#ouatdr

My name is Hannah Swan, fraternal twin sister to Emma. We grew up together until 3 when we were separated.

I show up to Storybrooke the day of our birthday - 10/23 - and decide to stay for a week to celebrate my birthday. After seeing some weirdness around town and running into Emma and seeing her get setup I decide to stay and put my travel plans aside. I rent an apartment over the Daily Mirror (which is now located on main street if it wasn't before) from Mr. Gold & end up getting a job at the paper as an Inventory Control Specialist (I scan old newspapers and files into the online system and restock the newspaper vending machines in the mornings).

Emma & I end up becoming friends, and therefore Mary Margaret and I become friends. I overheard Henry talking Operation Cobra with Emma and can't help but feel some kind of correlation between the weird things I've seen and felt and the possibility of Storybrooke being under a curse and everyone being fairytale characters. It sounds crazy but things just seem...too coincidental for me to just write it off, so I do what I do best, research, observe, and connect patterns. I keep a little notebook on me and Henry pulls me into Operation Cobra and gives me the run down of his suspicions while I notate my own (who in town could be which fairytale character) and we wonder what my role in all this could be. Once August rolls into town and the book changes, my story is now in there, tied right in with Emma's.

My first full shift should take place during season 1 episode 10 when the storm rolls into town. I have shifted here once before but it was the middle of the night before the morning I'm supposed to wake up and I shifted back immediately. The plan is to wake up, freak out that I shifted, brush my teeth, grab a cup of coffee from my coffee maker, answer the door to let Mr. Gold in - he's going to have me tape the windows and prep the apartment for the storm and give me advice on what I need to get - then head to Granny's to meet Emma and Mary Margaret for breakfast! From there (after much more freaking out about being at Granny's and meeting everyone) I'll go to the store, prep the apartment, then go for a walk and go down to the beach and watch the storm roll in.

I'll end up having the Captain Swan ship happen with me rather than Emma, and Graham isn't going to die, just fall into a coma until the curse is broken, from there it's up to Emma to find her true love. Sexuality is more realistic, and polyamory isn't taboo or looked down on. I do have magic, it's easy for me to use and learn and doesn't come with a price, the price was the last 28 years of my life WAS the payment. I will be going up the beanstalk in season 2 and going through the Enchanted Forest but I think the plot starts changing pretty drastically in season 2 so we'll see what happens from there.