Board Thread:Fanon: Season 8 & Beyond/@comment-25551215-20191204022821/@comment-25551215-20191219013438

Episode 2 is out!
 * Verona, in the time of the Evil Queen
 * “Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we set our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean, from forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers fall asleep, and forever be separated…” Chillingworth narrates creepily.
 * Romeo is at a tower, calling up at Roslin
 * Roslin tells him to leave him alone
 * Romeo leaves and runs into his cousin Bernice
 * Romeo waxes poetic to her about his heartbreak
 * They run across (another) fight between the Montagues and Capulets
 * Romeo spots Julian, who is talking to his betrothed Paris
 * In the United Realms, Regina is working at her office when someone knocks on the door
 * After no one answers when she says “come in!”, she answers the door
 * Her eyes widen in horror when she sees a voodoo doll.
 * Cue the title card: Dr. Facilier’s voodoo shop
 * Sabine works at Rollin’ Bayou and is greeted with a kiss by Drew
 * Drew asks how things are going that morning as he gets ready
 * Sabine says that things are going fine, but she felt unsettled last night by the raven caw and the blood
 * Drew doesn’t know what she’s talking about, but they don’t have enough time – Tilly, Margot, and Leroy are their first customers of the day.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Leroy overhears them talking about the caw and reports that he also heard it along with the scarlet A.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Tilly and Margot take note of it and go to Rogers, who has been flodded with reports of creepy going-ons.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">He makes a map of the caw/letter sightings, and is alarmed to see an arrow pointing at the Land of Untold Stories.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Hester enters the sheriff’s station seeking protection from Chillingworth from Rogers
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Rogers takes note of her concerns, but gets distracted by the raven and the A
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Hester leaves. Pearl asks where they’re going, and she says she needs to get to one of Chillingworth’s targets before he can get to them first
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Back in the past, Romeo is at a masquerade ball at the Capulets’, disguised so they can’t recognize him
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">He meets Julian, who is similarly masked.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Julian dances with him before meeting Paris’ eyes and returning to her, but not before whispering to Romeo to meet him later that night
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Tybalt confronts Romeo and unmasks him, angered that a Montague would sneak into the Capulet ball – and try to woo a man when he himself is one
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Mercutia and Bernice unmask themselves and fight, allowing Romeo to make his escape
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Meanwhile, Paris and Julian go upstairs, and Paris confesses her love. Julian is trapped.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Back in the present, Chillingworth pays a visit to Facilier, who is alive and kicking.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Chillingworth asks Facilier where Romeo and Julian are; Facilier affirms that they are separated, and that they are both no longer in the Land of Untold Stories
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Chillingworth gives Facilier a coin with the mark of the Shadow Raven; the Raven is calling upon his services and requires his help in triggering the Reckoning as the price for resurrecting him.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Facilier has no choice but to accept.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Regina goes to Rogers and Sabine, who are consolidating sightings of the letter and the raven; she tells them Facilier is back
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“I have to go and find him!” Sabine exclaims. “Who knows what he’ll do if left unchecked?”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Regina tells her to calm down; who knows what powerful magic Facilier has up his sleeve if he was able to come back from the dead?
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Rogers looks outside the window as a raven caws.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Hester visits Romeo, who is currently evading Chillingworth in Camelot.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“I finally found you. What are you so afraid of?”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“You should know, Prynne. After all, you were his wife.”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Hester grimaces – he’s right. “I’m willing to offer you a deal. I have information. I want information.”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Romeo’s not interested until she holds up something she’d stolen from Chillingworth.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“Alright, now you’ve got my attention.”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Back in the past, Mercutia and Bernice continue fighting Tybalt, drawing the attention of Lady Capulet and eventually, Lord Montague.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Romeo breaks into Julian’s room only to find him about to get intimate with Paris –
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Julian tells them both to leave before climbing down a rope down the tower
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Paris confronts Romeo, but he feigns ignorance
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Romeo and Julian meet up in the gardens away from all the chaos.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“I’m interested in you, but our families hate each other,” Julian says.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“I don’t care. I’ve waited so long to find love and I think I’ve finally found it.”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">They share a kiss, and Romeo gives Julian a pendant from around his neck from his late mother.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“As long as your love is true, it’ll always take you back to the thing you love most.”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">This is what Hester had stolen.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Regina, Sabine, and Rogers meet up with Tilly and Margot, who’ve found his hideout – he’s hiding out at Gold’s shop, right in plain sight
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Tilly makes an off-handed comment about Gideon being on vacation – he’ll show up later
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Facilier confronts them, bearing the sign of the raven on his arm (like a Dark Mark).
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“How are you back?” Regina asks in disbelief.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“You always did underestimate me,” Facilier says, taking out a voodoo doll. He stabs it –
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Roni falls to the ground.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Rogers, Sabine, Tilly, and Margot try to attack him, but Facilier pays them no heed; he slices Regina’s hand open and takes some of her blood.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">He poofs away as a raven caws; Rogers and Sabine are disturbed.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Sabine figures out that Roni’s not dead and they take the food truck to the hospital.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Roni reawakens, and Sabine explains what had happened; Roni realizes that whoever Facilier’s working with is going to enact some kind of devilish spell.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">That night at Granny’s, Rogers, Sabine, Tilly, and Margot pore over a map of the United Realms – it’s time to track down who’s behind the letter and the calls
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Hester offers Romeo the necklace to help find Julian in exchange for him spying on Chillingworth.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Romeo is hesitant, but he agrees.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">He activates the pendant and leaves, and Hester wonders if she made the right decision.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Back in the past, Julian goes to Facilier’s shop; his marriage to Paris is coming and he desires a way out so he and Romeo can marry.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Facilier gives him a potent sleeping curse, and Julian meets up with Romeo. Enough time has passed that they know each other.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">The EF Bishop marries them.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">They kiss before parting ways; Julian returns to the Capulet house, where Lady Capulet and the Nurse chide him for running away – this is not the proper behavior of a Capulet.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Capulet leaves (she and Montague only had cameos in this episode, but they’re important to the plot later on), and Julian asks Nurse if Romeo is the right choice
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Nurse tells him to follow his heart, but that Paris is a better choice
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Julian accepts this answer and the Nurse leaves
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Julian takes the sleeping curse.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Elsewhere, Facilier provides Chillingworth with the blood he needed; Chillingworth is satisfied. Facilier has proved to be the right ally, but he’s misguided with his twisted love for Regina, so he takes him out with a voodoo doll.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Unfortunately for Chillingworth, Facilier’s immune to the magic, but he pretends to die anyway.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Chillingworth sprinkles Regina’s blood onto a painting and smiles creepily.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“Soon, Queen Regina will face a reckoning unlike any other… one she will not escape alive.”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">He then turns his attention to a cage in the room.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Back in the past, Romeo wakes him up with TLK.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">They run away from Verona – montage of all the Verona people we met fighting.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Cut to the scene from 8x01.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Julian glares at him and shakes the bars.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">“Not yet, my dear one. Your story is about to meet a grisly end.”
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Chillingworth smiles creepily. Just what is he up to?
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">FIN.
 * <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">This isn’t in the episode, but everyone in Verona was taken by the OG Dark Curse except for Romeo and Julian (who were elsewhere) and Lady Capulet and Lord Montague (who were also elsewhere)