Fic: This Single World Is Double Till I Die (OUaT)
I haven't posted this to AO3 yet, so if anyone who's from the US and knows OUaT (or knows they don't care about it) has the time to glance over it and tell me if there are any glaring Britishisms, that would be wonderful, thank you. ♥ (Oh, and if it conflicts with S3, don't tell me! Unless you can do so without giving anything away, of course.
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I'm glad you liked it, though. ♥ It is an odd bit of fic, and I didn't know if it worked. (I'm still not sure the turnaround at the end isn't just a notch too sudden/short; might see if I can add in a sentence or two while I'm at it...)
And this: "I don’t believe in all that stuff. Oh, I don’t mean magic. I get that. But all that about good and evil? Life’s not like that." Sums up the show's viewpoint quite well I think :D
The show really manages to have its cake and eat it with that, I think. It sets it up that everything works by fairy tale logic, and that there is such a thing as good and evil, storybook heroes and villains, and you can solve nearly anything with true love, but then it undercuts that by making said villains genuinely complex (I mean, Regina, talk about being your own worst enemy; she's almost kind of heroically evil in a strange way) and everything else getting increasingly more twisted up as it goes along. And they give us explanations for Regina and Rumple, but they don't use that to excuse what they do: bad stuff happens to them/they get corrupted by magic/power, but they still keep on and on making bad decisions of their own.
(I may have had to stop and think about them too much while writing this, sorry. And I still don't know what Regina's likeliest reaction to the kiss would be. I went with what I did, but on the other hand, she canonically responds so emotionally every time someone actually shows her some affection...)
Anyway, thanks!!
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