Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24279891-20140506075618/@comment-15736398-20140603045227

Utter solitude wrote: I don't think Regina personally created lives and backstories and names for everyone. There's potentially over a million people in Storybrooke, that's a lot of work! It's always been my theory that the Curse acted for her, giving her what she would want. (It explains several people's presence, as well as many of the names. Like MM. Regina didn't know what the fake names Snow gave Red were)

Belle and Jefferson weren't the only ones who didn't need backstories, David didn't either. He wasn't supposed to wake up. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Kathryn's story was different before Emma arrived, as Killian suggested.

I feel like there's someone else I could point out but can't think of whom... Storybrooke is a small town, so there's no way in heck that it has a population of over 1 million.