#evil snow

What if, not Apple, but Snow finds the mirror yet again and just out of curiosity asks it who the fairest of them all is. Of course she is fully expecting herself or even Apple but the answer she gets shocks her. I have three versions!

First version is she sees Raven as the answer and is completely dumbfounded, the Evil Queen's daughter????? It must be a mistake, but the mirror can't lie. Snow had never really checked in with Apple, only to see how her popularity is and if she is fulfilling her destiny and what not, but after the whole mirror incident goes to EAH under the guise of visiting her daughter but really she goes to spy on Raven. She knew of Raven, of course, because of the whole Legacy Day debacle, but she fully thought Apple would have turned the girl back onto the right path.

While there she decides to do whatever she can to make Raven hate Apple enough to fulfill destiny. It backfires. It backfires so spectacularly. At first she tries to get Apple's help but Apple doesn't notice what her mom is trying to do but when she hears her mom bad talking Raven she gets a little mad, because sure Raven is annoying for not accepting destiny but also she's starting to see it might not be a bad thing and they are friends. She thinks this is all because her mom doesn't know Raven like she does and tries to show her mom the Raven the whole school knows. This only makes Snow more furious, she goes to the extreme of trying to poison her own daughter and framing Raven for it but Raven unknowingly eats the dessert Snow had made for Apple and she falls unconscious into a sleep spell. An investigation opens and due to Blondie leaving her phone in the kitchen recording (her and Ginger were making baking videos) everyone finds out what Snow did.

Snow becomes the new Evil Queen. The newly titled Evil White (a different take on y'alls Evil White AU)

The second version starts off the same as the previous one but when Snow goes to the school she shows her daughter what the mirror said and she starts Apple's spiral, even encourages it. She helps Apple sabotage Raven anyway they can think of. Snow leaves when Raven and Apple have a fight, thinking all is right, and destiny will play out. What she doesn't realize is that most of the students are siding with Raven after the fight. Snow had left the hand mirror with Apple as a "reminder of her failures" and Apple becomes obsessed with it.

So much so that she decides to frame Raven (much like her mother did in the first version) but once Raven falls under the spell, well it's not really hard to believe that Apple had done it when all comes to light because of her recent behavior, no the big surprise is what Apple says when she is caught. She goes off about how this never would have happened if her mother hadn't given her the mirror, all the while crying over Raven. Snow tries to deny it of course but the evidence is against her, but nothing can be done as she was not the one to poison Raven, but her reputation takes a big hit and the school starts to really question if following their destiny is really a good thing.

The Good King basically disowns Snow, it's not like they talked or anything after Snow's story played out and she had told everyone she didn't consider him her father anymore, but he made it official. He immediately goes to EAH to see Raven, they even let the Evil Queen (I like to call her Eva) out so she can see her daughter. All everyone had ever heard was about how evil she was, but when everybody heard her scream at seeing her daughter under the spell, they couldn't help but think Snow was the truly evil one for setting this all in motion.

Third version is Snow asks the mirror and ot says the Evil Queen is the fairest. For this version the Evil Queen stopped wearing the dramatic makeup and the whole evil wardrobe, though not fully as she did like the aesthetic, but she was actually caring for herself and the first step was to admit that yeah she was in the Mirror Prison but she wasn't the true evil everyone thought her to be, she was just fulfilling her story. She comes to terms with it after she gets more visits from Raven and eventually fights with Raven over her destiny. Raven basically tells her she doesn't have to be what everyone else wants her to be anymore and Eva (E.Q) takes it to heart.

When she lets that all go we actually see just how similar her and Raven look like each other and they genuinely have good visits now and she even is working on her relationship with the Good King. Her looks aren't the only thing that had changed, it was also her heart and the mirror recognized that. The mirror also mentions though that Raven is the second fairest and is quickly making her way to fairest of them all.

Snow sneaks off to EAH to break the mirror that allows Raven to see her mom in order to break the girl but when she does she didn't expect Raven to be there visiting her mom with Apple, because Apple wanted to meet her step-grandmother, a fight ensues where both Apple and Raven get hurt defending Eva, Apple fails to remember she had been video chatting with Darling who had recorded everything while trying to get help before anything bad could happen.

So a long time ago I promised @findingtallahassee the backstory for these two and it’s a new year so figured I should get on it.

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Same as usual it starts with a princess on a wild horse.

When she was 10 Snow started her riding lessons and was determined to be the best. One late night she snuck out to the stables on her own to practice. She quickly lost control of the horse and it ran off with her, eventually bucking her off and tossing her into a stream. The water immediately ran over her head and she thought she was going to drown. Luckily though a miller and his young daughter were passing by. He jumped in to save her and they brought her back to their house, gave her fresh clothes and let her rest their for the night. That’s how she met Henry Sr. and Regina.

The next day they took her back to the castle walls and King Leopold was so relieved to see that she was alive. Over breakfast she told her father what the Henry had done for her, so her father paid them a visit to express his gratitude. Henry had saved his daughters life and he was more than willing to offer him anything he’d like in return.

It was then that Henry revealed that he carried a deadly disease, non contagious but very rapidly running through his body. The local healers told him that it would be a miracle if he lasted to the end of the summer.

“I saved your daughter’s life yesterday and all I ask is that you return the favor.”

Henry and Regina ran the mill themselves, her mother took off when she was a baby and though she was 18 Regina expressed no interest in marriage and took no suitors. Henry feared that once he died his daughter would have no chance at a future. She would be alone, in poverty, unable to run the mill herself with no other prospects. So he asked Leopold to take in Regina as his ward after his death, give her a good life and arrange a proper marriage when she was ready.

Leopold happily agreed.

Henry died near the end of spring and Regina went to live in the castle with Snow and Leopold.

It was a good life as her father hoped. She was cared for, provided fancy clothes, nightly feasts and a warm bed. Snow relished her presence and treated Regina as the older sister she never had. And the king doted on her. Though she carried no official title other than ward, it was clear through the kingdom that Leopold thought of her as a second daughter. And when the day came he would arrange a marriage for her to a man of good fortune and social standing.

She missed her father but she was very happy there.

Though Regina withheld her hand from marriage, Snow was another story. When she was 14, her father arranged for her to be betrothed to a prince from a neighboring kingdom. Prince James. Though Snow was anxious about the arrangement, she relaxed once she met him. He was charming, handsome, her age and he treated her like she was the most sublime creature in the universe.

Regina held some reservations about him though. While James treated her and Snow with the utmost civility, she saw a current of cruelty beneath his charming facade. She noticed the way he treated his servants, how he looked down on those beneath him and the short temper he carried. However, she kept her mouth shut for Snow’s sake. 

Snow and James were supposed to be married the week after her 18th birthday. Over their four year engagement they fell deeply in love. However, Snow noticed her sister’s apprehension regarding her fiance. She wanted them to be closer. So she arranged for the three of them to have a nightly picnic on firefly hill two weeks before their wedding. She also invited along Daniel Colter, the son of a visiting duke who’s kingdom traded with their own. She knew Regina cared for him.

The four of them set out for their picnic. At first it was pleasant but things grew hostile. Daniel insulted James’ father, accused him of corruption and greed, all true but not taken well by his son. A struggle ensued and James pushed Daniel down the hill where he struck his skull on a stone. Dead on impact.

Regina was devastated but Snow was frantic. Daniel might’ve just been the son of a duke but if his king were to find out what James did it would put all three of their kingdoms at odds. She begged Regina to keep the truth about Daniel’s murder a secret. No one else knew they were there, they would blame it on some faceless drifter who tried to rob them. They would protect James and protect their kingdoms. Regina loathed this idea... but she loved Snow. So she agreed not to tell.

When Daniel was found all three of them stuck to the story and Regina was prepared to a live a life of guilt over the matter. But then, a few days before Snow’s wedding a peasant man was hauled into the kingdom. Daniel’s father had been searching tirelessly for his son’s murderer and one of the villagers accused this man. When Leopold asked them if this was the man who killed Daniel, Snow and James said yes. But Regina hesitated. She saw the fear and desperation in the man’s eyes, along with the innocence. Leopold noticed her hesitation and took her aside. He recognized her loyalty but reminded her that a man’s life did hang in the balance. When he asked for her honesty, she told him the truth. That James killed Daniel.

That’s when all hell broke loose.

James was dragged to prison. He might’ve been a prince but this was not his kingdom. If he so wished, Leopold could sentence him to death.

Daniel’s king demanded justice and he was prepared to go to war to get it. While Snow begged her father for mercy, Regina tried to assure her that there was no way James’ father would let his own son be beheaded. She was wrong.

James’ kingdom was suffering financially, they couldn’t afford a war. It would decimate them. When Snow pleaded to King George to speak on James’ behalf... he refused.

“You can’t let him die. He’s your son!”

“I know... but I have a spare.”

Unwilling to put all three kingdoms at risk, Leopold made the hardest decision of his entire rule. He sentenced James to death.

James was beheaded... three days before he was due to be married.

Two weeks later, Snow was forced to marry his twin brother David.

She was never the same.

Though she begged on her knees for Snow’s forgiveness, Regina never received it. And neither did Leopold. Two years after her wedding day Snow had a private dinner with her father. The next morning he was deathly ill.

The night of his death Regina was woken up by her brother-in-law. He gave her a purse of gold, a horse and a warning.

She must leave the castle and never return.