Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-24863788-20150712021406/@comment-1894786-20150714160419

Anyway, to people iffy on Pocahontas, they could make the Once version of the character not the actual Pocahontas, but rather a Land Without Magic character named after the iconic historical heroine, who came across Storybrooke during its creation (like Kurt and Owen) and Regina decided to absorb her into the Curse to prevent her from leaving.

When the Curse was broken and magic came to Storybrooke, she realized she had shamanistic-like powers (similar to Pocahontas in the movie, who seems to have magic) and spends all her time developing them right up until the Curse is broken and drags everyone involved in the Curse back to the Enchanted Forest. Strangely enough, she is brought along with it and discovers she is from the EF, and then her arc would be to find her parents.

Well, maybe not 'cause that's way too similar to Lily's arc, but you get what I mean. They could do anything original with Pocahontas because of the fact that she's a historical figure. Since they can't very well do her real life story, which would be irrelevant to the EF and Storybrooke (having happened before any other event in the show's timeline and in Virginia, where the show's never gone), they can take any twist and spin on her that they can.