ᴇsᴄᴀᴘᴏʟᴏɢɪsᴛ.

                        𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴    /      &   𝘈 𝘏𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘉𝘌𝘈𝘛.                      —      𝖽𝗈𝗋𝗈𝗍𝗁𝗒 𝗀𝖺𝗅𝖾.         𝗇𝖺𝗏𝗂.         𝖺𝖻𝗈𝗎𝗍.

[lostmatches]

I WANT TO LOVE   ,    but my hair smells of war   &   running    &   running.

         independent   ,   private   ELAINE JONES   /   THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL   ,   headcanon based   &   adapted for abc’s once upon a time.    est 2014   ,   revamped 2019.

[lostdorothy]

I’M FINALLY BACK from being out of town   !   i’ll be on here finally some   ,   but if i’m not   ,   i’m working on revamping an older ouat oc over at @lostmatches​   !

[lostdorothy]

HEY DEAR   ,   no bother at all   !   for the ones from book.smart   ,   i made them myself   !   for the las.t man stan.ding ones   ,   i’ve been using these ones HERE while i wait for either screen.capped.net to re-upload theirs or the time to make my own   !

[lostdorothy]

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME   (   v   :   land of oz   ).

orphaned at the age of six after their parents were taken up by a twister   ,   dorothy    &   thomas gale were raised by their uncle henry    &   auntie em on a small farm in irving   ,   kansas.    dorothy was a playful but sweet child   ,   always seen running in the fields with her quieter   &   calmer twin brother   ,   whom dorothy had affectionately started calling toto.   with her  daydreaming   &   mischievous behavior   ,   she became quite a handful to keep track of.   she was known to wander off   ,   chasing after a stray german shepherd that roamed the fields.   the twins were nine when a twister took them to oz   &   their farmhouse landed on the wicked witch of the east.    locasta   ,   the good witch of the north   ,   pointed them in the direction of the emerald city   &   the wizard.   however   ,   even before they could begin their journey   ,   zelena came across the scene   ,   threatened dorothy for the silver slippers   ,   &   turned thomas into a dog.   after picking up three other companions   ,   meeting the wizard   ,   &   being captured by zelena   ,   dorothy   ,   in a fit of anger at the threat on her brother’s life   ,   splashed a bucket of hot water on zelena   ,   unknowingly   “   killing   ”   her.

the companions return to the emerald city where the wizard fulfills the end of his bargain in meaningful but not magical ways   ,   &   with the help of glinda   ,   the good witch of the south   ,   they  turn thomas back into a human   &   send the twins back home to kansas.   for a while   ,   oz was nothing more than a daydream   ,   but they soon found out it was as real as the farmhouse they lived in.

dorothy   &   thomas   (   who learns he can shift back   &   forth between his human   &   canon form   )   return numerous times to the land of oz   &   go on several adventures   ,   defeating other wicked witches   ,   wizards   ,   &   nome kings.   they   ,   along with their aunt   &   uncle   ,   move to oz after their farmhouse is forced to foreclose   &   begin living with princess ozma   ,   who has been placed as the rightful ruler of oz   (   after both the wizard   &   glinda mysteriously disappear   ).   dorothy    &   thomas are officially dubbed princess   &   prince of oz   ———   although   ,   dorothy much prefers  title of political liaison.   at some point   ,    dorothy discovers that zelena never truly died   &   goes to confront her.   however   ,   upon encountering zelena   ,   she finds the witch ready to take the scarecrow’s brain.   dorothy saves him as thomas provides distraction in dog form   ,   but zelena finds the three in the forest not long after   &   kills the scarecrow.   the twins are visibly distraught   &   return to ozma’s palace where dorothy breaks the sad news to their friends   ———   she has failed them.

when word gets out about something terrible coming to oz   ,   dorothy   ,   thomas   ,   &   her friends go to the enchanted forest to see what all the fuss is about.   upon meeting the snow white    &   company   ,   they learn of regina’s curse.   the tin woodman   &   cowardly lion return to oz to warn the others   ,   while dorothy   ,   thomas    ,   &    their aunt   &   uncle stay &   help the charmings.   the curse happens   &   dorothy becomes lily hugson   ,   future babysitter of one henry mills   ;   meanwhile   ,   thomas is reverted into toto  ,   lily’s pet german shepherd.

(   verse is set prior to season one of once upon a time   &   before the queen’s curse.   due to the fairy queen lurline’s anti-aging spell in oz   ,   dorothy    &   thomas’s physical age is around eighteen years old   ———   but the two are much older than that.   dorothy is officially a princess to the ozian people   ;   however   ,   she prefers her adventures   &   liaison business over the stuffy gowns   &   royal parties.   she does have magic   ,   as she is a witch.   thomas   ,   or better known as toto   ,   is her twin brother.   due to side effects from zelena’s curse on him   ,   he can shape-shift back   &   forth from his human form   &   his canine form.   ).

QUITE THE LITTLE ESCAPOLOGIST   (   v   :   season one   ).

twenty eight years later   ,   &   everyone in the town of storybrooke still has no memories of heir lives as fairytale characters   ,   &   lily hugson is no exception.   as the niece of emily   &   harold hugson   ,   lily  spends much of her time helping out at her uncle’s farmer’s market down on main street.   when she’s not working there or attending storybrooke high as a senior   (   for the twenty eighth time now   )   ,   lily babysits henry for the mayor.   most days   ,   she picks him up from his house   ,   &   they ride her bike to the bus stop   ,   where she drops him off every morning   &   picks him back up after school.   however   ,   when he runs away only to come back with his birth mother in tow   ,   lily   &   the rest of storybrooke are rattled at the changes that begin to occur around them.   somehow   ,   despite her gentle insistence that she is not dorothy gale from the wizard of oz   (   she only played her in the high school play   )   &   that her dog was just named after the infamous dog   (   &   wasn’t actually dorothy’s faithful canine companion   )   ,   lily   &   toto get roped into operation cobra.

(   verse is set during season one of once upon a time.   lily is unaware of her life as dorothy gale. without her magic   &   her memories   ,    lily has become henry’s babysitter   &   gets roped into operation cobra upon emma’s arrival in town.   while she appears eighteen  ,   lily is much older.   this is partially due to queen lurline’s anti-aging spell   ,    which prevented her from aging while in oz   ,   as well as due to regina’s curse which has stopped her aging for the last twenty-eight years.   thomas is stuck in his canine form   &   has been living the past twenty-eight years as lily’s pet german shepherd   ,   toto.   ).

&   THE   WALLS KEPT TUMBLING DOWN IN THE CITY THAT WE LOVE   (   v   :   season two   ).

it seems to come from nowhere   ———    one minute   ,   henry’s suffering from an unbreakable coma   &   the next   ,   magic’s flowing through the air   ,   henry’s awake   ,   &    lily has all her memories back.   after several moments of reassurance that henry’s okay    ,   lily lets her thoughts wander to her recovered memories   ,   to one piece of her past in particular   :   toto.   lily runs downtown in search of her brother   ,    finding him standing next to their aunt   &  uncle   ,   no longer in dog form.   one tearful hug between the four of them later   ,   lily is back into the swing of full babysitter mode.   when emma   &  mary margaret are taken away by a magic portal   ,   lily helps david take care of henry in their absence   ;   however   ,   while david   &    the rest of town are worried about regina   &    the magical barrier around storybrooke   ,   lily has a problem of her own   ———   she is no longer confident in her magic   &   cannot even get her slippers to work.   this problem eventually causes lily to seek out regina’s help in regaining her magic   ,   &   with the promise to help henry   &   the others see that regina is not all bad   ,    regina concedes   &   begins re-teaching lily magic   ,   &   the two begin to bond.

(   verse is set during season two of once upon a time.   lily has all her memories back but has been unable to get her magic to work  ,   &   therefore her slippers.   as she helps david take care of henry while emma   &   mary margaret are lost in the enchanted forest   ,   she also gains help from regina   ,   who begins re-teaching lily how to use magic.   meanwhile   ,   lily   &   ruby help thomas adjust to being human again in the 21st century.   )

GRABBED MY HAND   &   PUSHED ME DOWN   ,   TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH   (   v   :   season three a   ).

jumping into the portal after greg   &   tamara might not have been her smartest idea,    but there was no way lily was willing to let henry get taken without anyone there to look after him.   following henry throughout neverland   ,   lily manages to attract pan’s attention.   despite having gained back some of her magic from her lessons with regina   ,   lily tries several times to get her slippers to work   &   get henry off the island   ,   but she has no such luck.   in the end   ,   the small amount of confidence she had regained with her magic seems further smushed as she feels she has let pan walk all over her   &   her feelings.   however   ,   her time on neverland sticks with her   (   &   later on allows her to grow into a more confident individual   ).

(   verse is set during season three a of once upon a time.   lily has followed greg   ,   tamara   ,   &   henry into the portal to neverland.   she is at the lost boy camp during most of the verse   ,   trying to find a way to get henry home.   ).

I’M LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO START   ,   &   EVERYTHING FEELS SO DIFFERENT NOW   (   v   :   the missing year   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

(   verse is set during the missing year between season three a   &   season three b of once upon a time.   )

WHEN YOU COME OUT OF THE STORM   ,   YOU  WON’T BE THE SAME PERSON WHO WALKED IN   (   v   :   season three b   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

(   verse is set during season three b of once upon a time.   )

THE COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY  (   v   :   season four a   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

SEVEN DEVILS ALL AROUND YOU.   SEVEN DEVILS IN YOUR HOUSE   (   v   :   season four b   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

WHEN THE DARKNESS HAS ROBBED YOU OF ALL YOUR SIGHT   (   v   :   season five a   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

I STILL ONLY TRAVEL BY  FOOT   ,   &   BY FOOT   ,   IT’S A SLOW CLIMB   (   v   :   season five b   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD   (   v   :   season six   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

A NEW DAY IN THE OLD TOWN   (   v   :   season seven   ).

in the process of being rewritten.

[lostdorothy]

[lostdorothy]

SHE’S A STORM with skin.

          independent   ,   private   DOROTHY GALE   ,   headcanon based   &   adapted for abc’s once upon a time.    est 2013   ,   revamped july 2019.

[lostdorothy]

I LOVE finding blogs i used to follow   /   write with back in the day.

[bookishborearchived-blog]

        no one decides my fate but me !!                                   ( x )

[lostdorothy]

THOMAS   “   TOTO   ”   GALE.

twin brother.

fc   :   joe keery.

ANNIE GALE.

annie gale is the mother of dorothy   &   thomas   &   the wife of jonathan gale.   she was a dreamer   ,   much like her daughter   ,   but she never made it out of kansas no matter how many times she told her parents that she wasn’t sticking around after she turned of age.   annie thought she had a chance to finally escape her boring life when she met oscar gale   ,   a small-time traveling circus magician   ,   &   his elder brother jonathan.    oscar   &   annie hit if off   &   began seeing each other.   not long after   ,   annie gave birth to dorothy   &   thomas.   unfortunately   ,   annie lost oscar   &   his hot air balloon to a storm   ,   &   so jonathan stepped in   &   married annie   ,   hoping to give her   &   her children a better life.   however   ,   tragedy struck once more   ,   &   the couple were torn from their family by a twister   ,   never to be seen again.   her elder brother   ,   henry   ,   &  his wife take the twins in   &   raise them after annie   &   jonathan’s deaths.

fc   :   tba.

JONATHAN GALE.

jonathan gale is the older brother of oscar gale   &   the husband of annie gale.   jonathan   &    his brother worked for a traveling circus when they met annie hugson one day.   annie fell in love with oscar   ,   &   jonathan   ,   ever the supportive brother   ,   encouraged the duo’s romance.   not long after   ,   annie gave birth to dorothy   &   thomas   ,   making jonathan an uncle.   however   ,   his younger brother’s romance was not meant to be   ,   as one day oscar   &    his hot air balloon were lost to a storm.   jonathan stepped in   &   married annie   ,   hoping to give her   &   her children a better life.   the two settled down in kansas not far from her brother’s farm.   jonathan   &   annie decided to raise dorothy   &   thomas as if they were jonathan’s children   &   to avoid their gossipy neighbors their new small town provided.   however   ,   tragedy struck once more   ,   &   the couple were torn from their family by a twister   ,   never to be seen again.   her elder brother   ,   henry   ,   & his wife take the twins in   &   raise them after annie   &   jonathan’s deaths.

fc   :   tba.

HENRY HAROLD HUGSON.

harold hugson   ,   known as henry before the curse   ,   is the older brother of dorothy’s mother.   he    &   his wife emily adopted their niece dorothy   &   nephew thomas when the twins were six.    before the curse   ,   he   &   his wife owned a farm in rural kansas.   when the twister that took dorothy    &   thomas destroyed the house   ,   he was forced to mortgage the farm.   this caused many financial trouble for years afterwards   ,   &   when the bank threatened to foreclose the place   ,   dorothy   &   thomas took their caregivers back to oz to live   ,   where they became advisers to princess ozma.   after the curse   ,   the man owns the storybrooke farmer’s market   ,   but he is constantly getting into financial troubles over it   &   pays rent for the property to mr. gold.

fc   :   timothy olyphant.

EMILY   “   EM   ”   HUGSON.

emily hugson   ,   known as    “   em   ”   before the curse   ,   is the wife of harold hugson.   she  &   her husband adopted their niece dorothy   &   nephew thomas when the twins were six.   before the curse   ,   she   &   her husband owned a farm in rural kansas.   she’s a sweet   ,   kind lady   ;   although   ,   dorothy’s mischievous   &   adventurous behavior has always caused her some distress   &   panic.   unlike her husband   ,   em did not take to oz so easily when the couple moved there   ,   but she eventually made do.   after the curse   ,   she helps harold run the storybrooke farmer’s market   &   makes sure lily keeps herself out of trouble   &    her head out of the clouds.

fc   :   drew barrymore.

OSCAR W.    “   WALSH   ”    GALE   /   THE WIZARD OF OZ.

paternal uncle father.

fc   :   christopher gorham.

[lostdorothy]

tag dump 7 / ?   →   characters   :   part four.

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tag dump 6 / ?   →   characters   :   part three.

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tag dump 5 / ?   →   characters   :   part two.

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tag dump 4 / ?   →   characters   :   part one.

[lostdorothy]

tag dump 3 / ?   →   verses.

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tag dump 2 / ?   →   ooc / rp specific.

[lostdorothy]

tag dump 1 / ?   →   dorothy gale.

[lostdorothy]

[lostdorothy]

SHE’S A STORM with skin.

          independent   ,   private   DOROTHY GALE   ,   headcanon based   &   adapted for abc’s once upon a time.    est 2013   ,   revamped july 2019.

[lostdorothy]

       ❝   I’M NOT A WITCH AT ALL   !   i’m dorothy gale from kansas.   why   ———   are you a witch   ?     ❞

BIOGRAPHY.

orphaned at a young age   ,   dorothy doesn’t remember her parents very well.   she recalls what they looked like   ,   an instant or two of them playing with her   &   her twin brother thomas.   but she remembers the dark   &   menacing cloud whirling around the rural kansas fields   &   taking them away from her   &   thomas.

      ❝   ANNIE   &   JONATHAN GALE   ,   ❞   uncle henry would tell her   ,   ❝   kindest two people i’ve ever met.   that twister didn’t have a heart   ,   ‘cause if it had   ,   those two would still be here taking care of you   &   your brother.   ❞

they were six when it had happened   ,   &   the two young children had promptly been placed into the care of their uncle henry    &   auntie em   ,   moving to their farmhouse.   the two raised the twins as their own.   dorothy was a playful but sweet child   ,   always seen running in the fields with her quieter   &   calmer twin brother   ,   whom dorothy  had affectionately started calling  toto.   with her daydreaming   &    mischievous behavior   ,   she became quite a handful to keep track of.   she was known to wander off   ,   chasing after a stray german shepherd that roamed the fields.   she was nine   &   had been doing just that   ,   with thomas trailing not far behind her   ,   the day a twister sucked up dorothy   ,   thomas   ,   &   the farmhouse   ,   spitting them back out in a land far away.   dorothy thought it must be somewhere over a rainbow   ,   for it was so far away   &   so much more colorful than kansas.

      ❝   WAKE UP  !   wake up   !   the wicked witch is dead   !     ❞

munchkins   (   people who were older than the nine-year-olds but just as tall   )   had greeted the duo as they tumbled out of the damaged house   ,   telling them they had killed with wicked witch of the east   ,   a woman named evanora.     the munchkins   ,   along with the ruler of the neighboring gillikin country locasta   (   otherwise known as the good witch of the north   )   ,   thanked the duo for freeing them.   dorothy denied their accusations   ,   of course   ,   declaring there were no such things as witches   &   that she   &   her brother must be dreaming.   wicked witches   ?   munchkins   ?   surely there was no such thing.   dorothy was mistaken   ,   however   ,   when zelena came across the scene in munchkin county.   angered at the sight of the silver slippers on dorothy’s feet   &   wanting to get revenge on the cardinal witches for kicking her out   ,   zelena cursed thomas   &   turned him into a dog    (   ironically   ,   resembling the small puppy dorothy  had been chasing earlier   ).   locasta managed to run zelena off   ,   but not before the wicked witch promised to return for the shoes.

dorothy begged locasta to return thomas to his true form   &   send them home   ,   but the good witch announced she could be of no help    &    sent them off to find the emerald city if she wished to free her brother of the curse   &   return home to their uncle henry    &   auntie em.   so off she went   ,   down round   &   round the yellow brick road   ,   where she picked up a few allies along the way   (   a scarecrow   ,   a tin woodman   ,   &   a cowardly lion   ).   eventually   ,   they found themselves in the company of the wizard   ,   whom promptly informed them he also could not be of any help unless they killed the wicked witch of the west   &   brought back the hag’s broomstick.   then   ,   he would help her   &   her friends obtain what they all desired   ,   including returning toto back to his true form.   several close encounters later on their way to find zelena   ,   the group was kidnapped by flying monkeys   &   brought directly to the witch herself.   again   ,   zelena tried to steal the slippers from dorothy’s feet   ,   even threatening to kill thomas if she did not get her way.   but the slippers would not budge   ,   &   dorothy   ,   angered at the threat to her brother’s life   ,   splashed a bucket of hot water on zelena   ,   unknowingly   “   killing   ”   her.

returning to the emerald city   ,   the group met with the wizard again   ,   who calls upon the aide of the good witch of the south   ,   glinda.   with the witch’s help   ,   the wizard found meaningful   (   but not magical   )   ways to solve the scarecrow   ,   the tin woodsman   ,    &   the cowardly lion’s problems   &   sent them on their way   ,   leaving dorothy   &   thomas in the emerald city.   the wizard   ,   still veiled by a large curtain   ,   thanked them for defeating the wicked witch   &   freeing him from her magic.  he quickly returned thomas back into his human-self before informing dorothy that her slippers can whisk them back home with a click   ,   click   ,   click of her heels.   the two returned home to kansas   ;   oz nothing but a daydream.

but   ,   it hadn’t been a dream   ,   as they were soon to find out.   the twins returned many times to the magical land before moving there after the farmhouse was forced into foreclosure.   uncle henry   &   auntie em moved there as well  ,   living in the emerald city thanks to dorothy’s new best friend   ,   princess ozma   ,   the rightful ruler of oz    &   daughter to the previous king pastoria   &   the fairy queen lurline.   they learned during their first journey back that thomas’s curse still held some effect   ,   &   while he was no longer forced to be a dog permanently   ,   he could shift back   &   forth between his canine   &   human form at will.   &   there were a few other glitches throughout the years   ———   a missing wizard   &   set of cardinal witches   (   including glinda   )   ,   zelena’s return   ,   the death of the scarecrow   ———   but no matter what faced her   ,   dorothy persevered   ,   &   so did the kingdom’s love for her.

many adventures   &   a few more wicked witches   &   wizards destroyed later   ,   word spread that something terrible was coming to oz   &   the surrounding lands.   dorothy   ,   thomas   ,   their aunt   &   uncle henry   ,   &   a small group of friends traveled to where this supposed wickedness was to come from   ———   the enchanted forest.   this was where the gang met snow white   ,   her prince   ,   &   friends   ,   who insisted they should all go back to oz before it was too late.   some left to warn the others of what they had learned   ,   others stayed   &   helped the citizens of the enchanted forest prepare.   the curse struck.

no longer was she dorothy gale   ,   savior of oz   ,   but lily hugson   ,   babysitter   ,   town daydreamer   ,   &   owner a funny little puppy named toto.

PERSONALITY.

+   TRAITS:   brave.   creative.   compassionate.   dependable.   determined.   empathetic.   enthusiastic.   humorous.   humble.   innovative.   intelligent.   loyal.   optimistic.   outgoing.   resourceful.   understanding.

-   TRAITS:   aggressive.   gullible.   impatient.   impulsive.   indecisive.   reactive   /   reactionary.    resentful.   short-tempered.   stubborn.   unorganized.

+   /  -   TRAITS:    blunt.   curious.   fidgety.   flexible.   independent.   perceptive.   risk-taking.   sensitive.

OCCUPATION.

dorothy is a traveler   ,    roaming from place to place  ,   but mainly staying   &   helping out in oz as a princess   &   political liaison of sorts to other realms.   during the original curse   ,   lily was henry mills’ babysitter   ,   as well as an employee of the storybrooke farmer’s market   (   owned by her uncle   ).   after her uncle   &   aunt’s deaths in season three   ,   dorothy becomes the owner of the market.    during season seven   ,   dottie is a bartender at roni’s   ,   where she also occasionally plays sets.   throughout her time in storybrooke   &   seattle   ,   dorothy volunteers at the local animal shelter.