Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25758988-20151004165438

Ok I am confused about the timelines in these many worlds! Ok I have always assumed that the characters in Once are the real deal. This is the real Snow White, the real Regina and the real Rumplestilskin. I believed the timelines ran paralle to our time as 28 years past in both words etc, However if the timelines are to be believed that this Snow White is only roughly 50 years old. If thats true how did we ever read the stories before then? Snow White's tale has been around for decades. So does this mean the characters from the book are the creation of an author? If so then are they the characters Walt created while he was the aurthor? I mean this would make sense due to the similarities between his creations and these characters. If this is the case then surely Walt would be altering the stories and therefore would be in more trouble then Issac, unless his death came before the Apprentice discovered his betrayal. I mean was it him who named the dwarfs? Named Blue? These characters had no names in their "original" forms. The timelines however are even more confusing when we take in the fact that surely the Victorian England and the 1920's world would have to have been created after our world had gone through those times before we could write about them. So it would seem like these worlds are the product of other writers. I mean when Balefire was transported to our world and landed in the real Victorian England when he did I don't think the world known as Victorian England existed. Also I should mention that he should not have landed in Victorian England at all. The Dark One has been the Dark One for longer then 500 years, Bay left Rumple about a year after he became the Dark One and Victorian England is no where near 500 years ago, more like 200 years. So was that a confusion by the writers or what?  