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Alba White and Meidiland Red- These siblings weren't the most social of people but they were close. Alba was adopted as an infant after the original Snow White, Meidiland's twin, disappeared after the family was attacked by bandits, an event which also left Meidiland with injuries that would affect her ability to walk for her whole life (she used a walking stick) and their mother losing whatever wealth she owned. Living alone in a cottage in the woods without emotional support left their mother with a poor mental condition, with extreme paranoia and fluctuating health that would leave her confined to her bed for months at a time. Despite her best efforts to fit into the mother's role and keep up appearances, her attitude to her children proved to be extremely ambivalent. At times overprotective, using her children as an emotional crutch or lavishing attention, to hysterical screaming, about Alba not being her daughter or Meidiland being too similar to how her twin would have looked. Their home life wasn't the happiest. Alba was usually the target of this verbal abuse, it increasing as the siblings neared the age they were to be enrolled at eah (and getting closer to the time they were meant to fulfil their destiny)

Only Alba attended EAH, Meidiland staying at home to look after their mother. Unlike the common image of docile Snow White and fiery Rose Red, Alba was always the more outgoing one while Meidi was more laidback and cautious. Alba would often force herself to appear confident but was notably overly-apologetic to her eah classmates. Meidiland may have been quiet and a worrier but held a very Rose Red passion that would most often surface when it came to protecting her sister. The incident where she walked seventy miles to eah specifically to tear into a person who hurt Alba became a legend for that school year. They were both lovers of the outdoors, spending as much time as humanly possible outside. Alba would be the first one awake and the last one asleep at eah. She frequently slept in the enchanted forest rather than in her room. Meidi was a bit more confined to home but would still walk through the forest or sit in the garden when she got the chance.

After their happy ending, they lived relatively quiet but good lives with their destined beloveds. Meidiland became a botanist and branched out into entomology later in life. Textbooks featuring her illustrations are still sitting in the school library (collecting dust.) Alba began to study enviromental law and introduced a lot of new legislation on woodland conservation and expansion. The area that used to be their kingdom is still one of the most wooded areas of the region. Later in life Alba became more interested in horseriding, opening what is still one of the largest riding schools to this day (the Scarlet Hope riding school), most known for the beautiful rose bushes growing everywhere. Rumor has it that there are twice as many gardeners as workers actually affiliated with the stables.

One notable feature of their story's iteration: It was a very wet summer. It had no impact on the story. Well, I mean the bear-turned-prince slipped and had to return to the palace covered in mud. Not a very storybook happy ending!