Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5679696-20160105012758/@comment-25762747-20160105041853

Killian Jones wrote: I haven't seen any thread dedicated to theories about why the underworld looks like Storybrooke, so here are some: I personally like theory number 3 a lot. Although I don't think they're gonna go that way with why the underworld looks exactly like Storybrooke, I think it would be the perfect twist if, instead, it is Storybrooke what looks exactly like the Underworld. What do you all think? Haha, I actually mentioned #3 sometime before in the Underworld thread. This was what i theorized in that thread (copy pasted here) :
 * 1) The Underworld looks like wherever the souls come from. This would add a feeling of eternal nostalgia and homesickness on top of everything, or to make the souls feel at home?
 * 2) The Underworld used to be the typical huge cave in fire, or a dark pit, or whatever... And it turned into this normal-looking town when the Curse was cast.
 * 3) The Underworld has always looked like this... The Dark Curse was supposed to send everyone to a place without happy endings, right? so what better than an exact replica of Hell?

Just a little theory about the Underworld arc. Anyone wondering why Storybrooke and the Underworld looks alike. Maybe it is all connected back to the Dark Curse

Back to the time Before the First and Original Dark Curse : Maybe, Underworld had always been like that, loooking like Storybrooke and it's apperence came before even the creation of Storybrooke. Maybe someone in the Underworld was disatisfied with the conditions and environment there and so, he/she created a curse, later known as the famous Dark Curse, to transport everyone from the Underworld to a new land (LWM) and recreate the Underworld, but this time, a better environment, a better version of how it originally looked. Perhaps the name Storybrooke had been alluded into the curse as part of his/her plan.

But. . . someone, maybe the King of the Underworld found out and banished the Curse to FTL, namely the EF and had the Chernebog (that Demon in Bald Mountain) to guard the Curse. eventually, Regina cast it (including adding extra ingredients such as a memory wipe, false memories, frozen time etc). So, when the town was created in the LWM, it became the new Underworld (based on the original plan) and named as Storybrooke (also based on the original plan), except it's inhabitants are from various realms of FTL and other worlds, rather than the Underoworld inhabitants