Lived In Cinderellasburg her entire life.

Ben actually really hates all the suits he wears and dresses much more casually whenever he can.

Mal didn't actually inherit much of Hades abilities due to Hades being effectively human on the isle.

After D3 Mal officially started taking lessons to better control and understand her magic.

While they'll never be best friends, Mal and Audrey have settled into a comfortably civil relationship since D3.

Ben and Mal have started rewriting Auradon's magic laws, not everything and not all at once, just enough to make things fair for the magical population.

After D3 Ben started a huge project to revitalize the isle and build a proper prison for the villains. Some of the older royals balked at the costs and having to give up some of their luxuries as a result but Ben went forward with his plans irregardless.

Mal became really close with Rapunzel due to their shared love of art , they even founded an art school together.

To the shock of nearly everyone, Mal and Aurora get along extremely well.

He doesn't advertise it much but Ben has a love of tinkering with machines, inherited and nurtured by his grandfather Maurice.

Ben's closest friend is Chip, as the only other kid in the palace he often served as a playmate and older brother figure for the young prince.

Classes At Dragon Hall (Canon & HC)

Selfishness 101

Enrichment

Villainy Through the Ages

Tall Tales & the Tellers Who Tell Them

Evil Schemes & Nasty Plots

Evil P.E.

Wickedness

Vanities (both Regular & Advanced)

Artists & Thieves

Scheme Management 101

Coin & Jewel Calculus

Unnatural Biology

Her name's Quinlynn btw and she was in d3 during the opening song.

Unfortunately I think they're only ever referred to as Mama and Baba. The most name-wise is Jafar tells a guard to the House of Wisdom his full name is Jafar ibn Ali al-Abbad from the village of Ghurub. I just did a skim of the book and never saw mention of the parents' names, though. I saw you asking for a description of Rohan and I can see if it mentions hair color etc etc tomorrow, if you'd like. Do you mind spoilers? Just in case any come up

Additionally, it doesn't seem like she currently uses it so it might not bear any results but Hafsah Faizal has a tumblr so you might be able to ask her if she ever had the parents named in like her writing notes etc. It's hafsahfaizal. tumblr . com

Her website has other contact methods, as well

I see you've found The Knitter comics!

Purl is not especially my OC- she's based on the initial post by @bespectacledbookworm, with a character design by @fernacular

At this point I made the comic and art 12 years ago, so I don't have much to say about her that isn't in the comic, and I'm unlikely to continue anything.

Yet I don't remember them being babysat by her the night she died so where do you think they were?

Also I was wondering if I'm the only one who thinks Rick might not have killed Barbara?

Cause it COULD be possible that the serial killer/deranged fan part of the comic could have been real. Meaning that that could be why Rick disappeared.

Anywho sorry for the out of the blue question/rant. I just didn't know who else to ask.

(Sorry for the late reply @hannahhook7744, it's been kind of a Weird Hectic Weekend for me)

The thing about Barbara's Death Sequence is that it's really the most 'distant' one we've had. Most other Finches have records written by themselves just before their deaths or written by someone close to them just after their deaths. Barbara got a fictionlized comic book written by strangers for strangers that came out a full year after her death.

Sure, it seems like the Finch family collaborated on the story (since they've got the music box in there), but it's still pretty different from Molly's diary or Lewis' therapy notes. Espacially as a lot of little details in Barbara's room seem to contradict the story. So it's probable that Sam and Calvin were also being babysat by Barbara that night, but as they didn't figure into the narrative the comic-writers were telling they just casually dropped them from the narrative or merged all three younger brothers into Walter's role.

Or maybe they were out having a sleepover with friends or a boyscout camping trip or something but the comic didn't mention it, cause, again, it didn't factor into it's story. This comic was obviously not a serious documentation of Barbara's death, it's a fictional horror story targeted at people with just a casual understanding of the Finch Family outside of Barbara - if at that. So if that comic dedicated a whole narration box to "and also Barbara had two other little brothers but they were off at camp and had nothhing to do with this story" that would just seem Weird to the in-universe readers of 'Dreadful Stories'. Even if it might be useful to us, the REAL audience trying to piece together the timeline of the Finch family.

(Also I do suspect that at some point of WRoEF development Calvin was supposed to die before Barbara and then their timelines ended up being Switched so the Weirdness here might be a remnant of that)

As for the matter of Rick. I think the reason why he's considered the Prime Suspect of Barbara's death within the fandom is due to the Law of Conservation of Detail. You know, like, Details in stories come up because they're important to the story in same way. And yeah, 'What Remains of Edith Finch' is not exactly a traditional narrative and not every detail here has to "further the plot" - but even the most unimportant little details in WroEF still serve to add flavor to the characters, atmosphere and the themes. Which are things that are important to the story.

So why bring up the fact that Barbara had a boyfriend and even give him a name and a face? (which is very rare for anyone outside of the Finch Family in this game) Why doesn't Barbara just die alone in the house with just Walter? Rick has to be Important in some way if the game went to all this effort to create and establish his existence to us, right?

Plus, there's the thematic role of 'Dreadful Stories' within the narrative. Personally, I can't see the idea of there really being a serial killer or a real-life crazed fan that inspired the 'monsters' at the end of the comic. Because my read of 'Dreadful Stories' is that it's made to be so ridiculous and sensational- with both a serial killer AND monsters out to get Barbara - to showcase a little taste of the wild and weird stories being told about Barbara's death. And to put the first subtle little wrinkle in the poetic idea that the Finches deaths always match their lives - Edie had to choose this silly little comic to deliberatly turn Barbara's death into something horror themed. And if she chose something a little closer to reality, it would've turned out to be much different.

So what is the mundane Not-Thematic-Enough-For-Edie's-Tastes way for Barbara to get murdered? I can see why for a lot of people, the 'obvious answer' was 'got killed in an argument with her boyfriend'. Since, again, we need to have a reason why he exists in the first place.

...Although that's actually not my favorite theory lol

I think Barbara's death was even more mundane than that. One of the few details about Barbara's death we can confirm are based on reality is the moment where she pushes the killer off the railing.

In the current-day Finch House this little piece of railing IS noticeably broken.

So someone did absolutely fall off the second floor of the Finch House at some point.

So what I think happened is that Rick and Barbara did have some sort of a lover's tiff that night, then Barbara slipped on these rollerskates the Hookman slipped on in the comic.

In a panic she tried to grab on to something and only managed to catch one of Rick's crutches. (The important thing here is that Barbara is ALWAYS memorialized holding that crutch. Even in pieces that were made prior to the comic's printing, like her portrait)

So that part of her story has to be true in some way.