#no magic tree fuck ouat

[jinx66]

once upon a timeline

okay so i've been obsessed with ouat recently with my rewatch and i was looking into Henry's weird ass family tree and oh my god i need to put this out there because why.

for starters i've only included big plot points or villains and main characters etc so none of the side plots but also i've realised how weird some of the age gaps are.

oh yeah also ouat likes to fuck with their timelines and historical context so i have gone with the basic dates that make sense based on what the characters in the show actually say.

the dates are what they would be in the real world not in ouat logic.

pre-main timeline

Ancient Greece - zeus and hades happen (season 6)

ancient greece but later - orpheus and Euridice and pandora's box happen

between 400-500AD - the Holy Grail and Merlin and Nimue

1650's-1660's - Mother Gothel leaves the new land without magic

1770- Malcolm is Born

1804- Rumplestiltskin is born, Malcolm is 34

1808- Rumple is abandoned, Peter Pan becomes a fae trickster tumblr meme

1845- Baelfire is born, Rumple is 41

1859- Bae arrives in england, Rumple is 55

1947- Zelena is born and abandoned

1948- Cora and Rumple have their weird affair

1949- Regina is born

1955- Snow White is born

1973- Regina sends the huntsman after snow, Snow is 18, Regina is 24

23/3/1977 - Neal (Bae) chooses this as his fake birthday

22/10/1983 - Emma is born, the curse is cast

1991 - Neal escapes neverland and comes back to the land without magic

15/8/2001 - Henry is born, Emma is 18, Neal Cassidy is 24

22/10/2011 - Emma arrives in Storybrooke

13/5/2012 - The curse is broken.

so some of the dates are based on when episodes aired and things such as when the curse breaks and when emma arrives in storybrooke. other dates are based on easter eggs in the show like Neal's birthday. so i realised that Neal had to have landed back in the real world in 1991 because he was 14 when he got to neverland and obviously didn't age so working backwards those dates make sense.

however... emma was 17 when she got pregnant with henry and at best Neal is 24 but at worst he's 156 years old! i mean what the fuck. and he has to be that old because he tells Emma that technically "I should be a couple hundred by now" (2,15). so at the oldest he can be with Neal's Once upon a time maths education the earliest he can be born is 1845 because big ben isn't built until 1859 which is the absolute earliest that he can be in old england.

the rest of the dates i managed from working backwards from when the curse was broken and cast and from small things the characters say. In the first episode of season 2, Emma says that her and Mary Margaret were the same age which means that the 10 year war she has with regina that ended with the curse started when she was 18.

so what i've found from this is that Henry's family tree back to his paternal great grandad literally spans hundreds of years. the average life span for these fuckers is about 100. basically they're a family of elves and you can't convince me otherwise.

[marzipanandminutiae]

I see you talking about ouat and it unlocked thoughts that have been neatly filed away for years so here I am, yelling them at you.

I assume at this point spoilers arent a problem anymore for you but you said you originally didn't watch past the frozen but a warning just in case.

I kept watching for quite a long time, but I quit after the whole thing with ruby and Dorothy because what? it just felt so incredibly forced and badly written? and I'd gotten so annoyed because before we'd already had the whole thing with aurora and mulan, which I was rooting for but okay, that didn't work out, too bad for mulan. then we get a perfect set up for ruby and mulan. and it's just. never mentioned again???? ruby comes back eventually but wtf happened to mulan? it annoyed me so fucking much let me tell you.

also I remember trying to write out family/relationship trees and stuff for ouat to see how weirdly convoluted everything got. was very impressed that it seemed they managed to avoid accidentally having incest or something in the show with everything that was going on there.

I have so many more things but this has already gotten way longer than intended. do you have a favourite part of the show? I'm assuming your favourite characters is either regina or emma?

Oh man all of that brings back memories. I didn't stick around long enough for Ruby and Dorothy, but I got the sense that they were doing it to try and counteract the "avoiding Swan Queen because homophobia" allegations.

(I actually don't think they WERE avoiding Swan Queen because of homophobia, necessarily. I think it was never their intent to begin with; they just happened to attract a sapphic audience who were deeply on the Enemies to Lovers train. I do think they may have indulged in a bit of queerbaiting, though, because of some Emma/Regina moments that happened after the writers definitely knew the ship existed. I think it was never going to be canon, but they handled it poorly once they realized that people saw it as an option.)

I stopped watching around Frozen for a couple of reasons:

On a personal level, I just got sick of seeing the characters I shipped with other people. That's not an objective problem; it's my opinion and not everyone will agree. But to me, Hook was a whiny insecure manchild and Robin had the personality of Clippy the MS Word paperclip, and damnit, I wanted Emma and Regina to kiss each other instead of them!

On a This Is Bad Storytelling level, I HATED how Frozen was integrated. Earlier stories had been a nice blend of traditional fairytales with Disney adaptation elements- Beauty and the Beast where Gaston and Chip are both kind of there but in subtler ways, for example, or Cinderella where her dress resembles the 1950s animated version but everything else is different. Frozen, though, was just...Frozen. The entire plot of the movie Frozen had happened before the characters entered the OUAT storyline, their costumes were identical to those in the movie, and while I've heard that they added some different backstory- it just wasn't the "Hans Christian Andersen story with subtle Disney touches" that I would have expected from earlier seasons.

Personally, I don't think the initial curse should have been broken in a season. I feel like that locked them into a pattern of having to continually invent a new Darkest Evilest Most Powerful Magic EVER!!!!! to top the previous season, and that took them to some really weird places (I heard they went to literal hell at one point?). The show had a cool premise and some interesting ideas- I loved how they managed to give individual kingdoms distinct cultures and even fashions. You can tell the "look" of Snow White's kingdom from Cinderella's and Cinderella's from Ariel's, etc.

Everyone who would watch an entire season of Abigail's Ancient Greek Steampunk-ish kingdom, raise your hands. Seriously, so cool.

But something went wrong, IMO around season 4. I'm not sure if the show had just outlived its original concept or had outside pressures pulling it in different directions or what. All I know is, as far as I'm concerned, the show ends when Emma and Henry leave Storybrooke in season 3A. Pity It Was Cancelled So Soon, etc.

(although OOC Matronly SnowTM would have been perfect for live slug reaction memes, so there's that)

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1B! MATCH 4 OUT OF 8

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Ruby Lucas:

she's cool, and a werewolf!

She's a red/big bad wolf combo, she's bi, she gets tragically underused like so many OUaT characters

She’s a werewolf :)

We first see her as Ruby in Storybrooke where she's initially depicted as a fun-loving flirt who spends her nights most likely in a bar while wearing revealing clothes that her grandma disapproves of (and is all in red. Absolutely everything). She lives with her grandma who runs a diner and that's where Ruby works. When Emma wakes up the sleeping town, she tries to leave Granny's and ends up helping in a case that Emma's working on by following her nose. That episode also has her backstory, but when we first see her as Red in the Enchanted Forest, she's confident and helpful and not afraid to use her lycanthropy. But the start of her story has her being an innocent young woman with a love for discovering the world and her boyfriend Peter (of Peter and the Wolf, I guess). She meets Snow while still living with her Granny in her cabin in the woods and takes her in. She's so hopeful - and then she turns into a werewolf and kills Peter (after they all thought he was the werewolf and had chained him to a tree). She is obviously quite traumatized by this and takes off with Snow. But that and her subsequent adventures gives her the growth she needs to be comfortable in her own skin, whether human or wolf. And, when the curse breaks completely, you can see the change in her - she would absolutely walk through fire to help Snow and the other good guys.

Another version where Red Riding Hood also ends up being the Big Bad Wolf. She eats her boyfriend which is sad but she falls in love with Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in like Season 5. Her red cloak is what keeps her in human form which I think is neat. When all the storybook characters are transported to the modern world, she runs a diner with Granny.

She's one of my favorite characters from Once Upon a Time. She's a cool Red Riding hood wolf girl who is bi and has seen like 3 of her love interests and her mother die. She slays very hard so I nominate her. (Also I used to have a crush on her as a kid)

VOTE RUBY LUCAS FROM ONCE UPON A TIME. SHE WAS IGNORED BY THE WRITERS SO MUCH SHE DESERVES THIS SO MUCH. QUEER ICON!!!

Ruby Rose:

She has a scythe that is also a high-impact sniper rifle.

She is literally just based on Red Riding Hood and she's such an amazing character holy heck

Red Riding Hood but with a gun. (Specifically a combination scythe/high-impact sniper rifle called Crescent Rose). Also she's gone through so much she deserves it. She's trying to save the world and keep going despite all the people she's lost. Grew up dreaming of being a hero who fights monsters. She knows life isn't a fairy tale and wants to make it better. Just went through a mental health arc where she had depression from trying to live up to her (presumed dead) mom and from her friend dying for the second time. Killed the Big Bad Wolf with her magic eye powers. Her sister is Goldilocks and her friends are Beauty and Snow White. also I love her <3

She’s the little red riding hood but also a powerful fighter with a massive fucking scythe that is also a sniper rifle and she’s so skrunkly and so gender. Also RWBY’s whole thing (well one of them) is that their characters are all inspired by pre-existing ones from older stories and Ruby’s the main character so like, poster child of ‘character based off [insert relevant fairytale here]’ so I think she deserves to at least get pretty far

Aesthetics, themes, meta, personality and raw coolness.

She is the main character of her show. The most common monster they fight is a type of wolf (its been a while since ive seen it). Her job is to hunt them down before they can eat her. this story is very much about failed fairy tales, many of the side character's inspired arcs end in failure, but (having not seen the most recent bits) Ruby is still going strong, and i really like her cape, rose petals, and use of a scythe.

She is THE RRH character of all time. She has a scythe that's also a gun and she has to be the hero because she's got super rare main character powers. She is my happy girl. Also her mom was Sleeping Beauty and her sister is Goldilocks, and she fights to stop Rapunzel from destroying everything on the world, the gods, and then herself.

Ruby as a character is literally based on little red riding hood! She has a red cape with a hood

the Red trailer is better propaganda than I could ever write

She is a badass with a scythe, inspired by her uncle and fueled by her mother's death and her sense of righteousness

She has a giant scythe

[naivesilver]

Crowsourced ideas for the EAH/OUAT crossover because I can't get it out of my fucking head apparently and I need to write them all down in a single place

Apple -> takes the place of baby Neal as Snow and Charming's second child, exacerbating Emma's bitterness because like, if you're a bit jealous that your parents are raising and doting on a baby like they couldn't go to you, that feeling must multiplicate tenfold if said baby is a little girl with blonde hair

Raven -> Regina's baby with Robin. Implies that Cora never dosed her daughter with an infertility spell and also that the whole Zelena pregnancy shebang was avoided somehow PLEASE I need this for my sanity. Has magic blood but ON GOD, Regina will bash Rumple on the head if he comes near her kid with weird power-teaching ideas

(when I made the first post about this I completely forgot that Sparrow Hood is a guy that exists in EAH, but it's fine, we can pretend he doesn't OR Regina can have twins - Raven and Sparrow are names that go so well together, after all! And the prospect is hysterical! Surely nothing could go wrong with those two in the same nursery!!!!!)

Ruby and Dorothy were implied to do some travelling together in the show, right? Maybe they could find the remains of a wolf pack like that of Ruby's mother, except all that's left is VERY mistrustful wolfblood young sisters Ramona and Cerise in severe need for adult intervention. Time for Red Kansas to become chaos moms and break some walls the girls have built, I guess

if Jefferson already has one daughter, there is no reason why he couldn't have TWO daughters! Enter Madeline/Maddie, AKA Grace's mad (honorific) little sis

Cinderella is already called Ashley in OUAT so I'd be loath to keep her daughter as Ashlynn but...Lynney? Lynette? Something? Anyway, a glorified Alexandra LMAO same for Hunter, though - for one, where would Graham get a son, and for two, would he name that son Hunter? Nope. Definitely not. Needs workshopping

other kids I have floating around are Briar (but Aurora is already pregnant in canon so whatever that's easy), Crystal (technically as the daughter of the Snow Queen she should come from Elsa or Ingrid's line, but that doesn't sound likely...maybe Anna and Kristoff instead?), Alistair Wonderland (probably Alice and Cyrus' offspring, but that would mean not interacting much with the rest of the crew), Lizzie Hearts (Cora has no right to a third daughter, so what's the closest thing to the Queen of Hearts? Anastasia the Red Queen? Idk??????) etc etc

and now the actual protagonist in my heart, Cedar Booth Wood

so because of Jojo's intervention, her backstory is established as such: she's the result of one of August's pre-canon flings that ends up in Storybrooke when she's quite young. That narrows the window of time where she could have been conceived before her dad was either wooden/a third grader/being a whole dumbass, but I wanted her to be about the same age as her friends and that means keeping her at about 5yo upon her arrival (timelines are wonky because OUAT's timeline IS wonky, but hardly anybody will even read so far, so ssssssh)

August is her nearest relation available, so that's why he gets a handful of child so suddenly. He is...a bit in shock, but he ends up loving her once the surprise wears off. Marco is OVER THE MOON because it's free granddaughter. Archie is just begging that at least ONE member of their family has a kid in a plain, normal way at some point in the future

then the angst kicks in because it turns out daddy's enchanted tree genes are just a little too strong and they resurface quite vehemently once Cedar steps foot in Storybrooke. Maybe she starts turning into wood, or has an averse reaction to lies, or both, I don't know I'd love it to be both, but I'm scared that I will get yelled at for torturing this child any further

the central point is - I was discussing this topic with @bewilderedmoth the other night and she had a STRONG hand in helping me reach the conclusion that a) this is probably the Blue Fairy's fault, so fuck her b) since Cedar is so young in this AU not only would August be desperate that she gets...cured? Un-cursed? Something, but he'd also realize that...shit. He wasn't much older than her when he got thrown into his personal hellscape. That's fucked up. Who thought it could be a healthy learning experience (see point a)? Unhand his kiddo RIGHT NOW or so help him

finally, this unreasonably funny concept from yours truly, to send you off on a lighter note

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Alrighty so Vivi's not with Sabo, she's not with the Revolutionaries, and she didn't magically end up back with the Straw Hats (and she would have at this point since it's been weeks since Reverie ended).

So, I'm guessing she's a prisoner at Mary Geoise at this point. I don't want to think it, but I don't know where else she could be.

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SWANFIRE MONTH DAY 15:

"Tallahassee" or "Manhattan"?

Look, don't get me wrong, I love the adorable meet cute they had in Tallahassee, but Manhattan just has so much good stuff in it. Meeting again after 10 years, Emma's phone call with Snow, David's iconic line about Thanksgiving sucking because the family tree is a clusterfuck, Gold confronting Emma because he knows she's lying, Henry and Neal finding out they're father and son. Their scene on the fire escape.

But my favorite scene is when Neal works up the courage to defend Emma from Gold, even if it means seeing him after 300 years, and still being angry at him and scared of magic.

This episode is just *chef's kiss* in every way.

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MAN.

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[illithiddreams]

Me: I love OUAT so much I should make a muse from it.

Also Me: >_> *Glances at Oogs and knows about magic trees in canon and shit being portals.* Fuck it you are now OUAT verse now as well

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I'm rewatching ouat in french to practice my language skills and oh my god is this show way worse than i remember.

Back when i was watching it when i was 15 so much stuff didn't exactly register as abuse or as domestic violence/consent issues etc and now as an adult I'm like oh!!! Oh no!!!

sweet jesus lm on the verge of writing e an essay about the ways this show was both deeply disturbing and a prime example of the problems with manufactured faux girl boss 2010s feminism. Its literally words not actions. yeah our female characters will have a SWORD and cool powers but they keep going back to their abusers and consistently blur the lines between love and abuse. We can excuse literally anything as long as people can get a magic kiss out of a relationship, even torture. (true loves kiss is a disney thing not necessarily an actual fairytale thing did anyone past season 2 do any research into folklore or did they just watch the disney back catalogue?)

There are so many bloody excellent fairytales out there re angela carters book of fairytales, jack zipes red riding hood and other french fairytales, anything by marina warner etc, but they just switch to rehashing disney tropey bollocks that doesn't work with suspension of disbelief when you have actual great actors saying the nonsense about the mcguffin of the weak and unicorns giving people vision and playing it completely straight, when that kind of dialogue and storyline only works when there's cartoon dancing rabbits and princesses with magic hair and singing lions. It just comes across as silly and where it fails as opposed to buffy is that buffy realises that its a bit ridiculous and LEANS IN and isnt afraid to crack jokes at its own expense regularly and not take itself so goddamn seriously.

And yet! And yet i have an emotional attachment to these characters and can't help but have ideas for how things could have been done better if the writers hadn't taken to choosing plot points by spinning a wheel of soap opera cliches and seeing which one they land on. I genuinely love these characters and I wish the show had managed to not lose the plot and instead became nore akin to buffy with the monster of the week/ mystery of the week/slice of life but with magic story format. Every episode after season one feels like it was written by someone who had a drunk friend summarise the previous episode but hadn't actually watched it themselves, yet it takes itself wayyyy to seriously.

All in all perfect show for me to annoy my best friend with when we have our drunk movie nights, i can't wait for her to watch the new york episode where you realise the family tree is more of a wreath. We need to talk more about how fucked up the media we grew up with was, not to cancel it or to say it was worthless but so that we can deconstruct the weird messages we recieved growing up and realise how it influenced our world view so hopefully we can unlearn some of this shit and do better.

Also #swanqueen.

Regina deserved better... 🥺😢😭

[phoebehalliwell]

i was doing the math (cause i'm a nerd like that) and in 2001, Paige would have only been 23 in Paige From the Past. Her parents died 8 years earlier, so she was 15 at the oldest. and she says she got into college based off test scores and essay, so no time to redo classes, meaning she was at the end of her senior year of HS. What I'm rambling toward is that wild-child Phoebe, only 2 years older, could have been one of Paige's partying buddies in high school.

lksjfdkfsd that’d be like!!!it’d be like you know like one of those heroic origins esque episodes which actually they did already do in canon with piper and leo in pre witched which i thought was like sorta just like weird and didn’t quite make sense and this one probably would have been like a lot more reasonable bc like it make sense for both paige and phoebe to be oot and aboot whereas like why would leo be walking down the street of the halliwell manor if he didn’t know shit why would he orb out immediately afterward i don’t get it but like. picture it. a riff on the hyde school reunion episode where instead of doing the not good episode of hyde school reunion they do idk something else lemme think. while i’m thinking lemme just say like as a fun fact this ask did make me realize paige did grow up in sf simply because she went to berkeley my brain decided she must have grown up in the east bay which like. she didn’t. i don’t think. okay so back to like phoebe and paige meeting in high school. i feel like it’s gotta be like. like a whoever fuckin knows episode of once upon a time where it’s like we know how prince charming and snow white met for the first time she robbed him yeah that’s all good & great (i’m still so pissed they altered that meeting when time traveling like genuinely what the fuck i’m so angry) but psych! that was not the first time they met they actually secretly bet when idk charming broke her out of a box or something i really tuned out in the later seasons but the point was right then and there there was that magic little spark that was when two true lovers meet and it like made a tree bc this is ouat so of course it did but something like that where it’s like. something occurred when paige and phoebe first met. and they must go back to that place. so they’re like oh word girls trip to the mausoleum ig where phoebe shook hands with paige and had a doozy of a premonition and they go there and nothing happens or they don’t find the thing they’re looking for and paige is like what if they didn’t mean go back to the location but rather like. go back to the time. and phoebe’s like ohhh like to the moment we first met. okay okay we can to that we’ll write a spell. a spell to take us back to the day we first met. so like okay they like cast a lil spell and bada bing bada boom now they’re both high schoolers and they’re like !!! and they’re in their respective homes or right schools or whatever and oh my god this is so wrong i need to find my sister something went wrong some wires must have gotten crossed but how could this have happened where do i find her no wait if i know anything it’s that everything happens for a reason so i have to follow this day blah blah blah they point is they meet at some party and then it’s just like two teenage girls with choppy bangs and raccoon eyes trying to save the world while also a leeetle bit tipsy on wine coolers.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

top 5 ouat moments? i've only seen a few eps but everything i've heard about the show is wild so i'm curious

jesus christ let's go

first and foremost I would be absolutely refuckingmiss if I didn't talk about Emma and stupid fucking eyeliner Captain Hook absolutely sucking face in the goddamn cursed jungles of Neverland while an absolutely demonic Peter Pan was skittering around abducting children. absolutely insane payoff to that sexual tension. this woman's annoying 12 (???) year old has been abducted by his own shit-eating immortal great-grandfather and she has this absolute mess of a wet one-handed man dragging himself after her in 700 pounds of leather rambling about how he's in love with her because they have the same abandonment issues... and he was right. she truly said fuck it I will climb this particular leather-bound tree don't mind if I do. this might as well happen. most desperate make out ever aired on a network that doesn't allow kissing with tongue. goth kings do not despair there is a jock gf out there for you and if you go on enough stupid little adventures together she WILL want to peg you.

do you guys remember when Belle went off on an adventure by herself for a episode and she had the absolute KICKIEST little leather booty shorts outfit you ever did see? god. a fashion icon. and then she met this flamboyant CGI Lumiere which absolutely no goddamn sense because he wasn't even, like, IN the Beast's castle because the Beast was just Rumplestiltskin and he had a completely different deal but OUAT was only kept alive through the goodwill of terminally unhinged Disney adults so they had to pepper in little movie references no matter how misplaced and inexplicable they were? okay good now that we've layed the groundwork for that one let's talk about this:

when Elsa and the cast of Frozen showed up as major supporting characters for an entire arc in goddamn live action LESS THAN A YEAR after the movie came out. hello??? HELLO??? unhinged. also very funny how the show played exactly as fast and loose with Frozen as they did with all the older Disney fare up to and including introducing Elsa's Evil Ice Aunt Who No One Ever Mentioned Even Though She Has The Same Goddamn Powers Don't Worry About It.

okay sorry I've sat on this long enough but we simply MUST discuss that a not insignificant chunk of Rumpelstiltskin's backstory is that his wife left him for Captain Hook. and then however many decades later (like every fairy tale character in this show was 500 years old because of *magic* and no one talked about it) Captain Hook came back and. god you guys are not going to believe this. he came back, still the exact same age, and he cucked Rumplestiltskin's son (WHOMST HE ALSO MET AS A CHILD) with tremendous success. please see point #1 again. if you need a reminder. this is so funny and I will genuinely never get over it. this show is nothing but convoluted connections between public domain characters but that is by FAR the most insane. Henry better watch his fucking back when he grows up because this patrilineal is evidently cursed with Getting Cucked By Captain Hook Disease. "Makenzie that's crazy what are the odds it would happen a third time" WHAT ARE THE ODDS IT WOULD HAPPEN TWICE. of all the women you could have fallen gobsmackingly stupid in love with. it was your stepson's baby mama. idiot.

the final season finally coughing up some canon gay rep in its death throes but instead of getting a really popular existing ship like Mulan/Sleeping Beauty together or canonizing a beloved Disney character common headcanoned as queer like the aforementioned Elsa they decided to get Little Red Riding Hood together with never-before-seen Dorothy Wizardofoz in a 5 second scene that was disrespectful to Mulan, Aurora, the audience, and Dorothy's book gf Ozma.

and I'm like barely even scratching the surface here. OUAT is insane. a pre-MCU-fame Sebastian Stan is there for a few episodes. Star Wars is canon. there's an alternate universe based on classic horror instead of fairy tales and everything is black and white there. Christian Gray is a pretty significant character in season 1. Rapunzel showed up like three different times and was a a completely different character each time. Maleficent and Zorro had sex. Emma Stone wishes her Cruella had a SLIVER of what Victoria Smurfit was bringing to the role.

[swanqueensalad]

favorite sq moment/scene per season?? :)

addyyy you're gonna kill me by making me choose just one!! but i will try.

season one -

i know this is slightly rogue when there is so. much. eye. sex. to consider, but something about the whole sequence in the hospital in the finale where they're both totally vulnerable and transparent with each other because despite curses and destinies when it comes to henry they have to work together? stunning. (also the fucking porn opening scene with emma and the chainsaw and the apple tree, emma saving regina from the fire, regina's wet dream about emma choking her lol)

season two -

there is TOO MUCH. but i have to go with the scene in the mine in the finale. regina crying and begging emma to let her die as herself and not the evil queen because she knows she will understand? emma refusing to let her die and awakening their shared magic for the first time to save everyone they care about together? 'maybe you're not strong enough but maybe we are' ahjdifdsjkfij *chefs kiss* poetic cinema and epic romance at it's finest.

(that said, everything about the cricket game and emma's promise to henry to protect regina after the curse breaks)

season three -

regina and emma crying and holding hands at the town line, torn apart just when they're on the verge of something, regina giving her the life she always wanted for herself with henry... there's just so much Emotion to unpack and i aaaa

but also i love everything about their lil stakeout hunting zelena in 3B and emma trying to comfort her about henry.

season four -

TOO MUCH CHOICE! the obvious winner is emma sacrificing herself and becoming the dark one for regina. but also emma standing outside regina's door and vowing to fight for her happiness, regina talking emma down from going dark and admitting that she needs her... it's all so good.

this was The season of protective!emma and I was living for all of it

season five -

it's a tie between two obvious choices: that incredibly fraught and emotional argument on regina's porch in dreamcatcher which made the c$ers believe, and the scene at the well in camelot where regina uses the dagger to beg emma to tell her why she's holding onto the darkness (read: begging emma to admit she loves her). regina is really breaking her own heart right there and you can literally feel the sheer force of emma's repression and it just does something to me, man

season six -

i've said it before & i'll say it again, emma waking herself up from the wishverse, breaking the curse and remembering who she is HERSELF because even in that cursed state something in her knows beyond all else that she has to save regina mills - i. and the whole conversation after where regina is so stunned that she saved her, and emma's like 'well you came here to save me so it's only fair' and it's like every little unsaid thing in their whole relationship is there between them. i just. ugh. they really had everything

season seven -

ok so i don't rly count seven as a proper season, but we must never forget that ouat ends with snow crowning regina the good queen and regina is visibly upset and distracted by the fact emma isn't there, and then emma bursts in with that smile and regina just melts and that's the canon happy ending of once upon a time. so.

[celticheartedfangirl]

Myt OUAT Rewatch -- S5E2 -- The Price

Link to Rewatch Review and Ranking archive

Oh lord, where to start . . . . . . 

First of all . . . . . before I start ranting and raving . . . I wanted to see what October 2015 me had to say about this one.  

October 2015 me did not disappoint:

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/130512900352/five-minutes-in-and-we-get-a-vomit-inducing-cs

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/130516425397/no-im-not-okay-with-a-belle-and-hook-friendship

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/130514211257/true-loves-kiss-didnt-work-for-rumbelle-because

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/130522910052/i-honestly-dont-care-that-belle-is-around-hook-i

Aaaaand me being psychic in S5:  https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/130494327872/really-dont-understand-the-influx-of-people

Snark and sass under the cut -- I am not impressed, I am not pleased, and this is only EPISODE TWO . . . . 

Also this is one of the only gifs I could find when searching “ouat 5x02″ for gifs that didn’t include the fucking pirate even though there was some awesome Swan Queen stuff in this one . . . . THAT in itself, all the CS schmoopy gifs, is getting to be irksome.

So to sum up . . . . . 

Dopey is a tree (was this ever explained as to WHY?  Cause I’m thinking no.)

Emma is traipsing around in a lily white dress and mooning over Hook like a teenager, there was one scene where I was literally about to gag over it with the Stepford Wife look on her face.  This one:

Sorry but if I have to see this crap, so do you.  Jeezus, how old is she, twelve?  

The above gif is also applicable to this:

Belle and Hook are now drinking buddies and I am NOT AMUSED

Never forgive, never forget.  Would you hang out at the bar with the guy who did this shit to you?

Regina goes to yell at coma Rumple and that scene . . . . BOTHERS ME.  No, not bothers . . . . . it flat out PISSES ME OFF.  It is a terrible scene, it shouldn’t have been written, it shouldn’t exist AT ALL, and I wish it would die in a fucking fire.  But hey, THAT gets in the episode, yet they delete the scenes of Belle talking to coma Rumple.  Don’t get me started . . . . . . 

Also this episode just flat out RETCONS Rumbelle by having Belle say that Rumple chose power over her when she first kissed him in Skin Deep.

But we’ve known that this is what A&E WANTED it to be, so they said it out loud in canon to make it so.  I hate them.  

So there’s all of that.

Good stuff?

The Swan Queen --- Regina using the dagger . . . 

Regina:  You should thank me.

Emma: Thank you.

Damn, these two have SO MUCH MORE chemistry than either of them do with their respective #nohomo boyfriends.  

What else?   Um . . . . Roland was on?  Regina magically shut Zelena up? That’s all I got.

This is gonna be a long season.

Points tally:

40 points to start

5 points for Swan Queen

5 points deducted for Hook

Only 1 point off for Zelena since Regina shut her up early on

10 points deducted for the Hook and Belle shit, GTFO

Sorry, but I gotta take away 25 for that Regina yelling at Rumple scene alone.  That scene pissed me off. Not cool and I’m gonna be petty and pissy about it and I’m stunned it was not a big point of contention at the time because it has ALWAYS ALWAYS BOTHERED ME. 

Will add 10 points extra for the Swan Queen dagger banter though.

Total points:  14

Follow #celtichearted OUAT ranking tag for more to come!

[seven-oomen]

I’m sorry you’re still feeling exhausted.  I hope work wasn’t too terrible today, and that the weekend lets you rest up a bit (if you get normal weekends.  working in retail I try not to assume.)  Also, this is likely to just be a short(-ish) collection of unconnected musings, but I felt like sharing them anyway, and really you should be used to that from me at this point.  XD  So, first off that tree painting is GORGEOUS.  I mean, I tend to be kinda partial to that whole tree silhouette type aesthetic, so I’m probably slightly biased.  But still.  (And the background shading… <3 )  Also, ngl, the backlit keyboard keeps making me think of that video of Henry Cavill assembling his new computer that’s making the rounds.  That is not meant as a complaint of any sort, mind you, merely an observation.

Speaking of hot scruffy dudes who are actually massive dorks, did you SEE Ian’s most recent Insta pic?!  (the non-cowboy hat one)  Omg, I don’t know why he keeps complaining about how it’s starting to look like TW Season One hair like it’s some sort of bad thing.  (The longer the hair, the better the grip you can get. […uh…wait, what?… ’>.> ])  That pic just screams OUAT sequel to me.  Out here looking all shaggy and windblown and peaceful and content.  Proud Alpha Dad Peter spending quality time with his family/pack.  How very dare he spring this on an unsuspecting public with no warning?  I was not prepared.  (Also, Sinqua and Holland commenting on it just ups the adorable factor that much more.)

Also, was looking at a few sites lately in consideration of ordering a few more masks for work, found this print on one of them and almost laughed myself absolutely stupid.  I don’t know why it was just so funny to me, but I hope it cheers you as much as it did me.  Btw, it’s available on an impressive variety of items, including two types of notebooks, t-shirts, mugs, blankets, pillows, beach towels, shower curtains, rugs, bath mats, several styles of bags, phone cases, and assorted types of wall art (sadly not on a mask, however.  I was deeply disappointed.)  I can see any number of items ending up in the Haleargentski household, bought by assorted non-wolf members for assorted wolf members, because they are a family of assholes.  (I feel like the first gift was a travel mug to Peter from his darling husbands, then a t-shirt [on black ofc] from Peter to Derek, and then it just all snowballed from there.)

Today’s literally-just-appeared-out-of-nowhere-wtf-brain thought is (much like the French maid thing) definitely of the nsfw variety, so consider yourself duly warned if you have a shift today.  Because I mean we talked about Chris and Noah using toys on each other, but why should Peter get left out of the fun?  There are plenty of ways for him to enjoy them, too.  Like, pretty much the initial spontaneous thought was “Peter getting pulled into someone’s lap and being pegged within an inch of his life until he comes screaming down the throat of whichever one is going down on him at the same time."  And I was just like "not sure what this has to do with this video of how to make a ukelele out of colored pencils, but continue."  But like, no really.  Peter being knotted in one of them while the other uses beads or a (vibrating) plug on him?  (Which one is the asshole who momentarily turns the vibration up high enough that they BOTH can feel it?)  Or using those, or some kind of prostate massager, while he’s tied up and watching them with each other?  Bonus points in that situation for anything remote controlled.  See just how good his control really is.  Equal opportunity toy usage is what I’m saying, basically.

Also had a thought inspired by a pregnant friend and her fiance raving about a local pizza place’s monthly special, which is a pickle pizza (no really).  I may or may not have asked her if she had it with ice cream (I totally did, but apparently she’s past that point.)  So I was wondering about any weird or specific cravings the boys have while pregnant.  I remember Chris having a thing about chocolate pudding in the flashbacks.  Was it only a certain type of pudding, or would any kind do?  Were there any others he had?  Did he have the same ones with Ben or different?  What about Noah?  What sort of cravings did he get, if any?  And did they vary between sets of twins?  Did anybody go the aforementioned pickles and ice cream route?  Anybody dipping fries in Nutella?  Onion straws in peanut butter?  Doritos in cottage cheese?  Anybody eat salsa straight out of the jar?  Did anybody get any sudden absolute need for a specific fast food at two in the morning?  Or suddenly want a type of snack food only carried at one truck stop halfway past the next town?  Anybody spend several days eating nothing but veggie trays, including ones they normally can’t stand?  Anybody develop a temporary aversion to certain things, like coffee (feels like it would be a terrible thing for either of them)?  Did Peter cater to their every whim in any and all of these situations?  (I already know that answer.)  Did either one ever get demanding about it, or did they go the more passively-wistful-won’t-stop-mentioning-it route?  Side note; did anyone (not family) ever catch the wrong end of hormones now backed by even more combat and/or magical ability?  (Debbie at the bake sale best step off or she gonna regret a number of her life choices.)

Uh…I think that was the last of the random swirling questions/musings/headcanons for now…  I hope you feel a bit better today, and that the time off (I think you mentioned some time off?) is helpful.  Enjoy your time with your friend (that was this weekend, right?).  If you’ve got ideas for writing stuff, but are having trouble getting them down, would making quick notes/reminders, or voice recordings, for later help?  Like, so you don’t worry about losing them, but aren’t forcing yourself to do something you don’t feel up for at the time?  Either way, congrats on keeping up with the journaling (and the pretty, pretty art), and I hope tracking everything proves helpful.  And remember, other people’s bullshit issues and hang-ups are in no way your fault (no matter what they try to tell you), and you deserve all the good things.  Take care!  *Hugs to both of you!* 

Yeah, honestly I think I hit that point in my life again where my battery is drained and I can’t restart it. Which is how I got my burn out at first and working towards another one. Heh but I also don’t want to give up now and just keep working for a little longer because my contract expires at the end of September and yeah.. 

Stress.

Aww gosh thank you, yeah I really like how that one turned out! It was better than expected.

Btw if you’re into Zombie apocalypse stories (I am) you should definitely check out The girl with all the gifts. It’s so brutal but also interesting, I definitely enjoyed that. (And it was research for my own book)

Lol I love this keyboard and this laptop, really, it was the most expensive thing I ever bought but it’s so worth it. Still runs super smooth after 2 years. I don’t think I’ve seen that video of Henry though. 

And omg yes I did and it’s the best thing. he looks so SOFT omg. I def got  OUAT S2 vibes from that. And OUAT vibes. Also that pic of him with Colton, omg. Those were the best!

THAT PRINT!!!! I nearly snorted coffee out of my nose this morning but managed to swallow it down just in time. My work computer would have suffered caffeine damage otherwise XD.

But yeah, that becomes a running gag for sure!

Because I mean we talked about Chris and Noah using toys on each other, but why should Peter get left out of the fun?  There are plenty of ways for him to enjoy them, too.  Like, pretty much the initial spontaneous thought was “Peter getting pulled into someone’s lap and being pegged within an inch of his life until he comes screaming down the throat of whichever one is going down on him at the same time."

*cheff’s kiss* 

Yes.

Oh the images are so good. Remind me to write them out in detail tomorrow after the zoo trip.

Also parking the pregnancy cravings to answer tomorrow since it’s past midnight and I should catch some sleep before I need to be up again. But I will definitely type that HC out.

Side note; did anyone (not family) ever catch the wrong end of hormones now backed by even more combat and/or magical ability?  (Debbie at the bake sale best step off or she gonna regret a number of her life choices.)

Ohhh Debbie’s toast. Because yes, Noah’s magic is that much stronger when it’s fueled by pregnancy hormones and Chris turns into a very protective hormonal fighting machine. Low center of gravity has advantages when you’re in a squabble with the Karens.

And yeah, I have four days off right now. Which means I don’t have to work until Thursday again. Which is awesome!

But yeah work wasn’t too bad, I had to do one bad news conversation which fucking sucked since there was nothing I could do and nobody I could get a hold off to fix the problem for that customer and it was just a waiting game. I hate those conversations. I honestly do.

Most of it was quiet though and I got to leave an hour earlier due to the quiet day. So that was good. And I watched a movie while being paid (The girl with all the gifts) so that was pretty fun too XD

I actually voice record a lot already. I find it really helps with clearing my mind and I write a lot of stuff down. But I appreciate the tip!

Lots of cuddles from me and Mo and I hope your day went by well. <3

[courtorderedcake]

Untitled, Double Dark Ones drabble

Found in my "WIP - untitled" folder.

Blame this completely on @thisonesatellite who had me searching for my illusive prompt list, or billions of things that I will never write.

No beta, so no better than my usual junk.

Rated M, for gore, multi character death, OUAT forgiveness of everything, a mention of sex, and whump. Would you like fries with that?

Tagging whump machines.

@hollyethecurious @doodlelolly0910 @sherlockianwhovian @killian-whump @artistic-writer

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Neither of them can destroy the other, without ending their own selfish needs as well. It frustrated both of them, but both of them are happy to use each other in the less contentious moments.

So, the games of torment, of pure hatred that true love bore, carnal needs satisfied in brutal couplings just to forget the names of so many who have died in their war. To drown out the darkness, it's voice no longer the crocodile or Nimue, but their own.

His strikes have an easier grace to them, maybe because he's simply been so deep in revenge before, his teeth and claws easier to sharpen. The Darkness was an old friend made captain.

She does not take to it easily, fighting their purported nature. The Dark Swan cried when he held her Father by the neck, and begged for his life when he bled slowly to death from nightshade. The man had stabbed him. Stabbed the Dark one. Revenge was the expected outcome. A pity that her mother, the queen, had gotten in the way. Respect was difficult to earn without some bloodshed.

Even if part of him dies with David, and another as he watches Snow struggle towards her family. Snow held her husband's body, and Emma both, forgiveness on her lips for the Dark One and her daughter.

“Emma… Don't give in. Don't do it. It isn't him. Fight for your true love.”

Last words whispered to two beings that could never feel anything again. Or, that's what was easier to pretend, at least.

Killian can only watch, the Darkness bemused as Emma ran, fled to lick her wounds until their next encounter. As she steeped in revenge. It doesn't take long.

She burned the harbor, burned his sanctuary and every vessel seaside for miles, the sea a blanket of fire. The fire burned his trunk, the home of every piece of Liam and Milah he'd replaced with Emma's pretty face.

He razed The Enchanted Forest as her subjects flee in terror, and only stops when it's her boy, her son, he's almost burning to death. Her adopted son, the darkness tried to taunt, but her son and the boy Killian returned to raise. Henry's eyes barely recognize him, and Killian feels the recoil, the man who saw this boy as close to his own son surfacing in haste.

Emma doesn't show emotion in her eyes, the tilt of her shoulders, or hard won smile anymore. The surprise on her face is an arched eyebrow, a look of resigned relief, a little give in the tight lines and angles that she is as this dark queen.

“Thank you.” She whispered softly, Henry resting with a doctor. Handing him a glass, she sat by the fire with her own goblet resting on the black of her dress. The distance is purposeful, her pensive frown in it's crimson color like the red of forbidden fruit.

“If that's all his life means to you,” He swaggered towards her, throwing back his drink. “or is another form of gratitude in order?”

Their kisses are frantic and so is their fucking, peace restored for another set of years until the next wars. It's an uneasy truce and forgiveness in quarters that doesn't come without quarrel. It is something.

They watch the world move by, the same mistakes made with or without their touch.

They took no part in the attacks themselves, instead wreaking havoc and sowing mischief in small ways, changing the odds of battle and tipping the scales of fate.

They forget in the terrible lull of almost humanity that magic always comes with a price.

The war spread, closer and closer, until the sea burnt and shipwrecks littered the shoals and shores. It crawled at first then dug in its claws to sprint, blood shed like brush fire. One of Killian’s men made mad with his own strength, pulled his sword from King Henry's chest, Queen Jacinda and the princess slaughtered in the siege.

Emma did not run. She raged, burned as bright as a second sun. The war is over in a blast that is indiscriminate in its destruction, but this is not enough, and the Dark Swan is not nearly done. Killian, the Dark One, knew true pain and true fear for the first time as Emma destroyed him and put him back together again. The darkness in him echoed his own screams, and they are turned inside out, burnt, frozen, tortured in new ways that only another with darkness inside them could create.

In a sudden moment of weakness, Emma shrieked to the skies; they are unable to die, she cannot join her family, she cannot disappear, cannot escape her thoughts.

Killian understood.

Killian ran, for her sake, across the ruined world. Another chase, a hunt that kills both prey and predator. As the years pass, the few people remaining rebuild, trees grow, plants sprout from scorched earth, green returning to a world of charcoal and embers.

Killian studied the old texts, any that are left, and continued to flee from Emma's grasp. They danced around each other, ships in the night passing ever closer. There are times when the attempts were sloppy, as if she's bored, and others where he can see the fire behind glassy eyes. Her attacks were precise and her accuracy frightening. Killian licked his wounds after barely escaping more than a few times.

They both wondered what they will do if Emma does manage to capture him again.

She appeared, eyes full of that flame, and this time Killian was ready with determination of his own. Emma was brutal, speed and hatred, tears streaking across her cheeks as she lept toward him.

It doesn't matter what she does to him.

Killian managed to hit her on the neck, and her surprise echoed through the woods. They are right where he has planned, the clearing full of pink flowers that sway in the breeze, that make the blood coming from her neck look dark against their brightness. Wine on blush lips, deep crimson on soft petals.

Clutching her neck, Emma stumbled toward him, and he caught her with the same grace that they danced with all this time. The sword was thrown aside as he lays her down, carefully, holding her delicately as she looks at him with sad adoration.

“I'm sorry.” The gurgled whisper startled him, but Killian laughed gently at her, finally pushing her hair away from her face to see her eyes. There's no more anger held there, only the tiniest flicker of hope. “Killian, I -”

“Hush, love.” Stroking her cheek soothingly, Emma reached to touch his hair, tracing the lines of his face, gently skimming over his scar. When she rested her thumb on his lips his own tears started to fall. His hand gripped the pommel of the discarded sword. “It's not going to hurt you, is it?” his words are strangled, but Emma made soft noises to quiet him, gently wiping at his eyes.

“If it does, it will only be for a moment. Like ripping off a dressing.” Killian felt himself chuckle despite himself, a sob catching in his throat as he gripped the sword. “Will you…?”

An unspoken question that was understood immediately. He nodded.

“Yes. I'd follow you to the end of the world, or time.” She sighed in contentedness, almost looking as she did when they met.

“Do it.”

Killian leaned forward, letting their foreheads touch. After a moment, he kissed her softly, and pulled away. Gazing into her eyes one more time, he whispered hoarsely into the quiet glade, raising the sword above her chest.

“As you wish, my love.”

Emma was right, her pain lasted only a moment before her face stilled into what looked like a peaceful slumber. Color returned to her, as the darkness was rinsed away by the pallor of eternal rest.

Laying next to her after carefully setting up his rig, Killian interlocked his fingers in the lingering warmth of hers. He looked up at the sword, the darkness in him caged, giving a quiet protest. Looking at Emma, his Emma, before names on swords and swirling ink, he cut the rope with his hook.

The sword burned in his chest, all but forgotten by the blackness that encroached on his view of his love.

The darkness that held him for the last time was different than what dwelled inside him for so long. It was warm, fluid and gentle, guiding him towards something he could not see. Her fingers in his again, Emma pulled him into color and light. There a crowd of people waited who forgot owed apologies, in lieu of welcoming him home.

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@heheals ha respondido a tu publicación: Auguuuuuust!!!!! Pinocchio is back bitches!

for like a whole 5 seconds i thought u were talking abt the month, and i was like, “wow a little late on that, baescale”

hahaha no. i’m just rewatching ouat. august came back to town and i love him bc he was just so mysterious, secretive and you just had no fucking clue where he came from, what was his deal and how tf was he able to come into storybrooke. you find out later on that he’s pinocchio and was supposed to be a guardian to emma in this land without magic but he just ditched her and later regreted it. he looked over emma a few times and made sure she would break the curse. it’s really not as fucked up as henry’s family, let me tell you.

(henry’s adopted mom is the step-mother of snow white, his biological grandmother bc emma is the daughter of snow white and prince charming. henry’s father is the son of rumplestilskin baelfire who was send to the land without magic before everyone else and actually the reason rumplestilskin wanted for someone to make the curse in the first place, so that he could find his son. but neither neal or emma knew about the other so it was a shock when they found each other in nyc in s02 when emma, rumplestilskin and henry went there to find baelfire. august actually broke those two up so that emma could break the curse and baelfire/neal was sent a post card to be told the curse was broken. okay, so rumplestilskin’s wife ditched him when he cowardly injured himself to not fight ogres and she left him with baelfire. instead, she fell in love with killian jones/captain hook. she later died and killian and emma became an item. oh and rumplestilskin’s father is peter pan and his mother was a black fairy who stole rumplestilskin’s son with belle to raise as her own so that he would kill emma. And Regina’s mother is the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland and she had another daughter before Regina/the evil queen, who’s name is Zelena/The Wicked Witch of the West. Regina’s second true love was Robin Hood and at one time Zelena posed as Robin’s wife Marian and they had a baby together. Oh and in the Dream version of the fairy tales, Killian has a daughter with Gothel who’s been posing as Rapunzel and their daughter is Alice in Wonderland and she ends up with Robin/Zelena’s and Robin’s daughter. And Henry ends up marrying his own Cinderella and have a daughter Lucy who’s trying to break the curse of s07. Oh and the Lady Tremaine of s07 is also Rapunzel. There it is, the complicated family tree of Emma Swan and Henry Mills. I might be missing something...)

[13juuzou07-blog]

To Get You (Peter Pan; OUAT)

Notes:

Plz Tell me any grammar/spelling mistake

Sorry it took so long to get out, I wasn’t really clicking with ideas for this one shot 

Lol I’m saying sorry yet no one reads these

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Keys:

Y/N: Your Name

Your P.O.V.

I rub James’s back as I continue singing softly. He’s the newest Lost Boy on the island and is still a bit scared. Of course tonight like every other night he ran out of the tent crying and I had to confront him. After about half an hour I managed to finally get him to fall back to sleep. I carefully crawl into the tent, making sure to avoid the other two boys that share it with James. I lay him down on the soft mattress of grass, leaves and moss before pulling his blanket up to his chin.

Again I carefully weave my way through the boys and back out into the night sky. I roll my ankle and let it crack a few times before standing up. I also make sure to stretch my back out too before heading back to the fire pit where all the older boys are still at. “Y/N!” They all cheer smiling at me before going back to their dancing.

Peter plays his pipe, filling the air with music. It wavers when everyone calls my name but never stops. I smile and start out tapping my foot to the beat of the music. Soon the tapping turns to nodding and lastly it turns into me completely dancing.

My body spins in big and small circles as I dance. The wind blows my hair and the fire warms my ankles as I dance with the boys on the island. I can’t help but let my voice get tangled with the music notes, making up a random song as we dance. Soon the others join in my singing and Peter keeps playing his pipe.

I spin around again, this time hands rest on my hips. They feel nice and warm as the boy’s fingers push into my skin gently. Half of his fingers are rough on my skin and the other half rest on the fabric on my hips. The two of us spin wildly, making it hard to figure out which last boy is dancing with me. Just as I figure out that it’s Kevin, I’m passed on to the next boy. Right away I know this one is Steve from the bright blond hair and how he keeps stepping on my toes. “I-I’m sorry Y/N” He mumbles, spinning us around again.

“It’s okay, Dear.” I tell him, resting my arms on his shoulders. “What do you boys have planed?” I whisper into his ear, having to bend down since he’s a good head or two shorter than me.

He spins me a few more times before answering. “We’re playing a game and now my turn is over.”

I’m about to ask another question when I’m passed back again, this time Felix’s hands rest on my hips as I dance. “What game are you guys playing?” I question, raising an eyebrow at the boy who towers over me.

He smiles down at me with his eyes dancing, a sign that there is trouble brewing. “It’s simple, we each get to twirl  you twenty times and than pass you on. Whoever has you when Pan stops playing gets to kiss you. It’s just a simple game to-”

“Annoy Peter?” I question, giggling as he spins me quickly. He nods a yes and spins me again before passing me on.

By the time the ‘game’ is over I’ve been around the circle thirdy times or so. I’m a dizzy, giggling mess by the time I’ve stopped spinning. Arms are wrapped around me and a head is dipped down waiting for me to gain my senses before kissing me. I’m still smiling when I look up to see blue eyes. “You good Y/N?” Devin asks, moving a piece of hair out of my face. I giggle and shake my head yes.

Again, he leans down and this time he brushes his lips against mine. I kiss him back, expecting it to me a small short kiss but it turns into anything but that. His arms wrap around me tighter and pulls me against him. My hands slide from his shoulders up to his head of thick, brown hair. He lifts me up and I instantly wrap my legs around his waist. The kiss between us gets more heated when Devin slides his tongues between my lips and tangles our tongues together. His chilly hands slide up my shirt and rest on my back, causing a small noise to squeak out of me. The noise causes him to smile and work harder. This causes more noises to slip off my lips and causes me to tug on his locks, making him return my noises.

We part for a moment to catch our breath before going to reconnect. When our lips are about to brush I get pulled away from him and thrown on the dirt. I yelp at the impact, more from surprise than from pain. When I look up I see Pan holding Liam against the tree by his neck. Waves of anger flow of Pan and causes everyone to stop they’re cheering, sending us all into silence as he glares at the boy in his hand. “What do you think you were doing?” He hisses, venom dripping of his tongue.

Devin is unable to answer because of how tight Pan’s hand is gripping his throat. I jump to my feet and try pulling the owner off the island off of the younger boy. “We were just kissing Pan! Let him go!” I cry, tugging on him more but getting little progress. “Please!” I beg as Devin loses more and more color from his face. Tears slide down my face out of fear for the Lost Boy and from the sadness filling me up, knowing that it’s my fault that this happened. “Peter please!” I squeak out between my sobs.

Finally Pan let’s go of Devin who falls to the floor. Instantly I’m on my knees and fussing over him. I rub his back and hold his hand as he gasps for air. His hand clings to mine as he gasps for air. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.” I say over and over again, brushing his hair out of his eyes and kissing his forehead lovingly. I help him stagger to his feet and bring him to his tent. “Are you okay Devin?” I ask, fussing over him more.

“Y/N…. Y/N…… Y/N!” He calls my name before finally yelling to get my attention. “It’s not your fault. Stop apologizing.” He smiles up at me before laying down on his bed. “I’m just going to rest for a bit.”

“Okay” I whisper before walking out of his tent and leaving him be. When I walk out Pan is leaning against the tree nearby. I know from the smirk on his face that he expects me to start a fight but instead I walk right past him without uttering a single word. This causes the chocky boy to frown. I climb the later into Pan’s hut which he has ‘kindly’ shared with me. A.K.A he wants to fuck and he thinks this will help him out.

I slide my day shirt off and replace with a long fuzzy shirt I wear to when it’s cold. I also replace my shorts with pants. “What are you doing?” I already know it’s Pan without having to turn around.

“I’m changing.” I say before grabbing a bag and packing my cool close into it.

Before I know it Pan uses his magic to snatch my bag. “Usually you don’t pack a bag if you’re just ‘changing’” I shrug it off and snatch my bag back, continuing to fill it up with my things. “Are you leaving the camp?” He questions me. I nod yes and throw my bag over my shoulder. “You’re really leaving?”

“Yes Pan.” I mumble, climbing down the ladder.

I hit the ground with a soft puff and look around one more time. I look around the camp one more time. The fire is out and all the lost boys have wandered off to bed. “Are you really going to leave here? Leave the boys? Leave me?”

I snap around and glare at Pan. “Yes I’m leaving the camp. I don’t want to leave the boys but all I seem to do is annoy you causing you to hurt the boys and no I’m not leaving you because I was never yours.” I hiss at the boy in front of me.

“Of course you are. Everything on this island is mine. Plus you can’t leave without me knowing and allowing it.” Pan says back, like I’m dumb or something.

“I’m not an object to be owned! I’ll get off this island with or without you allowing it.” I snap at him before slapping him. I slap him so hard that his head is turned to one side. Unlike usual I turn around and walk away instead of trying to help his injury. I walk away from the camp, my heart getting heavier and heavier with each step.  

After a few weeks I learnt Pan’s schedule so I could come say my last goodbye to my children. Of course it tore all of us apart when I did it but I didn’t really have a choice. Me being here hurt them and me leaving does too. Just one won’t last as long as the other.

Since me leaving and my goodbyes about two months ago, I’ve just been around the island, finding food, water and everything else I need before leaving. I hum myself a soft song as I walk down the beach. Soon I get to where I want to be, Captain Hook’s ship. Hook doesn’t hate me but we don’t trust each other either. Of course we wouldn’t ever have a tea party and not bring our knifes. “Ahoy Captain!” I call, boarding the Jolly Rager.

Instantly swords are pointed at me along with guns and everything else possible. “What do you want?” Hook hisses, walking on the deck, a hangover obvious on his face.

I smile and walk towards him, his crew getting restless the closer I get to him. “Rumor says you have a way off this island.”

He smirks and uses his hook to slide a piece of my hair away. “Rumor says you’re sleeping with the demon boy.”

My jaw clenches and my eyes burn with the fires of anger. “I’m not sleeping with Pan! Honestly I’m pretty sure I’ve slept with all the lost boys of age other than Pan.”

He snickers at me before smirking. “Well then maybe I can get a swing at you.” The crew laughs and Hook grabs my chin and forces me to look at him.

I force my head out of his hands and looks away in disgust. “You are no respectful man which doesn’t make you any better than Pan himself.” This remark upsets Hook, causing him to slap me with his hook. I yelp at the pain and bring my head up to my cheek. Blood oozes from my wound and lands on the ships deck. I chuckle at it and fling my fingers to get my blood off of them. “And to think I came to make you a deal.”

“Why would I make a deal with a dirty Lost Boy?” He questions, a smirk playing on his lips. I smile up at him and lay my hands out, my palms facing up. He lifts his eyebrow and looks at me. “What do you have planned?” He questions me, getting more curious by the minute.

I roll my eyes and wait for another drop of my blood to fall. It slides down and starts falling to the floor. When it passes through my hands it stays put between them. Slowly it starts spinning in a circle, going faster and faster. Soon the bead turns into a thread, and then a lot of combined threads. Different beads break from the threads and mark different points. This continues for a few more moments before stopping.

“What is this?” Mr. Smee asks, looking up at the big net of my blood.

There’s whispers around as The Captain looks at it. “It’s a map.” He mumbles, looking at it more and more intensely.

“What’s the matter captain?” The other man asks, speaking up again.

“I can’t read it” He mumbles, reaching up and touching the edge, my blood staining his finger tips.

“But I can” I let the map fold back up into my drop of blood before continuing. “Pan taught me how to read maps. His maps. Along with that I’ve memorized most of them too.”

“You just need transportation.” Hook says next before I can eat the words out of my mouth. Everyone is silent for a moment before he says. “Write down the map and I’ll take you.”

I snort and make myself float in the air so I can get off my sore feet. “Why? So you can have it and ditch me? Never. Plus you can’t even read his maps and you’re going to need my magic!”

This time Hook is the one to snicker. “You can barely control your magic, Lassie.”

My body stiffens, knowing he’s right. Before I came to the island my parents forced me to ignore my powers and suppress them. When I got on the island Pan taught me a few things like the map trick and how my emotions are apart of my control issues. Of course when he taught me how to control it he didn’t teach me how to use them. He simply taught how to not use my gift in a healthy way. “So?” I mumble, letting my body loosen up.

He crosses his arms and leans down so our eyes are level and his breath hits my face, the whiskey rolling of his tongue as he talks. “So you could just as easily as betray us on purpose as you can on excident.” Before I can stop him, Hook’s regular hand is wrapped up in my hair. He uses my chunk of hair to slam my face against the rail of the ship, causing his whole ship to hoot and howl in the joy of watching the violence unfold in front of them.

Anger and pain fills me up, making sparks of mixed electricity and flames jump from my fingers and into the sky. I try to sort through my emotions and do anything to protect myself, anything at all. Of course it doesn’t work. More and more blood spills down my head and clouds my eyes as my mind gets foggier with my emotions.

All of a sudden my head stops getting smashed and my eyes are clear from any blood. Pain still makes my head spin though so I can’t exactly make out where I am. From all the green I can tell I’m somewhere in the forest and from the faint yells I know I’m not that far away from people. Hands carefully hold my head straight as a soft sizzle sounds fills my ears. Soon my head losses more and more prusare. “Been a long time, Darling.”

An exasperated sigh escapes my lips as I turn to meet the face that I’ve known for as long as I can remember. His hands drop down to his sides as he continues with his statements. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you. You can’t get off this island without me knowing.”

A smirk plays on Pan’s lips as he takes a couple of step towards me. Instantly, almost like its instinct, I step back. He chuckles and steps forward again, causing me to step back and hit the tree behind me. “Why can’t you just leave me alone?” I question, my voice coming out quitter and shakier than I wanted it too.

Pan uses his pointer finger and thumb to force my chin up. His sharp green eyes lock with my orbs. His smirk only gets sicker after he’s done searching my eyes. “If I want you, I’ll do everything to get you.”

The words cause shivers to go down my spin and not in a good way. “Ever think maybe this is why I never have and never will love you?”

He chuckles at  me and pulls be forward roughly by my chin. “In time you will learn to love me.”

The words remind me of a conversation we had a while ago. In time my heart will give up; hence why we have to find the child, My Dear. Stop worrying about the boy and go back out to the fire pit. I remember this conversation because it was the first time Pan had ever called me ‘My Dear’ and the first time he tried to get me in bed, of course it didn’t work. He found me in the hut looking at the picture of the little boy. It has always worried me about Pan taking the boy’s heart but I know Pan needs it too live, for the island to live. I also know that when this boy comes I can use him as a bargaining chip.

I smile sweetly as a plan starts forming in my head. “I guess you’re right, Pan.”

His thumb rubs up my cheek and over my bottom lip as he mumbles “I always am.” Even just the small touch makes me want to throw up but I ignore the urge. Instead I look up at Pan who has his eyes locked on my lips. He leans down and kisses me, sealing my plan into action. “Call me Peter, My Dear.”

“Yes Peter”

[moreauclarabel]

                       ❝ Too much light has come out of my darkness. ❞

LILY COLLINS? No, that’s actually CLARABEL MOREAU. A SIXTH YEAR student, this RAVENCLAW student is sided with THE NEUTRALS. SHE identifies as a CIS-WOMAN and is a PUREBLOOD who is known to be SECRETIVE, ANXIOUS, and INTERNALIZING but also INTELLIGENT, CURIOUS, and OPEN-MINDED. 

CHARACTER INSPO: Nell Crane ( THOHH ), Lexie Grey ( Grey’s Anatomy ), Rory Gilmore ( Gilmore Girls ), Sansa Stark ( ASOIAF ), Belle French ( OUAT ), Elsa ( Frozen ), Pepper Potts ( MCU )

TRIGGERS ( all tagged ): abuse, neglect, depression, anxiety, panic attacks

– –  the moreau family were purebloods with an extremely long and prolific lineage in france - blood supremacists to the core, they were extremists since god was a boy. but, for the most part, until the last 75 years or so, they stayed out of shit. they kept their lineage pure, they instilled elitist beliefs in their children, they disowned family members who went off the beaten path and that was that. they stayed in france, they stayed with their own, they expanded when they needed to through marriage and having children, but until the start of of the rise of voldemort ( grindlewald certainly shook them up, though ), they didn’t involve themselves. 

– –  séraphine moreau neé travers married into the family and wanted more -- why didn’t they involve themselves? why didn’t they want more? why didn’t they involve themselves? so insulated? as a travers, their family had a history within voldemort’s circle, why didn’t all purebloods aspire for the same? it was a shame, marc andré was relentlessly pushed and coerced by his wife to dedicate himself to the cause during the second wizarding war. they struggled to have children, so she thought, if we can’t have children, maybe just maybe we can have power. the moreau line dropped one by one during the second wizarding war due to this hastiness --  séraphine was brilliant at convincing them of her agenda, but she really was blinded by pure and unadulterated anger & hatred -- especially because she couldn’t fufill her duty as a wife. 

tbh though she always wanted power, she never wanted to be a mother or a fucking wife but like! she was! she was aware that was her place but she was also raised to be smart, disciplined, ruthless, hardworking. the moreau’s might’ve wanted her to take more of a backseat -- at first -- but when they realized she needed room to prove herself to them as a person and not just an object, they decided to give it to her. what did they have to lose?

– – more money ( mo problems ), more everything was poured into the war, they were SURE they were going to win. they were sure they were going to come out of this winning. they didn’t. when the aurors came for marc andré and séraphine, séraphine cleverly played on her fragility, both of them plead the imperius. with marc’s family’s record of staying away from shit -- they got off. it was the year 2000, the moreau family’s prestige deteriorated quite a bit, séra tried to hold onto the crumbling empire that was gone -- she was fucking angry. she had no child, no legacy, they had to rebuild their reputation, they had to do work that she frankly didn’t think they should’ve had to do. as far as she was concerned -- the whole wizarding world were the mad ones for accepting muggleborns and those without pure blood. but she knew she had to lay low. marc followed her lead for the six years until they finally, FINALLY, got pregnant with clara. 

– – she was it. their child was it. their child, they hoped they’d be a boy, would be their key into the good graces of society again -- and many in society were happy for the moreau’s, don’t get it wrong. they might’ve lost some prestige and some status, but they had more years of being jewels of society than being pitied under their belt. their child, their boy would carry on the legacy, the last moreau, he’d be their ticket into everyone’s shining graces again. 

this was clarabel’s first mistake. she was not born a boy. marc was happy though, he fell in love with clarabel the minute she was born, he loved her but séraphine? angry. she felt the same feeling of failure that she had after their side lost during the wizarding war. still, clarabel séraphina would have to make due. 

– – they knew something was off when her bouts of accidental magic were extremely frequent. first, they passed it off as if clara was a show off, as if it was a party trick at events, when guests came over in their townhome in paris. but clara was a very poised, an otherwise controlled, soft spoken child -- it was hard to imagine she’d show off. in fact, they took note of how clara’s nature was just extremely soft. séra didn’t understand it, she must’ve gotten it from her weak father. you coddle her too much, you give her too much attention. too much love. this didn’t effect clara as much until she was older and they realized that this problem, this party trick was not going away. this was a problem. she was a problem. 

to them it wouldn’t have been such a problem if clara could use this excess magic to hurt people, to maim them instead of creating flowers, to do terrible jinxes instead of sprouting butterflies or some really warm, good, light shit. to them, their daughter was a monster for not being monstrous like them, for not being ruthless, for being so soft. 

– –  [ ABUSE, NEGLECT TW ] the neglect, the abuse, while it was definitely a thing while clara was growing up got worse after her 11th birthday. they had enough then, séra at least, had had enough. there was not a day that went by that clara was not chastised, yelled at & put down by her mother. then neglected and not given attention by her father. her father, who was once so loving and caring, that love was rescinded. [ END OF TWs ] clara struggled to understand any of it. she knew that it was because she couldn’t control her magic, sure, pouring herself into books and anything she could to learn how. sure, she knew it was because she was and always had been a disappointment, sure, she had every reason to hate & be terrified of herself ( and deep down, she did, she was ), but she didn’t understand. she didn’t get it. it never clicked the way her magic did. this magic made her feel so good, it made her feel free, the lack of control, feeling that came from it made her elated and here her parents, the people who were supposed to love her most, hated it & her by proxy? what else did they hate that they didn’t understand? what else did they hate that just didn’t make sense?

it was why clara would never completely give in and believe wholeheartedly in blood supremacy. she’s ignorant, sure, but hateful? she couldn’t understand it. they didn’t give her reason. she was observant, kind by nature, and she just couldn’t understand why why you’d hate someone for reasons they couldn’t control. 

– – this conflict brewed in her head until her 13th birthday when after a particularly brutal homeschooling session with her mother, clara lashed out. she yelled at her mother, she sobbed, why do you hate me? why? the emotions that she had built up were so intense, so consuming, so powerful, that they expressed themselves through magic -- resulting in clara sprouting a cherry blossom tree ( she’d seen it in her books & thought it gorgeous ) in the middle of their living room. it was then they packed up their townhome in paris and moved to south of france, bordering monaco, near the water. their daughter was out of control, she was an out of control monster, she needed to be taken care of and they felt isolating and secluding her from the city, from society, from everything, was going to help. it had to.  

– – [ DEPRESSION MENTION ] while clara loved their summer home immensely, she also longed to be around people. besides her cousin odilia and her house elf, she really didn’t talk to anyone which only fed her curiosity further. she painted, she played instruments, she spent copious time alone even though the more and more she did, she craved paris, she craved the outside. she’d always been an extremely curious, open-minded child because of her parents being so vehement against being so -- so she read more and more about people and things she could never be. the only problem was, she could never read enough to replace human interaction, to replace people, to replace touch, feeling  more lonely and frankly, depressed, than she had before. [ END OF MENTION/TWs ]  her mother had always refused to let her go to regular school because of her abilities & outbursts, but as time went by and clara just didn’t get better at controlling her abilities and started to fall behind in regular school -- séra started to give up. it was clear, as much as she’d loathe to admit it, that she was out of her depth and needed help with her daughter -- she did. 

– – beauxbatons was too lax for their taste and because she was coming in the middle of the year, durmstrang didn’t have space. it was minerva mcgonagall that thought, they loathed to admit it, had the most prestige and knowledge on transfiguration that they could access for clarabel, away from french pureblood society, hopefully their child would actually learn something. though reluctant to send her to hogwarts, clarabel went and her life was changed for the better.

it was a really hard transition, from learning how to share a space with 4 other people to being around so fucking many, learning the staircases, answering riddles, but her cousin odilia paired with lily potter and her friends ( though the two groups not together, that was for sure ) helped clarabel  -- the minute her parents caught wind of her friendship with a potter they encouraged the closeness, another secret started to weight on clara heavily besides the bouts of uncontrollable magic which brought her shame. especially considering clara knew that if lily really knew her parents, she’d be furious, though the two did get over the revelation that eventually came -- if only they knew who killed harry potter. 

– – while she loves ghosts, ghouls and the great beyond she finds herself spending more and more time with spirits and her art supplies than people as the war grows more and more heavy on everyone. especially after mcgonagall’s murder, clara’s felt like she’s lost the only person she can imagine that can actually help her with magic because while it’s come a long way she still has an exceptionally long way to go. after a year of being at hogwarts, clara knows her neutrality really is morally wrong, she knows that she’s hurting people by doing nothing but she would hurt the people closest, who she loves, if she took action with either side. though clara could never have the gusto to join something like the death eaters, nor the ability, her parents definitely have encouraged her to marry into a family that has a son/child that supports it. [ ANXIETY TW ]  they want her to become the dutiful wife, the pureblood socialite of the year, but she realizes that is so far away from what she wants that she doesn’t know how to handle her future becoming her now. panic attacks and anxiety attacks, while something she’s dealt with for a very long time have become more and more frequent and the years he spent on practicing her magic seems futile when these emotions take over the way they do. [ END OF TWs ]

PLOTS: 

NEW TUTOR: maybe a student who helped mcgonagall with clara’s stuff could pick up the slack maybe a teacher could take interest? either way, clara needs someone to help her with this magic because while she’s thrown herself into dueling club, she needs a ton of help. maybe even an outside source! 

CLUB FRIENDS: art club, dueling club, frog choir, hogwarts orchestra ( piano ), clara needs friends or people she knows from those clubs!! 

PUREBLOOD SOCIETY: the society of purebloods! we have some and she’s close and related to odilia travers, so there’s a starting point. she

FIRST KISS: maybe it was at a school party that clara was dragged to? it could be cute and like whatever, honestly, clara would get a lil blushy around them and stuff. 

BETROTHED: LAMOJDJDOJDW sorry to bring this ARCHAIC UGLY PLOT but she would have one and i think it would be interesting to play out. 

THE SUSPICIOUS: maybe someone who’s just suspicious of clara and how she is? is she really that good when she has family and parents like the one she has? is she really playing a game? open to family members of lily as well tbh. maybe someone on the pureblood side who’s suspicious of clara being so close to lily and co.? 

ANNOYANCES: clara isn’t the type to be annoyed by people easily but if she is, while she’ll try to be nice, it’s very hard for her to hide it. who knows why! 

BAD INFLUENCE: clara can be quite innocent about shit, maybe this person is trying to be a bad influence on clara bc its sort of hilarious that she’s so innocent about a lot of pop culture and such??

TUTORS FOR SCHOOL: as mentioned, clara is like barely keeping up with her classes and though she’s not super behind like she was last year, she’s still struggling! someone tutor her!

OPEN TO OTHER PLOTS: i am open!!! even to amending any of these or anything!!