themes of beauty of the SW’s tale (even if it’s not directly based on that). The story follows Elizabeth, who was a star many decades ago but got fired for being past her prime and the company wanted to reinvent her show with a new, younger lead. In an act of desperation, she uses the substance and it creates Sue, who’s still her but “better” and “younger”, but her vices and carelessness start to endanger their very own body. 

Reference: The songs titles “Delusions In a Crystal Coffin”, “White Flowers Bouquet”, “Oh, To Wake Up and See You” and “Your Love Defy Even Magic” relate to Snow White state after being poisoned by the Queen’s apple. She lays down in a “sleep of death” yet her heart remains alive. The Prince’s true love kiss is what awakens her, being the antidote for the poison. 

Symbolism: Try as they might to separate the themes of love from Snow White, it’s an essential part of her story, especially in the 1937’s version. The Queen denied Snow the love of a step-mother in the face of her father’s death but she didn’t get bitter and never let herself down. This love she maintains in her heart against all odds is what awakens the friendship/family love from the animals and the Dwarfs, brings compassion in the Huntsman’s heart and catches the love of the Prince (who in some drafts/versions already knew her from childhood). 

[Additional things]

I wanted to leave an open ending for this discography with the 14th album because, as the symbolism would have it as 7+7, the fictitious pressure would be off the charts and I also wanted to know more about Neige to discover where he would want to go next after all of this…

Would he go in a Reputation era sorta direction? Just for a moment? Not for the “ohhh I’m so edgy and sad” that Ebony tried to be but, truly honest and raw? Or triple down on what his values and beliefs are? His last stand for the value that resilience is not a scream against the world but to stay put even through the storm? 

And that’s mostly it because I’m not even sure if Neige had a music career. Let me explain the reasoning behind these delusions of mine! 

In Book 5, Jamil hypnotizes Neige to distract the crowds with songs while they are out there fighting Vil on the stage. We, the player, hear “Minna de Yahoo” in the distance to confirm this is going according to plan. But I interpret that as the game putting a song placeholder because it’s just so we get it that 1) Neige is singing; 2) things are under control.

Because it would wear out the freshness of “Minna” if Neige was singing however many times during the timespan of the overblot fight and it wouldn’t make sense in-universe. Like, people would find it odd that he was singing the same thing over and over. Asking for a reprise is one thing, a loop is completely another. 

So I started imagining what would be like if Neige had other songs (a whole career actually) and seeing the posts of people making disco covers of Neige for their Rooks in Tomodachi Life was the last match to start this fire. Sadly I didn’t save the posts at the same </3 otherwise I would put them here because, believe me, you folks inspired me a lot!! And the rest is history.

This took a lot of time, I had countless twists and turns, a terrible moment when it seemed I lost everything but going through the whole story around this movie, the story and Neige himself, is a testimony that you shouldn’t stop in your tracks but rather keep going and trying your best.

Don’t lose your kindness. Don’t lose your love, your passion. It’s another side of the effort that Pomefiore values the most, if you think about it. Because, be it for any of the characters, it’s a story of not giving up and keep moving forward. 

So thank you for reading until here, my dear snowbirds, apple-seeds, snow blooms, winterblooms, blanchefleurs, snowflowers, applings, snow apples, snowflakes and blanchies! <3

I wish the best for you all and have a nice day~ for our snow prince will come someday and may the Twst fandom have patience to deal with us when that happen.

Neige Le Blanche started his career a long time ago but not a lot of people that come from a more “casual fan” background are completely familiar with the details.

If it’s your cœur’s desire to participate in the Eternal Snow club, it’s our duty as the seniors to initiate you in the tales of old, as it was once upon a time… 

[Disclaimer: The songs used here are merely as an illustrative example, based on musical vibes, references or other details explained in the Behind the Post.] [Warning: the post exceeded the number of links, so albums 9 to 13 are sadly linkless until I manage to fix that </3]

I. The Sword of Majesty

The Legend of the Sword: Overture (ft. the Jeweled Hills Children Choir)

I Want Your Attention, Everything!

King’s Road Theme (ft. the Jeweled Hills Children Choir)

Knowledge Moves the World

Love Is a Wild Squirrel

Marvelous Mad Madame [Solo Version]

Blue Oak Tree

The Magic Key 

History: Neige’s career started as young as 10 years old, playing the protagonist in the theater play “King’s Road: The Sword of Majesty”, which tells the story of a boy in his journey to become the king for a country in dire need of leadership. It’s considered one of the three greatest musicals of all time until this day. 

When the Pyroxene Royal Theater went on tour across the world, the head directors commissioned a personalized album sung entirely by Neige as a tie-in promotional material, banking on his rising popularity as a new child star in the drama scene. In technicality, this is his first debut album. 

The Jeweled Hills Children Choir as a feature in the overture and the theme was the only condition Neige had for the job, which proved to be the best news for them as a group. Their involvement on the two tracks brought in new patrons for the seemingly cast aside orphanage due to the album’s massive success.

II. Little Lord Le Blanche 

The Way You Look Today

Face to Face

Atrium Serenade 

Over the Hills

Sing (Isn’t It Sweet?)

Feel the Beguine 

Snowy Wonderland 

History: At 11 years old, Neige starred in his first feature film as the children’s book adaptation of the same name, “Little Lord Gemstone”, that tells the story of an orphan boy who is taken in by seven brothers who recently discovered him to be their long-lost heir.

In the same vein as “The Sword of Majesty”, this album was also made as a promotional tie-in, showcasing Neige’s covers of famous songs of the book/movie’s time period. It’s heavily pointed as the reason for his occasional old-timey style in future albums.

The name is a reference to the movie, mixing in Neige’s own full name. What an adorable nod to the little singer~!

III. Middle School Musical: Gabriel / Neige

Start of Something [Solo Ver]

I Was Looking For You [Solo Ver]

Just The Math Boy

When It Was Only Me and You

Soaring [Solo Ver]

Is This My Voice? Finally?

We’re All Together [Solo Ver]

Music In You [Solo Ver]

My Own Way

Life-saver

Number One in My Heart

Let Us Dance

History: Finally, at the age of 12, Neige got his breakthrough role as Gabriel Edelstein in the feature film “Middle School Musical”, starring with the likes of Vil Schoenheit, who also came to grow his own name and fanbase.

Due to the movie’s success, the studio released a special album with each member of the children’s main cast containing their character songs, demos and solo versions. After that, Neige was officially signed with G. H. Castle Records, who brought his two previous albums along with this one and was the distributor of this movie’s soundtrack. They went to create other three albums with him as we’ll see.

IV. Snow 

Snow [lead single]

Princess [2nd single]

Anybody Can Be Beautiful [3rd single]

Turn Up The Radio

Miles Ahead

Boys Just Wanna Have Fun

Be-Do-Boo-Boop

(Your Majesty) Bring Me A Dream

Soap Dripping In the Staircase

Sugar and Spice

History: A couple months apart from “Gabriel/Neige”, “Snow” released at an all-time high in Neige’s career, following weeks at the top numbers of the Twisted Billboard.

Being the first of the retroactively considered by fans “tri-color” series, the concept for this album was written with Neige’s innocent image as center stage, carefully crafted by the executives at GHC.

Its singles are “Snow” as the title-track, “Princess” as the second and “Anybody Can Be Beautiful”, both becoming hits of the time and some of his long lasting old successes.

V. Ebony 

Ebony [lead single]

True Colors

Leave Yesterday Behind

Back To Where We Began

Goodbye

Trying To Wake Up

Awfully Afraid [2nd single]

Cracks In My Mirror

Rewrite

Can You Hear My Voice? [3rd single]

History: The album “Ebony” came out as soon as Neige turned 13, promising to bring an “edge” to him. The edge was sadder songs that weren’t so common in his repertoire, bringing this concept of rare introspection and tragedy to the happy-go-lucky boy we were so used to. But it ends on a triumphant track of effort and hope for a better future, which managed to keep the faith of the fans.

Its singles are “Ebody” as title track, “Awfully Afraid” as the hit success and “Can You Hear My Voice?” as the third single with an approximate success.

Due to the secretive behind the scenes motions of the record label, we don’t know for sure how much power Neige had over the albums decisions but it started here the tradition of the seventh track being the most personal of all (which will be analyzed on the other albums).

VI. Rose 

Rose [title track] 

Give Me a Kiss [2nd single] 

Soul, So Beautiful

Cheesecake

Written Just for You

Love Will Find You

Don’t Care Who You Are

I Wear Sweaters [hit single]

The Sage Says

Afternoon

History: “Rose” was the second album 13 year old Neige was pushed to release by the end of that same year. Back to fashion with the happier songs yet with the theme of romance at its peak, “Red” was the first fully romantic Neige album released at that time (unaware of his future thematic streak). 

Its singles are “Rose” as title track, “Give Me a Kiss” as second single and, to top it off, “I Wear Sweaters” was the hit of that season. This album, although romantic and upbeat, also represented the end of not only a series but an era. It was the last work of Neige under the G. H. C. Records.

VII. Beautiful in Rags 

Wishing Well [lead single]

My Smile Is My Song 

Tidying Up The Place 

Baking You A Little Pie 

You Got That Smile 

Cherish (This Apple) 

Someday My Princess Will Come [2nd single]

(You’re Still) Beautiful In Rags [3rd single]

I Believe

Spring Will Come with a Kiss 

Confidence in Yourself 

The Doc Is On?

Grumpy Eyebrows 

Let’s Be Happy Forever 

Quite The Sneeze 

Tired, Exhausted and Sleepy 

Golly, So Bashful! 

Dobey-Dobey-Dopey [4th single]

37 Reasons Why I Dream Of You 

History: The year of his 14th birthday, Neige and his agent underwent a legal battle for the rights to his first six albums with the G. H. Castle Records label, which lasted months, having begun behind the scenes a little after “Rose” had released.

Then rather mysteriously, all was resolved with the anonymous purchase of the masters and they were gifted back to Neige. He then went to sign to — and continues until this day — Alba Cottage Records, a smaller but steady in growth label localized in the Pyroxene countryside. 

It’s rumored that Neige wrote himself all nineteen songs during the legal ordeal to relieve stress, the most songs any of his albums ever received. This started his effort in being more self-written than only providing performance, although he doesn’t deny any good written songs that come his way.

Its has “Wishing Well, Kiss and Tell” as lead single, “Someday My Princess Will Come” as famous seventh track and hit single, “(You’re Still) Beautiful In Rags” as third single and, which was never seen before in Neige’s work until that moment, a fourth single in the form of “Dobey-Dobey-Dopey”.

Most songs from “Beautiful in Rags” actually managed to hold their water in comparison to previous works, being one of Neige’s popular albums — and his seventh one as its own hallmark!

Another point of success at that time for recently 14 year old Neige was staring at a movie which gained for him the Best Actor Award at the Diamond Movie Awards, being the youngest recipient of the title yet.

VIII. Wonderful Holidays 

Finally Kiss Goodbye [cover]

The Herald Seraphs Hymn [cover]

Winter Tree Farm [performance]

Snowy Wonderland [re-recorded]

Under the Mistletoe [performance]

Silent Night [cover]

When All The Lights Are On [self-written]

Welcome My Savior [self-written]

Jingle-Jangle [performance]

Cardigans and Ugly Sweaters [self-written]

White As a Marshmallow [cover] 

Little Yuletide [cover]

History: At the end of that same year, during the winter holiday season, Neige released this as a thematic special album, composed of covers of holiday classics, performance of a few selected pieces composed for him, a new version of “Snowy Wonderland” (see Little Lord Le Blanche) and three self-composed songs. Winter is known to be Neige’s second favorite season, losing only to spring. 

This album didn’t have any singles but all songs dominated the holiday season of that time and some continue to be listened to around the same time until now.

IX. Fairest Of Hearts — A Tribute 

Dear Papa and Mama

Friend of My Heart

Searching For the Queen

Pull Up Your Sleeve

Honest Warning

Join In the Whistle

My Friends Forever More

Just a Princess (Not Yet a Queen) 

Survivor 

True Love’s Kiss 

Wedding Bells Ring

Beautiful Is Thy Heart

Bet My House on You

A Queen Is Born

History: At the age of 15, Neige embarked on a journey to craft an ambitious project that aimed to be a tribute to his historic idol, the Selfless Princess and the biopic film that was made of her in the third age of cinema. 

Regarding this album, Neige tells the most famous tales of the Selfless Princess’ life, drawing a picture of a young girl, just like himself, that had her falls but didn’t let the rainy clouds stop the sun from shining bright.

The last two tracks were written thinking of the behind the scenes regarding the biopic film and its necessary contributions to cinema at the time. 

“Just a Princess (Not Yet a Queen)” is particularly strong on one’s feelings of responsibilities but feeling not being up to the task, one of most famous tracks of the album. Particularly, the Eternal Snow’s favorite track had to be “My Friends Forever More”. Oui, oui! The seventh one strikes again!~

X. Angel, Elegant, Lovely — A Tribute

Dance, Sweet Little Doll

Bunny Girl Returns

She Isn’t a Peasant

Young Snow Princess

Miss Nurse, Heal Me

The Curse of Gilda

Juliet And Her Tin-man

Opera! Opera!

Lady Pom Pom

It’s A Wonderful Singer

Sisters Of Vocal Strings 

Oh, Angel, I Won’t Forget You

A Princess Smile

May Your Voice Echo Forever

History: During an interview in the promotional tour of the album, released a couple months after “Fairest of Hearts”, Neige shared the story about the impact the movie “Selfless Princess and the Master Dwarfs” had on him as a kid and the marvellous interpretation of actress Caselena Adrietta as the princess herself. The directing, the music, the acting, the bold cinema innovations — everything shaped him into the most beautiful soul we all love. 

Unfortunately, the movie’s history has its own kind of blemishes that, although occult by the industry’s strongholds of that decade, didn’t completely escape Neige’s eye. That would be the short career of Ms. Adrietta in the following years after the historic biopic.

“Angel, Elegant, Lovely” is his tribute to her work and her sincerity, even when all it remained for her was to be known as the “cinematic adaptation face” of the Selfless Princess.

Each track is listed after one small uncredited role that Ms. Adrietta acted through her life, Neige serving as a narrator. Track 11 is a homage to her late older sister, a famous opera actress and teacher, and Tracks 12 to 14 cover Neige’s personal feelings toward her and his appeal that her legacy isn’t left behind by newer generations nor overshadowed by the mistakes of the director. 

XI. Blue Bird Boy 

Boy In The Mirror [lead single]

Can I? Could I?

You Will Find Me 

If Afraid, Sing! 

Three Little Birds 

Her Beautiful Eyes 

Beret Full Of Sunshine [hit single]

Strongest Potion 

Just Go (La La La) 

A Crow Sings Me A Verse [special single]

Where I’m Meant To Be

Back Home 

‘Cuz Everytime 

Make You Understand [3rd single]

History: Last year was one of the busiest years for Neige yet, believe me, mes snowbirds. By my calculations, he probably came around to start writing it amidst turning 16 years old. It was a month past his birthday when this album was released. 

“Blue Bird Boy” is considered an album that’s “back to Neige’s origins”. A good, well-meaning mix of romantic and optimistic songs, a soft mix of styles across instrumentals as it became his trademark. As you can notice in the tribute albums, this one and the next, Neige’s tracklist consists of fourteen songs (two times seven).

“Boy in the Mirror” is the lead single, the famous seventh track “Beret Full Of Sunshine” became a hit single and the third single was “Make You Understand”.

A few weeks after launch, Neige revealed the tenth track, “A Crow Sings Me a Verse” as a surprise single with a music and lyric video, which fans greatly enjoyed as this song was written as an open letter of gratitude for our support all these years. It’s a song for old and new fans alike. 

XII. We Are The Land (Various Artists) 

We Are The Land 

Heal

Love is a Powerful Thing 

Let It (Be) 

Hold On to That Feeling 

You Been There For Me 

Are You Alone? [Solo]

Stand, Stand, Stand 

The Sun 

Pressure 

We All Hear 

I Believe In You 

Your Own Music 

Count Me In 

History: The initiative “We Are The Land” became a collaborative album initiated by Neige with a variety of artists from different ages and musical backgrounds, that culminated with all the revenue being directed to important charities across the world. Most songs feature up to five artists, Neige participating in some of them. The title-single has the entire group singing together.

Due to the overlap between fanbases, it’s one of the best sold albums in billboard history and it’s in this list because he’s considered the founder of the cause. 

Despite being initially hesitant, the group of artists convinced Neige to have at least one entirely solo song in the album, which is the seventh one, “Are You Alone?”. While still protecting their identities from the major public, he dedicated this song to his family.

XIII. Dove Of My Heart 

Dove Of My Heart 

Hey Now! [1st single]

Put It On Repeat 

Love Doesn’t Make You Weak [2nd single]

Brand New Pie 

Delusions In a Crystal Coffin 

White Flower Bouquet [3rd single]

Oh, To Wake Up and See You [4th single]

Flower Rings 

Take Care 

Feeling New and Safe 

Heart Sign 

Pretty, Pretty, Pretty 

Follow You 

You’ll Never Know Them 

Your Love Defy Even Magic [5th single]

History: “Dove of My Heart” is Neige’s most recent album, released a few months before his 17th birthday date. It was quite the news back in the day for having sixteen songs, as opposed to the pattern of fourteen, and is the second largest album of his career. 

Not only that, it launched five different singles instead of only three: the pop love celebrations of “Hey Now!” and “Love Doesn’t Make You Weak”, the slow love ballads of “Oh, To Wake Up and See You” and “Your Love Defy Even Magic”, and the unexpected melancholics “Delusions In a Crystal Coffin” (although this one isn’t a single) and “White Flowers Bouquet”, respectively in honor of broken hearts and beloved deceased ones. 

Most of the songs here are at Neige’s highest level of romanticism, showcasing yet again the importance that he gives to genuine feelings and, even if idealistic, the comforting light of old fairytales, in the meanwhile he wrote a few more introspective songs to balance things out. 

XIV. [Up Coming]

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Salutations again, mes snowbirds! 

As of today, Neige still hasn’t released any new material, apart from his group rendition of “Minna de Yahoo” in the VDC, but expectation is slowly boiling since the next one will be his 14th album at the age of 17. And this is big. I will spare you, mes amis, of the rambles I could go on about the deep symbolism of the number seven in Neige’s life and how this is another stepstone that he’s going to build! Oui, I’ll contain myself this time.

Neige is currently in his second year at prestigious Royal Sword Academy and, while it’s been quiet without his new musical compositions gracing this world, we all know he should be taking this time off to enjoy things in life and come back to the music industry with a renowned spirit.

That’s not to say that he’s completely off the public life and not participating in movies or advertisements, to which the subsection of Neige’s Cinema has been in the highest spirits with the upcoming movie adaptation of King’s Road. My personal congratulations as well! 

I was particularly glad to see that Neige seems to be doing well with his friends and that his smile continues to be one of the most beautiful in the entire world.

My purpose of sharing all these stories are to highlight Neige’s greatest quality and the reason he inspired so many of us: even when things don’t go the way we expected or the world seems to try to get us trapped in a scary forest, as long as we don’t give up, we can still wake up and rise again to another day. 

Let’s get together again for the next news, as we always do! It was a pleasure to meet you all and to reminisce on the beautiful history that has our biggest star, Neige. Good morning, good afternoon and good night, fellow snowbirds!

With amour, from yours truly,