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Who: Oncers, friends of oncers, people who want to point and laugh at oncers.
Where: Everywhere
When: 6/24-6/27
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Summerween sucks.
The Story:

There's safety in numbers. That's the logic behind turning trick or treating into a group event, and unfortunately, Emma agrees with it. None of Henry's parents want him wandering around on his own when there's a trickster out there murdering people for lack of participation, so the smart thing to do seems to be to call it a family thing and suffer together. Because knocking on the door sometimes means treats and sometimes means tricks, they've gotten good at stepping back to avoid flying bats, or food in the face, or the stench of something awful. Learning through experience means they've fallen victim to a few of those things, too. There's no choice in this and no sense in complaining about that, but try telling that to a group of disgruntled fairytale characters in costumes that most of them can't stand. Neal didn't ask for the Peter Pan look, and Emma definitely wasn't planning on being the Swan Princess. She hasn't asked Zelena and Regina about their choices; with those two it's hard to tell whether the closet was being a pain in the ass or they were looking to push each other's buttons. Henry's costume makes the most sense out of any of them, and if there's a way to turn this into something other than a miserable experience for him, they're going to. Trick or treating as a family just loses a little of its appeal when it's a holiday forced on them by Wonderland, nevermind the fact that they have to say it every time (and have started to do so in irritated unison). There's more candy collected than any of them have wanted or cared to count. The number is a lot instead of something specific. In the end it'll either be enough or it won't, so counting it up before they hand it over would only slow them down. They're able to cover more ground like this, moving from one door to the next in a pattern they establish through the monotony of the task. Regular Halloween is ruined, and so is anything involving a costume, but they might as well do it for as long as they have to. There was no giving up once they got started, and they've all earned the right to survive this. They'll just have to see if the trickster agrees. [Brackets or prose, w/e. Feel free to mingle with each other/top level however you want.]