Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-6252544-20130629175822

Now I could see whale, especially since the only people he ever had the slightest bit of romance was with Mary Margaret (when he was cursed, could be part of his individual curse) and ruby (who is no longer going to be on the show anymore). And his tragedy never involved a true love (as far as we know of). Now an idea just popped into my mind... Jefferson and Whale. Maybe the reason grace lost her mother was that when Jefferson used the hat to travel back and forth to the land without color, and they sparked a romance. When Jefferson got back his wife had ran away or killed herself or something out of losing her husband or something. Then he was stranded in wonderland and lost his hat and would never see Whale again (but then the curse happened).