Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.47.5.233-20130531140725/@comment-5281989-20130602145949

yes, thank you for insulting my intelligence. maybe I didn't illustrate my point well enough.

We know there are lots of worlds-- some with Magic, some with Science, some with just boring us. The Blue Fairy sent Bae through a portal to a "Land Without Magic", at his request, and since then Rumple's been trying to get after him, mostly by way of a curse. After, what?, a month in his LWM, Bae is abducted by The Shadow and taken to Neverland, where people never age, but there is Magic. time goes by, la la la, and Bae escapes Neverland and ends up in a Land Without Magic. In the meantime, Rumple pursues making a powerful curse that sucks most everyone out of the Enchanted Forest and into a Land Without Magic. We also know that he has a magical globe (seen most recently in And Straight On 'Til Morning) that shows him where, possibly, someone with his blood(?) is located.

We also know, via Hook and Smee, that The Shadow pulls kids from all different places-- which could mean different worlds, not just cities.

So, my (albeit far-fetched) hypothesis is that Bae showed up in one World Without Magic (the Victorian Land of Darlings), goes to Neverland for awhile, then escapes Neverland to a different Land Without Magic, at which time Rumple finally got his funny magic globe and figured out where to send all of EL's inhabitants in the curse.