TheGreatGrim

I just found this thread a few days ago and I have been going through it. Really helping me with ideas for a full OUAT rewrite. I'd like to expand on an idea mentioned on pg 53. There, people presented the idea that the LWM was the original land, and that losing its magic resulted in magic creating all the other realms as compensation. Using that, we could easily have the series finale being a villain working to reintroduce magic to the LWM, but at the price of all the other realms being destroyed since they were created by the very same magic which is now being sent back. Instead of being whatever we got, the authors could instead be random people chosen by magic to have visions of the other realms-past, present and future. This is magic's attempt to link itself back to its origin world. However, the visions are often garbled and not clear, so when the authors write down the stories, its really a mix of multiple events separated by time. For example, let's take the Grimm version of Snow White. Let's say they had three visions, each of a different time: 1. Most of the canon events we see in OUAT- the meat of the story. 2. A vengeful queen attacks a girl because she's jealous(or the girl's beauty led to the queen's lover leaving her for the girl, the specifics don't matter in this context). The girl and her new lover kill the queen by making her dance until she dies. 3. A prince saves a princess from choking on an apple. These elements would all be combined to form Snow White, because unlike Rumple, they don't have over a century to decipher their visions, especially since the visions are of events that have taken place, are taking place, and will take place. This would also solve the plot hole for how Disney,a canonical author, was writing about fairy tales years before they actually played out. Season 4 would feature the gang searching for the author because of their ability to see the future. Isaac would be a character who seeks to end the burden of the author,as the visions take a heavy toll. He was trapped in the book for attempting to push the burden on an innocent person not in line to be his successor, not wanting his life to be dominated by the visions. Eventually, 4B would end with Isaac either dying and Henry getting the abilities, or Isaac finding a way to peacefully give it to Henry, who has been marked as the next Author. Merlin would create the quill in order to track down authors and explain their visions, and give them a book so they could faithfully record the events as they truly happened. Let me know what you guys think!