Sir Roland & Tommy Charms
Enchanted Forest Character, Sir Roland, is based on a character of the same name from the fairytale, "Sweetheart Roland". He is an adaptation for the Once Upon a Time universe as an Original Character by Danny Shadow.
Counterpart: Tommy Charms
Gender: Male
Status: Alive
Home: His house (Currently) Nottingham (Formerly)
Occupation: Mercenary (Formerly), Florist (Currently)
Physical Description:
Roland is attractive, moving with the gait of an artist. Although he is clearly deadly with a weapon, he possesses an understanding of plants and animal life that is uncommon in the male species. Over the years in Storybrooke, he has spent a lot of time trying to understand his purpose in life. He uses tattoos, his self-applied ink, as a way of sorting through thoughts and emotions that his words cannot. His scent is of lilacs and violets. His voice is soft, endearing, and captivating.
No magical abilities
Skills
High strength
High Dexterity (Trained with Robin Hood)
Herbology
Family/Relationships
Born to a seamstress named Layla and a blacksmith named Carlox with no siblings.
Daisy's EX-Boyfriend
Potentially Red's true love. Potentially Daisy's true love.
History
There was once upon a time a woman, Celestia, who was a real witch and had two daughters, one pretty and resourceful and one wicked and ugly, and this one she loved because she was her own daughter. Cora was not always ugly, however, and many would argue that Celestia made her so. The other daughter, Daisy, was beautiful and good, and this one she hated, because she was her stepdaughter. The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron, which Cora fancied so much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must and would have that apron.
'Be quiet, my child,' said the old woman, 'and you shall have it. Your stepsister has long deserved death; tonight when she is asleep I will come and cut her head off. Only be careful that you are at the far side of the bed, and push her well to the front.' It would have been all over with poor Daisy if she had not just then been standing in a corner, and heard everything. All day long she dared not go out of doors, and when bedtime had come, Cora got into bed first, so as to lie at the far side, but when she was asleep, the other pushed her gently to the front, and took for herself the place at the back, close by the wall. In the night, the old woman came creeping in, she held an axe in her right hand, and felt with her left to see if anyone were lying at the outside, and then she grasped the axe with both hands, and hacked toward Cora's throat. Cora awoke just in time and rolled, catching the handle upon her head. The woman, panting, watched for a long moment. "Good, she'll suffer to death." She hissed viciously, listening to Cora's moans.
When she had gone away, Celestia's step daughter got up and went to her sweetheart, who was called Roland, and knocked at his door. When he came out, she said to him: 'Listen, dearest Roland, we must fly in all haste; my stepmother wanted to kill me, but has struck her own child. When daylight comes, and she sees what she has done, we shall be lost.' 'But,' said Roland, 'I counsel you first to take away her magic wand, or we cannot escape if she pursues us.' The maiden fetched the magic wand, and she cradled Cora's wounded head and dropped three drops of blood on the ground, one in front of the bed, one in the kitchen, and one on the stairs. Then she hurried away with her lover.
When Celestia got up next morning, she called to Cora, and wanted to give her the apron, but she did not come. Celestia cried: 'Where are you?' 'Here, on the stairs, I am sweeping,' answered the first drop of blood. The old woman went out, but saw no one on the stairs, and cried again: 'Where are you?' 'Here in the kitchen, I am warming myself,' cried the second drop of blood. She went into the kitchen, but found no one. Then she cried again: 'Where are you?' 'Ah, here in the bed, I am sleeping,' cried the third drop of blood. She went into the room to the bed. What did she see there? Her own child, whose head she had hit hard, bathed in her blood. Celestia fell into a passion, sprang to the window, and as she could look forth quite far into the world, she perceived her stepdaughter hurrying away with her sweetheart Roland. 'That shall not help you,' cried she, 'even if you have got a long way off, you shall still not escape me.' But Cora's voice stayed her revenge, "H-Help me." Cora lived!
Celestia, stricken with grief brought Cora to a local doctor. But with all the magic they used to heal Cora, they could still not retrieve Cora's memory back. Her mother, unable to bear the look of emptiness from her child, stabbed herself in her heart, in front of Cora. The doctor, thought Cora needed a good home. The good fairies found a gentle and kind miller who they assured the doctor would take care of Cora and love her. But they warned the doctor that Cora's past would haunt her and that the good miller could only do so much.
Cora would go on to Mother both Zelena and Regina, three wicked sorceresses.
As they were now set free, Roland said: 'Now I will go to my father and arrange for the wedding.' 'Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you,' said Daisy, 'and that no one may recognize me, I will change myself into a red stone landmark.' Then Roland went away, and the girl stood like a red landmark in the field and waited for her beloved.
The poor girl, Daisy, remained there a long time, but at length, as he did not return at all, she was sad, and changed herself into a flower, and thought: 'Someone will surely come this way, and trample me down.'
It befell, however, that a shepherd kept his sheep in the field and saw the flower, and as it was so pretty, plucked it, took it with him, and laid it away in his chest. From that time forth, strange things happened in the shepherd's house. When he arose in the morning, all the work was already done, the room was swept, the table and benches cleaned, the fire in the hearth was lighted, and the water was fetched, and at noon, when he came home, the table was laid, and a good dinner served. He could not conceive how this came to pass, for he never saw a human being in his house, and no one could have concealed himself in it. He was certainly pleased with this good attendance, but still at last he was so afraid that he went to a wise woman and asked for her advice. The wise woman said: 'There is some enchantment behind it, listen very early some morning if anything is moving in the room, and if you see anything, no matter what it is, throw a white cloth over it, and then the magic will be stopped.'
The shepherd did as she bade him, and next morning just as day dawned, he saw the chest open, and the flower come out. Swiftly he sprang towards it, and threw a white cloth over it. Instantly the transformation came to an end, and a beautiful girl stood before him, who admitted to him that she had been the flower, and that up to this time she had attended to his house-keeping. She told him her story, and as she pleased him he asked her if she would marry him, but she answered: 'No,' for she wanted to remain faithful to her sweetheart Roland, although he had deserted her. Nevertheless, she promised not to go away, but to continue keeping house for the shepherd.
But Roland hadn't abandoned anyone. Roland had been ambushed on the road, taken by trolls. They thought him funny, due to his ability to sing. Rather than eating him, they let him live each night as long as he sang for them after dinner. Until one night, there was a scuffle on Troll Bridge. This involves another fairy tale: Snow White and Prince Charming. Regardless, the trolls did not return, and Roland was free. He had been there for a decade. He was certain his love had moved on. He traveled in self-pity and tears for the next few months. And that, was when he first met Red. And even through the curse, in the quiet corners of Storybrooke, he felt nothing but the deepest of affections and attraction towards her. His courage to speak to Red had however dwindled. And Daisy, had never moved on...
