Appling

Appling is the femslash ship between Apple White and Darling Charming from the Ever After High fandom.

Canon
During the Dragon Games, Snow White, Apple's mother, and The Evil Queen, decide to rekindle their rivalry. To do this, they plan on playing against each other in the Dragon Games. When the teams get assigned, each one of them has to pick a captain for their team. So The Evil Queen picks Apple, while Snow White picks Darling. The two of them share a knowing look, as they jokingly look at each other as their temporary "rivals" roles.

Later, in the forest pixies' place, Apple is sitting around a campfire with the rest of the girls. When they decide to eat some fruit as they talk, Faybelle is seen hiding in a bush, behind Apple. Faybelle slips the poison apple in the fruit basket, where Apple gets the fruit and eats it. Apple is immediately affected by the poisoned fruit, as she falls to the ground, fainting. Darling rushes to verify she's still breathing, and smiles when she realises Apple is snoring and very much alive.

However, the apple was not poisoned, but instead enchanted, with a spell that will make Apple fall asleep forever. In despair, Apple friends hold a funeral, thinking she will sleep forever, putting her in a glass casket like Snow White used to be in, awaiting for her true love's kiss. Darling's brother, Daring, immediately comes as soon as he finds out Apple is sleeping, really convinced that he is Apple's true love and that if he kisses her, she'll wake up and they'll live happily ever after. So, with people cheering for him and totally confident, Daring gives Apple a kiss on her lips, and absolutely nothing happens, meaning he wasn't her true love. So completely desperate for Apple to wake up, Darling goes to kiss her. When their lips touch, a shining light explodes and suddenly, Apple awakes, emitting a pink smoke from her lips, meaning the spell on her was broken, by her true love. When she wakes up, Apple believes Daring was the prince who woke her up, however it turns out Darling was her true love who broke the spell.

Fanon
is one of the most popular ships of the Ever After High fandom. It's the most written AO3 ship for the both of them and it has a lot of fanart as well. Many fans were really happy when the writer of the episode where Darling kisses Apple confirmed that she's Apple's true love and the ship gained even more popularity after this. This kiss and revelation even led to the analysis of the connection Apple White has to compulsive heterosexuality.

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