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Once...Upon...A Time by onlyEversunflowers06
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album), The Mechanisms (Band)
13 Oct 2025
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Once upon a time, in a far off sector of a very old galaxy, there lived a king. Long ago he was a good king, a wise king, it was even said of him that he was merry. But the technology that had extended his life throughout the millennia had warped his mind as it had withered his body, and soon his soul grew red with the lust for conquest.
A story told in three parts.
A backstory for Cole.
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The Tale of Mad Jack Spratt by Gasgiant2
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album), The Mechanisms (Band)
21 Sep 2025
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Jack stands in King Cole's chamber, waiting for his death. A song begins to play.
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Did Jack ever do anything worth remembering?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,554
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 7
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remember me, I sing by miralines
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
09 Aug 2025
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His Majesty had never approved of her ambitions. He’d been taken by the same spirit she’d been seeing sweep Zantine since she was a child, the same one that put the fervor in Rose’s eyes whenever she’d talked about her schooling at Wolfgramm and the same one that made people venerate Papa.
Snow would show him eventually. But for now, she was simply building her foundation.
A character study about Snow’s upbringing, and about what she did when she learned Rose was falling in love with a prisoner under her command.
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- Part 6 of One Thousand and Three
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Fandom Character Death Match Tournament Bracket 22, Round 2, Match 6: Missy Preston-Logan vs. Old King Cole by magic8ballzz
Fandoms: Bill & Ted (Movies), Nursery Rhymes & Songs
17 Jul 2025
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n the arcane depths of the Obsidian Pit, the Multiversal Grand Gauntlet pits two wildly mismatched combatants against each other: Old King Cole, a deceptively jolly monarch whose mirth masks darker forces, and Missy Preston-Logan, stepmom supreme from San Dimas with nerves of steel and PTA-honed resolve. With eldritch fiddlers, ghostly music, and arcane smoke on one side, and a bewildered but determined woman on the other, it’s a surreal clash of vibes, values, and very unexpected tactics. In this arena, survival demands more than strength—it requires creativity, grit, and a good pair of flats.
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- Part 658 of Fandom Character Death Match Tournament
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,894
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 6
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Fandom Character Death Match Tournament Bracket 22, Round 1, Match 12: Old King Cole vs. The Ghost of Christmas Present by magic8ballzz
Fandoms: Nursery Rhymes & Songs, A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
17 Jul 2025
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In the Grand Inter-Fandom Death Match Tournament, two beloved figures, Old King Cole and the Ghost of Christmas Present, engage in a battle of wits and wills. The fight becomes a clash of ideologies, with Cole's relentless merriment pitted against the Ghost's embodiment of truth and the fleeting nature of joy. As the battle rages on, the outcome hangs in the balance, leaving the audience wondering who will emerge victorious.
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- Part 648 of Fandom Character Death Match Tournament
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,324
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 2
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A Star-Studded Home by Bookshop
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
07 Apr 2025
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It has been years since Cinders last truly saw the stars, between her detention on Zantine and the scrutiny she's been under since the Dunyazaad incident. But Rose has a ship and enough pull to avoid trouble, and wants to help set her free.
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- Part 2 of A Thousand And One Tales To Be Told
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Silently Falling Flakes by onlyEversunflowers06
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album), The Mechanisms (Band)
31 Mar 2025
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Snow hates these dinners. But when an opportunity presents itself...
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"As for what happened to our 'sleeping beauty', that's a tale for another day."
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the art of losing isn't hard to master by miralines
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
13 Nov 2024
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Grief was an early lesson for Ella.
Cinders reflects on all she's lost over the years.
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- Part 1 of One Thousand and Three
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some kind of sense by miralines
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
11 Nov 2024
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Ficlets written from requests from tumblr. Hearts wonders if she's broken. Dr. Malef works late. The Briar Rose plays with children. King Cole claims his birthright.
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- Part 3 of Call for Comfort
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made in glory by miralines
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
24 Oct 2024
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“My scientists are prepared to engineer such a warrior. All that is missing is a base. An exemplar. The seed from which to grow this army.” King Cole’s gaze is intense as he stares into her eyes. “Allow me to take a few of your cells, and turn them into something far greater.”
King Cole makes a request of Rose. For the first time, she tells him no.
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- Part 5 of One Thousand and Three
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A Thousand and One Tales to be Told by Bookshop
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
20 Aug 2024
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Shehrezad: King Cole's feared propaganda minister, reviled in history books by the victorious rebellion, suspected to have ordered the execution of her own sister. Little is known of her in canon, as she only gets a single line in OUATIS and two short fics. But the little we do know paints a picture of a deeply complex and conflicted woman who genuinely believed the horrors she enabled were justified, and who would have sided with the rebellion in her youth. There are tales to be told about that fall, and the empire that made it happen.
This isn't the first chapter in Shehrezad's journey, but it where our telling starts.
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- Part 1 of A Thousand And One Tales To Be Told
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when the battle has done by Garecc, Gunpowderdtim (Garecc), miralines
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
11 Aug 2024
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"Who-- who are you? Why are you here?" she manages to choke out through a fresh wave of tears.
"I'm a Doctor." She smooths a bit of hair back from Cole’s wrinkled, papery face. "And, right now, I'm here for him. Or what’s left of him."
In the aftermath of the Battle of Zantine, Cinders and Dr. Carmilla meet again and grieve those they've lost.
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- Part 37 of One Thousand and Three
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,428
- Chapters:
- 1/2
- Kudos:
- 13
- Hits:
- 58
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sunk teeth fallacy by PlanetariumProse
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album), The Mechanisms (Band)
30 Jul 2024
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Ten-year-old Rose has gone out of control. Luckily, her godfather King Cole is here to help!
Or, what happens when a child that has been failed by every adult in her life catches the eye of the most powerful man in the galaxy.
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- Part 1 of Dog Star in Ursa Major
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Juniper Stains by ModeratedMentalBreakdown
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
15 Jun 2024
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"But you have yet to hear about his most secret weapon. The one who did not sing the song of gunfire and battles, whose killing wouldn’t spill a drop of blood and that almost killed the King himself, thirty years before the battle of New Constantinople. There are lives that nearly change the course of history, like a hidden thread in a tapestry, without anybody noticing. Her life was one of those, and when she died, nobody knew. Nobody, but the one she had died for."
After the tale of Snow and Rose is over, there is one last story left to tell.
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Watching and Waiting by angelofEden
Fandoms: High Noon Over Camelot - The Mechanisms (Album), Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album), Ulysses Dies at Dawn - The Mechanisms (Album), The Bifrost Incident - The Mechanisms (Album), The Mechanisms (Band)
06 Jun 2024
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What if the characters from all your favorite albums (INCLUDING THE BIFROST ONE BECAUSE I FINALLY LISTENED TO THAT) were put in a theatre and made to watch show versions of their lives? Nothing good.
Will Mordred and Gawain rip each other's throats out? Will Cinders and Rose decide to just elope? Will Ulysses ever seek a therapist? Will Loki ever? Who knows? Not me.
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Once Upon a Time (On the Syndicate) by moss_in_hyding
Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, The Mechanisms (Band), Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
19 Jul 2022
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The crew of the spaceship Syndicate is the one legend that ties together thousands and thousands of galaxies. As such, it is hard to believe the Mechanisms did not always simply exist the way that they did. It is also fairly difficult to think that at some point in time and space each member had to join the crew. This is the tale of how Technoblade found himself newly immortal, and aboard a ship with a man who even he had heard of, secluded from the outside world as he was. (And the crow drones. They were there too for some reason.)
A Sleepy Bois + as the Mechanisms au, starting off with Techno and Phil. Pretty much a rewrite of Once Upon a Time (in Space)
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- Part 1 of The Mechanisms Inc
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Four Little Pigs by Claribelle
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album), The Mechanisms (Band), Dream SMP
02 Dec 2021
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Before he was emperor of the known universe, Cole was an underdog prince with four bloodthirsty bodyguards. As he rises to the top, it is natural to have collateral damage.
A Technoblade backstory.
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None Could Tell What Was Said Save From The Dead by otherhawk
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album)
13 Oct 2021
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I'm posting my mevhtober first from Tumblr
Day 3 - Once Upon A Time (in space)
Old King Cole had a tale he told to those brought before the throne. Jonny d'ville collects stories.
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- Part 3 of Mechtober 2021
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monster; or, the snow queen: a tale in seven parts by foreverfixation
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album), Snedronningen | The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen, The Mechanisms (Band)
11 Oct 2021
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two hundred years after his death, the effects of old king cole's reign are still being felt on new constantinople.
[a retelling of the snow queen, set after the events of once upon a time (in space)]