Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4453062-20160217065238/@comment-24674051-20160330165222

Not sure about any Pinnochio/August sighting or reference.

And to answer the comment about putting the pieces together in the case that Cleo was in fact a nod to the Pinnochio story, when would Emma have had time to deal with that? Certainly not before the first curse broke, because she did not believe at that point. not between the time of the first curse breaking and the end of Neverland, as she was constantly fighting something (either in the EF, or Cora, or Pan). Certainly not during the missing year, as she had no memory of the events to process. and since the casting of Snow's curse, she's had about 6 weeks of down time, and much of that time was probably spent dealing with Current events (new baby brother, relationship issues, getting to know her parents better, getting a better grasp on her magic).

And we are not even sure that Cleo Fox is a reference to Pinnochio (though I think that it is, even if Cleo is not herself a FTL charactger).