Now that the summary of Book 4 is out of the way, I want to talk about the characters, starting with the main Rebel, Raven Queen. Her Storybrooke counterpart is Elena Jensen.

So, as most of you know, Raven didn't have much of a childhood because of her mother. Poor girl. But despite the negatives of her childhood, there were some positive memories. When she was a child, Raven fell in love with music because of her dad, who I named David. Before and after the EQ got put into Mirror Prison, David would show Raven how to make her own instruments such as noise-makers out of paper plates with pebbles, playing the drums on buckets, he even showed her how to play their palace piano. As she got older, Raven purchased her first keyboard (the one that attaches to her vanity desk), and her first guitar. Raven soon begins to write her own songs that she hopes to perform for everyone.

Another good memory for Raven was during her first year at EAH. In my rewrite of the first book, Raven hides in a janitor's closet because of the rude things she hears everyone say about her. Raven never wanted to go to EAH, she had even begged her dad to let her get homeschooled despite the bad memories her palace home gave her. But unfortunately, it was mandatory for every child of Fairy Tale characters to attend EAH. So during her moment in the janitor's closet, all Raven wanted to do was stay and never step foot out into public.

But all of that changed when a bubbly girl entered the closet and offered to be Raven's friend. That girl was Madeline Hatter. Even though Raven's mother was the one who cursed Wonderland, Maddie never saw evil in Raven and the girls soon became best friends and roommates their first year.

Fast forward everything that has happened right up until the Dark Curse. In Storybrooke, Raven still lives with Apple in their one-story house. At the end of Book 2, the EQ sent her younger self, Mira Shards to go to Storybrooke. Once there, Mira disguises herself to look like a normal girl and calls herself Taylor. Similar to Dragon Games, Mira tries to convince Raven to be evil while keeping her identity a secret. But thanks to The Good King, he knew right away who she was the moment he saw her and revealed the truth to everyone.

Despite everything, Mira goes on with the plan. She is able to convince Raven to read her old diary. But even though Raven agrees that there's no story without a villain, she still refuses to be like her mother. Towards the end of the book, Raven ends up battling Mira who tries to kill her friends. But when Mira tries to run away, she ends up tripping over Gigi's magic lamp that was sticking out from the earth, causing her to tumble down a hill. At that moment, Raven puts on these enchanted cuffs that block Mira's magic and puts her ass in jail. And at the end of Book 3, she and Dexter finally become a couple and she figures out the next clue of the second object to break the Dark Curse.

Made from darkness, full of might

A gift from a mother with her soul of the night

Strong and powerful as a queen

Made especially for her teen

The answer is the Evil Queen's wand, also known as the same wand she left Raven as her Thronecoming gift until it got switched by Milton Grimm. The wand ended up in the Mayor's house/office where Robert Myers finds it and gives it to Mira. The wand has the Evil Queen's name engraved onto the handle: Mira Queen. Yes, I do believe that her name is Mira and I believe that Raven never knew her mother's real name because no one has ever told her. Her whole life, Raven has heard everyone call her mother other names and titles besides her first name.

Anyway, Book 5 is when everything goes downhill. The second plot of Book 5 revolves around the truth of destiny. When Brooke Pages discovers a secret room in her Storybrooke home, Lakeside Mansion, she finds a room filled with identical books, all titled: Once Upon A Time. But the authors' names aren't visible.

The books turn out to be every story of Ever After before they got published and sold in the real world. When Brooke does more research, she finds something about Bella and Brutta Sister, the first Rebels. According to one of the books, a few years after EAH opened, Bella and Brutta ran away during their last year of school and disappeared when they went down the well to another world. No one knew what happened to them and their Fairy Tale was erased from the Storybook of Legends, or so that's what everyone believes.

Somehow, an author was able to find out the truth of their whereabouts and wrote it down. The unknown author wrote that Bella and Brutta survived and lived their lives in happiness until their deaths due to old age. So that means the Storybook of Legends and Following your Destiny is a hoax. Everything is a lie. And the moment Brooke shows Raven the book, Raven is both amazed and furious, furious at Milton Grimm for having everyone live their pre-determined lives because of a lie. However, she wants more proof. So she asks Brooke if she could talk to her parents or someone about Bella and Brutta. If she could find out who the unknown author is, she might be able to get more proof.

When her parents aren't able to answer her question, Brooke heads back to the World of Narrators to speak to the Chief Chronicler. It took some convincing, but Brooke is able to get the answer. It turns out that there were 2 authors who wrote about Bella and Brutta, and their names are Shannon Hale and Suzanne Selfors, the descendants of Bella and Brutta.