WARNING! Porcelain will contain mature themes such as child abuse, self-esteem issues, eating disorders, self-harm, childhood trauma, and suicidal thoughts. Please be careful reading this story if any of these themes upset or trigger you.
❝Henry Mills is a troubled child, which is saying a lot when it comes from the likes of Alice Gold, who's middle name is probably trouble. And since they're both troubled kids, it was probably a bad idea that they hung out together and even worse that Alice is paid to hang out with him. But, no one else had the guts to babysit the Mayor's kid in fear of doing something wrong. So, Alice Gold got stuck with the job and on most days she tolerated it.
However, she did not expect having to go on a road trip with Henry Mills to find his biological mother whom he believes his the saviour from his little fairytale conspiracy theory would be part of the job description like ever. But Alice Gold is asked by Henry Mills to help him find his birth mother ─ Emma Swan and she couldn't just let the little brat go to Boston alone, which he would totally do. The annoying task sounded simple enough but Alice never expected what would follow. Once they bring Emma into Storybrooke, fragments of forgotten memories start to resurface, along with some emotional breakdowns, identity crises, and some strangely magical events, Alice starts to question everything ─ is she Alice Gold or Alice Jones?❞
INTRODUCTION. . .
Preface: Please Give Alice Gold a Bloody Break!
alternatively . . . ❝EVERY STORY HAS A BEGINNING❞
you are perfect porcelain . . .
NOT ALL FAIRYTALES start with that overused 'ONCE UPON A TIME' crap, this Alice Gold, can assure you of. Her story starts with:
HENRY MILLS ( annoying little kid she has to babysit ): "Hey, Ally, I want to find my birth mother."
ALICE GOLD: "That's nice, and I want my dad to hug me."
HENRY MILLS ( exasperated already, despite Alice just arriving at his place ): "Please, Ally, I've got to! The fate of the this town depends on it!"
ALICE GOLD: "Yeah, well the fate of my mental health depends on my dad showing me —"
HENRY MILLS: "I will buy you all the antique toy stuff you want."
ALICE GOLD ( completely sold on whatever stupid idea Henry has if it means getting more toy stuff ): "What do you need help with again?"
YOU SEE, HENRY Mills is a troubled child, which is saying a lot when it comes from the likes of Alice Gold, who's middle name is probably trouble. But, she wouldn't know, her dad's never told her or had to use her middle name, he barely gives her the time of day. And since they're both troubled kids, it was probably a bad idea that they hung out together and even worse that Alice is paid to hang out with him. But, no one else had the guts to babysit the Mayor's kid in fear of doing something wrong. So, Alice Gold got stuck with the job and on most days she tolerated it.
However, she did not expect having to go on a road trip with Henry Mills to find his biological mother who he believes his the saviour from his little fairytale conspiracy theory. Alice is all for conspiracy theories but the one that Henry has up in his little creative brain of his would have even Shane Dawson shaking in his boots. Of course, the only reason that Alice is in this situation is because she really love Antique toys.
Something that is probably deeply rooted in her desperate need to earn her father's love and attention because her father owns an antique store, as well as the entire town of Storybrooke. But, Henry says that's it's because she spent most of her life trapped in Toy Land. Her 'fairytale' counterpart is Princess Porcelain — yeah, Alice's never heard of her either, honestly she was expecting Henry to tell her that she was Alice in Wonderland but when she joked about that he gave her the dirtiest look ever. Apparently Princess Porcelain was the bastard child of an evil queen named Carolina and a pirate, the pirate was spared by the king who let him go and even take little Porcelain ( at the time named Alice after the pirate's mother or whatever ) and for there on out, Porcelain was raised on a boat until the Pirate did something to piss off the fairytale equivalent of Lord Voldemort who then stole Porcelain away and took her to Toy Land. And Toy Land happened to be overruled by her evil mother who then steals Porcelain's heart of something like that. There's a lot more to the story that Alice never bothered to remember, all she knows is that Porcelain never got her happy ending.
HENRY MILLS ( closing his mystical fairytale book ): "Sorry about that, Ally, no happy ending . . . Not yet at least, Snow White's evil queen cast her curse before you could."
ALICE GOLD ( groaning ): "Yeah, that's nice, tell me again why I have to be on this smelly bus with you. I thought you said that we couldn't leave Storybrooke because of this curse or whatever."
HENRY MILLS: "Well, yeah, but not you. You can go anywhere because you ate a magic bean when you were little and it gave you like . . . Powers, I guess."
ALICE GOLD: "Well, at least a magic beanstalk didn't grow in my stomach and kill me slowly from the inside."
HENRY MILLS ( under his breath ): "I wish it had."
THEY FIND HENRY'S mother in Boston and honestly, Alice Gold is extremely thankful that she lived so close by because if she had to be stuck on that bus any longer with Henry, she would've blown her brains out. Alice learns that Henry is very persuasive, even more persuasive than she thought. He somehow manages to convince the woman who gave him up at birth, in the less than an hour, to come back home with them. Albeit, it's just her driving them back to Storybrooke but it's a two hour ride and like Alice said, Henry is very persuasive.
ALICE GOLD: "Welp, you've found mummy dearest, what now kid?"
HENRY MILLS: "Don't worry, I've got a plan" ( and he smirks that weird, creepy smirk that all little kids have. The kind of smile that has the same energy as when you notice your dog chewing something when he shouldn't be chewing anything.)
EMMA SWAN ( Henry's surprised and very confused birth mother ): "Is he always like this?"
ALICE GOLD ( the babysitter who's been putting up with Henry for way too long and she just wants a break ): "Unfortunately. Yes."
SO . . . THE END?
NOPE, IT'S FAR from over. It's not just beginning, Alice's story has been going on for far too long, even longer than she remembers. Henry Mill's conspiracy theory is way more than just a conspiracy theory, it's real. And unfortunately, Alice is caught up in it all, getting stuck in everyone's stories but never finishing hers. Once they bring Emma into Storybrooke, fragments of forgotten memories start to resurface, a whole bunch of emotional breakdowns and identity crises, and strangely magical things start to follow. It's the reawakening of a forgotten story that Alice Gold is so not prepared for.
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you are perfect porcelain . . .
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USED TO BE SOMEBODY . . . NEVER MIND DON'T MISS IT THAT MUCH NOW
x you are perfect porcelain . . . x
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
So the basically plot of this is actually heavily based off the first ever fanfiction I posted back when I was like eleven (?) not really sure of my age at the moment writing this note but I do know that when I was writing the first version this plot ( the cringy, badly planned one ) that the second season of OUAT wasn't even out yet and honestly it was horribly written and I wrote about things I had no idea about AND I was at the HEIGHT of my Marianas Trench obsession which tbh was the WORST time to know me but I was really proud of Porcelain and her basic story because I actually finished the book ( well sort of, I was going to continue it when season two came out but then I gave up on it because I realised how bad it was ) and so I'm bringing her back.
I've attempted to bring her back multiple times before but they all failed and I never got the chance to publish it again but it's 3am as I'm writing this note and I've finished the prologue as well as wrote a summary that I'm actually proud of for once and I think she has potential this time so here we go baby! Porcelain is back in business!
Princess Porcelain, Queen Carolina, and everyone from Toyland are loosely based off of character created by the band Marianas Trench. It's based off of the story they created to go along with their album Ever After. And I guess back then I did have a bit of a galaxy brain when I read that Carolina stole Porcelain's heart and connected it to the hearts being yeeted out of their chest in OUAT. Of course I went and ruined it by being a cringey teenager and romanticising things I didn't understand at all. But I had one moment at least.
This will be a Jefferson fic but that is not the main focus of this story, this is about Porcelain getting better and getting her happy ending that doesn't revolve around Jefferson, yes he is part of her happy ever after and he will be there supporting her through everything but there will not be a lot of fluffy romance in this book! There will also be the side ship of Robin Jr. and Red Riding Hood because even before I knew I was gay, I was gay for Red Riding Hood. AND it showed in the old story because Porcelain's relationship ( she didn't have a love interest in the old one ) with Red was SO gay when I look back on it even though they were only 'friends'. So yeah, that's pretty much everything . . .
ALSO Porcelain is not Alice from season seven! I never watched past season 4 of OUAT, all I know is that some version of Hook had a daughter and he named her after his mother Alice! And when looking for a birth name for Porcelain while rewriting this at like 4am, I chose Alice because it fits. If some other version of Hook would name his child after his mother than so can regular Hook! Also Alice is a cool name! Just keep in mind they are two different characters, the only thing they have in common is evil mothers!