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ONCE UPON A TIME (2011–2018) | 5.15
Henry look so much like Regina that it’s actually comical that he is Emma’s child like NO! Your kid looks exactly like your situation ship!!!
yeah
thinking of OUAT again but specifically thinking about how interesting the magic system in OUAT was and how bc it was an ABC drama it was never actually explored to its full potential
like the idea that the first ever incarnation of Any Magic resulted from Merlin drinking from the Holy Grail, and it just so happened to be light magic bc Merlin was a fundamentally good person. And that’s all that there was! for hundreds of years! And then dark magic was literally created because Merlin’s lover craved immortality and vengeance and betrayed him for it! And how light magic spread throughout their world naturally but dark magic was confined to one person! And how light magic is something inherent that you’re born with the ability to do while dark magic has to be consciously learned!
Not to even mention the fairies and their magic system and their seeming dependence on fairy dust (which is a mineral found underground, not something natural to them!) Or to mention the mermaids and their varying levels of civilization and humanity (the mermaids in neverland appear to be more mystical and inhuman, while the fairytale mermaids such as Ursula and Ariel seem to be very close to human)
Or the portal system, and how nearly all of the realms except for our own are seemingly connected and easily traversable by multiple means. Magic beans operate on willpower and wishes but only work once, while the hat doesn’t really need to do anything at all except grow but seems to operate on a finite loop of power. And how the sea apparently connects every realm (including our own) but the sky only leads to neverland. Not to mention that storms carrying portals aren’t all that uncommon, and it seems that any average object (e.g. the silver slippers) can become a portal if it’s imbedded with enough magic.
Or how magic literally changes a person’s appearance. In the case of dark magic it often makes you green or scaly or more animal looking, while with light magic it can freeze you in time entirely, keeping you young forever.
And don’t even get me started on how the different types of magic are used. How dark magic is more refined because it’s a practiced art where certain spells achieve certain things, while because light magic is an inherent skill it’s often a shapeless, aimless blast of energy. How even with training light magic appears to be more limited than dark magic, despite the fact that it’s more powerful.
And ripping out hearts??? That the staple move of dark magic was literally to take someone’s heart from them and either control it or crush it??? That the embodiment of evil was literally just someone else holding your heart in their hands, and you have no clue what they plan to do with it??
And then on the opposite side of it there was true love’s kiss?? That the most powerful, pure type of magic was sharing a heart instead of taking one?? That displays of love were literally the most powerful things to exist??
Basically I wish they would have locked in on the magic system bc I was SO cool.
ouat text posts: pt. 14/?
Have some OUAT-meal
She's such a good mom! I just imagine her sleeping like this at his side every time he was sick or having nightmares. Regina getting cramps and stiff muscles because she needed to be by her son's side. Even now, when she's hated by the town and she doesn't even know if Henry still loves her, she's there because that's what good moms do!
One thought I go back to constantly is how the couple that adopted Emma when she was a baby, just sent her back when they found out they were going to have a biological baby. Just like that. Even though they'd had her for three years and even gave their last name to her, they just got rid of her just like that. AND then the thought continues on to Regina, who went to SUCH great lengths to get her revenge, finding out that if she kept Henry, Emma would arrive one day to "ruin everything". And then deciding to erase that knowledge from her memory because she already loved Henry so much, she couldn't give him up and didn't want that knowledge to affect how she raised him. And then I cry.
