I, For One, Would Enjoy If You Talked More About Your Future!Avalor Ideas *eyes Emoji*

Roland II and Lorelei during their wedding in the palace garden.

These are the second two dresses I made for my doll. It took me awhile to make a pattern that actually worked for making doll dresses with a bit of help from friend I was able to perfect this pattern. 😀 [Image ID: Two pictures of the same handmade, felt doll of Carla Delgado from Elena of Avalor, wearing different dresses.The doll is made of light and dark brown felt for the body and hair, with an embroidered face. The first dress is black with bits of gold and purple on it and a big red flower in the middle. The second dress is white with pale pink and blue flowers. End ID]

@saraahsapphire Was the one who came up with the Original AU idea, and it was so cute I just had to draw it. After we re-watched “Realm Of The Jaquins” together she said: “What if Victor and Carla became friends with Marimonda?” To which I replied “YES!” and drew this.

They are either plotting to take over the world with plants and friendship, or they have been reformed by this point, who knows?

[Image ID: A pencil crayon and ink drawing of the above-mentioned characters from Elena of Avalor. On the left in the background, Victor is relaxing in a giant leaf hammock. Underneath in the foreground there is a large spiral rose vine with two large roses on it. On the right in the foreground, Marimonda is gifting a flower crown to Carla. On the far right there is another large rose vine with two more roses. End ID]

[Uncolored line art under the cut.]

By popular demand, I give you all the sixth and most horrifying thing that could happen to Zagreus! The dreaded Pact of Paperwork!

(Also, since I could not get all the potential drama of these possibilities out of my head, I turned them into one shot fanfics that you can read of my AO3 right here).

Honestly though, I love all of the happy theories where Zag is just living his best life in the sequel, but so busy with something else he can't be the main character of the game. But at the same time I also want some angst to start with and then have the happy Zag and Mel sibling moments. (Feel free to use and expand any of these ideas. Frankly, I want to read 10,000 word fanfictions of all of them.) (Credit for transparent Melinoë: here and Moros & Dora: here)

Can i copy your homework? - the Elena of Avalor edition!

It was @a-lilacsong‘s birthday yesterday so I decided to draw the Six Fanarts prompt she gave me a bit ago :D

REACT COLLECTION

What a stunning collection of reactions I saw on this post! I simply have to share it with the world:

I am pleased. Thank you @brickwhartley!

A fanfiction in which Armando saves Avalor

  “Armando! Marlena! You have to help us!” exclaimed Luisa as she and Francisco ran into the room.   “Huh? What’s wrong!?” Marlena replied, almost dropping the Danaus plexippus she was holding.   “Oh, sorry to interrupt you two from your caterpillar counting, but we have an emergency at the palace!”   “That’s alright,” replied Armando “there’s still a few days until the next caterpillar race, we have time, what’s wrong?”   “Well, I was looking out the telescope at the observatory earlier today,” Francisco explained “when at exactly 4:44 in the morning, on this day on the 4 months of the year, on the 4 year of the decade-”   “I think they get the point about the date, how it lines up with the prophecy.”   “You’re right mi amor, I just never thought I’d live to see this day…the day a giant meteor that shown bright as a star fall from the sky, gently bounced off several clouds, and landed directly on the palace.”  Armando stiffened, out of all the legends he’d ever heard it his life this one inspired the most fear and awe in him. Marlena noticed his anxiety and took his hand in hers; it made them both feel mildly more at ease.   “And we don’t know what to do, I’m from a chocolate making family, I don’t know much about this. But with your family’s background you are the expert on this kind of thing. So, we need your help” said Luisa “or else according to the prophecy…”   “…It would vaguely become a big nuisance.”   “Si.”  Armando nodded “Then I’ll give it my best shot!”

Clippity-clop Clippity-clop Clippity-clop Clippity-clop (they rode on horses to the palace)  Now the universe is vast and unfathomable, everything we see is but a fraction of its majesty. There is so much out there beyond human understanding, even within the understandable, from the forces which dictate the movements of electrons, to what truly happens to matter inside a blackhole. Humans have not yet discovered the answer to these mysteries, and maybe they never will. But one thing is certain, when confronted by the answer to one of these great mysteries, everyone will have a different reaction. When our heroes arrived at the palace, a spectrum of reactions is what they saw.

 Cheese was everywhere, people were running around screaming, casually chatting with each other, twirling around, touching the cheese, not touching the cheese, and doing ever more noticeable things as well.   “Who needs sea shanties when we can sing cheese shanties!” yelled Naomi, who proceeded to sing nothing, for she did not know any cheese shanties.  Victor was standing with one hand over his heart, the other in a fist he shook at the sky “Way must the sky tempt me so? It knows that cheese is the best thing of all to steal, and yet, if I were to steal it I would rid myself of everything I hold dear! And yet, temptation remains, way cruel fate, WHY?!”  Carla was facing the wall, with the air of a teacher educating the masses “Did you know that on the planet Skelecki, they put their cheese into orbit so it can become fluffy from zero gravity?” she said.  Gabe was standing beside her also looking at the wall, “I did not, did you know that in the delta quadrant, a creature called a grakel produces a milk was called schplict, which can be used to make a green colored cheese?”   “I did not, did you know that did you know that-” this conversation had probably done on like that for a while.  Mateo was on the floor, touching the cheese. He was constructing a terrible effigy into the cheese, it looked reminiscent of a cartoon electric mouse, but it the shape on a man. It was unsetting.  Ixlan was just standing there, expressionless “As you can see, I am filled with a sense of awe in the universe.”   (Anyone I, the narrator, have not specifically mentioned has ether yet to be mentioned, or just wasn’t there at the palace that day, it was a pretty slow Saturday after all, minus this main problem.)   “Wow,” said Marlena “I never knew people could have such strong reactions over cheese from outer space.”   “They where here when it collided with the palace, so it’s probably one of these ‘you had to be there’ situations.”   “That makes sense.”  Dr. Crabington, the palace’s beloved doctor was walking in a straight line past them. Their eight tiny, exoskeleton covered legs moving them straight forward instead of sideways!   “Oh no!” exclaimed Francisco, “Even Dr. Crabington, the palace’s beloved doctor is affected! Will no one be able to escape the influence of the majestic space cheese!?”   “How did this cheese even get here, where did it come from?” asked Marlena.  Armando put his hand on his chin, “If I remember correctly, its because our galaxy…”  She nodded “The milky way galaxy…”   “Is made of mostly milk, and when there’s milk there’s often…”   “Cheese!”   “Yes, and when the stars and calendars are in alignment, the celestial cheese will intersect with planets and cause glitches with reality.”   “And who better to fix those glitches than the royal glitch fixer.” Said Francisco.  Armando smiled.

  “Hay where are our nietos?” asked Luisa “normally they are in the middle of problems of this magnitude.”   “Oh I know where they are” said the ghost of Lucia “Hi mom, hi dad.”   “Hola mija,” replied Luisa “it’s good to see you aren’t affected by the cheese power.”  She nodded “Well ghosts are immune to the effects of galactic cheese, so it makes sense, but both my hijas and sobrino certainty are not.” She pointed at Elena, Isabel, and Esteban, who where in the corner.  Elena was doing stand up comedy “What do you call a cheese made out of cheese? A cheese!” Then she laughed at her own joke.   “Oh Elenita, what has happened to you?” said her concerned mother.  Isabel looked up, “Hi mom, I’m testing how much cheese can be put in a sock before it explodes, for science!” she was throwing socks at the cheese.   “Isa you’re supposed to use your science powers for good, not this!” she told her, “But I do have to say I am very proud of you for getting that science degree, and you always making such brilliant inventions, and for always being your wonderful self. I love you.”   “Thanks mom, that’s always good to hear, I love you too.” Said Isa, as she through a purple argyle sock onto the cheese.  Meanwhile, Esteban was gazing at the cheese in awe “Cheese-chan you are so amazing; I feel inspired enough to maybe do a traditional Satu fan dance for you!” he exclaimed.   “I’ll help you find them Ex-Chancellor!” exclaimed Higgins, who was also there.  Luisa shook Armando’s shoulders “Oh no, Armando, you have to do something before he finds where I hid all his fans!”   “Right, this is pretty serious, but I have a plan, but we need one more thing to complete it, and there’s a special sale on at the store for it, vanilla extract!”   “Vanilla extract? Are you sure?” she asked.  Yes, in ancient times the Maruians gathered together a counsel of their most trusted wizards, and rowdiest citizens, to vote on what would be most likely to safely get rid of space cheese, and Vanilla extract won the vote in an overwhelming majority.”   “Then it must be true!”   “What are we waiting for? Let’s save the world!” said Marlena.  

Sparkly-Clippity-clop Clippity-clop Clippity-clop Clippity-clop (they rode on unicorns to the store and back to the palace, because they are faster then just running there)   “It’s time, are you ready, should I go over the lyrics again?” said Armond as he stood in front of the palace.  Marlena held her guitar in her hands, “No, you explained them really well on the unicorn ride back here.”   “Okay great, are you both ready?”   “Guitar!” yelled Francisco, summoning a guitar out of thin air because his guitar servant was on vacation.   “He’s ready and I am too.” Said Luisa.   “Great, then we start in three, two…” he poured the bottle of vanilla extract on the space cheese to make the song effective. “One…NOW!”   “Cheese, cheese, go away on the moon is where you’ll stay.” They all sang, with guitar accompaniment.  It began to float upwards.   “Cheese, cheese, go away on the moon is where you’ll stay.” They sang ever louder, and it lifted completely off the palace.  Even you, the reader, sang it in your head “Cheese, cheese, go away on the moon is where you’ll stay!”  It was going, it zoomed off the palace, into the sky, and landed on the moon, where it would live the rest of its days in peace and tranquillity.  After that everything at the place returned to normal.   “Let’s make cookies for a celebration party!” exclaimed Isabel five minutes later.   “How many?” asked Lusia.   “More than you can shake a click at-I mean stick at!” she replied. Everyone had a good time at the party, Armando was given a medal of problem solving, but the biggest reward of all for him was the felling on a job well done.

(Author’s note: Raul was not at the palace because he was being the dungeon master at his ghost table-top roleplay group, and cancelling would have been a let down for everyone, but he arrived for the cookie party afterwards.)

A Monstrous Encounter

I had this crazy Elena of Avalor dream on August 28th, so I decided to turn it into a fanfiction. This is 70% what happened in the dream and 30% dialogue I added for context and jokes for levity.

Note: I have the trigger warnings in the tags, this Fanfic does have a bit of violence and blood in it so I would give this a PG-13 / T rating. Reader discretion is advised.

Note 2: For some reason when I had the dream the entire landscape was in various sunset colours, the trees were purple, the sky was red & yellow and the grass was orange & pink.  So if you want, you can imagine it like that.

Note 3: In the dream I wasn't exactly sure when it was set, so I just decided to set it after the final. 

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  A few months after she became Queen, Elena was touring the kingdom. She was making stops in all the different towns so the citizens could see their new Queen and she could make sure the towns were running smoothly. Elena had brought along Naomi, Gabe and Mateo, as well as a few of her Royal Guards and servants. So far, the tour had gone on without a hitch, but that was all about to change.

  In a small country village, Elena and her friends were about to go to Village Hall for a meeting with the Town Council, when a horse ran up to them at full speed and stopped. On it were Lieutenant Felipe and a young Private. Felipe looked exhausted and the Private was crying, and they both looked very bruised up.

  Gabe ran up to meet him. “Felipe, what happened!?”

  The Lieutenant tried to give as coherent a report as he could. “General, I have to report there's a monster at the edge of town. It was huge and round and slimy. Last time I saw it it was on the north corner of the pig farm owned by the Estrada family. It's been eating the livestock of the townspeople. When Private Fuentes and I went to evaluate the situation, it attacked us. I tried to use some spells to stop it but it seems to be immune to magic. Then it attacked Fuentes and… I was able to pull him out of the way in time but the monster killed and swallowed his horse.”

  The private looked at the General, his eyes filled with tears. “I'm sorry General, if I had been faster, Peanut would still be…”

  “It's alright private you did all you could do. All you need to do now is get your injuries checked.” Gabe assured him.

  “Yes Sir.” Fuentes replied, his voice still shaking

  Then Gabe continued on in a slightly more military tone, but you could still hear the intense concern he had.  “Lieutenant Felipe, take Private Fuentes to have his injuries taken care of, have your own injuries checked, and then call for backup.”

  “Yes sir.” He saluted then rode off towards the medical facility

  The other three who had watched this scene unfold were shocked, they knew something had to be done.

  “By the time backup gets here someone else could be attacked!” Exclaimed Mateo.

  “He's right, we should deal with this monster right now!” agreed Elena.

  “I second that.” Added Naomi with a nod. “We must avenge Peanut!”

  Gabe looked at how the three of them were just raring to go, he hesitated for a moment and then sighed. “I guess it's yet another mission for just the four of us.”

  “Maybe we need a name like Team Ava-four.” said Mateo trying to lighten the mood.

  Gabe just sighed and continued, “We know that this creature is immune to magic, so we will all need to equip some physical weapons before we go find it.”

  They went to their supply carriage and each got equipped with a sword, a dagger and a crossbow. Then they got on their horses and rode to the farm. Once they arrived at the south corner of the farm, they didn't tie the horse's reins to a pole. Instead they  just told their horses to wait for them to come back, they did this just in case the monster tried to attack them, the horses would be able to get away unhindered.

  Then they carefully made their way to the north corner, making sure to keep watch as they approached it. Then they saw an odd shape in the distance. They carefully stepped behind a large boulder and looked out at it. There was no mistaking it, this was the monster.

  It was sitting on the ground, its eerie black eyes open and ever staring forward.  It was at least 3 meters tall while at rest. It had a round body with a huge mouth, bigger than the mouth of any creature should be. It was bright purple and yellow and covered in clear oozing slime. It was blob shaped and looked like some kind of hideous melted frog.

  “I've never seen a creature like that in any of my books before,” Whispered Mateo, “At least not that I can remember.”  

  “What do you think we should do?” Asked Elena.

  “I say we try shooting it with our crossbows. If we get a little closer the bolts would probably do some major damage.” Suggested Naomi.

  “That sounds good, we will move to that area over there behind those trees where we will get a much clearer shot.” Said Gabe readying his crossbow “We should approach it with caution.” They moved closer to the monster until they were as close as they could get, while still being behind cover. “All right,” ready your crossbows and...NOW!”

  Four bolts shot straight into the monster's head and lodged deep, although it didn't seem very disturbed by it.  The monster looked at them with it's bulging eyes for a moment before it suddenly hopped up in a burst of speed and began to chase them. They were just barely able to start running away from it when it jumped at them.

  The monster chased them down the hill towards a pond, quickly gaining momentum on them. “Let's split up around the pond and regroup behind those trees!” Yelled Naomi, pointing across the water at the other side.  

  The group split to run around to the two sides, Naomi and Elena going to one side, Gabe and Mateo on the other. But the monster continued its chase, now with a target in its focus.

  Mateo was a slower runner than the others and they all realized it too late. He dropped his crossbow and grabbed his tamborita ready to cast a speed spell on himself. But before he could he tripped on a wet clump of grass at the edge of the pond, dropping his tamborita as he fell to the ground. The monster leapt behind him and with one fast movement gulped him completely into its mouth.

  “MATEO!” They screamed as their friend disappeared from view.

  “LEVALUQ!” yelled Gabe aiming his tamborita at the monster's mouth, but it was no use, Mateo was completely inside it and there was nothing that the spell could grab onto. It just seemed to be absorbed into the monster's slime. So without a second thought Gabe ran at the creature and started slashing at it with his sword. Naomi and Elena joined him, desperate to save their friend.

~~~   Mateo was surrounded by oozing darkness. He tried to breathe but got a nose full of noxious smelling slime instead, so he held his breath. The monster's mouth was closed in all around him and he barely had any room to move. He started to struggle but it didn't feel like it made any difference to the compressing walls around him.

  Then he remembered the dagger. He grabbed it with one hand and plunged it into the monster's tongue. The walls kept moving around him but they didn't feel any less constricting, and he was running out of air. He continued to stab but he could feel his strength draining away from him. His thoughts became a flurry of panic “I need to get out of here, I can't die like this, please!!!”  He continued to stab until he didn't have the strength to hold on to the dagger any longer. ~~~

 The three of them continued to slash their blades into the monster’s flesh. It still held its mouth shut even as blood splattered out from its wounds. It tried to jump into the nearby pond, and that's when Gabe leaped up into the air and plunged his sword deep into its back, determined to save the wizard before it was too late. That was the mortal blow. Finally the monster stopped moving and fell To the ground, finally defeated.

 Naomi and Gabe each grabbed one side of the fallen monster’s mouth and yanked it open. Elena lifted Mateo out. He wasn't moving. She started hastily brushing the slime off his face while using her other hand to push on his chest trying to resuscitate him.

  “MATEO WAKE UP, PLEASE!” She cried.

 Suddenly he began to cough and blink his eyes open. Tears continued to stream down the young queen's face but now in relief rather than despair. “I thought I lost you.”

  “Thank goodness you're alive.” Said Gabe who is now kneeling beside them.

  “We need to make sure all the liquid is out of the throat, if he's able to talk that means he can breathe properly.”  Naomi then she turned to Mateo and asked “Do you think you can talk?”

  He nodded, then he breathed and said “Well that became a pretty slimy situation!”

  There was a moment of silence, and then they all laughed (in spite of the pun being terrible). They were all just so happy that Mateo was alive. They moved into a big group hug.

  Suddenly Naomi broke out of the hug and jumped up. “The meeting!”  Shouted Naomi, “We never told them that we were going to be late!”

  Elena sprang to her feet “Oh no you're right! Quick, if we move fast we might be able to still make it in time!”

  “But Elena, you-” Gabe started saying but was interrupted.

  “Don’t worry Gabe, I trust that you will be able to take Mateo back to town and report to the townspeople that the monster has been defeated.” Then she whistled for the horses. All four of them came running and Elena's horse, Canela stopped right in front of her.

  “Elena I think he meant-” Started Mateo.

  “You can tell me later Mateo, just go get some rest, you need it!” And with that, she jumped on her horse and she and Naomi rode off at a thundering pace.

  “So,” said Mateo turning to Gabe “Do you think they'll notice that they're covered in monster blood before they get to the meeting, or after someone screams and faints at them?”

  “I'd say the latter.” Said Gabe, as he watched them ride off into the distance.

  “Probably, wait a minute we're ALL covered in... blood…”

  Gabe caught Mateo right as he fainted.

  He checked that Mateo was okay and then smiled “Well Elena did say you needed a rest.”

  Mateo blinked open his eyes and groaned a little in disgust as he looked at his clothing. It would take some major spells to get these stains out.

  He found his tamborita lying near him, brushed the dirt off it and put it back in its holder. Then Gabe carefully helped Mateo on to his horse, then the two of them both rode back to town.

This is the picture I drew of Spring Mateo, for week one of the EOA discord weekly challenge!   I had always wanted to draw Mateo in a bowler hat.

Thank you so much for the sketch! It’s wonderful as always. The costumes are wonderful. I love Victor’s sombrero and Carla’s flower wreath. What style is her hair in? Is it down? And I’m certain it is emotional for them. We don’t know much about Victor’s family or his relationship with them, but regardless, I can see Dia Muertos being emotional for them. Though I also think that Victor would love telling Carla stories about his parents/family, and that she would love listening to them.

You're welcome, I'm so glad you like it!

Yes, her hair is down, I was trying something different with the line style, so it's a little hard to tell. So it's basically styled like a regular hairstyle, except without the braid so the back of her hair is down. I love his sombrero too, Victor in hats is a very good idea.

I have no idea what Victor's relationship would be like with his family (Well, no one does because it is never clarified in the show, but that's besides the point). I've always sort of headcanoned that he had a strained relationship with them. Not abusive or anything, but just that his parents were probably really busy with other stuff and couldn't really pay too much attention to him as a kid and that could be one of the reasons for why he started doing troublesome things, to try and get attention. So the most common times they would focus on him was when he got in trouble and they would give him punishments and be annoyed at him. He resented that and they never really patched that up.

I mean, yes, Victor specifically references his father being royal treasurer, and yet he never mentions him again. It doesn't seem like he's in contact with him at all, and it could be because he's dead, but then why wouldn't he ever reference any other relatives? In the song Way Back When, it seems like other than Ash being there at some point, Victor and Carla were living alone.

Victor specifies that Shriki banished “[him] and [his] family” and he must have been referring to his birth family because Esteban didn't recognize Ash or Carla when he first saw them. I've always thought that Victor's father must have been loyal to the King and Queen of Avalor, and when he realized his son had a hand in the assassination, Victor was disowned. Their relationship was already strained and Victor presumably got them banished as well, so that was the last straw.

So then when Victor has a kid, he's like, “OK, I'm definitely going to pay a bunch of attention to her and make sure that she always knows that she's appreciated.” Which, you know, he mostly succeeds at, but he's not entirely perfect, no parent is.

Although it could be closer to what you say and he actually had a really good relationship with his family. But then I have to wonder why he wouldn't ask them for help raising Carla when he was on his own. Or why they wouldn't try and stop him from doing crime. Who knows, maybe his parents didn't disown him, but they couldn't survive being banished, and maybe that worsened Victor's resentment of Esteban? So yeah, then he would say nice things about them to Carla, but they wouldn't be there to help him raise her.

Or maybe he was in a similar situation to Esteban, where he projected that he had a worse relationship with his family than he actually did and it was only after he got older that he realized it wasn't that bad? And it could be like either one of the other two scenarios, but would he say nice things about them to Carla once he realized that. But there are probably even more different possibilities than this that I'm not even thinking of right now.