Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-4839682-20140320220703/@comment-4975807-20140326192538

Ruby ridinghood wrote: Applegirl wrote: I think what Ruby ridinghood means is she still perceives Belle, Regina and Jefferson to be the same people they are, despite that they were all taken by the curse, because they (or at least Regina and Jefferson because I'm unsure about Belle) retained their memories of their lives in the EF. Even though I agree they did retain their memories (though Belle's memories are questionable b/c she did not recognize Mr. Gold at all after she was released by Jefferson), they were still cursed in some aspect. They weren't affected in the same way as the other residents, with their memories altered and such, but their lives were still altered to conform under the curse, and that's the reason they each have counterpart pages. The thing with Belle is that she didn't really have a Storybrooke counterpart, She was just Belle without any memories. But her life was still conformed in Storybrooke to live under the curse, memory or not. In Regina's case, it can still be debated that she kept her memories and is essentially the same person, but like Utter said, it's been even those that retained memories were given false histories. When Regina said, "Ever since I've been mayor..." or even when she said she was in her second or third term as mayor, that's her actually remembering a false memory of how she got elected or won the race for mayor several times. It's a false memory, but she remembers it, despite that it's something the curse made. Jefferson also said he had "two lives" in his head. He did keep his EF memories, but the curse gave him the life and memories of who he is in Storybrooke as well.