Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6302057-20171216220411

I was originally going to make a post in the Dark Curse comment section, but this became too long.

In all castings of the Dark Curse, apart from the Black Fairy's, the constituent ingredient required is to sacrifice the heart of the thing you love most (BF's was different as she instead used vast quantities of black fairy dust and was also the creator of the curse). Also, every single Dark Curse revolves around Storybrooke which BF built into the curse ("I know you think you own this town, but I invented it; all of it!").

This new curse appears to be one of two things: the nFTL equivalent of the Dark Curse, and/or a completely different curse. This curse is not connected to SB at all: instead of creating an isolated town, it has crammed a new neighbourhood into a busy city. Also, Drizella states that the curse's only ingredients are the combined magic of the Coven, and "magic from a witch who crushed the heart of the thing she loved most". And instead of casting the curse in a cauldron (or a fire, S1 retcon), Regina's magic (in the form of blood) is placed in a magical symbol with the Coven combining their magic to give the curse physical form.

I'm starting to think that this new curse is not the Dark Curse we know (created by BF), but is a parallel version of it from nFTL created by the Coven. Thoughts? 