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Kansas[1] is a world featured on Once Upon a Time.
Background
Kansas is a world in the Land With Magic universe. It is based on the Land Without Magic's Kansas. Not much is known about the land, but based on Dorothy Gale's description, Kansas is a town-like land where farmhouses and crop lands exists. The inhabitants are not aware of their wide universe and assumes their land is the only existing one. Such cases includes Dorothy Gale's trip to the Land of Oz through a cyclone, in which her family refuses to believe in the Land of Oz's existence.
Witchcraft is not known in Kansas with many inhabitants refusing to believe in magic. They think magic is make-believe and fictional. Some even have thoughts of placing loved ones in asylums, thinking that they are delusional for believing in the existence of magic. Despite this, the land has powerful magic, enough to summon a cyclone.
Just like the other parts of the universe, Kansas was affected by the Evil Queen's curse, but only indirectly. The curse froze the inhabitants in time for twenty-eight years and are awaken when the curse is weakened in 2011. Despite the year gap, the inhabitants aren't aware that much time has passed due to the lack of information about the curse which is widely known throughout the Enchanted Forest.
History
Before First Curse
From Kansas, somehow, a failed circus performer named Walsh finds himself in the Land of Oz. There, he tricks Glinda, the Good Witch of the South by manipulating magic. By doing so, he takes over the land and is known widely as the Wizard of Oz. ("Kansas")
A cyclone destroys Dorothy Gale's farmhouse and takes her, along with her farmhouse, to the Land of Oz. After defeating the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy is send back to Kansas using the Silver Slippers given to her. Upon arriving back home, Dorothy tells her family about Oz but her family refuses to believe her and dooms her insane. They attempts to put her in an asylum but Emily Brown, who Dorothy calls as Aunt Em, believes her and refuses to put her in an asylum. ("Kansas", "Ruby Slippers")
Years later, Aunt Em becomes sick. Before dying, Aunt Em gifts Toto, a pet dog, to Dorothy. Upon death, Aunt Em's soul ends up in the Underworld where she becomes the owner of a diner. ("Ruby Slippers")
Through the Munchkins of Oz, Dorothy finds out that the Wicked Witch of the West is still alive and had taken over all of Oz. Donning the Silver Slippers, Dorothy, along with Toto this time, returns to the Land of Oz to defeat the Wicked Witch of the West. ("Our Decay")
Notes
- Kansas is separated from the Land Without Magic.[2]
- It is also based on the location of the same name from L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.