Storybrooke Archives

Every town has its history. Every history has some things missing. This is a log of the untold stories of the most unusual town in our world. Read at your own peril, for some of the things written should not be known, and what is read cannot be taken back. Please, do come in.

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The Merry Men

The Merry Men is the establishment belonging to Archer Locksley. An upscale bar that only the richest men in town find themselves drawn to. It’s food is magnificent and the alcohol even better. Men find themselves spending the entire contents of their wallet they love it so much. Especially after a couple drinks.

Employees are as Follows:

Archer Locksley (Owner)

Jonathan Little

Mitch Miller

Will Locksley 

Tucker Frye

Alan Daniels

Jackie “JJ” Justice

Marian Knighton

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Zyra the Lioness

Zira was born to a small pride of instinctual lions, untouched by magic. Still a young cub, her pride was hunted by humans, and Zira’s mother carried her far into the territory of Ahadi. Zira’s mother did not survive the trip, and Zira mourned her loss for days. Eventually, Zira was found by a young lion, Scar. Scar took no pity on the simple lion cub, but led her to his pride none-the-less. Zira was accepted into the pride, though Zira preferred the company of her saviour, Scar.

Over time, magic slowly affected Zira, though her instincts were still powerful, born outside of the pride. Though she was capable of emotion, her need to hunt was powerful. Her ability to feel only drove her further, from hunting to survive to hunting for the thrill. Though Zira showed no signs on wanting to cause the pride harm, her instinctual blood lust unnerved many of the lions, especially Ahadi who forbade the hunt for pleasure. Zira stayed in line, not questioning the king, but fighting her need to kill pressured young Zira greatly.

Zira spent her years listening to Scar, in awe of his mentality and cunningness. Though both Scar and Mufasa were capable of wisdom, Zira was far more attracted to the cunning mind of Scar. Though Mufasa was the rightful heir, Zira agreed with Scar, that he should be the one to rule.

Zira followed Scar faithfully, even in her adulthood. Zira had not been aware of Scar’s plans to kill Mufasa, though she did not mourn the brother’s death. Instead, Zira was delighted, as her saviour was now king and in his rightful place on the throne. Ahadi’s law against hunting for pleasure was overruled, and Zira gained status of the head huntress, leading the lionesses’ in their hunts. She was brutal, over killing and slaughtering the food supply. For the first year, they ate well from Zira’s kills, but the animals either died off or moved on, leaving supplies low.

Scar took Zira as his mate, and Zira fell in cub to their first son, Nuka. Whilst nursing, Zira was incapable of returning to the hunt, and the lionesses didn’t go to her lengths. Eventually, food stopped completely. With their second child, Vitani, they were malnourished, and the pride had to resort to hunting in the forest for food. With Scar unsatisfied with both cubs, Zira feared Scar would leave her for another in hopes of a stronger heir. Leaving her cubs in the care of another lioness, Zira left the pride for the first time since a cub.

Returning to the lands of her past pride, Zira found a few had survived. Without Ahadi’s magic, they were easily over powered, and Zira killed the last of her old pride for a young cub, Kovu. Taking the cub, Zira brought the cub back to the Pridelands, hoping to satisfy Scar’s need for a strong son. It worked, and Kovu was pronounced the heir of Scar. Though Zira was bitter neither of her cubs were named heir, Zira took on Kovu as his own, raising him alongside Nuka and Vitani.

When Simba returned to the pride, Zira was unable to participate, still nursing the young cub. Zira watched from afar, believing Scar’s pride would be loyal to him. However, they turned, and eventually so did his hyenas. When Scar fell from Pride Rock, Zira abandoned her cubs to seek her king, only to witness his murder by the teeth of his hyenas. Vengeful, Zira fought them off, though she was too late. Zira swore vengeance on Simba and the hyenas who turned on their king.

Zira struck out at Simba, though she was overpowered by him and his lionesses. Banished, she was forced to leave the pride, and never return to the Pridelands. Taking her cubs with her, Zira left, though swore to return.

Zira strayed far from the lands, into magic torn lands long abandoned. The earth was cursed, providing no water or vegetation. The barren land provided no predators, and Zira was capable of leaving her cubs for long periods of time to seek food and water for them. In her travels, Zira would find stray lionesses, none capable of emotion. Easily able to defeat them in battle, Zira gained follower after follower, leading more and more to her lands. Eventually, she built her own pride, the Outsiders. Though she didn’t have a fraction on Ahadi’s power, she was able to spread the understanding of blood lust and anger amongst her pride.

When Nuka was old enough to care for his siblings, Zira left her cubs and took her pride on a quest for vengeance. Zira and her pride tracked down the hyena’s, and slaughtered them. Though she did not kill them all, she did kill the large majority, tearing the head off one as a trophy, bringing it back to the Outlands. The skull of the hyena was Zira’s only prized possession, and it returned with her once the curse hit, sitting amongst Gold’s possessions in the pawn shop.

Zira trained her cubs everyday, teaching them the art of fighting and killing. But Zira’s focus was on Kovu, Scar’s heir. For years, Zira taught Kovu how to hunt and kill, and how to rule as king.

When Zira’s plans failed, and Kovu fell in love with Simba’s daughter, it started Zira’s downfall into insanity. With the passing of her most loyal follower, her son Nuka, Zira struck out against Kovu, banishing him. The responsibility fell on Vitani, and Zira led her daughter and the lionesses to battle. Incapable of fighting instinctual behaviour any longer, Zira wagged war, not caring for the blood loss on either side. Having lost two sons, Zira was driven mad, and any emotional strengths she’d gained from her time in the Pridelands was long lost. Zira only felt hate and pain, and wished nothing more than to kill Simba.

When her last child stood against her, Zira no longer recognised her as her cub, and felt no mercy for her child. Zira only wished for blood, and turned against her daughter. The Outsiders turned against her, following Vitani and Kovu. Distraught over the loss of all her children and her pride, Zira blamed Simba, attacking him. However, Kiara stopped her, pushing the two off a ledge.

Able to lift the fog of instinct, Zira’s emotions crippled her. Her grief of the loss of Nuka and Scar, along with the betrayal of her children and Simba tore her. When she was offered mercy from Kiara, Zira was incapable of accepting. Viewing Kiara as the enemy who stole her last remembrance of her king, her children, Zira let go of the wall, choosing death over forgiveness.

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Ahadi had been born to a stray lioness, and he in turn captured when they strayed too close to the forest. He was trained and pitted against beasts in battle for the amusement of humans, contained and controlled by magic. Ahadi was experimented on via magic providing a more powerful and larger lion, immune to pain and completely controlled by his owners. However, the magic effected the lion in ways his captors didn’t expect. Along with power, Ahadi was given wisdom, able to bypass pure instinct. With a human-like mind, Ahadi was able to outwit his captors, and escape the forest.

In lands far outside the boundaries of the enchanted forest, human and magic contact was non-existent, was overrun by a pride of lions. They were simple beasts run on pure instinct. The lands were lush with food and water, and the pride who claimed it were lazy and content. Ahadi found the pride, and easily over threw the king, only a simple instinctual lion. Ahadi took a mate, Uru, started his pride. The magic infused in Ahadi spread throughout his pride members, awakening lions capable of emotion and wit. But none more so than his heirs.

Mufasa and Scar weren’t quiet as large as their father, nor did they gain his strength, but both more capable of emotions than any other in the pride. Mufasa gained the ability of is father’s courage and fairness, while Scar gained the ability of envy and cunningness.

Ahadi was the first of the Pridelanders able to feel human emotions, and his descendants carried on his legacy. 

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Wonderland Headcanon: The tea leaves in Wonderland were different from anything in Storybrooke, or the world surrounding it. Wonderlands teas are beyond compare. They were extremes of the flavors they produced. Sweet, Bitter, sometimes even fruity. And the flavors were much more potent and concentrated. A simple brew was more flavorful than most those of this world had experienced. submitted by haveacupofteaxindeed

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When you say, send in questions? What exactly do you mean? about Clarifying questions also.

Questions like this one, love. This would count as a clarifying question. You could also ask if there is anything already plotted for the FTL backstory of your character or character group (Quite often there is at least an idea between the admins or I), or suggestions for the backstories of other characters. You can also send in questions or additions to things that have already been posted.

~The Keeper

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Another thing you can send in...

Questions! Please ask questions about backstories and headcanons! Ask clarifying questions about already posted information, or what you would like to see more of. Ask if the admins and I have any ideas for the FTL verse of your character or their group, so we can give you a basis of information to work off of.

Send me things! 

~The Keeper

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Silena Desmond- Why She Distrusts, And The Man That Made Her Trust

Syrena remembers snippets of her life as a child. She was born to a mother who mated with a sailor; a very rich one who was awed by her beauty, and then she remembers certain flashbacks of her and her mirage of sisters. Happy memories. The carefree days were cut short when one of her sisters were murdered by sailors from another country.

She has never forgotten the encounter. Nor would she forget the many others who tried to capture she and her sisters for profit.

She often found herself closer to another group of sisters; four of them in particular. Apart from the eating humans and vicious attacks that they suffered, the four of them managed to maintain quite a healthy relationship. They were called "creatures of the dark", but they were not really, they were built this way and they could quite easily sustain themselves on human blood alone.

Syrena found that she disliked hurting humans. She always had done and she would act like she had devoured them when she in fact had only taken some blood from their bodies. It was quite an easy way to live, and one she could feel better about. She knew that humans were not innocent, yet she still hesitated to cause them lasting harm.

She then met a certain missionary, and unspoken feelings came to greet her in a manner of which she didn't understand. He had a certain light to him. He protected her, and he was different from all of the others. She had planned to take him down with her into the sea with her kiss; to become healed and then to swim him to safety towards the other side of the bay. To go with him to a better world than her own.

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The tea leaves in Wonderland were different from anything in Storybrooke, or the world surrounding it. Wonderlands teas are beyond compare. They were extremes of the flavors they produced. Sweet, Bitter, sometimes even fruity. And the flavors were much more potent and concentrated. A simple brew was more flavorful than most those of this world had experienced.

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Alice has visited Wonderland on many occasions. She started visiting when she was just 7 and a half years old. The very first time she returned home from Wonderland after a particularly dreadful lesson from her older sister she couldn’t stop talking about Wonderland, her mother brushed it off as complete and utter nonsense, though she’d been gone for hours, she’d always had a tendency to wander off on her own. The first time she visited through a rabbit hole. Following the white rabbit in the waist coat down into the strange world of wonder and mystery. Danger and imagination.

There were few in Wonderland she was less than friendly with, of the assorted royalty she got along best with The White Queen. A woman she met on her first visit who took care to show her the better parts of the world. A woman who Alice desperately wished could be her mother.

As the years went on and Alice visited Wonderland more and more, her imagination grew with her. She’d stopped speaking of it to her mother, but her beloved cat Dinah was always the one to listen to her, always patiently waiting when Alice came back eager to hear her stories. Regardless of being able to understand or not.

Alice came to have tea with Hatter, The March Hare and Dormouse more than once. Even if her story only reflects a singular time, her first visit actually, with minor details from visits following.

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Send me things!

The Archives is officially open for business! First things- I have a short list of characters that I've missed, but please let me know if your character is not included in the list or their link isn't functional.

Second, send me everything. 

I want:

FTL theories for how your character fits in to canon.

Ideas on how to mash stories together in true OUAT style

more detailed backstories,

basically anything that occurs to you to send in- send it! This is a log about your character.

We’re creating a universe here, guys. Let’s make it as organized and detailed as possible.

One thing I specifically want to see- group Headcanons. Whether they’re FTL or Storybrooke, I’ll take either. If it involves more than one character other than your own, it belongs in the Archive. Note: I will clear all of these with the involved parties and the admins before posting, so never you worry about stepping on others's toes.

You have a HC about how mealtimes go in Dodger’s gang? Or a funny thought about a classic interaction between the Urchin sisters, before and after the curse? Or even something as basic as board game nights at the Fayte household? Send them in! 

Thanks!

Rose