Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-25375217-20161110210020/@comment-25375217-20170114012532

I'd like to revive this, but with a small addendum: leave two (preferably very different) options for the next person to choose from.

I'll take Professor Layton. He would be part of the Land of Untold Stories arc. His home realm would be one of those real world era realms.

In Once Upon a Time's universe, Layton's job is mostly intact - he's a professor with a penchant for solving mysteries and crimes who works alongside his assistant, Luke Triton, and adopted daughter, Flora Reinhold. His centric episode would be called "No Puzzle Unsolved".


 * "After a strange boy from the Land of Untold Stories shows up at the sheriff's office requesting help in searching for his mentor, Professor Layton, Emma gives Henry a chance to solve the puzzle and be a hero on his own. In flashbacks, Layton allows Luke and Flora to take the lead in helping a mysterious man regain his precious hat after it is stolen by Layton's arch-nemesis, Don Paolo."

The backstory would be a retelling of the flashbacks from Layton and the Unwound Future. Instead of inventing a time machine, Bill and Dimitri are working on a machine to travel dimensions, which Rumplestiltskin (the mysterious man) was hoping would be able to access the Land Without Magic (it can't). After observing Rumple using magic, Don Paolo steals the hat on the hypothesis that Claire may have successfully traveled to another realm when the machine supposedly exploded. Rumple eventually exchanges the hat for "a key which can travel through realms". This key eventually ends up in the possession of Luke after Layton goes missing - after learning its use, Luke figures Layton must have used it and uses it himself, but Layton is not in the Land of Untold Stories. After learning that the key came from Rumplestiltskin by following the clues, Henry, Luke, and Flora learn from Gold in the present that he originally gave it to Don Paolo. They find Don Paolo disguised in Storybrooke, who explains that he sent a note to Layton before using the key, offering to allow Layton to come search for Claire with him. The key was initially used on the machine but its interaction with the dimension-traveling magic created a different portal that sucked Layton and the machine away. When Don Paolo attempted to follow, he ended up creating a normal portal in a normal door. Using one of Anton's Magic Beans, Luke and Flora leave to the realm seen through the portal as described by Don Paolo and identified by Belle as Wonderland (the most puzzling realm of all, of course!), and they are last seen approaching Layton and Claire in Wonderland.

...idk, that was really hard to come up with xD

For the next person, your options are Pokemon and Pocahontas! :D