The charmings as a family fascinate me. We don't know what there parents fairy tale was. But all of their children have destinies, or are at least presumed to have destinies. If you look at each of their destinies by the end of the show, none of them are the star of their own fairy tale. Daring is the beast in beauty and the beast but beauty has always been the main character in that. Dexter, as the good king barely makes an appearance in the original fairy tale. And darling, maybe the night in shining armor but the fairy tale is still called snow white and the seven dwarfs.
This led me to think about the other charming families. Is this quite literally their purpose? To be the love interest in someone else's fairy tale. It kind of fucked up. Your entire identity and future wrapped up in someone else's story where you're just a prop, oftentimes without your own name.













