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[Hollywood Heidi]

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Real Fairy Tale Name:

Fairy Tale Story You're From:

Storybrooke Name:

Age:

What You Did in Fairy Tale World:

What You Do in Storybrooke:

Appearance: (Must post two pictures. First must be one of your character's look in Fairy Tale Land and second one of your character's look in Storybrooke. Questions on how, please ask in the OOC board or PM one of the moderators. You may also mention any important markings, scars, tattoos, physical traits, injuries or disabilities, usual manner of dress or accessories or anything else important to your character's appearance)

Residence:

Skills:

Weaknesses/bad habits:

Frequent moods/expressions:

Background/History:

[Hollywood Heidi]

(The writers choose the Storybrooke names of the characters based of their history. Sleeping Beauty was originally written by Charles Perrault so I’m naming her after him. Also, the sleeping curse is mentioned only briefly in the show and I’m going to go a little OOC and say that Queen Regina had imprisoned Maleficent before Maleficent could carry through with the curse herself. See Background/History for more info.)


Real Fairy Tale Name: Birth name, Aurora. Raised by the three fairies as Briar Rose

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Sleeping Beauty

Storybrooke Name: Charlotte “Charlie” Briar

Age: 20’s

What You Did in Fairy Tale World: I helped my eccentric and overprotective three aunts keep house deep in the woods.

What You Do in Storybrooke: I help my eccentric and overprotective three aunts run the town’s only bakery, Storybrooke Country Bread

Appearance:
Fairy Tale World

Storybrooke


Residence: A cabin hidden away in the woods

Skills: Baking the best cakes, pies, breads, and pastries you’ve ever tasted. It’s a good thing I love to bake because when you live in the middle of nowhere without much to do, you can perfect each recipe. I also love to sing and am blessed with the “voice of an angel” as my aunts often say. I’m also good with animals.

Weaknesses/bad habits: Her overprotective aunts intentionally ingrained a fear of strangers into her. She’s been raised and has become accustomed to keeping to the shadows, arrives at the bakery before dawn and doesn’t leave until after sunset, keeping out of sight in the backroom at all times. Her aunts also sheltered her from the evils of the world and of people, only being told vaguely that strangers are dangerous and are to be avoided, so she’s also very naïve. She has a weakness for helping wounded animals and much to her aunts’ dismay, she brings them home to mend and take care of until they are well enough to be released back into the forest. She’s sometimes thought of as odd due to her inexperience with interacting with people, her naivety, and her penchant for talking to animals as if they were humans.

Frequent moods/expressions: Usually cheery and daydreaming. Almost always singing or humming to herself, especially while walking through the woods and while baking.

Background/History: In the Fairy Tale World, her parents, King Stefan and his Queen welcomed Aurora’s arrival into the world with a gathering of everyone in the kingdom. She was betrothed to Prince Phillip, the young son of King Hubert, so that the kingdoms of Stefan and Hubert would eventually be forever united. Also in attendance were the three good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who had come to bless the child with gifts. Flora gave the princess the gift of beauty, while the next fairy, Fauna, gave her the gift of song. Before Merryweather was able to give her blessing, Maleficent appeared and cursed Aurora, proclaiming that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Maleficent vanished before the guards could seize her. Merryweather was able to use her blessing to weaken the curse, so that instead of death, Aurora would fall into a sleep from which she could be awakened by true love's kiss. Though King Stefan orders all spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned, the three fairies know Maleficent's spell cannot be stopped that easily and devise a plan to protect her. They disguise themselves as peasant women and with the King and Queen's consent they sneak Aurora away with them to a woodcutter's cottage in the forest until her sixteen birthday passes.
Years later, Aurora, renamed Briar Rose, has grown into a beautiful young woman with the blessings that Flora and Fauna bestowed to her. Sweet and gentle, she dreams of falling in love one day. On her sixteenth birthday, while singing in the forest, Rose attracted the attention of Prince Phillip as he is out riding his horse, Samson. When they met, they had fall in love. Realizing that she had to return home, Rose fled from Phillip without ever learning his name, but asked him to come to her cottage that evening. While she was away, the fairies' magical preparations draw the attention of Diablo, Maleficent's pet raven, revealing the location of the long-missing Aurora. Seeing Diablo, they know their location is no longer safe and they immediately flee despite the protests of Aurora.

However, Queen Regina had imprisoned Maleficent before Diablo had located Aurora, altering her fate. It was the curse that would have created the chain reaction of Prince Phillip finding the sleeping Aurora, breaking the curse, and starting off their happily ever after. Without Maleficent’s curse, she found herself stuck in the same routine, wandering the woods near her new cabin, daydreaming that the man would find her but each year, she lost a little hope. Now in her 20s, a difference curse descended upon her world taking with it her memories of her life in this world including the man she waited for.

In Storybrooke, Charlotte has lived a sheltered life. She lives with her three overprotective eccentric aunts in a cabin tucked away in a hidden place in the woods. She was homeschooled by her aunts who also taught her how to bake. She wanders the woods near home, singing or humming to herself as she gathers berries and herbs, talks to and feeds the animals near her cabin that have grown accustomed to her presence having no idea of the oddity of talking to animals as if they were people and occasionally bringing home wounded animals. The people of the town know little about the three eccentric older women who live in the woods and visit the town to make purchases and to sell the pastries and pies made by Charlotte. Her existence thus far is not known by anyone but her aunts and she longs to be a part of the little community of Storybrooke. Sometimes in the middle of the night, she sneaks out to wander the empty main street, peaking in the storefronts and imagining what it would be like to be a part of this town and begins questioning why exactly she can’t be a part of it. One night, she sees a ‘For Lease’ sign in the bakery window which finally gives her the motivation and inarguably logical reasoning for her three aunts to lease the place.

[Kristi Lynne]

Aw, it's Miss Yvonne! Approved, and we'll add Aurora to the roster.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Real Fairy Tale Name: Henrietta Jekyll/Miss Hyde

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Jekyll and Hyde

Storybrooke Name: Gabriella "Ella" Stevenson/Elle

Age: early 30s

What You Did in Fairy Tale World: Daughter of wealthy doctor, unlicensed and unacknowledged doctor

What You Do in Storybrooke: Nurse at Storybrooke General Hospital

Appearance:

Fairy Tale Land: Jekyll   Hyde
   

Storybrooke: Gabriella Elle
   

Residence: Owns a house in the main residential area of Storybrooke

Skills: Great bedside manner and medical knowledge that goes well beyond nursing, thanks to her father who was a highly skilled doctor.

Weaknesses/bad habits: Multiple Personality/Disassociate Identity Disorder, specifically one alternate destructive personality.  Afraid of somehow triggering the alternate personality so she avoids social activities and usually dresses plain and frumpy to draw as little attention to herself as possible.

Frequent moods/expressions: When she's herself, she's quiet, reserved, and a little shy.  When she's in work mode, she's confident and competent and assertive when it comes to critical situations.  She fears Elle, her other personality, that she keeps buried though sometimes Gabriella can hear Elle's voice in her thoughts as though Elle is reminding her that she's there, waiting for her chance to take control.

Background/History: In the Fairy Tale world, she was named for her father, Henry, who is a great and famous doctor.  All her life, she wanted to be a great doctor like her father but women were not allowed in medical school.  She made several attempts to be accepted into one but even with her father's reputation, she was laughed out of the schools.  She finally came to accept she would not earn a formal degree and remained a student of her father's, learning everything he knew in secret.  She published her findings under her father's name and he never stopped praising and encouraging her and he transfers all earnings from her work to her accounts.

Later, Henrietta met Gerhardt.  They fell in love and became engaged.  She shared her secret of practicing medicine and she loved him more for not only accepting it but encouraging it.  She came to know his brother, Victor, who she eventually shared her secret with and would sometimes consult him for more of a scientific view.

Henrietta was heartbroken at the news of Gerhardt's death.  She blamed Victor and refused to speak to him.  When Victor came to her home demanding to see her, she relented at the urgency in his voice.  He told her he'd resurrected Gerhardt.  She thought perhaps guilt had driven him to insanity but he was adamant and so she relented.  Upon seeing Gerhardt, she was overjoyed.  She rushed to him but stopped short at the sight of him, stitched together in many places like a rag doll.  He was alive and breathing but his eyes only momentarily showed signs of life when he first looked at her before they turned glassy and lifeless.  Victor informed her of the complications and Henrietta was determined to come up with a remedy.

She returned to the lab she shared with her father and rarely left it, lying to her father about what she was working on.  Her father assumed she was throwing herself into her work as a means of dealing with her loss and figured she would eventually overcome it.  Only she, Victor, and Gerhardt's father knew of Gerhardt.  She worked tirelessly, not knowing how many days passed until late one night, she eventually succeeded in creating a medicine she thought would restore his prefrontal cortex.  She quickly bottled it and prepared to head straight to Victor's home but stopped short with doubts.  Gerhardt was not at his strongest.  What if his fragile state could not handle this?  What if she was wrong?  She couldn't lose him again.  Impatient and tired, she made the hasty hypothesis that someone with a normally functioning prefrontal cortex should not be effected greatly by a sip of the medicine.

She was wrong.  She awoke several hours later in the darkness of the lab with a headache and feeling disoriented.  At first, she assumed she'd simply blacked out from exhaustion but when she turned on the lights, she gasped.  The lab had been vandalized and the door ajar.  Had someone knocked her out?  Glass and medical instruments broken everywhere.  The bottle of her medicine remained unbroken but it was empty with no signs that it had been spilled.  Somehow, she'd ended up drinking the entire contents.  Then red stains on her hands caught her attention and she looked down to see more stains on her clothes.  Was that... blood?  Suddenly, foggy flashes of memory seen through her eyes but not by her had her reeling.  What had she done?  The sounds of commotion in the distance brought her to a panic.  She quickly shoved all her notes into a satchel, threw on a coat to hide her stained clothes, and rushed to Victor's.

In Storybrooke, Gabriella, or Ella, as those close to her call her, works at the Hospital with her step-brother, Dr. Whale.  She still found it odd to refer to him as her step-brother since they'd both been young adults living on their own when their parents had married.  Her father had been Dr. Whale's mentor which had led to him meeting Dr. Whale's mother.  Ella's father had been a doctor and she'd learned a lot from him while growing up.  Dreams of becoming a doctor herself were unattainable.  She'd grown up with a severe case of Disassociate Identity Disorder which had landed her in a lot of trouble growing up.  She only had foggy flashes of memory as if she was watching them while buried deep within her own subconscious and was told that during those times, she referred to herself as Elle.  Her father's wealth helped to make any permanent records disappear.  She'd been subjected to various forms of treatments ranging from psychiatry to hypnosis but to no avail.  Eventually, he came across a drug that helped bury "Elle" deep into Ella's subconscious.  He used his connections in the medical field to secretly supply her with the drugs that were not exactly over-the-counter and when it came time to retire, he passed that torch to his step-son, Dr. Whale.

It's been years since Elle made an appearance but with the new arrival in Storybrooke, things are changing.

[Severin Darling]

[DarkSideCookie]

Real Fairy Tale Name: Rumpelstiltskin

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Rumpelstiltskin

Storybrooke Name: Mr. Gold

Age: over 300 years

What You Did in Fairy Tale World:
long time ago I was a spinner.. a simply powerless man.
But then I became the dark one and finally had the power to payback. I detect my love for concluding contracts with everyone who had something I was interested in... 

What You Do in Storybrooke:
Here I do run a pawnshop until I'll get my chance to do for what I came here...

Appearance:



Residence: An impressive estate

Skills: dark magic, spinning straw to gold, manipulating people, playing with words

Weaknesses/bad habits: Belle..., being cowardly,

Frequent moods/expressions:
determined to find my son... Baelfire.
Sometimes I seem to be a bit awkward in handling the relation between me and my love... Belle.

Background/History:
I was once a normal, widowed spinner with a son named Baelfire, who was my most treasured possession in the world. Before Baelfire was born, I ran from a war that I was meant to fight in, and was ever since labeled as a coward. To protect Bae I became the dark one, who is the most feared being in all the land. I was able to ending the ogre wars and rescue my son, but I felt fear was growing in his mind... fear against my new power. I made him a promise, that I could't keep... because I was the same coward as before. So the magic's price was to lose my all the world... Baelfire. Henceforward I tried to get the possibility to follow him in this unknown land far away.. a land without magic... a land where I would be as powerless as before. After hundred of years, while I may learned a short time of feeling true love, I finally found the curse that brought me, thanks to Regina, in this long searched land without magic. And so we all are here... in Storybrooke, Maine.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Welcome and approved! Go ahead and create a thread in the Character Bios and feel free to make use of the Potential Plots thread if you need some information on where we are! Everyone is really friendly and helpful here.

[Hollywood Heidi]

NOTE: I don't plan on playing her that much. She's mostly to help out at Granny's Diner since it sometimes gets really busy there and it'll help free up Ruby!


Real Fairy Tale Name: Ella of Frell

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Ella Enchanted

Storybrooke Name: Gail Carvine

Age: 18

What You Did in Fairy Tale World: Protest the injustices of the kingdom. Put up with my step-mother and step-sisters and try to keep the "gift" given to her by a fairy a secret.

What You Do in Storybrooke: Waitress at Granny's Diner

Appearance:

                            Enchanted Forest                                   
 
                                   Storybrooke


Residence: Enchanted Forest: A house with her step-mother and two step-sisters in the Kingdom of Frell.  Storybrooke: A small apartment in the Storybrooke apartment complex

Skills: Good people skills, great listener, and expert multitasker which make for a great waitress.

Weaknesses/bad habits: People pleaser so she sometimes has trouble telling people no and can be easily taken advantage of but doesn't have the courage to do anything about it or to stand up for herself.

Frequent moods/expressions: At work, almost always wearing a smile as part of her uniform but outside of work or during slow times at work, lost in her own thoughts.  Great listener which makes people open up to her but she keeps her own problems and thoughts to herself.

Background/History: Ella of Frell was one of the fortunate babies to have a Fairy Godmother.  Unfortunately, hers was Lucinda, notorious for giving the worst gifts.  Hers was no exception.  As the baby Ella cried in Lucinda's arms, Lucinda got the bright idea to give her the Gift of Obedience.  She has no choice but to do everything she's told by anybody.

As a young girl, Ella's mother fell ill.  As she sat by mother's bedside in her last hours, her mother told her to keep her "gift" a secret and the "gift" left her no choice but to obey the last wish.  Over the next several years, their funds ran low as a lot of her father's time went to raising Ella.  Close to her 18th birthday, her father came home from a work trip with the announcement that he had married a wealthy socialite.  Her new step-mother and step-sisters moved in shortly after and with a step-mother in the house, her father began to travel more for work.

It wasn't long until one of her nasty step-sisters figured out her secret.  After her step-sister forced her to cause a good deal of damage, Ella set out on her own to track down her Fairy Godmother to reverse the gift.  The Evil Queen's curse hit shortly after, before Ella could track down Lucinda.

Storybrooke: As soon as she had turned 18, Gail moved out of the house with her step-mother and step-sisters and got her own apartment with the money she'd been saving.  She spends most of her time working at the diner and pretty much keeps to herself.

[Medieval Kevin]

hmmmm weeeellllll I don't know... Okay approved :-)

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

Real Fairy Tale Name:
(Mr.) Oogie Boogie

Fairy Tale Story You're From:
Nightmare Before Christmas

Storybrooke Name:
Ken Calloway

Age:
33

What You Did in Fairy Tale World:
Boogeyman

What You Do in Storybrooke:
Accountant

Appearance:

FTL


Storybrooke


Residence:
Quaint suburban home complete with white picket fence, attic and basement

Skills:
While in FTL he has magical prowess that can rival some of the greats but his power is in direct relation to how much fear is around him. In Storybrooke he is a wiz with numbers and a bit of brain all round.

Weaknesses/bad habits:
Obsessive, power hungry, gambling

Frequent moods/expressions:
Sadistic, evil, greedy, devious, abusive

Background/History:
Some say he is as old as time created within the first threads of darkness felt upon the land; while others argue that he is merely the prickling on your neck or the shiver down your spine and others chastise themselves over the fears the shadows on the moon presents as child’s play. But what if he were real, that lump in your throat as you feel a cool breeze against your leg in the middle of the night as it comes out from the covers. Or maybe the creaking of floorboards when you are home alone is him checking up on you…

Needless to say such a creature would feed off fear, thrive on it from the young and old alike. Not one for making deals as they are poor man’s game, everyone knows what to expect and confident of what the outcome will be, a game of chance on the other hand. The fear of the unknown that flows freely with each exhale is purely exquisite, will one win or lose with the simple role of the die, so exciting even when it’s all rigged. No silly schemes or revenge tales to be had just fear to be spread a disease all are applicable to and all make a meal so delicious.

[Storyteller]

*Shivers* Apprehensively approved. ;-)

[DarkSideCookie]

Real Fairy Tale Name: Genie

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Aladdin

Storybrooke Name: William Robinson

Age: 56

What You Did in Fairy Tale World: Grant you three wishes

What You Do in Storybrooke: Run a kid's toy shop that sells own produced toys

Appearance:

FTL


Storybrooke


Residence: Backroom in the kid's toy shop

Skills:

FTL
Grant wishes... except of a few provisos, couple of quid pro quos:
Rule 1: I can't kill anybody
Rule 2: I can't make anybody fall in love with anybody else
Rule 3: I can't bring people back from the dead

Storybrooke
Producing and fixing toys

Weaknesses/bad habits: Not so much luck in life

Frequent moods/expressions: Kind hearted, energetic, never loosing humor, even in the worst and desperated situations

Background/History:
More than one of the most powerful creatures Genie is a slave. Though he possesses "phenomenal cosmic powers", he is bound to an "itty-bitty living space" and can only use his powers when the owner of the lamp (his master) makes a wish; he occasionally does things without granting a wish, but never anything that greatly affects the world around him. He is also bound by three laws; he cannot kill anyone, he cannot make people fall in love with each other, and he cannot revive the dead. It is possible, however, that he can do the third one, but as he puts it, "It's not a pretty picture. I don't like doing it!" Each master has three wishes, and cannot exceed this amount by wishing for more wishes. But after granted the master's wishes, he must return to the lamp, waiting for another person who finds it and becomes his new master. But being outside is far from being free...

[Storyteller]

Absolutely approved! And it brought a tear to my eye. Go ahead and create a bio thread for him :-) .

[DarkSideCookie]

FINALLY IT'S DONE!!! I FINISHED HIS BIO AFTER I REWATCHED THE WHOLE AUTHOR ARC AND ALSO DID A LITTLE RESEARCH!



Real Fairy Tale Name: Francis Dupont

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Sleeping Beauty (original character)

Storybrooke Name: Walter Smith

Age: 57

What You Did In Fairy Tale World: He was the oldest and most loyal knight at King Stefan's side, King Stefan's Kingdom; tracked down Princess Aurora for many years

What You Do In Storybrooke He is the oldest and most dutiful detective at Mayoress Regina's side, Storybrooke Sheriff Department.

Appearance:

Fairy Tale World


Storybrooke


Residence: a secluded house near the woods

Skills: hunting (animals and/or people), sword-fighting (Fairy Tale World), good with firearms, human polygraph

Weaknesses/bad habits: never stopped loving Queen Leah (Princess Aurora's deceased mother), takes a great delight in wielding authority, every so often oversteps the bounds of his position, smoker

Frequent moods/expressions: over-ambitious, purposeful, principled, idiosyncratic, histrionic, patient, inquisitive, friendly and charming (sometimes rather apparently than actually)

Background/history:

Francis Dupont was born as a Frenchman, originally coming from our world, a land without magic.

When he was a child, his single mother was used to always tell him fairytales and to raise him with a mindset of that when you believe just hard enough, dreams were coming true. When the boy reached the age of ten, she became fatally ill. In her delirious state of mind her stories degenerated into a crazy telling about a magical place she once had come from, supposed to live a royal life that she had never wanted and therefore escaped from with a man she was titling her true love. That was the time when Francis stopped believing in fairytales and dreams and instead started to believe in nothing but his own hard work to build up a life that would be of higher standard because averageness was not enough for him. It was only one year later when his mother's illness carried her off.

As he grew older and became part of the working class, Francis started a career at the police department where he worked his way up to a job at the CIA. As the sudden newbie that he was when he got the job, he got tasked with only the paperwork just as he got sent on errands for his older agent colleagues. But with still his principles deep-seated, he swallowed his anger about it down and did everything he got tasked with.

And then one night in which he was working up to very late, a file drew his attention. With almost nobody else around, at least nobody else actually working, Francis dared to get a closer look into it. Starting with the simple idea to prove that he was more than his boss was seeing in him, he secretly took on the case in that file that actually had been discarded as to be on hold. The deeper he dug, the more obsessed he became with the case itself though. Putting all his free time and energy into it, eventually, his research led him to a name. Richard Dawson. An author of fairytale and fantasy stories. And not only any stories but stories he had gotten told by his mother when he was a little boy. Stories that differed a lot from their original telling, at that.

After months of collecting information, Francis finally stumbled upon an address in New York City. Taking some days off from work, he traveled there, yet found no more than a vacant flat. Thanks to his shield and his sharp mind he got himself access to what once seemed to have been the author's home. While Francis had expected to find piles of books and documents within the chaos a man would only leave behind when he was on the run, there was only one single found to make, yet one that fed his confession up to a whole new level. A torn-out page of a story he had never heard before, but with a name in it that would never make him forget to have read it in there. Marie-Claire. The name of his deceased mother, yet in this odd story the name of a runaway princess.

Another month of research passed by until Francis finally got another name or rather a pseudonym that was connected to the case. A man calling himself the Dragon. And so it came that, despite all lack of rationality, another journey was taking Francis to Hong Kong in China. At first, the man appeared to him as nothing but a charlatan but when he suddenly was talking about the page Francis still had in his possession, he was all ears. In exchange for a great deal of money, the Dragon told him everything about a world that was called Fairytale Land just as about a man who had been tasked to write it down - the stories of that land. Of course, Francis was skeptical and wouldn't have believed the man without asking for proof. And so it ought to be. Since the Dragon was the only magical being who was able to create magic within our world, he gave the agent just a little sample of his abilities; and so brought back in him the little boy that once had been a believer.

It was in 1993, two long years after he had come back from Hong Kong, when Francis finally tracked down the Author somewhere in a little suburb of Peterborough in Canada. By that time Francis' motives were far from moving up the ladder in his CIA career, but instead to find a way to enter Fairytale Land, for that would mean an achievement no one else in this world had hit before. But for him, that wouldn't be enough of course. Remembering his mother's words, a story that everyone, him included, had been rejecting as the fantasy of a creative woman being on her deathbed, Francis took on the view that, with everything turning out to be true, it was, in the end, his right to be a king - of a land he truly belonged to.

In the dialogue with the Author, Francis learned that this man no longer had the ability to travel through the worlds, never mind how much he was demanding him to take him there, for he once had been breaking the rules. Instead of just writing down reality the Author had misused his powers to write someone out of Fairytale Land to settle down with him in our world. That someone he wrote out had been no less a person than Marie-Claire Dupont, Francis' mother. The Author's infringement though had come with a price. The two lovers had been separated once they entered this new land, and an illness that could have gotten easily cured in their homeland got called a disease not to diagnose in this land - the doom of princess Marie-Claire. As much as Francis was intrigued by this story, as much grew his intention to take on the throne that was supposed to be his family's. And so he asked the Author one last time to get him into that land whereupon the Author asked him if he hadn't listened to his story at all, for he had mentioned having lost his ability long ago. But Francis wasn't to be caved in just as he hadn't come without being prepared. Producing the torn-out page from the pocket of his coat, a change seemed to happen on the Author's features all of a sudden, for he never had thought it would still exist. As Francis Dupont was Marie-Claire's son, the former love of his life, the Author was willed to help him. He told Francis that the drawing upon the page was more than just that, same as the door, symbolizing the portal the princess and he had escaped through to get into this land, wasn't just the drawing of a door. It was a door. And when Francis asked how to open it, suddenly the Author produced something from his pocket as well - a key.

...

Once upon a time there was a man who did his utmost to accomplish an end. One that was different from any other happy ending though, because happiness was not his aspiration. Instead, it was justice and his right to take the seat that was destined for him. And so the man found a way to travel into a land that came with just that seat. As he patiently worked his way up to it, happiness crossed his path yet didn't last for long. The woman he fell in love with, being no less a person than Queen Leah, the wife of King Stefan, fell ill shortly after she gave birth to a child that wasn't meant to be his. But the story of that child with the name Aurora was another, yet it ought to be linked with this. Anyways, after Queen Leah died of a broken heart, the man, who had become the King's first knight by then, made it his task to fulfill his true love's last wish. To protect her only child Princess Aurora wherever she might be...

...

Who would have thought that, due to a curse, in the end, Francis Dupont would be ending up to be back in the land he had come from?

[Hollywood Heidi]

Such a creative and rich backstory! Approved! Go ahead and create a thread for him in character bios. I believe I already have your EF alter up and running. I'll get to work on your SB alter!

[Ariel]

Real Fairy Tale Name: Count Dracula


Fairy Tale Story You're From: Dracula


Storybrooke Name: Vladimir Lee


Age: Vladimir is 38, Dracula is hundreds of years old


What You Did in Fairy Tale World: Lord over monsters and demons


What You Do in Storybrooke: Hypnotherapist


Appearance: 

Count Dracula:


Vladimir Lee:


Residence: Dracula's Castle in the Land Without Colour


Skills:

(in SB) Charming, good with his words, well educated, conniving 

(in FTL/LWC) Shapeshifter, vampirism, able to control and command respect of other vampires and demons, hypnotic and telepathic abilities, can defy the laws of gravity


Weaknesses/bad habits:

(in SB) Can be a bit of a hot head when things don't go his way, bit of a hopeless romantic, can't make sense of modern day technology

(in FTL/LWC) Sunlight, can't enter a place that isn't his unless invited in, garlic, crosses, feeding off human blood to remain youthful


Frequent moods/expressions: Charming, cunning, comes off as an old soul


Background/History:

Count Dracula is a centuries old vampire that lives in an isolated, ancient Transylvanian castle within the Land Without Colour. Through decades of dealings with Hades from in The Underworld, Count Dracula gained immense powers and abilities that allowed him to rise to the top in hierarchy over monsters and demons in multiple realms. Some even looked up to him in fear as a Lord as Dracula was able to manipulate and control those beneath him. Being a Vampire, Dracula had gained the ability to become immortal. However, immortality did not age him well as he would appear to look his centuries-year-old age if he did not manipulate humans into allowing him to feed off of their blood to remain looking youthful. Dracula never feared of running out of humans to feed off of, though it grew to become rather a hassle and he was growing bored with the same old manipulation game. He had heard rumors of a magical entity in another land called The Dark One, and whoever falls into possession of The Dark One's Dagger can control him. Dracula craved a new challenge, and was confident that he could swindle one that they called Rumplestiltskin and obtain his dagger to gain forever a youthful complexion without having to bother with human blood. Dracula traveled to a realm called The Enchanted Forest to seek out Rumplestiltskin , and after learning more about the path of Darkness his objection slightly changed. Not only would he seek to obtain the Dagger, Dracula would kill the one that owns it to become the new Dark One. Yet, before he could reach Rumplestiltskin, Dracula got swept up in the Evil Queen's curse to a land called Storybrooke. Vladimir Lee is a hypnotherapist, and although he possesses none of his vampire abilities in this new world he is still just as charmingly cunning as ever.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Approved! Can't wait to see him around EF and SB! Hypnotherapist... genius!! XD

[Kristi Lynne]

Real Fairy Tale Name: Emma Swan

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Snow White

Storybrooke Name: Emma Swan

Age: 28

What You Did in Fairy Tale World: Daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming

What You Do in Storybrooke: Apparently I’m supposed to be the savior and break the Evil Queen’s dark curse on all the townspeople….

Appearance:




Residence: Currently my spacious yellow VW Beetle on the streets of Storybrooke. Turns out felons aren't welcome at Granny's Bed & Breakfast.

Skills: Knowing when people are lying, finding people, reckless driving, horticulture (especially apple trees)

Weaknesses/bad habits: Lack of faith in my maternal skills, relying on myself rather than accepting help from others, not staying in one place for too long

Frequent moods/expressions: Detached, defiant, resourceful, and concerned for my newfound family

Background/History:

Once upon a time, an Evil Queen appeared at Snow White and Prince Charming’s wedding to threaten their and everyone else’s happiness with a dark curse. The newlyweds later learned from Rumplestiltskin that their daughter Emma would be the key to breaking the curse. Baby Emma was placed in a magical wardrobe built by Geppetto, and both she and Pinocchio were able to escape the curse and travel to a new land.

In the real world, Emma grew up in foster care, bouncing from one family to the next. She later met Neal Cassidy and the young couple engaged in petty crimes. They planned to start a new life in Tallahassee, Florida, but Neal was persuaded by August Booth (Pinocchio) to turn Emma over to the police to protect her destiny as the savior. Emma was jailed and later gave birth to Henry, whom she gave up for adoption so that he could have a better life. Henry was ultimately adopted by Regina Mills, the mayor of Storybrooke (also the Evil Queen).

On her 28th birthday, a ten-year-old Henry turns up at Emma’s door in Boston to explain her origins with a book of fairy tales. Skeptical, she returns him home to Regina in Storybrooke, but the mayor becomes worried that Emma now wants to be in Henry’s life. Regina’s repeated warnings only strengthen Emma’s resolve to stay. She initially wants Henry to let go of his theories of the curse, thinking these fairy tales are his way of dealing with loneliness. But then she decides to play along, and so begins Operation: Cobra.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Approved! Welcome, Savior! Please create a thread for her in Character Bios and I'll assign you the alter!

[DarkSideCookie]

Real Fairy Tale Name:
Captain Killian "Hook" Jones

Fairy Tale Story You're From:
Peter Pan

Storybrooke Name:
Not yet seen in Storybrooke

Age:
Unknown, but for sure much older than he looks

What You Did in Fairy Tale World:
A Naval Lieutenant destiny had turned towards a pirate life

What You Do in Storybrooke:
Although not yet seen, a plan is getting closer to get achieved and a crocodile closer to get skinned...

Appearance:



Background/History:
When Killian is still a child, he boards a ship with his older brother Liam and his father Brennan to explore other worlds. One day him and his brother wake up to find their father gone. Only when the captain enters, they learn their father sold him and Liam into servitude on the ship, in order to elude capture because he is a wanted criminal.

Many years later, while Killian and Liam are still stuck in servitude as lowly deckhands, his brother suggests using their wages to enlist in the king's navy, where they can become respectable men, what, later, they actually happened to become; His brother Liam as a Captain and himself as a lieutenant.

Sometime Killian joins his brother for an expedition to Neverland. On orders of the king, they must obtain a plant, Dreamshade, from the island, which is rumored to heal any affliction. Once in Neverland's waters, they row to shore with a boat. They are surprised by a young boy, Peter Pan, who claims that Dreamshade is dangerous. The boy presses that the plant only leads to doom and exemplifies how easy it is to kill an entire army with poison instead of a messy onslaught. Killian begins having doubts, but Liam ignores his brother's fears and they go on to find the Dreamshade on Dead Man's Peak. In a misguided attempt to prove the plant is harmless, Liam cuts himself with Dreamshade and passes out from the spreading poison. Panic-stricken, Killian pleads for Pan's help until he allows passage to the island's remedial spring, though the boy warns they should not leave Neverland unless willing to pay the price of magic. Killian promises to give him whatever he wants and hurries to deliver the water to Liam, who is completely healed by it. He turns to repay Pan for his services, but the boy is gone. Journeying home, Liam proposes exposing their king's true nature to everyone, however, he collapses and dies after the Jewel of the Realm leaves Neverland's seas. Liam's death has a profound effect on Killian, who takes his place as captain of the ship and renames it the Jolly Roger. After revealing to the crew what type of man their king is, Kilian rallies them into deferring from the king's service and embracing the life of pirates "with honor" instead.

After Jones apparently takes a woman named Milah, her husband Rumplestiltskin confronts him but is too cowardly to do anything about it. Years later, after Rumplestiltskin becomes the Dark One, he sees Killian and his crew at a tavern and confronts him once again. He challenges Jones to a sword-fight, and uses his dark magic to win. Rumplestiltskin plans on ripping out Killian's heart, until he is confronted by Milah, who has become a pirate. Rumplestiltskin finds out that Killian and Milah are in love, and Milah went with him willingly, hoping to escape being the wife of a coward and explore.

Milah offers Rumplestiltskin a magic bean in exchange for Killian and Milah's lives. However, when Rumplestiltskin angrily starts questioning her, asking her how she could abandon her own son, Milah bitterly replies that she wanted to escape her miserable life, and that she never loved Rumplestiltskin. Furious, Rumplestiltskin rips out Milah's heart and crushes it, killing her. He then cuts off Killian's hand before vanishing. Replacing his hand with a hook, Killian and his crew sail to Neverland, vowing revenge against Rumplestiltskin...

[Hollywood Heidi]

Approved!!! Etta is so happy to have her pirate on board!

Go ahead and create a thread for him in Character Bios so I can link it to your Alter.

[DarkSideCookie]

Real Fairy Tale Name: Snow White

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Storybrooke Name: Mary Margaret Blanchard

Age: 30

What You Did in Fairy Tale World: Same as avoiding her stepmother Queen Regina, she was actually also provoking her by rubbing royal carriages on their way passing the forest.

What You Do in Storybrooke: Teaching elementary classes and helping out in the hospital on a voluntary basis

Appearance:



Residence: A two-bedroom apartment

Skills: Teaching, singing to animals (especially birds), making cocoa with a sprinkle of cinnamon

Weaknesses/bad habits: Polite and tactful to the point of repression

Frequent moods/expressions: Helpful, selfless, always believes in the good in man

Background/History:
Snow White is the daughter of King Leopold and the stepdaughter of the Evil Queen Regina. When she was a little girl, Regina rescued her from a runaway horse. As a result, Leopold wanted to marry Regina and provide Snow with a mother as her real mother had recently died. However, Snow discovered that Regina loved the stable boy, Daniel, and innocently revealed this to Regina’s evil mother, Cora. Unfortunately, this led to Daniel’s death. Regina wanted Snow dead for revealing this secret and preventing her from having true love as she was forced to marry King Leopold instead.

Years later, after King Leopold’s murder, the Huntsman was enlisted by the Queen to kill Snow, but he spared her for her selflessness. She continued living in the forest, stealing from the nobles of the Queen’s domain in the hopes of collecting enough money to move out of the realm. She met Prince James while robbing him, and she nicknamed him “Prince Charming” when he captured her to regain his stolen engagement ring, which she had already sold. The pair fell in love on their journey to buy back the jewels, but he returned to his fiancée. Realizing she and James could never be together, she received from Rumplestiltskin a potion that would erase all her memories of James. Shortly after, she received a letter from James telling her to meet him at the castle if she loves him so they can run away before he is married. She went to meet him, but his “father” King George caught her in the castle and forced her to tell James that she does not love him. She then went to live with the seven dwarves.

James broke off his engagement, but she drank the potion shortly before the news reached her. The potion changed her into a mean-spirited and cruel person, and she realized that her anger stemmed from the death of her father. She tried to kill Regina, the person responsible for her father’s murder, but James took the arrow meant for the Queen. He told her that he would rather die than let Snow become evil, and she realized that no one else is willing to die for her. She kissed him and regained her memory. However, the pair were again separated when George’s knights captured James. She and the dwarves then set out to rescue James. She learned that the Queen had taken James captive and agreed to meet her.

In exchange for James’ life, Snow willingly ate a cursed apple that put her into a death-like sleep. Some time later, James kissed her and brought her back to life. They were married, but the Queen arrived at the wedding and announced that she would place a curse on everyone to destroy Snow’s happiness. Snow was soon pregnant and gave birth to Emma just as the curse began to take hold.

(wikipedia.org)

[Hollywood Heidi]

Approved! Go ahead and create a thread for her in Character Bios! Mary Margaret alter already done. I'll get to work creating a Snow one!

[Kristi Lynne]

Real Fairy Tale Name: Megara

Fairy Tale Story You're From: Hercules/Greek Mythology

Storybrooke Name: Cora Mercouri

Age: 37

What You Did in Fairy Tale World: Princess-y things while waiting for a man to marry me

What You Do in Storybrooke: I run the Terpsichore Community Theatre, where I teach young and old the joys of the performing arts.

Appearance:





Residence: A charming little cottage close to work that Mr. Gold is kind enough to rent to me

Skills: Singing, dancing, costuming, and set design

Weaknesses/bad habits: Getting involved with the wrong men; affinity for Greek columns

Frequent moods/expressions: Compassionate and supportive to those who are patrons of the arts, snarky and condescending to those who are not.

Background/History:

With the Ogre Wars raging all around, Megara’s family could not help but become involved in the fight. Since she could not join her brother in battle, she pleaded with the Dark One to protect him in exchange for her servitude. Her brother returned home after the war triumphant and intact but died shortly thereafter in a tavern brawl, leaving Megara still bound to Rumplestiltskin.

Cora runs the community theater and does her best to keep the community involved, insisting that anyone can find their inner star. With a little professional help, obviously. She also relies heavily on Mr. Gold and his shop of antiquities for set décor and costume pieces.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Yay!!! Megara/Cora is back! Approved!

Looks like all the info is the same as the previous Character Bios thread so I'm gonna move that out of Inactive and back to active!  I'll swap out the pics as the old links stopped working.  I'll get your new alters all set up!  They'll have still pics for now as it's late but I wanted to get you up and running with them.  Feel free to PM me any gifs you'd like for the avatars.