Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26261153-20160118035903/@comment-27213286-20160213110331

NickM98 wrote: Great theory, but the Curse appears black/grey and green for Regina and Snow (101, 102, 102, 217, 319), not purple and green.

I made my own theory back in December 2014 (seen the long theory here). There are clear reasons why each Curse appears different. Essentially (in short form), the "default" colour is a black/grey cloud with green lightning seen for Regina and Snow's Curses. Pan's Curse is plain green because the water in the well either strengthened the curse, removing the true love factor and rendering it unbreakable, or the Dark Curse takes on characteristics of its caster and Pan's appeared green due to this. The Curse takes characteristics of all of its casters (EQ's was violent and destructive, Snow's spread gently throughout EF). Hook's Curse is different as it was prepared in a completely different way: crushed heart in a cauldron of a random mixture that somehow created a Dark Curse. After looking at the pictures in the links you provided I am going to have to agree more with Austin's theory. The smoke looks purple and green in all those pictures that you posted the link to, not black and grey. Especially the last two pictures, you can clearly see the gren and purple colors, the black and grey smoke that was seen in the second picture is simply from the bonfire that Regina use to cook the curse, not from the curse itself. The smoke from the curse that goes around the kingdom loses the black color and is just green and purple.