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Character Name: Drizella Tremaine / Ivy Belfrey
Series: Once Upon a Time
Timeline: 710: The Eighth Witch
Canon Resource Link: Once Upon a Time Season 7 | Drizella | Ivy but there’s not a lot of info there, I’m sorry.
Character History:

Drizella Tremaine was born to Marcus and Rapunzel Tremaine, the youngest of their two daughters. They had a happy, but impoverished life, and when Drizella was very young, her father became quite sick. They were traveling on the road, and Rapunzel stopped to find food for her husband and her daughters, disappeared into a nearby garden and never returned. Eventually her father recovered, found his fortune, and then remarried a woman named Cecilia, who already had a daughter, Ella.

Drizella was too young to fully remember her mother when she disappeared, and took to Cecilia quite easily, but her sister Anastasia never gave up on hoping that her mother would come home. Still, the newly formed Tremaine family was happy, and as a compromise, Anastasia would release lanterns every year to try and let her mother know that they were waiting for her. And in the end, it worked!

What they didn’t know, was that Rapunzel had been caught by the garden’s owner, Mother Gothel, and bargained away her life for her family’s happiness. There were bittersweet and uncomfortable reunions with the daughter who didn’t really remember her (Drizella) and the husband who had moved on without her. Rapunzel was understandably bitter about this, and Drizella tried to reconnect with her, but it was a struggle when she was constantly compared to Anastasia – the daughter who didn’t abandon her. Things only went from bad to worse when Ella’s mother, Cecilia, was poisoned so that she couldn’t be near Marcus without Marcus dying. Ella was crushed at the loss of her mother, and Drizella at the loss of one of her first mother figures, but Rapunzel became officially part of the family again.

Tragedy struck yet again in the winter shortly after they were reunited. While having a family outing near a frozen pond, Ella chased a ball out onto the ice and fell through. Anstasia had gone after her to try and help her and fell through as well. Marcus dove in after them, but was only able to reach Ella. Anastasia drowned and Rapunzel never forgave any of them as a result. Drizella spent her time being constantly reminded how she wasn’t the preferred child, with nothing she ever did being good enough, Ella becomes nothing more than the family slave because they decide to slap a “Cinder” in front of her name, and arraigned the death of Marcus with the help of a nearby prince when she was trying to offer Drizella’s hand in marriage.

Drizella, however, gets rejected in the end, which is probably for the best.

Anyhoo. Basically insert Cinderella here – Drizella and her mother abuse Ella, Ella gets her fairy godmother to give her a dress and a carriage so that she can go to the prince’s ball and quietly murder him for his involvement in the death of her father. That’s totally how the story goes, right? Also in this story: the fairy godmother gets kidnapped by the Tremaine ladies, Lady Tremaine clips her wings, steals her wand, and in the end kills her with it. She then tells her daughter that magic is worthless and fear works better, but it’s clear from the way that Drizella is eyeing that magic wand, she is way more interested in magic than her mother thinks she should be. Ella also shows up on a motorcycle and is followed by a strange new man named Henry. Aka Henry Mills aka the Author aka the Truest Believer and he is Super Relevant to Lady Tremaine’s interests and long term goal of bringing her daughter Anastasia back to life. When Ella can’t follow through with killing the prince herself, Lady Tremaine does it instead and frames her for it. Henry helps Ella escape, and Lady Tremaine tries to follow her, but Tiana (yes that Tiana) gets to her first and convinces her to join the resistance against the king who is allied with Lady Tremaine, so when they do get to where Ella was last seen, all they really get is Henry, and there is a missing glass slipper.

Before really knowing who he is, Lady Tremaine orders Drizella to find out where he hid the glass slipper and then kill the captured attempted hero, and that’s when she first meets Regina aka the Evil Queen aka Henry’s mom and Killian Jones aka Captain Hook aka Henry’s Stepfather who married his other mom and gets blown back into the wall with Regina’s far more powerful magic. Henry escapes, which Lady Tremaine is definitely not pleased about. But, knowing who Henry really is, she decides to make another play, trying to manipulate Ella into stealing Henry’s heart to help her resurrect her daughter. But being that that also falls through, it’s a good thing that Lady Tremaine has back up plans on top of back up plans.

Turns out both of the Tremaine daughters are capable of magic, but being that their mother thought magic was garbage unless she needed it for herself, she never allowed them to cultivate it. Which left Drizella, when she grew tired enough of being oppressed under her mother’s thumb, began to seek magic elsewhere, often in ruins or yard sales (she’s seen in Tiana’s backstory, going through their estate sale when they’re unable to pay their taxes). It’s in a particular set of ruins that she happens to run into Regina again, but this time things are on a much more peaceful ground. Regina even manages to teach her some magic, but after an impromptu conversation with Rumple, Regina realizes what Victoria’s plan is – she’s keeping her daughter’s heart light so that she can use it in order to revive her other daughter, a process which would definitely kill Drizella. Regina conveys this plan to her, in an effort to convince her to get away from her mother and join the side of the good guys, but Drizella doesn’t want to fight a war – she just wants her mother dead and gone. As far as Drizella is concerned, that’s the only way Rapunzel will no longer be a threat.

Regina tries to talk her out of it, but Drizella scorns her for not wanting to help her in the way that Drizella wanted her to, so she leaves Regina’s side and goes to see if the new prince she’s betrothed to will help her instead. The two of them go to confront her mother about her intentions, and her mother gives her more disparaging garbage about how she is clearly not the superior daughter, no matter how hard she tries, and Drizella snaps. Regina interrupts at this point, trying to talk Drizella down yet again about having the prince kill her mother, but Drizella turns it on her by saying that that’s not why he’s here. Using a magical plant suitcase she discovered earlier, she kills the prince, basically wiping out both the heirs of the Royal Family, and turning her heart dark, therefore ruining her mother’s plans to use her as a heart transplant. With that, she threatens with a Dark Curse and that her mother will suffer for everything she has put Drizella through, and disappears dramatically in a puff of smoke.

The next time we see Drizella, she is poison hunting in Wonderland, flirted with Alice enough to convince her she has a cure for what ails her, but that is not the case. She just needed to lure Henry and Ella there, and when she does, she makes an attempt to poison Henry’s heart in order to stop true love’s kiss from happening – the first attempt to hero proof her curse. It was thwarted, however, by Ella coming to save the day, and with the help of Alice, Ivy was dropped through a mirror to parts unknown.

Somewhere in here: she meets Mother Gothel and joins the Circle of Eight. How she got there, we don’t know yet, because Once Upon a Time, but HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE FILLED IN HERE AT SOME POINT.

Also in here: Henry and Ella fall further in love, get married and HAVE A LITTLE BABY NAMED LUCY WHO IS THE MOST PRECIOUS PEANUT IN THIS WORLD. Ahem. But on the day of Lucy’s birth, Drizella with her brand new crazy eyes shows up to deliver a prophecy that on Lucy’s eighth birthday, she’s gonna cast a dark curse and basically SCREW ALL OF YOU. Unfortunately for Drizella, the intrepid heroes were prepared for her and had teamed up with her mother to trap her using blood magic. Drizella was turned to stone.

Where she stayed. For eight years. They built a whole castle around her, it was great.

Flash forward to Lucy’s eighth birthday, when the party is crashed by the rest of the Circle of Eight. They free Drizella and disappear to finish preparing their impending curse. The heroes immediately go into a frenzy, trying to build contingency plans, which goes awry when the coven swoops in and manages to kidnap Henry. Regina, Zelena and company track them down only to discover that Henry has been poisoned, and the only cure for it on hand is a land without magic. Drizella then forces Regina to cast the curse for her, so that she doesn’t have to crush the heart of the thing she loves most (WHICH WOULD HAVE SAVED HER SO MUCH TROUBLE LATER), and off they go, being whisked away to Hyperion Heights with their new cursed identities.

Enter Ivy Belfrey.

Ivy enters Hyperion Heights as the assistant and daughter to Victoria Belfrey, a powerful real estate mogul. Victoria is in the process of buying up the property of the fairy tale creatures in order to force them out and keep them separated forever. As far as Victoria is concerned, she cast the curse and Ivy is just the cursed persona of her useless daughter Drizella, so the way that Victoria treats her remaining living daughter doesn’t change. She’s still on a quest to save Anastasia, and has Mother Gothel, awake and locked in the tower. Ivy’s most important responsibility is keeping track of her step-niece Lucy, who Victoria has custody of, but she has visitation time with her mother, Jacinda (Ella) and her roommate Sabine (Tiana). Lucy likes to make this job really difficult, especially when she decides to take off to find her father, and Jacinda refuses to return Ivy’s calls.

Ivy most of the time behaves as though she wants nothing to do with Lucy, and is of the opinion that since Jacinda is her mother and Victoria wants custody of her so badly, they should take care of her herself, but she fears her mother’s reprisals too much to defy her in any meaningful way. Eventually, Lucy does return to Hyperion Heights, with Henry Mills in tow, and Henry being Henry, tries to make an effort to connect with the young woman as a way of mending fences for Lucy’s best interest, as well as trying to inspire her to go up against her mother. Around Halloween, Ivy is forced to take Lucy trick or treating, and while she does her best to accommodate the girl to a point, when she doesn’t do exactly what she wants, Lucy recruits a decoy out of one of the other trick or treaters and takes off.

Ivy goes to Jacinda first, hoping that the girl at least had some sense to go home to her mother, and Henry happens to be there. Jacinda is too busy being angry at Ivy to actually work together with her and Ivy storms off in a huff, intent on doing it herself. Later, when Henry is working as part of the search party, he finds Ivy on a bench nearby, and they have a heart to heart about letting go of baggage and doing the scary thing, and she finally caves and has a heart, and they track down Lucy together. Later, they spend the night bonding and drinking at Roni (Regina)’s bar, which make things complicated between Henry and Jacinda.

Ivy takes to being friends with Henry like a girl who’s never had an actual friend before, only Instagram followers, and they begin spending a great deal of time together. Ivy even agrees to help him work against her mother, which makes Roni suspicious. Roni begins to encourage Henry to pursue Jacinda as the better choice, which interferes with Ivy’s plans of keeping the curse intact. When the older woman notices a text message from Ivy on Henry’s phone saying that she had some information on her mother that Henry should see, Roni goes in Henry’s place to vet the information for herself. The two of them ride up Victoria’s secret elevator to where Gothel’s tower is located, and while they don’t find Gothel, Roni does find a picture of herself as Regina and little Henry from Storybrooke. Confused and questioning whether or not Lucy is telling the truth about there being a curse, she doesn’t mention it to anyone. Meanwhile, Ivy, who has actually been “awake” the entire time and still Drizella, brings Gothel what she needs in order to make a particular potion to solve the Roni problem, so that she won’t interfere with their plans by breaking the curse. Drizella brings it to Roni’s bar that night, claiming she had some more information about her mother, and pours the memory potion into a glass of scotch that she gives to the other woman. Regina wakes up from the curse, remembering who Drizella is and what she had done, but also the way Drizella had “hero proofed” her curse to keep it from being broken. Regina remembers that if the curse breaks, Henry dies, and therefore is forced to help Drizella keep the curse from being broken by true love’s kiss. She does as Drizella asks, and drives a wedge between Henry and Jacinda as best she can.

The next phase of Drizella’s plan falls into place: getting Gothel out from her mother’s control, and making Victoria suffer in the process. Playing Tilly (Alice) and Officer Rogers (Hook from a wish that Emma made who happens to be Alice’s father) regarding a missing person’s case that Rogers was obsessed with, Drizella and Gothel planted an evidence trail leading them to “Eloise Gardner” aka Gothel, who was being held prisoner in one of her mother’s properties. Victoria is arrested, Drizella is given control of all of Belfrey Industries, and Gothel is released into the world so that they can really get to work on their plans. Order of business #1 is tracking down Anastasia’s body so that they can bring her back and Drizella can steal her magic for herself. The plan hits a bit of a roadblock, however, when Anastasia’s body is not in the ornate coffin where Victoria usually kept her.

Drizella goes to visit her mother in prison to see if she could determine where her mother has hidden her. A tense conversation ensues, but no matter how she negotiates, Victoria refuses to give up her eldest daughter’s location. Drizella walks away, frustrated, but is given a fresh lead when Victoria teams up with Weaver (Rumplestiltskin). He releases Victoria from prison and Drizella and Gothel follow them (terribly) through Hyperion Heights as Victoria gathers the ingredients she needs in order to resurrect her daughter. The key ingredient to resurrecting Anastasia is the lost belief of an innocent, so Victoria puts all the seeds in place to sacrifice Lucy in order to restore Anastasia. In the end, she is successful, using one of Lucy’s tears in order to bring Anastasia back to life. Lucy collapses a short while later, and by the time Drizella arrives at the hospital, she finds her mother crying grateful tears over her now living sister, and as she walked away from the display which contained more love than her mother as ever shown her, tears gathered in the corner of her eyes.

Still, Anastasia being in her mother’s care doesn’t deter Drizella’s plans any. She is still determined to have her sister’s magic. Unfortunately, her mother is keeping Anastasia on a very short leash, so they needed to time their plan perfectly. Victoria takes Anastasia to Weaver in order to help train her in using her magic so that she fears it less. During one of those training sessions, Gothel interrupts and Anastasia panics, letting out a powerful blast of magic that incapacitates Weaver and Victoria and sends the poor young girl running, right into the arms of her all grown up sister, Drizella. Drizella gives her wristlets made of vines that she says will protect her sister from her uncontrollable magic, and Drizella says she’ll take her somewhere safe.

They arrive in Gothel’s lair, and Drizella, impatient and unable to wait any longer, goes to use the vines to rob her sister of her magic. She dons a pair of her own and begins the spell, but something goes wrong. Drizella stumbles back, weakened, and confused, when Gothel explains that the vines weren’t designed to give Anastasia’s magic to Drizella – they were designed to give Drizella’s magic to Anastasia. Crushed, Drizella realizes she’s been betrayed by yet another maternal figure, and Gothel taunts her, saying that she should have listened to her mother, before she pushes her back into the abandoned well behind her.

And with that, Drizella arrives in Wonderland.

Abilities/Special Powers:

Under normal circumstances, Drizella is a sorceress in OUAT terms, and what that means is she can do all kinds of magic. What are the limits? Who knows because this show changes them all the time, but she has a strong enough knowledge of magic that she could modify Regina’s dark curse to suit her purposes. Unfortunately for Drizzy, her magic was taken for her shortly before she arrived in Wonderland, so none of this actually applies, but she could get it back in the future so I want to note it here just in case.

Other than that, she’s got crazy Instagram game, and is fluent in emoji.

Third-Person Sample:

All Drizella ever wanted was a mother to love her.

It’s what every girl should have – a mother to look up to and follow. Ever since she was a little girl, her life has been a revolving door of mother figures, all failing her in one way or another, until she got too angry to accept it unless it was exactly how she wanted it. A mother should love her daughter. A mother should never leave her daughter. A mother should never favor one child over the other, regardless of how perfect that child was. And when a girl loses her sister, a mother should comfort her so that they can grieve together.

Cecilia left her, Rapunzel despised her, and Gothel used her.

And Gothel used her.

She’s still having trouble processing that last part as Gothel lays out that Anastasia was her true plan all along. It was never about bringing Drizella into the Circle and helping her make her mother suffer. It was just about getting to the older daughter, the better daughter, and taking Drizella’s power from her in the process.

Never rely on magic. Magic can be taken.

(Gothel is right. She should have listened to her mother.)

She’s too weak to fight her when the older woman’s hand reaches out, pressing against the middle of her chest and forcing her backwards. Her heart sinks to her stomach as she tries to scramble for purchase, but in the end, none of that matters. Now that she doesn’t have magic at all, she doesn’t have the strength to stop it, and she just tumbles backwards into the darkness. She feels like she’s falling forever, it seems, until her back collides with something hard and soft at the same time. She takes a breath, opens her eyes and … is not greeted with the bottom of a well.

In fact, she’s greeted with a gingerbread mansion, lots of marshmallow snow, and she is very much aware that she is suddenly not in Kansas anymore. The strangeness of it all is enough to snap her out of her misery for a moment and replace it with confusion instead.

“What … the actual hell.”

First-Person Sample:

[She takes her time orienting herself with Wonderland a bit before she makes a move to address the network. She spends some time with Henry to get the lay of the land of who’s here and who isn’t, and she knows enough to know that this isn’t her Wonderland. But with no defenses and no magic, she’s not going to be taking any chances of getting on Regina’s bad side – especially if Regina is at her full strength.

So time to play Ivy, just as well as she ever has. She takes the time to wash her face and put on her war paint before she flips on video and begins to speak.]

So no Instagram, no Snap Chat, no Twitter – basically I’ve been sent back to the stone age technology wise, and am stuck here until further notice. Are we sure we’re not in Hell, because I’m pretty sure this is exactly how I’d define it.

[She is less than impressed, Wonderland. Step it up. She elegantly flops back against the lounge that she’s outfitted her new room with and kicks her feet up without jostling the camera at all – she is a pro.

Then there’s a beat as something occurs to her.]

Wait – if this is Wonderland like the story does that mean there’s a smoking caterpillar somewhere? Because if he’s willing to share some of his stash, that may make this crappy day I’ve been having ten times better.

[Another beat.]

Can you get stoned, if you’re already stoned? I’m still not entirely convinced that this isn’t some kind of weird acid trip, as much as Henry has tried to tell me otherwise. Either way, if grass isn’t on the table, I’d settle for some top shelf scotch.

[And there’s a simple, friendly mean girl smile as she gets ready to close out the video.]

Help a girl out, and I’m sure I can find a way to return the favor down the line.

[And with that, Ivy out.]