MORE EVER AFTER HIGH OC:S

In the midquel to my first EAH fic, new characters, both original and canonical, appear. Most of them interpose themselves between Christian "One-Eye" Drosselmeyer and Polly Poppins in the present and in their backstory, but there is also a sub-plot about a dangerous black widower and war profiter having broken prison and hidden on the EAH campus, entwining with that plot... In this post, I am going to introduce the OCs that have not debuted yet:

• Gilles d'Azur: descendant of the latest Counts of Bluebeard. Under the influence of the magic Mirror of Reason, he dismantled Legacy Day on his year, refusing to become a black widower, and was thus court-martialled and locked in Abacab (international state prison for the most depraved). During his captivity, he learnt astral projection from a book in the fortress library and embraced his destiny as a black widower (due to the painful Inquisition-style torture he was submitted to). Three decades later, a now adult d'Azur breaks prison and finds sanctuary in the hedge of thorns that protects EAH at night, projecting astrally as the thorns conceal his wounded frame. Gilles subsequently possesses an unconscious Rainer Leutnant, who becomes more confident and a true heartbreaker... romancing Miss Poppins among others, leading to a series of serial kidnappings! The Counts d'Azur actually drink maidens' blood to stay young and healthy... He has long blue hair and a goatee, and steel-blue eyes, and dresses in seventeenth-century clothes. REBEL TURNED ROYAL.
• Odile von Rothbart: A new dancing teacher and young prodigy (the class's age!), half-French half-German, and former Electoress of Bavaria (let her spouse remarry a clone of Odette that she had made and animated herself). Daughter of Friedrich von Rothbart (a Dark Mage, from Swan Lake) and an unknown Frenchwoman later revealed to be an Ella Stepsister (Charlotte von Rothbart, née Tremaigne-Ella, also related to the Myrthe clan). She has a past in common with veteran One-Eye and holds a grudge against him (One-Eye helped Siegfried and Odette kill her father, she wants revenge). This confident temptress was the one who opened the hedge to let Gilles in, lured by his promises, and she will remain his accomplice as long as Rainer is possessed... but will she allow to be controlled for longer and turn back against her foe? She also makes Katla jealous: both are equally confident, but Odile is more reserved and cooler, raven-haired with black eyes and pale skin, she dons a scarlet and black gown. Thekla von Wallenstein clone, down to the bun/ponytail. ROYAL TURNED REBEL.
• (Napo)Léon Botté: a Chartreux werecat armed with a rapier and dressed in seventeenth-century clothes, with a Thirty Years' War-era doublet and boots. He is a valet of the d'Azurs, but also a trickster and a free spirit, loyal to all and to none, but with a fickle crush on Kitty. Descendant (obviously) of Puss in Boots (Chat Botté in French). ROYAL.
• Aranyváry Katalin: Daughter of the Hungarian Princess from Swan Lake. She is red-haired, with dark blue eyes, and she wears a dress with elements of Magyar folk garb and Elizabethan court gown. A middling royal who wants to be part of Sophia's entourage and admires the Lilienstielian, she will become d'Azur's first victim... ROYAL.
• The Tweedles (Tweedle-wun and Tweedle-woo): identical twin girls with pink hair, dressed in overalls and somewhat pudgy. Descendants of the original Wonderland Tweedles. Both are odd-eyed, with symmetric colour scheme (Wun has an amber right eye and a blue left eye, while Woo's eyes are the other way round). Roomates with each other. ROYALS.
• Karla Rosenblad and Gerhard Ekelöf: children of Kay and Gerda, the bourgeois protagonists of The Snow Queen. They appear as minor characters, in the background. Both are blond and younger than the leading cast. Her eyes are green as leaves, while his are gray as steel. Both dress in middie (sailor) suits. Their families run a flower shop and a bookshop, respectively, in Helsingborg (southern Sweden). Gerhard has already been affected, like Bianca, by the mirror shard, that turns him into a Crownculus whiz smart enough to challenge Charles and harbour a grudge upon losing to him. While Karla is not sure of whether she could save Gerhard from the power of the shard, and also becoming jealous of Bianca (whom her beau and best friend is trying to help), becoming the third victim (Gerhard, however, winds up with Kyllikki, while Karla becomes an adventurer/explorer, renouncing to marriage...) Karla is roomates with Odile, while Gerhard is with Leon... BOTH REBELS
• Linda Upland of the North: Daughter of the Good Witch of the North (Glinda!), and thus Crown Princess of the Quadlings. Also related to the Snow Queen and the White Royals of Wonderland. Currently a member of the Wonderland regency. As a child, she was roomates with Polly and they were frequently paired, but Linda tended to fall into scrapes caused by Polly's schemes. Pays EAH a state visit and finds herself in even direr straits. She uses a bubble wand, and she is platinum blond with violet eyes, dressed in a white empire-style frock. As a teen, she wore a puffier gown. A prissy but kindly airhead, she was the "Vivian" in Polly's team, due to her skill in white magic and destiny as a mentor. 
• Edeltraut Gothel: Descendant of Gothel (the enchantress in Rapunzel), if not Gothel herself. Frau Gothel was Polly's and Christian's homeroom teacher, a rather harsh and stern raven-haired matron who punished rebel students. Still, she was quite the stunner.
• Joseph Botté: Leon's father and a Chartreux werecat dressed in the attire of the Catholic League. He was another classmate of Linda's and Polly's. Killed in battle during a mercenary campaign in Wonderland... during the Lilienstiel war of independence (on the repressing side), for having slain Karl von Lilienstiel, the Queen's consort and Sophia's father... His personality and moral code are a reference to Wallenstein. He is compared by Sophia to Rosi in her own team.
• Franz Ferdinand Kaiser: Another classmate of Polly's and a posh royal with metrosexual tendencies. Obviously queer. He is extremely vain, shallow and flashy, with platinum hair and dressed like an über-extravagant eighteenth-century fop. An Easter egg reveals that he has become the Evil Queen's weak-willed but lovable consort (like Louis XV or Adolphus Frederick...). Sophia thinks of him as the "Mireille" in Poppy's team.
• Marie "Marion" and Jeanne Crapaud: daughters of the kind sister in Diamonds and Toads. Fraternal twins with opposing personalities: brash and raven-haired "spirited" tomboy Marie is the one with the gems, while prissy and girly ingenue Jeanne, far more reserved and a mahogany shade of nutbrown, is the one cursed with the toads and adders (because she didn't know what to tell the undine). Both have freckles and green eyes. Jeanne becomes a member of the Literature Club, but her sister is soon attacked by d'Azur and disappears, putting Jeanne in an Achilles scenario until Charles is missing. Jeanne admires Sophia deeply, and she aspires to be as well-spoken as the Lilienstielian. Roomates with each other. BOTH REBELS.
• Bertha Holle: Frau Holle. She has been around the EAH campus for a while, and she was the one who encouraged Chris and Polly to follow their hearts. There have been lots of legends, most of them suspicious, around her. She lives in a run-down mansion at the edge of Wonderland, that can be accessed through the fountain in the woods around EAH. Historically, she was the fourth Snow Queen's daughter with a hiker called Rudi, her consort. She became an advisor at the court of Wonderland, but retired to the provinces upon seeing later rulers plan wars and spurn her advice. Bianca is revealed to be her niece, and so is Kyllikki. All three share a warm relationship. Frau Holle is one of the most powerful characters in-universe, next to the former headmaster of EAH... her archenemy, whose mirror she shattered.
• Hermann and Adelgunde von Brakel: Children of a Prussian courtier, the Count of Brakel (in the story Das fremde Kind). Fraternal twins, their generation's "rulers of campus", who teased Polly and Chris but were recruited into the Resistance. Both wear eighteenth-century clothes: he wears a military uniform (he is a cadet) reminiscent of a hussar's, while she wears a frilly court dress like Mireille's with a blue, crown-like tricorn. Both have hazel eyes and speak gratuitous French. Hermann is a whiz at military history, knowing all the details (lives of generals, strategies, number of men slain and taken prisoner) of several battles, and is thus regarded as a military otaku. While Adelgunde is a whiz at languages and over-interested in astrology. They may represent Sophia and Laurent, respectively, in the backstory. Of course the Literary Club members plus Laurent wish to know them better and interview them. In the end, they are revealed to be the least expected: their Literature teacher is Adelgunde, while one of Sophia's own tutors, a stern veteran general who married the widowed and destitute Lady Friederike von Wintergarten and sired her daughter Lilianne... is revealed to be her brother. Yes, they did appear in Series One, but in this one, they get their guns and help Chris and Polly against the foe that threatens their relationship... In this season, they are revealed to be Polly's and Chris's respective roomates.