#4.11 Shattered Sight

[a-happy-beginning]

If that wasn’t a sign, I don’t know what is!

—Charming, Once Upon a Time, “Shattered Sight”

BONUS, when time travel gives you an opportunity for a do-over:

[dinneratgrannys]

ONCE UPON A TIME 4.11, Shattered Sight

[bestworstcase]

Oh okay, i see your point better now, sorry if the "hating Ozpin" thing looked like a excuse to start a fight btw! One last thing, do you have any opinions on Tyrian?

o7 no worries

tyrian is, imo, so far the least interesting of salem’s inner circle primarily because we don’t yet have any idea of his backstory beyond that he went on a killing spree in mistral and later burst into tears and started worshipping salem on sight, as per his arrest file. whether we ever get more than that remains to be seen—and in and of itself "faunus with dangerous trait growing up in the place notorious for being virulently bigoted" might be enough to make someone crack, if he didn’t have anybody in his life to counterbalance the evil way humans would’ve treated him throughout his life.

but i would ideally like to know a little bit more about his background. not like backstory-episode levels because that’s far out of scope for his degree of importance but like we know a lot more about watts’s history and the background with hazel and gretchen is carrying a lot of narrative weight (and may continue to do so if i’m right about gretchen having been the last spring maiden).

this post is about mercury but it does touch on what currently interests me most about tyrian, which is that he’s a narrative foil to mercury and specifically a twisted ideal form of the (false) nihilistic self mercury projects—a living weapon with no conscience whose purpose in life is to be pointed at the enemy and obey without question. this is what mercury pretends to be and what tyrian gladly chooses to be. also i want to see what happens if jax uses his semblance on tyrian.

his rivalry with qrow could also develop in an interesting direction in vacuo—i’m not 100% convinced it will, because qrow’s big moment of growth in v8 is about letting go of vengeance, but if tyrian crosses his path in vacuo it’s not like he’ll hold back lmao—because what kicked it off back in v4 was that tyrian couldn’t faze him. a lot of tyrian’s power in combat arises from his cackling unhinged behavior, it’s off-putting and strange and unpredictable and that knocks his opponents off their game, except for qrow; when qrow just calmly decks him and kicks him away tyrian stops laughing and cowers because he doesn’t know what to do and his vengeance in v7 involves pushing qrow into an emotional enough state that he loses his focus and tyrian can shock him by stabbing clover in the back. so now (in tyrian’s mind) they’re even. what happens the next time they meet? there’s a lot of narrative curveballs that could be thrown here.

um his allusion to the scorpion is also something i roll around in my head a lot, because he’s long since killed his frog… but there’s an older version of the story where the scorpion asks a turtle for passage across the river, and the turtle of course isn’t harmed by the sting and so drowns the scorpion on purpose out of disgust with its refusal to control itself. and well. the fanatic nature of tyrian’s devotion to salem feels like he’s one shattering disappointment—like say, finding out he’s mistaken about what she wants?—away from snapping and attacking her, or perhaps going for cinder (<- i think this is foreshadowed pretty unsubtly by that scene in 4.11), and then salem. er. flattens him. scorpion, turtle. if he’s killed i expect it’ll either be gillian (whose semblance is the inverse and natural counter to his) or salem (immortal) who does it.

i do sort of expect that he’ll reveal a new layer or two in the vacuo arc simply because he’s one of the very few notable characters who has hitherto not really wavered from being what he says on the tin—watts and hazel both had a bit more depth and with tyrian taking point in vacuo and evidently infiltrating the crown, the narrative opportunity to do the same with him is right there. so…

[mizzswan]

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

Once Upon a Time: Shattered Sight (4.11)

that’s it, that’s the show

[sqwintersolstice]

Title: Reparations? I'll have to write you a check

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37112638

Writer: AndromedaM31

Word Count: 13k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warning(s): No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary:

In the aftermath of the Curse of Shattered Sight, Emma is looking for a chance to start up that friendship she had promised in Regina's vault, Regina too absent and preoccupied with Robin and Marian for it to have progressed since. Her opportunity finally comes in the form of a favour and a freak summer blizzard that leaves Regina and Emma stranded and alone in Granny's diner. With the line between redemption and reparations blurring, Emma, in her search for a perfect friendship (and the stirrings of something more), goes too far.

Takes place in 4.11, going AU from Heroes and Villains after Regina returns Marian's heart.

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[lightgamble]

Once upon a time | 4.11 | Elizabeth Mitchell / The Snow Queen

You deserve your happy ending too.

And this is it.

[a-happy-beginning]

—Once Upon a Time, “Shattered Sight” + Olaf’s Frozen Adventure

[dinneratgrannys]

ONCE UPON A TIME 4.11, Shattered Sight

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ONCE UPON A TIME 4.11, Shattered Sight

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ONCE UPON A TIME 4.11, Shattered Sight

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ONCE UPON A TIME REWATCH: 4.11, SHATTERED SIGHT Family never gives up on each other.

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INGRID 4.11, Shattered Sight

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6k celebration meme - 4/15 episodes - 4.11, shattered sight

the funny thing about time is we romanticize the good and forget about the bad. that’s exactly what’s in these crystals. these are the good memories and nothing else, lovely moments the two of you shared with me, which i’ll cherish forever, and now so will you.

[dinneratgrannys]

emma swan in every episode

4.11, shattered sight

[dinneratgrannys]

Gifset per Episode: 4.11, Shattered Sight I’m so proud of you both. You’ve finally embraced who you truly are.