𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐝𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨... ✦ . ⁺ . ✦ . ⁺ .
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once upon a time, in a far-off land a thousand years ago, where the air was still young and hummed with ancient power, lived a boy named henrik mikaelson—the youngest of a fierce and cursed bloodline... on a terrible moonlit night, henrik was attacked by the town’s werewolves, right before his horrified older brother’s eyes. but unknown to his family, death did not claim him. for reasons no one yet understands, he found himself in the enchanted forest, taken in by zephyr—the dark one, a black soul with a kind heart. with zephyr’s guidance, support, and training, henrik grew and mastered a rare power—a fusion of two magics, the first of his kind to wield such strength, but at an inevitable price. full of potential to unleash chaos, the once-innocent boy became the fourth dark one, the most powerful the realm had known… at least in his time. defeated by fate, he died, while his bloodline lived on, down to a simple stable boy named daniel colter—though no one knew this… until his daughter came of age.
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march 4th 1967. somewhere tucked between forgotten roads and magical forests, a girl was born to a heartbroken queen and a stable boy who dreamed of a simpler life. lina daniela mills was her name. daughter of regina, the evil queen, and daniel colter. she was raised in silence and in shadows cast by love, loss and magic inherited from both sides.
before the curse broke, before the veil thinned and truth was revealed — she lived in stillness in a quiet town, storybrooke. lina grey, as the town knew her, was now 22. no one remembered who she truly was. not even regina, her own once loving and present mother now just the mayor with cold eyes, a vengeful mind, and an empty heart. their bond was shattered by the curse and a price she didn't truly understand she would have to pay.
not that she was truly alone. she lived with the town's most powerful man. mr. gold. no one questioned it — no one questioned anything in storybrooke, probably not even lina herself. he maybe wasn't the perfect father figure you would expect, but the only one she had throughout her childhood in the enchanted forest. the one who'd taught her everything she knows. as rumplestiltskin's reputation was to steal children and firstborns, no one said he wouldn't grow to care for them. and when young lina had to live in secret, when her mother was trapped in a marriage she never wished for, he was there for her, in his own way. today, she was the girl you would see helping at the pawn shop, always making the costumers leave with a smile with her warm energy.
she kept to herself, mostly. her life ran in circles—though, to be fair, so did everyone else’s. she was lucky, though. lucky to share that quiet loop with elian, her older brother by choice; with ruby, the best friend she never knew she needed; with henry, her adopted little brother, whom she’d babysit as a soft, silent way to feel closer to the mother she’d lost.
and then there were the constants—her undying love for books, music, writing, and... her cat. all of them, in their own way, a shoulder to cry on. all of them waiting with her, patiently, for the family reunion… and open the door to a different kind of family, one just a town away, mystic falls–where the mikaelsons had quietly returned.
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