#outlawqueen

[everythingyoulikee]

[victoriously-regal]

"It's not fair, Robin. Our story was so short." "Doesn't make it any less epic."

| OUTLAWQUEEN KISSES | ONCE UPON A TIME |

| 3x19 | 4x08 | 4x11 | 7x22 |

[snowivyimconfusi]

I've put pretty much all of my fics on hiatus because I've got to finish this one : Dark Paradise

>The Evil Queen is desperate to capture Snow White when the King of Sherwood offers her a deal: In exchange for catching the thief Robin Hood, he would get her Snow White.Regina accepts, and promptly sends her knights to arrest the elusive thief. She'll hold the thief in her prison until such time as King Lear gives her Snow White. Only...the thief turns out to be more than she bargained for.

Regina/Robin

Sorry!! I'll get back to my other stuff soon, I'm just insane about this one for some reason. This never happens to me. Not like this!! Oh well.

[snow-licity]

I was raised by:

Snowing (Snow White and Prince Charming, I can't believe I need to clarify that🙄)

Michael & Nikita

Olicity

Katniss & Peeta

Ben & Leslie

Phil & Claire

House & Cuddy

Linda & Danny

Joelia

Beck & Jade

Hodgela

Steroline

OutlawQueen

Pepperony

Remadora

Zane & Rikki

[sunflowerromcom]

Denver by Sunflowerromcom

"You look like you're lost."

Looking up from her phone, her eyes narrowed. "I beg your pardon?"

A man with bright blue eyes smiled at her. "I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but you don't seem the type to be in a pub watching rugby on a day that most would consider the most romantic day of the year."

I started this fic almost ten YEARS ago. Thought I’d dust it off and give it an ending.

[belleoftheballpoint]

The In Between, Ch. 11

Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV) Rating: M Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Robin Hood Additional Tags: Missing Year (Once Upon a Time), oq au, Grief/Mourning, Blood and Injury, Cutting, Self-Harm (Cost of certain spells), Attempted Murder Thank you to @odakota-rose for the beta

Regina woke to the smell of woodsmoke and the particular silence of a camp that had learned to be quiet around something fragile. Her eyes opened before the rest of her was ready. The tent ceiling came first, pale canvas greyed with dawn light, and then, before the ache, before she had even taken a full breath, her hand was at her sternum, searching for the hollow place where her magic had been, checking whether what she remembered was real or the architecture of a fever dream.

It was real. The hollow was still there.

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[millscuddy]

outlawqueen being parents

[crisshex88]

Regina Mills & Robin Hood: #OutlawQueen

The Happy Ending She Was Denied

because i don’t think i will ever — ever — accept what Once Upon a Time did to Regina and Robin.

we watched her fall. we watched her destroy. we watched her claw her way back to the light.

Regina Mills didn’t just get a redemption arc. she earned it. painfully. relentlessly. honestly.

and then the show gave her love.

not obsession. not revenge. not manipulation.

love.

Robin wasn’t dramatic destiny. he wasn’t a curse. he was steady. grounded. kind.

he chose her knowing exactly who she had been.

that mattered.

yes, the Zelena-Marian storyline was messy. yes, it was soap-opera levels of chaotic. Zelena impersonating Marian, Regina pushing Robin away out of selflessness, the pregnancy reveal — fine. villain drama. we can survive that.

but destroying Robin’s soul?

that wasn’t drama.

that was cruelty.

because killing a character is one thing. erasing them from existence — no afterlife, no return, no magic loophole — is another.

Hook could come back because his soul still existed.

Robin? annihilated.

and what hurt the most wasn’t just losing him.

it was what that loss represented.

Regina had done the work. she had changed. she had chosen good, even when it cost her everything.

and the narrative decision seemed to say:

you can be redeemed. you can be powerful. you can be crowned the Good Queen.

but you don’t get the happy ending.

and that’s where i’ll always disagree.

if the intention was to show that Regina wouldn’t fall back into darkness after losing him — that her growth was permanent — then fine. that’s a powerful message.

but why did that lesson have to cost her everything?

why did her love story have to be the sacrifice?

especially when the season itself revolves around Emma going to the Underworld to save Hook.

so one heroine gets to defy death for love.

the other has to accept eternal loss.

tell me that doesn’t feel unbalanced.

Robin was never a villain. never morally grey for the sake of shock value. he was good. almost painfully good.

and he died not for redemption. not for destiny.

but for plot mechanics.

and that’s the part i can’t forgive.

Regina became the Good Queen. she was crowned. celebrated. respected.

and alone.

and i will never be convinced that loneliness was the only narratively satisfying reward for her transformation.

she deserved a partner who saw both her darkness and her light.

she deserved a future.

so yes.

i will forever rewatch their scenes. i will forever think “what if.” and i will forever believe that some characters deserved better than the lesson they were used to teach.

ok. now scream with me.

was it powerful storytelling? or unnecessary punishment?