Will the Chains Hold?

While rewatching Vampire Diaries’ Tyler Lockwood werewolf transformation scenes ([link] [link]), I was thinking about Child of the Moon again and got to thinking about how it was Ruby’s first time to shift in Storybrooke.

If the whole concept of putting magic into a world that doesn’t run on it has all these unpredictable effects, I figured that her transformation in Storybrooke could have had a more ‘realistic’ touch to it, something intense and painful with the resetting of bones and organs and no magic disappearing and reappearing clothes and imagine the possibilities… like it would put more weight on how big of a deal it is for Ruby to gain control over her wolf, and I would have loved to see a Forwood-esque scene with Belle staying at Ruby’s side throughout the ordeal and omg the ‘will the chains hold?’ line like just leave me to drown in feels now okay

oh and here’re some wip shots for the heck of it: [link]