Celadon West/AUs

Royally Ever After
See also: Garnet East's Royally Ever After



Concept inspired by Apple White's solo release doll.

West presently has one other outfit explicitly designed. It is one of two designs, in conjunction with Garnet East's alternate and opposing Royally Ever After, belonging to alternate universes in which each of them end up as rulers of Oz (via the dubiously-true relationship between the Lost Witch, Rain West, and her generation's Princess Ozma).

The AU is set in Oz, several years after the characters in question graduate from school. As West never signs the Ozian Storybook, the fairytale cannot repeat and the world of Oz is more or less stuck in its pre-Book One state: the witches of both the East and the West are alive, the Munchkins are enslaved, and Princess Ozma, the rightful ruler of Oz, is missing. As the scripted tale never begins, West realizes that Garnet is becoming an ever-increasing threat, eventually founding a resistance against her conquering army of mind-controlled and enslaved citizens. She eventually kills the Wizard of Oz, and Garen Norwitch, the designated defender of the Ozian people, is powerless to stop her-- ultimately unable to break the curse laid upon his magic without the power of the Ozian Storybook.

The diverging point of these Royally Ever Afters takes place at an epic battle between Garnet East and Celadon West, two equal and opposing forces-- one who offers absolute subjugation, and one who strives for absolute freedom. If West wins, he is elected as the Prince of Oz, having proven himself as the only one capable of holding off Garnet's hostile takeover of all the Ozian lands. He spends the rest of his life attempting to keep the people of Oz safe from the unexpected consequence of his Legacy Day... but quietly, like a ghost of the past, the Ozian Storybook calls him, tells him that there is another way out, a flying house-tornado with Garnet's name on it simply waiting in the eaves.

All he would have to do is sign.

Trapped by his obligation to the people of Oz and the ever-looming pressure to FINALLY sign the Ozian Storybook, West becomes utterly stripped of the freedom he so dearly wants. That's not even touching upon the perpetual threat of Garnet East attempting to conquer the kingdom of Oz. Though West ends up as the ruler of Oz in this AU, he is also incredibly unhappy, being much better suited to quietly studying alone than holding an office in the public eye.

Trivia

 * Excessive projected wordcount on the AUs section is what caused the move to subpage format.
 * As the Royally Ever After AU embodies everything in the realm that could possibly make West more miserable than he already is, his entire color scheme has been flipped in the artwork.