Chapter 3: The Legacy Orchard / Sugar Coated

The Ever After High students uncover a magical orchard destined to help them share their stories with future fairytales.

The story starts out with Cerise being better than the boys yet again.

git gud

It's the beginning of the school year, according to the narrators. So I guess everyone's in their third year now, as the books call the first year the Freedom Year, when you can take whatever classes you like, and the second one the Legacy Year. So maybe this is Destiny Year or something.

The titular orchard is cleverly shaped like a book;

And this is where....the yearbooks are kept. I'm glad it's not as old-school as dusty books in the library, but I'd be more impressed if I could see how my parent lived out their story instead of old photos.

There's a graphic novel that kind of harkens back to this; The Class of Classics. The designs of the characters were pretty cool, but the art didn't fit.

The books float down from the trees - each tree is the yearbook of a different class.

So there should be around 250 trees, as it's actually stated somewhere that the Brothers Grimm established the school back then. So how did the fairytale families happen before then? Were there perhaps stories that died out because the descendant didn't keep safe and got dysentery or something?

The yearbooks look more like a newspaper than anything.

So Spring Unsprung happens sometime between Thronecoming and right now, because that's where you're introduced to these two; Alistair .... Alistair .... um, I think Wonderland - and Bunny Blanc.

Bunny looks like she has a seriously bad case of sunburn, and they're boring. Oddly, there's another character who is way too damn pink that shows up.

I didn't realize that we saw, well, more of Tiny in this one. Cool.

Soon, the field trip is over, and Giles asks if everyone had fun; which they did.

Bonus preview of Rosabella Beauty. She's not introduced in a special, but she does get a greater bit in the limelight with Epic Winter.

Oh, Corrine is back! Where is Ophelia? Or Roland and Avalon? 

Why am I more concerned about the backgrounders than named characters?

Milton says that at the end of the year, this class will plant an E-Corn to grow into their own yearbook. First, that is a madly clever play on words.  He asks for volunteers to get pictures of the student's activities, and Raven and Apple volunteer.

I forgot about this particular collection of webisodes. It's less a storyline and more less subtle ways of advertising various lines, including Sugar Coated, Fairest on Ice, and School Spirit. They're not awful though.

It doesn't set up or establish anything besides that - kids read books that we see the inside of once, and it's not even anything interesting. A line could have been dropped like  "Whoa, The Class of 1834 was nearly wiped out by the Plague!" or something.

Briar's like "It's not like i'm your best friend or anything, bitch."

And once again.....Faybelle is left out.

Sugar Coated

Raven sends Maddie’s cooking class into total chaos after her spell to save the bake sale goes awry.

Slightly unrelated; One of the comments says "Perfectly Imperfect? A MONSTER HIGH REFERENCE!"

That refers to MH's second theme song, Madison Beer's We Are Monster High. Which wasn't bad. Whenever I remember it exists, it becomes an earworm. But sorry, sis, it has nothing on the Fright Song.

It's time for the bake sale!

I'm going to imagine that Avalon was talking to her friend, Mr. Spectacles here, and let him cut in line. Also, Corrine is here to see if Ginger made Goose-shaped gingerbread cookies.

 I've always liked that pale grey dress girl too. She looks like something moon related...hey, the Malagasy word for moon is volana. How about Vol Lunita? With Vol being a title from her native lands.

The treats are very popular, and a crowd rushes Maddie.

Ophelia is here too! The gang's all here!

They're running out of gingerbread houses at an alarming rate. Frankly, I'd buy one and share it with my friends. Bonus; I really like the darker coloring on Maddie.

Also .... They have mostly modern day technology but toss coins around like it's the fantasy 1500s. Do they have like, Mirrorpay? Cryptocurrency? Paypal? 

Ginger is baking with Cedar and Holly, both people with the capability to be highly flammable.

Oh, there's Apple and Raven, arguing between perfect shots for the yearbook and imperfect but real shots.

These are some of the better later outfits in the series.

There's only one gingerbread house left - but Raven offers to do a duplication spell - which rightfully terrifies Apple.

For once, she's right.

But Raven does so anyway, with everyone else hiding behind an oven except Ginger. The curse goes awry and the gingerbread people come to life and go rogue.

No tertiary sexual characteristics....mostly.

Ginger steps in with "We cannot have disorder in the kitchen! If you are here, you are here to help!" and everyone straightens out and helps. To be fair, they were there to be made and eaten. Are they still going to be eaten? 

Everything goes well....except Raven and Apple are still going to quibble about pictures.