"It's how you know you really got a home. When you leave it there's this feeling you can't shake. You just miss it."
Mulan
A legendary and versatile warrior, Mulan served beside Prince Phillip at the time the effects of the Evil Queen's curse began to recede from half of the land it had endangered and cast into an unrepairable supressed stasis. The two had been recruited into a small survivor's guild under the guidance of Lancelot. After they had "rescued" Aurora, the table's had turned and her and Aurora partnered together to recover the prince.
In the end of it all however, Mulan chose to separate from her two companions and unite with the Merry Men of the woods and serve under the man in green tights, Robin Hood. Now she roams the streets of Storybrooke, clad in her battle armor, her chin held upward in confidence and self-regard.
Tinkerbell
A selfless fairy, all Tinkerbell every longed for was the chance to bring someone their happy ending. After being instructed to not involve herself in matters that were not her concern,
Princess Aurora/ Sleeping Beauty
After slipping into sleep for a century, Princess Aurora was awoken by a kiss delivered by her one true love, Prince Philip. Their reunion was cut devastatingly short when he was marked by the stamp of a Wraith and his soul was consumed. With the help of Philip's previous companion,
Wendy Darling
In an act of self-sacrifice to protect her youngest brother Wendy offered herself up to the shadow that would paint the nursery in terror. Forced to submit to Peter Pan and remain as his unwanted "guest", she had to endure years of neglect until Pan decided he needed her when he had Henry Mills abducted. Manipulating her to his advantage, Wendy was used as a sympathy card against the small boy to plead for Pan's cause. Though completely aware of Pan's reasoning for needing Henry's heart, she was bound to Pan's instructions under the threat of her brothers being eradicated. Through Rumple's prying, Wendy ended up confessing Pan's elaborate plot and was relieved to no longer be weighed down by the secret. With the help of Tinkerbell, Wendy finds her way back home to London and to her brothers.
Mulan, Aurora and her set out on a journey to reclaim it and bring the prince back to the world of the living which proves that even princesses can be warriors too.
Tinkerbell wrought more destruction than good. Seeking out a remedy to the sting inside from being expunged as a fairy, Tinkerbell encountered a devious little boy by the name of Peter Pan that would permanetely embitter her attitude towards people. Despite being capsized by the idea of people, Tinkerbell endangered her own well-being by sneaking a map away from Pan to Emma, Hook, Snow White, Charming, and Regina when they ended up stranded on Neverland. During her time assisting them, Tinkerbell learns that Regina, the person that she tried to unite with her "true love" and who refused to approach her other half, could indeed love and starts to believe again proven by the fairy dust that flickers briefly into fairy magic. After all, even little fairies still dream big.
Maleficent
In regards to those who seek her, Maleficent is of little propriety when it comes to interaction. Embittered to humans by the loss of her parents, one would not dare speak her name, much less seek her out. Throughout the growth of mankind there had been whispers of a winged she-elf hidden deep within the bindings of books, but nary a sight nor sound of the creature herself. When the forests faded her shelter was lost, and thus the Fae was left to wander. Though her major providence is in that of the wood or sky, she can be seen, on occasion, in the midst of Storybrooke..