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Do twisted roots grow a healthy tree? by spinner of histories (feristar3)
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
30 Sep 2025
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The Dark One’s family are the roots of Storybrooke’s people—but what happens when those roots run deeper than they should? When one is born of monsters and nightmares, how can one become a good father? Rumple will have to learn this through his own dysfunctional family.
Also known as: the AU where the Black Fairy was already a fairy when she had Rumplestiltskin. How will little Rumple grow, raised by both his mother and father—still villains—and how will this generational trauma pass on to his own children?
(This fic is completely self-indulgent so don't really expect much action, it's mainly based on coping with the trauma generated by parenting in childhood, and how this is consolidated in the relationships and families we form in adult life, all of this through Rumple's eyes.)
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if I told you about the darkness inside of me (would you still look at me like i'm the Sun) by IrishBella
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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Emma and Regina can break any curse. But the Dark One's curse is unlike anything they've dealt with. Will they be strong enough to break the curse? And will they be strong enough to deal with what comes after?
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The darkness is about to swallow Regina when Emma grabs the dagger. "I’m not gonna let you give out your happy ending, Regina. You’ve done so much to redeem yourself. I just can’t. Please protect Henry"
Pure horror draw on Regina’s face, and with out thinking it she also grabbed the dagger. "I can’t let you do this alone." And the darkness swallowed them, leaving only the dark one's dagger saying Emma&Regina. -
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She was a runaway with no past.
He was a prisoner forgotten by time.In a crumbling basement, two strangers find something neither expected, a reason to live, not just survive.
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Killian takes a shaky step back, feeling like he is the one frozen under those stares. He wants to say he is sorry, he wants to say he is scared, he wants to say it’s not his fault but the words don’t leave his mouth.
Emma…he needs Emma. But how can he help her if he is like this already?What if Captain Hook turned into the Dark One to get revenge on Rumplestiltskin? What if he only met the heroes in Neverland?
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Canon rewrite with Dark One!Hook, S5 style.
Season Five Edition.
MUST READ THE SERIES IN ORDER!Series
- Part 3 of What if...
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The sorceress La Belle Dame Sans Merci, (or Belle for short), is a collector of magical items. Tipped off by the man in the red woolen hat, she visits a Frontlands village slave market to locate a rare glamor spell. Upon discovering that a sickly slave possesses a magical ability she has never encountered before, Belle takes him back with her to the Dark Castle to study him better. As Rumplestilskin recovers from his ordeal, Belle installs him as caretaker of her large estate, convincing herself it is only to observe him more closely. While Belle and Rumple grow ever closer together, the fairies of the Enchanted Forest conspire to rid themselves of the denizens of the Dark Castle for good.
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“Welcome to Wonderland, look where you're at, Maddest of Hatters, the Cheshire Cat
Magical cabins and lovely white rabbits with clocks”Alice King has strange dreams of a world that only exists in books and movies. Dreams where she is a princess, her brothers got turned into swans, and she runs with a man with bright blue eyes and a magical hat.
Gryphon Swan never knew her parents, she never had anyone who believed in her except her adopted sister, Emma. Now she’s in storybrooke and a little boy thinks she’s a Savior.
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The Wheel of time turns, ages come and go. Moiraine Damodred faces Lanfear in the sands of the three fold land, and makes an oath. To haunt Lanfear in all the ages to come. But there are no ends or beginnings to the wheel of time. Threads snap, the weave changes
Waking in the Age of Legends, Moriane is thrust into a most dangerous game. How far is she willing to go to survive? And what is she willing to do to protect the future?
A Lanfear/Moiraine fic with a slightly darker Moiraine, drawing from the content of The world of the Wheel of time books! Enjoy!
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In Camelot, it's not Hook who kills Arthur, but Regina. The Dark One, Emma, is surprised by her reaction at seeing Regina kill for her.
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Emma falls deeper and deeper into the darkness, dragging Regina with her. Only, it's a lot easier for Regina. And her love for Emma certainly doesn't help. -
i know that you can love me (when there's no one left to blame) by kurtsvonneslut
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
18 Sep 2025
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Days after sacrificing herself to the Darkness to save Regina, no one has seen or heard from Emma. Theories and panic fly between the people of Storybrooke - is she plotting their downfall? Cooking up a curse even worse than the last? No one can be sure. But, when Regina finally finds Emma, she finds not a terrifying monster, but a woman in desperate need of help. In a powerful role reversal, Regina realizes that she is the only one who can save the Savior now. What happens from there will surely change them both.
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I Know That You Can Love Me (When There’s No-One Left to Blame) [Art] by VictoriousPeep for kurtsvonneslut
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
18 Sep 2025
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My artwork inspired by the incredible fic “I Know That You Can Love Me (When There’s No-One Left to Blame)” by kurtsvonneslut!! Created for SQSN X : The Stars Have Aligned
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Snow never put Emma in the wardrobe. Instead, she makes a desperate decision that changes fate. So when a different Emma finds Storybrooke, she set into motion a chain of events that'll upset the balance between good, evil, and the Devil herself.
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"I can feel it - the Dark One curse… maybe this is worse than death. I gave you the dagger and your memories because… if I'm not me anymore, I trust you to wield it."
"Emma, no." She can use it to get Emma to answer a question, she can't imagine herself compelling Emma to doing her bidding, to make Emma do something her entire being is fighting against.
But Emma steps closer, and it's intimate, the kind of feeling she's been lacking with Robin since they've been back. "Eventually I will come to hate you. But right now, while I'm still me, I'm telling you I trust you with this. Only you."
The one where it's up to Regina to end the Dark One curse, and also she has to decide if it's time to confront her feelings for Emma as well.
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Nevermore New Professors... by Italymystery
Fandoms: SwanQueen - Fandom, Once Upon a Time (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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...attend the masquerade ball in their "costumes".
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The seventh annual installment of the SwanQueen Halloween Anthology :D
Once again starting early this year. The Summerween Spirit has possessed me.
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- Part 30 of Scarytales
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im using episode 12 as an example to write it as canon as possible! hope you enjoy!
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Repost. Canon Divergent starting at the end of 4x22 leading into season 5. A reimagining of the Dark One arc in which Regina becomes The Dark One instead of Emma.
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Season 5 Emma is the dark one who needs to complete Excalibur and set forth her plan to rid the darkness.
Step one, accept the apprenticeship of the dark ones
Step two, complete Merlin's plan to merge the pieces into one sword
Step three, abolish the darkness
Step four, start happily ever after with Hook, keep her family happy, & try to live on with her lifeSimple enough.
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Inevitable Fate by Anonymous
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV), Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (TV)
30 Aug 2025
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Snow White and Prince Charming defeated the Evil Queen.
The Dark Curse was never cast.
But some things are just meant to be.
28 years later Queen Emma will have to make a choice just like her parents years ago.
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As the Dark One’s indentured plaything, Jefferson has learned to submit, survive, even thrive—so much so that she tasks him with training the timid spinner newly bound to her service to please her as well as he does.
Under Jefferson’s tutelage, Rumplestiltskin grows into his role, his desires, and his voice. But when the lessons end and the touches linger, they discover a bond deeper than servitude and survival: one that may lead them to freedom—and the families they gave it up for.