Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20160602030631

So we know that Gulliver was in the new storybook that contains stories from the Land of Untold Stories. I've always liked Gulliver's Travels as a book so I was thinking about how he could be included, and I came up with a rather expansive idea for what could be his centric episode.

My theory is that he is a portal-jumper like Jefferson and William, but accidentally. He was on a ship alongside a portal-jumper (besides Jefferson or William) and they got caught in the storm. The portal-jumper lost his hat, and Gulliver, knocked over by the waves, fell into it, arriving in the hat room and taking the hat away from its owner. Not sure what was going on or how he ended up in this new room, Gulliver randomly picks a door and lands in Lilliput. We see a little bit of him with the Lilliputians, and he eventually learns how to use the hat. We get to see a couple glimpses of worlds he traveled to in the book (so we'd see giants and maybe some Yahoos), and eventually he lands in the Land of Untold Stories. As he wonders where he is, he's greeted by someone (likely Hyde) who tells him to spend the day in this "wonderful" land. As the day goes on, Gulliver starts to realize something is wrong with the land and eventually discovers that its inhabitants lives can never continue - they are eternally trapped in a loop that only changes slightly as more people join them until they can eventually leave. Not wanting to get caught in this loop, Gulliver rushes to get back into the hat. However, just after he jumps in, he immediately jumps back out and is greeted by Hyde, who tells him to spend the day in this "wonderful" land...

I dunno what would happen to him in Storybrooke, but I really liked this. It would be an early episode, since it would show how the realm works (with the eternal loop).

What do you guys think? And do you have any theories on Gulliver? 