Descendants: Upon a Star/Season One - 100: Prolouge

Welcome to Auradon, a place where dreams come true, you get woken up by True Love's Kiss and you live Happily Ever After..or at least the heroes do.Yes it is true that the history of the place does involve magic, princes, princess and yes even evil villains who want to rule the world, murder their enemies or in a lot of cases, both. Here in Auradon heroes come in all shapes and sizes from a Prince who slayed a dragon and saved his princess, to a girl whose foot fit the right glass slipper, a down on his luck street rat who was able to get with the girl of his dreams, to even contemporary heroes like superheroes and a talking former hollywood dog (who also thought he was a real super dog, long story).
And then there's the King and Queen of this world; a spoiled prince who needed to be taught humility and a village girl who learned that there’s more to someone then just their exterior. After their harrowing adventure and discovery of the love they share with each other, the two got married and reunited all of the heroes who went through similar experiences and brought together different people from different backgrounds and united all their worlds together. 
Then there were the villains. 
The villains generally had their own motivations besides just being evil. Some were tired of being treated like a secondary character to their older siblings and living into their shadows and wanted to shine. Some had a power craving issue and obsessed over power, rather than being magical, physical or socially. 
Then category three, the deranged folks that are a danger to anyone near them. 
Regardless of where the villains stood category wise, all of them were punished the same way. Queen Belle and King Adam “Beast” along with all the other heroes had enough of the villain’s behavior and decided to take action to punish them. So the royal couple gathered all the villains and put them on an island away from the rest of society.
The island was known as “The Isle of the Lost”.
One criticism that surfaced over the years regarding the isle is the living conditions itself. The isle was completely broken, with only the most powerful villains gaining “benefits” (aka keeping what they already had) while the large portion of the population suffered struggling to find anything to even eat.
Some could argue that this is what they deserve while others suggest maybe the villains in category one deserved a second chance.
Then came the infamous hypocrisy surrounding the isle. Some villains didn't even have to go to the isle because they were forgiven by the hero they offended. There were a couple of situations that many found controversial but no situation was so widespread and egregious then the villains of Croana; Varian, a teenage inventor genius who held Queen Arianna hostage to get Rapunzel’s attention so he can free his father from ember using her famous hair, and Cassandra, the daughter of Mother Gothel long before the Villian Kids (VKS for short) were born who wanted to prove she was more then everyone thought and she “proved” that by threatening everyone, kidnapping and drugging a minor (ironically it was Varian), and working for a well known dangerous demon and yet not only were they forgiven but Rapunzel stepped in to prevent them from being sent to the isle yet sidekicks like Smee who honestly quite frankly, didn’t enjoy doing bad things for their masters, were sent with no sympathy. 
I know it sounds absurd and it is. 
Then there was The Collector. 
Now The Collector was an interesting case because he’s a child, a fellow God mind you, but still a child nonetheless and he didn’t even understand exactly what was going on. Luz and her friends were all very forgiving as he was being manipulated by Philip Wittebane, aka former emperor of the Boiling Isles, Belos, however Belle (which is quite frankly shocking) and Beast were not as sympathetic. 
And again, the doublestands you cannot argue against because Varian did avoid it, but you cannot argue that any kid is safe from the Isle (even though that should be the case across the board). Adults can probably be more harsh since they know better and purposely choose to do the things they did for their own selfish desires but children can easily be manipulated and taken advantage of and that's what happened to the Collector. 
For the past few years (he never aged) Collector grew smarter and angrier, I mean I can’t really say I blame the kid but yeah that's what happened. I will say in fairness of Auradon,  Belle and Beast do seemingly care for children as they freed all the boys that the Coachman was gonna send to salt mines for profit underneath “Pleasure Island” and it would seem Belle and Beast themselves raised their son well because my daughter is heads over heels for him. Kinda plain if you ask me, but again he’s a good kid (and considering I abandoned her for sixteen years over Maleficent and I’s relationship souring, I don’t think I have any right to question her life choices).
What I believe happened was paranoia spread, all these heroes were super soft and paranoid (well most of them, Meg, heh, as we all know was and still is a tough cookie) and immediately took action without considering any possible different situations or special circumstances. Obviously they aren’t actually bad people, quite the opposite and in fairness to Luz specifically, she did object (not that it would help that much but hey its something)
But the Collector didn’t see it that way. He saw a complete and utter betrayal and well..he did not take it well.
What about me? 
I would be lying if I said I was proud of everything that I did during my time in Auradon - more specifically Mount Olympus and the Underworld. Zeus and I, oh boy where do I begin with the big guy? I will say that it was not really a good relationship. I took things more seriously, while Zeus made fun of me and mocked me for all of his god friends, and all the other gods and goddesses judged me for being the God of death, which is fine by me. 
But I felt like I was alone. The only ones that understood me were my imps, Pain and Panic. Good company but not the most competent henchmen. Then there's the fates, lovely ladies - if not a bit stingy. Then there were the millions of souls in River Styx, very..very touchy and…not the best place to live with as someone whose been dragged in it and had to stay there until Fairy Godmother brought me back to Earth specifically to put me on the Isle, kinda counterproductive if you ask me but neither option of staying in the river or going to the Isle were particularly “comfortable” anyways.
Fast forward a few unimportant years later and then it happened. Ben, the previously mentioned son of Belle and Beast made one proclamation to change everything: Allowing our children to leave this cesspool and experience a normal life. The first four that were selected for this experiment included Jay, Jafar’s son, Evie, daughter of Queen Grimhilde, Carlos, the (at the time) scared and nervous son of Cruella De Vil with a paranoia for dogs, and then there's the leader of the group: my daughter Mal.
Now my family life, as I mentioned before, was a bit…messy at best. It got so bad I left because Maleficent was so unbearable and she was ushering me out anyways. I did have a son with her too, in reality I didn’t leave until Mal was like six and Hadie, my son, was four. Now am I proud of being a deadbeat? Not really no..I just felt like I had to. It was my first and only romantic interaction and after that and before that I never felt the need to be affiliated with someone like that.
Imma skip over the rest of Mal’s time during this Auradon period because I obviously wasn't there to see any of it. I heard something went down in Auradon with Mal and Uma but as I said, I don’t have the specific details. 
A little bit after this feud with my daughter, and Shrimpy (I never liked Urusla or her daughter but my ex was super “besties” with her) came whatever the heck happened in Auradon where one of their own kind, Audrey, prissy “mean girl” daughter of Sleeping Beauty, enemy of my ex, suddenly gave a “screw you” on Auradon and went completely insane taking Maleficent’s scepter and terrorizing the land who have not had any major terrors in years besides Uma..and Maleficent at Ben’s coronation.
All back to back by months. Insane, I know. 
Mal came back to me desiring my ember to stop Audrey. This is the first time the both of us have talked in over eleven years. Eventually Audrey was freed from this evil curse and I had to bring her back to life which brings us to a week from now where, Mal and Ben freed all the children of the Isle and select less severe villains such as sidekicks however they still kept the dangerous ones on the isle (for obvious reasons). 
What surprised me was that I wasn’t one of the dangerous ones left on.
But that's probably because I'm Mal's dad and all that and I brought Audrey back to life. Idk anymore. 
Not that I want to start anything but the fact Mal would risk it for me is wild.
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