Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1940463-20130306130752/@comment-4023096-20130424164712

Archiecricket wrote: could Regina not come up with another name other than Lacey? Not that Lacey is a bad name I actually adore that name I was just wondering I mean its so random. It's definitely random in-universe. The only reasoning I can come up with for the writers' decision on the name is that, despite being a common Irish name, the name originally comes from Old French. And of course since Disney's Beauty and the Beast takes place in France (and ABC is a Disney affiliate and seems to stick close to their versions of fairy tales whenever they have one), they could have been wanting to use a fitting name without it being something too obviously French like Aurelie or Genevieve or the like. Personally in an RP I did with a friend before the episode aired we called her Storybrooke counterpart Rose because we wanted to play it simple, but...