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Seattle, Washington is a Land Without Magic location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the twenty-second episode of the sixth season.
History
Before the Land Without Magic lost its magic, a magical grove inhabited by Tree Nymphs stood at this location. Thousands of years after Gothel, the last tree nymph, purged the land of all life out of vengeance for humans destroying her home and killing the rest of the tree nymphs, Seattle was built atop the former location of the grove. ("Flower Child")
At an unknown point in time, part of the new city was built atop of the old city. The old city eventually became known as the Seattle Underground.[nb 1] ("The Garden of Forking Paths")
After a curse is cast over the New Enchanted Forest, a neighborhood known as Hyperion Heights appears in Seattle, home to the cursed fairy tale characters who called the New Enchanted Forest their home. Victoria Belfrey, the cursed counterpart of Lady Tremaine, uses her position as CEO of Belfrey Developments to push the fairy tale characters out of Hyperion Heights and bring the inhabitants of the Land Without Magic in. Henry Mills becomes a failed author and a driver for Swyft and lives elsewhere in Seattle with false memories that his wife and daughter were killed in a fire. ("Hyperion Heights")
Sometime after the curse is cast, a young girl named Lucy arrives in Seattle on an elevated train, during which she reads a more modern edition of the Once Upon a Time book just as the train comes to a stop. Getting off, she heads to an apartment, readies herself, and knocks on the door, and asks the man who answers if he is Henry Mills. When he confirms this, she introduces herself as his daughter, though he believes he doesn't have a daughter, however, she insists he does and that his family needs him. ("The Final Battle Part 2")
Locations
For detailed location information, please see the Seattle Locations category, or the list of minor Seattle locations.
Inhabitants
Currently in Seattle
Formerly in Seattle
Notes:
†: This individual is deceased
i: This individual was brought to Seattle as an inanimated figure, such as statue
*: This individual's status and/or current whereabouts is unknown
Unseen Inhabitants
The following is a list of Seattle inhabitants who have not appeared on screen.
Notable Businesses
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Trivia
On-Screen Notes
- The Seattle Center Monorail is featured in the original title card for "The Final Battle Part 1"[20] and the alternate title card for "The Final Battle Part 2."[21]
- The Seattle skyline is featured in the background of the forest of all Season Seven title cards. The one for "Hyperion Heights" is the generic form of subsequent title cards.[22]
- Lucy was 8 years old when the Dark Curse is cast. And according to Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, she is 10 years old during the present events of Season Seven.[23] It means that Hyperion Heights, and all the people in it have been cursed for 2 years. ("The Eighth Witch")
- According to Weaver's map of Seattle, Hyperion Heights is located close to Gas Works Park,[24] a public park located on the north shore of Lake Union at the south end of the Wallingford neighborhood. ("The Guardian")
Production Notes
- The name "Hyperion" is a shout-out to Disney and the Hyperion studios,[25] Hollywood's Hyperion Avenue, where the two original Animation Buildings of the Disney company were located. They are mainly known for being the place where Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was made. Eventually, in 1939/1940, these buildings were moved to the studio lot in Burbank, where they have been rebuilt and renamed the Shorts Building. The writing office of Once Upon a Time was relocated here shortly before production on Season Seven began.[26]
- Originally, Hyperion is the name of the Titan of the Sun and the Light in Greek mythology.
- The establishing shot of Seattle that is shown before the scene at Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack in "Beauty,"[27] is stock footage from "Hyperion Heights."[28]
- The same shot is reused for the opening shot of Seattle in "Is This Henry Mills?" but with a darker color hue and added storm clouds to match the turbulent weather shown in the opening scene.[29]
- The establishing shot of Seattle at night in "Is This Henry Mills?"[30] is also stock footage from "Hyperion Heights."[31]
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Six | ||||||||||
| "The Savior": | "A Bitter Draught": | "The Other Shoe": | "Strange Case": | "Street Rats": | "Dark Waters": | "Heartless": | "I'll Be Your Mirror": | "Changelings": | "Wish You Were Here": | "Tougher Than the Rest": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Murder Most Foul": | "Ill-Boding Patterns": | "Page 23": | "A Wondrous Place": | "Mother's Little Helper": | "Awake": | "Where Bluebirds Fly": | "The Black Fairy": | "The Song in Your Heart": | "The Final Battle Part 1": | "The Final Battle Part 2": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
| "Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears |
| "A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Mentioned |
| Other Appearances | ||||||||||
See Also
References
Notes
- ↑ Henry: They just built part of the new city over the old city.
Lucy: Yeah, I know about the Seattle Underground, but that doesn't mean something magical can't be buried down here.
- "The Garden of Forking Paths," Once Upon a Time, ABC.
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