Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24842761-20140420213256/@comment-5106672-20140421015002

Killian Jones wrote:

GothicNarcissus wrote: Or maybe, as I once theorised, he could only travel from Wonderland to non-magical lands. Which would explain why Cora couldn't use him to travel back to the Enchanted Forest after being banished to Wonderland. I believe Victorian England *is* a magical land. Firstly, because I believe all lands where "stories" come from are magical, and secondly, because I think the LWM is the only LWM. Basically because a) every time someone says "a land without magic" they're refering to the very same one, b) Rumple wouldn't know which LWM Bae ended up in unless it was the only one, and c) I think the reason why the Darlings didn't live in VE is because they needed to have Bae end up in a LWM. I could be wrong, of course, but I believe I'm not. XD I've reconsidered Once:Wonderland completely, but one thing I still dislike about it is that it made things much more complicated for the parent show. :/

But Jefferson said in 1x17 that “Some lands have magic, some don't”, plural implied. Besides, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  and Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There  are the stories, so we could argue she made it into the books because she had adventures in a magical realm regardless of her provenience, much like the Darling siblings, who went to Neverland while being from “The“ LWM. I don't know, things are so unclear it's difficult to even theorise.