Currently in a OUAT Phase

MAJOR CHANGES

•As the title and synopsis suggests, the biggest change about this rewrite is that Emma is now twelve instead of twenty-eight. The second biggest change is that because of that, Henry from this rewrite is, of course, not actually the Henry from the og OUAT

•I thought about maybe doing some weird time stuff to try and still make him the same Henry, but that got too convoluted too quickly. This Henry is unrelated to anyone from the Enchanted Forest except for his adoptive mother Regina, and in a way this is why he believes in the book so much. This Henry is just an outcasted little boy who dreams of tales of good overcoming evil so hard that he will fight for them to be real (which they actually do end up being because this is OUAT)

•Og Henry fans don't worry though! I love that boy and he will still exist in this universe..... just not yet

•The other "major changes" that I've made in this rewrite were done for practical purposes (or because I thought they'd be more fun). With the original OUAT being a show that focused more on the conflicts between the adults, Emma now being Henry's protective and jaded best friend instead of his long lost bio mom means that the cast now needs more kid characters to interact with Emma and Henry AND more adult characters to fill in the gaps Emma not being an adult leaves in the story.

•To do this I just took some backstory characters I liked from Season 1 and made them more prominent from the beginning. Jefferson's daughter -who is now Alice from Alice In Wonderland- is Henry's classmate who occasionally helps him and Emma with their "Operation Cobra" Schemes, and Belle is now a Storybrooke citizen named Lacey French who works and lives with Ruby in Granny's Diner while dreaming of writing and finishing her big debut novel.