EverDort

EverDort is the het ship between Victoria Everglot and Victor Van Dort from the Corpse Bride fandom.

Canon
Victor and Victoria's marriage to one-another was arranged behind their backs by their parents. The Van Dorts are wealthy fish merchants, while the Everglots are secretly poor aristocrats, both families plan to gain something from their union.

Neither of their off-spring is initially happy about the arrangement, Victoria simply wants to marry someone who loves her, while Victor has doubts about marrying someone he barely knows. However, when the Van Dorts arrive at the Everglot mansion all cleaned up and aiming for best behaviour, Victor tries to distract himself from the stress by playing a few notes on the piano. Victoria just happens to hear the piano from her bedroom and follows the sound, finding her husband-to-be playing by himself in the great hall. She approaches him with soft steps down the stairs and when Victor notices her, she compliments his beautiful playing. They start to chat about their marriage and realize that they could actually get along if given time. Victor invites Victoria to sit next to him while he's playing, but he happens to knock over a vase standing on the piano. Taking the flower out of the vase, Victoria gives it to him as her first gift. However, when the Everglots catch the two yet-to-be newlyweds faffing about instead of coming to practice the rehearsal, they immediately shoo them into the church.

Three hours of Victor flubbing his vows later, Victoria is still very patient with him while both of their families just want to get it over with. Even accidentally setting the dress of Victoria's mother on fire does not deterr Victoria from wanting to marry Victor, though everyone else in the room has doubts that he actually wants to marry her. Victor decides to take a walk for a few minutes to the get the stuffiness out of the air, but multiple hours pass without Victor returning. Victoria is heartbroken when she hears that Victor was seen "eloping" with "a dark-haired temptress", when in reality, he practiced his vows in the woods on what he thought was a peculiar tree branch, but was actually the finger of the titular Corpse Bride, Emily, so Victor is technically married to her now and got dragged into the Land of the Dead.

Upon finding a way to return to the Land of the Living, Victor only had Victoria on his mind. Since Emily had to come with him as his "wife", Victor had to lie to her to keep her hidden in the woods, telling her to wait while he lets his parents know of their wedding. In reality, he was actually sneaking back into the Everglot mansion and tried to reconnect with Victoria. However, Emily finds him there and believes that Victor is cheating on her, dragging him back into the Land of the Dead against his will. Victoria tried to tell her parents and the town's pastor about Victor being married to a corpse, but they think of her as mad. The sketchy Lord Barkis Bittern takes an interest in Victoria, believing her parents to be filthy rich. Due to his good first impression with Victoria's parents, they accept Barkis as their daughter's new fiancée far more quickly, with the news of Victoria getting married again and Victor being married to a corpse reaching the Van Dorts, and their coachman Mayhew by extension.

Due to the coachman's sudden death from overdosing on cigars, Victor is filled in by an old friend, knowing that Victoria had gotten married while he was away. Defeated, Victor finally accepts his marriage to Emily, but finds out that their marriage was not legally binding in the first place due to the "until death do us part" rule being shaky with Emily being already dead. To complete the marriage, Victor and Emily have to return to the Land of the Living one last time for Victor to repeat his vows in front of Emily with the dead as witnesses, then drink a fast poison to be united with her for eternity. However, before they could do so, Victoria finds out that Lord Barkis is a scammer who was only ever after her parents' (non-existent) money, so she sneaks away into the church, finding out that Victor was getting married for good. Victoria watches the two of them with a heart-broken look on her face, with Emily noticing her, not able to finish her vows and rob another woman of her love. However, when Lord Barkis crashes the wedding, demanding a dowry from the Everglots, Victor and Emily have to fight him to protect Victoria from his rage. As it turns out, Barkis was the jerk who left Emily for dead in the first place, cursing her to lay dormant until her love frees her. When Barkis drinks the poison intended for Victor, believing it to be wine, he makes a widow out of Victoria and frees Emily from her curse at once. Victor and Victoria watch Emily's cursed remains happily dissolve into moths, as she seems to give the two of them her blessing.

Fanon
EverDort is one of the main ships of the Corpse Bride fandom, seemingly trapped in an endless battle with Vemily, with the former currently winning.

Support mostly comes from their love story being fairly adorable and open-ended, with many fans agreeing that they ended up getting married on their own terms after Emily's story ends. Some Emily fans also support EverDort as it allows Emily to be shipped with anyone that comes to mind with no guilt from either party.

Fandom

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