I absolutely love your AU of TWAU, especially the dynamic you’ve created between Bigby and the other characters.
I was wondering, what is your interpretation of Bigby’s relationship with Snow? I know your AU is Faithby focused, not Snowby focused, but I guess I was wondering if you have an idea of anything juicy involving that.
Like, did Bigby eventually fall “out of love” with Snow? Did he eventually realize the dynamic between them was unhealthy? Maybe a specific event revealed that there was an immutable difference between them?
Or maybe your version of Bigby never loved Snow to begin with, idk.
I’d love to hear what you’d have to say!
THANK U and thank u for this question cuz id love 2 explain how it works in my au!!
In my head Bigby starts to fall out of love with Snow over time but particularly during the events of TWAU/especially during the scene in his apartment after he’s shot by Bloody Mary where Snow starts to talk about Fabletown in a way that really unnerves him & reveals the way she really feels about his “true form” by calling him a monster. He begins to realise how she really sees him, which starts to push him away
Faith is also living/hiding with him during this time, not as a partner necessarily but as a friend. Faiths kindness towards him makes him realise how poorly snow treats him in comparison, and without realising it he kinda lets his love for her just. Slip away
Snow isn’t a bad person but she does have things she needs to work through. She knows bigby is in love with her, but she refuses to approach the topic because she’s not ready for a relationship. Realistically, she needs to start rejecting Bigby’s advances and tell him outright she’s not interested in him right now, but there’s a tiny part of her that’s so used to the comfort of believing no matter what, Bigby will always be attached at her hip with unconditional devotion for as long as she needs until she thinks she’s ready- and she doesn’t want to give it up.
So she takes notice when suddenly, after the crooked man is put away, it seems like Bigby’s attachment to her is gradually weakening. And she doesn’t like it, even if she really doesn’t want to admit that to herself. She’s especially put off by how strangely happy he seems, comes to work on time, suddenly always well groomed and whistling to himself while he works. She was usually the reason bigby would light up, or smile, or just be happy in general without Snow ever having to do so much as look in his direction, and now she’s starting to feel like she’s just his boss.
Bigby and Faith aren’t immediately dating but over time the way they lived together definitely started to resemble that of a married couple. And as Bigby falls out of love with Snow and starts to realise he’s in love with Faith he gets very nervous. The last thing he wants is to make her feel like she’s trapped in his house with him, pining after her when she doesn’t want it. But Faith recognises her own feelings for him much quicker and begins making advances that he struggles to accept as advances because again, he’s terrified of having a Snow 2.0 situation in his own home.
Faith also talks to him a lot about Snow, and sometimes even points out times when he’s being mistreated without even realising it. She has a lot of sympathy for snow, but she wants bigby to start being his own person because she sees how much it destroys him internally
Eventually they do bridge the gap one night and without saying it aloud decide they’re now a couple, and just continue to live as they were before but now with kissing and Other Stuff™️
When snow does eventually find out about Faith she’s furious. She tries to convince Bigby (and herself) she’s angry because he and Faith have been lying about her whereabouts this whole time, but deep down she’s ashamed because she knows part of her anger is jealousy. And Bigby suspects this too though he never says this directly. Eventually they do have a conversation about it and Snow is able to accept that she needs to move on because she can’t make Bigby wait forever, and she can’t treat him with so much dismissal if she wants to be close friends again
Ahem probably all poorly written I’m very tired but yeah! There’s a little bit of stuff I omitted because Rhiannon gets involved in this . Triangle. against her will . And maybe I’ll get around to explaining that if anyone wants to know but otherwise that’s kinda how “snowby” happens in my au!
