Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-25176661-20170115075853

First when we think of Maddie Hatter’s character, which includes her emotionally repression, we have to break down what we know first about Wonderland.

We know school in Wonderland is 1 day a year, meaning that outside of that one day, you wouldn’t meet many of those people outside of school.

From there, We can gather for Hearts, Cheshire, and Hatters, that through generations that outside of “the story” and outside of school, these families probably never interact that much. Meaning, that Lizzie, Kitty, and Maddie probably didn’t get to know eachother until after the entire Evil Queen incident and the three of them hadn’t really gotten to know eachother, until they left wonderland and all lived together with eachother. We can almost gather that for: Kitty has only ever just been her and her mother; for Lizzie, she has always had her mother and the kingdom and servants.

Madeline Hatter is a type of character, that has repressed emotions, she would be the type of person that wouldn’t even know that she was in love (coughwithRavencough ) until it was too late and that there wasn’t anything she could do about it. This is shown in “Wonderlandiful world;” when her father, probably the only figure she truly knew in Wonderland was injured by the Jobberwock (treated as kind of a metaphorical representation of what happened to wonderland) which almost revealed a more repressed Maddie, as she never lost anyone close to her (she still had her father, her world was still in one piece in her own mind – until her father was injured.)

So, now we go and take a step back and go back to before everything. Before Ever After High, before the evil queen’s destruction, before even Maddie ever got to know Kitty or Lizzie. As mentioned, Mad Hatter drank tea for eternity…so for at this point, for eternity, it was just Mad Hatter and his only daughter, no one else (if of course you have adopted the theory that Hatters pull babies out of their hats).

So then we have it. Maddie herself up until she left Wonderland, save for those couple of school days, had always been alone. It has always been just her and her father. The truth of the matter, for Maddie, lonliness was never a stranger. Am I saying she suffered from some sort of depression from lonliness like many of the other girls of Ever After? No. Because before the Evil Queen, Maddie knew nothing else but lonliness…To her, the only world she had ever known at this point was a world for only her and her father.

Then Wonderland came apart. Now in Maddie’s world, two new people were thrown into her world: Kitty and Lizzie. At first, it was hard for their world, as Maddie couldn’t really understand their loss (again she had her world, her father) but as time went on, her world started to change without her noticing. There were rough spots, but sooner, the world was beginning to be more than just her father, she was beginning to see more from those around her. While losing wonderland was horrible, Maddie was beginning to no longer be lonely – even if she never realized it.

This is what probably attracted Madeline to Raven. That day, when Maddie was supposed to walk home from middle school alone, that was when she found another girl alone in the corner. Subconsciously, Maddie was brought to Raven because at this point, Raven was just like Maddie.

The world that treated Raven like shit and disowned her, in this world it to Raven, there was only one light – her father. In this type of wonderland created by how everyone treated her, Raven was filled with loneliness, now there was only a world for her and her father – you understand? It was just Madeline, before everything horrible happened to her.

While she didn’t understand it at the time, deep down inside of her, Maddie realized that Raven was just like her; that before the evil queen took everything away, Maddie too was all alone. She saw Raven and saw herself. It was then decided, that she was going to give Raven the thing that both Kitty and Lizzie gave to her. Friendship.

Now we look into what she wants her future to be.

Maddie, for the most part we have seen wants to be the next Mad Hatter, never really shown that she didn’t want to not be it; the times we have seen, she was extremely enthusiastic about it. The reason why she is a “rebel” is because like Cedar, she wants people to be able to choose their own destiny…this is probably directed to the fact that Raven doesn’t want to follow her destiny, after all, Maddie knows how much Raven hates the idea of becoming her mother. So the reason Maddie is a “rebel” is not for her sake, but for Raven’s.

“You don’t know what you have, until you lost it.”

For a person like Maddie, the opposite of this is true; after all, she is a wonderlandian.

She didn’t understand what having friends meant to her until the Evil Queen incident, so anything prior to that she would have figured it was just the way it was, to be alone. Repression on her part, as she had forgotten how it felt back before she had been friends before with Kitty and Lizzie.

<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;outline:none0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);">Sure, destiny comes and goes and Maddie becomes the next Mad Hatter, but sadly she doesn’t understand what this means. To Maddie, this would be “Just like old times” like it was when it was just her and her father, and by the time she realizes what that means for her, it would be too late.

<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;outline:none0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);">It would be too late, as by that time, Maddie would be sitting at that table all alone. Finally realizing what it means. Finally figuring out that Kitty and Lizzie aren’t going to come see her, that she was never going to see Raven again.

<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;outline:none0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);">It would be too late, by the time she would realize it, Madeline Hatter would be alone for all enternity ever after. <ac_metadata title="Madeline Hatter - Future and Emotional Repression"> </ac_metadata>