Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141027013232/@comment-25602483-20141105161531

Cjtrules15 wrote: TheSamTrickster wrote: I think my explanation is sound about Ingrid not being part of the curse. If you rewatch "the apprentice" they already established that Ingrid did not come through a curse. While it is still true that Rumple and SQ had dealt with each other before. I have this crazy/weird theory on how the SQ got the LWM, think about that slippers from OZ, it maybe highly unlikely, but its possible. That would be awesome if they showed the slippers BUT it would be a bit weird showing them right after the OZ story arc. Zelena had them to travel to the EF as a young woman remember, so it's totally possible she kept them. I would assume Zelena kept them under lock and key since Jefferson couldn't find them. The slippers are the only way Zelena knows how to travel between worlds.

I agree, Ingrid is not part of the curse. I never thought she was. She came to the LWM some other way. She had to already be hear before Emma or A&E have to explain what happened to Arendale during the first curse. The EF was frozen in time during the curse so it would be weird if someone outside the EF just showed up and saw everything frozen. Ingrid must of got that prophecy and then started looking for a way to travel between worlds. This is proabably where she met Rumple. I just remembered in the episode of "Kansas" Zelena gave it to Dorothy. EF and Arendelle exist in the same realm, in the episode of "Tale of Two sisters" Anna mentioned she needed 2 weeks to journey to the "Misthaven" and find out their parents motivate for seeking answers. Which means EF and Arendella were both frozen in time, but for some reason, the characters from their realm were not warped into SB, probably the SQ did the same thing as Cora did, she protected their realm from the effect of Regina's curse. However, the problem with this explanation is that SQ was already in LWM before the curse so what I mentioned above kinda contradicts that Cora/SQ pararell. But this one will probably make more sense. What if the SQ used the hat to acquire enough magic, via stealing other magical creatures's, strong and potent enough to warp her into the LWM, this maybe explain why Rumple found the hat in some abandoned house, perhaps it was the house of the last person the SQ had been to steal that person's magic then boom, into the LWM.