#emma swan nyc

[emmasaviorswan]

Emma , how are things going in New York? (why yes I still have feels about this :))

New York is magical this time of year @bluebellestorybrooke. Henry and I have got into a rhythm of things and he settled into school okay, he loves visiting the library of course! It's over with Walsh I'm not saying no to dating and finding new love in the city.

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Idea #89: House, but make it Once Upon A Time

My dash has inexplicably been filled by House lately, leading me to rewatch the entire first season - which in turn naturally led me to think: how could I shoehorn a crossover with Once Upon A Time into this?

Or: What if Allison Cameron was replaced in the House lineup with OAUT's Emma Swan?

Just imagine it:

Following her stint in juvie, Emma Swan radically turns her life around. She gets her GED, goes to college and medical school, and lands herself a job at Princeton-Plainsboro on Dr. House's diagnostic team. She remains sharp and prickly and hesitant to trust others - less the moral center Jennifer Morrison's character was intended to be and more a House-in-the-making, though less willing to lie to patients or causally break the law to get a diagnosis.

Then early season two Henry appears on scene, casually walking into the conference room while Emma and the others are researching a case and declares himself to be her son. (For maximum impact, this should be during "Daddy's Boy," but definitely before "Hunting" and Cameron's HIV scare.)

This naturally causes some consternation, and after Emma takes Henry back home she's compelled to stay in Storybrooke and become part of the hospital staff there.

Canon proceeds more or less apace in for both series until the end of OUTA 3A, "Going Home". At that point instead of Emma and Henry starting a new life in NYC after leaving Storybrooke, they "return" to NJ. Emma takes up her old position on House's team-

-but for some reason the magic doesn't work quite as it's supposed to on House. Maybe all the Vicodin makes it easier for him to determine when his mind is playing tricks on him, or maybe he's just observant enough to catch all the little contradictions that magic would otherwise smooth over to make things seem normal.

House, naturally, treats it as just another puzzle and spends the better part of a year trying to figure it out.

He's not gotten as far as he'd like (but closer than anyone in from the Enchanted Forest might hope) when Hook shows up a la "New York City Serenade" to bring Emma back to Storybrooke. Emma, naturally, is having none of it, but House is just more intrigued, so he cuts a deal with Hook to have him admitted as their latest case in exchange for finding out the truth.

What follows is a typical House differential - only instead of doing a differential on Hook's "symptoms" House writes up all of the small contradictions and curiosities regarding Emma and her background he's picked up over the years. None of it screams fairy tale princess stranded in a world without magic, but it's definitely suggestive of something - the end result of which is a massive group road trip up to Maine to "search Hook's home", but ends up with Emma regaining her memories.

Emma remains in Storybrooke, ends up taking over the hospital there, and preferably avoids all the mess of OUAT seasons 5-7. The others return to Princeton-Plainsboro, preferably avoiding all the mess House's later seasons became. Everyone lives - if not happily ever after, then at least as the best versions of themselves.

...that's really all I have: the two major scenes of Henry appearing at Princeton-Plainsboro instead of Emma's apartment on her birthday, and Hook doing the same years later to bring her back to Storybrooke. I'm sure it can be padded out significantly, but my mind has latched on to these two scenes and won't let them go.

Bonuses include:

As I absolutely adore the relationship between Emma and Hook, keep the focus there. Her previous relationship with Neal should not be idealized at all - he was an adult, she was a kid, he took advantage of her and let her take the fall for his crimes - and this should be made clear. In no way should Snow and Charming's baby be named after Henry's birth father;

Relatedly, there should be a lot of focus on family - both of blood and by choice - and the idea that true love doesn't have to be romantic love, as is made abundantly clear in the OUAT S1 finale;

All the parallels between Belle and Rumplestiltskin's relationship and that between Chase and House. Dealer's choice on the exact nature of the latter, but I find myself wanting a happy ending for a gay couple in the "real world", so make of that what you will. (And if this skips House's weird obsession with his ex in S2 all the better.)

It's shorter than I usually have, but neither of these have ever been major obsessions for me - I mainly just want to see a cross fertilization of characters, even if its just to bring those two scenes to life. As always, feel free to adopt, just link back if you do anything with it.

More Terrible Fic Ideas

[runawaywhorses]

Emma Roberts at the “Feud: Capote vs.The Swans” Season 2 Premiere in NYC 01/23/2024

[swanprincessodette]

Hook looking for Emma in NYC

Odette getting stuck in NYC looking for Neal:

Two types of people.

Watch Enchanted

w/ @dreadpiratejones Emma mention? @swan-tastic lol

[booksteaandtoomuchtv]

In The Lonely Hour (8/10)

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | AO3 | 9 | 10

Summary: A collection of canon-compliant(ish) one-shots that provide glimpses of Killian's life based on the album "In the Lonely Hour" by Sam Smith.

Life Support Emma is determined to return to NYC once the Wicked Witch is defeated.

Tagging: @kmomof4

Emma was back in his life, but she had not yet fully returned to Storybrooke. She was withholding, guarding herself from him and from her family, preparing to return to the lie she lived in New York. She insisted that it was better for Henry. But, Killian saw the fabrication for what it was - a pretty and convenient justification to keep running and distancing herself from the vulnerability that was required in the future that he knew she could imagine and feel forming around her and Henry in this odd little town.

Being cannon fodder wasn’t Killian’s favourite means of supporting Emma to date, but he supposed that was the only way that she would allow him to come along for now. She was still angry at him because, even when he tried to do the right thing, he fell short of actually doing good.

He had thought they were becoming a team. She had trusted her with the care of Henry on multiple accounts and they were trying to defeat the Wicked Witch together. But, her harsh words at the hospital, Henry’s safety is my concern, not yours, had hurt and showed him that her walls were still firmly in place. He may have seen over them for a moment, but she reinforced them after the attack at the docks.

Apparently, that fortification included pushing forward with her plan to return to New York City. Despite trading his ship to see her again, his desperation to keep her in Storybrooke was driven by the desire he saw in her eyes. She clearly wanted to be with her family, but she was afraid to allow herself to accept that the life she wanted was within her reach. He needed her to see that it was her fear and her habit to run, to guard her heart, to hide her deepest desires from herself that was driving her decision to leave Storybrooke. He needed her to stay or leave not out of fear, but because it was truly the life she wanted.

She shut him down each time he tried to broach the subject - returning to the lies she was telling herself or mocking him for thinking her future could be his future. She wouldn’t permit him any deeper. When she blamed him for the danger they were in with the Wicked Witch and accused him of manipulating her into returning, he knew he had little hope of her staying after she defeated the witch.

He felt a strange, new kind of loneliness. He would be completely alone, stranded in this land in a town where he was despised as a villain when Swan and her boy left. Sighing inwardly, he pressed on to face the witch alongside Emma - even if she hated having him there.

When the crocodile sent him flying into the bracingly frigid water, Killian could feel the universe laughing at him. A sailor drowned far from the sea or a ship. He fought against the invisible force keeping his head underwater. Water forced its way into his body, burning his nose and his lungs. He blinked against the black spots dancing in his vision, struggled against the demon’s magic, and then the world slipped away.

There was nothing.

The void stretched without end or beginning. Time moved in a strange way, a moment passing or a millennia. There was a quiet peace that seemed to flow through the expanse. There was the sensation of gentle floating and a welcoming calm that called and pulled him near.

His lungs were burning, his throat raw as though he swallowed knives, and every muscle was stiff. The burning that has started in his chest grew until he was expelling water and coughing for air.

“Swan?”

[allaboutjmo]

Jen at SiriusXM Studios on March 7, 2014 in New York City with Josh, Colin & Lana

[cosette141]

Begin Again fanvid 🥰

I made a fanvid to go along with my fanfic "Begin Again" for OUAT/Captain Swan 🥰

Probably not surprisingly, the title is from the Taylor Swift song "Begin Again". I had trouble landing on a title for this fic, but it was a story of starting anew, and both the title and the vibe of the song "Begin Again" seemed to fit just that 🥰

So here's the fanvid, put to the instrumental version of "Begin Again" by Taylor Swift.

For context, here's the summary of the story: (s2 "Manhattan" divergence) No one breaks a deal with Rumplestiltskin, and Emma finds herself facing the wrath of the Dark One. What if Neal didn't come back for Emma in NYC, but instead, Hook showed up to kill Rumplestiltskin early? No one has ever saved Emma before, and Hook has never been able to save anyone at all. It's time for them both to tell a different story. Together.

Begin Again fanfic link

begin again tag list: @kmomof4 @justanother-unluckysoul @klynn-stormz @stahlop @ilovemesomekillianjones @hookmecaptain @tiganasummertree @jadehowlettthewolf @jonesfandomfanatic @anmylica @pirateprincessofpizza @stahlop @snowbellewells @eddisfargo @motherkatereloyshipper @confessionsofthemword

[justanoutlawfic]

Swanfire Month Day 12 | "If Swanfire had any more kids, what would their names be?"

Part 2: Their adoptive daughter, Nicole “Nikki” Joaquina Swan-Cassidy (formally Vasquez)

Like many other Swanfire shippers, I do see them fostering and adopting at one point. I have a Headcanon that Neal was a social worker in NYC. After things settle down in Storybrooke, he decides to start up his career again. After Regina unites the realms, Snow and David donate their old castle for orphans to live in while they wait for their new homes.

Neal and Emma get close with many children throughout the years and occasionally they foster until they can find the child a permanent arrangement. They don’t adopt until they meet Nikki.

Her mother passed away when she was 8 and her father was never apart of the picture. She’s spent the past 4 years in foster care. Neal spends time with her and realizes she’s a lot like Emma. She’s snarky, sarcastic and definitely guarded. She’s also a talented skateboarder and has a love of cats. Nikki also wears a necklace with a Saturn charm, as her mother was into astrology. She only opens up to Neal to start.

He has Emma visit a few times. On the fourth, they bring Henry and Tallie (who at this point is 12, just like Nikki). Snow, David, Lucy and Ella coke the time after that. After a family discussion, Neal and Emma decide to offer Nikki a home.

Nikki thinks about it for about a few days, then agrees to try it out for a week. Emma can’t help but laugh, because she said the same thing years ago when she came to Storybrooke.

She’s adopted 2 weeks after her 13th birthday. Her adoption present is a hairless cat, Mando. A year later, she starts calling Emma and Neal “mom and dad”. She and Tallie build a close bond as well.

[teamcaptainswan]

"Not every guy is just gonna leave you." - Henry and Emma. https://www.instagram.com/leatherjacketsandrum/

[emmasaviorswan]

Escape to New York 🗽

Closed rp with @subject-b2

The cars flew past as skyscrapers towered overhead. It had been a couple of years since Emma had been to New York, there had been too many memories of denial and loneliness that she kept Hope from going. So she had taken a deep breath and asked her to come on a trip to New York, just them. Now they were there, in the flashing lights of Times Square, with people everywhere Emma didn't know where to start but she had Hope. Her Hope.

"So what do you want to do?" Emma smiled.

[wild-aloof-rebel]

amazingly, we ended 2020 with triple the number of words of fic in this fandom that we had at the end of 2019. thank you to everyone who contributed to that and to all the readers who motivate fic writers to keep publishing!!

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1 - 3k words

Getting Out There by Januarium (rated G) Twenty-nine minutes after the agreed start time for the date, Patrick is aimlessly scrolling twitter—because isn’t it better to be annoyed at strangers instead of the woman who stood you up?—when a voice says, “Excuse me, are you Patrick Brewer?” [...]

grand gesture... by startswithhope (rated T) It had been David’s idea to host this little pre-holiday get together for their vendors and after Heather had offered up her farm for the venue, Patrick had been shooed out of the planning altogether. But of course, everything is perfect.

in the path of a possibility... by startswithhope (rated T) Sometimes you just have to ask the boy you like to dance and maybe he'll say yes.

Last Christmas by HolmesApothecary (rated T) Three Christmas Walks

On our way back home by upbeat (rated G) During their week-long separation, David gets drunk at a bar one night and calls Patrick for a ride home.

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3 - 5k words

finding you at christmas by dinnfameron (rated G) Patrick helps out at his parents' Christmas tree lot in the city every year. One night, a lost kid and a handsome stranger come along needing his help.

I Put A Spell On You by houdini74 (rated G) David is a witch who spends his days baking cupcakes and uses his magic to to help people find happiness until his life is turned upside down by the arrival of a very cute and very unhappy Patrick Brewer.

Mind if I Move in Closer? by JustWaiting23 (rated T) David and Patrick get hit by a spell from a well-meaning stranger, now David can only be warm when touching Patrick. Will this be the final push they need to admit their feelings to each other?

you’re here (where you should be) by singsongsung *Alexis/Ted* (rated M) Alexis takes a holiday trip to the Galapagos Islands.

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5 - 10k words

along for the ride by the_hodag (rated T) Unraveling someone else's grief can be complicated when they refuse to engage in anything more than idle road trip banter.

Drink a toast to innocence, Drink a toast to now by DesignatedGrape (rated T) David and Patrick meet one Christmas Eve in Toronto, and run into each other again three years later.

Hurt for the Holidays by missgeevious (rated T) David and Patrick meet by accident on Christmas Eve.

Pining For You by High-Seas-Swan (rated T) A new Christmas Tree stand arrives across from Rose Apothecary, and with it, pine needles. Everywhere. It's driving David crazy. As is the cute-but-rude lumberjack running the lot.

traveled down a road and back again by sonlali *Rachel-centric* (rated G) Five Christmases throughout Rachel's past that she spent with Patrick, plus one she spends together with Alexis at Patrick and David's cottage.

Where Every Stay Feels Like Home by MoreHuman (rated G) The Brewer family holiday wishlist: 1. Surprises 2. Escape rooms 3. Surprise escape rooms The Rose family holiday wishlist: 1. Getting the hell out of here

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10k+ words

All I Want, aka O Christmas Trope by Januarium (rated E) A festive fake dating!AU.

The Big Chill by swat117 (rated T) David Rose learns to thaw while being chilled. ❄️ A modern-day Ice Age AU. ❄️

A Cardamom Christmas by Lisamc21 (rated T) David is stressed about work and decides to check out the nearby Christmas market. He expects to find lunch and maybe a Christmas gift or two. He doesn't expect to meet a charming baker who dishes teasing quips as much as sweet treats. David returns to the market each day to get another taste of Patrick the baker.

Every Breath That Comes Before [series] by nameless_bliss (rated T & E) [Three fics where David thinks about Patrick eventually leaving him]

Good Winter by Distractivate (rated M) Patrick spends a week in January at his parents' fishing cabin, sorting through memories and trying to figure out if enough of his past remains to rebuild relationships with his family and Rachel, while not losing who he's become with David. David, of course, helps. A story about making peace with all the versions of yourself, inspired by Bon Iver's album For Emma, Forever Ago.

happy golden days of yore by blueink3 (rated E) “What are you doing here?” Patrick blinks beneath the toque shoved onto his head, steadily dripping melting snow from his coat onto the mat they once purchased together. “Um… it’s my weekend.” [...]

 A Holiday Escape by Lisamc21 (rated E) David needs to escape the stress of NYC and can't stomach another Rose family Christmas party, so he books an AirBNB for two weeks in Schitt's Creek. The town his family visited when he was a kid. The one true family vacation they'd had. He plans to spend two weeks drinking wine and soaking in a jacuzzi tub, but the cute guy renting the AirBNB derailed his relaxing plans.

If you’re looking for an ass to kiss by grapehyasynth (rated T) Everything's the same, except Patrick is already in town - and he's the mayor.

i’m your moonlight, you’re my star by doingthemost & singsongsung *Alexis/Twyla* (rated M) Twyla and Alexis spend the holidays together.

It’s My (Christmas) Party and I’ll Panic if I Want To by DelilahMcMuffin (rated T) It’s Christmas Eve and David wants nothing more than to spend the evening in Patrick’s room at Ray’s engaging in the kinds of activities that will get them on Santa’s Naughty List. But his dad has decided that he wants to throw a last minute Christmas party. And to top it all off, Patrick’s parents have shown up unexpectedly to surprise their son for the holidays. Oh, and in case that wasn’t enough, David discovers that Patrick has been keeping a pretty big secret. [...]

Just to Hold the Hands I Love by DesignatedGrape (rated T) As David peered out the window at the snow-covered neighborhood, his gaze landed on his own front lawn, which he shared with the townhouse next door. Oh. Oh, no. Sitting in the middle of the small yard, facing the street, was an honest-to-god snowman, complete with stick arms, red scarf, and plaid trapper hat, and holding some sort of sign. David rolled his eyes. His neighbor thought he was so funny.

Meet me out at the end of my rope by yourbuttervoicedbeau (rated E) What if more than one bombshell was dropped the day of Patrick's birthday — one they couldn't come back from?

Termites of Endearment by unfolded73 & vivianblakesunrisebay (rated E) After discovering the cottage has to be fumigated for termites, David and Patrick suffer a stressful day and an onslaught of memories when they have to spend the night at the motel.

there it is, beating away by blueink3 (rated T) David and Patrick befriend a single mom and her son. Well, Patrick does. David is still feeling things out.

Your Guide to Winter Trail Etiquette by middyblue (rated E) It’s not exactly a promising beginning to his New Year’s Eve ski trip weekend when David drops his bags on the couch of their little rented condo and Alexis’s new boyfriend, who’s wearing an ugly Christmas sweater almost a week after Christmas and crashing David’s plans, says in confusion, “Wait, but where’s Patrick going to sleep?” A story about things ending and things beginning, even if they come from somewhere unexpected.

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and finally, just in case you missed it and are interested, i put together a list of some of my fave fics of 2020 and a little recap of my own fics from the year. happy new year and happy reading, friends!! 💗

[swanslieutenant]

I’m a sucker for s3 fics so I gotta ask about the Post Neverland fic and nyc serenade spec 👀

thanks for asking!! I also enjoy reading S3 fics, what a great time for CS stories. 

Post Neverland - this was a fic I started when S3 was airing. I wrote it as a scene in Granny’s diner, at a celebratory dinner for Henry’s safe return. It was from Emma’s perspective, watching her parents (David having been saved by Gold), reflecting on Snow’s confession in the Echo Cave. Then she notices Hook, and how out of place he seems in his pirate garb, with most of Storybrooke still giving him a wide berth. I also started going into how Henry was acting odd, as I think the promo for the next episode, after they returned to Storybrooke, was something about Pan being in Henry’s body. But that’s about where it ended - I probably ran out of time to keep writing before the next episode aired and my ideas were kiboshed. 

NYC Serenade Spec - this one was also written as the show aired; it was titled Remember and written during the hiatus after 3x11, when all we knew was Hook showed up in NYC and a bit of the spoiler pictures (for example, Hook being arrested and having the memory potion). It was split into two parts - the first half of the story focused on Killian trying to get Emma to remember. There is no Walsh in mine, because I didn’t know about him, so it’s slightly different than the real episode. Then the second half was speculation about the main group in the Enchanted Forest, who I had like no info about. I wrote it as a scene where they decided they needed to go get Emma to help them against Zelena and deciding Hook should do it as he had a ship to travel realms. 

Here are some excerpts from the NYC Serenade fic under the cut! Maybe one day I will polish it up and finish it, it’s nearly 6500 words as is! 

xx

When she opened her eyes, however, it appeared that she would not be forgetting yesterday morning at all. The same man, still dressed in that heavy leather jacket, was striding towards her, jaw set and eyes burning.

“Swan –”

“Oh no,” Emma said, hand coming out in front of her, as she took a step backwards. “No.”

“You need to listen to me –”

xx

“What are their names then?” Emma shot at him angrily. “My parents. Because I’d really like to know who the assholes are that abandoned their newborn daughter on the side of a road so I can look them up and kick their asses.”

Jones regarded her for a long moment, eyes unreadable. “I have a feeling you won’t believe me if I tell you,” he said, reluctantly.

“That won’t change anything, because I still don’t believe you.”

xx

Snow turned to Neal immediately. “Neal should go. Regina only changed Emma’s memories from Henry’s birth onwards; she’ll remember you.”

Neal was frowning. “She won’t be pleased to see me.”

Snow waved her hand flippantly. “You were separated, I know, I know, but Emma loves you –” Hook tried not to flinch at the casual way Snow tossed that fact out there, as if she was just saying the sky was blue or the grass was green – “she’d surely listen to you.”

[wistfulcynic]

The letter’s route, please!!!

Right. So. This is in reference to the letter Mary Margaret sends Emma at the end of The Outlaw Killian Jones (and the legend Emma Swan). This letter follows a very roundabout path to get from A to B, and Krystal wanted to know if that was to conceal Emma's whereabouts or if it was just how the mail travelled. The answer is yes and yes.

Everyone buckle in.

Here's the passage that describes the letter's route:

This letter travelled by mail coach from the Haven general store—where Miss Blanchard posted it to the care of a P.O. Box in San Francisco—to the main post office in Casper. From there it went via train to Cheyenne, where it was loaded onto the mail car of the Union Pacific Railway and thence made its journey to the west coast. In San Francisco its fortunes underwent a curious change, for it was redirected by a clerk there, in accordance with instructions, and placed back on the Union Pacific, headed this time for Denver. From Denver it voyaged onwards to Kansas City, then Chicago, and finally to New York, where it abandoned train travel forever in favour of a steam ship bound for Buenos Aires.

Upon arrival at port it was placed in the charge of a courier who carried it along with a scant handful of others over the rough roads of the Argentinian coast to Puerto Santa Cruz and then inland, where it finally, many months after its departure, came to rest at a tiny, dusty outpost in southern Patagonia.

This fic is set at the turn of the 20th century, when mail coaches, trains, and steam ships were the only options for transporting international post. The Transcontinental Railroad by then had been carrying mail for several decades and the branch railway lines helped distribute it to smaller towns, from where it would then go by coach or horseback to some sort of collection point where people would stop by when they could to pick it up. At that time door-to-door mail delivery didn't exist.

Which of course doesn't answer the question of why MM's letter first went to a San Francisco P.O. Box before doubling back and going to the east coast to catch its steam liner. For that we need to mine the backstory of Emma and Killian's relationship and how they managed to keep it a complete secret for three years. Fleshing this out in original novel form is going to be my NaNoWriMo project this year so I've given it a bit of thought.

Emma lives in a cabin next to an outcrop of rock. This rock seems solid but there is actually a gap in it, which leads to a canyon that's invisible from any road. On the night they meet, Killian is injured and he gets lost. He ends up in this canyon by chance and his horse finds the way out, leading him to Emma who takes him in and bandages him up.

You can pretty much guess where the story goes from there.

The canyon then becomes the way that Killian enters and exits Haven without anyone seeing him, and also where he keeps his horse when he's with Emma. It's the way they leave when they go to Argentina. They head west through the canyon to Idaho, Nevada, then to San Francisco where they set up the P.O. Box (and Emma writes to Mary Margaret to tell her of its existence) and get themselves new clothes and new identities. Armed with those, they get on a train--much like the letter does--and travel to NYC, then to Buenos Aires on a steam ship of their own.

I believe it was possible at the time to sail down the west coast of the USA and South America and around Cape Horn to reach Argentina. But that route has always been notoriously difficult and also uncomfortable, compared to the trains of the time and the steam ships that operated in the Atlantic. It makes sense that Emma and Killian would choose the latter, both for practical purposes and to evade the bounty hunters on Killian's tail.

So, TL;DR yes and yes. The letter took the route it did as part of the way Emma and Killian concealed their whereabouts and also because that was the way mail travelled in those days.

I deeply love and appreciate questions of this nature because I basically always have a backstory, even for one-shots, and will take any excuse to expound on them at great length. Thanks, K ❤️❤️❤️.

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The Outlaw Killian Jones (and the legend Emma Swan) is my contribution to the @cshistfic event! Read it HERE on Tumblr or HERE on AO3.

[remindings]

Just walked past Jennifer Morrison nbd.

[askanopenbook]

⟿  Booker Kensley

Seventeen years old [ fc swap: Cody Christian ]

SEVENTH YEAR STUDENT originally from ILVERMORNY

ILVERMORNY HOUSE: Wampus

HOGWARTS HOUSE: Gryffindor

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single

IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS: Emma Swan & Zelena Greene; pals. 

WAND: Rowan wood with a phoenix feather core, 13″ and supple flexibility

PATRONUS: Red Squirrel

alternate universe from january 23rd to february 20th > [ au; harry potter ]

It seemed almost insane that the ‘magic’ acts he grew up absolutely loving were ultimately child’s play when it came to how his life was going to unfold the moment he received his letter to attend Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. David Blaine wasn’t even going to be able to look at the flame he’d be able to produce once he had some training under his belt, let alone walk through it - or so that was the story Booker Kensley told himself, and if anyone knew anything about him, well, it went without saying that his confidence in himself was rather high. (thankfully not to a cocky level, though.) Born to No-Majes, the acceptance letter came as a bit of a shock to everyone, but if it meant that he would be able to live his life to his fullest potential, than the Kensley’s were all for it. Thankfully enough, the family lived in the suburbs just outside of NYC, so the travel time wasn’t long for holidays and visits, which made the transition pretty easy.

Ilvermorny opened a door the budding wizard had no idea even existed, and much to his delight, it welcomed him amongst quite the slew of new faces. Booker prided himself on being able to make friends with just about every walk of life throughout the years, for the most part, and that thankfully held true when he was sorted into Wampus and managed to snag a few amongst the other houses, as well as his own. And as every year passed within the walls high up on Mount Greylock, he did his best to keep his studies up, push the limits, and just have as much fun as he possibly could. Thus, when news of Hogwarts reopening its doors for the wizarding tournament, there was no other option than to pack a bag and hop on a plane. What about new places with new faces didn’t scream fun?

[emmaswcns]

4 & 5 :)

4. what are you looking forward to?

my best friends from boston are coming to nyc this weekend and i am very excited to be w them <3

5. is there anyone who can always make you smile?

besides emma swan? no. lmao i joke (not really) but my boyfriend and my dad can make me smile even when i am super angry/sad/mad/whatever mood

thank you for the asks, lovely <3333333