piratesiren replied to your post: By chance, does anyone watch Once Upon…
I watched Season 1, most of Season 2, a few episodes in Season 3, so, yes, I’ve watched/watch it. Why were you wondering?
I’m presently scratching together an OUAT re-interpretation of Mozenrath (that ties in a…
Dude I’ve totally thought about how Moze might fit into the Onceverse. *cough*hemadeadealtogettheguantletfromRumplewhileRumplewasworkingsomethingelsewithDestane*cough*
I’m interested as to why you feel the character needs to be older though? Do you mean significantly? Most Once actors are around 25-35 and I see canon!Moze as 21-23 which isn’t terribly far removed from that.
I place him somewhere in his early to mid thirties, and this is MOSTLY for casting purposes. (In the TV series I’d say he’s 19 or 20, tops, because Aladdin is about 17 by the time of The Prophet Motive). I wouldn’t write a profile until I could find someone south/west asian who’d be a suitable choice (because OUAT should avoid whitewashing characters at ALL costs and I’m certainly not gonna do it, myself). He’s surprisingly difficult to pick for.
I also think the younger characters are just not as intimidating and I wanted to write an antagonist with some weight and experience under their belt. (Peter Pan doesn’t count because even HE was aged up for OUAT; in the original book he’s supposed to be small enough to still have all his baby teeth.)
In my writeup I leave a lot of room for history that takes place in his early twenties and even his mid teens, and I might look for “casting choices” for those, because inevitably those adventures will be written.
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