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thebetterluthor · 2 years ago

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List of things that didn't make sense during the First Dark Curse

I'll be adding to this list as more questions come to me, but for now:

Why didn't Regina leave Storybrooke after she adopted Henry? Obviously he was growing when everyone else wasn't so eventually he'd figure it out. Regina didn't really have magic in Storybrooke so it wouldn't make much of a difference to leave. She had a ton of money. Why not move to a regular small town, where she'd never be found and the curse would never break? Or move to Europe or anywhere else really?? If Henry hadn't been stuck reliving the same day, he'd never have felt like the odd one out, would have no reason to believe in a curse, and good luck to Emma finding a reason to go to Storybrooke.

While everyone was stuck reliving the same day, were they able to watch TV/listen to the radio? Was that taken into account from the curse and the radio was just replaying the same day in the 80s for 28 years?

If everyone was reliving the same day, why did Regina bother going to work? Couldn't she take that day as a holiday, or as a sick day, or straight up pretend to be out of town and just... never show up to work?

Did 21st century technology completely freak everyone out once they could get it? Imagine going from brick phones to iphone 6 in 1 day...

How did they get their stuff fixed? How did they get car parts, or new fridges, etc, if nobody could get in or out?

If someone got sick, did the sickness restart or reset at the end of the day?

If someone got an injury, how was it explained the next day, if it didn't magically heal itself?

What was the punishment, really, of Snow White during the curse? Sure her husband was in a coma, but that wasn't a result of the curse. Neither was the fact that she'd sent her daughter away via magical tree. All the curse did to Snow White was turn her into a teacher, who could afford to live by herself, and was stuck with an unfortunate wardrobe.

Given that Hansel and Gretel's dad *had* abandoned them in the woods, willingly or unwillingly, was it really a punishment that they weren't reunited during the curse? I mean, in the real world social services *would* have taken those kids away, so...

Also, since the curse kept them all frozen in time reliving the same day, was it really that Regina took away the happy endings, or just paused everybody's lives? I mean, it's not like they were wasting away for 28 years only to find out then that they'd spent their entire lives without realizing it. Everybody literally woke up to exactly how they were before, except now they had electricity and running water.

If Henry really thought Regina was the fairytale Evil Queen, how did he go up against her, and at the same time live with her in the same house, at the age of 10? Can you imagine a 10 year old finding out they're living in the same house with the thing that goes bump in the night, and what they decide to do with that information is to give her lip and break her house rules???? Like, he either didn't really believe Regina to be evil, or he was just so certain in her love for him that he wasn't afraid of her. Either way, are those really the signs of a broken relationship/an evil character?

#OUAT #OUAT rewatch #Regina Mills #the First Curse

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itsgirlcraft · 1 month ago

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Okie dokie mfs hereeee comes the TR weirdcore au!! >:3

This was posted on yt originally, btw.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: blood, unsettling imagery, unreality, paranoia, eyes/mouths where they shouldn't be, body horror

@its-indigos feels like your vibe ngl

Have fun!!! :D

First off, Sabre (thruout series) and a Yellow Steve, then Twisted Rainbow and The Great One:

Next up we've got: Elite/Shadow, M, and Assistant Steve

And finally there's The First Curse, Hypno, and Prof. Red!

I love violence and murder /lh

Shoutout to Ena's Dreamcore Picrew, which is now sadly gone, for the designs! Miss you </3

Sooo- we've got Assistant, Sabre, and Hypno as TV heads, Shadow/Elite as a scribble head/abstract head, M and the Yellow Steve as flower heads, TFC and Twisted as lollipop heads, and Prof. Red and TGO as eye heads.

Idk if that's what you call that but whatever. I had fun with the symbolism :D

Okok so let's just get into the AU first- I'll explain the designs along the way ig-

The AU starts off with the ladybug duo arriving in a weirdcore version of their universe, having changed with it. Since the actual picrew's outfits didn't have hands, they don't have visible hands either. They also notice their outfits are completely different yet slightly emulate their original outfits still. Pretty much everything about their actual appearance is the picrew design entirely, and they notice this.

Later on, eyes appear in the centers of M's roses. At first, Shadow takes on the first design - headless, with an abstract rectangle with question marks around it. Later on, once he recognizes his identity as Sabre's shadow, he has the scribble head with a single eye.

They travel into the core/lab, which has transformed into an ever-changing abandoned building. It is made up of many, many weirdcore and edited real-world images, constantly shifting. At first, it has no door and directly leads into the core, where they find Assistant's strangely non-mechanical body laying in a pool of blood. The inside of the core looks more like an abandoned house than a labratory or anything like it's canon appearance.

M tries to pick up the broken machine, but Assistant begins to glitch...physically, clipping through the ground, spazzing out, like you'd see happen to an npc. Shadow is wary, warning M not to touch them. At first, he listens. But concern for both his uncle and the robot brings him to grab them protectively, just as they glitch again...

M's and Assistant's heads swap, leaving M catatonic and Prof. Red awake. Shadow was about to attack, or run, he wasn't sure what, but he remembered that this machine mattered a lot to M. And if this machine has a sentience, he's going to get answers, whatever this...thing is that's swapped heads with the poor apprentice.

Prof. Red, still without a voice, manages to get Shadow to explain. He tries his best, explaining that M tried to help Assistant and that the whole world had become strange. Unable to communicate much, Prof. Red had to turn to using the blood on the ground to write on the wall. Shadow asked him, "who are you, and why does M care for you so much?" The half-dead scientist responded, "uncle of M."

Things started to click for Shadow at last, but he still had so many more questions. But he knew the one he wanted to ask. "If the world were normal, I'd be able to see that you, too, are a Red Steve, since you and M are related. If the world were normal, the robot's head could just be taken off.. But things aren't normal anymore. I don't know why you're... apparently inside that robot, or how long. But if you're willing to, can you try taking that robot's head off? I don't want to lose him..." Prof. Red nodded, knowing what may happen to him if this just reverses the head swap. The glitch intensified as Prof. Red held M, still trapped in Assistant's body. And once again, trapped in his own creation.

M woke up, disoriented, the pain in his neck vanishing. His eyes opened up, only to see the fallen body of Assistant Steve holding him, completely unresponsive. M rushed to stand up, and looked to Shadow, and then to the words written in blood. "Your uncle is in there. He returned to...whatever this fate is, for you.." Shadow said, nervously looking at what once was a machine. The glitching started almost as soon as he'd spoken.

M jumped, not wanting to go through..that again. M was uncertain what to do now, unwilling to leave his uncle behind, but unsure how to save him without sacrificing himself. Shadow convinced him to look for help or resources, since clearly Prof. Red didn't want M sacrificing himself for him, and M reluctantly left the core with Shadow.

In the ruins and dying forest, things are still strange. Above the duo, the sky is lined with eyes and symbols and patterns. Some patterns hurt to look at, too bright and yet somehow alluring to stare up at. They moved quickly into the shade of the trees that still had leaves, avoiding the sky as much as possible. The trees had strange eyes in their knots and in the dark spaces between leaves, but things felt a little safer when unexposed to the sky. The grass and dirt squished strangely beneath their feet, not unlike flesh or rubber. Something... different.

They kept moving. Looking. Trying to ignore the questions that came with every step. But then they saw a strange glow coming from between the trees, and an all too familiar voice with it... Sabre. Neither were prepared to face him, whatever he'd become. But what arrived was not the vengeful man he'd been before. (They're all more or less from the beginning of the last episode, forgot to mention that.)

Sabre wore a long sleeved, white shirt with a collar, and where his head should've been was a broken TV with a deep red heart on it, casting a strong glow against the forest around him. But most notable was his fear. He was just as scared as them. He was from the past, before this world had wronged him. Before Shadow had hurt him.

Shadow wasn't sure if he should be relieved or terrified, but he certainly felt both. As was M. Sabre didn't know where he was, but he knew this world wasn't normal. He didn't know normal, but he knew this...wasn't right. He knew he shouldn't be casting a glow on anything he looks at, he knows trees and skies don't have eyes.

But all he wanted was to find a person. Anyone at all. A tree with eyes is not a person. They didn't respond to his cries of loneliness. He saw the duo and couldn't tell if they, like so much else, were unresponsive and silent. Objects. But when he finally saw M had eyes that looked back at him, he knew they were real. "Hello?"

Silence.

Maybe he was wrong.

"Hello? Are you...okay?"

"I knew it! I knew you were real!!" Sabre was so excited to finally find someone out here that he completely disregarded the question. He started running towards them, the heart beating against the cracked monitor. And then stopped, realizing they flinched as he grew near. "...sorry. I got excited.."

"...it's alright."

Sabre noticed the one lacking a head at all was the one speaking, while the rose-headed one simply watched. It didn't scare him. Being alone scared him.

"Sorry if I scared you, I've been wandering around here for so long..I was starting to think I was completely alone." Shadow noticed Sabre's heart glitch, just like Assistant, when he mentioned being alone.

"I get it. We've been looking around...found things we didn't want to see. I wasn't sure what was out here."

"Oh? What kind of- wait yeah right I shouldn't ask..." he looked up at the sky, illuminating the treetops. "This place doesn't really make sense.."

"It really doesn't, even our clothes are different, it's so small but so obvious."

Sabre looked at his own outfit.

"Oh, that's what it is! Something kept feeling strange, I couldn't put my finger on it. ...And that everything glows when I look at it. Do you know why that's happening?"

"Oh, your head is uh..mechanical? It has a glowing screen."

"Wait, mechanical?" He reached up to touch his face. "Wha..it's totally flat..?" The heart glitched to an eye. "This..doesn't feel right..." The eye kept glancing around quickly, trying to understand what was happening. "Can you..describe it?" Fear was settling into his voice.

Shadow glanced to M. M pushed him as if to say, "this is your mess, now clean it up!" Shadow looked back to Sabre. "You have a black box with rounded edges, the screen has cracked glass. Beneath the screen, there's several dials and buttons. The screen shows a de-saturated green background. Originally it had a deep red heart on it, but when you got scared, it changed to an eye quickly glancing around." The green background temporarily shifted to monochrome static, before Sabre let his hands down. It returned to green, and, eventually, the heart.

"...thanks. That..makes me feel a little better. It's hard to find anywhere to see yourself properly. It's all weird and broken.."

"..yeah it is. Are you.. okay?"

"...I don't know. I'm just happy to find someone else out here."

"..."

"...What's your name? I'm Sabre..."

"Uh. I'm.. This is M. I'm...Elite."

"Oh, okay. Nice to meet you two."

Shadow kept thinking about the glitch. If it happened to Sabre, but he kept standing, then... No, there's no way that'd work. But if it did.. He wasn't sure if Sabre would agree, much less actually do it once he got to the core. But Shadow kept wondering. Finally, he asked.

"I know we've just met, but the way your heart changed to the eye...it reminds me of something we saw earlier, when M tried to help someone. We found this robot completely unconscious, and M tried to lift them, but then they glitched. Their body just...went out of wack. And when M tried to help again, they glitched while he was holding them, and the two..swapped heads?"

"What?"

"I don't know. But there was someone inside the robot, M's uncle. He tried helping M, but he swapped back and fell unconscious again. I don't know if it'd work, but it seems your screen glitches the same way and you're okay still... Maybe there's hope..?"

"Oh... so M's uncle is trapped in a robot? And it attached..itself to M when he tried helping them?"

"Yeah, pretty much.."

M looked excited but concerned.

"I wanna help. I don't really know what you want me to do, but sure. Helping someone is always important to me!" Sabre's heart beat stronger against the glass.

M nodded, still wondering if this was a good idea.

"..M thanks you. Are you sure you want to try this? The whole...swapping heads thing was terrifying, just from an outside perspective. And I should probably mention, the robot was laying in a pool of blood..."

"Blood?" Sabre gulped. "Well...I'll still try. I don't like blood. But things are so weird around here...it's practically worse than blood."

The trio went back to the core, but the interior changed. Now it had its elevator back, creaky and rusty, but working. A single light flickered menacingly inside. "This is...different?"

"What?"

"There was no door here, and it led straight into like..an abandoned house? But now there's an elevator here..?" Shadow contemplated whether they should do this or not. He looked to M, and remembered why they're doing this. "We can still try if you want, Sabre."

"Sure. I wasn't here before, so...I don't know what to expect."

They rode the elevator down. Its familiar mechanical screech was not comforting to M. It only reminded him of an echo of the past. Cold air flowed in from the core room. The red mass glowed strangely dim, its light barely touching the walls of the massive room.

"Where to..?" Sabre piped up first.

"Uh..to the right I think. M knows this place well.." Shadow looked up towards the walls around the elevator, recalling the fight he had with Sabre. He swore he could still see the green glow of the hole Sabre punched him through..

They followed M to where Assistant was usually held. Within the labratory room, the telltale blood could be seen even from the hallway. The robot was slightly more mechanical now. The orange long sleeve shirt was replaced with a short sleeved version, revealing rusted metal plating with peeling orange paint. Their jeans were now ripped, revealing pistons and torn wires in their knees.

"O..Oh...this is what you meant. I see..." Sabre tried to contain his nervousness, but seeing the ruined robot and room sent shivers up his spine.

M was the first to walk in. He knelt by Assistant, noticing the bloody words of his uncle still on the wall. The glitch revealed itself again. Sabre jumped, but stayed silent. It stopped just as suddenly as it'd started.

Sabre walked up to M. "Should I try just lifting them or try taking...off...the..head..?" He mumbled.

"Sorry, M can't speak. His voice is gone somehow..."

"Oh. Uh..nod once if lifting, twice if taking off the head."

He nodded once.

"Okay..well, uh, stand back just in case."

Sabre took a deep breath, waiting for the body to stop glitching. He picked up Assistant by the shoulders, setting them down away from the blood. He let them glitch again. He picked them up again with ease, and stood there, practically hugging them.

Waiting.

They glitched together.

Sabre held his breath.

Nothing happened.

"Oh thank God you're okay-" Shadow started, before Sabre looked at M. M nodded twice.

Sabre set Assistant down, and held their head with two hands. He tugged on it. Glitched. Again. He could feel a liquid dripping on his hands. He looked to M. M nodded. He tried again. On the third try, the TV flung off, making Sabre fall backwards. It wasn't just blood, but oil on his hands. It had splattered on the ground and walls around him. He dropped the TV carefully, disgusted, and looked up to Assistant. A single large, red eye opened where the TV once was.

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