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Is true Wickedness born of blood or born of circumstances? |
—Nothing much, just Opal contemplating nature vs nurture | |
Opal Elin Wicked is the adopted sister of Fauve Wilder, and destined to be the next wicked queen. She is the Wicked Queen's daughter, but the Wicked Queen died at the end of her story, and Eliza took pity on baby Opal and adopted her. Opal is a Rebel, though hasn't voiced her feelings to anyone other than a very select few.
Appearance[]
Opal has fairly long snow white wavy hair that she wears over her shoulder and is held out of her eyes with a black diamond swan barrette. She has large dark blue eyes that sparkle as if she "just swallowed a cupful of starlight", (Eliza's words), and dark skin.
She wears a loose long-sleeved white shirt that is patterned with black feathers in a random design, a black knee-length skirt, black shoes that fasten with a white pearl swan-shaped buckle, and white tights.
Personality[]
Insecure. Even though Opal grew up living in a castle as the technical princess, she still feels like no one really likes her. She may be right, should you visit Eliza's home, the servants will most likely be gossiping about "The two faced princess". She's overheard the gossip enough to know that it's her they talk about. They think she's pretending to be nice all the while counting the days as to when she can drop the act and be her true evil self. Oh they could not be more wrong.
Caring. Opal will always be there when anyone needs some comfort. It's like she has a sixth sense to know where to be and when to be there. Fauve and Larkin are the only members of her family at the school who accept the comfort she offers, Luna and the rest of the Fauve Wilder protection squad do not trust her farther then they can throw her, which hurts her feelings.
Timid. Opal wants to defend herself when Luna or anyone else accuses her of putting a spell on people, but she can never find the words to do so until about an hour later when she's doing thronework or something and then she'll hit the table and go: "That's what I should have said." fauve has learned to not react when she does this.
Opal doesn't stand up for herself, but she does do so for others. This is because she knows what it's like to feel vulnerable and she hates it. So she will do everything in her power to stop teasing. Fauve always gives her a hug after she does so, but after Opal defended Luna, Luna just sputtered a stream of nonsense words, and then marched away. So Opal isn't sure if Luna appreciated the defending, or hates her for it. Either way, she's still going to defend Luna when she gets bullied.
Opal went through a stage of her life that she just stopped eating. It appeared that she was anorexic. In a way she was, but not for the ordinary reason. Fauve had been anorexic at that time and when Opal tried talking her out of it it didn't work, So she tried a different approach. She also stopped eating. When Fauve tried to get her to eat, Opal said she would eat when Fauve willingly ate. If Fauve couldn't stand to see Opal starve herself, why was she starving herself? Fauve finally began to eat again, just because she couldn't stand to watch Opal starve herself. Opal's promised her sister that should Fauve stop eating again, so will she. And she means it. The whole anorexia deal is kind of a sensitive subject between the sisters, and so they don't talk about it. At all.
Some have wondered if Opal's mother had raised her instead of Eliza, if Opal would still be this kind timid, sweet heart. Her case is a prime example of nature vs. nurture, and there have been bets and theories as to whether or not Opal's sweetness comes from her nature and she would be like that regardless, or her nurture, and if her mother raised her she would be wicked. Opal has heard the wonderings and she does not want to find out.
Opal tried to hide her true mother from the school. She knew she couldn't keep it hidden forever, but she thought she could keep it hidden until she was ready to reveal it herself. It did not end up happening that way.
Opal has a inner sarcastic streak. She's afraid to voice it but it comes out when she refers to her boyfriend as her "doofus" as opposed to any clever pet name. Most of the time when she hears someone judge her based on who birthed her or what her destiny is, the inner sarcasm streak makes her think of a response to say but she doesn't say it. She's afraid if she says it then people will just read that as her being serious as opposed to her being sarcastic, and that would be another mark to her villainous image.
Relationships[]
Interests[]
Drawing
Opal never voices her pain to anyone at the school, and only if Eliza sees her crying will she tell her that she's upset. Instead, Opal draws her pain., in a bit of an impressionist way. If you saw her sketchbooks, you would be surprised at what she's drawn in there, both at the talent behind it and the meaning behind it. However, don't try to look through her sketchbooks, because she will be super mad. Only a scant few people are allowed to see her sketchbooks, and when they do they are never disappointed.
Trivia[]
- Opal was originally going to be a stereotypical evil bratty stepsister but I thought more on it and realized that that was not going to work out.
- Honest how I got from there to here? I thought "Let's give her a positive trait, just to round her out." and so on and so forth and voila.
- Luna got most of her negative aspects
- AUs
- Opal and Onyx are both gemstones. Opal's name was chosen first, and in naming her mother I stuck with the theme
- It's now lore that every Wicked Queen has been named after a gemstone because I said so
- Elin means light, Eliza chose it to in a roundabout way make up for her last name being Wicked
- Wicked is because her role is the Wicked Queen and Queen was taken with Raven
- Opal is left handed
- Being left handed used to be seen as a mark of evil.
- Opal Lives in the Wildlands
- Opal is the character of the month for June 2022
- The Wicked Swan Blog Post
- What does Opal think of...
- Mirrorblog
- Incorrect Quotes
Abilities[]
Dark Magic: Much like Raven, Opal can cast dark magic spells, though since she's had no practice doing so until she went to Ever After High and had a class on them, Opal is not good at even the most basic of spells. In her classes with magic, she is so desperate to earn hextra credit that she will literally do anything her teacher asks her to do. Or at least attempt whatever she's asked.
Hazards of possessing magic and rarely using it, if at all. All through her childhood, and even now occasionally, Opal has random magic surges, where the energy inside of her builds up, and expels outward and does strange things to whatever it hits. She can't control what it does, or when it happens.
Fanfiction Appearances[]
By Me[]
- My Black Swan
- Garvey reflects on his relationship with his daughters
- Ever After's Mightiest Defenders
- You want to see Opal as basically Raven from Teen Titans?
- You belong with me
- How Opal and Larkin Got together
- 100 ways
- Just some sweet romantic stories
- Connections
- Soulmate Au
- Worse Things
- Opal and Luna make up
- Fathers
- Opal learns she's not the only one with an awful biological father
- I'm Fine
- There's always one person you can't pretend to be okay to
- My Joy, My Peace
- Mostly about Eliza and Garvey
- Wing Clipping
- Save Blakemore!
- Spirited
- Opal gets possessed
- you'll be in my heart
- Eliza adopts her
- You Didn't
- Luna writes a letter with no intent to send it
- 31 Days of Fics
- Day 22 to be exact
- Wicked Gems
- Just some notable past Wicked Queens
- S.W.A.N.S
- She really only shows up in the epilogue but..
- 31 More Days of Fics
- Day 29
- Love Will Thaw
- Tale drew her and Fauve as Elsa and Anna, I had to write it.
- As Much As I Do
- Precious talks to Larkin and Opal
- 31 Days of Even More Fics
- Day 19
- Weird Day
- In which Opal shows her appreciation to Leda
Gallery[]
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Fairy tale: The Wild Swans[]
How the story goes[]
How Opal Comes into It[]
As the blood daughter of the Wicked Queen, Opal is destined to follow in her mother's footsteps, to one day be the stereotypical wicked stepmother and curse eleven of her stepchildren. While she won't tell anyone unless she's asked, Opal doesn't want to follow through, she'd be doing harm to her family, nothing excuses that.
(Plus she'll have to be married to her adoptive father for a time, and that's just weird and so many levels. Both of them think so.)
Dorm[]
Opal's side of the dorm room is decorated in shades of blue and white. She has a thick black comforter on her bed decorated with dark blue and white feathers and a swan shaped pillow on her bed. The sisters tend to share things so oftentimes Fauve's desk chair, redwood, is in front of Opal's desk, ebony, or Fauve's stored her clothes in Opal's trunk. Glow in the dark stars deck the ceiling and often times when Opal can't sleep she stares up at them.
Quotes[]
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Larkin no... |
—Hey, she loves him | |
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No one has ever died at a Wilder-Swanson get together |
—Clarifying after she makes a joke about call her if she doesn't come back | |
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I am not worth a fight! |
—Yeah sweetie you've got at least four cousins and a sister that say otherwise. | |
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I'm just grateful I was born with white hair |
—Every Wilder Swanson generation has one that says that, don't worry | |