Tsk, OUAT really just wasted so many great f/f dynamics, that being one of the biggest.
Which fics are you reading? Oddly enough, my two best-remembered SW fics are both AUs that still make use of the fairytale world but change Mulan and Aurora’s roles: a story, a tale by maleficently and Could Have Been a Year by thrace. Oh, I like Object Permanence by thrace too, obviously, but it’s a more standard fix-it, of course I was gonna like it.
I didn’t really read too much else, it was hard to separate the actual SW fics from where they were minor to SQ, which, I do like them as well, but it’s not the same, right.