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This article focuses on Sleepy's Enchanted Forest persona. For his Storybrooke counterpart, see Walter.


I thought I told the dwarves not to put Sleepy on guard duty!

Snow White to Prince Charming src

Sleepy is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. He débuts in the first episode of the first season. He is portrayed by co-star Faustino di Bauda, and is the Enchanted Forest counterpart of Walter.

Sleepy is based on one of the Seven Dwarves from the fairytale, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", and the character of the same name from the Disney film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.


History

Before First Curse

Hatching from a dwarf egg on the same day as his seven brothers, Sleepy receives his name from a magic pick ax before going to work in the mines. While all eight dwarves are having an evening out at the pub, only Dreamy is too distracted to eat. They are unsure what is wrong with him until a young woman, Belle, states he has fallen in love. Dreamy, realizing his feelings for a fairy named Nova, makes plans to run away with her. The night of his departure, Bashful and his brothers, except Stealthy, wish Dreamy good luck. However, after being chastised by both Bossy and the Blue Fairy that he belongs with his own kind, Dreamy breaks up with Nova and returns home. Along with the other dwarves, Sleepy watches a saddened and angry Dreamy break his ax and receives a new name—Grumpy. ("Dreamy")

Despite giving up on Nova, Grumpy later trades all his wages in order to buy a diamond to propose to her. Unknowingly, he receives a stolen diamond and is imprisoned in King George's castle for his supposed theft. His brothers form a rescue team, in which Stealthy infiltrates the castle prison to free Grumpy. While escaping, Stealthy is killed, and Grumpy nearly meets the same fate, but he flees unharmed with Snow White's help. Shortly after the dwarves regroup, they join Snow White as she is departing from the castle. Heartbroken from rejecting her true love, Prince Charming, on King George's orders, she prepares to drink a potion to erase the pain, but Grumpy stops her. As consolation, they allow her to stay at their cottage. Soon, word spreads that Prince Charming has cancelled his engagement to Princess Abigail. Grumpy rushes into the house to notify Snow White, who already drank the potion and has forgotten her true love. ("7:15 A.M.")

After ingesting the potion, Snow White becomes callous and uncaring. Worried about her, the dwarves organize a meeting. As the voice of reason, Jiminy talks to Snow White about her change in personality while the others agree that she has become very hard and cold. Rather than listening, she blames the Evil Queen for everything and then sets out to kill her. Many days later, Snow White returns, after the potion's effects have been broken by Prince Charming, and apologizes to the dwarves for her prior behavior. When she informs them that Prince Charming is now King George's prisoner, Sleepy and the other dwarves join her on the rescue mission. ("Heart of Darkness")

Powered by the joined forces of the seven dwarves, fairies, Red Riding Hood and Granny, Snow White breaks into King George's castle dungeon. However, they discover too late that King George traded Prince Charming to the Evil Queen, Regina. Invested in Prince Charming's safety, Snow White agrees, per Regina's terms, to meet her for a parley and refrain from carrying weapons. Despite that they all plea against it, Snow White reassures them everything will be fine, and she promptly leaves. When she doesn't return, they rush to the site of the meeting where they find Snow White's lifeless corpse. Despite believing her to be dead, she is actually under the effects of the Sleeping Curse. ("An Apple Red as Blood")

In mourning, the dwarves build a glass coffin to encase Snow White's body. During the funeral, Prince Charming, having escaped the Evil Queen, arrives and persuades them to lift the cover so he can say his farewells. Miraculously, he gives her a kiss of true love and breaks the Sleeping Curse. Afterwards, Prince Charming and Snow White decide to take back the kingdom together. ("Pilot," "A Land Without Magic")

Sleepy, Prince Charming and the rest of the dwarves look on as Snow White tries rallying villagers to join her in dethroning the Evil Queen. When the Queen herself shows up, she proposes Snow White give up on her claim to the throne and go into exile. She allows the princess to have until sundown tomorrow to deliver an answer, and for every day she refuses, oen of her loyal subjects will die. In a conversation with the dwarves and Prince Charming, Snow White resigns to giving into the Queen's demands. Believing she should fight the Queen, Prince Charming tries gaining support from the dwarves for his cause, but they suspect he wants the throne for himself. Later, the prince forges a fake Excalibur sword and has Snow White free it from a stone as a means to prove she is the rightful ruler of the kingdom. Snow White announces her refusal to surrender the crown, to which the Queen begins magically choking Grumpy. The other dwarves intervene, but all are pushed away by the Queen's magic. With Prince Charming's encouragement, Snow White injuries the Queen with the sword and declares the kingdom is hers. The Queen, deciding their fight will continue on another day, retreats. Afterwards, the dwarves finally accept the prince and celebrate with drinks. As they toast to a new future, Snow White angrily confronts Prince Charming about the fake sword as the dwarves look on in shock. However, all is forgiven once Snow White learns he used the sword in order to help her find courage to stand up to the Queen. ("Lost Girl")

As war is waged against the Evil Queen, it ends with her capture and execution, which Snow White halts in order to test whether the former royal has stopped being a vengeful person. When the Queen proves to have not changed, she is banished into exile. On the day of Snow White and Prince Charming's wedding, the dwarves are in attendance as the couple say "I do". Crashing the ceremony, the Queen unveils her plans to ruin everyone's happiness. ("Pilot", "The Cricket Game")

While Snow White and Prince Charming are away on their honeymoon, Sleepy is on duty at the castle gates. Storming the location, Maleficent puts him and the other guards to sleep before entering with Cruella De Vil and Ursula. Once the royal couple return, Snow White notices Sleepy is out cold and muses over why the soldiers put him on guard duty since he often falls asleep. However, after seeing the others are also unconscious, she realizes something else is wrong. ("Unforgiven")

Through Rumplestiltskin, Snow White and Prince Charming learn their unborn child is the savior of a curse the Queen will enact over all of the Enchanted Forest. ("Pilot")

Finally, the war council find a solution in the building of a magic wardrobe to save one person from the curse. Originally, the plan is to send a pregnant Snow White through the wardrobe, but on the day that the Dark Curse approaches, she goes into labor and gives birth to a daughter, Emma. After Emma is sent to the other world, Sleepy and the rest of the Enchanted Forest are swallowed up by the curse. ("Pilot")

For events occurring after the casting of the first curse, see Walter.

Before Second Curse

After Regina takes magical preventive measures to undo Pan's casting of the Dark Curse, all the inhabitants of Storybrooke pay the price by returning to the Enchanted Forest and reverting to their prior personas. In a group, they manifest in the land of Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip. A plan quickly assembles for everyone to make their way to the Queen's old palace. Before they set out, Grumpy learns from Jiminy that fifty inhabitants have landed in the Enchanted Forest two miles away. By Prince Charming's request, Sleepy and the rest of the dwarves are dispatched to tell the other scattered residents to make their way to the Queen's palace. Afterwards, the dwarves rejoin their own group for the trek to the palace. During the journey, they are accompanied by Friar Tuck, Little John, and Robin Hood of the Merry Men. As they near their destination, Regina deducts there is a protection spell cast by whoever currently residing in the palace, that is keeping them out. For the time being, Robin Hood suggests everyone can take shelter at Sherwood Forest. ("New York City Serenade")

As they depart for Sherwood Forest, a flying monkey attacks, sending Sleepy and various other members of the crowd scurrying back to witness the creature nearly knock into Neal, though Regina quickly dispenses of the being by turning it into a stuffed animal. In a group discussion, Belle shares knowledge about the flying monkey's origins in the land of Oz, so Regina determines the person in the palace is the Wicked Witch. A plan is set up to wait for Regina to bring the shield down and then mobilize the whole group into the palace. Once night falls, Grumpy gives the signal when he spots the dissipating barrier, meaning Regina was able to lower it, so everyone begins assembling towards their destination. ("Witch Hunt")

Threatened by the presence of the Wicked Witch of the West, Prince Charming and Snow White learn from a witch named Glinda that only the most powerful of light magic can defeat her. Realizing their daughter, Emma, fits the bill, Snow White casts another curse in order to whisk herself as well as everyone else back to Storybrooke. Before the curse spreads, however, the Wicked Witch interferes by adding a potion into the mixture to erase everyone's memories of the last year in the Enchanted Forest. Sleepy, along with those engulfed by this curse, are taken back to Storybrooke. ("A Curious Thing")

For events occurring after the casting of the second curse, see Walter.

During Alternate Reality

After Isaac rewrites everyone's stories in the Heroes and Villains book, Sleepy becomes one of Queen Snow White's underlings. With his six brothers, they watch over the Queen's woods and set up a trap that captures Isaac, who he orders the dwarves to search. As the dwarves strip him of his belongings, Happy finds a "Long Live Regina" pin, to which a suspicious Grumpy takes him to the Queen. From Isaac, Snow White comes to believe a boy named Henry is plotting with Regina to overthrow her kingdom, and she plans to kill both of them. ("Operation Mongoose Part 1")

Sent to hunt down Regina, the dwarves and Granny are hindered when the Blue Fairy paralyzes them with dark fairy dust. While seated at council table, Grumpy states why they couldn't reach Regina, but Granny scoffs at his excuse. Before the argument escalates, Snow White asks for silence. The Queen reasons she is not angry with them, but must set an example for their failures, leading her to kill Doc, as the rest of her followers look on in terror. Before walking out, Snow White suggests they shouldn't fail next time or another one of them will die. Once Henry harnesses the quill, he reverts Isaac's stories and returns everyone to Storybrooke. ("Operation Mongoose Part 1," "Operation Mongoose Part 2")

For events occurring after the reversion of the alternate reality, see Walter#History

Appearances

 

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.


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