Garnet East

"Why would you ever do something yourself... when you can just as easily get someone ELSE to do it for you?"

- Garnet East

Garnet East is the daughter of the Wicked Witch of the East from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. She made her wiki debut in 2016.

As she embraces the evil side of her family legacy, but frankly doesn't want to be crushed by a house, Garnet considers herself a Roybel.

Though she actually attends Emerald City Academy, the high school in Oz, Garnet makes regular weekend visits into Ever After High, specifically to loiter in the halls and make fun of Celadon West for refusing to embrace his evil heritage. Officially speaking, she's there as Garen Norwitch's guest, brought to EAH in a desperate bid to somehow persuade West to go back home and sign the Ozian Storybook of Legends.

Personality
Instead of reviling her family history, Garnet revels in it. After all, even though her destiny states that she's supposed to die because Dorothy's house is going to fall on her in like, chapter 2 of the story, most people tend to forget that the East Witches enjoy years and years of rulership over the Munchkin County, forcing the good-hearted creatures into hard labor and strict curfews to the Wicked Witch's benefit. Garnet's motto of "make the Munchkins do it" has subsequently made her very lazy. This is absolutely not helped at all by the fact that she has magic to do all the really hard work on her behalf.

Garnet East will be the first to admit that she is a little bit of a snob. Why should anyone bother with the rabble that's below their notice, after all? Despite this, Garnet is actually very deeply invested in what other people think about her. She's obsessed with her appearance in more than one way-- not only does her clothing, hair, and make-up have to make a statement, she has to show through her behavior that she's the evillest of them all, often creating dazzling displays of smoke and flame and lights just to announce that she's entered a room. Part of the reason why her using magic exhausts her so much is because she's been blatantly overusing it for unnecessary appearances. If she even hears someone mention offhandedly that someone is "better at magic" or "more powerful" or "scarier" than she is, you can bet that she'll show that person just exactly how magical, powerful, and scary she can be!

Part of the reason why she's so determined to be the most wicked witch there ever was is because she's remarkably, viciously bitter about her mother's death at the hands of Dorothy's house. She wants to make the world as miserable as she's been since her mother died, and Garnet doesn't seem to care who she hurts in the process. Having grown up shunned and hated by the Munchkins in her community, she wants to make all of them suffer and pay for mocking and ignoring her in her childhood.

She loves ambiguously mysterious prevarication, though she's actually not that great at keeping secrets-- definitely the sort of girl who'll "kiss and tell." Garnet's a bit of an idle gossiper, though she can be ruthless in using her knowledge if she truly has the intent to hurt someone's reputation. She has a very sharp sense of humor, above merely making snide comments, and her quick wit can actually be quite funny, depending on who's listening. Despite seeing herself as "above such crude humor," Garnet has a secret weakness for sex-related jokes. Though she'll pretend to be disgusted by them, she actually thinks they're absolutely hilarious.

Hobbies & Interests
Though, as a very fashionable young lady, Garnet regularly goes shopping for clothing and make-up, she actually favors an afternoon spent knitting, crocheting, and darning socks. There's something that's just so soothing about weaving a needle in the same pattern, over and over again.

She collects limited-edition nail polishes and make-up... not to wear, of course, but because they fetch such absurdly high prices on the MirrorNet once they go out-of-stock. Yes, she's that jerk who waits until the very second a highly-anticipated product gets released... and then she orders ten of them to sell later at five or six times what she bought it for. Sometimes she illegally pushes up the bidding price herself by using another computer. She hasn't been caught... yet.

Garnet also enjoys watching Blondie's MirrorCast and reading gossip magazines, though she knows better than to believe the rumors. She finds celebrity gossip amusing-- the only thing that's even funnier is when it's true.

Pet Peeves
The one thing that Garnet hates more than anything else is being told "thank you." She cannot stand the very idea of having helped anybody with anything, and it still royally ticks her off, even when it's been meant sarcastically. Subsequently, Garnet herself tends to stay away from those words when speaking to others, preferring to express her gratitude unconventionally... or, preferably, not at all.

Appearance
Standing at a sharp 5'8" (okay, okay, 5'6" without heels), Garnet wears her dirty-blonde hair in side-bangs. The actual length of her hair is a mystery, as she almost always has it done up in a bun of some sort-- whether it be messy, perfectly rounded, or braided. She has a very lithe bearing, and she is broader at the shoulder than at the hip.

Her eyes stand sharp, vividly green against the soft tan of her complexion. Her nose and jaw are both pointed. Though she wears a faintly floral perfume, it doesn't quite manage to cover up the metallic scent of her magic, which some have likened to the smell of a freshly-sharpened blade or the coldest day of dry, dry winter. The more magically-attuned might identify it (correctly) as the magical compound Ferrous dracoxide, better known by its common name, Cold-Iron, formed of rust and dragonfire.

She is a shoe size 7 in US measurements.

How the Story Goes
Garnet is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Though her lineage can be traced back to the original tale, she is also descended from the Wicked Witch of the East in the Wizard of Oz film (1939). In both iterations of the story, the Wicked Witch of the East dies within the first few minutes of reading/watching.

How does Garnet come into it?
It is a tradition of the Wicked Witches to bear children before their story begins, lest they perish in its making. Thus, Lady East of Munchkinland bore Garnet before her story began.

The gracious Lady East, as she would come to be known, was actually oddly nice for a Wicked Witch, though not particularly good at socialization. She was rather more of an ambiguously absent mayor than an evil tyrant, and really, there had been worse witches. Still, she was not spared from the House That Fell, and Garnet could only watch, cowering and hiding from the winds, as her mother was crushed beneath a flying house and their family's heirloom shoes given to the very girl whose house had killed her. At the time, Garnet was upset and confused-- but nowadays, when she looks back on that memory, all she feels is fury at how deeply they disrespected her mother, even in death.

As the next inheritor of the Witch of the East's destiny, though, things are really looking up for her. After Celadon West's refusal to sign the Ozian Storybook of Legends, there's an enormous opening in villaindom for Garnet to take advantage of. In conjunction with Garen Norwitch's complete and utter lack of magic, and Saphon Goodspell's family legacy of being the weakest of the four major witches, there would be absolutely nothing stopping her from conquering all of Oz.

I mean, who's going to protect the Ozians? The little inheritor of Dorothy's destiny? The Wizard of Oz, who everyone knows is just a big non-magic phony bureaucratic figurehead? Though Garnet is wholly devoted to her destiny of evil, she does not intend to accept "the end" that was given to her. Mark her words.

There will be no house falling upon Garnet-- she will settle for nothing less than ruling all of Oz.

Mother
The gracious Lady East was a much-beloved parent figure in Garnet's childhood, one with whom Garnet associates the memories of making flower-crowns out in the countryside and stirring headache potions over the fireplace. Rather than being an outright wicked ruler, Lady East was more or less absent during her reign, simply not caring about what the Munchkins did or didn't do. She was still crushed by the House That Fell, in the end, and it was only because of her death that Garnet realized that it didn't matter if you were actually good or evil or neither-- destiny didn't care. If it wanted to punish you, it punished you, and your actual actions had no merit to them. All Garnet wants is to lash out against that unfair world... perhaps, if her mother had lived, she would be a different person.

Foster Family
Garnet was raised by the Noble Rulers of the East, the descendants of the Scarecrow. Even though they took her in, she is fully aware that it was purely an obligation to tradition. She did not consider them very good company while growing up, and kept her distance from them-- after all, they only came into power because her birth mother was dead. Still, to her credit, she has yet to light any of them on fire. She feels somewhat like she owes an irritating debt to the Scarecrow family, a debt that she is quite eager to erase. Maybe she'll spare their pathetic little lives when she takes over Oz... she isn't sure yet.

Distant Family
Garnet East is Celadon West's thirty-fifth cousin once removed. Though not even slightly blood related, she is also Garen Norwitch's thirty-fifth cousin once removed, through his grandparents' marriage. She does not consider either of them related, though the family history is well-documented. More important than either of those is the fact that Garnet East is descended from Rain "the Lost Witch" West, whose twins were rumored to have been fathered by Princess Ozma while still in the form of the peasant-boy Liir. The claim itself is quite dubious, but if the rumor is true, that means that Garnet has a legitimate claim to the rulership of Oz-- her eventual goal.

Unfortunately, if the rumor is true, that also means that good old thirty-fifth-cousin-once-removed West has a claim to the throne-- a claim higher than hers, as the one generation they've been removed actually places him closer to Rain West's generation.

Friends Antagonistic Allies
They may have their differences along the good/evil divide, but Garnet still considers Garen Norwitch an ally in furthering their mutual goals, as he will never get his magic unless there is an antagonist around. She knows it's only a matter of time until he'll think of asking her to sign onto the Wicked Witch of the West's destiny, thereby giving her the powers of both lineages. Like all of her antagonistic allies, she has a betrayal perfectly in mind: once he realizes that she's more evil than even what the story calls for, she'll simply zap him down with that lovely little Hellfyre Bolt spell in the Western compendium.

Pet
Like some stereotypical witches, Garnet East owns a cat-- a hairless Sphinx named Marrow. She knits him exceedingly fashionable sweaters, and thinks he's the most adorable little kitty this side of Oz, yes she does. Marrow can often be found curled up in Garnet's laundry basket, sleeping at the foot of her bed, or modeling one of many fashionable ruby-glitter collars.

Romance
WIP

Enemies
Though the sentiment isn't returned, Garnet considers Celadon West a total waste of everything she herself has ever wanted-- magic, lineage, and a living mother. And what does he do with it? Absolutely nothing, using his powers to neither tip the scales of good nor evil. She hates his guts and spent most of her time at Emerald City Academy trying to make his life a living hell... and it royally pisses her off that, even after all this time, he still doesn't consider her a worthy enemy.

Outfits
Garnet's outfits are largely composed of black, white, and silver, featuring a little pop of red somewhere-- perhaps a hair accessory, the inside of a collar, and absolutely, certainly, somewhere on the shoes.

Though the Silver Slippers once owned by Garnet's great-ancestor are still around, they are constantly being refurbished after generations of wear and tear. The precedent set by the Ruby Slippers has remained for the last several hundred years, encouraging a classic ruby-red surface, though the styles have changed from slippers to ballet flats and even jogging shoes. Garnet has had them refurbished as stilettos... just in case the house does fall, she wants to be as big of an inconvenience to the next Dorothy as possible.

She is something of a sock aficionado, and she owns an enormous variety of stockings, thigh-highs, trouser socks, and ankle socks. Each and every pair has a striped pattern.

Most of her clothes are designer-made, or at least knockoffs of designer clothes. Garnet doesn't really make a distinction between the two, and she honestly doesn't care-- she'll often say that if it looks good, why should it matter who made it? Despite this, she only wears specific on-brand makeup.

Trivia

 * Much like the original Witches of Oz are based off cardinal directions, the generation of witches created by wiki user Bluebutterflychan are based off cardinal alignments in EAH.
 * Garen Norwitch is the Good Witch of the Royals, Celadon West is the Witch of the Rebels, Garnet East is the Wicked Witch of the Roybels, and Saphon Goodspell is the Witch of the Neutrals.
 * Garnet herself is very much a femme-fatale type character.

Quotes
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Gallery
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